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DJing at Rethreads on Saturday!

OK, last minute self-promotion here as usual.
FBi and 2ser, Sydney’s two awesome community radio stations, in conjunction with Carriageworks, are putting on this cool event called Rethreads this Saturday.

You may have heard about it. Click the link to read more. Basically it’s a clothing, music and book exchange thing – take things and swap thems!

Anyway, I’m here to tell you to get there early! There’s great live music all day, but if you’re there between 9:45am and 10:30am, you will hear “Fbi DJ” aka ME playing choons for y’all. Then you can pop outside to the awesome Eveleigh Farmers’ Market and purchase the best food this side of urban sprawl. It’s a win-win situation, and you know it.

Playlist 13.09.09

Tonight we had heaps of great Aussie and Sydney music, and heck, heaps of great overseas musics too!
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Sydneysider edwin montgomery is launching not one but TWO albums this coming Friday night, the 18th of September, at Bill & George in Redfern. Should be an awesome night with polyfox and the union of the most ghosts coming down from the Central Coast as well.
We heard an original number from his new(er) album, woken up in a strange place, and later on we had one of the numerous excellent covers off that album, and an epic piece from roads, as well as two delightful (as always) polyfox tracks.
After Edwin, we had Grace Before Meals’ pop hit (if only) before heading into electronic territory…
Lusine’s new album is charming the pants off many an FBi listener at the moment. I thought it’d be nice to delve into his earlier work. I couldn’t find anything as “L’usine” (I think it must be on vinyl) but found some excellent tunes as Lusine ICL from a couple of compilations – one more minimal and one more frenetic.
We also had one lovely tune from the best dubstep/wonky albums I’ve heard of late – Silkie’s City Limits Volume One.

Tonight’s guest was violist and vocalist Nadene Pita, from whose lovely album we heard two tracks. Nadene is launching the album at Stone Gallery (Paddington Uniting Church) this Saturday, the 19th of September – with guests like Kate Adams & Chris Abrahams in a semi-improvised format, it should be great.
Still on a string tip, we heard a track from Melbourne cellist Gareth Skinner’s forthcoming second solo album. It’s a pretty amazing brew of all-out misanthropic rock and delicate Arthur Russell-like stuff such as the track I played tonight. I can’t wait to play more next Sunday.
Keith Mason’s new album has been a LONG TIME coming. To prove it, I played an awesome track from the new one and an awesome track from the old one, which came out 8 years previous. How glitched-up scrambled vocal samples and grungey blues guitar fit together so well is anybody’s guess.
From the album I featured last week, Italian duo Tellaro gave us another cut of their indie/folktronica, and then we had something rather beautiful and un-droney from Jasper TX, from a couple of years back. In a similar vein, we revisited the latest album Italian post-rock stalwarts Giardini di Mirò, a soundtrack album of some impressive musical breadth.
After more Edwin and some Polyfox, we had some beautiful shimmering crackles from aus’s Light in August, Later – Japanese music on a Brisbane label, as well as State River Widening’s very SRWesque remix of aus from last year.
Staying in Japan briefly, we had a riff-a-riffic taste of LITE’s math-rock. And then sticking with all-caps bands, another fantastic track from HEALTH’s new noise/shoegaze opus, Get Color.
New Sydney artist End Pitch gave us a bit of zany electronica, and Silver Bone Tone gets all noisey and droney for us, and it does him good.
More noise from the wonderful new Noveller album on No Fun, and we finish with an excellent Pink Reason track which I’ve played before, but it’s so perfectly morose, not to mention a little bit evil that it needed another spin.

edwin montgomery – the river [self-released]
Grace Before Meals – Runway Approach Lights [CAD Factory]
Lusine – Cirrus [Ghostly International]
Lusine Icl – Neon [u-cover]
Lusine Icl – shin [Tigerbeat6]
Silkie – Beauty [Deep Medi]
Nadene Pita – Burn [self-released]
…interview with Nadene Pita
Nadene Pita – Parachute Man [self-released]
Gareth Skinner – Wingspan [Rubber Records]
K Mason – Bows and Arrows [K Mason]
K Mason – Non Song 1 [Lo-fi Killers, re-released on Spanish Magic but again out of print]
Tellaro – Vacuum [2nd rec]
Jasper TX – Bending spoons [pumpkin seeds in the sand]
Giardini di Mirò – La cenere (part II) [Unhip]
edwin montgomery – mountain (mist–from the top) [self-released]
edwin montgomery – the black angel’s death song [self-released] {Velvet Underground cover}
polyfox and the union of the most ghosts – upset polyfox finds monofrog blissfully basking [Monstera Deliciosa]
polyfox and the union of the most ghosts – hang by a thread [skyhut]
aus – a world of dazzle [Someone Good]
aus – Headphone Girl (State River Widening Remix) [Preco]
LITE – Ef [seven four records]
HEALTH – In Violet [Popfrenzy]
End Pitch – Ya [demo]
Silver Bone Tone – Big Rev [demo]
Noveller – Rainbows [No Fun]
Pink Reason – New Violence [Savage Quality Recordings]

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Playlist 06.09.09

Tonight ranged from IDM & ambient electronica through folktronica and drone to noise.
LISTEN AGAIN link at bottom of playlist.

Started tonight with Sydney electronic artist Ryzla, who brings us a gorgeous piece of ambient electronica, quite unlike the breakbeat stuff he’s generally been turning in.
Lusine gives us a beautiful piece of electronica with cut-up female vocals, not unlike his online hit “Two Dots”, which also appears on his new album.
Two of Anticon’s finest, Themselves & Why?, team up for a song which you can download from Pitchfork (see below).
I played three tracks tonight from Italian duo Tellaro, whose new one I’ve been excited about since I read it in 2nd rec’s recent newsletter. It’s a wonderful mix of The Books-style laptop folk and Notwist-style indietronica. Highly recommended.
Couple more tracks from Sydney band Grace Before Meals, whose double EP has crept into my subconscious and refused to leave.
Meanwhile, Melbourne’s The Ancients have a new album on beloved Leeds label Moteer, and it’s a beauty. Mostly the work of Jonathan Mitchell on mostly guitar and vocals, it’s got a classic sound and songs that just work just right.
Meanwhile, a Kansas native with an Aussie connection via Preservation Records, Aaron Martin, has a stunning new EP out on boutique UK label Under The Spire. Combining his cello, guitar and other instruments with a smattering of vocals and studio techniques, it’s possibly his best effort yet. Just in time for that 3″ to arrive, John Part Timer sent me his remixes of Aaron for the next “Aaron Martin vs Part Timer” release, which Under The Spire will be putting out at some point. They’re equally fantastic, and currently exclusive to Utility Fog.
I’m deeply embarrassed to have missed the boat last year with Peter Broderick, but am making up for it now. The Float album on Type may be primarily (post-)classical arrangements, with Peter playing everything – violin, viola, cello, piano and much more – but there are some really different moments too, with cavernous drones and drumkit edging in here and there.
Up next, Benn Jordan aka The Flashbulb has once again taken the initiative to upload his own album to the various filesharing services, with an explanatory html file that includes the words “All I ask is that you include this file if you share/upload/seed the release.” Louisiana Mourning is a tribute to Telefon Tel Aviv’s Charlie Cooper, whose death earlier this year had a reverberant impact across the music scene. Jordan’s always been more than just another drill’n’bass artist (although he does that genre very well, as the following track’s detailed programming and heartstring-pulling melody exhibit), but this release is simple acoustic guitar with occasional strings and ambient electronics – and it’s really beautiful.
The more electronic Flashbulb track was followed by a reprise of Jega’s new album, and another classic old IDM tune of his. AFX continued the theme of children’s voices in IDM, while Shady Lane gave us the most drill’n’bassy track from his mostly very indie-sounding new album.
“St. Powers” is the centrepiece of Noveller’s debut album, Red Rainbows. Sarah Lipstate can do squalling feedback with the best of them, but this 14 minute track focuses on repeated guitar motifs and drones in amongst the noise. I could put it on repeat for hours.
I’m afraid the only connection between the above track and Beth Jeans Houghton’s is that both are female artists – lame, but the segue was surprisingly apt. Houghton gives us another tune from her EP on Static Caravan, a sunny piece of laid-back-folk-meets-up-beat-pop.
I got hold of the next installment of New Weird Australia a couple of days before the general public. The next two tracks are from Volume Two, which has just gone live now – free download! Oceans hail from Taswegia, and remind me strangely of Mirrored Silver Sea – perfectly poised drones and loops. Sam Price combines a drum dirge with malfunctioning computer – nice!
And we had another track from Morning Stalker’s excellent hellosQuarerecordings release, and the title track from epic45’s latest mini-masterpice.
royalchord’s album should be exploding on us shortly, and from the likes of the couple of tracks I’ve heard, it’s a doozy – drum machines & subtle electronics with perfect acoustic folkpop tunes. Can’t wait! Followed them with another cut from Caethua’s brilliant double CD on Preservation.
Finally, something from HEALTH’s second album – noise and kraut-disco combine in a pretty exhilirating way, with ethereal vocals. More next week!

Ryzla – Menai [demo]
Lusine – Gravity [Ghostly International]
Themselves & Why? – Canada [Anticon] {download from Pitchfork}
Tellaro – Dario Whorenges [2nd rec]
Tellaro – 1985 [2nd rec]
Tellaro – Mario [2nd rec]
Grace Before Meals – Dear Miss Creeding [CAD Factory]
The Ancients – Doldrums [Moteer]
Grace Before Meals – Late Night Narrandera [CAD Factory]
The Ancients – The Dark Day [Moteer]
Aaron Martin – Breath of Embers [Under The Spire]
Aaron Martin vs Part Timer – Gravel Scar (Dried Blood) [forthcoming on Under The Spire]
Peter Broderick – Broken Patterns [Type]
Benn Jordan – Louisiana Mourning II [Alphabasic]
The Flashbulb – Hometown UFO [Sublight]
Jega – Reprise [Planet µ]
Jega – Nausicaa [Skam]
AFX – Children Talking [Warp]
Shady Lane – Death Came Awful Slow [Rice Is Nice]
Noveller – St. Powers [No Fun]
Beth Jeans Houghton – LillyPut [Static Caravan]
Oceans – 02 + 03 [New Weird Australia]
Sam Price – Auto Hackney [New Weird Australia]
Morning Stalker – Day Of The Christmas Beetle [hellosQuarerecordings]
epic45 – in all the empty houses [make mine music]
royalchord – It’s Not Who [Mistletone]
Caethua – Highways In The Deathlight [Preservation]
HEALTH – Death+ [Popfrenzy]

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Playlist 30.08.09

Tonight’s theme is… there is no theme!
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Starting with the British indietronica (sorry) of epic45, with a favourite old track and something from their fabulous new mini-album.
Then we had the first (and definitely not last) appearance of Kevin De Broux’ Pink Reason on Utility Fog, just as he leaves Sydney it appears. Suicide might be an influence on this track, but he can go from trashy punk rock to banjo-led country blues, to experimental guitar washes.
Another interesting solo artist is Alps of New South Whales, who give us another excellent bit of lo-fi keyboard stuff from his latest album.
Then a couple of remixes. Sheffield punk band Calvinball get the 65daysofstatic treatment, and Theo Bard’s socially conscious acoustic reggae gets wonderfully done over by Animals on Wheels. Download links for both below!
Following these, Mount Eerie goes black metal! Well, sort-of. His understated vocals are still there, under a massive storm of distorted guitar noise.
Sydney’s CAD Factory kidz & friends, Grace Before Meals, released a double EP a month or two ago, and we took a lovely song from EP1, with cello & trumpet accompanying Vic’s piano and vocal. More from them next week! After them, glittering piano and guitar drones from Sydney/Canberra superduo Klumpes Ahmad.
The multitalented multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick re-releases his Home album any minute now in Australia, along with a bonus disc called Second Home, highlighting his talent with strings and loop pedals along with his lovely vocals, guitar and piano. Tonight we have a sampling of three very different songs from him.
Following that, Toronto stalwart Ohad Benchetrit’s mostly solo project Years extends the experimentalism of his iconic postrock band Do Make Say Think in new directions. DMST have a new album out any minute, but we heard the first track from their very first album.
Richard Adams’ solo project the declining winter had a new “single” out, and it’s one of the best tracks to come out of the Hood stable. Melbourne genius part timer remixed it, and we also heard the original mix, as well as an old Hood favourite.
More indietronica from Melbourne’s The Red Tree was followed by something rather different, in a folky vein, from Beth Jeans Houghton (produced, very non-intrusively it sounds, by Tunng’s Mike Lindsay).
Underlapper member Morning Stalker createst scintillating dronescapes with guitar, fx and vocals. hellosQuare have collected his recordings thus far in an EP/mini-album called In Units, from which we took the multilayered “Tomentose”. Another long and beautiful track followed from vladislav delay’s new album, which should be available by the end of this week in Oz.
The bomb the bass / lali puna track that followed is a morr music classic, combining Tim Simenon’s blinding breakbeats with the glitched up vocals of Valerie Trebeljahr.
Then LA glitch-hop/crunk/wonky producer edIT takes Busdriver into weird territories, while Eskmo takes us up the West Coast to San Francisco, with one of the best wonky tracks of the year.
Luke Vibert’s been feeling the Bass lately, as we hear on the first track from his new album, followed by some bass & programming from Sydney’s Silver Bone Tone, and we finish up with a bit of a cult classic of psychedelic folk from Rodriguez.

epic45 – england fallen over [make mine music]
epic45 – the future is blinding [make mine music]
Pink Reason – New Violence [Savage Quality Recordings]
Alps of New South Whales – South Atlantic Right Whale [Beat Is Murder]
Calvinball – Goodbye Sweet Prince (65rmx) [found on 65kids.com]
Theo Bard – Having a Good Time (Animals on Wheels remix) [Tape] {download for free via AoW}
Mount Eerie – Wind’s Dark Poem [P.W. Elverum & Sun]
Grace Before Meals – Runway Approach Lights [CAD Factory]
Klumpes Ahmad – You can have what I take [hellosQuare]
Peter Broderick – Below It [Bella Union]
Peter Broderick – Begin [Bella Union]
Peter Broderick – Walking – Thinking [Type]
Years – The Major Lift [Arts&Crafts]
Do Make Say Think – 1978 [Constellation]
the declining winterpart timer remix [home assembly]
the declining winter – haunt the upper hallways [home assembly]
Hood – Over the land, over the sea. [Domino]
The Red Tree – A River in Oliver [A New Entity]
Shady Lane – Who Isn’t Here With Me Tonight? [Rice Is Nice]
epic45 – daylight ghosts [make mine music]
Beth Jeans Houghton – Cruel Francis [Static Caravan]
Morning Stalker – Tomentose [hellosQuarerecordings]
vladislav delay – melankolia [Leaf]
bomb the bass / lali puna – clearcut [morr music]
Busdriver – Sun Shower (edIT Club Remix) [Epitaph]
Eskmo – San Francisco (The Rhythm) [Ancestor Media]
Luke Vibert – Belief File [Planet µ]
Silver Bone Tone – So Far So [demo/self-released]
Rodriguez – Sugar Man [Light in the Attic Records]

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