Today’s Melbourne Music Week Highlights
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Today’s Melbourne Music Week Highlights

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This year’s Melbourne Music Week promises to go out with a bang with it’s final day of events, Saturday November 24.

Espionage
This year The Operatives are inviting ascendant UK label Eglo and LA beatsmith Teebs to take over Where?House for one evening of unadulterated bass-driven madness. Eglo co-founder Floating Points leads the charge. Joining him will be label boss Alexander Nut, spinning a mutant array of techno, dubstep, funk and more, while Eglo’s chief vocalist Fatima, owner of the silkiest voice in dance music, will also be strutting her stuff. From the other side of the Atlantic comes Teebs. One part abstract hip-hop, one part psychedelic groove, one part hypnotic bass concoction, Teebs’ music is warm, inviting and ready to rock. Espionage also welcomes back Warp Records wunderkinds Africa Hitech, as well as The Operatives’ Sean Deans, JPS, Nam and Edd Fisher – and visual maestro Brandon Tay – to ensure that this is one party after which nothing will ever be the same again. Click here for more information.

Siberian Nights

For the Labels Series, electro-indie titans Siberia Records will be transforming the iconic Melbourne University car park into their own private vision of a post-apocalyptic, subterranean world, a place where sound, vision and architecture meld together into one unforgettable neo-futuristic night. Described as a ‘global underground third world crime syndicate marketplace’, Siberia will be rendering the heritage-listed car park (as used in Mad Max) wholly unrecognisable. The soundtrack will be provided by some of the surface world’s finest purveyors of anarchic sound. From the visceral soundscapes of Kirin J. Callinan to the dystopian techno of New York sonic assault artists Gatekeeper and the very special launch of our very own Forces, with debut 12″ on Siberia, and an avalanche of sound from the mighty Juggernaut DJs, Siberian Nights is an all-out party as immersive installation. Click here for more information.

Decentralised Dance Party
This portable dance party roams the night, generating complete liberating joy, street-by-street and block-by-block, onto buses and subways, into public fountains and beyond. Inevitably interfacing with the public, together creating an infectious epidemic of fun. A roaming party adventure that lasts all night long.  This is a free event that takes place at pop up venues all over town. Click here for more information.

//This Thing//
Melbourne Music Week 2012 wraps up for the all ages set with a live, outdoor audio-visual explosion from Melbourne electronica collective //This Thing//. Bringing together founding members Wooshie, Naps and Electric Sea Spider, the //This Thing// crew will be taking over the entire Signal precinct for a free, late-night dance party right next to the train line. With a combined sound that shifts from Flying Lotus-style post-hip-hop wonky, to Gaslamp Killer-esque sample frenzies and the narcotised beatmaking of Hype Williams, this is set to be the most blazing party the Yarra has ever seen. Click here for more information.