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on tour ELLEN ALLIEN [GER], MOVE D [GER], JIMPSTER [UK], BAREM [ARG] Friday April 12, Brown Alley OPTIMO [SCO] Friday April 19, The Bottom End JOZIF [UK] Friday April 19, New Guernica IAN FRIDAY [USA] Friday April 19, Mercat Basement EPTIC [BEL] Friday April 19, Brown Alley ANDHIM [GER], NICE7 [ITA] Friday April 19, Brown Alley PHAROAHE MONCH [USA] Friday April 19, The Espy OTTO KNOWS [SWE] Saturday April 20, Alumbra PLUMP DJS [UK] Thursday April 25, RMH The Venue EATS EVERYTHING [UK], DERRICK MAY [USA], BEN KLOCK [GER] Thursday April 25, Brown Alley MOVEMENT: NAS [USA], 2 CHAINZ [USA] + MORE Saturday April 27, Sidney Myer Music Bowl SUPAFEST: 50 CENT [USA], T.I. [USA] + AKON [USA] MORE Saturday April 27, Flemington Racecourse MOSCA [UK] Saturday April 27, Revolver Upstairs EXAMPLE [USA] Friday May 3, The Palace MAX COOPER [UK] Friday May 3, RMH The Venue YACHT [USA] Friday May 3, Ding Dong Lounge NINA KRAVIZ [RUS] Friday May 3, Brown Alley YING YANG TWINS [USA] Saturday May 4, The Espy BAAUER [USA] Saturday May 4, Brown Alley RROSE [USA] Saturday May 11, The Liberty Social DELTA HEAVY [UK] Sunday May 19, RMH The Venue KARL HYDE [UK] Saturday May 25, Melbourne Recital Centre ROBERT BABICZ [GER], MARC ROMBOY [GER] Friday May 31, Brown Alley FLATBUSH ZOMBIES [USA] Saturday June 1, The Toff In Town COSMIN TRG [ROM] Friday June 7, New Guernica CHRIS LIEBING [GER], JIMMY EDGAR [USA] Sunday June 9, Brown Alley JEFF MILLS [USA] Sunday June 9, The Bottom End SEPALCURE [USA], DJ RASHAD [USA] + MORE Sunday June 9, TBA ATA [GER] Friday June 21, Mercat Basement A$AP ROCKY [USA] Saturday June 29, Festival Hall EARTHCORE: ANGY KORE [ITA], PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday November 29 - Sunday December 2, TBA

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Musician, vocalist, poet, painter, writer, graphic designer, bon vivant – the man most renowned as one half of Underworld, Karl Hyde, is a man of many faces, slipping effortlessly between roles with a remarkable ease that makes his decades-long career in the creative industry a truly enviable one. His most recent jaunt is into the world of solo musicianship – one that sees him releasing his first effort Edgeland later this month before heading down to Australia for a string of performances in his own right.

Hyde is in the midst of whirlwind preparations for the first run of Edgeland’s live performances when we speak, and he’s never been happier, as he tells me. “I’ve never been nervous playing live - I don’t mean that in any kind of arrogant way, it’s just that since I was little, the stage seems like the calmest place in the world to be,” he says, with a laugh that proves to be free-flowing during the interview to come. “We did a little try-out show in a club in Brighton, a week or so ago and loved it - just loved it. The new band has been great - lovely people, great players and I feel really quite humbled to be amongst them to be honest. Getting excited! I think sometimes the scariest situations can be when you’re playing to a very small audience, not many people - those can often be the most intimidating. It’s almost the other way around!”

It’s been a fiendishly busy few years for Hyde since his last appearance in Australia in 2010 with Underworld partner Rick Smith for a string of festival dates across the country – highlights including his first solo painting exhibition, soundtracking Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein, collaborative efforts with everybody from High Contrast to Tiesto, and, of course, last year’s career-highlight gig as music directors of the 2012 Olympic Games. It’s a seriously enviable position to be in, rubbing shoulders with all manner of bright, creative minds from all walks of the creative industry – Hyde explains it as a necessity for him. “Back at art school, I loved talking with other artists in the canteen and in the bar afterwards – all these people from different disciplines,” he says. “I learned so much from conversations with other artists about their work, and when we formed Tomato and had that collective of artists and musicians, it just felt like the right place to be. It’s how I like to work! Meeting other people and hearing their point of view about what it is I do and what it is they do. Even when I’m working on a solo painting exhibition, I’ll send photos to my partner in Melbourne - I’m basically on a line to Melbourne three times a week, anyway - and he’s kind of my art mentor, so even with something that looks solo like a painting exhibition, I’m always getting feedback from other artists - what do you think? What’s your point of view? What do you see when you see this? Otherwise I work in isolation and I’m not interested.”

It’s a side to his work as a musician that often goes unacknowledged: whilst notorious for their ability to set dancefloors alight and pulses racing with stadium-shaking anthems such as the definitive Born Slippy (recently nominated as Mixmag’s fourth greatest dance music song of all time), Underworld’s penchant for less dancefloor-oriented material is one that remains often undervalued – and the desire to

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explore this territory more fully proves refreshing for those who have followed the trajectory of Underworld’s careers since the beginning, as well as for Hyde himself. “Standing on the Sydney Opera House stage a few years ago with Brian Eno and Pure Scenius - I thought, this is where I want to be, performing to a sit-down audience and to be performing sit-down music in between playing to big arenas,” he says. “There’s always been an element of that in our music on our albums, but we’ve never performed it live,” he continues. “In the early days, we could, but now, Underworld is more about the those big stadiums. I felt that that was a shame, that we weren’t able to explore the other side of Underworld, so I set out to work on a project that was heavily inspired by the other Underworld and having found Leo, with Brian’s encouragement we made a record that Rick and I used to make records: in a studio improvising.”

The upcoming release Edgeland will no doubt be a refreshing listen for those who have followed Hyde’s career for the 20 years

in which he’s been writing music. Renowned for his adoration for more traditional instrumentation and a flair for incorporating this work into the meticulously-crafted soundscapes of techno and house, Edgeland is his opportunity to explore his more traditional training in music. “There’s always been a kind of roughness to the things that I’ve done, and I wanted to explore that,” he explains. “The album was put together in a bedroom in East London – we’d go down there, and there’s a good cafe down the road where we’d go there for lunch and come back and clock on each day. I didn’t want it to be polished or overly worked on - in a period of eight days, we wrote about 60 songs, and this album took about six weeks to make. An Underworld record will take three years to make, traditionally, and I felt things

Karl Hyde - Edgeland takes place at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday May 25. Edgeland the album is out on Friday April 19 through Universal.

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could happen a lot quicker with the right people and that’s one of the things I wanted to explore.”

Hyde’s lengthy love-affair with the poetry of large cities is a welldocumented one, both in interview and on the voluminous back catalogue of records he has under his belt with Underworld.

Edgeland, however, is a move not away from the city but outwards, and the music has evolved in kind. “The music has evolved because of the nature of the city - certainly my words have been centred on explorations of inner-cities. With this one, I didn’t want to go there, I wanted to be further out on the edge of the city - that place where the city crumbles into the countryside, where the real outsider tribes live, the people that refuse to be part of the countryside but also reject the mythology of city living. Where architecture and hand painted signs and the boarded up streets the spirit of positivity exists every day in spite of decline of the environment. What I noticed - as I was travelling in and out of the city (I live outside of the city now), there was this ring I kept returning to, this ring of decay that I found very beautiful. I’ve always found decay to be very beautiful! The poetry of the streets. This is a new kind of decay, that I felt a real affinity with. People were telling me - why don’t you go here, why don’t you go there? I was literally handing my day over to people and saying, where shall I go today? There’s a cafe here, a road which goes down the railway there, the disused docks down by the river. I’d find people to talk to and write about.”

As for the upcoming shows in Australia: those of you who will have caught Underworld’s juggernaut live performances in the past, whether it be in the Boiler Room at one famed Big Day out or more recently on 2010’s Winter Sound System tour will no doubt have treasured memories of the thrillingly-freeform and wildly unpredictable nature of their live shows. Not any longer, Hyde says – but the sense of adventurousness when it comes to the live performance remains. “This is quite a different group! It’s a four-piece bands, two areas of electronics, keyboards, laptops, a bass player playing electronics, me playing guitars and vocals, members of Peter and Brian’s bands,” he says. “I can’t jump around! I’ve got guitars and pedal boards! It’s quite funny, really. It’s also really refreshing. In a few weeks time after that I’ll go and play an arena with Underworld and I’m running around all over the place because that’s the nature of the music and I’m really enjoying this, being rooted to the spot with my microphone and guitar and letting the music dance. having said that: we do the album and when we’re done, we revisit some of my favourite Underworld tunes, but with the voice of this band, and that’s an opportunity to express myself differently, too. Inspiring.”

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Melbourne hip hop MC Pez has announced his first national headline tour in three years.

Pez’s Back In The Game Tour is the rapper’s first opportunity to unveil tracks from his sophomore album, including current single The Game. Pez’s debut album A Mind Of My Own was release almost five years ago. Pez will be performing in Victoria at The Yarra Hotel (formerly The Bended Elbow) on Thursday May 2 and will be finishing off his tour with his hometown show in Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday May 18.

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Sweet googly moogly. Daylight savings is over, meaning that it’s time to bring your sunglasses when you go out. Don’t know what I’m saying? Leave a club at 6am this weekend and you’ll understand.

tour rumours Ryan Elliott, Jam City, Tensnake, dOP, HNQO, Vakula, Nina Kraviz, The Revenge, 6th Borough Project, Oxia, Andrew Weatherall

mario basanov

Mario Basanovia name that will start to become familiar to many. Already a hero in his home country of Lithuania after winning producer of the year in 2011 in their annual music awards, Mario has gone on to champion the world.

Mario rose to fame with his producing partner Vidiswho together crafted a string of underground hits such as I’ll Be Gone, Who’s Shot The Silence and Changed, all becoming huge international phenomena after the release of their debut artist album Changed. Mario stepped out on his own for his debit artists album Journey released in November last year, and he’s finally coming to Melbourne.

Catch him at Thursday April 25 at Brown Alley along Derrick May, Eats Everything and Ben Klock.

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rrose

Leaving no children behind, Rrose has come from nowhere to leave an indelible oil stain on the world of techno. His first EP, a collaboration with Bob Ostertag, was one of the last released on Sandwell District, and one of the few from outside of the established order of Regis, Function, Female and Silent Servant. An impressive start, to say the least. Since then, Rrose has gone on to refine his own version of deep, hypnotic and acidic techno to the point of being one of the most exciting techno artists to emerge in the last few years. Rrose will play at The Liberty Social on Saturday May 11.

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flatbush zombies

Flatbush Zombies are bringing their eclectic brand of hip hop to Melbourne this June. The quartet, whom cite their inspirations are marijuana, acid and breakfast cereals, have stormed through the music landscape, creating a niche dedicated to their synth-heavy, drug orientated rap. Flatbush Zombies have piqued the interest of everyone from Lana Del Rey to VICE. Mostly likely playing a backlog from their debut D.R.U.G.S., you can catch Flatbush Zombies at The Toff in Town on Saturday June 1.

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nina kraviz

The last two years have been blessed for the Russian; giving her a sharp ride into the electronic high heavens other DJs and artists enjoy only after years of building a name.

This success has also caused a furore in the comments of video platforms, where angry warlords have typed their disgust at the ‘dick conspiracy’. You see, no one likes the pretty girl making something of herself outside the school yard. That pokey boy with the braces who sat behind you in grade five? He can still feel those braces tighten against his gums when he punishes the keyboard with amassed sexual frustration. Nina’s preference for imperfection compliments her innocent navigation of electronic music. She is unabashed to tell you what she is learning and what she doesn’t like with a charming candidness. She likes to dance while she performs and is clearly very comfortable as she does so. Often in interviews, Nina’s humble answers distract from the natural beauty that is undoubtedly, a distraction. She also cites her father as a mentor. Nina can’t be pigeon holed. Last year saw the release of her self-titled LP by Rekids. European girls played it on repeat and earnest, young boys (promoters) waited in droves to book her in. On Friday May 3 Nina will play her debut club show in Melbourne at Brown Alley.

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eptic

Eptic has been causing a bit of a stir in the bass scene.

Since his debut signing to Never Say Die Records with the Like A Boss EP that went straight to the top 5 on the Beatport dubstep charts, he instantly proved his calibre, gaining an insight in to just how big this musical personality will get. Since, he has moved on to collaborate with artists such as Habstrakt which resulted in Ninja Challenge that was featured in this year’s Never Say Die and UKF album mixed by SKisM alongside names like Skrillex, Flux Pavilion, Foreign Beggars and more. With a remix for SKisM under his belt and signings to Ministry of Sound and Sony, his 4.5 million views on YouTube come as no surprise.

The 19-year-old wunderkind has been tearing up the systems of some of the best clubs and festivals on the globe with the demand for his appearance at notable promotions rapidly up scaling. No doubt this talented Belgian is becoming a prominent figure in bass music.

He’ll hit Brown Alley on Friday April 19.

will sparks

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up?

Probably waking up in a park as a teenager. 45 minutes from where I lived!

Describe yourself using the title of a song.

Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child?

The tooth fairy, what a jerk I never got any money!

The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? When a girl came up behind from me and knocked the whole console over when I was playing, the whole system stopped and everything! Broke my headphones, silence.

Craziness!

What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat?

Any dance track that the modern day commercial rappers buy and ruin!

What’s the most played record in your bag?

My original Chemical Energy, definitely.

What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die?

I’d really like to know if there is really life in the universe outside of Earth!

If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead?

I’d probably be playing guitar in a band somewhere around Melbourne to be honest.

When and where is your next gig?

Poison Apple at Prince Bandroom this Saturday April 13.

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Describe yourself using the title of a song.

Wiz Kid

zayler What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die?

Where’d my Batman Penguin figurine go when I was six?

If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead?

I also do graphic design, so I suppose just doing that!

What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child?

I could make things come true with my mind.

The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Watching pathetic girls try to grease up to you.

When and where is your next gig?

I’ll be supporting Eptic at Brown Alley on Friday April 19.

What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat?

Harlem Shake. Would go insane.

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What’s the most played record in your bag?

Waterdrops - Requake

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shockone

ShockOne is back in storming form, with his killer debut album Universus. Australian-born Karl Thomas released his first EP as ShockOne in 2009 which featured the smash hit ‘Polygon’ and the experimental dubstep anthem, Adachigahara’s Theme. Since then he has been behind a string of successful singles that have seen Beatport and iTunes number ones, YouTube hits by the millions, as well as support from influential industry tastemakers such as: triple j, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Pendulum, Knife Party, Matrix & Futurebound, Sub Focus, and Chase & Status. He’ll play at The Liberty Social on Thursday April 25.

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Robert’s Babicz’ musical output is inspiring and staggering. A true oneman operation, he writes, records and performs solo; commanding an ever-expanding touring schedule, tailoring the music he creates to the cities he visits. But that’s only part of the puzzle, Babicz’s art is comprised of more than just his music. He films everything. Using his music to open doors and build relationships with people in only the way music can, he then records his experiences and interaction on film, both still and moving, later editing the images together as a picture track to his audio. Marc’s career has been achieving high momentum in the last few. Big and beautiful collaborations with artists like Stephan Bodzin and this year, Ken Ishii, have kept tongues wagging and cemented lasting impressions. A believer in life’s contrasts, Romboy’s dig into the threading of personal styles have highlighted another aspect of his creative genius. The two hit Brown Alley on Friday May 31.

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Have you ever heard a piece of music and wanted to learn how to make something similar? That urge is as old as the hills but common access to actually do something about it is fairly new. On top of that, the tools of music production are vastly more accessible nowadays so the barrier to trying your hand at music production is much smaller.

Around the middle of last year a buzz started on Facebook. There was a new music tutorial school in Melbourne: School Of Synthesis.

The name didn’t feel like some marketing gimmick – it felt serious.

School of Synthesis’ mission statement is plain and direct: “We offer high-end, tailored and hands-on training in sound production for classes of no more than eight students with access to the best facilities, equipment and working artists in the industry today.” It’s a local, personal approach that offers good outcomes for students and cheap course fees.

The school was founded by Davide Carbone and Mike Callander.

It’s a joining of two generations of Australian music production and DJing. Carbone has been at the forefront of electronic music since the late ‘80s. He was one of the first DJs to introduce house and techno in to Australia via two prime time radio shows and he also went on to form the successful electronic act Future Sound Of Melbourne. They supported the likes of Bjork, Tricky and the Prodigy and received an Aria award for Best Dance Release in 1996.

Callander is one of Australia’s most dynamic DJs, resident of

Melbourne’s infamous Revolver, and founder of one of Australia’s best known record labels for electronic music – Haul Music. Mike’s status as an icon of Australian dance music was confirmed in 2011 by his inclusion on the In The Mix Honour Roll alongside the likes of Cut Copy, Richie Hawtin, Diplo and Andrew Weatherall.

It has turned out to be the perfect partnership – Callander’s industry contacts and network have driven course signups at the school for the last six months and now School Of Synthesis gaining a reach of its own. So how did this whole, crazy plan start in the first place?

Carbone reveals it was a combination of sound business planning but also a last minute ‘let’s do it!’

“It was a bit of both actually,” he laughs. “I have been tutoring for a while. When I was living in England I tutored at CityLit College, which is Britain’s biggest adult learning college. What was cool about that was that they were very supportive.

“For example, I was doing a logic course and they would say, ‘But aren’t you a drum and bass producer? Why don’t you do a drum and bass course?’ I told them that no one would do it but they said they were getting enquiries. So I started drum and bass master classes and it became one of their most popular courses. It got booked out two years in advance.”

Carbone had massive success in England and when he came back to Australia he took up teaching here. It was during his classes at RMIT that he met his “star student” – Mike Callander.

jozif wo rd s / R K

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Speaking to us from his self-described “cosy little studio in East London”, jozif (yes, that’s a small j) is turning the electronic music world on its ear. With the snow trickling a fairytale outside, he reflects briefly on his life and how he came to find himself a part of the burgeoning electronic dance music scene in Europe.

“I came from a musical background,” he chimes. “Most of the members of my family are in music so I felt like it was going to be something that happened kind of naturally; basically I got into electronic music via my older brother - and from there, I met a whole bunch of DJs and promoters that I started to hang around with. Later when I went to college it just expanded with the usual stuff: I started going to raves and parties, being the DJ at people’s house parties and so on.”

So while he still lives in London, he does question the logic. “I do still live here, although I ask myself why pretty much every day! I’m never really here and when I am it is cold, expensive and nothing really works! The problem is, I love it for some sick twisted reason. London is close to everywhere and the scene here seems to be growing nicely pretty much everywhere.

The only place I would say it’s getting out of control and quite

frightening is the United States. The underground is still amazing there but big business has cottoned on to it now and I think they need to be careful because when big business get involved things tend to go wrong – from an artistic standpoint anyway.”

Studio-wise, the lad hasn’t had as much time behind the desk as perhaps he would have liked – which doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy though. “I’ve been touring so heavily during the last four or five months that I’ve been away from my studio and not really finishing anything; I’ve done lots of sketches and had a few ideas but there haven’t been any finished records, which has been quite good actually.”

But when he’s ready to go, he usually sits down in the studio and gets down to writing until something is finished. “More recently I’ve had four or five ideas on the go. I quite like the idea of changing the way you work – your workflow – it keeps things interesting and the results are often varied. Otherwise, I can’t really give you any reason why I’ve been quiet in the studio to be honest. Nor do I have some crazy master plan; I just write music and work with the people I like – it’s simple really!”

No less, he’s done the odd collaboration with the odd legend –

major lazer word s / h ug h ro b e rt s o n

Aside from the ubiquitous Gangnam Style, there was no more unlikely hit single in 2012 than Major Lazer’s Get Free. Featuring the unique, occasionally difficult voice of Amber Coffman from Dirty Projectors, and built around a strange little earworm of a hook, part of its success must surely have been that it was unlike anything else released in a year where enormous electro beats dominated almost every radio station. Somehow, though, it was a huge hit both here and overseas – which must be a little embarrassing for Interscope, who dropped Major Lazer from the label because that track wasn’t heavy enough for them.

“The reason the whole album was delayed was that we came out with Get Free, and our label dropped us because they wanted EDM,” says Thomas Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo and the creative force behind Major Lazer. “But it all worked out for the best – the album came out later and we could make it a little stronger.” “[Interscope] wanted to invest all their stuff in EDM, and I was like, ‘That stuff comes and goes.’ And it actually has no fans, in reality.

The music’s great, but there’s no artistry to it, there’s no connection with fans. And Major Lazer is bigger than that. But they didn’t understand that. So fuck them. They’re corny anyway.”

It seems strange for one of the best DJs in the world to be so disparaging of a new sub-genre that has brought electronic music back to the centre of pop. He actually goes so far as to say that

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EDM has been great for Major Lazer because it’s so limited. “[EDM] is why so many people like Major Lazer,” says Wentz. “They get in to dance music, then they find us and we’re dance music plus more. We give them dance music, but we also give them real records. So we’re lucky that it kinda happened.”

It shouldn’t be so surprising that Wentz doesn’t see himself as part of the ‘big dumb fun’ crowd. He is something of a poster-boy for good-times – check out all the girls ‘expressing themselves’ to Wentz via his Twitter – but there’s a much deeper, iconoclastic, break-down-the-walls attitude to much of the work he does. He’s worked with M.I.A. and Santigold – both noted appropriators of various styles – and just in the past year has produced the “Radiohead quiet storm” of Usher’s Climax, the best song on Justin Bieber’s last album (seriously – it’s called Thought of You – go listen right now), as well as tracks for Korean rappers GD & Top. And he’s produced the entirety of Snoop Lion’s punchline of a reggae album – including the current single, Ashtrays and Heartbreaks, featuring Miley Cyrus.

“What’s really cool about the Korean stuff is that there’s no sense of authenticity, which everyone seems to care about so much,” says Wentz. “But they don’t care – they just like the way things sound, and they do it. There’s no reason, or history, or culture for it, and that’s the future for me, y’know? Where you don’t have this

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“I instantly liked him and appreciated his business acumen.”

“Well you weren’t teaching production at that time were you?” says Callander to Carbone. “You were teaching a music management course about how to market yourself as a musician really,” he laughs.

Carbone loved teaching at RMIT but the red tape of fitting a course into the national curriculum held him back. He wanted to create exciting content for his students. “I thought there was a gap in the market for course on things like high end synthesis and Native Instruments stuff,” he reflects, “so Mike and I started talking, first through the class and then in a more structured way.”

Callander, on the other hand, had never tutored before but it turned out that his Ableton Live course was a really accessible way for students to get started. “We started thinking that it would be great to just do a six week course in say Ableton or Logic,” he says. “It started like that.”

Carbone says that Callander was the missing link for him in starting School Of Synthesis. “Obviously I had been overseas for ten years.

So whilst I had a good name in England I had ironically lost touch with the local market in Australia.”

“I think we had a meeting one day in Brighton and I said, ‘Why don’t we do it?’”

Carbone’s focus is on what the Australian market needs. “To get somewhere in the music industry nowadays you have to be multi-skilled, multi-faceted. You need to understand production, engineering and more. There are so many different things.”

“My teaching style is to look at what someone is doing then offer them options to harness or diversify their skill set.”

It is the perfect approach for how we are starting to learn now high speed and adaptive. School Of Synthesis has arrived at just the right time for Australians to learn music production fast and effectively.

Find out more about School Of Synthesis at schoolofsynthesis.com - n ew courses are starting all the time. The Max for Ableton Live and Production Masterclass courses are starting this week. facebook.com/schoolofsynthesis

but he still dreams about doing more. “I’d love to work with Ewan Pearson,” he says. “I love that guy and his music is sublime. Also I’d love to do something with Amirali or Luca C. They both have the ability to do totally different styles. I’d even write a rock’n’roll jam with Lucas for sure!” Question is how does that reconcile with his love of the deeper side of house?

“I’m not sure to be honest,” he says. “I really like some of the harder stuff too – I started off playing acid techno and hard house but I guess I got into the deeper stuff because it feels closer to my heart. It’s gentler and more meaningful maybe? It’s also funny, because you can kind of see everything going round in circles.

When I play nowadays, I still play loads of funky jams and lots of older UK garage. I love so many different types of music that sometimes it’s difficult to string it all together in a cohesive manner!”

So finally then, the man behind the most recent Balance project is rather pumped about getting down to Australia to represent. “I’m very excited – both about Australia and the mix project – it was very, very exciting. I was surprised and honored to be asked. I love almost all of the Balance CDs, so it was really a special one for me. I approached it much like all of my mixes and wanted to create something that could be listened to before or after the club – or even in the car. I wanted it to be something funky enough to get you going but also gentle enough to keep you swaying!”

And with a soothing track list that includes material from Steffi, Ian Pooley and jozif himself, he is getting ready to live up to a reputation that has billed him as a generational talent – one who is well placed to continue to move the scene onwards and upwards.

Forward thinking music, going back to its roots. Enough said.

jozif plays New Guernica on Friday April 19. Balance presents jozif is out now through Balance Music, distributed through EMI. facebook.com/jozifmusic soundcloud.com/jozif

argument about where you’re from, or what you do, or who you represent, or what genre you are, or who your audience is. That doesn’t matter. All that matters is that the music is exciting.

“And Snoop is such a great artist. I feel like nobody could even make pop and reggae like he could. He’s Snoop, like a brand, and if he wants to do reggae then we’re going to help him do it.

“And I think he can take it to other people … He’s a 40 year-old man who still has so much swagger that people love to hear him do stuff still. But he’s an older guy who doesn’t want to talk about the same dumb shit – he doesn’t deal with gangs and violence anymore, he deals with his children, and life, and being married.

“And this is a record you make when you do that. It’s about life.

Not everybody has to be a gang-banger, and it was a great fantasy for a lot of kids growing up – I love Doggystyle, and I loved the idea of being a gangster.

“And Miley Cyrus is helping us reach a bigger audience, which is something we wanted to do with this record. A lot of people second-guess it because of what it is. And there’s such a feeling of [the importance of] authenticity with fans, but for me, I’m a white guy from Florida, and I’ve been doing reggae music for five years now, and even breaking some reggae in Jamaica.

“So Jamaica doesn’t care about that. People in Jamaica don’t give a fuck about me being white, or not being a reggae guy.

They love UB40 down there. They love Celine Dion – she’s one of the biggest artists. All they care about is the music, and when it comes to authenticity it doesn’t matter to anyone. The music matters y’know?

“And I think Snoop really doesn’t give a shit. He smokes weed, and he’s like, ‘Yo, I’m me. I’m cooler than anybody. I’m Snoop Dogg.’ And I think that confidence goes a long way, because there’s a lot of energy and negativity against his music, which is crazy to me. But I’m so proud of the music, and all that matters is that the music is great.”

Major Lazer’s Free The Universe is out on Friday April 12 through Warner. facebook.com/majorlazer soundcloud.com/majorlazer

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club guide wednesday april 10

snaps workshop

COQ ROQ - FEAT: AGENT 86 + DJS LADY NOIR + JOYBOT + KITI + MR THOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: NHJ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

DUBSTEP GRIME DRUM & BASS - FEAT: DJ BADDUMS + DJ CARMEX Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

HOODRAPZ - FEAT: WEDNESDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

LOST & FOUND - FEAT: DJ SPIDEY + DJ RUBY FROST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm.

NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

SOUL ARMY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE DINNER SET - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

thursday april 11

3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN + HEY SAM + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + SEAN RAULT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm.

BANG N MASH Word Events Warehouse & Lounge, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.

CHI BEATS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

DON’T THINK I’M ALIVE THURSDAYS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

GRAD PARTY THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

LE DISCO TECH Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

LOVE STORY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.

MEZZANINE & THE BACK ROOM - FEAT: DJ MANNEQUIN + DJ SYTO Abode, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

NEW GUERNICA THURSDAYS - FEAT: CONDUCTORS + JAMES KANE + NEGATIV MAGICK + NU BALANCE + POST PERCY New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + ED WILKS + MAX KRUSE + TIM LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20.

TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

TROCADERO Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 6:01pm.

friday april 12

chaise lounge

A GENDER ‘DISGRACEMENT’ PARTY - FEAT: KT SPIT + WET LIPS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $7.

ANYTIME Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm.

BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.

CHI FRIDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: ELANA MUSTO + GREG SARA + SCOTT T Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY DEBRIEF - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

FRIDAY NIGHT HOUSE FEAT: LAUREN MAC + LOW & BEHOLD + TANIA M Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10.

JUICY - FEAT: CHAIRMAIN MEOW + COBURG MARKET + MR. FOX + TIGERFUNK + WHO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: MACHETE BROTHERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

LATIN QUARTER - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm.

MAMA SAIDS 3RD BIRTHDAY - FEAT: GAVIN KEITEL + DANIEL TARDREW + DEAN BENSON + ISAAC FRYAR + JACOB MALMO + JACOB MALO + LIAM WALLER + LUKE BOURKE + MATT KOVIC + OLIVER JAMES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am.

MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO + TOM MEAGHER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm.

POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

REMEMBER ME - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS The Motel, South Melbourne. 9:00pm.

RETRO SEXUAL - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ ALEX THOMAS + DJ KATIE DROVER + DJ WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE + DJ BUTTERS + DJ HEY SAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am.

SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

SMASH JAM - FEAT: LUKE MCD + DAVE CHESTWIG + T-REK Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:30pm. $15.

THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

saturday april 13

BILLBOARD SATURDAYS - FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.

CHI SATURDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm.

FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

GLITCH THIS Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

HOT STEP - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 9:00pm.

NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

ONESIXFIVE - FEAT: DJ COURTNEY MILLS + DJ HOOPS + DJ OLLIE HOLMES + DJ JOSH PAOLA + DJ WILL CUMMINGS Onesixone, Prahran. 3:00am.

POISON APPLE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

SATURDAY CONFIDENTIAL Galley Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

SATURDAY IS FOR DANCING - FEAT: ANDY CAN & ROC + WASABI Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25.

SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15.

SPIN THE GLOBE - FEAT: DJ EMMA PEEL + SERHAM ALI & MOHAIR SLIM Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.

STAR SATURDAYS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 3:02pm.

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It has been a big year for Sydney lads RÜFÜS. The young band distinct sound based on shared influences, but playing with an act like Röyksopp allowed us to refine it even further. It’s awesome to have been to New York and played in front of their heroes, had see your favourite bands and figure out what you want to be doing great success at home with their single This Summer, and toured with the likes of Röyksopp. That like them, as well as what you want last one may have been a foregone to do differently.” conclusion, given the bands’ shared For the last several months, the “With the old tracks, we’ve revamped band have been hard at work on love of umlauts, but RÜFÜS were still terribly excited at the chance to them in different ways – we’re not straying their debut album, due to arrive share a stage with Norway’s finest too far from the originals, but we want to around the middle of this year. “We electronic producers. According up all our gear in July of last give people something they haven’t seen packed to keyboard player Jon George, year, and went down to the South before.” the band have learned a lot from Coast,” George says. “We rented playing live. a house in Berry for a month, and “It’s awesome touring with such big came out with a bunch of tracks acts,” he says, “and it’s helped us we liked. When we went back to refine our own sound. I mean, I think we’ve always had our own Sydney, we renovated an old water tank at my parents’ place and

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STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: HAVANA BROWN + ANDREAS + PELLEGRINI + SERINI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22.

SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm.

TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

TEXTILE - FEAT: DJS PACMAN + JEAN PAUL + MOONSHINE + TAHL Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

THE FOX SATURDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: MAT CANT + RANSOM + TOO MUCH + BOOGS + CONGO TARDIS #1 + DANIELSAN + MR MOONSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

sunday april 14

DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELL-TOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

GOO GOO MUCK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

GUILTY PLEASURES Pretty Please, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

MOTEL SUNDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 6:00pm.

NO MORE-BANG-FOR-BUCK BURLESQUE SHOW! Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm.

SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm.

SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

SURRENDER - FEAT: DJ SERGEANT SLICK + DJ ADAM TRACE + DJ ADRIAN CHESSARI + DJ CHRIS OSTROM + DJ SEF Fusion, Southbank. 8:00pm.

THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

monday april 15

GREEN HOUSE Mckillops, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

KOOL AID - FEAT: DJ MU-GEN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL KUCYK + DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

tuesday april 16

BIMBO TUESDAYS - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm.

DJ JAGUAR E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

turned it into a studio – we put some acoustic panelling in there, and some cabling, and we kitted out our own little studio.”

Their set-up is something like a bunker, an escape from the outside world, and the guys have been spending hours in there, polishing their new tracks to perfection. “We’re in the studio pretty much every day,” George says. “It’s turned into a massive project.

The studio’s great, though – we’re protected from the elements, and we feel like we’re sheltered from the outside world. We can go in there and work all night if we want to – I’m really happy with what’s come out.”

The first single to come from the album, Take Me, is just the kind of track you’d want from RÜFÜS – slick, sleek and danceable, with a decidedly sinister edge. “We were tossing up the first single for quite a while,” George explains. “Take Me is the most poppy song on there, but we decided we wanted to lead with something like that. There are a lot of deep tones, a lot of round tones through the album, as well as a lot of soulful vocals. We still have all our bells and whistles, so you can expect to hear all of that and more.”

RÜFÜS are all set to hit the road in support of Take Me, and promise that fans will be hearing at least four or five songs from their upcoming album. “We’re figuring out how to play them all right now,” George says. “It’s fun adding new stuff to the show.

With the old tracks, we’ve revamped them in different ways – we’re not straying too far from the originals, but we want to give people something they haven’t seen before.”

George is confident that the band’s next single will come out on the tour, even if it doesn’t have a name just yet. “We’re tossing up between two at the moment, so I’d better not say anything just yet,” he laughs. “You’ll find out soon enough! I’m very excited for people to hear songs they haven’t heard before, to hear another side of us, or at least a different shade.”

RÜFÜS play at Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday April 18 and Friday April 19. facebook.com/rufussounds soundcloud.com/rufussounds

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wednesday april 10

COMPRESSION SESSION - FEAT: CASSAWARRIOR + DD + RICKA E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

SOUL ENSEMBLE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

thursday april 11

PENNIES - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.

RHYTHM-AL-ISM - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ K-DEE + DJ SIMON SEZ Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.

LAUNDRY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

PHATURDAY - FEAT: TOM SHOWTIME + DJ AYNA Blue Bar, Prahran. 10:00pm.

PURPOSE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

SATURDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY SIN + DJ K DEE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm.

THE DOJO - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

THE DOJO - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

@PEACE + AMIN PAYNE + ELOQUOR + REMI Espy, St Kilda. 6:30pm.

CHAISE FRIDAYS - FEAT: SOULCLAP + DJ CLAZ + DJ DIRX + DJ PERIL + DJ SEF Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm.

CREW LOVE - FEAT: DJ TONY SUNSHINE Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.

FAKTORY - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ DURMY + DJ K DEE + DJ YATHS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm.

GET LIT - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

LIKE FRIDAYS - FEAT: BROZ + DIR-X + DJS DINESH + NYD + SEF + SHAGGZ + SHAUN D La Di Da, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

SPIT SYNDICATE + JACKIE ONASSIS + MIKEY HUNDRED Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $18.

SWEET NOTHING FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

BE. - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.

OPEN DECKS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 6:30pm.

monday april 15

FREEDOM PASS - FEAT: PHIL ROSS + B-BOOGIE + CHRIS MAC + DOZZA Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.

tuesday april 16

CAN I KICK Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

saturday april 13

CHAISE LOUNGE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ ANDY PALA + DJ KAH LUA CHAISE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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