CAGESAN

Cagesan (FR) is an artist born in Beauvais, France (2005). His family originally comes from Bicheno, Tasmania. Cagesan is an owl finch whose remarkable singing drew the attention of 2 producers in the Paris bird market: the illustrator Florence Manlik and the musician and poet Toog. Cagesan is not aware of his international success; he keeps his heart full of modesty. What counts the most for him is the sound of the garbage truck and the pecking of round seeds.
www.myspace.com/cagesan


DAVIDE BALLULA

"Davide Balula belongs to a new generation of artists who are transcending some of the artistic gestures of the early 1960s, when some artists began to push back the boundaries set by the traditional fine arts system. Art is no longer limited to installing, filming and introducing ordinary or rare objects into the art world. It also lends itself to listening to music of the electronic ilk.
The work of Balula and of similar-minded artists belonging to his collectives can sometimes appear too clean, too friendly and harmless, especially to older generations. Yet it is perhaps the case that this apparent and superficial mood conceals a darker and more resolute intent. For example, Balula created a limited edition of mini-CDs, whichbreak the systems and speakers in which they are played. The artist’s fragile poetry, even when it functions as a weapon, is certainly not a humanist spiritual surplus to the outcomes oftechnological modernity. Instead, it is the product of an intimate understanding of the potential and limits of electronic tools. We will need it... " (Taken from “La mélancolie d’après”, by Laurent Jeanpierre.)
davide.balula.free.fr
www.myspace.com/davidebalula
www.lappareil.com

CUBIST LITERATURE

Cubist Literature (USA) is the solo multimedia art-project of Craig Hunter Husted; however, the current focus is on music. Craig’s musical inclinations are mainly characterized and influenced by such music as: riot, noise, punk rock, avant-garde, experimental, modern classical, electronic/techno, tape manipulation/destruction and urban folk. If you add DIY ethos, you get Cubist Literature. So far, Craig has written one unreleased album called “Körperkonfigurationen/.”; and he is almost finished with another album, whose working title is “Tape Music”. All songs are written and recorded in Craig’s apartment. Everything is done by himself. Craig is 21-31 years old, svelte, and of average height. He is studying English and women’s studies at the University of Saint Thomas, which is located in the museum district of Houston, Texas, where Craig lives alone.
www.cubistliterature.etsy.com
www.myspace.com/urbanfolk

DAVID FENECH

David Fenech (FR) has been an active composer, performer, and improviser for over ten years in France. His works include acoustic, electronic, tape and digital media, including sound installations and film scores. As a soloist, David Fenech plays guitar and ukulele as well as smallinstruments like toy piano and xylophone. As an improviser, he played with musicians such as James Plotkin (Old, Khanate), Christian Rollet (a.r.f.i, workshop de Lyon), Tom Cora, ErikM / Llog, and with members of Madrid, Moka, Les Enfants des Autres, X Ray Pop, Art Moulu, Maisie, Le Club des Chats, Sporto Kantes and also with Hervé Zenouda, Mr Quark, Shugo Tokumaru, Anja Kirschner, Ghedalia, Tazartes, Felix Kubin, Thierry Galai, Digiki, Toog, Daniel Palomo Vinuesa, Falter Bramnk, Dragibus and many others.
demosaurus.free.fr

DIGIKI

Digiki (FR) is a sound artist based in Tokyo. His style has been described as 'blurring the line between pop and experimental' and as 'recontextualisation' (whatever that means), 'the missing link between Cornelius and Jackson' (Michael ?) His first album, Kitchen, was released in Japan in 2004 and features a wide range of collaborators (Momus, Toog, Eric Ker..) and was later remixed by the likes of E*Rock, Pandatone and David Fenech. In 2004 Digiki produced the Toog album Lou Etendue on the german label Karaoke Kalk. His recent activities include collaborations with Neen artist Mai Ueda, a 'fake hip hop' album under the name Darsh with again an eclectic cast (O.Lamm, Toog, Mc Cat Genius, Mae Shi, Dj Codomo, Carl Stone...), and a new album, Beat vacation, both albums unreleased so far. Additionally he has remixed other artists (Momus, Shugo Tokumaru, Mahjongg...), and performed live in Japan and Europe. Oh, and like Cagesan he loves machines too.
www.hellodigiki.com

DJ CHIENLOUP

DJ chienloup likes the gentle pull of the water of an emptying bath tub. After the water is gone he often stays there for a while.


MOMUS

Since inventing himself in London in 1985, Momus (UK) has made 20 albums of electronic folk music. He now divides his time between Berlin and Japan. As well as singing and composing music, Momus works as a writer, a journalist and a "storytelling artist". In 2005, together with Mai Ueda, he made a month-long narrative improvisation at LFL Gallery in New York called "I'll Speak, You Sing". In 2006 he starred for three months at the Whitney Biennial as an "Unreliable Tour Guide". A keen blogger (imomus.livejournal.com), he wrote the texts for "Fotolog.book" (Thames and Hudson), a book about photoblogging published this April. His latest album, due in summer, is called "Ocky Milk", and he's working on a series of fictional biographies called "Lives of the Composers".
www.imomus.com


MONTAG

Born in 1977, Antoine grows up in Kuujjuaq (Québec), a small inuit community near the Artic Circle. He moves to Montreal at the age of six and starts learning the violin soon after. 15 years alter Antoine buys his first analog synthesizer and starts and collection. Since then, he released two albums in France on the indie label Gooom (M83, Cyann & Ben, Abstrackt Keal Agram). A new record is on the way and it will be released through Carpark Records in the Spring of 2007. Montag has contributed to the success of dozens of singing animals (mainly singing cats, dogs, and polar bears). This is his first time working with a superstar bird. Montag is trully honoured to be part of I Love Machine. Thank you Cagesan.
www.montag.ca
www.myspace.com/montagmontag


OLAMM

"O.Lamm is odot.lamm, is o.l.lamm, is opoint l., is slow learner, is odot sings. Electronic musician. He likes weird noise, upbeat wizardry, spiraling crawling hooks, pynchonesque noise and pompous melodies". Released two albums, "Snow Party" and "Hello Spiral", and several 7" and 12" on Paris based Active Suspension, and will release his new album, "Monolith", in Fall 2006. Ongoing collaborations with dDamage, Sutekh, Hypo, Domotic, Minifer, Black'n'Mate etc. Part of Labranisch and Section Amour.
www.olamm.tk
www.myspace.com/olamm


OLGA

Olga se inicia en el año 2002 con Roger Delahaye y Florencia Zavadivker. Ambos ya venían de participar en otros proyectos: Roger formó en el año 1994 el grupo Giradioses, del cual fue compositor, letrista, tecladista y guitarrista. El grupo editó 2 discos y un ep en los que participó Daniel Melero como productor (Dormitorio, e Iniciación Musical) y como cantante (Hi-Fiesta). Florencia fue vocalista y tocó el clarinete en el grupo Astrolabio. Participó en el disco de Giradioses, Iniciación Musical, interpretando arreglos de flauta dulce y clarinete. A fines del año 2003 editan su cd-rom debut titulado Mantenimiento. El disco está compuesto por 11 piezas de música electrónica-instrumental que se acercan a la “estructura canción” pero con ausencia de voces. Durante ese mismo año realizan su primera presentación en vivo en el marco del ciclo Estudio Abierto, realizado por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires en las galerías Harrods. En el 2004 participan en el compilado Canción electrónica II editado por el sello Indice. En el transcurso de ese mismo año se presentan en vivo en: Sonoridad Amarilla, ciclo Sesiones Dominicales (Kimia), Fiestas Rudamacho, Código País, entre otros. A la hora de componer, Olga se sirve de instrumentos acústicos, de juguete, sintetizadores y máquinas de ritmo con el fin de explorar diferentes posibilidades tímbricas y sonoras sin verse limitado a formaciones y estructuras musicales taxativas. Olga busca la coexistencia y convivencia de lo instrumental puro, los paisajes sonoros y la canción pop.

OLGA formed in 2003 with Roger Delahaye (composition, guitar, keyboards and programming) and Florencia Zavadivker (voice, keyboards and adjustments). Both participated previously in other projects. In 1994 Roger formed Giradioses, project in which he was composer, lyrics, keyboards and guitarist. The group published 2 LP: Dormitorio, 1995 and Hi-Fiesta 2000 and ep Iniciacion Musical, 2001. Florencia was the vocalist of Astrolabio and participated in the ep Iniciacion Musical of Giradioses in flute and
clarinet. She also participated like flautist in a group of early music. By the end of the year 2003 OLGA
publish a titled cd-rom Mantenimiento. The disc is made up of 11 pieces of electronics-instrumental music
that approach the "structure song" but with absence of voices. In all of them it predominates the sonic
landscapes and audio manipulation of pre-recorded material made almost exclusively with analog drum
machines and analog synthesizers. That year they make there first live presentation within the framework of the cycle Estudio Abierto, made by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires in the Harrods galleries. In 2004 they participated with the song "Flora and Fauna" in an electronic compiled, Canción Electronica II, published by Indice Virgen label. Throughout these years different spaces and events from the City of Buenos Aires where stages for the live acts: art gallery Sonoridad Amarilla, Rudamacho Celebrations, Codigo Pais, the Cigale, Estudio Abierto, Biotec, Nuevo!, among others. In 2005 they made the sound design for the theater work Que Hicimos? from French author Joel Pommerath, who counted on the auspice of the French Alliance of Buenos Aires. At the moment the group is finishing the mixing of the songs that will comprise their first LP for 2007 published by Indice Virgen Label.
www.olgasite.com
www.myspace.com/olgamusic


MC CAT GENIUS

MC Cat Genius is Piccolo Braden, a 5-year-old-puffy black and white cat from Columbia, Missouri, USA. Already well-known in the fields of terrible inventions and celebrity, he was one of the first signees to his sister Blanche's Cat Jams Label, and in 2003, Piccolo was chosen to appear on the Cornelius fanmix album PM by Humans. Since then, he has gone on to collaborate with such auteurs as Digiki, OBELISK, and Tape Store, and has made appearances (live or otherwise) at Uplink Factory in Tokyo, the Boley gallery in Kansas City, and Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia. At one point, an experiment transformed him into a mischievous evil pancake with the power of flight. When not edutaining live or in the studio, he enjoys looking at bugs, driving his drill machine, throwing up, and being afraid of rustling plastic bags. He and Blanche both prefer tuna to chicken.
www.catjams.com


JAMES HARVEY

James Harvey (aka Harvey James) was born in England in 1983 and would have liked to have worked as an animator. However, one day he was walking in the park when MC Cat Genius surfaced in his drill machine, rupturing the tarmac and knocking over the swings. He promised to make James a star if he signed his life away to Cat Jams Records and foolishly, he accepted. He quickly found himself chained to a laptop in the engine room of the drill machine (which is powered by music), and the rest is history. Since his imprisonment, he has produced remixes and tracks for Digiki, Mai Ueda, myriad artists on the Cat Jams roster, and now Toog.


FASHION FLESH

Moving from A to B I would say that during my small youth period in the time space continuum I was taught to believe in fantastical things that had little to do with the laws of nature as well as the facts of typical universal science. These days were spent within a private christian school system, not so distant in it's teachings from living off unicorn's blood and flying without the aid of winged or jet-powerred machinery. Those days left me with a love of contradiction and the glory of awkwardness, absurdity and confusion; one thing's belief is another thing's flawed and bloated recollection...everything is a noun verbing. Making things new is what every thing likes, unfortunately not too many things take the time to acquire a new idea of their own. I've never liked borrowing ideas all that much so I began building smoke machines and mirror rooms, or actually they might be more like audio devices of electronic and electro-acoustic type...simply making my own brushes and pigments rather than relying on mixing and matching the standardized ones around that most things use. The rest of everything around that is even either more specific or vague, the details don't really add up to the results you might be able to find. I have friends that I like and I do like to play with them. You might actually only know of me through my actions with my musical and audible friends. If you want to know other things it wouldn't be hard to find them, regardless of their accuracy in content they might be what you're looking for.
www.fashionflesh.com

FELIX KUBIN

Felix Kubin, born 1969 in Hamburg, is an artist and a musician. Since 1993 he has composed experimental and futuristic pop music as well as electroacoustic music. He is the author of several radio play productions (for Deutschlandradio Berlin, WDR, ORF, SWR), and runs the label “Gagarin Records”, which also releases contemporary electronic music from Poland. From 2001 to 2002 he was a member of the “Concept Conference” and artistic coordinator of Hamburg’s “ArtGenda Festival” with artists from eighteen cities of all countries bordering on the Baltic Sea. He has composed music for theatre productions by Christoph Schlingensief, Branko Simic, and Schorsch Kamerun, and participated in numerous international music and media art festivals. Kubin released numerous records in Germany and abroad ("Matki Wandalki", "Filmmusik", "The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981-85"…). In 2003 he was a jury member at the “PLOPP!” awards for new radio plays in the 17th “Woche des Hörspiels Berlin”.
www.felixkubin.com


REZNICEK

Autohypnotizer and exzessive soundlistener since his childhood, enthusiastic birdwatcher and educated in classical guitar when he was young, Günter Karl Joseph Reznicek started his musical career when he was a student of visual arts in Hamburg in the early 90s. He realized installations and audiovision shows, released records with abstract guitar sounds and concrete music on labels such like Odd Size, Wachsender Prozess and Staubgold and attract some attention with his unique live guitar shows and collaborations with Klangkrieg. He co-founded Radio Gagarin and Odradek magazine with Felix Kubin and Thomas Beck and the music edition Stora.
In the end of the 90s he formed the experimental electronic pop duo Groenland Orchester together with Gunter Adler, the multi art revue Las Vegas Show and Radio LasVegas with Mariola Brillowska and his sentimental and exzentric casio pop project Nova Huta. He wrote film and theatre music and often together with his friend Neoangin, Nova Huta played several hundred concerts all over the world.
But more and more he found himself mentally deranged from all those different facets of his personality. He was almost about to stop his artist life in order to start a car wash when suddenly he was asked to participate on the Cagesan project. It`s his first work as Reznicek since 7 years.
www.stora.de
www.variz.org
www.myspace.com/novahuta

TOOG

Born in 1966, Toog (FR) endured a lonely upbringing. At the age of 10, trying to escape an alcoholic father, Toog is sexually molested by a family friend. His parents divorce. Toog lives with his subversive radical mother, and begins to dress up in women's clothing. In 1985, he stars in a porno film. The film quickly becomes a phenomenon. It was unprecedented. The FBI later estimated that Toog Goes to Hollywood had probably grossed at least $600 million. The same year, Toog was arrested after fleeing a shooting at Club Palace in Paris, for criminal possession of a firearm. Toog was also convicted on felony narcotic possession charge, for trying to sell cocaine. He stayed in jail for three months. In 1987, Toog beats a photographer, and he is sentenced to one year probation. In 1993, Toog allegedly stole a pair of sneakers, threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend, threatened a security guard and finally ended up in a drug treatment facility. In 2004, Toog's having an audience with the Pope. Pope advises him to continue with music career, and not switch to ministry work.