Hi folks,
This is a special announcement just to tell you to prepare yourselves for Sunday week – the 14th of June – for an amazing piece of experimental radio. At 10:30pm that night I’ll be broadcasting FBi’s part of a half-hour triple broadcast by UTS Masters student Roger Mills. You’ll need two radios and a device for streaming audio (computer, iPhone, etc) to listen to 2SER 107.3FM, FBi 94.5FM and the netstream simultaneously! This has never been done before – makin’ history!

Don’t have more that one radio or a computer ?

Bring a radio down to Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, for a multi radiophonic experience as people tune their radios into a truly immersive sound environment. The evening starts at 6pm and features DJs and a performance by Forenzics.

Full info at Roger’s Idea of South page, and Roger will be in this Sunday to explain the piece in more detail.

Roger Mills is composer and sound artist who has just returned to his native Australia after living in the UK for twenty years. In that time he wrote and produced albums with Statik Sound System (Cup of Tea Records) and remixed tracks for British electro rockers Kosheen. Other credits include his collaboration with Grantby on Mo Wax’s Headz 2 and Sydney’s DJ Soup on Creative Vibes’ Evolutionary Vibes III, featured as album of the week on Triple J.

His most recent work includes album projects for Turkish singer Mircan Kaya and British Jazz quintet Limbo featuring Jim Bar (Potishead).

Tonight we started with something utterly insane but really amazing from Rice Corpse, a trio that Sydney’s Lucas Abela (head honcho of dual plover) with two incredibly talented Chinese musicians. Combining his patented sheet of glass smashed against his face to produce the most extreme distorte noise, combined with jabbing piano and jazz-punk drumming, this is unique stuff, and worth a listen. They’re playing at the Annandale Hotel this coming Saturday, the 6th of June.
Playing on Friday at the Opera House on Friday night is Kronos Quartet, whose track with Ramallah Underground comes from their new album Floodplain (of which hopefully more next week). Plus we had their excellent “remix” of Nine Inch Nails from a couple of years ago.
Jon Hopkins is also playing Saturday night, as well as Sunday, ans it should be a great show.
I got hold of Kettel‘s new album this week, and played one nice IDM tune and one of his always excellent collaborations with cellist Sietse-Jan Weijenberg.
More from the Sweet Billy Pilgrim album, which I’m thinking is secure in the top N albums of the year for me (right up in top 5 right now). Incredible stuff, detailed glitchy production, banjos, gorgeous vocals and melodies…
Quite a few tracks from the wonderful Greg Davis tonight, including an amazing collaboration with singer/songwriter Chris Weisman, combining lovely idiosyncratic songs with Greg’s varied exploratory production – it’s a winner, and will no doubt be featured in the next few shows.
Arbouse Recordings have put out a double CD compilation called Musique Pour Statues-Menhirs – not surprisingly mostly ambient stuff, considering it’s music about rocks ;) Greg’s track is a highlight, as is Mira Calix‘s, which is in her recent quasi-classical style. More Also from Greg is a collaboration between three touring artists from a couple of years ago, Akron/Family + Megafaun + Greg Davis. Crazy stuff.
Finally Nicholas French has sent me a CD version of his polyfox and the union of the most ghosts album, and it’s brilliant stuff, quite unlike anything else, as befits a member of Crab Smasher. Much free music is available at his SkyHut blog.
Two tracks from jasper tx‘s 3″ CD closet ghosts from last year, which in my opinion is his best work so far – from strummed acoustic guitar to shoegazey dynamics and drone.
More drone from c.s.k.a., which is Shoeb Ahmad of hellosQuare taking Bangladeshi radio broadcasts and turning them into spectral ambience.
Carousell is one of the many aliases of Richard Skelton, who releases astonishingly beautiful limited editions on his Sustain-Release Private Press, of which I purchased about 5 CDs a couple of weeks ago. More of his music will be creeping out over the next few weeks – scraping strings, guitars and other sounds, at once ancient and folky and contemporary and droney.
Featuring the double bass of Werner Daffeldecker (I think – unfortunately Staubgold have conspired to make the credits entirely unreadable on this packaging), Ekkehard Ehlers‘s latest, in collaboration with Paul Wirkus, is a beautiful work of acoustic instruments and glitchy textures.
We have more from Nicola Ratti, whose album debuted on the show last week and is really growing on me.
New sound&fury artist Pefkin I know little of, but the last track on their album is fantastic, a folk song that’s interrupted with arcane synthesisers…
Apse‘s debut album impressed many when it was re-released by ATP Recordings last year. I finally got hold of their debut EP (almost an album really) and it’s awesome – postrock meets prog I guess.
Scanner‘s new album has crunchy beats and lovely ambience – I’m still getting a hold on it, but it’s definitely very impressive. Also played a track from Githead, who Scanner plays with.
And Terminal Dusk have finally released their 4-track dubstep compilation Azure, so tonight we had Komonazmuk‘s remix of his St Etienne-sampling track “Love”.
And finished with a remix of Underlapper, whose new album can’t come soon enough (but won’t be with us till early next year, sadly).

Rice Corpse – mountain [dual plover/Subjam]
Kronos Quartet – Tashweesh (with Ramallah Underground) [Nonesuch]
Jon Hopkins – Vessel [Domino]
Kettel – Pers Patrys (feat. Sietse-Jan Weijenberg, cello) [Sending Orbs]
Nine Inch Nails – Another Version of the Truth (Kronos Quartet & Enrique Gonzalez Müller)
[Interscope]
Kettel – Begging for a Herring [Sending Orbs]
Jon Hopkins – Second Sense [Just Music]
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Kalypso [SamadhiSound]
chris weisman & greg davis – the nine times [autumn records]
rist – morning (eternal travelers remix by greg davis) [mü-nest]
Greg Davis – All things change [Arbouse Recordings]
Mira Calix – In a stony place [Arbouse Recordings]
Akron/Family + Megafaun + Greg Davis – kukatonga [self-released tour cd; from autumn records]
Akron/Family – Many Ghosts [Dead Oceans/Spunk]
polyfox and the union of the most ghosts – all the living musicians fighting over thin air [Monstera Deliciosa]
jasper tx – i’m asleep on the floor while sunbeams grace my tired head [fenêtre records]
polyfox and the union of the most ghosts – expanding ghost contained by 3 crocodiles [Monstera Deliciosa]
jasper tx – and when we die, god makes angels of us all [fenêtre records]
c.s.k.a. – morsel 1 [low point]
Carousell – Of Old Enchantments [Sustain-Release]
Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus – Guma [Staubgold]
Nicola Ratti – White Morning [Preservation]
Pefkin – Remember the Words [sound&fury]
Apse – Balat [Acuarela]
Scanner – Sans Soleil (feat. Michael Gira, guitar) [BineMusic]
Githead – Darkest Star [Swim~]
Komonazmuk – Love (Remix) [Terminal Dusk]
Underlapper – Meanderthal (Cleptoclectics remix) [Feral Media]

Tonight there was so much to get through that quite a bit is going to have to wait till next week. So it goes!

Note: pimmon’s album launch is happening at the Bon Marche Studio @UTS on Friday June 19. I tell you this because the only way you’ll get in is by emailing hello@preservation.com.au beforehand – there are no tickets on the door. Facebook event here. The very wonderful Chris Abrahams supports, along with new artist Emily McDaniel.
But to skip back to the start, we had something really special from Lucky Dragons, from a new 7″ (which incidentally comes with a download code, always good). Fabulous strummy banjo and electronics.
Then a couple of tracks from the fabulous soccer Committee / Machinefabriek “remixes and covers” album redrawn.
Jim O’Rourke (whose personal web involvement seems nil, hence the Wikipedia link) finds his amazing glitch album from 2001 remastered and re-released by Editions Mego. He unearthed a whole second album to go into the deal, so of course I had to grab a copy. The original album is an absolute classic that was a regular in my CD player back at the time, and the 2nd CD certainly lives up to the high standards set.
Following our pimmon, we have another Preservation release, from Italy’s Nicola Ratti. In the post-Talk Talk tradition of quietly detailed postrock, there’s a lot of subtle beauty in there.
We have another track from last week’s Adam Trainer album – piano and guitar and processing – and then some high grade noise from John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh, in their second collaboration.
Another collaboration follows, the much-hyped Burial/Four Tet 12″, something Mr Hebden told me about back in June 2007, for the record :) There followed a bunch of dubsteppy tunes, from the (relatively) up-tempo Pinch, through the wonderful aXXo, the heavy beats/bass (on this track) of iTAL tEK and Jamie Vex’d’s new wonky hip-hop sound.
I haven’t played enough of the Two Fingers album, quality grime (of a sort) from Amon Tobin & Doubleclick, so I played my favourite Sway lyric (well, ok, one of…)
Shannon O’Neill’s Alias Frequencies has been (re-)releasing Buttress O’Kneel’s amazing mashup/breakcore albums, and you must go and download them (all free of course, as in “information wants to be…”) right now! She’s done a swathe of astounding FourPlay remixes that I hope to release in some form soon!
Calming down with some real pop afterwards: a couple of tracks from the dulcet voice and slightly demented mind of Fredo Viola, another piece of genius from Grizzly Bear, and then the (re-)discovery of the year, Sweet Billy Pilgrim. Their remix of David Sylvian from a couple of years ago prompted me to look into the band, but it was only earlier this year that Sylvian finally released their debut album, and I only really settled into it this week. Gorgeous glitchy textures, samples, instruments and highly talented songwriting – not one to let slip by!
In between two Sweet Billy Pilgrim tracks, Seaworthy snuck in. He’s sneaking in to FBi on Tuesday to talk to Eliza Sarlos on her amazing show Unputdownable – don’t miss it!
sound&fury have now released The Disambiguation of Anonymeye, combining finger-picking guitar, classic synths and laptop processing. Tonight’s track is one of any number of highlights.
Still finding new delights in the Psuche album, required listening, and we finished with more demented indie rock(?) from Aleks & the Ramps.

Lucky Dragons – honeycomb house parts 1-3 [Atelier Ciseaux]
soccer Committee / Machinefabriek – magpie (covered by the puddle parade) [Machinefabriek]
soccer Committee / Machinefabriek – landslide (mark templeton remix) [Machinefabriek]
Jim O’Rourke – i’m happy [Editions Mego]
Jim O’Rourke – let’s take it again from the top [Editions Mego]
pimmon – Evil Household Ceremony [Preservation]
Nicola Ratti – …and Fireworks [Preservation]
Adam Trainer – Cabrini Green [hellosQuare]
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh – Stettinius [dronedisco]
Burial/Four Tet – Wolf Cub [Text]
Pinch – Attack of the Giant Killer Robot Spiders! [Planet µ]
aXXo – No Idlers [Killtone]
iTAL tEK – Massive Error [Planet µ]
Jamie Vex’d – Saturn’s Reply [Planet µ]
Two Fingers feat. Sway – Jewels and Gems [Ninja Tune]
Buttress O’Kneel – HeartBooty [via Alias Frequencies]
Buttress O’Kneel – Paragon Humanoid [via Alias Frequencies]
Buttress O’Kneel – Imagination [via Alias Frequencies]
fredo viola – death of a son [because]
Grizzly Bear – About Face [Warp]
fredo viola – ether [Please Do Something] {download, possibly no longer available}
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Here It Begins [SamadhiSound]
Seaworthy – Ammunition 1 [12k]
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Truth Only Smiles [SamadhiSound]
Anonymeye – If At First You Don’t Secede… [sound&fury]
Psuche – Tell Tell [Two Bright Lakes]
Aleks & the Ramps – Amputee Pilot [through Stomp]

Good evening… Starting with the pop tonight!
Awesome to have the proper CD edition (rather than badly-ripped pirated edition) of Grizzly Bear‘s new album Veckatimest available in stores now. I played two tracks from the new album plus a couple from their first album & remix album. Plus an awesome b-side from Andrew Bird‘s fairly hard-to-find new single.
And the flipside to the Menomena track from last week.
New discovery Banjo or Freakout is an Italian musician living in London and making extremely eclectic music. He’s made a name out of doing covers of unexpected songs, which I’ll have to seek out for you for next week, but these tracks range from glitchy indie to shoegazey noisepop.
Also on the experimental pop tip are Melbourne’s awesome Psuche, whose album has lived up to expectations as pretty much unlike anything else out there at the moment. In a good way :)
Then we took a sudden turn for the wonky, with Jamie Vex’d’s new 12″ and another amazing tune from San Francisco’s Eskmo, followed by some more Bay Area dubstep courtesy of Ripple & The Antiserum (very heavy it was too). FBi’s Sunsets album of the week from Martyn has me in two minds – I’m not entirely convinced by the tempos and moods, but he’s definitely a great producer.
Two more dubsteppy tunes – nice and dark from iTAL tEK, and a surprise entry from Animals on Wheels, who started off in the drill’n’bass world and moved into electro-acoustic and ambient works, but does a great job of dubstep here. He’s got a new 12″ out which I’ll be playing in a couple of weeks – can’t wait!
Somehow HTRK‘s dirgepunk comes nicely out of the dubby sludge, after which a beautiful piece of electronic shoegaze from Hoof & Antler, who are playing at Dirty Shirlow’s this Friday night.
soccer Committee & Machinefabriek put out a wonderful collaborative album last year with Mariska Baar’s singing and songwriting and Rutger Zuydervelt’s amazing sound design/production. Easily album of the week this week is the beautiful remix album redrawn, from which I took two tracks.
In between I played a lovely track from Melbourne’s Felicity Mangan, the first for tonight from hellosQuare‘s series of 3″ CDs featuring hand-sewn felt sleeves.
Then we had the stunning Burning Star Core track from Tiny Mix Tapes’ Darfur compilation (a repeat from last week), and also took the awesomely bizarre Balroynigress track from that compilation.
Trying to wrap my head around the new Black Dice album – not sure I’m that fond of it! Still, “Glazin” is a fun ridiculous track.
Heaps more hellosQuare music: Portland musician Strategy has an 18-minute piece of improvised dubby ambience – it’s really beautiful, but I was only able to play the last 10-11 minutes. And Perth’s Adam Trainer makes a return to UFog’s hallways with a lovely shoegazey and noisy piece – more next week!
To round out the show, another piece of perfect Americana from Fire on Fire, a track from Aleks & the Ramps‘s new album (FBi’s album of the week! I haven’t had a chance to listen properly yet though), and the final hellosQuare 3″, which is Cleptoclectics being his usual oblique sampladelic self. Fans of Prefuse 73 should enjoy.
Finally, I managed to sneak in another track from Minus the Bear‘s remix album, with a heavy glitchy piece from Plan B. Nice.

Grizzly Bear – Southern Point [Warp]
Andrew Bird – Sectionate City [Bella Union]
Grizzly Bear – Don’t Ask (Final Fantasy version) [Kanine]
Grizzly Bear – Deep Sea Diver [Kanine]
Grizzly Bear – Foreground [Warp]
Menomena – Posh Isolation [Polyvinyl]
Banjo or Freakout – 72 (Everything Fast) [rcrdlbl]
Psuche – Ulfhenden [Two Bright Lakes]
Banjo or Freakout – The Week Before [Half Machine Records]
Psuche – Upskirt [Two Bright Lakes]
Jamie Vex’d – In System Travel [Planet µ]
Eskmo – San Francisco (The Rhythm) [Ancestor Media]
Ripple & The Antiserum – Blaze It [Full Melt Records]
Martyn – Little Things [3042]
iTAL tEK – Massive Error [Planet µ]
Animals on Wheels – Coping [Acroplane]
HTRK – Ha [BLAST First (petite)]
Hoof & Antler – My Name Is Bryan Brown, Don’t Throw Your Spears At Me [demo]
soccer Committee / Machinefabriek – for i am distant (taylor deupree remix) [Machinefabriek]
Felicity Mangan – track 1 from Half Finished World [hellosQuare]
soccer Committee / Machinefabriek – a reversion to thole (lawrence english remix) [Machinefabriek]
Burning Star Core – Incurable Beauty of the Master’s Demise [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Black Dice – Glazin [Paw Tracks/Mistletone]
Balroynigress – Dress the Ship in Black [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Strategy – Sines of Life [hellosQuare]
Adam Trainer – Come Back: I’ll Change [hellosQuare]
Fire on Fire – Squeeze Box [Young God Records]
Aleks & the Ramps – Boy Meets Ghost [through Stomp]
Cleptoclectics – golden fleecing [hellosQuare]
Minus the Bear – The Fix (Plan B remix) [Suicide Squeeze]