Hi there, by some horrid alchemic twist of fate you have arrived here. and I bet: you want answers. don'tcha. well, first of all, where is the actual crude blog hosted: its here:
http://crude2008.blogspot.com/
and also, crude's official web-page is here:
http://crude.co.nz/
and for audio , try here:
http://crude.co.nz/Audio%20Suite.htm
and crude's myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/crude2008
The Aesthetics, the 'rock band' run by CRUDE man Matt Middleton, have scored a slot in the Big Day Out Auckland 08 by winnig a bnet based competition!!! What a coup!! They play the Green Stage fresh and early at 10.15 am , and it'll be a synth soaked set of scummy rock and hypnotic drone. check out some aesthetics on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/theaestheticsss
Crude is Matt Middleton, a recording artist based in the university town of Dunedin, New Zealand. Established 1994. Releases on Flying Nun, Ecstatic Yod. Extensive back-catalogue of works spanning the worlds of lo-fidelity, noise and it's various associations, 'electro' of a low-tech and low-yield nature, , ambient - whether dark or merely 'darkened' , perhaps even ' blackened', glitch and all it's clicks and cuts and slips and slides,pock marks and pops, tinny,boyish bedroom-engineered kiwi rock, uncouth and artless punk,crude collage, whatever's voguish and smells bad i suppose, whatever softwares i can muster, whatever works...whatever interests the artist......,,,,...Recordings now available thru the web-site www.crude.co.nz.