.3rd Resistace - reinforcing Techno @ Canaan Downs Festival

Hey All ..

the .3rd Resistance has put togeather a rather unique Techno line-up for Canaan Downs Festival.

So for all those people who thought it might be a psychedelic hippy dance come lock it down with the
.3rd Resistance

The Minim Crew are crunking down from Ak bringing some minimal cuteness and holistic beat power.

Also there will be a unique meeting of the legendary Obscure Team. Both Simon's will bringing a Live set of fresh raw Techno.

Simon Swain aka LRS who was responsible for WGT early Psurkit parties and NZ first Techno Release Skankatronics will be flying in from Sydney with his 303 set for battle attack mode. Simon K has been preparing some looped up specials under the My My Sound System project. Designed to turn out some pulsating electronic system sounds to freak the kids.

Also quite a few secret eudeamony kids hiding in the line-up .. all who carry a deep connection to early Detroit sounds and lots of basic channel badness.

Insiders will know how to find out if Epsilon Blue really is playing a live set under a pseudonym.

Yes .. over the duration of the Festival a severe amount of Techno brainwashing will be taking place to ensure a new generation of Techno droids can be released.

Frankly the .3rd Resistance has given up being passive and intends to take a much more militant approach to infecting Techno into events.

This years presence at the Canaan Downs Festival is only the first in what will be a series of genre defining deployments of NZ Techno.

Not recommended for club kids, or shiny shoe city city boppers. This is a boots on strapped in Techno mission for the Techno heart'core of NZ.

the .3rd Resistance is deep in your future.

Eudeamony.

I think I just came a little

it's about time they did that

can we expect these bad bwoys too?

not sure my music will be called cute afterwards
but all you biggie peeps should sooooo come down!! its gonna be great!! go on..... dare ya

make that a double dare

The Minim Crew are crunking down from Ak bringing some minimal cuteness and holistic beat power.


yeah crystal dolphin rainbow techno, everyone can hold hands and hug and be at one with each other

Actually, we will be dressing up in military uniforms .. and attempting to conscript people at the Festival into the .3rd Resistance .. including supplying them uniform, small transmitter training and detailed mission instructions.

I was in the process of arranging several paint ball guns and full face masks for some of the crew to stand around .. but then this whole Terror thing started so I rolled back on the paint ball guns.

We will however by flying a Tuhoe Flag and rolling visuals from the raids.

There is a not so subtle political message embedded in the .3rd Resistance. I'm guessing some people might have forgotten what Raving is all about these days so the .3rd Resistance is willing to remind them, by sonic force if required.

The .3rd Resistance is performance art at the very edge of acceptable and it comes complete with a pounding Techno soundtrack.

Btw, If the terror squad do turn up, it will be another embarrassment to the NZ government. Every aspect of the .3rd Resistance is a matter of public record.

All arrangements have been made in the public domain and remain completly transparent.

I did read through the laws though and with the appropriate twist anyone organising a dance party with a loud sound system playing non-mainstream music for extended periods of time could be considered a terrorist.

Planning an event and/or enrolling people in you ideas that may cause terror and chaos. ??

Sounds like a rave to me!

Did I miss the 1st and 2nd resistance?

Sounds cool anyway, nice one Simon.

Don't know what happened to the 1st & 2rd Resistance.

The whole presentation of the .3rd is tied into experiments I have been making at the fringes of raves for the past few years.

Having always played a fairly minimal glitch edge of Techno .. it was difficult to get sets in main zones or even chill out spaces.

Eventually I gave up and started inserting renegade sound systems into the areas between zones. I used to play a lot of beat free glitch noise, strange samples, sound scape and ambient stuff.

This evolved into some fairly elaborate setups with multiple channels of open microphone running through delays, sine wave generators running directly in to sub bins .. and other various computers generating soundscapes from field recordings and the like.

The .3rd Resistance is trying to tie the whole package back together around main sound system.

Eventually I imagine a crew of people working together to deliver sound to multiple systems simultaneously.

Sort of like a multi-media Techno orchestra or something.

I've been doing parties for over 15 years now .. and pretty board with the formats. In certain environments I really want to push the boundaries and try new things.

Techno in a modern format using midi, networking, and DAW software is really conducive to people working together in multi layered environments.

This year I am hoping to get some experimental noise artists, ambient djs, live instrumentalist & techno Dj's all working together inside a networked series of sound systems.

Does it all sound like bunch of chaos? Sure, but we are all experienced dance heads with an understanding of vibe, why not work together.

This is a performance with social & political themes that challenges the prevailing ideology of how societies and systems function.

It is my attempt to create an open source system with a real Techno edge.

Besides, we have the gear and the knowledge and the time, so why not have some crazy messed up fun.

.simon

sounds v kewl

would love to come but sadly not this year

Wicked .. what a mad cap minimal blow out ./.

The .3rd Resistance absolutely smashed it .. as they say in Ibiza.

Either way I am pretty damn sure that was the most Techno I have heard in on go for the longest time.

From the fringes of Tech House to the more edgey prog nature of club tunes to the pure net glith filth and back the sublime turns of more plume line minimal producers .. alongside fresh and live NZ producers like epsilon blue, LRS & My My Sounds System .. it was just the right thing all round.

Not to exclude the house driven percussion or the melodic true tones of more psybient producers like invader tron ... for me it was a perfect spectrum of minimal bent production.

As far as the Canaan Downs Festival goes .. the .3rd Resistance made a positive mark on proceedings and has established a footing at future Festival to represent the Techno sensibilities again.

We perhaps may not be following the uber club dictation of the european minimal scene .. but the .3rd Resistance will continue to represent a true school kiwi approach to Techno delivery ..

Including the experimental noise assault tactics that created some side splitting hilarity .. !

forwards and upwards comrades