Issue Five

Lifestyle and Visual Arts Magazine Issue Five

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Sam Lloyd

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Tanja Duric feat. Chrissie Bergmann

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Urban Exploration part II

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Words from Rich Evans, the CEO and founder of Catalyst Snowboards in Australia.

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SNOWBOARDS From riding the mountains of Canada and the U.S to producing world class designed snowboarding equipment, Rich Evans is a guy from NSW who saw the birth of an industry within Australia and took full advantage.

From the words of Catalyst Snowboards CEO, Rich Evans.

So, it started off with a few seasons of riding snowboards around Whitefish, Montana and Fernie in BC. Then coming home and realising that snowboarding gear in Australia is very overpriced and was really just the unwanted crap the Northern Hemisphere companies couldn’t sell. I guess things have changed a bit since then but that’s how the idea of Catalyst began.

We saw the shortage of local manufacturing as an opportunity to get into a business we are passionate about and to produce amazing snowboards for the sport. We spent about two years researching production methods, materials and machinery to produce a quality board.

It’s hard finding equipment! It’s a very specialized area of work and the only way to get it now days is to make it yourself or wait for a company to go bust and pick up used equipment.

The aim of Catalyst was to (and still is to) produce boards that are able to compete with the Nothern Hemisphere companies in both performance and affordability.

Also to build something locally with rider input and give local riders the chance to get something a little different to the big cookie cutter snowboard/marketing companies.

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If I was to describe the Catalyst brand in one word, I’d say “resilient”. From the manufacturing of our boards, to the people we work with and support. At the moment we have 2 riders. Josh Anderson and Alex Main, both young groms from over here in Victoria.

Experimenting is a massive part of designing anything I guess, and snowboards are no different. Lately we’ve spent time trying new things, making production more efficient and producing a strong board, pretty much just getting our five base models of snowboards ready for this year. We definitely want to keep experimenting with shapes and materials this year and keep riding as much as possible.

Our 2014 line is going to include a sick design done by Sean at “All Things Considered” Clothing Co. We are a company that really invests in the artistic values that comes with snowboarding, whether it’s graphics or photography and we are always open to submissions.

We are also releasing a small range of clothing which includes hoodies, hats and beanies but haven’t really planned much in that side of the business.

We’ve just started getting busy with construction and hoping to move into a bigger factory later this year as we need more space!

We are an expanding company and if anyone is looking for a sponsor or would like to submit designs for a season board, we are always open.

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AN interview by natasha krzus Photographs by Lachlan Parkin

Perth born musician, Karl Thomas, is no stranger to the drum and bass community.

Operating under the guise of ShockOne for nearly ten years, Karl has produced some of the most loved and innovative tracks in the genre. While back in town for the launch of his debut album ‘ Universus’, we picked his brain about the album and his early years producing music in Perth.

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You recently played at ‘Handpicked’ to an absolutely massive crowd at Metro City, How does it feel to be back in Perth playing to your home crowd?

It feels amazing. I think the best thing for me now is to be back here and to have the album done, I moved to London almost two years ago. Since then I’ve come back quite a few times and every time I’m like ‘the albums almost done’ and everyone was always asking, because I’ve been writing it for three long years, so it was good to finally come back and have it finished and say ‘here it is, its done!’ It was great for everything to go so well at Metro City, it was like all the planets aligned.

Well you definitely got a great reception:

Yeah, It was literally the best show of my life so far!

How do you feel the bass music scene in Perth has changed from when you were first starting out as a producer?

It is definitely not as underground as it was when I was first starting out, about 10 years ago. When I was going to Drum Club, the notion of a drum and bass album being number one on charts and being a feature album on Triple J was just unheard of. It never happened. I mean Pendulum opened that up a lot really with their first two albums. So it’s definitely more of a cross over crowd now in Australia. I find myself playing to a lot of people who don’t consider themselves ‘Drum and Bass Heads’ necessarily but they do like the music. It’s kind of like its in fashion now, as opposed to a few years ago, which is a really good thing. The support for it is overwhelming now. The fact that I could, even before I’d moved to London, play at shape [bar] every month and sell it out in my hometown was just amazing. It enabled me to stay in Australia for a lot longer.

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Growing up, what kind of music where you exposed to? Do you think it has had an influence on your personal style?

Absolutely, I have no doubt it has. From an early age I was brought up on a very hefty dose of Pink Floyd. My whole family is very musically orientated; my dad is a guitarist and a sound engineer and my mum was a bass guitarist and they were both songwriters. I got given a drum kit when I was four and I’ve been playing music my whole life. Music has always been the most important thing in my life. So bands like Pink Floyd, The Police and a lot of classic Aussie Rock like Midnight oil and Spy versus Spy because that’s all the stuff my parents would be playing in their bands and cover bands. At a very early age I was exposed to that kind of rock and a lot of Avant-Garde rock and as I grew up and developed my own tastes, dance music wise I was about 11 when I discovered The Prodigy and that changed everything for me, then I heard the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, Those three acts that made me obsessed with dance music. I found drum and bass after that and became more focused on it until I finally decided that’s what I wanted to do for a living, which was about 11 years ago.

I’ve read that you were in a metal band would you mind telling us a bit about that?

I don’t know if ‘metal’ is really the right word [laughs]. It was around the time when ‘nu – metal’ was in vogue kind of, deftones-y. With the guys from Pendulum who are now Knife Party, I played Drums. We were in the band for about 4/5 years together. Then we all discovered Drum and bass music together because it was at that age (probably around 17/18) when we started going to warehouse parties, like the Loaded Dice and the NFI Warehouse Parties. Really great Perth DJ’s were playing and it just happened to be that they were playing Drum and Bass. I think because of the similarities between Drum and Bass, particularly of that era, which was very dark, techy and very aggressive music, obviously it has similarities to heavy rock and Metal. I’ve always thought of Drum and Bass as a kind of Metal Dance music, so we were naturally attracted to it.

“You have to let go of any other expectation in life and then you’ll free yourself to the possibility of what you really want to do.”

You’ve said that ‘Universus’ explores the idea of the lifespan of our universe, what was your inspiration behind this particular concept?

My inspiration really was just my everyday thoughts; I’m kind of consumed by that kind of stuff. It wasn’t a conscious thing to think of a theme for the album, when I started the album I never planned to have a theme, I was more concerned with just getting a bunch of songs that were good enough to put out there, that was all I was trying to do. You’re not always confident that you can do that. So it wasn’t until about a year into the process, when I was still living in Perth, and everyday I would drive from my house in West Perth to my studio in Wanneroo. One morning I started to realize that all the music had a common thread and the common thread was basically my thoughts about our perception of reality and the paradox of infinity and nothingness being one and the same. Without getting too deep into it, quantum mechanics and all this stuff, I started to realize that in a really loose way it kind of revolved around all these concepts, so without meaning to I had a concept. Then to portray that in an album is a really hard thing because they’re such abstract concepts, and your going to lose people. How are you going explain quantum mechanics in a dance song?

You just can’t. So driving to the studio that one day I realized that the whole lifespan of the Universe, the birth and death of the universe, was a good framework to put all that stuff in, only one element of it is a linear thing, the rest of it is very non linear. It’s really more about ideas and maybe sparking off thoughts in people that they hadn’t thought about before. For me it’s about creating imagery. So something as simple as a song title can set the scene for someone, and then if you create the imagery to suit that then you can kind of take their minds somewhere. I like that people can have their own interpretations of it.

How would you describe your creative process? Are there any strange methods you use or places you go when producing new material?

There are a lot of strange things I do. It usually involves me tearing my hair out for months and being a miserable, grumpy, man. I am a slow worker and I very rarely write a song where everything comes together neatly, most of the time it’s stressful. I often feel like I’m trying to do a jigsaw puzzle but no ones showing me what the finished picture is supposed to be. So it’s like this invisible jigsaw puzzle, and you can hear that the pieces are going to fit eventually but it takes a lot of time working, experimenting and trying different things and then going home and trying to switch off. Then while you’re switched off those puzzle pieces are slowly coming together in the back of your mind. If you keep doing that then eventually, after weeks or months and sometimes more than a year, it will all fit together and you will have a piece of music. I find that with writing some of my most successful songs, I have nearly had a nervous breakdown, so I have come to learn to just accept that as part of the process because you always end up coming out at the other end.

If you could do a collaboration with any artist in the world, Dead or alive, who would it be?

Roger Waters and David Gilmore of Pink Floyd.

And Finally, What advice would you give to aspiring producers in Perth, who are hoping to break into the bass music scene?

Well for one; you definitely have to be producing music, because there are a million DJ’s out there. Two; It takes a long time, it took me a really long time to get where I am, the first ShockOne single came out on vinyl in 2005, that’s seven years ago, and I’d been working as ShockOne a good year and a half before that. I had 5 years of putting singles out when no one really gave a shit and I definitely wasn’t making enough money to make a living out of it.

You have to be patient and you have to persevere. You have to have blinders on, because your going to have times when the rest of the world is telling you to quit and if your not willing to say ‘fuck you! This is what I’m doing!’ then you’ll never get there. Its kind of like a catch 22. You have to let go of any other expectation in life and then you’ll free yourself to the possibility of what you really want to do. I remember coming home from a shitty job and thinking maybe I should just quit and get a real job, but I asked myself what ‘Universus’ is a beautifully diverse collection of work, what song else I could do in life that I wouldn’t be miserable doing, and I couldn’t come on the album do you think is the most different stylistically, for up with another answer. I accepted the fact that I was going to make music you? for the rest of my life whether it was successful or not, and when I did that, I started making my best music, because I stopped stressing about everything I think the most adventurous song, and my favourite on the album is else and focused on what I wanted to achieve. definitely Light Cycles, the last song, and also the prelude to Light Cycles, which is the orchestral piece I did leading up to it. That was really the only song on the album where I wasn’t thinking about how it would sound in a club or how it would work on a dance floor, I completely let go of that and was quite self indulgent. It’s a big journey and its supposed to sound like a representation of a universe coming to an end, which is a pretty ambitious task to set for yourself. It was the hardest song I’ve ever written, but in the end I’m glad I stuck it out because I think, for me, it’s the best piece of music I’ve written.

How do you think your style has evolved over the years?

A lot of it comes down to having more confidence as an artist, because when you’re learning, (well I still am learning, I’m always learning), I never write a song and then find myself in the studio saying ‘that’s a hit!’ It never happens, even with the songs that have been my most successful songs.

I’ve still been absolutely unsure if it’s going to be good or not until I play it at a club or I get positive feedback from other people. Every time that happens it boosts your confidence a bit and you realize that you can do things that sound good and that people will like. Then as you evolve as a producer, you have the confidence to take more risks and to maybe, stop emulating people so much, and start pushing the envelope a bit more.

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URBAN EXPLORATION

portrait: Alicia Kassebohm http://aliciaka.com

GERMANY My name is Bernard Gourlay, I’m kind of Australian and kind of Irish.... but I lived in Perth for most of my life.

I moved to Berlin on a gut feeling last year in September. There was a point not long after I arrived I felt I needed to capture what I love most about this city through my camera. So came about jumping’ fences, scraping knees and tearing of my jeans to capture a part of the city that maybe people have never seen before.

Still I take a full time German course & balance a job, it gets a bit tough/much.

But I really don’t want to be one of the people who are here for a few years & don’t bother with the language.

In saying all of this, I do love it here. It is such a different & intriguing place, compared to the cities I’ve been/lived.

There is always so much going on here.

A new country, a new language and a completely new ways of doing things, however, I am fortunate that Berlin is extremely international & you can get away with English quite often.

I want to come home for a week or two, mainly to see some people and then head back here to Germany, but I don’t think that’s going to happen for a long time.

Anyway, these are some of my recent captures that I liked and sent through, enjoy.

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SAM SHieLDS ILLUSTRATOR Sam Shields is an illustration, graphic design and creative advertising student. Word through the grapevine is he spends most of his time drawing, painting, playing and listening to music. Someone with dedication with that deserves your time, his artwork speaks for itself.

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"My artwork is influenced by skateboard graphics, psychedelia, old school video games and comic books.

Depending on the project I might use markers, paint, spray paint or work digitally in Photoshop and Illustrator, on paper, canvas, wood and anything that can be painted or drawn on."

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