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Playlist 21.08.11 (10:58 pm)
Evening! After a huge weekend rehearsing and performing at the Graphic Festival, I'm in the mood for some radio. Lucky I'm doing 3 hours for you as usual tonight hey! Canberra's Reuben Ingall starts the show with his live-glitched guitar and vocals. It's very impressive to hear these tracks demonstrating how great he is at processing his guitar live, while still crafting great indie songs. More of this kind of thing, please. Pete Swanson hasn't slowed down since the breakup of the Yellow Swans. His new EP is available digitally and encompasses three beautiful noisy drone tracks, although there's more detail in the arrangements here than straight drone. Animals on Wheels continues to impress with his 8 EPs in 8 Weeks. Number 4 is very varied, and mostly quite unlike what we might have come to expect from him. More like his Andrew Coleman stuff, it still surprises with a piece of shoegazey electric guitar rock, among other things. Highly recommended (and free! Go get it now!) After that AoW track it's only appropriate that we go to Seattle-based shoegaze duo Golden Gardens, with a track from their forthcoming album. It's very much early-'90s-style shoegaze, with a few electronic updates, and nicely done. Although shoegaze is part of their sound, Melbourne's I'lls' have a strong electronic element in the studio edits, as well as some nice heavy bass moments. Their Threads EP is available now on Bandcamp and is the recommendation of the week. Then off we went into the Plaid special, witnessing just how much blissful emotion they can infuse into their electronica — including the 1995 track from when they were still 2/3 of The Black Dog. After another forthcoming Golden Gardens track we heard a newie from Balam Acab, plus the track that put him on the map. I haven't gotten on board with Balam Acab as much as with, say, Clams Casino, and a lot of the new album leans too much towards the r'n'b side of his samples for my taste. Still, he's onto something pretty special, no doubt. I was shocked (shocked, I say!) to discover this week that two new Autechre tracks came out recently and slipped under my radar. The one I played came from a 76-track (ouch) Japan benefit compilation with a few special appearances such as Ae, and it's a sortof abrasive sped-up electro thing. There's another which was given away with tickets to an ATP in the UK. I've tracked it down and I'll probably play it next week. Sydney postrock gods (hehe) Underlapper have released a free Bandcamp single with a few new tracks. FBi’s own Loopsnake does a sterling job, as to Telafonica (sounds like a job for next week's playlist!) Speaking of remixes, how about Australia's current #1 single from Gotye? Pretty amazing piece of perfect pop, hey? Tim Shiel aka Faux Pas emailed around his radical reworking earlier this week, and I don't think it's available to the general public in completed form yet, so there you go! Speaking of perfect pop and ultra-tweaked/chopped drums, how about a stone cold classic from 10 years ago courtesy Funkstörung mit Jay-Jay Johanson? Yes. There's always room for this song in any playlist, ever. There is also always room for Luke Vibert, surely. I almost tweeted during this song "Everybody likes Luke Vibert", but it probably would have distressed those who are already bemused by 2/3 of what I tweet. But everybody does love Luke Vibert, right? This is an exclusive from that Japan benefit, so get on it, peeps! Head-nodding sample-heavy hip-hop done right. We hear again from Sole & the SkyRider Band’s surprisingly poppy new album Hello Cruel World. Here he's joined by underground hip-hop superstar Lil B & electronic musician Pictureplane. I cannot recommend highly enough this brilliant refix by SkyRider of the entire album, in post-dubstep/glitch-hop fashion. Machinedrum’s Room(s) is one of the best dance music releases in recent memory. I thought we should hear a bit more of his past, and we can see what a contemporary he was of early Prefuse 73, with fusion glitch-hop plus more folktronic sounds as tstewart. To finish up, two more sedate Aussie tracks — another newie from Reuben Ingall, and my fave from the new Anonymeye album. Reuben Ingall - dog/dogs [free download from Bandcamp] Listen again — ~ 160MB
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