Matilda Pearl
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Planet Bitchy
Planet Bitchy has landed on the fresh, flirty and fertile face of planet earth. Powering through time and space and also Melbourne at a rapidly average rate, these two foxy space-agents are set on pumping disco sex juice through the nations veins. With lyrics to scream your heart out and bass to bop your bussy, Planet Bitchy is here to like totally like party… or whatever.
If the ways of Jamiroquai, Daft Punk and Kim Petras make you blush, Planet Bitchy might just get you pregnant.
Planet Bitchy was formed in December on the night they wrote their first soon-to-be-released single. As a new born infant, the pair of pop icons have helped sell out venues around Melbourne, including The Gasometer (Collingwood) and Bar Open (Fitzroy), quickly gaining a following for their flirtatious and infectious passion to have fun.
Planet Bitchy is Luka Biggin and Honey Leigh. They are best friends, conquerors of world and they have asked me personally to tell you that they love you!
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Haiku Hands
Haiku Hands, the elusive crew of artists who’s in influence can be felt across live performance, visual art and production exploded onto the scene with their irresistibly danceable single “Not About You”. The unapologetic Australian collective have quickly earnt a fierce reputation for themselves from their formidable and rambunctious live performances that lead audience after audience into utter pandemonium. Last year slaying sets at Falls, St Jerome's Laneway, The Plot, Wonderland Scarehouse Tour, BigSound, One Day, Sunday x Red Bull Academy, Pitch and Panama Festivals. Working with some of Australia’s finest writers and producers, such as El Gusto (Hermitude), Joelistics, Jaytee Hazard and Lewis Can Cut, Haiku Hands curate, perform and collaborate to form genre bending songs with influences from hip hop, pop, electronic, dance and disco. 2018 will see their dance cards filled with a string of UK shows, festival sets at The Great Escape, Dot to Dot (Manchester Bristol
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BIG WETT
BIG WETT isn't just another hot rising star for tastemakers to salivate over. The mysterious Melbourne electro-punk has generated heat with her humorously hedonistic songs about sex, money, drugs, partying and freaky escapades as well as high-energy shows, courting international media. Now BIG WETT is dropping a lascivious debut EP, PU$$Y. But don't expect autobiographical disclosures – BIG WETT doesn't do anything predictable. "The whole point of the project is to shock and offend but also intrigue people," she flexes.
Interviewing a pop prodigy can be like improvisational theatre, the journalist playing a game of cat and mouse. Yet BIG WETT has her own rules. After all, she masterminded those "erotic bangers" EAT MY ASS, NUMBER 1 PUSSY and BAGS (Bitches Ain't Got Shit).
Traditionally many electronic acts have cultivated mystique by concealing their identities and assuming personas, even circulating alternative narratives – the music the focus. But, potential marketing novelty aside, anonymity can be necessarily about avoiding exposure or maintaining boundaries. Indeed, as a female creative who extols sex positivity, her motto "I make songs for sluts," BIG WETT considers privacy paramount.
On Zoom, BIG WETT is playful but assured and direct, greeting with a booming "Hello!" and proclaiming the spring day in her hometown "fucking freezing." The usually secretive blonde, referring to herself as "Wetty", has dispensed with her signature shades and Barbie-pink costumes. "I was gonna wear sunglasses for this interview, but I thought, No, that's rude." Later, she reveals a tattoo of a Rottweiler paw-print.
BIG WETT has no etiological myth – her alter ego existing in the present as she embodies experience, expression and NSFW advisories. But the Millennial admits to having been an only child with a flair for performance. "I always wanted to be the centre of attention – and never had anyone to compete with," she laughs. "So that's how I ended up the way I am, I think." Probe whether BIG WETT has a musical background and she demurs. However, she openly identifies as a queer artist. "I'm pansexual – so, yeah, queer as they come."
BIG WETT as a project originated in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the bored Melburnian initially uploading demos on SoundCloud. "I got really drunk and wrote a bunch of really dumb songs in lockdown 'cause I had nothing else to do," she says. In fact, she was influenced by Kim Petras. "I just fucking love her – she's just so iconic… I've said a few times that my genre is 'slut pop', which actually she inspired by her song Slut Pop – which is one of the best songs of all time."
Ever the provocateur, BIG WETT decided to submit the raw af booty bass anthem EAT MY ASS to triple j Unearthed as it was her "most ridiculous" track. She anticipated that its explicit lyrics would be rejected, only to be surprised two weeks on. "I thought, If they don't get that, then they're just never gonna get it – and they got it! So there you go. Fucking oath!" When EAT MY ASS went "semi-viral," BIG WETT found it "hilarious," she continues. "It's all just been very unexpected – and I'm just having so much fun with it." Earlier this year, the entertainer signed to the UK-based Play It Again Sam.
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Discovery band
Melbourne natives Damian Andres and Matt Campbell make up Australia's favorite Daft Punk tribute duo, Discovery. Daft Punk's second album, 'Discovery' was the inspiration behind the duo's name. Known for their electro-funk and feel-good disco sounds, Discovery will help you experience all that is Daft Punk.
Discovery is Australia’s tribute show to the music and image of Daft Punk.
Hailing from Melbourne, duo Damian Andres and Matt Campbell combine over 20 years of DJ’ing experience with their passion for the pioneering influence of French electro-house outfit, Daft Punk.
The boys have been performing across Australia since August 2012.
Since their first album ‘Homework’, Daft Punk’s music has had a major influence in the dance and electro scene worldwide, with breakout hits ‘Around the World’ and ‘Da Funk’.
Daft Punk’s second album, ‘Discovery’ was the inspiration behind the duo’s title, which includes dance-floor classic ‘One More Time’.
Known for their electro funk and feel-good disco sounds, Discovery aims to bring you closer to the experience of Daft Punk with a full catalogue of unique remixes, live DJ’ing, state of the art costumes and professional lighting production.
Every performance is memorable!
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Premium Fantasy
Premium Fantasy are a Melbourne-based duo comprising Zü Hunting and James Payne, who both operate keyboards, drum machines and various pedals to make their music. The band’s first recordings were made in Berlin in 2012. In more recent years they have become steady fixtures on the Melbourne live scene. Their debut EP “Active/Passive” was released in 2014 and debut album, “Premium Fantasy 2”, came in 2019.
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Boy Harsher
Boy Harsher is an American electronic music group, formed in 2013 in Savannah, Georgia. Currently based in Northampton, Massachusetts, the band consists of vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller. The band has amassed a cult following since their formation,[1] and their song "Pain" has become an underground hit.[2][3] Matthews and Muller own and run the label Nude Club, which is exclusively devoted to Boy Harsher and related artists.
Knowing each other from film school in Savannah,[4] Muller and Matthews started the project Teen Dreamz in 2013, which acted as a precursor to Boy Harsher. The project consisted of Matthews performing her spoken word pieces and Muller providing a musical backing. Throughout the year, Teen Dreamz's sound became more danceable, as Matthews's vocals developed into a more expressive singing style. The band renamed their project as Boy Harsher in 2014.[1]
Boy Harsher released its home-recorded debut EP, Lesser Man in the same year. Following their relocation to Massachusetts, the band recorded and released its debut album, Yr Body Is Nothing in 2016 on DKA Records. After the release of 2017's Country Girl EP, the band formed their Nude Club imprint in 2018, re-issuing their catalog. One of the first releases on Nude Club, "Pain II", is a reissue of their 2014 single with a remix by The Soft Moon.[1] Their sophomore studio album, 2019's Careful,[1] was backed by an extended reissue of Country Girl as Country Girl Uncut.[5] In that year, a remix album of Careful, titled Careful Remixes, etc. was also released; it featured remixes from techno producers such as Marcel Dettmann and Silent Servant.[2]
On April 10, 2020, Muller released his debut soundtrack album, Machine Learning Experiments (Original Soundtrack), which featured original scores composed for two short adult films, Orgone Theory and Hydra. The album was issued on Nude Club.[6] In 2021, the band remixed the Perfume Genius song "Your Body Changes Everything." The remix was featured in the album, Immediately Remixes.[7] In January 2022, the band's directorial debut film, The Runner, was released with an accompanying soundtrack. The short film starred Kristina Esfandiari.
Boy Harsher is often labeled as a dark wave group,[2][9] with influences ranging from early forms of industrial to electronic body music.[10] Paul Simpson of AllMusic referred to the band's music as "dark, danceable electro pop" that references synth pop and EBM. He has characterized Boy Harsher's music by its minimal beats and synth textures, as well as by Matthews's dynamic vocals that depict "desire, fantasy, and loneliness."[1] On his review for Careful, Kevin Lozano of Pitchfork listed the band as one of the acts that spearhead the minimal synth scene along with Essaie pas, noting the "brisk drum machine loops, oscillating synths, and Matthews’ haunting incantations" that permeate the album's sound.[11] Lozano has previously described the band as "making coldwave that could turn any space in that quiet town into a seedy nightclub."[12] Michael Lawson of The Skinny thought that the band "straddled the middle ground between melancholic cold wave and regimented synth workouts."[3]
Boy Harsher draws heavily from cinema, theatrics and graphic design to tailor the band's visual imagery;[2][10][13] Matthews and Muller both have a background in filmmaking.[1] They have likened the band to the movies Body Heat and Lost Highway,[14] latter of which was directed by David Lynch, a professed influence on the band.[13] Matthews has expressed appreciation for various female vocalists, including Nico, Circuit des Yeux, Alison Lewis of Linea Aspera, Chelsea Wolfe and Zola Jesus, whereas Muller named Sleep Chamber, Suicide, DAF and Yello as early musical influences on Boy Harsher.[4] Gearwise, Muller mostly employs synthesizers and samplers, stating that he "tries and borrows as much [instruments] as he can for recording."[4] On the band's minimal instrumentation, he said: "I’m obsessed with how successful the minimalism is with 80s music. It’s really a masterclass of what can be done with a drum machine and a couple of synths."[13] A "half-functioning" Roland Juno-106 was used extensively on Lesser Man EP; their live set features synth lines sampled into an Akai MPC, as well as backing tracks.
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