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Sunday, 27th of January, 2008

Tonight we started with some tracks from & featuring Andrew Bird, who plays his last Sydney show tomorrow. Following it were a couple more tracks featuring violin, then a bit of dubstep and breakcore.
Later, a preview of the new Clark album, and some very odd stuff from very young trio Our Brother The Native.

Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire – Tea And Thorazine [Rykodisc]
Dosh – Um, Circles and Squares (feat. Andrew Bird) [Anticon]
Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left [Rightous Babe]
Fog – Ditherer [Lex Records]
Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta – Feasting on my Heart [Fire Records]
Final Fantasy – Hey Dad! [Tomlab]
Various Production – Hater [XL Recordings]
Sky City Rising – Try Harder [Brøklyn Beats]
Ghislain Poirier – Blazin’ feat. Face-T (The Bug remix) [Ninja Tune]
Bong-Ra – Down But Not Out [Mashit]
Cdatakill – No Brakes (remix by Cakebuilder) [Ad Noiseam]
Cakebuilder – Book of the Dead [Ad Noiseam]
Distance – Battle Sequence [Chestplate]
DJ Distance – 3rd Wish [Hotflush Recordings]
Westernsynthetics – Jah Victory [mp3 demo]
Vaccine – Fever [Hotflush Recordings]
Clark – For Wolves Crew [Warp]
Silver Bone Tone – Zion (Part 2) [demo]
Pikelet – Beyond the Sky [Chapter Music]
Mice Parade – Tales of Las Negras [Fat Cat]
Our Brother The Native – rejoice [Fat Cat]
Castings – no puppet, no dice [Steady Cam]
Laura – It’s Kind of Like the Innocent Smiles You Get at the Start of a Relationship Before You Fuck Everything Up [A New Entity]
Adam Gnade & Youthmovies – We Were Born From Floodwaters [Try Harder]
Sunburned Hand of the Man – The wind has ears [Smalltown Supersound]
Richard In Your Mind – Skeleton [Broken Stone Records]
The Clouds – 3 Minutes [Red Eye]
Via Tania – Lost In It [Love & Mercy]
Tugboat – Two Summers [Traffic Sounds]
Japancakes – soon [Darla]
Buttress O’Kneel – Willing To Fight (from Dear Fellow Australians – and Independent Inquiry into Australian Values [Interwebmegalink]

Sunday, 20th of January, 2008

Another show, more lives saved…

Low – Pissing [Sub Pop]
Low – Belarus [Sub Pop]
Pikelet – Miss Her [Chapter Music]
Richard In Your Mind – 13 Stingrays [Broken Stone Records]
François Tetaz – River Suite [Rubber Records]
Fluorescent Grey – Chrono-synclastic Infundibulum [Record Label Records]
Triosk – Chronosynclastic Infundibula [Leaf]
Badun – Mælkebøtten [Rump]
Ubin – Biseaux [Creative Vibes]
Icarus – volks! [Rump]
randomNumber – From Carried To Keen [Moamoo/Art Union]
The Orb – Mother Nature [Traffic]
Pinch – Brighter Day (feat. Juakali) [Tectonic]
Dark Mahoney and the Midnight Bitch – muffled bass adventure [Johnny Part Timer sent me this, trying to fool me, but I caught him out. It's his first excursion into Burial-style dubstep, and me likey!]
Part Timer – hopeless daytime [download from Igloo Mag]
The Declining Winter – yorkcitythree part timer’s spring ascent remix [Misplaced Music]
ii – we ate everyone [promo from band, due out on Feral Media in February!]
Akkord I On – I’m not Pushing that Time [Replica]
Ryzla – Cliffs [demo]
Inch-time – Thought Objects – Part I [Static Caravan]
Tunng – Death and the Maiden Retold [Real World]
Peter Gabriel – Sandstorm [Real World/Virgin]
Peter Gabriel – No Self Control [Virgin]
Peter Gabriel – Darkness [Real World/Virgin]
Nine Inch Nails – Another Version of the Truth (Kronos Quartet & Enrique Gonzalez Müller) [Interscope]
Mice Parade – My Funny Friend Scott [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]

Sunday, 13th of January, 2008

Evening! 2008 and ain’t it great! etc…
We’ve got a new 7″ from Final Fantasy (wahoo!), a couple of local 2007 releases I’m embarrassed at only just having got (Evelyn Morris’s Pikelet solo project and Sydney psychedelic popsters Richard In Your Mind), a bit of a feature on “people-wot-play-with-Sufjan Stevens“…
More remixes later on from Richard Adams’ wondrous The Declining Winter, and a brilliant new track from Cex sampling Kate Bush!
Plus some breakcore, drum’n'bass and dubstep sounds in the middle there. It’s all happening!

Final Fantasy – Hey Dad! [Tomlab]
Pikelet – A Bunch [Chapter Music]
Richard In Your Mind – The Green Sun [Broken Stone Records]
Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone With You [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
My Brightest Diamond – Something of an End [Spunk]
St. Vincent – Your Lips Are Red [Beggars Banquet]
Marla Hansen – A Friend Indeed [Standard Recording]
Sufjan Stevens – They Are Night Zombies! They Are Neighbors! They Have Come Back From the Dead! Ahhhh! [Asthmatic Kitty/Spunk]
My Brightest Diamond – Disappear (Wheat to Whiskey mix by Cedar AV) [Spunk]
The Declining Winter – yorkcitythree (thendof remix) [Misplaced Music]
Akkord I On – Shoegazetta [Replica]
randomNumber – Line Copse Long [Moamoo/Art Union]
Silver Bone Tone – Conflict of Interest [demo]
Detritus – Interrupted (DJ Hidden remix) [Ad Noiseam]
Cdatakill – No Brakes (remix by DJ Hidden) [Ad Noiseam]
Breakage – Come Back [Bassbin]
Distance – Feel Me [Chestplate]
The Black Dog – Floods V3.2 (Surgeon Remix) [Soma]
Pole – Winkelstreben (Ghislain Poirier Bounce le Gros remix) [~scape]
The Declining Winter – yorkcitythree (Northstation remix) [Misplaced Music]
fliPPo – flood [mp3 demo]
Cex – Hamilton [Automation Records]
Icarus – first inf(e)rænce [Rump]
Sunburned Hand of the Man – Fire escape [Smalltown Supersound]

Sunday, 6th of January, 2008

First show of 2008! More best-of-2007-ness. Can’t believe that after two 3hr shows I still haven’t covered nearly everything I wanted to! So there’ll be more overflow next week, as 2008’s only just started, plus, fingers crossed, a bit of exciting new music.

Ergo Phizmiz and his Orchestra – Clay Hills Cop [Mukow]
The Cracow Klezmer Band – Memento Mori [Tzadik]
Tin Hat – The Secret Fluid of Dusk [Hannibal/Rykodisc]
Beirut – Transatlantique [4AD]
Tin Hat – Daisy Bell [Hannibal/Rykodisc]
Beirut – Cliquot [Ba Da Bing/4AD]
Amon Tobin – Bloodstone (feat. Kronos Quartet) [Ninja Tune]
Nine Inch Nails – Another Version of the Truth (Kronos Quartet & Enrique Gonzalez Müller) [Interscope]
World’s End Girlfriend – ghost of a horse under the chandelier [human highway records]
Angels of Light – Not Here/Not Now [Young God]
Jonquil – ~ / Lions [Try Harder]
Inlets – Pictures of Trees [Luv Sound] {free download!!! Do it now!}
Dan Rossen – Too Little Too Late [download from La Blogoteque or the Grizzly Bear blog]
Grizzly Bear – Knife (Girl Talk remix) [Warp] {mp3 courtesy Pitchfork}
Buttress O’Kneel – Bring Nothing [Interwebmegalink]
Dirty Projectors – Police Story [Dead Oceans]
Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey [Kranky]
Blonde Redhead – 23 [4AD]
Menomena – airaid [FILMguerrero/Barsuk]
Subtle – sinking pinks (feat Chris Adams of Bracken/Hood) [Lex Records]
School of Two – Gifted [Feral Media POWWOW series]
Shearwater – Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five [Misra/Matador]
ollo – idno [iTunes exclusive download release]
Vaccine – Fever [Hotflush Recordings]
Shannon O’Neill – Heaven Tonight [Alias Frequencies]
Terminal Sound System – Ghost Summer [Extreme]
Saddleback – For Crying Out Loud [Preservation]