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• 06.18.08
  The Rogue Element
  Melbourne, Perth, Remix, Sydney, Tour (4)

  I'm pretty sure The Rogue Element was the subject of my very first post for this fine blog, all the way back in November. Well, I assure you that my love has waned naught in the interim, even if he hasn't put out a wealth of new material over the last six months. More excitingly though, is the fact that he's coming to town this month, kicking off his Australian tour this weekend with gigs in Perth and Sydney. Less excitingly, I miss these gigs due to a holiday with friends, but that's no excuse for you to do likewise. ...
  
  
• 06.17.08
  Sounds of Summer
  Release, Remix, Short Post (0)

  It's always kinda funny being lodged in the Southern Hemisphere, and watching all the wonderful summer festival themed dance and indie music emerge from the North side just as we spiral into the depths of winter. Musical irony is awesome. But either way, here's a quick mish-mash of a post featuring a couple of disparate tracks that have been filtering musical sunshine through my ears of late. First up is the wonderful Summerized Club remix of 'Cocked Locked' by Monosurround. Man, this tune puts me in mind of the good ol' innocent days of electro. At the beginning of last year. ...
  
  
• 06.16.08
  Love is All Do Covers
  Short Post, indie as fuck (2)

  Following on from the two-and-a-half-years-late 'Nine Times That Same Song' remix album (previously profiled here), Swedish lo-fi rockers Love is All continue to dribble out small tasters in the lead-up to the still unannounced autumn (our spring) release of their second album. This time through they handed out a bunch of self-recorded CDRs at some of their gigs in May, which featured the band playing five covers, one chosen by each member. As they explain on their MySpace, "the idea behind this was that each member got to pick a song they wanted the band to cover and no other ...
  
  
• 06.12.08
  Wolf Parade
  Release, indie as fuck (6)

  My recent posts seem to be more and more making a lie of the name of this blog. But I'm kind of in a rut of late, as far as electro goes. Too much repetition, too many clamouring unknowns, too few wonderful, exciting slabs of new dance music. Times like this I begin to miss vinyl, and the in-built vetting process that came with narrowly defined and competitive labels doing the releasing. Then again, I don't miss having to pay around $20 for every new tune I craved... But I digress. As a result, my attention has been wandering across ...
  
  
• 06.06.08
  Ellen Allien/Modeselektor/Lindstrom
  Melbourne, Perth, Remix, Sydney, Tour (8)

  Finally, something to spice up the general monotony of Perth nightlife - a night devoted to reasonably monotonous Germanic techno. Yay! Tonight down at Shape we have all three of the above mentioned Berliners swinging through town for a 'Beck's Fusion' session - close to the only proper techno evening this town has seen in a good solid year or so. I didn't manage to frequent any of the famous Berlin clubs in my brief time there, which I kinda regret now, but hey, I'm sure this will recreate the non-stop 24 hour party mayhem that is a night out ...
  
  
• 06.05.08
  Koma & Bones
  Release, Remix (0)

  In my grand tradition of hyping artists shortly after they've departed our fine shores (see Metric, Alex), Koma & Bones were busy tearing Australia up through the month of February with nary a peep to be heard from this fine blog. My deepest apologies K&B. Thing is, they'd kinda dropped off my radar for a bit there - possibly unfair given how long they've been setting the standards of the tech-funk sound. K&B have been kicking around around the breaks scene since 2001, which makes them positively Methuselah-esque in blog terms. 2001. Jesus. I think I was still into anthem ...
  
  
• 05.29.08
  Dubstep Digest Vol. 1
  Release, what? (3)

  Now, while I wouldn't say I'm 'losing my shit' for dubstep per se, there still remain a number of tunes (in my admittedly limited catalogue) that have impressed me no end. While I harbour severe doubts about its club-worthiness (methinks a full night might kill me with boredom), I see dubstep as one of the better experiments in electronic atmospherics to have emerged in the past decade or more. To my mind there is nothing being created at the moment that seems to more simply and effectively convey the anxieties, energies and various darknesses of nocturnal urbanity than a good, ...
  
  

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