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Kate Crawford's interest in electronic music dates back to when she was growing up in the early 1980s, with the likes of Kraftwerk, Moroder and Stockhausen providing the soundtrack for her early playground antics.

By the mid-1990s this interest turned into a creative obsession, as she began collecting and wiring up antique analogue synths, coaxing intricate melodies and sound textures from their mysterious circuitry. This experimentation led her to a group of like-minded audio boffins who had organised themselves into a loose collective known as Clan Analogue, and she was soon collaborating with other musicians in configurations such as the femme-tech duo B(if)tek, Clone, Sirkus of Sorts, S.T.O.A.T. and Terry Nation.

Under the B(if)tek moniker, Kate released five EPs and three full-length albums: Sub-Vocal Theme Park (Geekgirl, 1996); 2020 (Murmur, 2000); and Frequencies Will Move Together (Subvocal, 2003). Between 1996 and 2003 B(if)tek appeared frequently at major live venues throughout Australia, and also performed in Paris, London and New York. They have been remixed by the likes of Scanner, Monolake, Kahn, The Parallax Corporation, Architecture in Helsinki, Clue to Kalo, the Telemetry Orchestra and Dark Network.

More recently Kate has been working on a new album for another electronic project, Clone. It's slated to be released in 2008.

Kate is the host of the ABC-TV series dedicated to new experimental music, Set. It is a 9-part series that featured such Australian acts as The Necks, Robin Fox and Oren Ambarchi.

She is also a co-founder of a new independent record label, Deluxe Mood Recordings.