All About Christian Vance
Likes Of You & Soma Corp w Luciano & Robert Babicz
First ever pairing of the two hottest underground events series in Melbourne bar none, The Likes Of You and Soma Corp (Blow Your Own Way), 2 internationals and 12 locals across the ENTIRE Brown Alley complex! [more]
Colours Pres. Christian Vance + Simon Caldwell
We're bringing Australia's finest tech and house DJ's under the one roof to continue with the concept of building Brisbane as an epicenter of the dance music scene. [more]
The Likes of You 2nd Birthday
Featuring ERIC PRYDZ (Pryda, Cirez D) [more]
Pham, Cromack & Vance: 5 on the fly
by tothebeat on April 12th, 2007
Melbourne has always been a city that thrives on their local talent, she holds her head up with pride and fits snuggly amongst the myriad of international talent that comes through the party doors. ITM catches up with three of the main players. [more]
Derrick May: High Tech Soul
One of techno's three 'godfathers', Derrick May is promoting a documentary, High Tech Soul, which traces techno's origins back to a neglected Detroit, but otherwise he's looking forward. Cyclone talks candidly with Derrick whilst he is in Melbourne. [more]
For years Christian Vance has manifested the ethos of Detroit techno in Melbourne, performing live with the cult trio Phunk de Sonique, but now he's going it alone. [more]
Christian Vance of Melbourne based tech trio "Phunk de Sonique" on the intricacies of the live form, the art of stortelling, aliens and dead authors. [more]
NZ's Simon Flower live at Ffour
On Saturday 21 June meet a stalwart of Auckland’s underground music scene, with Simon Flower performing his live show at one of underground Melbourne’s favourite haunts, Ffour. [more]
Claude Young plays the Last Techno Party Ever
After 8 long years, Stable and Pretty Simple proudly welcome back to Melbourne one of the most skillful and naturally gifted techno DJs ever, the formidable Mr Claude Young. [more]
Kazu Kimura returns to Melbourne
Stable and Pretty Simple have joined forces yet again and will welcome back to Melbourne one of Australia’s true pioneers of techno and a Melbourne favourite - Kazu Kimura, on Saturday 25th August at Ffour. [more]
Funk D'void exclusive Melbourne show
Funk D’Void is definitely in demand these days with numerous remixes and appearances on grand compilations and he is playing in Melbourne on Thursday 29th March at Miss Libertine. [more]
It was great to see the promoters of the event rocking Melbourne with such a quality lineup, and even better to see Becks coming on board and putting these guys up. It’d be great to see some more of these kind of ‘Sessions’ in the future! [more]
Blow Your Own Way feat. Alex Smoke @ Colonial Hotel, Melbourne (26/04/08)
by tben on April 30th, 2008
Those who were on the top floor of Brown Alley this Saturday can understand how Alex Smoke [Soma/Vakant/Hum+Haw] is incredibly hard to place genre-wise. [more]
On a perfect Easter Sunday night we were fortunate to have two of techno’s biggest current names, Joris Voorn and Aril Brikha, sharing the bill for a highly anticipated event put on by Soma corp and Hardware. [more]
Local Extracts #4 feat. Patrick HAF @ Ffour, Melbourne (22/12/07)
by Kat_in_Japan on January 7th, 2008
Soma Corp’s fourth installment in the 'Local Extracts' series was perfectly timed with the celebration of their fourth birthday, and featured Australian techno luminary Patrick HAF, aka The Sentinel. [more]
For those of us unable to see the international talent on offer at the recent Earthcore festival, or those who were simply up for a repeat dose, this sideshow offered an opportunity to see Extrawelt, Luke Vibert and DJ Schwa. [more]
Hi-Tek Soul Featuring Stacey Pullen @ Miss Libertine, Melbourne (05/05/07)
by brygetreckons on May 17th, 2007
The Kosmic Messenger delivers fresh cuts, dripping with soul. If you miss the good old days when the dance music scene was select (circa Savage) stay tuned for the next instalment of Hi-Tek Soul. [more]
Anyhow, the First installment of the Local Extract series marks not only the kick off to what I consider some of Melbourne’s finest minimal/tech house sounds & DJs, but also provided a performance stage for the talented Christian Vance to hand craft [more]
Three cheers for Hardware and Killrockstar for putting on yet another awesome event! [more]
“Lost in Sound” infiltrated the throng on a primal level showcasing a DJ who clearly hasn’t lost momentum.. Unfortunately by the time this Detroit don took to the stage the crowd largely had lost theirs. [more]
Soul'sa, Mike Callander, Ben Cromack, Birthday boy Vance and Bongmist at Honkytonks, Sunday January 23, 2005 [more]