Pikelet - This Much Rain In Perth [self-released]
Pikelet - Size Matters [Chapter Music]
Pikelet - Take Off The Face Paint [self-released]
Ohana - One on Four [Imperative Residence]
The Microphones - Florida Beach [K Records]
Lucky Dragons - Heartbreaker [555 Recordings]
Lucky Dragons - Be Careful What You Do (Pt. 2) [States Rights Records]
Lucky Dragons - Un Lagrima en la Discoteca [States Rights Records]
Lucky Dragons - New Alium [States Rights Records]
Lucky Dragons - oh i understand [Mistletone]
Tunng - Shove It [Static Caravan]
Inch-time - as patient as a tree [self-released]
Dollboy - One Liner [Static Caravan]
Inch-time - root drinking in the dark [self-released]
Pimmon - Silver Needle [Static Caravan]
Spartak - The National Single [sound&fury]
Terminal Sound System - Constructing Towers [Extreme]
Mirrored Silver Sea - Ghost Blossom [sound&fury]
Children of the Wave - Happy bats [Sensory Projects]
Various Production - Haven [free download via their mailing list]
Heidi Elva - there’s a spell [self-released, through Vitamin]
Hauschka - Blue Bicycle [Fat Cat]
Hauschka - Kein Wort (Assembler’s Mix by Nobukazu Takemura) [Kompakt]
Hauschka - Rode Null [Fat Cat]
Aaron Martin - The Criminalisation of Politics [sound&fury]
Jim O’Rourke - Despite The Water Supply (Part 2) [Touch]
Jim O’Rourke - Memory Lame [Drag City]
Angels of Light - Fragment/Praise Your Name [Young God]
Mirrored Silver Sea - 17 Minutes Over The Ocean [sound&fury]
The Caretaker - Poor Enunciation [Install]
The Caretaker - Haunting Me [V/VM]

This Saturday, lovely harpist/singer/songwriter Heidi Elva launches her album at Glebe Town Hall - highly recommended, folks!
And on Wednesday you really want to go to see Lucky Dragons, Mount Eerie and Pikelet at Paddington Uniting Church!

Children of the Wave - Underwater song [Sensory Projects]
Children of the Wave - Kora [Sensory Projects]
Spartak - Ostpolitik 1 (remix by FilFla) [hellosQuare]
Pretty Boy Crossover - Distant Thought Piano [sound&fury]
Terminal Sound System - In Your Planet [Extreme]
dianogah - song you hate [southern]
dianogah - a breaks b [southern]
sole & the skyrider band - a sad day for investors [anticon]
Deep Puddle Dynamics - Purpose [Anticon]
SkyRider - Everyday Of Their Lives [Endemik Music]
Sole - every single one of us (produced by Alias) [Anticon]
cars & trains - the sky is clear (w/ Sole) [circle into square]
cars & trains - the wires from my broken record player [circle into square]
Bracken - Burning in [Ears Hoping]
aXXo - Punk 5 [Killtone]
Cardopusher - Parilla [Red Volume]
Cardopusher - Knock yuh out (Starkey Left Hook mix) [Terminal Dusk]
Cardopusher - Gaan A Bed [Murder Channel, via Mudd Up!]
Cardopusher - At the same time [Peace Off]
Hrvatski - Gemini (Revision) [P-Vine (Japanese bonus track not on Planet µ release)]
Richard Skelton - Stake [Preservation]
The Nether Dawn - Well Song [promo from Electrofringe]
Burning Star Core - Mezzo Forte [Hospital Productions]
Birchville Cat Motel - Stellbionic [promo from Electrofringe]
Morning Stalker - Half-Life [sound&fury]
Qua - Circles [Love & Mercy Records]
Qua - Silver Red 2 [Someone Good]
Qua - the air is thin in here [Surgery Records]
Heidi Elva - there’s a spell [self-released, through Vitamin]
Terminal Sound System - Sunshine [Extreme]
Ryzla - Baghdad [demo]
Machinefabriek - Engeneer [sound&fury]
Children of the Wave - Something good [Sensory Projects]
Part Timer - Mekon [sound&fury]

And then we had an interview and a beautiful live performance from Spartak. Hopefully this will be available as a free download from here in the next few weeks.
Couple of tracks from Wire Mag’s latest Wire Tapper compilation, and some fabulous noise from New Zealander Antony Milton, who will be here shortly for Electrofringe in Newcastle.

Minotaur Shock - First To Back Down [Melodic]
Iskra - Accelerated Footage (a Minotaur Shock cover!) [free download from minotaurshock.com]
Minotaur Shock - Zookeeper [4AD]
Minotaur Shock - My Burr [4AD]
color cassette - tell-tale in two parts [mobeer]
color cassette - silencing cities [mobeer]
Bracken - Second Guessing [Ears Hoping]
Spartak - Flanders 1914 [hellosQuare]
…interview with Shoeb & Evan from Spartak… and then
Spartak - live on Utility Fog!
Shoeb Ahmad - This Is How You Fall Apart (remixed by Inch-time) [hellosQuare] {from a 3″ CD of remixes from his recent album on sound&fury}
mom - little brite [moamoo/art union]
cars & trains - the sky is clear (w/ Sole) [circle into square]
Alias - M.G. Jack [Anticon]
Massive Attack with Mos Def - I Against I [Virgin]
Mad EP - Menuet [Ad Noiseam]
Pantaleimon - At Dawn (Vogel) (Andrew WK remix) [Durtro Jnana] {courtesy Wire Mag}
Baby Dee - The Earlie King [Drag City]
Grails - Reincarnation Blues [Temporary Residence] {courtesy Wire Mag}
Squarepusher - Planet Gear [Warp]
Antony Milton - Unreleased untitled [promo from Electrofringe]
Panoptique Electrical - Glacier show I [Sensory Projects]
Mirrored Silver Sea - Ghost Blossom [sound&fury]
Heidi Elva - lovers or strangers [self-released, through Vitamin]

Later on, a couple of previews from Mirrored Silver Sea’s forthcoming debut album on sound&fury, which is utterly awesome. It’s beautiful noise - think Burning Star Core or Bleeding Heart Narrative…
And finishing up, 65daysofstatic remix all four recent Cure singles, one after another, in an epic mega-remix from the new Hypnagogic States single. See the link at the bottom for amusing controversy!

Next week, Spartak perform live in the studio! You can also see them at 6pm next Sunday at Bohemian Grove, L2/68 Sophia St, Surry Hills; and also on Monday night at the NOWnow, at Serial Space, 33 Wellington St Chippendale. Nice!

Anthony Pateras with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Robin Fox et al - Autophagy [Tzadik]
Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt & Stevie Wishart - time comes presto [Intakt]
Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt & Stevie Wishart - aller retour [Intakt]
Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi - Confession [twelve cups records]
Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Dan Rathbun et al - The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful [twelve cups records]
Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Dan Rathbun et al - Ravish [twelve cups records]
2 Foot Yard - Borrowed Arms [Yard Work]
Medeski Martin and Wood - Tutrusa’i (from John Zorn’s Book of Angels - Masada Book II) [Tzadik]
Heidi Elva - there’s a spell [self-released, through Vitamin]
Tujiko Noriko, Lawrence English & John Chantler - I Can Hear The Heart [Room40]
Chris Abrahams - Train Trip [Vitamin]
Mirrored Silver Sea - Continual Ascension (feat. Carolyn Gannell, cello) [sound&fury]
Mirrored Silver Sea - Coromandel [sound&fury]
Shoeb Ahmad - Tangled (remixed by Bracken) [hellosQuare] {from a 3″ CD of remixes from his recent album on sound&fury}
Spartak - Night and Day [hellosQuare]
Because of Ghosts - Heroes Are People Too [Feral Media]
Spartak - Ostpolitik (draft 1) [hellosQuare]
Because of Ghosts - Dreaming is Essential [Feral Media]
Epic 45 - The Stars in Autumn (remixed by Bibio) [Make Mine Music]
The Notwist - Sleep (Odd Nosdam remix) [Domino Records]
13 & God - Perfect Speed [Art Union]
J.G. Thirwell - Warm Leatherette [Fractured Recordings]
Jason Forrest - Dark Love [Fractured Recordings]
65daysofstatic vs The Cure - Exploding Head Syndrome [here’s Robert Smith explaining why you shouldn’t buy this from iTunes!]

First track is from a new collaborative album between a lovely Japanese singer and the two blokes who run Room40. Then two tracks from Sydney harpist/singer/songwriter Heidi Elva’s gorgeous new album.
Because of Ghosts’ newie has grown on me to the point where I think it’s a little slice of genius. I’ll be spinning this quite a bit more over the week I think, and I suspect you’ll be hearing it on the station in general…
Then we have a lovely remix of Shoeb Ahmad from a companion 3″ to his new album. Next week I’ll play the remix from all-round musical hero Bracken… Speaking of Shoeb, his duo Spartak’s new album is just out (or just about out), and it is, as probably previously mentioned round these parts, a staggering work of etcetera etcetera - a Must-Buy! as they say. They’ll be coming in on the 21st of September to play live in the studio - wehey!
Among the other fabulous stuff I played tonight were a bunch of covers from the Recovery compilation on Fractured Recordings mentioned last week. It’s a corker of a comp and you owe it to yourself to at least click through to the label’s site and contemplate the wondrousness of 20 really unusual covers over 10 7″ records… Tasty.

Tujiko Noriko, Lawrence English & John Chantler - 12 O’Clock on the Highway [Room40]
Heidi Elva - weeping irish painter [self-released, through Vitamin]
Heidi Elva - for your love [self-released, through Vitamin]
Because of Ghosts - The Content Is Irrelevant [Feral Media] (segue into…)
Because of Ghosts - Life’s Little Victories [Feral Media]
Shoeb Ahmad - Headlights in my Eyes (remixed by Cleptoclectics) [hellosQuare] {from a 3″ CD of remixes from his recent album on sound&fury}
Spartak - The Bloodletting [hellosQuare]
Thee More Shallows - 2AM [Monotreme]
Thee More Shallows - Freshman Remix (by Odd Nosdam with Why?) [Monotreme]
Alias - I Heart Drum Machines [Anticon]
Leila - in the garden [Warp]
Leila - mettle [Warp]
Komonazmuk - Love [Terminal Dusk]
St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart [Heavenly]
Mad EP - Madvision [Ad Noiseam]
Funckarma - Nays of Dight [Ad Noiseam]
Matt-U - Mute Soul [Red Volume]
Cardopusher - Keep on truckin [Terminal Dusk]
Vert - Rocket Man (remix of Hauschka’s “Traffic”) [Kompakt]
Vert - Yrs [Sonig]
Barbara Morgenstern - Temptation [Fractured Recordings] {New Order cover}
Fennesz - Hunting High and Low [Fractured Recordings] {a-ha cover}
Jóhan Jóhansson - Souvenir [Fractured Recordings] {OMD cover}
Robert Lippok & Caroline Thorpe - Freedom [Fractured Recordings] {WHAM! cover}
sj esau - I Threw A Wobbly [Anticon]
Telafonica - Nothing Ventured [4-4-2 Music]
Richard Skelton - Heys [Preservation]
Pretty Boy Crossover - Distant Thought Piano [sound&fury]

Oren Ambarchi - A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks [Table of the Elements]
Richard Skelton - Shore [Preservation]
Tape - Sand dunes [Häpna]
Paavoharju - Ursulan Uni [Fonal]
Mika Vainio - Running Up That Hill [Fractured Recordings]
Why? - As I Went Out One Morning [Asthmatic Kitty]
Alias - Well Water Black (feat. Yoni Wolf of Why?) [Anticon]
The Notwist - Sleep (Odd Nosdam remix) [Domino Records]
Epic 45 - You Are The Annual (remixed by Bracken) [Make Mine Music]
Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged [K Records]
Lucky Dragons - starter culture [Hawks and Sparrows/Mistletone]
Lucky Dragons - Onda Tocadisco [States Rights Records]
Lucky Dragons - wooden cave loop [Hawks and Sparrows/Mistletone]
mom - josh likes me [moamoo/art union]
Qua - Silver Red 2 [Someone Good]
Scissor Lock - Scribbles [sound&fury]
Epic 45 - England Fallen Over (randomNumber ‘winter steppers’ mix) [Make Mine Music/Thomason Sounds]
Because of Ghosts - Dreaming is Essential [Feral Media]
Heidi Elva - there’s a spell [self-released, through Vitamin]
Panoptique Electrical - A vast wilderness of white (or everything has a ceiling including nothingness) [Sensory Projects]
a slow rip - don’t leave the light out [endgame records]
Komonazmuk - Shadows [Terminal Dusk]
Cardopusher - Parilla [Red Volume]
Komonazmuk - Love [Terminal Dusk]
Cardopusher - Everything is a new surprise [Terminal Dusk]
Ebola - Painkillers [spectraliquid]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - Desmond [self-released through Vitamin]

Qua - Silver Red 1 [Someone Good]
Tom Hall - beauty [hellosQuare]
…phoned in interview with Tom Hall…
Tom Hall - Reflection [from self-released Floats]
Qua - Silver Red 3 [Someone Good]
State River Widening - Desertesque [Vertical Form]
Smile Down Upon Us - Two Weeks Last Summer [Static Caravan]
aus - Headphone Girl (State River Widening Remix) [Preco]
Smile Down Upon Us - A Vessel In The Fragrance [Static Caravan]
aus - Moraine (Bracken Remix) [Preco]
Various Production - Deadman (Milanese remix) [Various Production]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - NTV [self-released through Vitamin]
dBridge - Pure Elegance [Exit Records]
Icarus - Moon Palace [Recordings of Substance]
dBridge - Mourning Dawn [Exit Records]
Icarus - keet [Rump]
Señor Coconut - Pinball ChaCha [Third Ear]
Yukihiro Takahashi - Pythagoras’ Trousers [333 discs] {from a wonderful Japanese Penguin Cafe Orchestra tribute album}
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (excerpt from Pt 1 (Archive) and Pt II (Shower)) [Bedroom Community]
Nico Muhly - The Only Tune (feat. Sam Amidon) [Bedroom Community]
Bowerbirds - In Our Talons [Dead Oceans/Longtime Listener]
Deep Puddle Dynamics - Purpose [Anticon]
a slow rip - drift down kiera [endgame records]
Scissor Lock - Scribbles [sound&fury]
Shoeb Ahmad - Tangled [sound&fury]
Telafonica - Nothing Ventured [4-4-2 Music]
65daysofstatic - I’m Dreaming of a White Noise Christmas [classic mashup from these guys that you’ll have to search for…]
Laura - Z.I.B. 2 [Elevation]
Silver Bone Tone - I Don’t Miss You Anymore [demo]

Mitchell Akiyama - The Tactile Properties of Light [Bip-Hop]
Spartak - Can You See The Snow, Love? [hellosQuare]
John Chantler - …No Sad Songs Tonight [hellosQuare]
Spartak - Ostpolitik (Part Timer’s Ost Is Ost mix) [hellosQuare]
Tape - Sunrefrain [Häpna]
Tape - Altamira [Häpna]
Hans Appelqvist - Ser ni Lena jag ser Lena och Ola [Komplott]
Hans Appelqvist - 5×5 / Samiels eftermiddag [Komplott]
Hans Appelqvist - On the Beach [Häpna]
Hans Appelqvist - Jag en gök [Häpna]
Flim - Picture 3 [PowerShovel
Audio]
Flim - Picture 7 [PowerShovel Audio]
Flim - Linker2 [Tomlab]
Tape - Beams [Häpna]
Lucky Dragons - ikeepwaitingforearthquakes [Hawks and Sparrows/Mistletone]
Lucky Dragons - Heartbreaker [555 Recordings]
Lucky Dragons - Cherchez Le Dragon [555 Recordings]
Lucky Dragons - oh i understand [Hawks and Sparrows/Mistletone]
High Places - Jump In (for Gilkey Elementary School) [Thrill Jockey/Mistletone]
Firekites - Worn Weary [Spunk]
Strings of Consciousness - Crest & Watersheds [Stilll]
Strings of Consciousness - remixed by Sutekh [Stilll]
absent - surface scratches [unreleased demo]
Pole - Sachte [~scape]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - Prayer Bowl [self-released through Vitamin]
Con_cetta - Megamix by Part Timer [Moteer]
Con_cetta - Connected Formingaveraging Positive [Moteer]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - Heifen [self-released through Vitamin]
Foals - Red Sox (Various Production remix) [Various Production]
Plastician - Symptomatic [Terrorhythm]
Westernsynthetics - Electronic Cosmetics feat. Werdzvah [Sub Continental Dub]
DJ TR!P - In Dust We Try [demo]

On the local front, I finally tracked down Melbourne (via, well, the world) outfit function’s album the secret miracle fountain overseas, and it’s wonderful stuff. Sydney’s Preservation release US folk singer Tan or Boil, enlisting Aaron Martin to do arrangements & collaborations, and bringing in Melbourne’s Part Timer to do extra remixy biz on a couple of tracks. It’s fantastic stuff.
Also, two tracks from Newcastle band Firekites, beautifully recorded acoustic instruments plus some nice electronic touches, effected drums and the like. Very fine debut. And Holly Throsby’s new album is as beguiling as ever.

High Places - Banana Slugs/Cosmonaut [Thrill Jockey/Mistletone]
James Blackshaw - Echo And Abyss [Tompkins Square]
Gas - Königsforst track 5 [Kompakt]
Atlas Sound - ABC Glasgow [4ad]
a slow rip - devil in the well [endgame records]
Angels of Light - Palisades [Young God]
Alexander Tucker - Veins to the Sky [ATP Recordings]
Various Production - Foller (Zan Lyons remix) [Various Production]
Apse - Shade of the Moor [ATP Recordings]
Darqwan - Universal Wan-Ting [Planet µ]
Funckarma - Stub Dane [Highpoint Lowlife]
Dälek - Abandoned Language [Ipecac]
Subtle - Hollow Hollered [Lex Records]
Laura - Cardboard Cutout Robot Victim Hero Children [Elevation]
Firekites - Same Suburb Different Park [Spunk]
Holly Throsby - Warm Jets [Spunk]
Firekites - Skimming Rooftops [Spunk]
function - prayer in tonal forest [locust music]
Tan or Boil - Visas, Paperwork (extra production from Part Timer) [Preservation]
function - hanalei (alone with the real magic dragon) [locust music]
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ren Takada - Paul’s Dance [333 discs] {from a wonderful Japanese Penguin Cafe Orchestra tribute album}
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Laurence [Milan]
Hans Appelqvist - Tänk att himlens alla stjärnor [Häpna]
Lucky Dragons - my are singing [Hawks and Sparrows/Mistletone]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - CF1 [self-released through Vitamin]

Also some lovely droney stuff from Sydney’s Moonmilk, and post-rocky sounds from Melbourne’s Laura.

In Japan I found ginormous quantities of spin-out stuff, like things sitting on the shelves that you never see. More next week (and later!) but tonight we have a couple of newish Japanese releases: Live in Japan captures 13 & God with fantastic sound quality at a brilliant performance from 2005, and includes an otherwise-unreleased (to my knowledge) track. And there’s a delightful Japanese tribute to Penguin Cafe Orchestra that I’ll be sampling more from in the coming weeks!

Finally, I featured a number of 3″ CD releases. London label disco_r.dance recently put out a series of 12 3″ CDs from mostly (entirely?) London-based artists, covering a lot of electronica plus some freak folk and other weirdnesses. Heaps of great music there and I played material from half of the 12 releases…
And much-loved Leeds duo the remote viewer have released a very limited new album in the form of 2 3″ CDs, on their beermat-based spinoff 3″ label mobeer.

Spartak - Sunstrokes [hellosQuare]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - String Thing [self-released through Vitamin]
Comatone & Foley (aka Trigger Happy) - Desmond [self-released through Vitamin]
Comatone - Winter Day [Feral Media]
Foley - isert [self-released]
Moonmilk - Air Fish [self-released]
Alpen - Look Into The Sunrise [Feral Media] {available for download here}
Laura - Bobik Is In Amerika [Elevation]
13 & God - Out in the open [Art Union]
Shitmat - Super Intelligent Monster Transvestites Invading Your Personal Space [Here’s My Card Records]
Con Brio - We’re All On Fire [disco_r.dance]
Blaubac - Pinwheel [disco_r.dance]
Point B - Sponge Brick [disco_r.dance]
mothboy vs startslow - annoyed (mothboy version) [disco_r.dance]
now - don’t decide [disco_r.dance]
Same Actor - i stand still as i ride in circles [disco_r.dance]
Kwerk - good night chicago [disco_r.dance]
the remote viewer - untitled track 5, “side a” from new double-3″ cd album [mobeer]
the remote viewer - untitled track 2, “side b” from new double-3″ cd album [mobeer]
Takako Minekawa - Telephone And Rubber Band [333 discs] {from a wonderful Japanese Penguin Cafe Orchestra tribute album}
Pivot - Love Like I [Warp]