Norwegian space/cosmic-disco soldier Prins Thomas is making a triumphant return to the Mercat, this time in the basement, taking place this Friday (27/1) courtesy of the Animals Dancing crew. And if last time is anything to go by then we will be in for a treat this time round too. Tickets are still available from… (read the rest?)
Michael Bundt
German Michael Bundt has been involved with a number bands in the early 70s, most notably Nine Days Wonder (tracks: ‘We Never Lost Control’ and ‘Only the Dancers’, Wintergarden (album: Wintergarden III), Medusa, and his band Nerve (although recordings were never released except for two tracks on a compilation). In the mid 70s Michael shifted from… (read the rest?)
SonusCast ♒003 — Deformative
SonusCast is the journey through the shotgun scattered sonic-mental network of a selected guest in each release, in the form of a simple mix. Influences, anthems, beat-gems and anything that fits. Deformative is one Sean Walshe, brief Australian resident, now living in Belfast, UK. Sean hosts the notorious Go Bang nights featuring international guests such… (read the rest?)
LEFTOVERS
A short collection of Unpopular Organic Beats I was meant to post last year but never got around to. ____________________ Post ‘Remain In Light’ era Talking Heads inspired UK Afro-Pop. MP3: Luna Twist – African Time Deliciously fractured hard-J-Pop collaboration between Sakamoto (of Yellow Magic Orchestra) and diva Kisaragi. MP3: Koharu Kisaragi & Ryuichi Sakamoto… (read the rest?)
ITAL MELBOURNE TOUR
Daniel Martin-McCormick proved to be one of the more diverse artists of 2011, what with the genius punk and post-hardcore of Mi Ami and Black Eyes, moving into dark synthetic pop with his solo project Sex Worker, and finally into messy/perfect, flat out twisted derivative-dancefloor anthems with Ital. Early 2011 saw the release of “Ital’s… (read the rest?)
EYヨ
The highly talented and creative Japanese born vocalist/(Dada) visual artist, Yamatsuka Eye, is down for the Sugar Mountain Festival in Melbourne and also for this years Sydney Festival. He is most known for founding the experimental rock band Boredoms in early 1986, a progression from noise band Hanatarash created by Eye, Zeni Geva and Mitsuru… (read the rest?)
Selections (Best Of): 2011
So it’s that time of the year when we start to reflect. Both Patch and I have reflected. Things that caught our ears in 2011. We reflect them back upon you. We urge you to listen to each and every one.
KJC Uncensored
Well it’s around that time where we have to wrap up the Holy day that’s otherwise known as Christmas (oh, Merry Christmas readers!). If you want to wind down and relax from the all that X-Mas jazz then look no further: listen to the lush voice of Kirin J Callinan doing the talk back business;… (read the rest?)
P.C.P.
More deluxe Dark Dance tunes courtesy of Melbourne’s P.C.P. (Luke Brown). Earlier on in the year we posted both his track ‘Piza‘ and the fantastic ethnographically confused ‘Shebeen Mix‘. P.C.P. will also debut his live show alongside Miles Brown from the Nighterrors, Matthew Brown, Morgan (WORNG, The Emergency) and a few others for a late… (read the rest?)