Some new friends of Dawn Industry are preparing an amazing exhibition as part of the Melbourne State of Design Festival, and we think this is an opportunity not to be missed. SLAMin is presented by Post Industrial Design, a West Footscray gallery space and shopfront which supports a wide range of local artists (many of whom are our friends) focusing on hand made unique intriguing objects born of recycled materials, found objects and much more. The store is definitely worth a visit to appreciate the range of industrial styled and fused pieces on display. The SLAMin exhibition will be even more reason to head there! A range of artists (including Sarah Watt, Jos Van Hulsen, Karenne Rees, Baby Guerilla,...

This year has seen our good friends at Alternate Parallel Reality hosting a fantastic downloadable radio show. Featuring music from the Dawn Industry communities, as well as timeless mixes of international music both old and new, the show is sure to delight just about anyone, and also promise some new audio sensations for its listeners. APR has just released a special End of Financial Year edition, get in and download it from www.alternateparallelreality.com It contains dreamy new ExitCity and work from the rather brilliant Nigel Moore. There’s also classic Jam, some Holy Fuck and something from the Dave Greenfield/JJ Burnel Collaboration (you’d know them better as the keyboardist and bassist from The Stranglers).  

Greetings friends! It is with great joy that we announce the official launch of the Dawn Industry Skateboards site. We have been experimenting with deck building / printing and custom griptape options for months now, so we are glad to make it all a reality. Stay tuned for all kinds of action coming soon, including the arrival of Steam Punk and Crete Spine decks, as well as the release of more products. We want to thank all the Dawn Industry guys for their support of our work both at the blog, and the facebook group. The overwhelming positive vibe was wonderful.

  For many years, our regular underground music events “Enzyme” have been held at Blue Velvet in Melbourne Australia. It is with great sadness that this venue, which has supported us on so many levels, will no longer be available later in the year. For this reason, we are planning one last final celebration of underground local music at Blue Velvet, on the 27th May. Featuring: BasticH, Dead Unit, Single Lens Reflex, Clouds Above Chaos, Dj Infectious Unease, Richard Pilkington, Digital Assassin, Minortide We look forward to working with you to ensure that Enzyme can continue, in a new form, at a new location.

The DEMUS music community web site is now at V3.0 We have taken a new approach to developing the community online as a reaction to the ways our members communicate and share… in this new cloud era We invite you to join up at the new site and get involved as we progress and add new features. Benefits of V3.0 at present include: * Connect via your Facebook login details. No more registering from scratch! * Communicate via PM or the new Forum engines, built for better flow and easier communication * Share your music via our Soundcloud Group, and your tracks are automatically shared on the home page!

Respected music journalist Mick Mercer has given the Infectious Unease Radio Compilation Volume I, Compilation of the Year for 2010 ! Dawn Industry partnered with Infectious Unease to create this massive 4 x CD set of over 60 bands from around the world, as a celebration of the undying support the radio show has offered to independent and subversive music since 1992. It is reassuring for us to know that the work of Infectious, and Dawn Industry is so gladly accepted by our friends and musical colleagues. Personally I’m stoked that Mick Mercer was happy with our production of this huge task… which was undertaken with a very low budget. It is proof that the music of all involved...