December 2009
26 posts
teenagersintokyoandtheirnewvideoforpeterpan
To think that they dreamt this up whilst indexing CDs in the FBi Library.
Teenagersintokyo - Peter Pan
Back Yard Recordings | MySpace Music Videos
Free Taster for Warp Records in 2010
Three free MP3s from new Warp signings - Gonjasufi, Nice Nice & The Hundred In The Hands
Warp / Records / Warp News / 2010 - a compilation of new Warp music - some free MP3 downloads added.
New My Disco "cosmic jam" due in 2010
“YOUNG is a volatile, mindboggling excursion into the outer realms of My Disco’s dalliance with German minimalism, clocking in at 10:50. The B-side (duration 10:41) is a remix by Qua which warps the transmissions of YOUNG into sublime rhythmic frequencies.”
News Story on Mistletone.net
My own shameless 'Australian Best Of' for 2009
I did keep a list this year, so it goes - delve in.
CLEPTOCLECTICS Open Tuned Occidentals PIMMON Steered In Smash Ascent BOK DARKLORD s/t K MASON 2 (Evils) COCK SAFARI We Are The Children ALPS Alps Of New South Wales THE SINGING SKIES September Sky PREDRAG DELIBASICH This Season’s Colourful Tones SEVERED HEADS Adenoids 1979-1984 (2008) AFXJIM Blackout Music SCISSOR LOCK Thawing...
Local Fidelity: Best of Australia 2009
Lee Tran Lam once again performs above and beyond the call of duty in aggregating the niche desires of many artists and media folk in the Local Fidelity ‘best of’. Makes for an organic companion piece to the Mess & Noise variant.
Scroll way down (way down) and you’ll find my 2c.
“Street Bananas by Blank Realm – criminally overlooked kosmiche psych-drone from...
Rowland S. Howard tops Mess & Noise Critics Poll
2009 Critics Poll : Mess+Noise
Howard’s first full-length work in a decade marks a stunning comeback for the iconic Melbourne guitar slinger …
Craig McElhinney - Reel To Reel Improvisations
The first session in the Real to Reel recording studio kicked off at midday with Craig McElhinney improvising seven amazing, looping instrumental tracks.
Download the set at Reel To Real
New weird Australia, Broadcast One
Our new free download compilation of unreleased FBi Radio sessions feat. Morning Stalker, Cleptoclectics, Scissor Lock, Go Genre Everything, Random Acts Of Elevator Music, Afxjim and The Ghost Of 29 Megacycles.
New Weird Australia, Broadcast One. | New Weird Australia.
Monstera Deliciosa on The Difficult Music Festival
“For the entire month of January, Sedition in Sydney will be host to The Difficult Music Festival! Most of the events are free or by donation, with a stellar lineup of sound artists, experimental musicians, and weirdo types set to appear, includingSun Of The Seventh Sister, Cock Safari, Toecutter, Dracopede, Jon Hunter, Jim Denley, Sam Pettigrew, Crab Smasher, Automating, Melody Nelson, The...
Preparations for Severed Heads Gig
Tom Ellard is preparing the ‘Happy 30th Birthday Severed Heads’ gig at Sydney Festival on 14th January, (maybe) subtitled “we prefer our clowns to be at least twitching…”
At tomellard.com, he outlines in detail the preparations for the gig, noting “Things are getting pretty damn serious.”
Tom will joining Danny and I on New Weird Australia on Thursday...
Jason Forrest (aka DJ Donna Summer) presents Star6
Agile Partners - Star6
“the world’s first fully-featured sample manipulation instrument for your iPhone” - built by Jason Forrest (Cock Rock Disco, Dj Donna Summer)
How Cool Is Cool?
Quote from yesterday’s Throw Shapes.
TONIGHT! BANDS! GIGGING IN A LANEWAY!
“These bands are all awesome (talented cool), they’re playing in a crazy arty pop-up bar in a laneway (trendy cool) which is a political statement on climate change (Copenhagen cool) because their also-really-cool warehouse party was shut down by the cops (hardcore cool) and one of the bands can’t make it...
What a 90s revival might look like
This blog post from the Spill label muses on its imminent arrival. Complete with handy charts for the less attentive amongst us.
WatchBroadcast Half-Remembers | XLR8R
Intriguing interview with James Cargill Broadcast on the suite of pulp-pagan reference points in their most recent work - especially British kids tv from the mid 1970s. It’s a bit early for my developing brain to recall, but there’s certainly a stylistic continuum into psych-scifi and pop-witchcraft kids shows that I do remember from late 70s and...
Fall Of Efrafa
My mate Duncan specialises in digging up all varieties of Metal weirdness from around the web. Yesterday he tried to turn me on to these guys - Fall Of Efrafa. Haven’t had the courage to download their free album.
fallofefrafa.com
“a band based around a re-imagining of the mythological and political overtones in the book “Watership Down” by Richard Adams, focusing our...
Happy Gristlemas →
THROBBING GRISTLE, Gristleism (Buddha Machine 3.0)
Santa, I couldn’t wait for you and I’ve already bought this. It’s being shipped from London - if you pass the Qantas flight while you’re in the air, maybe you could hurry it along?
Kraftwerk:Der Katalog →
Santa, are you listening? Or are you looking for a quick flash video fix outlining Kraftwerk’s remasters?
kraftwerk.com
Facebook | New Weird Australia →
I’ve been posting links to legitimate free downloads on the New Weird Australia Facebook page and Twitter account. Head there for new albums and EPs from The Townhouses, Abortifacient and Cock Safari, a new 1979 mix from Severed Head’s Tom Ellard, a live set from SMAC winners Seekae and Blastcorp’s 20-track last hurrah.
mnml ssgs mix43: lawrence english →
new experimental mix from brisbane’s lawrence english (room 40)
The Tilted Page →
Jonathon Valenzuela’s “Tilted Page’ zine has morphed into a Tumbleog. Which means no more stalking the V man around zine fairs, just quick hits of clip art LOLs on the interwebs.
