Category Archives: Melbourne
Jam Xpress
Andy Murphy, Australia’s No. 2 ranked DJ, is throwing it back at the critics with a healthy batch of original productions set to go. Having worked on successful chart tunes under City Life and Little Rascals, here he’s taken charge with a smooth take on The XX’s anthem ‘Crystallised’. Give it a go: The XX [...]
Opiuo
I can’t say I really dig breakbeat or any of the various bastardisations of drum and bass that seem so popular in Perth, Adelaide, New Zealand and smelly people’s houses. I’ve had dalliances with Way Out West, and Luke’s been schooling me in the art of High Contrast (which has been very pleasant). Pendulum weren’t [...]
Gypsy And The Cat
I think everyone knows that these two boys are going to explode at some point. The exact trajectory and spread of the destruction is yet unclear, but they’ll be everywhere soon enough. Start paying attention. They’re in the UK mixing their album at the moment, but here’s some remixes to tide you over… First up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Trump card
Melbourne monsterbass duo Trumpdisco dropped a fun bootleg our way. It’s old school SebastiAn (miss u) taking a sledgehammer to his limited edition Lord of the Rings box set. The one with the bookends in the box. Undoubtedly cheesy, but undoubtedly fun. Nothing better than homegrown bangerz. Give them some love and catch them at [...]
Knightlife – Crusader
With his brand-new track, ‘Crusader,’ we can finally catch a glimpse of Knightlife’s second EP, the appropriately titled, II. Melbourne’s Cutters Records will of course be looking after this release, with more news of it to come in the following months. I’d love to gush about how nice this track is (because it is) but [...]
Jesse Rose + Zombie Disco Squad + Oliver $ = STROBE
Every time I look at the title of this blog, my mind flies back to the heady days of 2007; the year when electro first exploded into the mainstream, propelled forward on a wave of stomping house beats spliced with synth-rock and electroclash sensibilities. I remember thinking at the time how amazing it was that [...]
Scatterblog Music Presents… Real Music For Hustlers
Some people talk about first, second, third and fourth generation blogs. Seeing as Electrorash started in July 2007 we are probably along the lines of a third or fourth gen with someone like Stereogum or Pitchfork being amongst the first. Scatterblog would probably be in the second or third generation having started in 2006 – [...]
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 [...]
Turbo Recordings Australian Tour
Tiga’s Turbo Recordings is gracing Australian shores with it’s presence starting this weekend in Melbourne as part of the label’s 10th birthday celebrations. Tiga himself was a little tied up putting together his next album (with Soulwax and Jesper Dahlback) to make it but he’s sent his trusty label mates the Proxy and Thomas Von [...]
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 [...]
Trumpdisco vs Adrian Lux