This electronic quartet from Newcastle, Australia are always working on new material. Sardonica weave many different styles into their releases. From Through To Reality to Incarnate, there's been a huge leap in their sound. From the airy synths of Cielo to the driving bass in Fork In The Road, they've tried to always vary and experiment with new styles. While currently being exclusively an instrumental band, they look to try working with vocals soon in the future. They've attempted this, to some weird success.Style: Experimental Pop
Members: Bobby Vanilla, Chia L'Etranger, Crystal Palace, Miku
Real names: Josef Frank, Chris Alderton, Ryan Liddle, Katie Blackburn
You can check out Sardonica on SoundCloud here, and Jamendo here.
Burst from Polymerised City
Through To Reality (Bobby Vanilla's Live Mix) from Through To Reality Non-EP
Contact Options:
via Email: sardonicaband@gmail.com
via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SardonicaBand
Grizzly began his artistry in late 2010. Balancing schoolwork and his job at a fast food restaurant, Grizzly started making mixes and mashups using both Virtual DJ and Audacity. His first mashup album “Keep Your Distance” consists of his favourite projects redone in higher quality, as well as a few new tracks and two ~20 minute sets. It will be released on the 2nd of February 2011. Stay tuned for more sets, as he is still just starting out, and is looking forward to making many more mixes in the near future.Style: Mashup
Real name: Mat Barton
Discography
Doing It Right
Keep Your Distance
Crystal Palace is a one-member ambient electronic project creating soft easy-listening tracks through software synthesizers, drum machines and more conventional instruments - where inspiration derives from 80's production to development in early 90's ambient music. Also a fan of drum beats and slight experimentation in composition, they've experimented with styles such as chipmusic. Previous production credits include work such as Cielo for Sardonica. They are currently working on their debut self-titled album.Style: Ambient
Real name: Ryan Liddle
Caverns and Glass from Crystal Palace
Cielo from Through To Reality EP
Follow them on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/crystal-palace
Bobby Vanilla is the creator of Funkeh Chikun and one of the founding members of Sardonica. He began creating electronic music in 2005 and hasn't stopped since. Whilst composing with Sardonica, Bobby also releases other material such as Tarot Garden, his 2010 solo demo tape, and his upcoming duo hip-hop project A World Without Colour. Bobby's goal for 2011 is to create at least one demo per night and to make at least one release per fortnight. How long this will hold is anyone's guess, but it will hopefully continue into 2012.Style: Breakbeat / EDM
Real name: Josef Frank
Tarot Garden (The Inner Workings of the Mind)
Axel F (Bobby Vanilla Remix) - Harold Faltermeyer
Contact Options:
via Email: josef.frank512@gmail.com
| Biography Chia L'Étranger (aka. Chris Alderton) is the other founding member of Sardonica, and is the creator of the Triangle Face. His weapons of choice are his guitar and Psycle Modular Music Studio. He lists his influences as The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Pendulum, and the entirety of the Breakbeat Kaos roster. His personal favourites from his works are "Danger Beats" and "Tomfoolery", and he will be releasing an EP in early 2011 entitled 'Until The Funky Morning'. He is also in an electronic hip-hop group with Bobby Vanilla called A World Without Colour. | Music Chuggin' on Down the Line |
Musical Style: Experimental
Software of Choice: Psycle
Hardware of Choice: Guitar
Contact Options: TBA
Dodenpause is a one man Welsh / Australan electronic music project. Utilising FruityLoops and Reason, he creates ambient soundscapes, breakbeat and acid house tracks which are reminiscent of the 90's. He has released one album (Aquifer) and one single (This Game) so far and is producing more tracks at a rapid pace. He is currently working on his second album, Rehash Browns and a Cup o' Fucoffee. The first track from this, To The Bassline, was released on the 6th of February 2011. Dodenpause means 'deathbreak' in Norwegian.Style: Electronic / Experimental
Real name: William Brown
To The Bassline by Dodenpause
Aquifer by Dodenpause
This Game by Dodenpause
Contact Options:
via Email/MSN (Informal): randywelshman@hotmail.com
via Email (Business): willybrown93@gmail.com
via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dodenpause/109393312468048
Strange People In My Bedroom are a musical collective which traces its origins to a party Bobby Vanilla once had. They decided to take over his room and record a live cover of Mumford & Sons' Little Lion Man which included other FC artist Crystal Palace. Bobby shook his head and then gave them the name they have today. Perhaps the most 'natural' of Funkeh Chikun's signings, Strange People In My Bedroom plan on making many more covers at Bobby's gatherings, including a cover of Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's.Style: Spontaneous Live Acoustic
Members: Chris Alderton (aka. Chia L'Etranger), Mathew Dwyer and Emma Drury
Little Lion Man (feat. Crystal Palace and Jo Elphinstone) by Strange People In My Bedroom
Formed in late 2010, Ink Ran Dry are a young female duo with high aspirations. They associate themselves with Neo-Pagan beliefs and, with the assistance of Midnight Trick, the pair are currently working on their first album entitled We're Oracles Because Prophets Are So Lame. While much younger than everyone else signed to Funkeh Chikun, they show a bright spark for creativity and have written a large amount of songs. The only step they have left is to actually get around to recording something.Style: Indie Rock
Members: Galen & Lilith
Real names: Georgia Masters & Brianna McCluskey
