For many years we have enjoyed the music, friendship and kindness of Nigel J Moore in the DEMUS community, and the communities which pre-dated DEMUS (at a time when the internet was only beginning to emerge as an independent musicians dream). He may live thousands of miles away from many of us, but we consider him one of our strongest supporters. The development of his work has often left us breathless, and his ability to weave strong audio tales with a diverse range of instruments has always been a trademark, and a style that I can enjoy listening to for hours on end. Given that Nigel presents a strong element of mystery, and also deep curiosity for our...

EN-ZINE 1 OUT NOW! – Available for free at Peril Underground, Missing Link Records and Blue Velvet. Every now and then we are planning to print and distribute a free A5 mini-zine full of stories, information, ads and news about all kinds of underground happenings in Melbourne. We invite musicians, artists, writers, event organisers, labels and all manner of people to contribute content! As a small experiment in street-press we need your help! HOW TO CONTRIBUTE Please contact us and prepare to supply us either plain text and images (we will layout the content), or preferably, supply us an A5 size PDF file. The zine is printed in full colour. We hope to release EN-ZINE 2 around October 2010...

For the first time ever, our irregular Enzyme event is going to be part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival! This is probably our biggest live music venture yet, and we are really looking forward to giving Melbourne and its Arts community a diverse music experience from Noise and Experimental through to Electronica and Dark Hip Hop. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE: ONLINE: At the Melbourne Fringe Website HERE. or… DROP IN TO THE FRINGE TICKET CENTRE IN QV: Open Wednesday 8 Sept through to Saturday 9 Oct, midday-6.00pm for cash or credit card sales, information on shows and friendly advice all right in the heart of the CBD. You can find the Ticket Centre on Artemis Lane in QV,...

For several years, our online underground music shop Dark Stereo has been a primary tool for musicians to sell and distribute their CD’s and propaganda online. Now, in 2010 we are taking the next step forward through a new store called the Dawn Industry Shop. Rather than only promoting music, this new shop allows us to expand and stock a huge range of underground oddities from CD, DVD and music, through to artworks, prints, jewellery, books, files, stickers, T Shirts, event tickets and anything else which is hand made, non-mass produced and underground in nature. If you are an artist interested in contributing stock to the store, contact us and we will explain the process to get your goodies...

Facebook Event Listing here. We are pleased to present the full details of the upcoming underground music Enzyme Event! UNDERGROUND MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA, and LIVE INDUSTRIAL SPECIAL NIGHT UPSTAIRS. Friday 27th August 2010 at Blue Velvet 60 Smith St Collingwood from 8pm – midnight. $5 with flyer $8 general admission FEATURING: SARCOPHONY http://www.myspace.com/sarcophony At last the time has arrived… the debut live performance from one of our favorite local industrial / electro / metal acts! Melbourne producer Brett is finally going to let rip and shred the floor with his special blend of intelligent cynicism and bullet-proof song writing. We have waited years for this night to come…. at last!!! COLD DIVIDE http://www.colddivide.com/ Industrial metal and electronics at its finest....

That’s right folks, the full album downloads page at DEMUS has returned at http://demusnetwork.com/DEMUS/page/freealbums These downloads are all complete Zip packages of MP3 treats for your listening pleasure! We are currently doing a little clean up of the DEMUS site in preparation to take it to V2.2 in the coming weeks. If any of the community members have albums to add to this page, please let us know!