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The Fall:

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In 1995 Warp records put out a promo cassette featuring a mix of material from their back catalogue by DJ Food (then Strictly Kev and PC) called Blech. The following year they put out a cd version, featuring a completely different tracklisting called Blechsdöttir. This recording is legendary amongst fans of the Warp label, featuring many of the highlights of their early catalogue including Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, Nightmares on Wax, Plaid and lots more. The mixing is amazing. For over 10 years I’ve gradually gone from knowing pretty much none of the music outside the context of this mix to being familiar with most of it and along the way realising just how well mixed it is – discovering the way in which certain bits are actually made up of two or three tracks.  First hearing Autechre’s Lost without it going straight into Disjecta’s Kracht was a real shock. I still can’t work out how the hell they mixed the complex rhythms of Plaid’s Abla Eedio with anything at all. AFX’s Laughable Butane Bob never sounds right without the extra vocal samples they contribute. I can’t help copying their slow down Squarepusher’s of Problem Child whenever I play it in a set. It’s pretty much perfect from start to finish, absolutely one of my favourite albums of all time and one that I never get sick of listening to.

More recently I heard the original cassette, it’s interesting (and has some great tracks like a couple from Autechre’s Anvil Vapre, B12′s Scriptures and Seefeel’s Spangle), but clearly they took it to a whole new level with the sequel.

When Warp celebrated their 20th anniversary last year I bought their fantastic box set, but was a little disappointed there wasn’t a new Blech – now I’ve just discovered that there was, it just wasn’t in the box set! Strictly Kev did two one hour mixes for Warp’s 20th birthday, revisiting many of the classics from the original Blechs as well as updating with lots of more recent stuff like Boards of Canada, Battles, Broadcast, Clark and Flying Lotus. It’s available for download from Strictly Kev’s site and it’s fantastic.

AUGUST

• 29th Hawks of Alba, 6&7s at the Grace.

SEPTEMBER

• 3rd – No Through Road, Box Elder, Sarah Chadwick at the Jade Monkey.
• 3rd – Flying Scribble, Fair Maiden, Tall Tall Trees at the Metro.
• 3rd – God God Dammit Dammit at the Cranka.
• 11th – Wolf & Cub at the Ed Castle.
• 11th – Friends, Fighting League, Fake Tan, Old Mate at the Metro.
• 15th & 16th Klondike’s North 40 (feat. Chris Masuak) at the Grace Emily.
• 17th - Taught By Animals, Like Leaves, Friends at the Ed Castle.
• 24th – Starving Weirdos at the Exeter.
• 25th - Hit The Jackpot, The Ancients, Fake Tan at the Metro.

OCTOBER

• 1st Zeni Geva at the Rhino Room.
• 1st Smudge at the Metro.
• 1st Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! at the Ed Castle.
• 8th Sun Araw, Hit the Jackpot, Terrible Truths, Bitch Prefect, Bad Habit at Format.
• 15th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 16th Ninetynine at the Metro
• 17th Dead Meadow at Fowlers.
• 22nd Sea Bellies, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 23rd The Holy Sea at the Wheatsheaf.

NOVEMBER

• 14th New Pornographers at Fowlers.

DECEMBER

• 4th Stereosonic Festival lineup includes Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Jeff Mills, Caspa.

On the Stereo

• Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All cd (Flippin Yeah)
• Cat Power - The Greatest cd (Matador)
• Jandek – Staring at the Cellophane cd (Corwood Industries)
• Jandek – The Myth of Blue Icicles cd (Corwood Industries)
• Jandek – What Was Out There Disappeared cd (Corwood Industries)
• Burning Star Core – Papercuts Theatre 2LP (No Quarter)
• Terrace Industry: M Squared Box 1980-83 4cd (Ascension)
• Fennesz – Live in Japan LP (Autofact)
• Kraftwerk – The Catalogue 8cd (Kling Klang)
• DJ Youngsta – Dubstep Allstars Vol. 2 cd (Tempa)

Other news -

• The ALP are making accusations of vote tampering in Boothby, a seat they lost by about 1000 votes. Details aren’t too clear at this stage.
• Steve Fielding made a bit of a desperate attempt to appear relevant by threatening to block supply if Labor forms government. A couple of problems with this – Tony Abbott said that the Libs won’t block supply, and Bob Brown pointed out that by the time the next budget needs to be voted on there’ll be a new senate anyway. Here’s Steve being a queue jumper:
  

Read the details at the following places:

Grog’s Gamut

Peter Martin

Larvatus Prodeo

The main issue is that Abbott is still refusing to have policy costings looked at by Treasury. It’s interesting that on this and other issues the independents are holding the major parties up to the sort of scrutiny that the press largely failed to (when they were too busy on trivialities and horse-race style coverage).

Also, the latest on counts is that Denison looks to be solid for Andrew Wilkie, and Hasluck, Corangamite and Brisbane are still in the balance. Based on some of the links above the choice of Government might be determined regardless of the outcomes in these seats anyway.

• Of course the big question is who will form government. I have no idea – looks like it could go either way. For now keep watching the counts in Hasluck, Brisbane, Denison, Corangamite and Dunkley. In particular Denison is a tough one, four way contests are tricky to predict!
• Many are pointing out that most people didn’t seem to want either Labor or Liberal to win and got they wanted. Note that the informal voters did not in any way achieve this – it’s the people who voted for other options.
• The AEC are recounting the seat the Grayndler as a two candidate preferred for ALP/Greens. I expect it will still be out of reach for the Greens since Labor’s Albanese has a very high primary but will be interesting to see how close it is. Note that the progressive count doesn’t mean too much right now, it’s booth by booth and they’ve only done 12/54 booths which aren’t necessarily representative of the whole electorate.
• The Age seemed to be trying to do a bit of a beat up about the Greens possibly supporting the Libs – all on the basis that Bob Brown said he’d talk to Tony Abbott. The Greens have made it perfectly clear that they will not form Government with the Coalition. They will however be sitting on the cross bench in the House of Reps, and will have balance of power in the senate – so what do people expect, should Bob Brown flat out refuse to talk to Tony Abbott? That would really be news. Regardless of whether Abbott turns out to be PM or opposition leader, it is entirely appropriate for the leader of the party holding balance in the Senate to meet with him, the Age have picked out one quote out of context and used it to make a sensationalist headline.
• The Senate is mostly settled though the last spot in Victoria is a tough call. Some people have been too quick to say that Fielding is out, he could still get in the last spot, though at the moment the ABC are predicting a win for the DLP! Not unprecedented, they picked up a seat in the Vic state parliament at the last election to give their first MP since the mid 70′s (when they had a NSW state MP who was elected when the sitting Liberal member failed to renominate in time – sometimes it’s been suggested he forgot but his side of the story is here.)
• I’ve seen quite a few comments around suggesting that it’s good now the Greens will get some scrutiny, and that people who voted for them will realise their error when finding out what the Greens are really like. For a start, the Greens voters tend to be well educated and probably are well aware of what the Greens policies are, but furthermore if there are voters out there with an unrealistic view of the Greens I think that it could well go the other way – if people believe the twisted version of the Greens often presented in the press (particularly Murdoch) then they’ll probably be pleasantly surprised when they learn more. It was interesting to view responses to the Vote-a-matic site that Fairfax did, where they put ALP, Lib & Green policies side by side and asked people to choose which one they agreed with – many seemed surprised at how much they agreed with the Greens (e.g. here).  Another point is that after watching tonight’s Media Watch about the poor performance of the press in the campaign is that it’s not as if the major parties have had that much scrutiny of their policies as the press has focused on trivialities.
• Malcolm Turnbull seems to really be enjoying himself on Q&A tonight – I guess a 10% swing puts you in a good mood! Next to him is an empty chair representing Mark Arbib who has just gotten even less popular (if possible).

Ned Collette – Your Golden Heart
Kid Sam – Landslide
Otouto – Cartoon Shoes
Pikelet – Beyond the Sky
Machine Translations – Everything Feels New
Ed Kuepper – By the Way
Glide – Hole in the Middle
The Holy Sea – Ghost Town
Darren Hanlon – The Unmade Bed
Darren Hanlon – Hiccups
Stephen Malkmus – Cold Son
Yo La Tengo – Here to Fall
Bill Callahan – Sycamore
Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve
Trembling Bells – Baby Lay Your Burden on Me
Neil Young – Revolution Blues
Velvet Underground – Rock and Roll
Faust – It’s a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl
Can – I’m so Green
Stereolab – Harmonium
Harmonia – Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
Neu! – Für Immer
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Black Devil Disco Club – Dali
Moon Wiring Club – Living Furniture
Jonny Trunk – Crank Two
Broadcast – Come On Lets Go
Boards fo Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
The XX – Infinity
M. Gira – Blind
Jesus & Mary Chain – Teenage Lust
Mercury Rev – Frittering
Slowdive – Slowdive
Lush – When I Die
Little Ice Age – Learn to Forget
Underground Lovers – Dream It Down
Straitjacket Fits – Fabulous Things
The Bats – Broken Path
The Crayon Fields – Lucky Again
The Smiths – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Art of Fighting – Give Me Tonight
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Palace Music – New Partner
Silver Jews – Pretty Eyes