Voulez-vous chalet avec moi? Lower your bit rate at Section 8 and ride the dizzy heights to robotic paradise at the Meccanoid Apres Ski party + M Division Recordings launch! With Inverto live for the cosmic overdrive and Meccanoid DJs The Snowman" Quirk, "Tobogganing" Toupee, Not "Egg Nog" Jan and "Instructor" Glitch pointing your slalom to the synthetic slopes, we'll take you down the easy ride and back to the top quicker than you can say 'The Chase'.
Next to the bar just say 'scuzzi and get into the Jacuzzi! The BBQ starts at four, so get get off the slopes for more, bring your togs and drink your nog! Dress code is St. Moritz glitz.
Saturday May 31st @ Section 8 - 27-29 Tattersalls Lane, CBD. 4pm till 1am. BBQ starts @ 4.30pm! FREE entry.
After-party from 1am @ The Toff in Town (Lvl. 2 Curtain House, 252 Swantston St. CBD), FREE entry.
On New Year's Eve rock the synthetic mosh in your hot stone wash and put your hands in the air and flip your permed hair at Meccanoid'sTrailer Trash New Years Party! For one night only we're going back to Pony for a Trailer Trash night better than a pack of Alpine lights, so come get suburban with tracks that are better than a UDL Bourbon.
Special guests 'Turbo' Teknob and 'Grouse' Grimus (back from a Contiki tour of Europe for one show!) will make you want to skull it with your bleach blonde mullet. Mo-Ichi vs Myagi will play synth sounds to suit as you stomp your ugg boot and Bjoern Enz will light the floor up for you like an electro Winnie Blue. The Meccanoid 4-pack of Quirkzy, 'Gotcha' Glitch, Not 'wet tshirt' Jan and 'Torana' Toupee play electro for your ear as good as VB Beer. Downstairs, 'Magwheel' Mittons,' Peter'Bogan'Baker, D-JVB and 'Dr 'Hotrod' Hysteric will be as golden as a hotted up holden, plus Sydney djs Wasubot vs Brut 33 will play sounds that get stuck on you more than an Aussie Rules tattoo.
Meccanoid will bring you more fun in the dark than a Maccas car park, so wash your Ford Telstar and meet us at Pony Bar!
NYE: Monday December 31st @ Pony - 68-70 Little Collins Street, CBD. 10pm till 9am. $12
Lasergun 'Rest In Pieces' Featuring: BANGKOK IMPACT (Finland) + DJ TLR (The Hague, NL)
Supported by Meccanoid residents
Friday October 26th @ Miss Libertine
Rest in Pieces -The definitive dancefloor demise of the legendary Lasergun!
Featuring Finland's finest electric export Bangkok Impact - aka Sami Luiski - the discorhythmic prince of electro funk is back to push your buttons and jack your box. With a sound that stretches from The Hague to Chicago via Rimini and back again come and get sky high with his techno travelogue and worldwide workouts! With Melbourne dancefloor favourites like Putsch '79, 8BitRockers and Lolita Strap all bearing his sonic stamp, his live show will freak you sideways.
Joining him is the Master of the electro Universe: Mr Global Darkness himself DJ TLR. (aka Mr Clavio). His last visit to Australia gave Melbourne dance floors an acidic lesson in how to jack. Come and complete your adult education with The Hague hotness, disco delights and chi-town acid excursions mixed with the finest electro jams.
Supported by Meccanoid's NotHappyJan, Quirk, Glitch and Toupee as well as Dave Pham, Agent 86, Mike Callander, Dr Hysteric, Kiti, Ramos, Glitch, The Alias, and Peter Baker.
Limited $16 Pre-sale tickets are available through inthemix.com.au and moshtix outlets, $20 tickets available on the door if you look dead and $25 for General AdmissionMiss Libertine 34 Franklin Street, Melbourne 9663 6855
Meccanoid 'Art After Dark'
Silver Factory Party! Featuring The Emergency + Scissors for Sparrow
Friday October 8th @ NGV
Meccanoid and 'Art after Dark' invite you to a rare occurance at the Gallery where art meets music on a grand scale! Rock out to Rothko or come roll with Andy Warhol at the Silver Factory party at the NGV. There'll be kooky tunes to Jeff Koons, and plenty of talk to Maplethorpe. Drink wine to Yves Klein, or see the Emergency singing their sermons to Cindy Sherman. Scissors for Sparrow will be keepin' in time to Lichtenstein, while the Meccanoid residents give you a Guggen-time!
Friday October 5th, 5pm to 9pm at the NGV, 180 St Kilda Rd. Free entry to art after dark. (Guggenheim exhibition open til 9pm, ticket entry)
Stop the clock at ten o'clock: it's time to flock to Meccanoid's La Belle Epoque!
Flirt with a philosopher or Can Can with a Courtesan, sip Absinthe brews with a painter's muse or be a libertine from the Paris scene: Get your painter's smock or a pipe like Sherlock - wear a frock to shock at La Belle Epoque! Watch our Burlesque expressionists and Circus scintillationists, and find the front row for our fashion show: it's at 12 o'clock at La Belle Epoque!
See the fascinating Frivolous (Canada, Live), hear insurgency with The Emergency (Live) and prove DJ Ransom's Law of the guaranteed dancefloor. Our resident relativists and their disco discoveries will heat you up until your chemistry reacts: you'll see stars with Glitch's Glamour Refraction, discover Quirk's Quotient of synthetic force, get black and blue with Not 'Modernist' Jan's electric impressionism and feel phantasmagoric with Tarot Toupee's spiritual minimalism. In the Salon de Sorbonne find fin de siecle finesse with J'nett and Jason Martin playing the plattes noir all soir!
With electroshock till it's time to dock - we're going to rock at La Belle Epoque!
Saturday September 8th @ The Toff in Town - Level 2, Curtain House 252 Swanston Street, CBD. 10pm till late.
$17 before midnight, $22 after.
For five years our Meccanoid laboratory has conducted experiments in search of new forms of electrolife. For our 5th Birthday we have made scientific history by creating the perfect disco for droids. Enter our Analogue Atlantis where sartorial simulacra will parade before you in a designed display of Futurist Fashion. Imported from Dutch Droid Labs, we will be operating the finest in robot Mood Modulators: Legowelt Live, Orgue Electronique Live and Dj TLR, guaranteed to vibrate your mind and elevate your hyperstate. Super scientists Not Human Jan, Gene-mod Glitch, Quantum Quirk and Tronic Toupee will issue subsonic shockwaves to bleep your body. In the Virtual Disco assistants Mustard, D-JCB, Chestwig and Mittons will remotely regulate and perpetuate your sound satisfaction.
Experience your hi-fidelity future today, in the Meccanoid Fifth Birthday Futurezone!
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