Tonight’s big special is on The Notwist, who are pretty important to the Utility Fog postfolkrocktronica spectrum, coming from grunge/metal roots, through indie and idm, incorporating glitchy folktronica, just about founding indietronica along with a few other bands at the time, and spreading into jazz fusion and soundtrack music… Their many side projects and collaborations (including with various members of the indie-loving hip-hop collective Anticon) saw them being pretty much ubiquitous for a while. In any case, their new album is a massive return to form, if they needed such a thing (I discovered their last album, from 6 years ago, wasn’t actually that bad after a long time away from it).

Started with the magnificent Perth duo Gilded (Adam Trainer & M Rösner), whose minimalist acoustic sounds don’t lend themselves easily to genre pigeonholes. The excellent remixes take things into somewhat more electronic/beat-oriented climes, but are still nicely unpigeonholeable.
We also heard a bunch of tracks from a new compilation on the Wood and Wire label entitled Chillection, courtesy of Sydney beats electronica collective Filthy Children. Lots of young artists not sticking to any particular electronic music template – there’s experimental drum’n’bass, post-dubstep sorts of sounds, computer game beats and even some psychedelic songwriting stuff.
And finally before the Notwist we heard a fab piece of pop from Sparkle Gang, aka Brisbane visual artist Mel Stringer. Crunchy beats & angelic vocals, while on the demo the perfect vocal harmonies work just as well accompanied by just her guitar.

LISTEN AGAIN to the power & the glory, the glitches and the geetars, the indies and the tronicas. Link at bottom, stream in stereo from FBi.

Gilded – Cluttered Room (Shoeb Spartak‘s Thriftstore Mix) [Hidden Shoal]
Gilded – Tyne [Hidden Shoal]
Gilded – Cluttered Room (perth Remix) [Hidden Shoal]
cyber.akb – Sh̄jo no kokuhaku [Wood and Wire]
Moufteef – Fishfingur [Wood and Wire]
bærfrens – Spacerocket [Wood and Wire]
Sparkle Gang – Bring You Back [ZZAAPP Records]
Sparkle Gang – Bring You Back (Demo) [ZZAAPP Records]
The Notwist – Kong [City Slang/Sub Pop/Spunk]
The Notwist – Close To The Glass [City Slang/Sub Pop/Spunk]
The Notwist – Moron [Duophonic]
Console – my dog eats beats [Payola/Matador]
Console – crabcraft (excerpt) [Payola/Matador]
The Notwist – Scoop [Morr Music]
The Notwist – One Step Inside Doesn’t Mean You Understand [City Slang/Domino/Spunk]
The Notwist – Trashing Days [City Slang/Domino/Spunk]
Bomb The Bass / Lali Puna – clearcut [Morr Music]
Ms. John Soda – no. one [Morr Music]
Alias – unseen sights (feat. Markus Acher) [Anticon.]
13&god – L’Atlas Flexible,Von Gradleute (mix by Hrvatski) [Alien Transistor/Anticon.]
The Notwist – Your Alphabet [City Slang/Domino/Spunk]
13&god – janu are [Alien Transistor/Anticon.]
The Notwist – 7-Hour-Drive [City Slang/Sub Pop/Spunk]

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Some more awesome remixes of Snow Ghosts tonight, including Blue Daisy‘s rapper alter-ego Dahlia Black, dubstep noise master Roly Porter and the wonderful Matthew Herbert, then some new stuff from the Blue Mountains’ idm-head Comatone, and a moving personal piece from Perth’s Comatone. We have electronic shoegaze from Tokyo’s Neon Cloud, and a solo droney track from original shoegazer Simon Scott, some classic-sounding indietronica, quality as always from epic45, and some lo-fi indie/electronic sounds from Matthew Collings‘ Sketches For Albinos project. Sydney’s Kate Carr brings us her latest ambient music with field recordings, and finally something beautiful & broken from Petrels (ex-Bleeding Heart Narrative).

LISTEN AGAIN, listen for the first time, listen. Link at bottom, stream in stereo from FBi.

Snow Ghosts feat. Dahlia Black – Covenant (Remix) [Houndstooth]
Snow Ghosts – And The World Was Gone (Roly Porter remix) [Houndstooth]
Snow Ghosts – Secret Garden (Matthew Herbert‘s Wash It All Away remix) [Houndstooth]
0.1 – Untitled Comatone Rework [unreleased]
Comatone – The Crispy Flakes of Indifference [unreleased]
Kane Ikin – Hold Tight [This Thing]
Neon Cloud – 1 [flau]
Neon Cloud – Δ [flau]
Neon Cloud – 333 [flau]
Simon Scott – Für Betty [Kompakt]
epic45 – Monument [Wayside & Woodland]
epic45 – england fallen over [Make Mine Music]
epic45 – the future is blinding [Make Mine Music]
epic45 with Ian Crause – Monument II [Wayside & Woodland]
Sketches For Albinos – I Think We Grew Again [mini50records]
Sketches For Albinos – She Drew a Pentagon [mini50records]
Kate Carr – piano loops in some urban bushland [Vent]
Kate Carr – tomorrow afternoon [Vent]
Petrels – A Carapace For Carter’s Snort [Denovali]

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Tonight we heard some contemporary re-fixes of old-school junglist sounds, some kind-of trip-hop pop through a post-dubstep techno lens (oh yeah baby, throw those genre names around!), a new electro-pop duo for a breakcore god, some experimental violin from Brisbane, and some incredible bluegrass/nugrass.

LISTEN AGAIN, because you will otherwise regret it for the rest of your life. Link at bottom, stream in stereo from FBi.

Lee Bannon – Resorectah [Ninja Tune]
Lee Bannon – Value 10 [Ninja Tune]
Snow Ghosts – And The World Was Gone (Calibre remix) [Houndstooth]
Throwing Snow – Un Vingt [Ho Tep]
Throwing Snow – Pyre [Local Action]
Throwing Snow – Clamor [Snowfall]
Snow Ghosts – Secret Garden (Richard Skelton Version) [Houndstooth]
Casque – Edgar (My Panda Shall Fly Remix) [Creaked Records]
Consor – Rusty Handcuffs (Venetian Snares Remix) [Creaked Records]
Poemss – Ancient Pony [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares – This Bitter Earth [Addict Records]
Venetian Snares – Hajnal [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares – Where You Stopped The Heaviest [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares – Ego DSP [Planet µ]
Joanne Pollock – How Fortunate [Joanne Pollock Bandcamp]
Poemss – Bedtime [Planet µ]
Poemss – Moviescapes [Planet µ]
Bremen Town Musician – echo dust (the aerial) [Duskdarter]
Bremen Town Musician – the radio the disco [Duskdarter]
Punch Brothers – Kid A [Nonesuch]
Punch Brothers – Don’t Need No [Nonesuch]
Punch Brothers – Movement And Location [Nonesuch]

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Hey y’all, some lovely music across different styles tonight… including some really long pieces!

LISTEN AGAIN, highlight of your week! Surely. Link at bottom, stream in stereo from FBi.

Elisha Bones – Laid Bare (Vacant Lake remix) [download from SoundCloud]
Rainer Veil – UK Will Not Survive [Modern Love]
Rainer Veil – Struck [Modern Love]
Rainer Veil – Three Day Jag [Modern Love]
Ela Orleans – dark wood [Parental Guidance]
Ela Orleans – longing [Parental Guidance]
Ela Orleans – station in shadows [Parental Guidance]
The Necks – Open (two excerpts) [Fish of Milk]
Senyawa – Kereta Tak Berhenti Lama [dualpLOVER]
Senyawa – Pahlawan [dualpLOVER]
Glottalstop – Woodsmoke Side B [Tartaruga]
Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi – Sometimes at the Beginning [Silentes Minimal Editions]
Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi – Prisoners of Memory [Silentes Minimal Editions]

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