If you’re Australian, then you’ve heard of Boags Draught, Boags Premium Lager and Boags St George Super premium Lager, but what else is Tasmania (mainland Australia’s shunned little brother) good for? Well, Nek and myself (ie: Duncan) went to see Tasmania’s hottest new export last Friday at the Espy in Melbourne. They’re called The Scientists of Modern Music and they gave us all a practical class in kicking out the jams.
After knocking out the kids at Falls Festival with their fists of synthesized fury, the Scientists have turned their synth-pop gaze to the mainland – and they’ve set phasers to ‘fuck yeah’.
It’s a simple gimmick done well – buy lots of expensive synths, guitars and midi controllers then use them to make loud noises. It’s a bit like Lo-Fi-Fnk and Muscles having punch-ons with a vocoder. Underwater.
The Scientists of Modern Music – Easy
They’re nice chaps too – both in their early 20’s with a background in DJing and classical piano. The sort of guys that make you regret giving up music lessons because the other kids at school said they were lame. Their stage show isn’t down pat yet, tough. Still a bit too much pre-recorded raving and not enough mindless bashing of keyboards – seriously, who doesn’t love that shit.
If you’re in Australia, come back here for updates on an upcoming national tour. The Scientists will be dissecting ear-drums near you very soon.
Check out this merry tune, MacGyver*!
The Scientists of Modern Music – Technology Illiterate
* Office spell-checker has ‘MacGyver’ in it. I spelt it MacGuyver and the Microsoft Corporation corrected me. Hmmm…
One Comment
haha yess.
these boys are mad. come along way from djing a high school assembly not long ago..
ps im sure that the boy wouls be appauled that you compared them to boags… that is basically devil water when you are from hobart!
keep up the sweet blogging!