Big interview in the early parts of tonight’s show with the lovely Greg Seiler (Comatone) & Alon Ilsar (Foley, Gauche etc), whose Trigger Happy album is out now. Fantastic stuff.

Also some lovely droney stuff from Sydney’s Moonmilk, and post-rocky sounds from Melbourne’s Laura.

In Japan I found ginormous quantities of spin-out stuff, like things sitting on the shelves that you never see. More next week (and later!) but tonight we have a couple of newish Japanese releases: Live in Japan captures 13 & God with fantastic sound quality at a brilliant performance from 2005, and includes an otherwise-unreleased (to my knowledge) track. And there’s a delightful Japanese tribute to Penguin Cafe Orchestra that I’ll be sampling more from in the coming weeks!

Finally, I featured a number of 3″ CD releases. London label disco_r.dance recently put out a series of 12 3″ CDs from mostly (entirely?) London-based artists, covering a lot of electronica plus some freak folk and other weirdnesses. Heaps of great music there and I played material from half of the 12 releases…
And much-loved Leeds duo the remote viewer have released a very limited new album in the form of 2 3″ CDs, on their beermat-based spinoff 3″ label mobeer.

Spartak – Sunstrokes [hellosQuare]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) – String Thing [self-released through Vitamin]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) – Desmond [self-released through Vitamin]
Comatone – Winter Day [Feral Media]
Foley – isert [self-released]
Moonmilk – Air Fish [self-released]
Alpen – Look Into The Sunrise [Feral Media] {available for download here}
Laura – Bobik Is In Amerika [Elevation]
13 & God – Out in the open [Art Union]
Shitmat – Super Intelligent Monster Transvestites Invading Your Personal Space [Here’s My Card Records]
Con Brio – We’re All On Fire [disco_r.dance]
Blaubac – Pinwheel [disco_r.dance]
Point B – Sponge Brick [disco_r.dance]
mothboy vs startslow – annoyed (mothboy version) [disco_r.dance]
now – don’t decide [disco_r.dance]
Same Actor – i stand still as i ride in circles [disco_r.dance]
Kwerk – good night chicago [disco_r.dance]
the remote viewer – untitled track 5, “side a” from new double-3″ cd album [mobeer]
the remote viewer – untitled track 2, “side b” from new double-3″ cd album [mobeer]
Takako Minekawa – Telephone And Rubber Band [333 discs] {from a wonderful Japanese Penguin Cafe Orchestra tribute album}
Pivot – Love Like I [Warp]