Format Wars

Format Wars is an instrumental electronic rock trio from Melbourne, Australia. Our music features ambient, electronic soundscapes from analog synthesisers drenched in reverb, delay and tape echo, backed by syncopated, up-front live drums and a lead bass guitar that is alternately delicate, driving, melodic and percussive. 
 
We explore sounds, rhythm and composition through iterative improvisation and arrangement. Our compositions blend time signatures and rhythms, creating soundtracks that live outside of films, giving listeners a vast, thematic space to fill with their own meaning.
 
Years of iteration led us to our name, which acknowledges the competing technologies and disciplines that have shaped our experimental sound. We prefer anonymity and control, self-recording and producing music in our own studio, as well as directing our own artwork and promotion.