To celebrate the start of Spring here in NZ, and the imminent arrival of the outdoor good weather madness, we have gusts Adelle and Spoonhead up on the show tonight! Yeah - a little about them:
(Sonja Adelle Loader-Jurac) is a female DJ from Christchurch, New Zealand. From the age of 17 she started playing tunes of the hard dance and hardstyle variety playing her first set in Wellington.
Now at the age of 21 Adelle has played a spread of genre’s including breaks, house, psy trance, techno and played to a range of different audience from All-age gigs, outdoor parties, regular club nights and special events and functions. With all these influences combined Adelle plays and eclectic mix of Electro keeping her sets fresh and full of energy.
Adelle - Her sound contains wobbly basslines, big breakdowns, fidgety beats and dance floor fun. With a big enough tune selection to suit all hours of the day and night Adelle plays electro that ranges from progressive to full on party beats that get a little grimey.
Her four years immersed in the dance scene have seen her play for crews such as Nitrate, Rinsed, Massive, R-ONE, Matrix Crew and playing support for DJ Weaver, Storm, Luna-C, Dom Sweeden, Jody6 and more.
Previous projects of Adelle have included hosting a show on Wellington based Munt FM and running a party night called “Electopia” an electro house and breaks night.
Adelle currently hosts a show on Pulzar FM 105.7 with friend and regular DJ partner Anikin Friday nights 10pm-1am and holds a residency at Double Drop/Double Happy Friday nights. Adelle also works as a freelance Graphic and Web Designer with a heavy music orientation for her design work. Keeping her life full of creativity and music gives her inspiration and unique take on her DJ-ing.
Ray Singer , more commonly known as 'Spoonhead' is a producer and live act of the 'electronic music' family. Best described as a cross-breed of reptile and mammal, crossing genres from Progressive into Breaks, Psy, Glitch and Dark Minimal. Spoonhead is known for his noisy, unusual call, different for each individual, that combines bellbird-like notes with clicks, cackles, timber-like creaks and groans, layered over heavy pulsating bass sounds and tight kick drums—the unusual possession of 2 voiceboxes enables Spoonhead to perform such a myriad of vocalisations[citation needed].
Some of the huge range of Spoonhead's sounds are beyond the human register. Watching a Spoonhead set, one can observe gaps in the sound when his beak is agape and throat tufts throbbing. Spoonhead will play at night, especially around the full moon period through sunrise into the daylight hours.
Behaviour:
Spoonhead is a creature most suited to the morning environment. Emerging sometime during the blue hour when things start getting a little strange and monsters are often caught fleeing from the dancefloor to hide in tents or under small rocky outcrops. He can be spotted spinning around in circles for hours on the dance floor with his hoola hoop or stretchy poi.
He spends many long hours alone recording his call and tweeking it to perfection. Always striving to make it tighter, deeper and more entrancing.
His lifestyle involves among many other things: growing organic food and storing it to survive the cold southern winters. Skating (tom kemps mini!), Riding (pow!), Surfing (at sunrise!) and Kiting (the might NorEasterly) with his mates. Designing & making clothing for other creatures that exist in the same habitat (www.morphic.co.nz). Making loud music with big beats or just quietly playing the native american flute. He enjoys sharing time with other interesting creatures especially of the reptile family although he does occassionally associate with humans.
Habitat
Typically the southern coastal shoreline of Pegaus Bay, Aotearoa. Sometimes Spoonhead will migrate during the seasons to other destinations where the music is fresh, the barrels are spitting and good times are pumping!
How to spot this creature:
First off you need to locate the most likely gig, venue or party that Spoonhead will be playing. A bit of research can never go amiss. Next you must be stealthly quiet because: Although Spoonhead is a producer, he is careful of his hearing and often wears strange fungal-like, bright orange earplugs on the dancefloor. HE HAS THE HEARING OF A BAT. This means he will hear you if you sneak up on him. He might either: Run and hide, attack with much ferocity or the most likely... introduce himself politely and continue dancing. You are therefore better of to find a concealed location and just wait patiently with some binoculars.
