It always saddens & frustrates me when a promising new band that you actually LOVE, great sound, new / different / exciting EP etc, drop their debut record it’s less than amazing.
Tigercity’s awesome Pretend Not To Love EP was brimming with touches of funky Prince, Holy Ghost style disco and Junior Boys electro pop. While [...]

I’ve been pretty excited lately to feature new releases from fresh label Lightspeed Records, the latest project for Melbourne DJ turned producer Agent 86. Last month saw the first release, ‘Let There Be Light’, his own collection of funk-filled edits that included the Olivia Newton John inspired track ‘Magic‘ (you can grab it here if [...]

A belated post to honour the late great director John Hughes who past away last week. He was responsible for creating some of the most iconic teen flicks of the eighties. I paid tribute to him this weekend by digging up a classic record from the ‘Ferris Bueller’ soundtrack, the instantly recognisable theme song, ‘Oh [...]

Johnny Jewell of Glass Candy and Chromatics has yet another side project to his name, Desire, and once again it consists of him doing production duties while an ethereal female sings breathily over the top. While part of me wants to just shake him and say make another Glass Candy record dammit! it’s a welcome [...]

Image by ARTEMIS for Hobogestapo @ Controversy II with DJ Kaos & Knightlife.

Just adding to my post last week featuring DJ Agent 86; he’s been kind enough to share his amazing remix of the classic Pink Floyd anthem ‘Another Brick In The Wall’. You’ll be happy to know that he doesn’t steer away from the [...]

Finally I can share some truly amazing new music that I’ve been holding onto now for a few months. It’s the hard work of Melbourne’s DJ Agent 86 – a veteran of the music scene for 20 years. He began selling records and has since played in many of the best bars, clubs and [...]

Just a glimpse at a few new additions to my crate over the past month….
New double sided release on Institubes for Renaissance Man out of France. A tribal-prog journey with a static vocal and prayer service sandwiched in the center. Also peep the Riva Starr remix for added jungle flava.
MP3: RENAISSANCE MAN – WHAT IS [...]

It’s not every day that you stumble across music gold in the bargain bin of a record store but every once and a while you discover something that just can’t be topped. Many moons ago i purchased Chromeo’s debut LP for a mere .99 cents, totally unaware of the love that would prevail, i also [...]

Two excellent purveyors of tape-hiss and ethereal pop. Ducktails have been getting a fair bit of exposure from blogs like GorillaVsBear and the like, with comparisons that they’re a tropical version of Wavves. Ducktails sound like something being broadcast from the middle of a distant heatwave on a far away island.
MP3: Ducktails – Backyard
Gary [...]

German juggernaut label Permanent Vacation have just released a selection of their best work entitled exactly that; Selected Label Works No 1. Included on the compilation are huge tracks from Sally Shapiro, Dolle Jolle, Lullabies In The Dark, Only Fools & Horses and Panthers plus this little ditty by 40 Thieves which is also the [...]