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m o u s e t r a p r e p l i c a
Genre: Rock, Electronic
Region: Melbourne, VIC
Members: Ryan McRobb - Guitars, Electronics, Guitar Synth, Loops, Gareth Thomson - Drums, Murray Pigdon - bass, Alice Palermo - live painting
Sounds Like: Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Aphex twin, The Necks
Influences: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Arvo Part, Dimitri Shostakovich
Artist Website: www.mousetrapreplica.com

m o u s e t r a p r e p l i c a are an experimental/visual/rock group led by Ryan McRobb on guitar, guitar synth, and laptop, and spaceship, Gareth Thomson on drumkit and percussion, Murray Pigdon on Bass, with Alice Palermo or Nella Combe who paint live onstage.

The band have performed over 60 shows around Melbourne, gaining an ever increasing following through their unique, intense, beautiful and virtuosic live shows.
They have successfully toured the east coast of australia in march 2008, and played throughout South Australia in March 2007 for the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
The have two improvised albums, "Fragments" (2007) and "...we all fall down" (2007), and a CD-R series entitled "Frozen Moments" (2006-2007). 2008 will see the release of a live improvised collaboration with young Sydney experimentalist Scissor Lock, and will see the release of an album featuring the current composed mousetrapreplica set, featuring new member Gareth Thomson.


They have recieved airplay on Melbourne's PBS 106.7FM, RRR FM 102.7, 3CR 855AM, Sydney's 'Sideways through Sound,' Cumberland Community Radio, Alaska Airwaves(USA), and many more international radio stations.

mousetrapreplica performances lead the audience through a maze of entranced joy, stark beauty, brutal barrages, quirky humour, dark subtlety, exquisite ambience; a journey which everybody leaves feeling that little bit better.

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Maybe Stars
rating:  5/5
Complex, ethereal but sometimes with a hard, crisp edge and an alien sound, this music is unlike anything you've heard before. With interesting layer...




A Song for Grace Emily
rating:  5/5
mousetrapreplica masterfully creates beautiful sound environments, using a guitar as cleverly and musically as Robert Fripp, with the depth of compos...
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This project is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through its Music Board Section.