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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]