Utility Fog

Sunday, 25th of May, 2008

More scintillating sounds tonight! hellosQuare, from Canberra, goes from strength to strength, with two new releases this week: Seaworthy have a split 3″ with M. Rösner, and Adrian Klumps has a new trio with Abel Cross and Ryan Finn called 3ofmillions - stupendous stuff.
There’s a new album out from The Herd, as you’ve probably, er, “herd”. For full disclosure, I’m playing on a couple of tracks (”The King is Dead” and Kenny’s lovely track “The Next Movement”, which I played tonight), but I’m a big fan anyway, and it’s awesome :)
We’ve also got Nat Baldwin, double bass player, ex-basketballer, ex-member of Dirty Projectors…
We have a stunning new track from Autechre, from their new release Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae, which is dribbling out track-by-track over the next week and a bit - 8 tracks already available to download via the link! The track I played tonight is their funkiest in a while, in their own sweet way. Also immense new(ish) dubstep from Bucharest’s TRG, and some new Planet µ goodness courtesy of Plan B Magazine - a cover CD for the current issue, naturally called Plan µ.
And snuck away near the end of the show, a new track from Part Timer - more next week, from his latest swag of tracks that he sent my way. Always a pleasure!

Gig of the week is this Thursday at the Excelsior Hotel on Foveaux St Surry Hills: Underlapper, Telafonica and Ampersand bringing post-rocky delights. But also, from Wednesday through to Saturday The Necks are playing some very special shows at the Studio @ the Sydney Opera House, with visuals supplied by drummer Tony Buck. Should be magical.

Seaworthy - The Moment Everyone Goes Quiet 1 & 2 [hellosQuare]
The Herd - Kids Learn Quick [Elefant Traks]
Secret Chiefs 3 - Hamaya [Tzadik]
Nat Baldwin - Enter The Light Out [Broken Sparrow Records]
Brael/Tokyo Bloodworm - Saturn Shine [Moteer]
Sunken Foal - Dutch Elm [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares - Miss Balaton [Planet µ]
TRG - Time Is Now [Immerse Records]
Autechre - Perlence range 7 [Warp]
Avey Tare - I’m Your Eagle Kisser [Rare Book Room]
Ampersand - Fish Markets [promo]
Palms - Der Koenig [Rare Book Room]
Telafonica - Nothing Ventured [promo]
Samara Lubelski - Ego Blossoms [Rare Book Room]
3ofmillions - golden calf [hellosQuare]
Odd Nosdam - eat [Anticon]
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - The Beat That My Heart Skipped [Sunday Best]
Madvillain vs Four Tet - Great Day [Stones Throw]
The Herd - The Next Movement [Elefant Traks]
the boats - asylum [self-released]
Part Timer - con cetta remix [unreleased]
Scuba - Suck [Hotflush]

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