Monthly Archives: February 2008
Pnau Hits the Big Time
Apparently Koshy is a bit of a fan… I had a chat with Pete Mayes from Pnau yesterday about their live show, the hazards of large suits and Elton John. We’ll be chucking up some edited highlights very soon!
Bandit
More blistering Frenchness, this time from self-described 19 year-old ‘student in politics (France), beginner in electronic music’ Bandit, a currently unsigned but nonetheless awesome French kid with a knack for making melodramatic, melody heavy electro-funkers with breakdowns to die for. Well, maybe not actual death, but I’d definitely consider taking a bullet for them. Through [...]
Felix Cartal – Win Tickets To An Exclusive Show
French-Canadian producer Felix Cartal is on his way to Australia at the moment and from all reports he is looking forward to some massive shows. This Friday he will be playing Roxanne in Melbourne with a massive lineup including Miami Horror, Damn Arms DJs and Trantersaurus. It’s going to be a massive night and there [...]
Cut Copy – Lights And Music (Moulinex Remix)
Cut Copy got some great remixes going for their latest single. They could have taken anyone off of their label Modular or off of their own imprint label Cutters (Knightlife?). Instead they have made different choices but they have definitely paid off. First up there was the Boys Noize remix Cut Copy – Lights and [...]
Surkin + Good Vibes = LOVE
Despite being in the fourth row from the front for Kanye (I’m not really sure why I bothered, I knew like three songs) my ultimate highlight for Good Vibrations Sydney was seeing Ed Banger’s youngest superstar, 20-year-old Parisian, Benoit Heitz. Yes, Surkin. Jeez he’s a lovely-looking thing. And not only that, dude really knows how [...]
Reasons to Resent Perth #1: Gui Boratto
There are, of course, many reasons to resent Perth (recently they’ve instituted a policy on outdoor drinking requiring any pub with a licenced area that borders the footpath to institute an al fresco dining policy i.e. you can’t bring drinks outside from inside, they must be brought to you by a specified staff member. You [...]
Danger Comes In Melbourne
I have no idea what the deal is with DJ’s these days always wearing masks. Seriously are we all trying to be Daft Punk or are we all trying to hide our identity from the paparazzi. Either way I am so over it. Except that I think that Danger actually has talent. His music and [...]
The E.L.F has an E.P
Everyone has known about and crapped on about The E.L.F, Darren Cross of Gerling‘s side-project, for ages now. That’s because it’s pretty good, ya know. Like, really good. He’s taken the sweeping, party-starting vibe of Gerling’s originals, added a dash of epic and two slices of ‘pow – right in the kisser’ , and so [...]
Kanye West With Daft Punk At The Grammys
Title says it except that this is really cool. Despite the haters that say that it wasn’t really Daft Punk (it probably wasn’t) and they weren’t really doing anything up there (they definitely weren’t) this is a great video and something that would be amazing if it ever happened in real life. Check it.
How Many Tracks Do You Have?
I was actually thinking the other day about how much music I have on my hard drive that I never listen to. There is quite a bit in there that I almost always skip over when it comes on. That said I have never been able to bring myself to delete any of it. That [...]
Avalon Are Different
Describing themselves as a neo-Tokyo band that sound like Justice are playing Hot Chip. That is quite a bold statement to make but they pull it off, that IS what they sound like. I have been trying to find some cool, new Japanese electro for a while now thinking that Australia and France can’t possibly [...]
Loud Pipes Remixes LCD Soundsystem
It’s been a while since we’ve visited Liverpool-based DJ/Producer and Ratatat-enthusiast, Loud Pipes. Lately he’s been a bit quiet on the remixing side of things, although when people are still raving about that Ocelot remix he did ages ago, he has every right to roll around on his laurels for as long as he likes. [...]
New La Mode Remix – PJ The Viking