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School Girl Report

School Girl Report来自澳大利亚新南威尔士，巴特曼斯贝，成员包括Samuel Miers（吉他）和Daniel Oakman（鼓）。通过为琴弦加料以及用特殊工具来演奏，Samuel不必使用效果器就让吉他发出了难以企及的声响，并将其带入到精彩的现场演出中。Daniel的鼓技融合着非洲音乐、未来派灵魂乐以及德国新浪潮等不同流派，让人在混乱的边缘起舞。School Girl Report的首张专辑Sister Smooth将在支持多元文化的泛太平洋厂牌Tenzenmen发行。

School Girl Report from Batemans Bay, NSW, is made up of preschool friends Samuel Miers on guitar and Daniel Oakman on drums. Samuel, with his creative use of tools amongst the strings, creates multiple layers of unique sounds without pedals, resulting in organic and exciting live compositions. It sometimes appears as if five bells are ringing on different frequencies or takes the form of a low romping drone accompanied by techno bleeps. Daniel’s drums mix African, Future Soul, and Neue Deutsche Welle styles to create innovative grooves that make the audience want to dance in ecstatic states of confusion. Syncopated beat patterns chaperone the guitar’s wild rhythmic loops to give the overall sound a delayed focus on the beat, creating a hesitating roll of sections skipping into one another.

School Girl Report’s debut album, Sister Smooth, will soon be released on the celebrated cross-cultural label Tenzenmen.

8th July 2023 – Whatever happened to this album? Slipped through the cracks somehow! If I remember correctly Sam stayed on in China for a while after this tour.

xNoBBQx

xNoBBQx是一个实验摇滚二人组，成员包括Matt Earle（吉他）和Nick Dan（鼓），他们来自悉尼和布里斯班。有评论戏称他们的音乐听上去像是“在车库里演奏那些在水里浸了14年的乐器，并用破旧的录音机录了下来。”最近几年，xNoBBQx在美国、欧洲、新西兰以及日本进行了多次巡演，2008年他们曾参加过奥斯丁的SXSW音乐节。同时，乐队成员还经营着DIY厂牌Breakdance the Dawn和黑胶厂牌Pulled Out。

xNoBBQx is a 2-piece experimental rock band from Sydney/Brisbane, Australia consisting of Matt Earle on guitar and Nick Dan on drums. Their sound has been compared to the joyous abandon of “a couple of 14-year-olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on an old tape recorder” (Cyclic Defrost). xNoBBQx has toured both nationally and internationally over the last few years throughout the USA, Europe, New Zealand and Japan. In 2008 they showcased at the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas. The members of the band also run their own independent labels Pulled Out (vinyl only) and Breakdance the Dawn.

8th July 2023 – I met Matt and Nick, who were around in the improv music scene when I was rehearsing with Hinterlandt when Hinterlandt was little more than a bedroom idea. We did play some shows, one that included an Arkestra-type affair which I’m pretty sure they both played in. There were more people on stage than in the audience that night. Both Hintelandt and Matt were part of the inspiration to start tenzenmen in the first place.