Speakers

SOUND SUMMIT 2007 SPEAKERS

Aaron Curnow
Aaron Curnow is the founder and director of Spunk. Spunk records is Australia's seventh coolest record label. It has released 260 records to date by acts like Antony, Sufjan, Bonnie, Joanna Newsom & Arcade Fire.

Adam Booth
Adam Booth (Weez) is the co-founder of production house Affinity Music, manager for producer Styalz Fuego and an active member of Melbourne's music scene since 2000 as a performer, promoter and manager

Aloe Blacc
SoCal native Aloe Blacc began his recording career as an MC back in 1995, when he joined up with hip-hop producer Exile to form the mainstay indie rap group, Emanon. A few years later, Aloe would “stow away” on a Lootpack European tour and become fast friends with Oh No – a relationship which led to many fruitful collaborations as a solo artist.These days, Aloe Blacc has evolved into a true Renaissance man – dubbed “the indie R. Kelly” by online retailer Turntable Lab. Recordings like his Latin cover of John Legend’s “Ordinary People” prove that – not only can this multi-instrumentalist produce, rap and sing – but he can flip it in Spanish, too. With an amazingly broad set of influences ranging widely from the acoustic guitar stylings of folk artist Cat Stevens, to the soul-stirring sounds of the Negro Spirituals, Aloe prides himself on the spectrum of his musical roots. His sound often forays into the digital R&B realm, but always grooves with a tinge of Latin and the pulse of hip-hop.

Andre Lackmann
Managing Director of the Sound Alliance, publishers of inthemix.com.au & rock site FasterLouder.com.au. He has been living and breathing the internet for years.

Andrew Levins
Andrew Levins is a Sydney based DJ, radio presenter and promoter. He has a long history working for record labels, managing local artists and promoting gigs and parties in different states. Levins is Co-Director of Sound Summit '07 and has nine myspace pages. Collect them all!

Anthony Dockrill
Anthony joined 2SER in 1997 as a volunteer broadcaster while working 9-5 at the ABC in television licensing and copyright management. Since that time he's spent a number of years doing Breakfast radio at 2SER and now work as 2SER's Program Manager.

Ashley Sellers
As founder and CEO/Executive Chairman of Inertia, Ashley Sellers has seen the company grow from a distribution only service thru to the operation it is today incorporating In-house record labels, enhanced online digital management and Civil Society, Inertia's touring arm. Just some of the labels Inertia handle include; Definitive Jux, Earshot, Fabric, Future Classic, Elefant Trax, Hospital Records, Inertia Recordings, !K7, Matador, Ninja Tunes , Rawkus and Warp.

Blastcorp
Blastcorp is Kris Keogh. He lives in darwin, australia and 'makes beats and bleeps and then sings songs to them'. A keen instrumentalist and electronic musician his live shows include guitar, Reaktor, Protools, Live, Gamelan and Sampler. When not playing in bands he helps run a club in Darwin called Happy Yess.

Brendan Webb
Brendan Webb is a Melbourne all-rounder with first hand experience within the music industry from his time spent fronting seminal 90s indie-pop/rock three-piece Sandpit. These days he finds himself booking, promoting and managing hip-hop and electronic/sample based artists such as Curse Ov Dialect, Combat Wombat, Mountains In The Sky and more under the moniker 'Baddums Presents'.

Buchman
Has been involved in making records for the past decade as a member of hip hop/soul-rock band Baggsmen as well as producing an array of artists including Macromantics, Pigeon John, Kid Confucius, and Blue King Brown.

Chris Scadden
Currently the Program Director at Australia's national youth broadcaster, triple j, Chris has worked for a number of high profile initatives including the Noise Festival and triple j Unearthed project.

Chris Wu
Chris Wu is the founder of Popfrenzy. Formed in the late 1990's they have grown from small time party organisers to a well established record label and touring company. For a year they started and owned the sadly missed Gifted Records shop

Claire Stuchbery
Claire Stuchbery has been involved in a number of community radio stations (3PBS, 3APL, 3SSR), presenting 'No Frills' on PBS since 2001and having worked in a number of areas at the station including Sales and Events. She is currently setting up her own company specialising in advertising for community stations.

Dan Buhagiar
Has worked at community radio stations and the ABC for 10 years as a producer, presenter, journalist, documentary maker, promo producer and technical producer. Now at triple j, producing music programs and working on special projects

DJ Wasabi
Melbourne's DJ Wasabi is a world-class turntablist and member of many live hip-hop groups including Combat Wombat, Cyclones, Fortknight Productions, eLotusEtheric and Bad Boys Batucada. As well as creating and recording music for some of these projects at his home studio, he also conducts turntablism and production workshops in the city and remote areas of Australia.

Emily Copeland
With a Business Degree and years of industry experience behind her, Emily Copeland is the current buisness head behind Sydney Community station, fbi 94.5. as their Sales & Promotions Manager.

Frank Rodi
Frank is Online and Mobile Licensing Manager with APRA/AMCOS. His role is to identify new technologies and to investigate their possible impact on the music industry and music copyright in relation to musical works. Prior to APRA/AMCOS Frank worked as a radio producer and announcer, establishing the first youth music program for SBS radio called Alchemy. Subsequently he transformed his Alchemy concept into the long running successful television show for SBS, which Frank co-presented and was music director.

Glen Goetze
Glen has been at Modular coming on 4 years, starting out as web editor, now as A&R Manager. Along the way he's done just about everything at the company from tour managing international artists, looking after the online store, overseeing the production of several records, videos, photoshoots, parties, tours and remixes, managed and booked bands, written for the first Modular magazine and overseen the creative direction of almost everything that goes out the door.

Greg Carey
Greg first heard about Indent back in the year 2000 when he helped organised several youth festivals in his hometown Forbes, regional NSW. After completing a Bachelor of Communications at Charles Sturt University Bathurst, his musical endeavors took him straight to MusicNSW HQ where he came on board as the coordinator for the Indent Step Up to the Mic Forum at Luna Park. Aside from his MusicNSW duties Greg manages Blue Mountains 5 piece Belles Will Ring.

Heaps Decent
Heaps Decent is what happened after Diplo, Nina and Levins returned from indigenous workshops in regional Australia. With left over equipment from the projects, a studio has been set up for young indigenous artists with the passion, skills and a willingness to create innovative Australian club music. Learn more at: www.myspace.com/heapsdecent

Hugh Walters
Making people boogie in Melbourne's alternative rave scene since 2002. Hugh (AKA dj Streetparty) has djed alongside the MSTRKFT, SEBASTIAN, KAVINSKY, HEADMAN, PRESETS, MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS, CUT COPY, RIOT IN BELGIUM. Founder of cult Melbourne club nights CLICK CLICK, and COLOURS. playing a mixture of new pop club sounds for kid who used to like emo and indie.

Joff Bush
Joff Bush has been a prolific instrumentalist in the Brisbane area for over seven years having performed solo and with many bands. His passion and love of a variety of musical styles shine through in his performances. Joff is also a composer and arranger, currently completing a masters at AFTRS while playing gigs every weekend.

John Zucco
In December 2006 THE RIGHT PROFILE was voted “The #1 Radio Pluggers” by The Music Network and their music industry peers. After years of working with record labels John Zucco started THE RIGHT PROFILE, an Australian independent Radio and TV plugging company that services music to all Commercial and Non-Commercial radio and TV outlets. With a national focus they provide the gateway to achieving the radio airplay and video clip rotation which is vital to cracking open the Australian music market.

Julia Kosky
Julia Kosky was working as an intellectual property lawyer when she (saw the light), shed the grey suit and regular pay packet and entered the world of music management to take the reigns of successful independent band Baggsmen (then known as The Hive). Now also managing soul hip hop supergroup Kid Confucius, the multi-talented Buchman and rising star Andy Bull there is certainly no turning back. Julia is business manager of Brighton Boulevard Productions and sits on the Board of FBi 94.5 Radio.

Kris Keogh
Happy Yess is a community run, not for profit, live original music and arts venue located at 5 Bennett St, Darwin, Australia. Open Thursdays 8pm-12am for arty stuff and open Fridays & Saturdays 9pm-1am for live, original music.Drop into the venue and become a member by filling out a form and handing over five bucks. You can then opt to be elected to join the Board of Management and have your say about what happens at Happy Yess. www.happyyess.com

Kristy Wilson
Kristy currently works as a freelance contractor across event management and music publicity. She works all year round on the Big Day Out and is about to embark on her third season with the touring summer festival. Other large scale music events she has worked on include Splendour in the Grass, Legs 11, Rockin4Rights plus concerts at the Brisbane Riverstage for QUT. As a music publicist Kristy's client list includes Lou Rhodes (ex Lamb), Rubber Records, the Architecture Label, and Modular. Kristy also plays music. She's the guitarist/writer/frontlady in indie pop band The Morning Papers. www.myspace.com/themorningpapers.

Lachlan Marks
Lachlan Marks is the current sub editor and on-staff writer for Drum Media Sydney. He also a regular contributor to the national Blunt Magazine as well as having work syndicated to Inpress (Melbourne), Time-Off (Gold Coast) and Rip It Up (Adelaide). He has been an active member of the Sydney music community both in organizing shows/tours and as a performer over the past five years. He recently returned from touring South East Asia (Phillipines, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) in May.

Levity
Levity is Levi's new record label, aiming to assist the development of emerging artists and kick start their career. With the intention of supporting their artists through those early stages, they will take care of the business end of things promoting nothing but good music making.

Mark Grentell and Rhianna Knight
With a passion for performing and teaching, both Rhianna and Mark have become key players in the musical theatre revival that is taking over Wagga Wagga and the Riverina region. There latest production, High School Musical involved forty-five of the region’s most talented young performers and completely sold out it's three week season! The talented cast is complemented by an equally youthful crew, who are all committed to staging a quality and professional production, and the town has come to expect nothing better.

Mark Pritchard
From an early age, Mark was irresistibly drawn towards music making and that's where he is today. After a long standing relationship with Far Out Recordings and his involvement in various production and re-mix work, Mark had developed a new sound. Using a seductive 60s easy listening vibe combined with weird science Mark has produced some of the most interesting instrumental hip-hop to come out of the UK recently.

Martin Novosel
Martin Novosel (aka PhDJ) is the founder/owner of independent recording label, events & consulting events company Boundary Sounds (Purple Sneakers, BKRC, Sparkadia, Wons Phreely etc). www.myspace.com/purplesneakers and www.myspace.com/badkidsrecclub

Max Becker
Max Becker is the Indent online co-ordinator. Max has been with Indent since early 2006 and loves hip hop, drum n bass and writing about both of them. He has written for mags such as Buzz (Melb), Blunt (Syd) and Underrated.

Mel Lake
Mel Lake has worked with Remote Control Records for 5 years, in that time she has promoted a diverse range of artists, ranging from The White Stripes to Ned Collette, New Buffalo to Cat Power, Interpol to M.I.A. She was previously Owner/Operator of local indie Quietly Suburban Recordings.

Millie Millgate
Creative Director of MusicNSW and Sound Summit Co-Director ‘07, Millie Music Supervised the box office breaking documentary 'Bra Boys' for Garage Industries, whom she is also Artist Manager (The Camels and 3Seven7). Millie has worked in the live arena booking venues (The Hopetoun, Annanadale, Macquarie Uni), whist undertaking various positions on music festivals (Big Day Out, Homebake, Livid, Summersault).

Nick Findlay
After many years at about every community radio station, AFTRS graduate Nick Findlay is currently working at triple j as a music researcher and producer. With a wide range of music knowledge under his belt he also can also be found Djing around Sydney most weekends.

Nina Agzarian
Nina has been working in music radio and television for the last 3 years. Her roles have ranged from web developer to production coordinator to site and tour manager. She has a Visual Communications degree, majoring in sound engineering and currently works as a producer at the Australian youth broadcaster, Triple J

Peter Paterson
Peter started out as roadie for Saints during the 80's, moving on to APRA for 7 years learning about Copyright and publishing. Peter has been at Shock for 9 years now as Professional Manager dealing primarily with Synchronisation / A&R / Royalties and Copyright.

Reichil Cheetham
Keeper of the realness! Rei is currently the Arts Officer at the Loft Youth Venue and has been entrapped at TIN Radio for the last 2 years.  She now has 174 ice buckets.

Richie Tamplenizza
As Partnership Grants Manager for the Indent project, Richard oversees all grant and workshop programs. Outside office hours he co-produces for hip-hop collective, The Herd and forms part of independent label, Elefant Traks. Richard also enjoys the odd long walk on the beach.

Sabiene Heindl
Sabiene Heindl is the General Manager of MIPI, the anti-piracy organization for the Australian music industry. Sabiene was previously a Senior Associate at Allens Arthur Robinson specialising in IP litigation and has also spent time on music and competition issues at the European Commission in Brussels. www.mipi.com.au

Sarah Norton
Sarah Norton manages RAMMPAAGE, a funding and support program for all-ages gigs in Western Australia. Sarah also is a presenter on community station RTR FM and bassist in Perth band The Government.

Scott Mesit
Scott Mesiti co-founded GD Worldwide (GDW), which was initially an independent label that has evolved into a new type of music company that is driving an artist-centric movement within the industry enabled by GDW’s flagship online technology, Usync. Usync is a one-stop-shop for artists that offers the systems and support to sell their music, and build and manage their fan base and career on their own terms, without losing their rights & while retaining more of the profits than with traditional music business models. Scott also coordinates Festival Of The Sun

Spruce Lee
Andrew Elston (aka Spruce Lee) is one fourth of the RO SHAM BO djs. Currently shifting his time between tutoring at Macquarie University and drops producing for both triple j and FBI94.5, Spruce Lee has been busy with remixes for Macromantics, Baggsmen and Architecture in Helsinki.

Steve Spacek
The acclaimed voice behind the ground-breaking genre-pushing group Spacek (who were championed by everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Mos Def), made a name for himself at the turn of the century with the song “Eve". The song set off a worldwide buzz on Steve as a singer and his group’s futuristic sound. After launching a solo career in 2005 he colaborated with J Dilla and from then continues to make critically acclaimed music.

Stuart Watters
Stuart is the CEO of AIR (AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELS ASSOCIATION ). Stuart joined AIR in July 2004, as the organisation moved to Brisbane. He has a long history in arts management, and also headed Q Music, Queensland's peak development body for contemporary music.

Styalz Fuego
Stayalz is one of Australia's most exciting music producers. Owing to a genuine musicianship and a wide-ranging appreciation of different musical influences, Styalz boasts major label production credits and mainstream chart success across a multiplicity of regions, including the USA, UK, Australia, Asia and Europe. www.styalz.com

Tracy Redhead
Tracy has worked and performed in the music industry for many years. She is the founder and developer of the MusicNSW project VROOM – The Venue Resource of Original Music www.vroom.musicnsw.com "THE ONE-STOP ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR TOURING NSW" (and soon Australia) Tracy is also a singer/songwriter/guitarist fronting her 4 piece band of drums, bass, guitar and synths, playing a blend of dark quirky indie pop rock. The band is about to release their first commercial single “Where it fits” through Perfect Sun/ Inertia and their debut album (produced by Tim Powles from the Church) in early 2008. One of Tracy’s other musical side projects is the Green Mist which includes members of the Violent Femmes and the Beasts of Bourbon, their debut album is out in October throughMistophone /Inertia

Vaughan Healey
Vaughan teaches audio production and digital media at the Soundhouse in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. He also DJs and broadcasts on 2SERFM and can commune with the dead.