Groove Q

10/03/2022

Advertising people – What’s on your mind? Have your say about creativity and advertising life impacted by COVID. What’s the new normal in the Australian market?


This research project is particularly interested in two key issues:
1. How agencies have adapted creative workflows and practices and what new forms of creative leadership have been sparked by these innovations.
2. How the COVID-crisis has affected agency workplace cultures in terms of inclusion, well-being and psychological safety.


https://www.towardsanewnormal.com/startseite


Survey is closing March 31st, so please help out and take 10 minutes to complete this survey by Bond University and Swinburne University of Technology


GrooveQ are proud to support this project.




Swinburne University of Technology Bond University Suits&Sneakers

24/01/2022

Learning about Euclidean sequencing using Voltage Modular.

11/01/2022

Back on track … sound on n’ up. Alison Cole and Dave Smith Back at it!

04/06/2021

My Conservatorium Composition students gave me these to say thank you 😊 I appreciate it so much … but I also learn from them as well! Exchanging ideas about 🎶 composition is a wonderful thing ❤️

21/05/2021

'If yoouuuu don't know me by meoooooooowwwww'

LAST CALL! We're almost capacity and I NEED to see you there, i've got a set of early 80's-90's classics and a possible special trick up my sleeve (cough live cough). Also i'll be giving away a one-of-a-kind classic mint Boxcar t-shirt and a handful of other goodies. The other DJ's are incredible..should be enormous fun to kick the covid blues in the proverbial n**s with some top notch electronic music... Mark Vick Electronique Tunnel Signs **s

22/03/2021

5 years, untold hours repairing bizarre analog and digital format masters..listening to the things you feel like you've heard a trillion times before, but new and different...strangely unfamiliar. It's been a weird journey..but here goes.

VERTIGO | REVIBED 26.03.21
https://snd.click/BXCVertigoRVB

To mark the 30th Anniversary of the release of the ‘Vertigo’ album, Boxcar and the Volition label join together to produce a special edition of the band's classic debut. Remastered and accompanied by unreleased never-heard-before mixes, ‘Vertigo Revibed’ highlights the crafted dance gems of Boxcar and production excellence of the late Robert Racic – both renowned reference points for Australian electronic/dance music following the worldwide release of ‘Vertigo’ in 1990.

BOXCAR formed in Brisbane in 1986, relocating to Sydney after signing with the trail-blazing Volition label in 1988 to begin work on their debut album ‘Vertigo’ with innovative Sydney DJ/producer Robert Racic. The first single from ‘Vertigo’ was released that same year, “Freemason” hit dance charts around the world including the U.S. where it went to #8 on the Billboard Dance Chart. It was followed by two more Billboard charting singles from ‘Vertigo’; “Gas Stop” #8 and “Insect” #20.

Following its release in 1990, ‘Vertigo’ captured an audience worldwide that craved the electronic dance sound that had dominated the 80’s. It also paved the way for a change in the perception of electronic/dance music from Australia and established Boxcar as pioneers in the movement and Racic as an acclaimed producer and remixer.

‘Vertigo’ was recorded, produced and mixed in Sydney, Vancouver and New York by Racic, with legendary dance music producers Arthur Baker and Francois Kevorkian enlisted to remix the singles “Freemason” and “Gas Stop” respectively.

Now in 2021, ‘Vertigo’ has been remastered and accompanied by unreleased never-heard-before mixes of six of the album’s tracks. These mixes; “Comet”, “Lelore”, “Hit & Run”, “Cruel To You” and “This Is The Town” are skilfully re-worked by Boxcar (with “Freemason” by Hysteric) from the restored original masters and highlight Racic’s exceptional talent in producing the electronic/dance music tour de force ‘Vertigo’.

In 2015, “Insect” claimed the #23 spot in the “100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks Of All Time”. Published by online electronic/dance music bible ‘In The Mix’, Nick Jarvis wrote the following about Boxcar’s appearance on the chart; “...before Cut Copy, Van She et al reinvigorated ‘80s synth-pop to huge international success, Brisbane act Boxcar were struggling in a music market dominated by pub rockers like Diesel and pop stars like Kylie. Their debut album Vertigo spawned several synth-pop gems that impacted on the US dance charts – like the quirky, catchy, ice-cool“Insect”...it would be more than a decade before mass Australian audiences finally started appreciating home-grown electronic music.”

‘Vertigo Revibed’ is released through Volition on March 26th.

Presave Now : https://snd.click/BXCVertigoRVB

Art by Tunnel Signs

04/02/2021

This is our second collaboration with IWDA - International Women's Development Agency Inc. is an Australian non-profit organisation that works to support women's rights in Asia and the Pacific.

Every day, young women struggle with gender inequality and COVID-19 has made things worse. This video tells the experiences of young women from Cambodia, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea during the pandemic and shows how they are leaders that are up to any challenge that faces them, including gender inequality.

IWDA - Pacific Islands

31/01/2021

Flashback of a flashback ... this project was so much fun!

17/01/2021

Groove Q loves Røde mics and Røde microphones are amazing supporters of the creative arts industry, thanks to Peter Freedman.

Donor Peter Freedman said his gift was ‘just the beginning’ and has left it up to the festival to decide how to spend the money

16/01/2021

Oooooh Caturday

19/12/2020

07/11/2020

Rehearsals start for my sextet composition, ‘Undercurrent’, on Monday. Preparing for my ‘tricky’ rhythms as I’ll be conducting! Me and my triplets 🎼🎧

14/08/2020

Available on all streaming platforms from August 14. Spotify [coming soon] Apple Music [coming soon] Lyrics, vocal melody and vocals created and performed by...

14/08/2020

Alison plays with spaces ...

29/07/2020

Some of Alison's 'timbral composition' work.

30/03/2020

Apocalyptic Kitchen is keeping healthy. My favourite goats feta and sheep manchego. @ Groove Q

16/01/2020

Looking forward to sharing some new projects we've been working on recently.