Melbourne Music Week & Aarght Records present Swallowed By The Future

Orbiting the paleo-futuristic aesthetic of VHS, Aarght Records are transforming Melbourne University's heritage listed underground carpark into a stark, hostile world reminiscent of 1980's futuristic sci-fi classics Bladerunner and Videodrome.

Following on from Siberia Records' post-apocalyptic transformation of the same space in MMW 2012, Aarght Records present a vision of the future, as seen from the past. The soft-static universe and analogue sensibilities of the VHS generation is recreated in an aural cacophony of neo-future garage rock and psychedelic punk.

Taking their name from a brand of flashspun, high-density polyethylene fibre, Detroit's Tyvek will bring nonchalant punk and lo-fi garage rock, stripped down with chop-shop pop, basement psych blowouts, manic riffing and incisive lyrics. The guitars are buzzy and loud, the rhythms are quick, the drums crash, and the angst is genuine. Tyvek delivers a unifying anthem for Detroit's punks, nerds, and audiophiles - fighting to be heard in a declining city of industrial decay.

Melbourne ultra-group the Ooga Boogas - who recently snuck out of hiding to release their first album in five years - are arguably a great disappointment, or the best band in the world... depending on who you ask. Flipping the bird at corporate discourse, and with an ironic shrug to music industry norms, the Ooga Boogas offer a free-spirited blend of elegant garage pop, dirty-arse surf rock, post-punk electronica and everything in between.

Supported by Nun, Eastlink, Exhaustion and the Ausmuteants, this will be a night of future visions and hurtling sounds, as seen through the eyes of a world long gone.