Schlock Tactile
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Andrez Bergen
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| Born |
Andrew Bergen Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Residence | Tokyo, Japan |
| Other names | Little Nobody, Funk Gadget, Slam-Dunk Ninja, |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Organization | IF? Records, IF? Commix |
| Known for | Music composition and production, writing, journalism, comic art, comic label and record label owner |
| Notable work | Pop Tart, Action Hero |
| Style | Dada, Gothic, Hardboiled, Post-punk, Pulp, Industrial, Experimental, Electronic |
| Home town | Melbourne, Australia |
| Spouse(s) | Yoko Umehara |
| Children | Cocoa Bergen |
| Website | andrezbergen |
Andrez Bergen is an Australian musician, author, journalist, comic artist, and comic label and record label owner, who uses Little Nobody as his primary electronic music production moniker.
Bergen was born in Melbourne, Australia as "Andrew Bergen". Bergen attended Melbourne High School and earned a degree at the University of Melbourne.
Bergen composes and produces his own music under multiple monikers, including Little Nobody, Schlock Tactile, DJ Fodder, Curvaceous Crustacean, Slam-dunk Ninja, Atomic Autocrac vs Admiral Anderision, Dick Drone and the LN Elektronische Ensemble, Little Nobody, Funk Gadget, Dick Drone, Nana Mouskouri’s Spectacles, and about 20 other aliases."
Bergen cites the 1970s industrial sounds and ideology of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as significant influences for his work as Little Nobody: "Since about 15 years ago, when I first heard their album The Voice of America. In 1998, he released his first full-length Little Nobody album, titled Pop Tart.
Three years later, the second Little Nobody album Action Hero was one of the four "Best Album of the Year" final nominees for 3D World's 2001 Australian Dance Music Awards, of which The Avalanches were the eventual winner. That year, his remix EP of Bare, a collaboration with vocalist Marcella Brassett, was also selected as "Single of the Week" in Melbourne's Beat magazine by reviewer Andrew Mast. Little Nobody also appeared on the second compilation of Si Begg's cut-up beat Noodles Discotheque series in 2001.
In a March 2014 interview, Bergen stated that "writing fiction, especially via novels, remains the overall joy" in his creative life.
In 2011, he published two novels: One Hundred Years of Vicissitude (2012) and Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? (2013) through Perfect Edge Books. Following the publication of Who Is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, Katy O'Dowd wrote on the "In Glorious Technicolor" blog: "Andrez Bergen must never sleep – what with the dayjob, fatherhood, and truly inspiring creative output. I don’t know how he does it, but he does, and still finds the time to be a thoroughly decent fella."
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