FAULT: Who are Pura Neurosi? An Italian and Portuguese producer met half way in Spain Barcelona. FAULT: What is your musical background? During our younger years we grew up listening to Rock, Punk and Alternative music but later in life we developed a taste for electronic music which has then channelled into Pura Neurosi today. FAULT: What are you hoping to achieve in 2011? We are…

COME ALIVE FAULT: How has 2010 been for you? It’s been pretty kool; I meet some great people like my art director Arnas Bagdonas and photographer Abie Lamin who have helped me with my visuals. 2010 has been the year where things have started to move for me. FAULT: Could you tell us some more about " Ka Boukie”? “Kaboukie” is a nick name given to me in Jamaica a few weeks…

FAULT: What's the story behind Pet trap music? How did you all meet? I (Ben) met Olivier in Studio Haxo where we were working. We started to write a few songs without any particular intention. Then the two bands in which we were playing split, so we focused on our new tracksand started to think about forming a band. We wondered what or who would complete the band: a singer, a drummer or…

DAYBED FAULT: What inspires you to make the music? Carla: I enjoy the possibility and freedom in working on a song. You can infuse mood into it, describe a setting, do a bit of storytelling. You can even treat it like the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse, like a game in subconscious creativity where the end product is a bit of a surprise. A quite pleasurable process! Tim: Music-making is one…

FAULT: Does your music reflect your personality? . There are of course songs which reflect our frame of mind or our thoughts. That's a great trick for a musician of course: to send out hidden messages to the world. Our songs mainly just give us the chance to take on different roles and be something different than in real life or to just be. FAULT: What do you think the future holds…

FAULT FEATURED The fusion of a classic piano, keyboard, drums and guitar set-up with two equally fine vocalists with exceptionally soulful “womanizer” voices is New Concept’s trademark. The result is electronic pop that’s going somewhere. FAULT: What's the story behind new concept? . We're actually glad you put the question like that: We're often asked why we're called "new…

Words and photography MATTHEW MILES On the ‘wrong side’ of the Olympic Park blue fence, and hemmed in by a canal and a dual carriageway, the industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick were easy to ignore. Then its creative festival began making some noise – and new trends in art too. With a combination of permanent galleries, pop-up group shows, street performance, music, theatre, stalls and…