Little Nobody
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Little Nobody is the electronic music
production alias of Australia
n musician and writer Andrez Bergen.
, who currently resides in Tokyo
, Japan
, Bergen is also an author and photographer, as well as a music, movie and anime journalist for the Daily Yomiuri newspaper, and Tokyo correspondent for Anime Insider
, Geek Monthly
and Impact
magazines.
In the past he has also written for Mixmag
, ToyFare
, Remix, Wax, The Age
and Herald Sun
newspapers, Vice Australia and Cyclic Defrost
magazines, and he occasionally edits subtitles and narration for Japanese animation like Tokyo Marble Chocolate
and The Drawer Hobs, and Mamoru Oshii
's live-action Assault Girls
(2009).
In 2011 Bergen published his debut novel called Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
, via American publisher Another Sky Press. He is currently writing a novel titled One Hundred Years of Vicissitude.
Bergen is a co-founder and until December 2010 was the ongoing manager of Melbourne/Tokyo label IF? Records
, which was launched in 1995 and has since featured an array of Australian (and especially Melburnian) artists like Artificial, Blimp, Voiteck, Ben Mill, Isnod, Honeysmack, Josh Abrahams, Little Nobody, Soulenoid, Guyver 3, TR-Storm, Rhizo, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Sebastian Bayne, Enclave, Alkan, Koda, Kultrun, Bill Hunter, Nod, Zen Paradox
and FSOM, amidst a rotating international roster that has included Si Begg
, DJ Warp, Dave Tarrida, James Ruskin, Justin Berkovi, Luke's Anger, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, E383, Tobias Schmidt, Jammin' Unit, DJ Wada, Khan Oral, Captain Funk
, Jason Leach, Alone Together, Donk Boys, Biochip C, Toshiyuki Yasuda
and Thomas P. Heckmann.
"I started IF? Records principally because I was receiving all these great demo tapes from local artists for my show on PBS
," Bergen told journalist Terry Rance in Inpress
magazine in 1997. "No-one here was putting them out, and rather than sit around griping about it, I thought I'd try and help them myself."
Bergen produces his own music not only as Little Nobody, but as a member of other production outfits Schlock Tactile, DJ Fodder, Curvaceous Crustacean, Slam-dunk Ninja, Atomic Autocrac vs Admiral Anderision, Dick Drone, and the LN Elektronische Ensemble.
He currently lives in Tokyo with his wife, artist Yoko Umehara, and their daughter Cocoa. In 2011 he and his daughter were in a tall building in Tokyo when the Tōhoku earthquake
struck; they were unhurt.
and Cabaret Voltaire
- "Since about 15 years ago, when I first heard their album Voice of America," he told journalist Trish Maunder in The Age
newspaper in 1999.
In 1998, he released his first full-length Little Nobody album, titled Pop Tart
.
Three years later, the next Little Nobody album Action Hero
- which also contained real sounds - was one of the 4 final nominees for Best Album of the Year in 3D Worlds 2001 Australian Dance Music Awards, of which The Avalanches
were the eventual winner.
That year, his remix EP of Bare
, in collusion with vocalist Marcella Brassett, was also adjudged as "Single of the Week" in Melbourne's Beat magazine by reviewer Andrew Mast. Beat magazine.
Little Nobody also appeared on the second compilation of Si Begg
's cut-up beat Noodles Discotheque series in 2001.
He has since put out a series of vinyl releases in Japan such as the Depth Charge
EP (2003), Eating the Heart of the Fishes (2005), The Slack Plague EP (2007), Robota EP (2010), and the Metropolis How? EP (2010), featuring James Ruskin and Justin Berkovi.
In 2008, Bergen released a remix compilation (Little Nobody Presents Slam-dunk Ninja: The Perspicacious Remix Selection), plus a new album (Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger), and since then has unleashed three more albums through Auricular in the USA (Deeppresso 2009, Hackneyed Record Crate 2010, and Convert to Mono 2011).
During 2010 Bergen made a return to the vinyl format for some releases. "Digital is glutted out,” he told James Coulson at Metropolis magazine in Japan. “It’s a great medium to exercise lack of restraint and release experimental stuff since there are no overheads, but sales and attention are minimal. Digital is physically intangible, and CDs have gone the way of the dinosaur. DJing vinyl is something I can show my daughter when she grows up, and the analog sound is just a wee bit richer.”
In May 2011 he release the Little Nobody Commix remix compilation CD through Japanese label Fountain Music (featuring mixes by Mijk van Dijk, James Ruskin, Dave Angel, Shin Nishimura, Donk Boys, Si Begg, Patrick Pulsinger, DJ Wada, Captain Funk and Justin Robertson).
(Mosquito
), Luke's Anger, Justin Robertson
, Dave Tarrida (Tresor
), James Ruskin, Dave Angel
, Tobias Schmidt (Tresor
), E383, Steve Cobby
from Fila Brazillia
, Justin Berkovi and Jason Leach (Subhead), as well as by German, Dutch and Austrian producers Bas Mooy, Jammin' Unit, Mijk van Dijk, Biochip C and Patrick Pulsinger, and Americans AUX 88
, Paul Birken, Blake Baxter
, Wyndell Long and Steve Stoll, Australian producers Steve Law (Zen Paradox
), Nicole Skeltys
, Digital Primate, Bitch Shift, Dee Dee, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Koda, Craig McWhinney and Nick Littlemore from Pnau
, and Japanese musicians Tatsuya Oe
(Captain Funk
), DJ Wada (Co-Fusion), DJ Warp (Elektrax), Alone Together (IF?), Magnet Toy (Trope), Funkarmor, Masaya Sasaki, Toshiyuki Yasuda
(formerly from Fantastic Plastic Machine), Naotoxin, Gadget Cassette, Shin Nishimura and Yamaoka.
In return, he's had a hand at remixing Severed Heads
, AUX 88
, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, Dead Sound, Luke's Anger, Kid Calmdown, Slam-dunk Ninja, DJ Hi-Shock, Marcella Brassett, Dale Baldwin, Bitch Shift, Koda, Alkan, Son Of Zev, Abis and Toshiyuki Yasuda
, and, with the LN Elektronische Ensemble, covered The Doors
' Light My Fire for a live session at SBS Radio
in Australia.
, Hardware
, Where The Wild Things Are
, Freaky Loops, Earthcore
, Zoetrope, War Of The Worlds, Dragonflight
, Sunshine People, Omniglobe, Innovator
, Technofest, TransAtlantic
, Electric and Be Strange, as well as at the Offshore Festival
.
Along the way he has performed alongside Elenor Rayner
(as Little Nobody vs E) Luke Vibert
, Derrick May, Squarepusher
, Scanner
, Jeff Mills
, Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes
, Chez Damier, Cari Lekebusch
, Ben Sims, Ian Pooley
, Pilote
, Neotropic
, Spearhead
, Stacey Pullen
, Adam Beyer
, Miss Kittin
, Heiko Laux and Mike Patton
from Mr Bungle.
He also supported Coldcut
during theirAustralian audio/visual tour in 1999.
Little Nobody, and his Andrez turntablist alterego, has played at Australian clubs like Filter
, Teriyaki Anarki Saki, Centriphugal, Frigid, Warm Up, Phreakin', Scissor*Paper*Rock, Zoetrope, Club Kooky, Revolver, Honkytonks and More Bass. In Japan, he played at the renowned Womb and Unit nightclubs as well as at Dommune, and in London at the now-defunct Moon Palace.
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
production alias of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n musician and writer Andrez Bergen.
Background
An expatriate MelburnianMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, who currently resides in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Bergen is also an author and photographer, as well as a music, movie and anime journalist for the Daily Yomiuri newspaper, and Tokyo correspondent for Anime Insider
Anime Insider
Anime Insider was a monthly magazine published by Wizard Entertainment, consisting of news and entertainment pieces relating to the Japanese anime and manga subculture....
, Geek Monthly
Geek Monthly
Geek Monthly is an American print magazine that was launched in 2006 under the guidance of editor-in-chief Jeff Bond by CFQ Media, who was previously responsible for relaunching the classic science fiction/fantasy magazine Cinefantastique and its sister publication "Femme Fatales"...
and Impact
Impact (action entertainment magazine)
Impact is a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom since 1992. It is likely modeled on its French "older brother" "Impact" started in 1986. It covers the field of action entertainment: including Hong Kong action cinema, worldwide martial arts films, Hollywood productions, anime, comics,...
magazines.
In the past he has also written for Mixmag
Mixmag
Mixmag is a British dance music and clubbing magazine. It styles itself as "the world's biggest selling dance music magazine", with an Audit Bureau of Circulations audited circulation of approximately 21,250...
, ToyFare
ToyFare
ToyFare was a monthly comedy and collecting magazine published by Wizard Entertainment that focused on collectible action figures, busts, statues, and maquettes. It previewed new and upcoming lines and figures each month, as well as providing a price guide for toy lines, new and old...
, Remix, Wax, The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
and Herald Sun
Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...
newspapers, Vice Australia and Cyclic Defrost
Cyclic Defrost
Cyclic Defrost is Australia's only specialist electronic music magazine. It is edited by Sebastian Chan, Shaun Prescott and Alexandra Savvides, and covers independent electronic music, avant-rock, experimental sound art and left field hip hop....
magazines, and he occasionally edits subtitles and narration for Japanese animation like Tokyo Marble Chocolate
Tokyo Marble Chocolate
-External links:** at Production I.G.*http://www.sicaf.or.kr/2008/index.jsp SICAF 2008 website...
and The Drawer Hobs, and Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...
's live-action Assault Girls
Assault Girls
is a Japanese live-action feature written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.-Synopsis:In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, three battle tested women wage war in a virtual reality videogame against giant mutant sandwhales...
(2009).
In 2011 Bergen published his debut novel called Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a science fiction/noir novel by Australian author Andrez Bergen. It is set in a post-apocalyptic, near-future Melbourne, Australia. It features cover art and some illustrations by American artist Scott Campbell, and was first published through Another Sky Press in...
, via American publisher Another Sky Press. He is currently writing a novel titled One Hundred Years of Vicissitude.
Bergen is a co-founder and until December 2010 was the ongoing manager of Melbourne/Tokyo label IF? Records
IF? Records
IF? Records, established in Melbourne, Australia in 1995 and based in Tokyo, Japan after relocating there in 2001, was a live gig and rave party organiser in Melbourne in the 1990s and one of Melbourne's first independent local electronic music labels....
, which was launched in 1995 and has since featured an array of Australian (and especially Melburnian) artists like Artificial, Blimp, Voiteck, Ben Mill, Isnod, Honeysmack, Josh Abrahams, Little Nobody, Soulenoid, Guyver 3, TR-Storm, Rhizo, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Sebastian Bayne, Enclave, Alkan, Koda, Kultrun, Bill Hunter, Nod, Zen Paradox
Zen Paradox
Zen Paradox is an electronic music artist, primarily involved in the production of techno as well as other more experimental electronic sounds, from Melbourne, Australia. It is the principle name under which Steve Law records and performs electronic music. He also uses the names Mr...
and FSOM, amidst a rotating international roster that has included Si Begg
Si Begg
Si Begg is electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer Simon Begg, from Leicester, England.His music combines elements of Experimental, Downtempo, Breakbeat Ambient, Drum and bass, Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in Leamington Spa and moved to London in 1991...
, DJ Warp, Dave Tarrida, James Ruskin, Justin Berkovi, Luke's Anger, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, E383, Tobias Schmidt, Jammin' Unit, DJ Wada, Khan Oral, Captain Funk
Captain Funk
is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
, Jason Leach, Alone Together, Donk Boys, Biochip C, Toshiyuki Yasuda
Toshiyuki Yasuda
Japanese electronic artist and composer Toshiyuki Yasuda was born in 1973 in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan, and is a former member of Fantastic Plastic Machine.-Background:...
and Thomas P. Heckmann.
"I started IF? Records principally because I was receiving all these great demo tapes from local artists for my show on PBS
PBS 106.7FM
PBS 106.7FM , also known as the Progressive Broadcasting Service, is a co-operatively owned community radio station in Melbourne, Australia, that broadcasts on 106.7FM, Digital radio and online...
," Bergen told journalist Terry Rance in Inpress
Inpress
Inpress is a free weekly tabloid-sized music magazine that is released in Melbourne, Geelong and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria, Australia...
magazine in 1997. "No-one here was putting them out, and rather than sit around griping about it, I thought I'd try and help them myself."
Bergen produces his own music not only as Little Nobody, but as a member of other production outfits Schlock Tactile, DJ Fodder, Curvaceous Crustacean, Slam-dunk Ninja, Atomic Autocrac vs Admiral Anderision, Dick Drone, and the LN Elektronische Ensemble.
He currently lives in Tokyo with his wife, artist Yoko Umehara, and their daughter Cocoa. In 2011 he and his daughter were in a tall building in Tokyo when the Tōhoku earthquake
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...
struck; they were unhurt.
Little Nobody's studio sounds
Bergen has said he has been influenced in his own music by the 1970s industrial sounds and ideology of Throbbing GristleThrobbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...
and Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire (band)
Cabaret Voltaire were a British music group from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland that was a centre for the early Dada movement.Their earliest performances...
- "Since about 15 years ago, when I first heard their album Voice of America," he told journalist Trish Maunder in The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
newspaper in 1999.
In 1998, he released his first full-length Little Nobody album, titled Pop Tart
Pop Tart (album)
Pop Tart is the debut full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody. This album was released on IF? Records in September, 1998 in Australia.-Track listing:# "Sparkplug"# "Nobody's Driving"# "Tobacco-stained Mountain Goat"# "Fear of a Black Bat"...
.
Three years later, the next Little Nobody album Action Hero
Action Hero (album)
Action Hero is the second full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody. This album was released on IF? Records in July, 2000 in Australia....
- which also contained real sounds - was one of the 4 final nominees for Best Album of the Year in 3D Worlds 2001 Australian Dance Music Awards, of which The Avalanches
The Avalanches
The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group formed in 1997 with mainstays Robbie Chater on keyboards, Tony Diblasi on keyboards, bass and backing vocals, and Darren Seltmann on vocals and keyboards. They are known for their live DJ sets and their debut album Since I Left You , which was...
were the eventual winner.
That year, his remix EP of Bare
Bare (EP)
Bare is a remix EP, sourced from Action Hero, the second full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody.It features vocalist Marcella Brassett on the signature track and many of the remixes, and reconsiderations by Little Nobody, the LN Elektronische Ensemble, 8-Bit, Kandyman, Son Of Zev and Isnod...
, in collusion with vocalist Marcella Brassett, was also adjudged as "Single of the Week" in Melbourne's Beat magazine by reviewer Andrew Mast. Beat magazine.
Little Nobody also appeared on the second compilation of Si Begg
Si Begg
Si Begg is electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer Simon Begg, from Leicester, England.His music combines elements of Experimental, Downtempo, Breakbeat Ambient, Drum and bass, Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in Leamington Spa and moved to London in 1991...
's cut-up beat Noodles Discotheque series in 2001.
He has since put out a series of vinyl releases in Japan such as the Depth Charge
Depth Charge (EP)
Depth Charge is the first vinyl EP released in Japan by expatriate Australian producer Little Nobody, aka Andrez Bergen, who relocated from Melbourne to Tokyo in 2001....
EP (2003), Eating the Heart of the Fishes (2005), The Slack Plague EP (2007), Robota EP (2010), and the Metropolis How? EP (2010), featuring James Ruskin and Justin Berkovi.
In 2008, Bergen released a remix compilation (Little Nobody Presents Slam-dunk Ninja: The Perspicacious Remix Selection), plus a new album (Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger), and since then has unleashed three more albums through Auricular in the USA (Deeppresso 2009, Hackneyed Record Crate 2010, and Convert to Mono 2011).
During 2010 Bergen made a return to the vinyl format for some releases. "Digital is glutted out,” he told James Coulson at Metropolis magazine in Japan. “It’s a great medium to exercise lack of restraint and release experimental stuff since there are no overheads, but sales and attention are minimal. Digital is physically intangible, and CDs have gone the way of the dinosaur. DJing vinyl is something I can show my daughter when she grows up, and the analog sound is just a wee bit richer.”
In May 2011 he release the Little Nobody Commix remix compilation CD through Japanese label Fountain Music (featuring mixes by Mijk van Dijk, James Ruskin, Dave Angel, Shin Nishimura, Donk Boys, Si Begg, Patrick Pulsinger, DJ Wada, Captain Funk and Justin Robertson).
Remixes and covers
Little Nobody's music has been remixed by Sweden's Donk Boys, Britain's Si BeggSi Begg
Si Begg is electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer Simon Begg, from Leicester, England.His music combines elements of Experimental, Downtempo, Breakbeat Ambient, Drum and bass, Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in Leamington Spa and moved to London in 1991...
(Mosquito
Mosquito
Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...
), Luke's Anger, Justin Robertson
Justin Robertson
Justin Robertson is a British DJ, remixer and electronic music producer from Manchester, England. He has remixed dozens of high-profile music artists as himself or as The Prankster, fronted the group Lionrock and has released albums and singles of original music under his own name and the name...
, Dave Tarrida (Tresor
Tresor
Tresor is an underground techno nightclub and record label. The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former old Wertheim department store in Mitte, the central part of the former East Berlin, next to the famous Potsdamer Platz, however the history of the club goes back to 1988 when...
), James Ruskin, Dave Angel
Dave Angel
David Angelico Nicholas Gooden , better known as Dave Angel, is an English techno musician.-Early years:Angel was born in Chelsea, London in 1966. He is the son of a London-based jazz musician, and the elder brother of rapper Monie Love...
, Tobias Schmidt (Tresor
Tresor
Tresor is an underground techno nightclub and record label. The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former old Wertheim department store in Mitte, the central part of the former East Berlin, next to the famous Potsdamer Platz, however the history of the club goes back to 1988 when...
), E383, Steve Cobby
Steve Cobby
Steve Cobby is a British electronic musician, composer, DJ and producer, based in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire.Cobby co-founded Fila Brazillia with David McSherry in 1990. From 1990 to 1998 Fila Brazillia releases were on the Kingston-upon-Hull based Pork Recordings established by David 'Porky'...
from Fila Brazillia
Fila Brazillia
Fila Brazillia was an electronica collaboration from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire in North-East England. Formed in 1990 by Steve Cobby and David McSherry...
, Justin Berkovi and Jason Leach (Subhead), as well as by German, Dutch and Austrian producers Bas Mooy, Jammin' Unit, Mijk van Dijk, Biochip C and Patrick Pulsinger, and Americans AUX 88
AUX 88
AUX 88 is an electro group from Michigan, USA. AUX 88 is composed of Tom Tom and Keith Tucker The group was originally formed as "RX-7" in 1985. The group also formed another project known as Sight Beyond Sight, before forming AUX 88 in 1993. In 1995, Tucker went solo and Hamilton continued as...
, Paul Birken, Blake Baxter
Blake Baxter
Blake Baxter is an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno. Allmusic called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene....
, Wyndell Long and Steve Stoll, Australian producers Steve Law (Zen Paradox
Zen Paradox
Zen Paradox is an electronic music artist, primarily involved in the production of techno as well as other more experimental electronic sounds, from Melbourne, Australia. It is the principle name under which Steve Law records and performs electronic music. He also uses the names Mr...
), Nicole Skeltys
Nicole Skeltys
Nicole Skeltys is an Australian composer, writer and presenter, currently based in Pittsburgh, USA. From 1993 to 2003 she was part of Btek, an Australian electronica and dance act. Skeltys also released electronic music under the name Artificial during this period and was a member of Clan Analogue...
, Digital Primate, Bitch Shift, Dee Dee, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Koda, Craig McWhinney and Nick Littlemore from Pnau
Pnau
Pnau is an Australian dance music duo originating from Sydney, Australia. The duo consists of musicians Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes...
, and Japanese musicians Tatsuya Oe
Captain Funk
is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
(Captain Funk
Captain Funk
is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
), DJ Wada (Co-Fusion), DJ Warp (Elektrax), Alone Together (IF?), Magnet Toy (Trope), Funkarmor, Masaya Sasaki, Toshiyuki Yasuda
Toshiyuki Yasuda
Japanese electronic artist and composer Toshiyuki Yasuda was born in 1973 in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan, and is a former member of Fantastic Plastic Machine.-Background:...
(formerly from Fantastic Plastic Machine), Naotoxin, Gadget Cassette, Shin Nishimura and Yamaoka.
In return, he's had a hand at remixing Severed Heads
Severed Heads
Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular...
, AUX 88
AUX 88
AUX 88 is an electro group from Michigan, USA. AUX 88 is composed of Tom Tom and Keith Tucker The group was originally formed as "RX-7" in 1985. The group also formed another project known as Sight Beyond Sight, before forming AUX 88 in 1993. In 1995, Tucker went solo and Hamilton continued as...
, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, Dead Sound, Luke's Anger, Kid Calmdown, Slam-dunk Ninja, DJ Hi-Shock, Marcella Brassett, Dale Baldwin, Bitch Shift, Koda, Alkan, Son Of Zev, Abis and Toshiyuki Yasuda
Toshiyuki Yasuda
Japanese electronic artist and composer Toshiyuki Yasuda was born in 1973 in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan, and is a former member of Fantastic Plastic Machine.-Background:...
, and, with the LN Elektronische Ensemble, covered The Doors
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
' Light My Fire for a live session at SBS Radio
SBS Radio
SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service '..to inform, educate and entertain Australians, especially those of non-English speaking backgrounds'. SBS Radio originally began as two stations based in Melbourne and Sydney, set up to provide pre-recorded information about the...
in Australia.
Tours, live performances and gigs
Little Nobody has played live in Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Beijing, London, Amsterdam, Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Windsor and extensively around Australia - having performed at essential Australian rave parties like Every Picture Tells A StoryEvery Picture Tells A Story Melbourne
In Melbourne, Australia, in 1993, the Melbourne Underground Development crew started a series of warehouse/rave parties that continued for almost 10 years, with 21 of their own Every Picture Tells A Story parties in total - drawing thousands of people to each event.- Every Picture and other M.U.D...
, Hardware
Hardware
Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores....
, Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 , a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film...
, Freaky Loops, Earthcore
Earthcore
Earthcore was an Australian outdoor dance music festival and electronic music events organisation. The outdoor events were generally held in forest environments around Victoria, Australia, with some events held in Queensland, Australia and overseas in New Caledonia...
, Zoetrope, War Of The Worlds, Dragonflight
Dragonflight
Dragonflight is a fantasy or science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. Dragonflight was first published by Ballantine Books in July 1968...
, Sunshine People, Omniglobe, Innovator
Innovator
An innovator in a general sense, is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.-History:...
, Technofest, TransAtlantic
Transatlantic
Transatlantic crossings are passages of passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe. Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken in sailing ships, which was a time consuming and often perilous journey. Transatlantic crossings became faster,...
, Electric and Be Strange, as well as at the Offshore Festival
Offshore Festival
The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia in the late 1990s, 2000 and 2001. It was run by the same organisers as the Falls Festival, held at nearby Lorne on New Year's Eve. It interlinked with the major...
.
Along the way he has performed alongside Elenor Rayner
Elenor Rayner
Elenor Rayner is a singer, musician and producer. She was a member of Melbourne electro-industrial band Soulscraper who released two eps. Rayner went on to join Ragewar and released one album, "Backlash", with them. She has a solo project Sobriquet, is a member of The Crystalline Effect and...
(as Little Nobody vs E) Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions...
, Derrick May, Squarepusher
Squarepusher
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....
, Scanner
Robin Rimbaud
Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance...
, Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills is an American techno DJ and producer.-Career:Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name "The Wizard", was a recurring guest DJ on "The Electrifying Mojo" radio show on WJLB...
, Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes
Eddie Fowlkes
Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes is a techno DJ from Detroit, Michigan, influential to the early Detroit techno scene.Fowlkes began his career as a DJ in high school, and attended business college briefly before turning full-time to a career in music...
, Chez Damier, Cari Lekebusch
Cari Lekebusch
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, Ben Sims, Ian Pooley
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, Pilote
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, Neotropic
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, Spearhead
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, Stacey Pullen
Stacey Pullen
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, Adam Beyer
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, Miss Kittin
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, Heiko Laux and Mike Patton
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from Mr Bungle.
He also supported Coldcut
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during theirAustralian audio/visual tour in 1999.
Little Nobody, and his Andrez turntablist alterego, has played at Australian clubs like Filter
Club Filter Melbourne
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, Teriyaki Anarki Saki, Centriphugal, Frigid, Warm Up, Phreakin', Scissor*Paper*Rock, Zoetrope, Club Kooky, Revolver, Honkytonks and More Bass. In Japan, he played at the renowned Womb and Unit nightclubs as well as at Dommune, and in London at the now-defunct Moon Palace.
Little Nobody and Andrez Bergen releases
- Solid Gold Collectibles, & Then Some EP (1997) So!! Muzik
- Pop TartPop Tart (album)Pop Tart is the debut full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody. This album was released on IF? Records in September, 1998 in Australia.-Track listing:# "Sparkplug"# "Nobody's Driving"# "Tobacco-stained Mountain Goat"# "Fear of a Black Bat"...
album (1998), IF? Records - Action HeroAction Hero (album)Action Hero is the second full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody. This album was released on IF? Records in July, 2000 in Australia....
album (2000), IF? Records - BareBare (EP)Bare is a remix EP, sourced from Action Hero, the second full length album from Melbourne's Little Nobody.It features vocalist Marcella Brassett on the signature track and many of the remixes, and reconsiderations by Little Nobody, the LN Elektronische Ensemble, 8-Bit, Kandyman, Son Of Zev and Isnod...
EP (2000), IF? Records - Cocaine Speaking remixes (2000), IF? Records
- Reaction HeroReaction HeroReaction Hero is a remix double-CD release, sourced from and reinterpreting original tracks on Little Nobody's preceding album Action Hero ....
remix album (2001), IF? Records - Boastward Ho EP (2001), Fitja Records
- Pop Tart mixes (2002), IF? Records
- Depth ChargeDepth Charge (EP)Depth Charge is the first vinyl EP released in Japan by expatriate Australian producer Little Nobody, aka Andrez Bergen, who relocated from Melbourne to Tokyo in 2001....
EP (2003), Fitja Records - Crotch It EP (2004), TTAK
- Eating The Heart Of The Fishes EP (2005), IF? Records
- Plus / Minus EP (2007), TTAK
- The Slack Plague EP (2007), IF? Records
- Game Over: Variations EP (2008), IF? Records
- Techelectric Tangents Vol. 1 EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Techelectric Tangents Vol. 2 EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Wayward Seafarers EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Double-Click to Play EP (2008), Dead Channel, UK
- Woklurk Orange EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Live In Tokyo EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Remember Radio? LP (2008), Dead Channel, UK
- Game Over: Reset 140 EP (2008), IF? Records
- We Call It Crack House - Si Begg Remix EP (2008), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Robota EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room
- Cocaine Speaking Remixes (2008), IF? Records, Elektrax & Hypnotic Room
- Disquo EP (2008), Hypnotic Room
- Cocaine Speaking - Mijk van Dijk Remix EP (2008), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Metropolis How? EP (2008), IF? Records
- I Have Become So Many People I Do Not Know Which Is Myself LP (2009), Dead Channel, UK
- Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger LP (2009), Auricular Records, USA
- Game Over: Reboot EP (2009), IF? Records
- Poiseworks - Shin Nishimura Remix EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Kapitän "L" EP (2009), IF? Records
- Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #4 EP (2009), IF? Records
- Robota - Jammin' Unit Remix EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Robota Remixes EP (2009), Hypnotic Room
- Jazz Muzak Remixes EP (2009), Elektrax
- Robota Techo Remixes EP (2009), Elektrax
- Compulsion - Luke's Anger Remix EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Blah Blah - Patrick Pulsinger Remix EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition
- Compulsion Remixes LP (2009), IF? Records
- From The Edge EP (2009), TTAKredefined
- Like A Sturgeon EP (2009), IF? Records
- Deeppresso LP (2009), Auricular Records, USA
- Compulsion Remixes LP (2009), Hypnotic Room
- Robota Remixes EP (2010), IF? Records
- Metropolis How? Remixes 12" EP (2010), IF? Gynoid Audio
- Hackneyed Record Crate LP (2010), Auricular Records, USA
- Robota 12" EP (2010), IF? Records
- Get Away From It All 12" EP (2010), IF? Records
- The Condimental Op 12" EP (2011), IF? Records
- Convert To Mono LP (2011), Auricular Records, USA
- Get Away From It All Remixes EP (2011), Elektrax
- Hard Foiled LP (2011) IF? Records
- Disquo Remixes EP (2011) Hypnotic Room
- Metropolis How? Redux EP (2011) Gynoid Audio
- Commix Remix Compilation LP (2011) Fountain Music, Japan
- Troll Remixes EP (2011) Finn Audio
- The Thin Flan Remixes EP (2011) Gynoid Audio
Other works
- Live, Sorted & Tauted (LN Elektronische Ensemble, 2001), IF? Records
- Mitanime Remixes EP (Schlock Tactile, 2003), IF? Records
- Ninja Daddy EP (Slam-dunk Ninja, 2007), IF? Records
- Live, Sorted & Tauted: Rewound & Unstrung (LN Elektronische Ensemble, 2008), IF?
- Blah Blah Remixes EP (Funk Gadget, 2008), IF? Records
- Rewind EP (Curvaceous Crustacean, 2008), IF? Records
- Suicidio EP (Conversational Dentures, 2008), IF? Records
- Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl EP (Little Bitches, 2009), IF? Records
- Love Me Slender EP (Schlock Tactile, 2009), Hypnotic Room
- Suicidio Plus+ EP (Conversational Dentures, 2009), IF? Records
- Your Soul Is Mine EP (Psyborg-9, 2009), Elektrax
- Broken Piano EP (DJ Fodder, 2009), IF? Records
- Blah Blah Remixes EP (Funk Gadget, 2010), Slidebar Recordings
On compilations
- Zeitgeist 2 (1996), IF? Records
- Zeitgeist 3 (1997), IF? Records
- Sunblock (1998), Sunblock/MDS
- Dance Your Pants Off! (1998), Australian Dance Music Conference
- Dragonflight 99 (1999), Dragonflight
- Hemphouse (1999), Sense Recordings
- Beatscootin (1999), Groovescooter
- ZOO (2000), IF? Records
- Every Picture Tells A Story, Vol. 3 (2000), MUD
- Noodles Discotheque, Vol. 2 (2001), Noodles (UK)
- 909001 EP (2001), Nine09
- Esoteric Psikology (2001), Nine09
- Kiss FM: Sounds of Australia (2001), Shock
- Beatworkz, Vol. 2 (2001), Organarchy
- Exasperation Flicka (2003), Fitja Records
- Yel.Blu.Gre. (2003), Fitja Records
- Minus / Plus: Initials EP (2005), IF? Records
- Jungaru Teitai (2005), TTAK (Japan)
- Dartness + Height (2005), TTAK (Japan)
- Serapionne (2006), TTAK (Japan)
- Slam-dunk Ninja: The Perspicacious Remix Selection (2008), IF? Records
- Z-13 (2008), IF? Records
- Suburbia Remixes (2008), Elektrax (Australia)
- We Too Are You (2008), IF? Records
- TTAKredefined 1 (2008), TTAKredefined (Japan)
- TTAKredefined 2 (2009), TTAKredefined (Japan)
- Zen Lounge (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)
- Lego Project 1 (2009), Dead Channel (UK)
- Auricular Audio Magazine #14 (2009), Auricular Records (USA)
- Compulsion Remixes (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)
- Iffy Bizness (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)
- IF100 (2009), IF? Records
- Iffy Bizness Vol. 2 (2010), Hypnotic Room (Australia)
- Is Your MP3 Player Ready? Weird Fodder From The Coffers (2010), IF? Records
- Behind Moisture Crack (2011), Vinyl 12" feat. Cristian Vogel, Tobias Schmidt & Bill Youngman, Slidebar (Germany)
External links
- http://andrezbergen.tripod.com
- abc.net.au profile
- japantoday article
- Australian Music Online interview with Andrez Bergen (8/05/2006)
- IF? records 2007 article