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Author Archives: luke
Fuck Buttons x Spaceman
As you could probably tell from this post, I had no end of love for Fuck Button’s ‘Tarot Sport’ last year, and even went so far as to crown it my Album of the Year to anyone who’d listen. And I’ll tell you something for nothing, sure it can be kinda tough to pin them [...]
The Glitch Mob Album is COMING!
My last post on The Glitch Mob, wasn’t exactly high on subtlety when it came to my my feelings regarding the West Coast’s premiere glitch trio (currently comprising of edIT, Ooah and Boreta). The phrases “the best and most exciting dance music I have heard all year” and “completely reformatted my approach to dance music” [...]
Rainbow Arabia
I have been meaning to write a post about Rainbow Arabia for quite some time. And now I am. Good lord, what a redundant opening. Not really sure what has precipitated my finally getting around to it; the initial oversight was perhaps more a symptom of having fallen off the music blogging bandwagon than anything [...]
Zola Jesus
What do 19th century French author Émile Zola and all round good guy Jesus of Nazareth have in common? They both loved the shit out of pseudo-gothic, shoegaze fuelled, electronic lady balladry, that’s what!… I don’t think it was in any of the regular gospels, but when all the disciples left him alone at the [...]
Roxanne’s Third Birthday
Melbourne’s premiere alt-electronic hub Roxanne has come a long way over the last three years, going from being a semi-derelict, fifth floor fire trap to being a semi-derelict, fifth floor fire trap with a lift, an absolutely kicking soundsystem and an impeccable line in local and international DJs and events. Boy, the number of brain [...]
Beach House do Teen Dream
Sometimes these days I feel like the only time I swing through these pages is when I’m violently ditching something at you with the triumphant cry of ‘LOVE THIS LIKE I LOVE YOU’ (see Mob, Glitch and Buttons, Fuck). Which is part of the point of blogs I guess, but I do worry that you [...]
Bertie Blackman + Shazam + Calling in Sick = Electrorash Exclusive
It’s been a big few weeks for Bertie Blackman. First she won Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Record Label Association Awards (a.k.a. the acronym defying ‘AIR Awards’. It’s sponsored by Jagermeister. Perhaps they just forgot some of their name). Then she won Best Independent Release at the Australian Recording Industry [...]
Fuck Buttons
Oh this is so good. This is so, so, so good. I’ll admit that I had wilfully avoided Fuck Buttons up to this point, partially due to the decidedly average name, and partially due to the fact that the entire idea of ‘noise’ as a genre makes me break out in hives. It’s kinda like [...]
Boy 8-Bit and Feadz
Are coming to town! Not quite Santa, but pretty close. That is, if Santa delivered pre-wrapped rock solid beats and rode a sleigh made of tech-electro stylings! Yeah! Well, that was a clumsy analogy. So, those mighty purveyors of party at Strobe have managed to finagle both Boy 8-Bit and Feadz to play the same [...]
Joe and Will Ask?
God, it’s an average name. I mean, I understand they’re called Joe and Will and all, and perhaps the ‘ask’ gives it a bit of mysterious charm, but they could have at least left off the question mark. That question mark really bugs me. There’s just no purpose to it. Maybe I have a thing [...]
The Glitch Mob
And welcome to the post where I disclose the best and most exciting dance music I have heard all year. And I fully understand that this is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea and that any claim to have discovered the best of anything at any time is fraught with danger and division, [...]
Ladies of the Dancehall
I was wondering whether or not to try and include some form of dancehall spelling in the above title, but I figured that this post is going to make me look horrifically white and totally out of my depth as is, so the last thing I needed to be doing was trying to spell ‘Ladies’ [...]
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 [...]
Dark Sky