looking forward to this weekend! its our third year performing at rainbow, but our first gracing the playground stage with the full band. we’ll be on at 5:15pm saturday. treats will also pop up under the radar, with possible sets at umelicious, cocopocoloco, the sensorium, the dubstep cafe, the crystal mandala & the cyclic sound system!
heres a taste of our sets from the last couple of years
a deep session round the campfire at this natural amphitheatre by the lake on the beautiful french island. fest la tadpole was a small scale ‘proof-of-concept’ party at an abandoned prison that has been converted into a thriving biodynamic eco-farm. great food, powerful cider & good times were had by all.
12 01 14 treats @ fest la tadpole, french island by musicfromspeakers
a ten minute set on a hijacked bus to a crowd of unsuspecting folk fans at woodford. catch more of this madness tonight at the evelyn, 351 brunswick st, fitzroy at 9pm.
hugo & treats promo brand new material alongside easily one of the most exciting bands in melbourne right now, hiatus kaiyote. their sound has been described by beat magazine as ‘an unholy blend of cody chestnutt and monkey magic’ and by me as ‘herbie hancock & erikah badu fucking in a cloud’ more info click here
starting with a cheeky bootleg, this one got deep, dark, dirty & weird. pure fresh electronic bass music for the heads (and butts) at this iconic venue in the heart of fitzroy. spooky themed decor and mad visuals from vj chronic sans notched up the vibes.
12 01 13 treats @ gutterhype, the laundry by musicfromspeakers
hugo & treats & the lullaby league will be unleashing their brand new live show across woodfordia at the following times and places…
tue 27th 1:45am
bazaar (full show)
wed 28th 12pm
parlour (hugo spoken word)
fri 30th 1am
grande (full show)
watch out for sets on the mystery bus too!
an ambient journey beginning inside the pineal gland, at 3am in this multi-projection av space at ega festival (entheogenesis australis)
visuals merge with sonic textures, intermingling with smoke and light, sychronising with visionary artist/vj, aurelien pumanaya floret (luminaya.com)
bit of a fail at strawberry fields festival this year, managed to play the first part of this set, then just as the new objekt joint dropped, the generator went down. first 12 minutes of this one is ‘as was’ on the day, after that is a post-festival mix of what could have happened next…
treats ended up playing for 3 hours at this renegade free bar, tucked between the trees at shine on festival, deep in the australian pyrenees.
this last half hour catches us easing down from a proper chunky rinse up into warm soulfully abstract techiness, as always with a few cheeky classics carefully woven in for good measure (lightly edited for your listening pleasure)
11 19 11 treats @ cocopocoloco, shine on by musicfromspeakers
hugo & treats support the melodics at their last ever show tonight at the hi-fi ballroom. onstage 9pm, featuring our beautiful new vocal section – the lullaby league. more info here https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=222686731119918
great performances from an eclectic selection of local acts and artistes at this gorgeous venue, including the inimitable rhythmik swallowing fire during his set! an abundance of circus freaks & crazy cic students made this one a night to remember. good vibes all night. beyond genre once again brought the goods.
11 10 31 treats @ the jack o’lantern ball, red bennies by musicfromspeakers
after a classic sunny street festival on northcote high street, treats played to a packed bar in between local heroes spoonbill & mista savona. showing proper respect to the dearly departed dj mehdi & gil scott heron.
massive local lineup & u.s. dubstep pioneer antiserum in a secret warehouse location. in the messy room, treats played some fresh wonkyness, gearing up to full on quirk-rave. props to motio crew, hallie, rudi, mittons & pat for generally being legends
11 09 03 treats @ remote control by musicfromspeakers
tracklist coming soon
hugo & treats will be supporting jeremedy at the melodics final show at the hi-fi ballroom, november 4th
heavy innit rolling through space with some proper bass music! treats played some frontstep, double garage & wendy house, with added rude bits. heres the whole set.
listen loud
11 08 20 treats @ space walk, horse bazaar by musicfromspeakers
tracklist coming soon
its finally here, the video for the song ‘we are the humans’ by hugo, produced by soup. shout outs to the blue crew
smashing up the Qi warehouse afterparty for the epic band called ‘[me]‘. beautifully decorated venue with fabulous freaks in abundance. part 1 is around the first hour of the 6 hours of weird party music played that night. part 2 comes in around hour 3, when everything started kicking in, and we got a bit deeper…
(LAST PARTY THIS SATURDAY as the place gets knocked down next week)
thanks to april thursday for the pics, and to arctic for the reloads!
11 06 12 treats @ Qi, gadd st. pt 2 by musicfromspeakers
tracklist coming soon
a warm & chilled mix, after the activists had given their forest updates, and the trapeze artists had clambered down into the cushions. big respect to all crew involved.
tracklist
chris watson – le crone
atropolis – xingu chief
randy barracuda & mesak – black vaseline (eero johannes remix)
boards of canada – aquarius
scuba – in 2
instra:mental – watching you
mosca – nike
jose james – black magic (joy orbison’s recreation)
sbtrkt – twice bitten
ben last – boy becomes a man
desto – disappearing reappearing ink
mount kimbie – taps
homelife – dosta
