Caitlin Park x Faux Pas
Composer and serial instrument-fiddler Tim Shiel, who has recently been trotting the globe with Gotye, is compiling an album of remixes to celebrate several years of being the electronic somebody we used to know as Faux Pas. First grab is a serious little house rub of Sydney folktronic (non-ironically labelled, honest) artist Caitlin Park: Caitlin [...]
Gemini Club
Similar to The Whip, our erstwhile heroes of thrashy electric pop in younger years, current blog champs from Chicago, Gemini Club, blaze off with their new single Sparklers – a simple pleasure with homicidal lyrics. Worth a spin or two. Sparklers by Gemini Club More Gemini Club
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Ever get the feeling that your culturally lost? That which makes us Australian isn’t quite what your about? Ya KNow, the fourx the cricket and shit. Maybe the song is a play on this feeling or maybe it isn’t, either way the video is entertaining and I hear their shows are pretty [...]
WILDS
Wild and oh so very deep, deep inside his sound lagoon. I’ve got a feeling Joel Hanna – Wilds, has been sitting inside a canyon, beside a fire on a very high rocky escarpment and or chewing wheat in a prairie cause his music sends you there! “There’s Ghosts Here” is probably the pop single [...]
Tough Love
I’ve been going on an Aril Brikha tip recently, and in the course of some routine 5:00am googlin’ I came across this recent slice of compound melodrama. Filter goes open, filter goes shut, repeat. Sailor & I – Tough Love (Aril Brikha Remix) by sailorandi Here’s the full EP – it dropped around February, but the [...]
Just Tell Me That You Want Me
A tribute to Fleetwood Mac, out August 14th on Hear Music/Concord. Awesome. http://justtellmethatyouwantme.com/
Amali Ward
Sydney R&B songstress Amali Ward slipped us this innocent little slice of pop-pleasure courtesy of QWARMS Much like a casual game of Jenga on family holiday, the layers keep piling on until everyone gets bored and goes to sleep. More Amali Ward over on Facebook. Expect a new record form her later this year. More [...]
VUVUVULTURES
Not sure who or what this band is about, but they’re apparently getting props on BBC 6 and deigned to bestow upon us a thick-as-syrup remix of their new single, the jovially titled song ‘I’ll Cut You’. Anyway, it’s nice – fans of Zola Jesus will get on down here: Follow the instructions above to [...]
Strain Of Origin Vol 2
A new, totally free, compilation of experimental and exploratory beats and breaks from Sydney’s Feral Media and Brisbane’s LoFly – two collectives stoking the fire beneath the glistening spit of Australian techn-innovation. Shits cray and ambient and often quite breath-taking all at the same time. Plus it’s free. Discover something new – the Jonathon Boulet [...]
Hundred In The Hands
Incredible new effort from Warp’s Hundred In The Hands. Following the hand-clapping nu-disco pop highlights of their self-titled LP, Red Night is resoundingly less optimistic. Flurries of industrial, machine-driven angst are weaved through penetrating vocal layers and symphonic atmospherics. The whole shebango feels a bit like wintertime at the School of Seven Bells. If that [...]
Jeremy Neale
A young Brisbane troubadour funneling 100%-proof 60′s nostalgia into a shoe-tapping, saxophone-noodling, garage-jamming good time. Darlin’ by Jeremy Neale Not electronic at all, but just damn fun. More Jeremy Neale here. xMandu
BOOMA
Ketamine-tinted, footslackin’ beats from Sydney chiptune hero 10kFreemen and his anonymous production buddy. Ambient trap beats for the most discerning drug-fucks. Get wavey! B.O.O.M.A presents: LEX ORIGINS – Drag Yo Feet by B•O•O•M•A -Mandu
Jonathan Boulet
This Song Is Called Ragged and it’s named after the creature Jonathan Boulet adopted while on a holistic living retreat down near Kangaroo Valley, NSW. Ragged and Jonathan have become the firmest of friends, and Jonathan is regularly seen around trendy Sydney mexican eateries wearing Ragged much like you or I would wear a beard. [...]
Sam Tiba x Mickey Moonlight
Hyphy ghetto-club nonsense from Club Cheval’s Sam Tiba. His good chum and internet archaeologist, Mary Rachel Videoz, took the obvious next step of syncing it to unfortunate home dancing videos. This is what happened: -Mandu
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