Monthly Archives: September 2009
Ladyhawke – Magic
Like the antipodean equivalent of La Roux, Ladyhawke has ridden the blog swell, much like Bodhi rode massive swell before he get cancerfied, and has finally found herself firmly squished in the sparkling firmament of Australian radio pop. With a swag (who decided that could be a collective noun?) of successful cross-over singles out this [...]
Sound of Arrows
They are incredible and make me believe in acid and the positive effects it could have in my creative endeavors. Scandinavians have an unnerving capacity to twist the cheesiest of lyrics into the most effervescent nuggets of romance and wonder.. all with the deft turn of a mini-moog filter. This is deliberate and sunny electro [...]
Dr No’s Ethiopium
Is a bitching name for an album. It’s the latest offering from master hip-hop instrumentalist Oh No, brother of master hip-hop instrumentalist Madlib. Talented family. Oh No currently seems to be on a mission to put every other crate-digging hip-hop producer to shame by pumping out a sequence of tremendously niche but still wildly accessible [...]
Trimapee
A couple of Fridays back, Ned and I were lucky enough to finagle our way into the season launch of Melbourne-based fashion label Trimapee at a soon to be demolished warehouse down the Spencer St end of La Trobe. Now, this launch had a few things going for it: a) My first ever fashion show! [...]
T.E.D.D.
The T.E.D.D. boys have been busy since we last visited them, having just finished their remix of Last Japan’s ‘Jungle Warriors,’ the feature track from his upcoming EP. The new darlings of Kissy Sell Out’s show on Radio 1, this London pair are scattering their endlessly face-melting wares abroad, theirs a kind of hard-as-nails version [...]
DCUP
Strapping young Sydney lad DCUP shot through this remix for the luscious house-troupe Priors . Priors – What You Need (DCUP remix) TAKEDOWN! It’s smoove, house-infused disco jam that doesn’t stray too far from the Buffalo Bunch style vocals of the original. Which is a good thing. But there’s a real weight to DCUP’s work [...]
HEALTH ‘Die Slow’
Despite being quietly obsessed with them, I’ve refrained from saying anything here about the new HEALTH album because I’m afraid that if I do I won’t say enough. But suffice to say the whole thing is like having your brain turned inside out by machines, flushed clean by virgins, and then folded back into place [...]
Dmerit – Stuck on You
Washington school teacher duo, Micah Vellian and Outputmessage – or Dmerit as they’re known collectively – are back with their brand new EP, ‘Stuck on You,’ and it’s an all-out cheery gambol through the realms of classic disco funk and surging 80′s synth-pop. Everything about this is just so easily likable, it rolls over the [...]
Temporary Pleasure (Bonus Disc)
I don’t think there’s any getting around the fact that ‘Temporary Pleasure’, Simian Mobile Disco’s new offering, is not a good album. In fact, it may well be a bad album, or at the very least a disappointing and utterly forgettable one. Although, it would be difficult for any record, no matter how superlative, to [...]
Dananananaananananananana-kroyd on JJJ
Delivering a rousing rendition of ‘Whip It’ by Devo for Triple J radio: It’s not too far off the original, and what it lacks in cutaways to retarded, clapping hispanic women (watch the original, she’s in there…), they compensate with a taste of the signature spacticisty which caused their set at Sydney’s Annandale to be [...]
Coralcola
I’m going to keep this short and sweet, much like the email that delivered it to us. His name is Coralcola, he comes from the US, I’m almost positive he listens to The Field and with this track he’s served up a blissful 10 minute odyssey through muted beats, subcutaneous bass pulses, drifting loops and [...]
Midnight Juggernauts new album ‘TNT’
Or ‘The New Technology’.. kinda like the ‘The Energy Never Dies’… album doesn’t hit til early 2010, so there’s still time for at least a dozen more cheesily acronym’d rekkids to hit before Christmas. Please don’t become a trend Good excuse to have a tour, dates after the jump:
Memory Tapes
This is everywhere and anywhere at the moment, but do yourself and your unborn children a grand old favour and wrap your listeners around the sumptuous and simplistic pleasure that is Memory Tapes. ‘Plain Material’ is the first track from their new album, Seek Magic. It’s one of the poppiest and most immediately satisfying moments [...]
Somethin’ Else
While we all twiddle our thumbs and leave our new born children unnamed while waiting for the ‘new’ Avalanches album – which, if urban legend is believed, will be almost a year old by the time it comes out – an ex-avalanchee (avalancher?) is giving something back to the city of Sydney. Every week no [...]
Ladies of the Dancehall