Sunday 18 April 2021 from 3pm to 9pm
Groundswell is an afternoon and evening of global rhythms and bass at the transformed harbour side sandstone bunker at the Rocks called Good Space, which has been set up to get some community events happening to bring us together in the post-Covid world.
Dingo Gringo, Sample Minds, Marble Circus and Nautilus Sound will unite to create a circus of vision and audio that delves into Sydney’s electro-acoustic fusion from the 80’s and 90s up to the present time. Dingo Gringo is the didjeridu and electro crossbreed of a sound by Charlie McMahon and Peter Strong. Charlie fronted the seminal Gondwanaland band that prefigured world music and Indigenous cultural revival by a decade and Peter cut his name in the dance music free party/rave scenes of the 1990’s.
Sample Minds emerged around 2011 playing sporadic events associated with Tortuga Studios, Dirty Shirlows, Sunday Dub Club, and various warehouse events in Sydney. The band is Pumps on Drums, Sid Sidlow on Guitar, and Peter Strong a.k.a Mashy P on electronic production and guitar. Starting off as a kind of sample mashup band the 3 piece has now incorporated dub, reggae, post-punk, ambient, and space rock sounds into the eclectic mix.Sample Minds latest release and backbone of their live set is called Echo Clash which is an agit-dub infused journey through various styles sometimes spitting out a social and environmental media and news samples, at times, meandering to meditative dub driven downtempo ambient soundscapes and then ramping it up into global bass, doof infused post-punk and reggae jam.
Nautilus Sound is a DJ Sound System based in the Illawarra, South of Sydney. Darian Turner and Andy O’Phee have been D.J’ing around Wollongong and Sydney since the year 2000. They formed as a partnership to bring non-mainstream music to the community and have built up a steady fan base accordingly. They have been playing Coledale Markets for the past thirteen years. This monthly gig has broadened the DJ pallet as they try to bring fresh tunes and mixes every month. Both Darian and Andy started D.J’ing in Community Radio back in the early ’80s at Radio Skid Row and 2SER. Back then it was all punk and post-punk, but also Reggae Ska and African and a big chunk of Aboriginal music as we soaked up the influences of Radio Redfern and shows like African Connection.