Category Archives: Disco
Scenic
Always getting behind our local lads (oi oi oi n’ shit), this is a track from a WA four piece called Scenic. Really sweet n’ twinkly disco-house number here – I can only assume they’ve got the live arena in their sites. Here’s their debut, it’s got a fairly shattering downwards chord progression that starts [...]
Retro/Grade Album
..is on the cards – check out this new album sampler Retro/Grade “Motion” Album Sampler by Retro/Grade There’s three new songs in the sampler; Mindfighter, Lost and Reset Tracklist: 01 – MINDFIGHTER 02 – MODA 03 – LOST 04 – RESET 05 – ESCAPE SEQUENCE Very exciting for fans of Serge and Tom.. ie: myself [...]
Ahhhh-Nould
Mega groovy track that samples Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one and only foray into personal fitness tapes. ARP, DARN, ARP, DARN. Silky smooth rolling bass, courtesy of The Swiss’s keys man, and punchy vox courtesy of the leading lyricist ever voted to office… all in one ahction parked parcage. “More energy!” Luke Million – Arnold As you [...]
Keep deep
Trust it taking a couple of english ex-pats to deliver a proper deep night to Sydney… CO-OP have been running night’s in the harbour city for a year now, one of a select bunch of party crews who bolster Sydney’s dance scene against the ravages of electro mediocrity. They’ve hosted acts like MCDE, The Revenge [...]
Iron Man Lobster
Ha! Check-out that guy. He’s wild. Seriously. Thanks for the great times mate. And thanks to the Grindin’ crew for again delivering some nutritious ear snacking. Tommy Boy (of Arawa.FM repute) compiled this ridiculously informative mix for Vice mag entirely comprised of up-to-the-coming-to-the-already-here Texan electronic artists. Sublime chillwave, swollen deep-house, a smattering of drag and [...]
The Swiss Melbourne Show – This Saturday!
I first got my hands on the Swiss via their first label, Really Real Records. I was so impressed by their understated disco-infused melodies that I bought everything I could get my hands on – which at the time consisted of four different colourways of the Really Real label shirt. I was just as excited [...]
Radio 2ManyLCDSoundsystems
For the first time ever, 2ManyDjs are teaming up with LCD Soundsystem (James and Pat) for a three hour slam-fest, live on triple j radio. It kicks off from 10:00pm this Friday 8th on your wireless or streaming online. The four guys will be going back to back, swapping records and running commentary on their [...]
The Bag Raiders’ Shooting Stars Tour
Hold up the crazy train and lock up your pets and the fragile elderly, because the Bag Raiders are coming and they are a, um, menace to, uh, pets… and the fragile elderly… When I began that sentence I thought that I’d come up with a better way to finish it. I really did. Sigh. [...]
Friday Jams
These Flashmen guys have the best MySpace background I’ve ever seen. Anyone know who did it? I’d like to have a bedspread and matching pillow set made out of those graphics. They’d look good in my red racing car bunk bed, which also matches my red hair which also matches my incredible hold over young [...]
Delorean – The Ayrton Senna EP
It took its sweet ass time, but finally, oh so finally, Delorean’s (previous posts here, here and here… Yeah, I kinda like them, hey) stonking new Ayrton Senna EP has dropped on Fluo Kids’ excellent Fool House imprint. The name, as much as anything, seems like a bit of a nod of the head to [...]
Shooting Stars
Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars Bag Raiders new video. Starts a bit Tron, goes a bit Kid 606, then they start surfing on sports cars. I love how the juxtaposition of cars and space has become the cornerstone of electro imagery. Here’s a remix you can chuck on your iPod from West Australian wunderkinder Shazam. [...]
Todd Terje Australian Tour
Last week I got a chance to interview Todd Terje and as with all of my past interviews the introduction was predictably bad. To give you an idea of my history my very first interview was with Calvin Harris at his hotel in Melbourne. Being the super organised guy that I am I typed up [...]
Part II
Very lamely, I just got this from inthemix.com.au. Even more lamely, I don’t even have a copy of Part I. But totally less lamely and a thousand times more awesomely is the sequel to Damn Arms ‘Destination Part I’. You can’t deny the joyous affect of the sounds Yama and Tim have collected here for [...]
Et Justus Pout Tous
I was reading the new Malcom Gladwell book, Outliers, recently. It’s about how environmental factors play an important part in the success of people we commonly refer to as geniuses… whilst it hardly discredits the talents of Billy Gates et al, it’s an interesting read that suggests that the unbelievable achievements of some are perhaps [...]
Pluto Jonze