After making the dancefloor of SIRENS explode in September, local Hobart crew Cluster and Melbourne mob Uber_Lingua join forces once again to create another Tasmanian cultural collision of the sonic kind. 

This time calling on the DJ talents of a Greek, a Japanese and a Bulgarian ... alongside a solid crew who were involved in the first LINGO, this event takes the music-language threshold beyond it's limits... 

ADP is a Melbourne raised Greek who has a solid background both behind the decks and on the Mic as a Hip Hop MC, and has recently turned his attention to Greek hip hop to great affect. 

Kaigen is a recent arrival from Japan and has released an EP on the label Caibyaku Records. His MC style could be described as a yelping form of rapping, and when he DJs he brings out an incredibly diverse selection of quality Japanese sounds never heard in Australia. 

Bulgarian FSB moved to Australia a few years back and specialises in tracks from 'his region', that being Bulgaria of course, and Russia, Romania, the Baltic states etc... this however doesn't stop him playing tracks from other regions of the planet... 

bP, a founding DJ of the Uber_Lingua movement is basically obsessed in multi-lingual music, a side affect of being the music producer of SBS Alchemy for many years. Having tracks in his collection in over sixty languages and many styles allows him to instinctively move from continent to continent, language to language, genre to genre... 

Local DJs Gusto, Sakamoiz and vocalist/MCs Creator from Sierra Leone complete the lineup. 

The Cluster Collective are well known for their gigs that unify the various splinters of the Hobart music scene, by incorporating a range of creative forms from DJs, VJs to Super-8 film with both established and fresh local artists. 

Uber_Lingua in an emerging entity that currently hosts a weekly club in the inner city of Melbourne, focusing on multi-lingual music and urban culture from all over the world. 

Full Artist bios below ... 

Greek Hip Hop specialist Arthur Devletoglou aka ADP has been entertaining the local punters in the Melbourne scene since 1996 as an emcee at local open mic' nights, competitions, and at various experimental electronica events as an affiliate member of the Curse Ov Dialect crew.  Since 2000, A.D.P. has been DJing at various underground hiphop events, spinning records at some of the best chill out bars in Melbourne.

"Greek underground hiphop needs to be heard!!! There are thousands of young Greek/Australians already listening to commercial and underground American hiphop and these same kids don't even know what's coming out of Greece right at this point. Greek hiphop remains untapped and it needs representation, especially in Melbourne".

Regular featured guest DJ at Melbourne Uber_Lingua, Kaigen from Japan, is an experimental hiphop one-man show that's part of the burgeoning underground scene that includes other weird funks like Blue Herb and Anticon-affiliates Shingo2. 

Rapping/screaming/yelping in his native language over the dense and complicated noise and clutter of chewed-out samples, KAIGEN distorted logic produces a puzzling off-kilter sound unlike anything you might have heard in the realm of hip hop. Email Caibyaku Records for more info on Kaigen and his debut CD. 

FSB is from Bulgaria, a wild child who's played regularly at several clubs on the Black Sea coast as a resident... like Dracula, Sea Station, Festival Complex, club Boonkers in his home-town of Varna, and Astoria at a place known as Golden Sands.  FSB is on a journey to find new sound experiences through DJing in the Southern Hemisphere. For three years FSB escaped the comfort and worked in southern Africa (Zimbabwe to be exact) and now finds himself travelling Australia and doing spontaneous DJ sets...

bP (Brendan Palmer) has a background in music production, artist collectives, record label management  and broadcasting. In recent times, heís turned his attention towards event production and DJ performances, through the environ and uber lingua projects. Currently, one of his focuses as a DJ is in modern music that uses a diversity of languages, a leftover of his time working with SBS. As different languages use different parts of the brain, and as languages not understood by a listener become a non-contextual  sonic element of any given piece of music, Brendan is inspired to discover as much ëpost worldí music he possibly can. 

In 2004 Brendan has focussed on his two Melbourne regular events Environ and Uber_Lingua both highly successful projects in their own right.

"I don't really write tunes with one genre in mind.  Like most bedroom producers I draw bits and pieces from a range of styles.  I guess most listeners place it in the genres of Drill 'n Bass, Glitch 'n Bass Hop, Plunderphonics and Ragga Jungle.  This year I've been working on performing my music with my laptop, using my computer like an instrument."

Gusto's sound is enriched by Japanese field recordings, samples collected whilst travelling streets and clubs of these islands.  In Hob art Gusto is most well-known for giving birth to the Cluster Collective with Aaron Roberts and Emma Field in 2001.  The Cluster Collective has brought together most of Hobart's avant-garde sonic and visual artists, playing in venues from Mobius to the stormwater tunnels under Elizabeth Street Mall.

Post-Swiss, pseudo-Mexican, Tasmanian rogue...after an attraction to accordions whilst a boy, sakamoiz became lost in musical darkness.  Some years later, the sound of tapping away on keyboards leaving him unfulfilled, sakamoiz became known as a collector of some of the finest underground music on the planet...some of which he has showcased as a Music Contributor on SBS Radio's Alchemy show.

Selections spiced with Latin, Germanic, African and Aboriginal sounds have been the flavour of sakamoiz sets at Uber_Lingua's Melbourne club, St Jerome's, throughout 2004.

Hobart-based bodybuilding rapper Creator (aka Alfred Caulker) was born in Sierra Leone and performs in Mende, Creole, French and English.