I bought a bass guitar! I just went on Trademe and had a look for a giggle. Bid up to $79 and I actually got it!

Auction finished on a sunday morning – bad move for selling to muso’s, but hey – their loss, my gain.

I’m really excited about it. At first it just seemed like something cool to do, that I could do – another thing I like about being older now – often you can actually see that somethings just not going to work out.

But since I got the thing home, and realised what a good deal I got, and started playing, I got really excited about it, I got a big rush, just playing again and getting into it.

I had actually talked about getting a bass earlier on the blog, but I can’t find any of the best examples at this point, so just for your info its not exactly just out of the blue.

For a bit of history, I played bass in our high school indie/shoegaze band “Furver” which I am tending to invoke as I move forward on the next step – originally it was my Trip Hop outfit “Further” and I think that’s what it will be whenever I collaborate on non-drum and bass projects, well you can be in my band Further.

If you want.

It’ll still be a Trip Hop thing, but also a more indie, more spaced out and even dubsteppy thing. So back to the roots, but also baring fruits!

The idea of the Bass came in seeing so many white stripes type line ups emerging in my vicinity – there was cure motel and there was the neo-kalishnikovs, both which I toured with on Short Circuit tours, neither of which had a bass player.

But it was also a concept I called “Blenheim on a Tuesday” I saw singer/songwriters playing places like Blenheim on a Tuesday and I wanted to work out how I could play a cafe in a place like Blenheim on a Tuesday, so I could tour hard, playing 5 or more gigs a week.

Not with a pumping drum and bass set. But I could if I did low key trip hop/indie/alt country vibe.

This also came from a lot of discussion between darcy and I which led to him doing Cure Motel, that we felt instruments were needed to connect with audiences when the bloom came of the rose of the dance/electronica scene that grew in the 90’s. People wanted to see action, and as long as it sounded good then, great.

The common thread of course was versatility and economy when on tour or putting together a nights entertainment, and if you dig deep enough on this blog and elsewhere you’ll see how the concept of convergence led to idea I had of how a perfect performance would pitch itself.

I can play trip hop and slung back spacious and basscious stuff at the beginning of a gig, I can make it deeper and more meaningful with a vocalist there and I can progress toward more indie and alt country vibes, they can get heavier in their indie and punky disco influence, another band could take over at that point or I could just forge ahead into nu disco, indie rave, and electro, I could do some reality compound electroclash if I wanted to or just play the instrumentals. A DJ could take over playing house, breaks, electro even dubstep, or I could be the DJ, using my own way to get to the drum and bass place, then I’m able to go to the full blown shoegaze dubstep business, it could be an epic headliner, or completely slung out to be a dreamy wind down, and then back to where we started, trip hop, dreamy beats.

36 mins – trip hop / dreampop / alt country
36 mins – indie, electroclash, nu rave
36 mins – electro / house / breaks
36 mins – drum and bass
36 mins – dubstep / dreamstep / trip hop

and though each step mixes together, each can be played an individual short set, parts can be removed or added or elongated as is suitable to the venue.

If people want a drum and bass set or a live indie dubstep fusion band they can have it.

Or they can have the show I put on, and possibly, where I had to, I could carry a whole night on my own.

The amount of blog posts I’m putting out right now is doing nothing for this blog, and it’s a real bummer, I guess the Romantech site doesn’t seem to be about anything.

I got plenty of other sites that do well, but not this one, because it’s not really about anything.

Oh man I am cracking it in business right now, though, just to let people who might possibly follow the timeline know that the tone may change around here now that I’m getting my earn on again.

But it actually doesn’t change my artistic situation as much as it manages to sedate my general disposition, so really, I’ve got to push on with where it’s really at, the artistic activities. I’m preparing a major video assault, first getting into business videos, then some romantech videos, and then bunching the romantech videos into reality compound TV #2 and then dropping episode #3 the official comeback, featuring my kurb video style mutating into RC.

I also could do something with whatever old footage is available – first a teaser, such as the “short circuit diaries #1″ which could accompany the new “romantech diaries”. The full short circuit should be available on the reconditioned “get real” cd-rom. But then coming up to the tiger penis episode, or it’s own episode, I could explore the myspace tiger penis connections as a kind of flashback episode.

Actually I could really Lost on it and milk the flashbacks, hard. Learn to use narrative and visual suggestion, photos in a documentary style to tell the stories.

The first episode will foreshadow this, this shows how the reality of the show now is rooted in a series of episodes that have occured before the current setting.

So I’ve got to lay some creative foundation here for the new video. No matter how I ooze back into it, the main episode to jump start the new timeline is the maximizing explosions concept.

- I’m starting off talking about business, maximizing explosions, I might even use the hard hat.

- then music will fade in, I think it must be my first indie dubstep banger, and the kurb talking will fade out, eventually replaced by my voiceover.

Well What can sayI got sick of the myspace buzz. I woke up and realised I wasn’t a celebrity, I wasn’t cool, I didn’t matter . . .

Is that what I wanted to be remembered for?

But on Myspace, I was someone.

but I was alive because I was there, I was young and I knew one day it would be over, your song would be sung and it would be time to get off the stage, but I don’t wanna get off the stage, I never had my chance . . .

I thought money would fix me, that I could buy my way to heaven, and maybe I’m stupid enough to believe I still can, wouldn’t that be the easy way out?

Or maybe I still believe that there is only one story . . . and that is the story of a guy, and what he saw . . . goddamit I don’t know anything, It wasn’t much but I can only tell you what I saw.

And what I saw was it was just right there, it was just beyond my reach, it could be sweet, I could be one of them, I could be somebody, I didn’t want to have to get old, I didn’t want to be forgotten, there was still time . . .

then the business thing fades back and  break character, shane is of screen bringing up rc etc and i’m trying to avoid it and keep going on about business in an uptight way.

then it cuts straight to pirates

I need to bring out the way it was more, and the transformation.

Then finally the resolution, I don’t know about it, what suits the narrative, that I felt it was all there for me but . . .

Pirates

How did it come to this?

Then I’m doing my pirate thing, maybe with shane filming, out lynmall, montage, sunset/dusk, “do you remember that time on tour” “yeah. lets not talk about it”.

segue to night. Talking to girls

“Yes I’m a pirate do you want to be my wench. We’re making a video for youtube.”

“How did it come to this? I’m dressed as a pirate, I’m in downtown auckland, and I don’t have a hope in hell.”

“Do you remember that time on tour, that . . . ”

That’s when I gush forward drunkenly about Volita.

“Why didn’t she want me?”

culminating in the loser DJ rant, then flipping to a big musical drop where it rides out, me stumbling about town, dancing, falling over, passing out.

FIN

I think I should do kurb artists as an episode, and of course Lord Jonathan the 17th century internet marketer.

And super lover man. Where is the baby. Where’s my baby?

MORE LOST TWEETS

I’m reinventing myself as a young businessman who can’t leave behind the myspace’n bass lifestyle of the heady 00’s #ohwait #reaffirmation

have your fun, have your kids, have your regrets, have your funeral . . . hey, don’t let me hold you up

Heading to a strategy meeting in my garden to consult plant community on growth implementation #imimportant #noiam #quitecontrary

I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Thats why I don’t know any pretty girls.

I just know their numbers. haha

its like this, once you’ve got some money, you can make more. Once you’ve got one girl . . . well, after that you’re just looking for trouble

They say “More money, more problems” but when it comes to girls, it just takes the one and you already there

I always tell people I’m in internet marketing, if I wasn’t good at that I wouldn’t be doing much else.

Just been having a bit of a funny old freak out over potentially lost Reality Compound and Short Circuit material.

There were a lot of problems along the road with losing footage, tapes going missing, computers, hard drives stolen, negligence, whatever . . . so what I have left is very skant as it is.

It really wasn’t that much of a big deal I guess but when someone remarks or reacts to my video stuff, I kind of respond by feeling a sense of wasted opportunity, which is not really something I can hang onto if I want to move forward, because I want to go to a bigger place, step up to a new level with it now, and I can’t be getting all excited just because somebody said they liked my video.

Creatively I have to push on, and push through.

But I have to be coming from somewhere too, I can’t just pop up out of nowhere at this stage without any evidence of the journey that brought me to this place I’m at now, because everything that happened with Romantech and Reality Compound and Myspace is all part of the story.

It’s not about reaching back to the past – but it’s about a series, a continuum, a story that has depth and background.

But when it comes to putting together the pieces of the puzzle, it gets me concerned creatively, how am I going to bring this together?

How am I going to communicate that important precursor, prestory, preface . . . this is like the Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings, I’ve got to be able to paint a picture of how it was and what happened before.

All the old vibes are dead aside from me still walking around carrying them with me, all that stuff happened years ago, but I wanted that to be part of the story, that I left Reality Compound behind to be the Kurb business guy, but still the vibe calls me back, and tells me there’s no point in being some rich guy and just letting go of everything that was once important.

And all those old storylines are waiting to be rediscovered, except, no one will remember, no one will care anymore, so that’s why I need as much evidence from the past as possible, to paint out that side of the story.

I mean the whole idea about Reality Compound is a story that is happening, that is unfolding – but I want that rich past to help me to define that. I guess that’s just part of the creative challenge, and it’s nowhere near as challenging as what I have to do now to bring myself back to the level I once was and then go beyond it so that people might care where it all came from.

I guess that’s the way I have to face it and deal with it, if there’s nothing to tell the story for me, I have to tell it – I have to bring it to life, documentary style, or kind of like a Lost thing where you see glimpses of the past that fill in certain narrative themes for the audience.

It’s not about what happened in the past – I mean there’s some really interesting stuff there about how I arrived at where I am now, but it’s what happens next, about my rediscovery of my purpose there, that is the story I’m now telling.

But in the story it is very much about relating to the past, but at the same time there’s no reason we can’t have new adventures, while introducing old characters, it’s very much about the tone of the narrative.

I guess even if I am freaked out that I have lost even more of the past, so it creates the incentive to recreate it to bring my story forward again.

Remember that even the original Reality Compound had a back story, which was loosely based on reality.

And now the new Reality Compound has a back story too.

But I guess whatever happens, in whatever ways I fail – including if I fail to bring “the way it was” to life – Reality Compound is the story of the little guy who wants to be a big deal, and we’ve all been growing up hanging onto these dreams, failure and humiliation, and then the redemption and resolution that follows is all part of the story.

If I fail to present the backstory then that’s just another failure, but a failure to embrace – as part of the new story, whatever the new story will be, because that’s what I have to worry about first.

“And in the meantime we try . . . try to forget that nothing lasts forever . . .

funny how it all falls away . . .”

I would really need to build a base of support from one end, and build the solid gigs from another.

I need the solid contacts with the bar owners and promoters, but that will only come from good gigs and good reputation, which all comes down to establishing myself online as a force unto myself.

It’ll feed each other but I need a good kick off, so building my online support steadily should hopefully do that.

For which I’ll need good material.

Good material leads to good support, leads to good gigs, leads to developing a permanent tour lifestyle.

But earning money means I can keep going, and building.

I could do a 3 x 2 hours service for $1000, pirates in the morning at the local school, online marketing after lunch, and then a performance that night.

Or if it was a friday, line each one up and try to get $300 for each thing seperately.

If it was a saturday you’d just have to shift the model by which you collect. You’d have to be super adaptable – have a month out plan, a week out plan, and a day out plan. Maybe go out straight hustling, dressed as a pirate, designing websites with video on the spot, and touting all my services.

Well if you’ve got the money, everythings going to work out.

But the websites would get more action anyway, through my activity, and would make more money, and create more opportunities.

Get me more fans, get me in touch with people who will give me a place to stay and hook up gigs and things for me.

Or even give me wider attention so that people want to book me, and venues know 50 people will show up if I play. I could sell stuff, y’know, it will get easier as I go from hustler to bona fide underground star, not because of my talents but because people are part of the journey through my hustling, business, and my web promotion.

Why would I need sponsorship from some energy drink or something if just the fact I was travelling around meant I was making an extra $500 through my printing and discs and stuff, and then I just had to show up 3 times a week and make $500??? I could still sell ads to companies if they dare think of sponsoring my site, maybe overseas people will be into it and start buying my stuff.

But yes, first I have to build support, and book the decent gigs 6 weeks out and then build little things around it.

definitely would want some bases in the centres so I could drive home after gigs.

But first I need to build a list of contacts.

I’m excited about getting my bass and hitting the road as this crazy pirate, DJ, marketing guy who can do CD and DVD copying right there on the spot, and fly in cheap printing from auckland like an airstrike.

Sure my business wouldn’t run as efficiently as in auckland, but I would make up for it by wangling new deals for cd dvd duplication and printing, and getting marketing relationships going on around the country.

I can still do my online music marketing on the road, and I’d have people here in auckland taking care of other stuff, as I would also be hustling some trade wherever I go.

I’m excited about getting my bass and hitting the road as this crazy pirate, DJ, marketing guy who can do CD and DVD copying right there on the spot, and fly in cheap printing from auckland like an airstrike.

Sure my business wouldn’t run as efficiently as in auckland, but I would make up for it by wangling new deals for cd dvd duplication and printing, and getting marketing relationships going on around the country.

I can still do my online music marketing on the road, and I’d have people here in auckland taking care of other stuff, as I would also be hustling some trade wherever I go.

A grand in kurb business, a grand in online stuff and other hustles, and a grand on the road. minus $500 for weekly travel and accomodation.

I think my standing and support as a musician and a pirate and a marketing guy would increase through ongoing contacts and develoment.

I’d need a year to complete the platform, and come up with strategies so that music, pirate and marketing stuff could all feed into their own seperate avenues, not hidden, but not enough to confuse.

if music or pirate parents find out I do cheap printing and disc duplicattion and marketing – or vice versa – then great.

That’s what I see, is that at some point my adventures will highlight the fact that I provide these services and they will get printing or discs or marketing off me because they support what I do as a musician or a pirate.

I just got this image of me jamming a mixtape onstage and working on my clients marketing like at 10pm as crowds are just coming in, y’know I could do a four hour show, but a hour I could just stand there and work, or work the crowd, having the whole experience be part of it.

Again just like having somewhere to stay,I might have to have DJ’s or performers I can call on to play while I work the crowd for video and other opportunities.

The thing is how am I going to get the bookings to kick it off? I need to focus on the school’s and getting them to book the pirate for $500, and then maybe sell some extra DVD’s for $10. Once I know I’ve got a pirate gig, and I can go about organising a DJ gig in the area.

But still I’ll need to build my profile to do that, but that’s something to look forward to, knowing you can pull 50 people anywhere and get a fee anywhere you call.

It would be nice if there was a pirate thing I could do on the casual so if I had a day I could do something to make a couple of hundred dollars. I could talk to the councils? Use the schools or other networks?

Set up a seminar in the library – again, I could talk to the local council or business association abot doing 2 hour long sessions on online marketing, and making income online – y’know, one for business owners, and the other for unemployed.

But I could set up in th library and have 10 people pay $45 for an hour long presentation, dvd and 10 minute consultation. Or $20 a head and $95 for 1 of 2 hour long consultations only available for ticket holders?

so I’ve got 2 $500’s, how could I score a $500 for my gigs? always have a sidekick? Guided tour style, just like I envisioned. No wait. The master and the apprentice. Let’s keep talking about it.

It’s a permanent tour baby. Viva la revolution

I can’t ween myself off the teat, I crave the money.

Everything is crawling towards being done and resolved and I have to finally find out wether I’ve still got it in me to go on, or it’s just been an elaborate charade, oh, oh how I toil, how hard I work, if only I could be creative again?

ah, but it seems gone. I lost the scent on the trail, it’s gone, where’s the vibe, to keep it alive?

I don’t even want to be rich, it’s just making money seems productive and makes me feel at ease. And it was so how I was always going to end up. Outwardly seemingly fortunate, but just a mess otherwise, just unable to unfurl in any kind of roundedness or completeness to who I am.

I know how to make money though.

Except I’m running out of problems that money alone could fix.

I don’t want an Audi, that’s ridiculous.It doesn’t mean a damn thing, except maybe that I found something stupid to be proud of, rather than creating some real art or living out a real statement.

Making money is the easy way out.

I should be giving out relationship advice. Not that I know anything about relationships, but at least it’s interesting, broad, and if I had a blog I would eventually make some money.

I could become a regular Dr. Phil.

But I might be keen to hit the road. I often thought about it. I mean if in a year, I could keep my main businesses going, and work more on the net, I could take off.

I’d have to keep my house as I co-ordinated centre for doing all my physical work, having people come in there, and I’d have to come back every couple of weeks anyway, except if I extended to australia,

When I was on tour I used to think about the endless tour, how I’d have a room or an office like Micah does, in some other part of the country, probably close to palmerston north because I could strike out from there to different cities doing stuff on the road.

Y’know, I could play a gig every week, do pirates, and do marketing.

I’d take some cd and dvd duplication gear in my car boot, so I could whip them out and get to work.

I’d make friends and find places to stay, I could even run little trading networks, but also I’d be in town soliciting all the skills I offer, I’d let them know I could get printing deals sent out, targeting towns with no printers, or expensive printers.

Permanent tour, permanent hustle.

But if I set up a pirate show in a different town every week, I’d need 50 kids to pay $10 each to make $500.

Could I make a grand on the road a week, and still make a grand from my main business and

I know I’m still talking about money, but at least it would be fun, it would be an adventure.

Y’know once I spent some time out there creating a vibe online for my pirate stuff, music, and general marketings, I could build a reputation and demand for me to do pirate stuff and music, and my adventures could be on youtube since I’m travelling constantly, and constantly accessible in all these ways.

I reckon I’d build up a few choice allies from around the country who’d keep my vibe on.

I’d triangulate as well, y’know if I did get a variety of gigs within a 100km and a few days, I could try and hustle some extra gigs DJing or performing at a local venue – especially if I could build up venues, schools and business associations who would happily have me every few months.

I’m sure I’d make more money than I do now, but at the same time, there’d be accomodation and travel costs to meet.

I guess it’s that thing of getting a room for $50-$100 or flying / driving back to auckland, having shane pick me up from the airport and that costing something the same. If I have a gig in saturday in christchurch and a gig in dunedin the next thursday what do I do? of course I fly home for 4 nights. that still costs me $120.

It would be learning to find a way of balancing it out, but I’d have to accept that earning a grand on the road would cost me $500 a week in travel and accomodation.

make money from music

Okay I’ve my little episode, I’m returning to normality. Let’s get out there and kick some butt futuristically and funkily!

What do we want to do in 2010?

Finish Dojo Inspectors

Must do, top priority, gotta push through and deliver something that will hold up. Alreaady started on the final push today polsihing up those minimal tunes.

Promote Dojo Inspectors + Email List

Can’t just move on, put it out and forget about it. Dojo Inspectors is the leverage to start promoting more actively

Release New tunes

There’s really nothing more to it. Dojo becoms the standard release, high standard new singles will build on our reputation. really think we need to get some vocalists in.

Release an experimental/deep/minimal project

This is a concept which is a space to fully embrace the corners of our sound without letting it invade our dancefloor mainstay especiallly the concept of hibernating for the winter and producing a twisted weird and beautiful thing for listening pleasure seems to suit.

I think the idea is an EP with a mix of everything with what didn’t make the EP, plus suitable stuff from Dojo Inspectors to pad it out.

Bass

Taking up bass in 2010 will be a challenge. Get the bass, then look at where it can be applied but why? So on tour I can take my sets wildly off on this electronic alt country trip hop dubstep vibe and in 10 years I can still be doing it and surprising people when a dj set goes live or a live set turns into a rave out.

Tour

I need to bring the team together for touring maybe mid year and tie it with a beat dungeon comp I’m thinking but it’s all about convergent goals.

Flow

Need to creative flow happening in the space by feeding individuals with talent from the network into the creative grid.

Podcasts

Already dropped one mix with the new tough love, the idea is to have a podcast or a free tune variegating alternate months

2^nd full length mix OR continued singles?

Whatever happens, must keep releasing hot new singles for free online pushing toward a point at some stage where one will get picked but until then, the tunes are likely to keep building up until next october when there’ll likely be enough to push us to want to do a dojo inspectors style release again.

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Okay this is the official Romantech blog post about the detonate festival where I try to stay on topic and avoid sinking into the metaphysical relativity of uber-capitalist post modern hedonistic lifestyles, or y’know all that self indulgent crap I’m trying to cut down on on this blog.

This little therapy session is over, and we are certainly living in the future in case you didn’t know but I think I just think that because I’m old. Well “youngish” as opposed to being young. Hate being “youngish”. But i’ll live with it and stop grinding it over.

Because today we’re not here for deep meaningful new years discussion and personal assessment we’ll just be discussing the Detonate festival in Urenui, just out of New Plymouth.

At the end of the day I played a good set and the crowd got into it, that’s the most important thing. Ultimately that’s why I do it. When I’m killing it in the mix and the crowd are going off and feeling it, I’m getting high on that vibe and getting fully energised and vibed up.

The weather was great what other interesting things of note are their to mention?

The event organiser Natalie was a delight and there were lots of explosions going off for the “detonate” part of the festival which provided a bit of novelty, especially the momentary dissonance between seeing the explosion, hearing the sound and feeling the heatwave.

There was a nice little backstage area but we didn’t end up there much for some reason, there were lots of treats, but also lots of rockers posing off. I took my camera and interviewed Clap Clap Riot briefly. I think they did a devo cover which was pretty sweet.

I kept a look our for These Four Walls as Ambrozia’s cousin is in the band apparently. As a pretty textbook post-emo hey kinda veered, I liked their overblown stuff and there was good balance between

We met a guy named Terry who tagged along with us a fair bit telling us we needed to visit Nova Scotia “off the coast of Switzerland” where apparently there are phenomenal looking women throwing themselves after the kiwi accent. Funny dude.

I think the guys before us were Hedline and MC Felony, they were older guys and the DJ, Hedline, had only been playing out for 9 months but he was still holding down a big party electro breaks vibe when we jumped on at 10pm, and the crowd were well into it, he;s managed to build it from nothing as it had been pretty hot during the day with some tech house guys and the Professor playing funk, house and funky breaks.

Some trashy bird jumped up in the booth while I was playing and started asking me about DJing and standing next to me so I instantly started putting a hard mack down on her and rubbing her butt

There were quite a few significantly good looking women there who were just going crazy to the music all night, they weren’t hanging round with their friends they were just there getting into it, good company really. Girls that look like that in Auckland don’t drop their carefully manicured guard for the merest second.

Those New Plymouth girls though, the tans on them! Witnessed some amazingly well sunned young ladies in attendance.

The midnight fireworks were great because it was short and sweet, they didn’t play it out, they just put up as many fireworks as they could in the shortest space, which was really effective.

And that’s about as much as i can be botheres writing to be honest.

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Working on a Soul Science / Romantech Timeline . . . comprehensive as, bro . . . but still a work in progress . . .

2002

Romantech Track “Plate Techtonics”

Romantech Mix: “Doom”

Romantech Track: “Release”

Data:Bass Residency @ Shots
Romantech, Culprit (Detail), Teddy Edit, Bobbylon

2003

Data:Bass resumes at K rd Ballroom
Romantech, Kyren, Teddy Edit, Allie, LX, Culprit, Bobbylon,

May: Data:Bass Sampler 1 Release
Romantech Track: “Chain Reaction”
Further Track: “Disturbing Thoughts”

May 1: rumble in the jungle
Dionysus, Kyren, Culprit, Romantech, Fiction, MC Jen-I

June 21: Tansgression – Silverdale
Fiction, Kyren, Culprit, Romantech, Teddy Edit

Drive Software
Romantech Track “Lynch Mob”
Romantech Track “Good Music”

August: Data:Bass Sampler 2:
Romantech Track: Shots
Romantech Track: Almost home

August 22: Bring The Ruckus @ the K Rd Ballroom
Data:Bass Net DJ’s + Guests

Sept 12: Mindset @ Paradise Bar
State of Mind, 4tune, Kyren, Romantech,

Sept 27 DB1: Data:Bass turns 1 @ Paradise Bar
State of Mind, Fiction, Culprit,

October: Mental Illness 1
Romantech Track: Druggie Scum
Romantech Track: Disturbing thoughts
Style Over Substance Track:

Nov 8: Search & Destroy @ Paradise Bar
State of Mind, Kyren, Fiction,

Nov: Version festival & Release @ Odeon

New years Eve @ Resolution

2004:

Jan 16: Data:bass gig

Offbeat party @ Duo

PSC Party @ The Office

Style Over Substance track: Molly & John

Romantech track: Innocence

Trouble In paradise: March 5, 19, 26
Style Over Substance First Gig

April 30: Mechanisms of Mentality

Mental Illness 2
Romantech”

Further Release – “Distance”
Further Track “Disturbing Thoughts”
Further Track “Make It Last”
Further Track: “Nag Champa”
Further Track: “Walk Me Home”
Further Track “Floored”
Further Remix “
Further Track “Version” ft. Catguts

Lickwicked
Romantech Track – “Moving On”

August Short Circuit 2

K rd Karnival

Mechanica

2005

Club Bizarre Electro Shock 29 Jan

Liquid Underground Feb 12 // Feb 26

Liquid Underground vs Twisted Breaks April 9

vs Live Fusion April 23

Further Release “Sounds Good”
Further Track “Who Da Man?”
Further Track “Down The Line”
Further Track “left & Right & Wrong””
Further Track “Dogsbody Dub”

May: Short Circuit 1
Short circuit CD
Romantech Track – “Like You Do” ft. Haze
Romantech Track – “Metro Sound”
Romantech Track – “Ice Breaker
Further Track – “Nag Champa”

May 5 Re:Fuel
May 6: Queenstown
May 7: Wanaka
May 12: Jetset
May 14: Phat
May 20: 101
May 21: Guv’nors
May 28: Viper

Sept 10 Infrasound @ Plume / galatos

Oct –
Romantech DJ Mixes
Down and Out chill Out Mix
Decks In The City

Style Over Substance relaunches on Myspace as Reality Compound
Reality Compound track: I Need Myspace
Reality Compound track: Get Some Pussy

Romantech Remix: “Dizzy Boy” Bylli Crayone

Dec 23: Full Circle Xmas party @ Foci
Romantech, Carnage, Blazem, JGA, Nato, Control, Whitebait, MC Pakage

Romantech Release: Result
Romantech Track: Acid Jam
Romantech Track: The Book

2006

Romantech track: Can Only Ask
Reality Compound: Make Me
Reality Compound: Fake It

Jan 27 Mental Illness 3 part @ Foci
Romantech, Nato, Blazem, Carnage, Control, Emu, Catguts
Romantech Track
Romantech Track

Feb 4 Aqueous @ Moth

March: Soul Science @ Foci residency begins

April:
Reality Compound Release: Get Real
Reality Compound: All The Rage
Reality Compound: Sell Out
Reality Compound: Maybe Someday

Romantech Track “Sweet Ambrozia”
Romantech Track “Pacificized” ft. 4.5 Hz

May 9: Emu EP Release

June 6: Snapshot @ Khuja
Makky, Blazem, Nato, romantech, Control. JGA, Fraser S, Future 1, Absilute Value

Short Circuit 2.5 ft. Emu, Opiou, Deano, Uberloser
Short Circuit Video

6 July Welly
7 July Palmerston Nth
8 July Wanganui
12 July Queenstown
13 July Apartment 1
14 July Backstage
15 July Capitol

Romantech Release / Mix: Oceanic Chill
Romantech Track: “Where’s Baby?”
Romantech Remix: Wyvil “Mandroid” \

Artificial Intelligence Tour
Aug 4 @ 4:20, Auckland: Emma G & Jess Hartley,
Aug 5 @ Subculture

Romantech Remix: “Falling” Halluciagea

Sept 21: Base
Sept 22: Bar Xcel

Dunedin fringe
Invercargill

Queenstown
Wanaka

Oct 20/21: Greg Packer Tour
Oct 20 @ 4:20, Auckland: Emma G & Jess Hartley, Romantech, Control, Nato, MC Pakage, Format, Rhyas, Kritical,
Oct 21 @ Capitol

Romantech Release: Special Times
Romantech Track: Everything
Romantech Track: Sure Enough
Romantech Track: Long T’ing

Romantech Remix: “Shell Shock” Perceptual Chaos

Dec 16 Snapshot Christmas @ 4:20

Dec 23 Short Circuit Xmas Great Barrier Island

2007

DJ Asides @ Rising Sun Jan 26
Riddle, B-Line, Emma G, Nato, Romantech, Control

Romantech track: Positive Vibes
Romantech Track: Girlfriends
Romantech Remix: NSU “Neutron Star”

Mar 17: Make or Breaks @ Fu:
Timmy Schumacher, The Retainers, Romantech, Tech, Nabb

Mar 23: Snatch @ Foci
Riddlw, Nato, Pakage, Swindle, Blazem, Grind, Romantech, Control

Jun 16 Niceness @ Club Duo
Jess & Emma, Pakage, Nato, Grind, Kritical

Romantech Release: Such Heavy Wings
Romantech Track: Ill Fish
Romantech Track: They Shine
Romantech Track: Past Lives

Ourrr Show Upfm Compilation
Soul Science track: “Desire”

June 23: Snatch @ Foci
Jess & Emma, Blazem, Mr. Mun, Romantech, Control

DJ Suv Tour
Aug 3: Curve, Wellington w/ Liquid gold
Aug 4: Fu, Auckland w/ Funkshun, Blazem, Nato, Darnell, Upsetta + MC Pakage
Aug 7: Safari, Auckland (Special Appearance)
Aug 10: Subculture, Queenstown w/ D-Jade
Aug 11: Capitol, Christchurch w/ Urban Notion, Deall

Soul Science Release: Suv vs. Soul Science mix

Short Circuit Tour ft. Emu, Cure Motel, DJ Dusk

Sept 28: Snatch championship DJ Competition @ Foci
Darnell, Cluedo, Rafa, Nutron

Romantech Remix: Tom Bosley Experience “Self Examination Circus”

Soul Science Track: Alpha Vidi

Dec 23: Snapshot Xmas at Safari
Emma G, Darnell, Blazem, Upsetta, Nutron, Romantech, Orawen, Cluedo,

2008

Fusion Soul @ Fu Jan 27
Lobo, Solkai, The Others, Makky, Orawen, Kwrk, Cris V, Dan P, Soul Science

Beat Dungeon Sonic Confinement Compilation:
Romantech Track: Gonna Getcha

DJ A-Sides @ Fu Feb 1
Swindle, Future1, Upsetta, Cluedo, Romantech, Control

DJ A-Sides @ Whangaparoa Feb 4
Romantech, Control, Future 1

Fusion Soul @ Fu Mar 23
Future 1, Nato, Makky, Cluedo, Pakage, Upsetta, Romantech, Control

Reality Compound Video: “Scene Fuck Jam” ft. Aidan Sine

Soul Science Track: Dirty

Romantech Remix: “Forever” ft. Zeisha

Snapshot Jun 1 @ Fu
Contraban, Nato, Nutron, Makky, Cluedo, Kwrk, Romantech, Control

Soul Science Track: Conspiracy

Short Circuit 5 ft Romantech, Cure Motel, Stress Cadet, Lobo [Aus],
sept 3: Coherant, Auckland
sept 4: Palmerston Nth
sept 5: Wanganui

sept 10: Christchurch
sept 11:
sept 12: Bank cafe, Timaru

Sept 19: High Society
Nato, Contraban, Mash Up Mafia, Romantech, Control, Zpak, Kwrk, Paul G. MC Joobz

Oct 26: Snapshot Labour Day @ Fu
Funkshun, Mash Up Mafia, Control, Romantech, Zpak, Jacey, Antic, MC Bella Mafia

Dec 18: Futurebound @ Carpark

Dec 31: New Years Eve 2008 @ Fu

2009

January Short Circuit 6
Romantech, Cure Motel, The Neo Kalishnikovs
Jan 14: Wunderbar, Lyttleton
Jan 15: Red Rocks, Wanaka
Jan 16: Revolver, Queenstown
Jan 17: Tillerman’s, Invercargill
Jan 18: Fox glacier

Jan 17:Full Intention @ Fu
Control, Lobo, Nato, Zpak, Paul G, Whitebait

Jan 25: Mixed Company @ Fu
Mashup Mafia, Soul Science, Zpak, Xman

Feb 21: DJ A-Sides Sat @ fu
Control, Romantech, Zpak, Merge, Kwrk, Antic, Whitebait, MC Bella Mafia

March 8: Free A-Sides Gig
Control, Romantech, Zpak, Antic, Epod,

March 11: Downbeat Syndrome @ Lot44
Soul Science, Stray Theories, NSU, Sharkweek

Soul Science Track: Copywrong Remix

Apr 12: Full Intention 2
Control, Romantech, Zpak, Perceptual chaos, Evade, Whitebait, MC Bella Mafia

May 8: Extra Mile @ Zen

May 19: Drop It Down @ Fu
Nato, Bugsy, Control, Romantech, Zpak, Kwrk, Antic

May 31: Low Key @ Fu
Control, Romantech, Zpak, Mike E, Phil O, Jefsta

Soul Science track: Special request

October Short Circuit
Oct 16 The Dux, Christchurch
Oct 17 The Dux, Queenstown
Oct 18 Red Rocks, Wanaka

Soul Science track: Kings

Romantech remix: NSU ft. Lost In Japan “16786”

October 25 – Sunday jam
Bugsy, control, Romantech, Evade, Mike E, Zpak, MC Bella Mafia

Ocrober 31 : Rebound @ Fu
Romantech, Control, Merge, Kwrk, Evade, Surface

Nov 6: Dojo Inspectors pre release
Soul Science, Emma G,

Soul Science Release: Dojo Inspectors – Live 13 track mix

Romantech Remix: Sharkweek “Robospacejesus”

Dec 12 NSU Escape release / Zen 2nd Bday ft. Stray Theories

Romantech Remix / Video: Mister Jack “Dream A Little Dream”

Intro:

Voice over, beat dungeon radio 4 pm Sunday. Ivan is interviewing Shane and Matt about the forthcoming tour. Perhaps they have artificial kind of excitement, all very radio cliche.

Ivan may even make a haha funny point of the fact that one of the hosts is interviewing the other as if he were a guest ha-de-ha.

Cut to studio.

Ivan: “And so this is kind of like a progression from the short circuit tour? . . .”

Matt and Shane agree and spout more cliche soundbites about “new beginnings” and such.

Possibly, Ralph E and whoever might call up during the show with “questions” (can you fit me in the van?)

This fades to images from a short circuit montage, as the interview continues as a voice over – and gets reverbed out, fading into a daunting track.

Shane launch into a Hunter S. Thompson / Apocalypse now style monologue.

“The Truth was that . . .

Real fundamental exposition takes place covering the central themes of neive musicians clinging onto this idea that through touring you could make it, and their dashed dreams. Deano, Mitch and Volita are alluded to. This monologue gradually segues over to darcy and the fall of Short Circuit, but also continues to reference the goals of supporting local producers

And that was the truth . . . that was the end of short circuit.”

Funeral scene – funeral for short circuit.

Matt preaches about the death of fallen producers and of the rave culture. Ivan and Micah + whoever else watch solemnly.

When the subject moves over to Short Circuit / Darcy, Shane states that it had to happen and the last time we saw Darcy he was dragged away by police in a disorderly state after the Wanaka gig.

But what about the producers?

At this point may go into another music bit = short circuit “do a number” perhapsa bangin electro acid jazz beat poetry anthem about letting the producers know its christmas time or similar, in the cemetary with dance moves and rocking out on gear.

. . . For the love of god won’t someone think of the producers?

Cut to Ivan + Micah + “whoever else” ie = other beat dungeon / short circuit producers with lots of gear / in the studio talking “seriously” and perhaps even “nerdily” and intensely about their music, probably Ralph E also.

This turns into a mash up, and goes into another tune, and a another montage of pretty straight up and down footage of the artists performing.

Finishes with one last monologue from Micah, Ivan, Shane and Matt which are more general reference to the tour and humourous.

The secondary goals of the Beat Dungeon – dirty beats dirty samples – book the shows, take the money, then we send one guy down while we have an all day arty rave jamfest for the benefit of youtube . . . – are foreshadowed and further exposed.

End Act I