Artist description The lovejuicer project is a personal attempt at pushing the boundaries of sonic possibility, sonic architecture and sonic connection to the world.

Music Style Electro-experimental.

Musical Influences Ligeti/King Crimson/The Residents/John Zorn/John Cage/The Grateful Dead/Eno/ Fripp/ Mompou/ Bach /Led Zeppelin/Gong/Tangerine Dream/Bill Laswell/Tom Waits/etc or Syd Barrett.

Artist History lovejuicer (a.k.a. MJGardiner) served his apprenticeship in 70’s hard and prog rock, followed by some esoteric and bollocking takes on Brit folk and psychedelia in the strangely strange “Black Annis”. In the 80s he played keys and red guitar in the Sydney-based post-punk outfit “The Scream”. After some years in retreat he now immerses himself in psychophysical post rock experiments in Music, Love and Consciousness, and the free music cyber culture... He currently works as a teacher of Music/Music Technology and Composition at a prestigious Melbourne School (ah...such is life).

Group Members MJGardiner.

Instruments Computer, keyboards, guitars, assorted woodwind, tambura, vocals, found sounds etc...

Press Reviews Night in September… Shimmer begins to blossom out of the misting sky. The Northern Lights welcome the frost. Experimentally translucent… (Review of Love Juicer by David Ries, 2000). Review of "Liquid Mother" by Digital LoFi, 11/8/99: This man has found the so very secret formula to house AND great piano-mellow-mood-wizardry. This track has all the ingredients of a top-notch kick-ass-house-clubber: an absolutely great 4-bar piano groove, a smooth & deep 303-baseline and the 4-to-the-floor beat…plus tablas and a stretched'n'morphed tambura as a pad to add a bit of Asian soul...the background is alive with smooth patterns that rather take you on a trip from your couch than sending you straight to the dance floor...the piano-parts take excursions away from the "It's Alright” scheme (check Pet Shop Boys' "It's Alright") to more Craig Armstrong (check Massive Attack's "Weather Storm")... It works out great anyway. The piano-groove will take its place between your ears faster than you can say, "That's a smooth groove". You will add this track to your permanent Trippy-Hoppy-collection and every time you listen to it send a small prayer somewhere, begging Love Juicer to publish a kick-ass house-version of this track. Review of "Earth Dragon" by Phlegmatic, 22/4/2000: This is what early electronic music might have sounded like if it hadn't been tried until we had the equipment we have today (paradoxical, I know). It's almost electronic meditation, except it has musical qualities...if you put it on repeat it works VERY well. The chords and human-like voice…are very beautiful yet haunting, giving it a Dead Can Dance sort of feel. The sounds are interesting so that you're content listening to the same part over and over, and it builds slowly enough that you're not disappointed [when] the previous part [ends]. Everything blends very well. I totally wasn't expecting any chords or human voices, but I couldn't complain when [they] happened!… The textures are very rich, enveloping the mind - nice acoustic-sounding echoes and butterfly-like effects… I've had this on repeat for over an hour and I still like it. Review of "Spectral Sea" by Phlegmatic, 23/4/2000: You can just feel this song eating into your primordial being. Though this is "experimental" by yesteryear's standards, I believe today it would be labeled as ambient techno. It has a catchy acid-like loop like that of water drops accompanied by some tension-filled (read: sometimes dissonant) strings. A constant b-flat note hums the entire way through to soothe the soul...just as we hear it from every fluorescent light, fridge, and TV set...ingrained in our minds… It somehow sounds so organic.

Location Melbourne, Victoria - Australia

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