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Sunday, 15th of February, 2009

Some nice new Aussie stuff again this week! Melbourne's Radiant City bring the post rock in 10-minute form at the start, followed by forced perspective's almost drill'n'bassy sounds.
Later, an exclusive from Part Timer, who picked up a violin somewhere in Melbourne recently and has incorporated it into some new tunes such as the one below.
Aussie label Hidden Shoal Recordings brings us a German artist called Jumpel, with some beautiful ambientish electronic-ish stuff.
Meanwhile, an old Starkey tune I only just picked up, plus a remix of The Elysian Quartet that I had squirreled away from a while back, and pulled out because of two of the members' new project Geese, who appear tonight remixing a wonderful collaboration between Hot Chip and one of their heroes (and mine!), Robert Wyatt.
And on the Starkey tip, Eskmo's "Agnus Dei" has been rockin' my sub-woofer all week, amazing stuff.
Also tonight, a Red Hot special, with a couple of tracks from their latest AIDS fundraiser compilation Dark Was The Night (that you basically must go and purchase this minute, if you haven't got it already), and their very first, Red Hot + Blue, which brings back vivid memories for me of being 16... And the Tom Waits track is an absolute gem.
And hellosQuare bring us the fantastic jazz piano trio Austin Benjamin Trio, with an EP of four remixes including the stunning sound design of Andrew Pekler's version.

Radiant City - Man Versus Mathematician [Wireless Records]
forced perspective - exit strategy [self-released] {download their whole debut 3-track ep for free at their website - or order the cd free too, cripes!}
Starkey - Dementia [Lo Dubs]
Robert Henke - [first_contact] [Imbalance Computer Music]
LA Lakers - Cough Genesis Ramparts for Gulf Eurythmics [courtesy Wire Mag]
color cassette - Little yellow light [Autres Directions in Music]
Castanets - You Are The Blood [Asthmatic Kitty]
Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood [4AD/Red Hot]
Tom Waits - It's All Right With Me [Capitol/Red Hot]
Dirty Projectors + David Byrne - Knotty Pine [4AD/Red Hot]
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In [Capitol/Red Hot]
Andrew Bird - Anonanimal [Fat Possum]
Hot Chip feat. Robert Wyatt - We're Looking for a Lot of Love (remixed by Geese) [EMI]
The Elysian Quartet - Gabriel Prokofiev String Quartet No 2 (remixed by Starkey) [Nonclassical]
Eskmo - Agnus Dei [Ancestor Media]
Austin Benjamin Trio - Xenosphere (Andrew Pekler remix) [hellosQuare]
Austin Benjamin Trio - The Magnus Effect [hellosQuare]
Klumpes Ahmad - My bedside and her paper flowers [hellosQuare]
Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret & Jim Black - First [Winter & Winter]
Klumpes Ahmad - The Turn [hellosQuare]
Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret & Jim Black - Gentle [Winter & Winter]
Joel Stern - Mead Goggle [sound travellers]
Scissor Lock - I Know Where Summer Goes [CURT]
Part Timer - newer [new track direct from John McCaffrey featuring his new violin! Who knows if it'll ever get released?]
Jumpel - Clay State [Hidden Shoal Recordings]
Too Many Forcefields - Bones [promo]

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