CONFORMITY HAS REPLACED CONSCIOUSNESS – B-QUARTET
B-Quartet‘s conformity has replaced consciousness sees the rock band taking a different approach to their trademark sound. A phrase taken off a lecture by German social philosopher Theodor Adorno, the album was released this April. Eschewing the electronic elements and synthesizers used in their debut LP, they opt for a more organic and mellow sound [...]
Anti-Anti Dec/Jan 2011 Mix – Clash The Disko Kids
Clash The Disko Kids has released their Anti-Anti Dec/Jan 2011 mix with some solid techno sounds set to get you moving. Clash The Disko Kids (CTDK) is a Singapore electro-techno-house duo consisting of DJ Kurt and Weili. Together as Clash The Disko Kids, they have been formidable on the dance floors as Singapore’s most popular [...]
JNR-B4-TIEFSCHWARZ BY JNR
JNR is the latest edition to Asia’s longest running, and internationally renowned super club, ZOUK. As a resident DJ of Velvet Underground, he joins veteran Jeremy Boon where they champion quality soul inspired music from House, Soul, Disco, Rare Groove and Funk. Though new to Zouk, JNR is by no means a newbie, with residency [...]
MUSTANG MIXTAPE DEC 2010
Mustang is a brand new collaboration between veteran Dj Renaud Deru (aka Cosy Mozzy) & new comber Andy Faisca the studio wizard! Renaud build his career as co-owner, resident dj en artistic director of the infamous Dirty Dancing Club in Brussels. Both have the same musical obsession for Italo,Disco, Early House & Classic Pop music. [...]
HEARTS A MESS BY GOYTE
Wally de Backer, otherwise known as Gotye, makes new-sounding music drawn from old sources—vinyl, CDs and tapes ‘all cobbled together’, de Backer says, ‘to sound seamless.’ Over two lps and an album of remixes, the ARIA-Award-winning alt-pop songsmith has garnered himself a solid fanbase in his home country, and with his hotly anticipated new lp—three [...]
FOX (PRODUCED BY MARK RONSON) BY DANIMALS
Sydney electro-rock collective Danimals have been named the winner of the Tooheys Extra Dry: The Lab competition. As the reward the band was flown to New York City to record a track with British producer Mark Ronson. The resulting song “Fox” boasts an upbeat pop psychedelic sound with a modern twist on the legendary Beatles. [...]
BOY & BEAR – RABBIT SONG
Ordinarily having four singer-songwriters at the helm would make for a fractious and chaotic band. Not so with Sydney indie-folk quintet Boy & Bear, who manage to make it work by founding their sound in what they call ‘the Americana big harmony vibe’. Think Fleet Foxes and The Shins, but with a fondness for the [...]
MEXICO BY THE HOLIDAYS
Sydney’s The Holidays began with four friends from uni ‘making random noises and playing bad covers’. Soon enough, the four discovered they could actually write songs—catchy, sharp, sunny, instantly likeable songs, and the band started getting some attention, first in Sydney and then beyond. Soon enough, the band had ditched uni and were putting together [...]
GOLD CANARY BY CLOUD CONTROL
Four childhood friends from the Blue Mountains, Cloud Control patiently honed their sound for a number of years after relocating to Sydney, releasing their debut lp, Bliss Release, an alarmingly coherent debut full of spark and space and warmth, earlier this year. The secret’s quickly getting out: Gold Canary, which you can watch them perform [...]
THE TURNTABLE INSTRUMENTALIST BY DJ KOFLOW
DJ KoFlow held a kick ass concert lately at the Esplanade Concert Hall to launch his latest and very first album, The Turntable Instrumentalist. Titled as such to demonstrate the old school basics of turntablism and to showcase the artistic value behind it, the album sees a stellar mix featuring original mixes with the signature [...]
FOOL’S GOLD FOOLCAST 019: INTERNATIONAL GOLD
The guys over at Fool’s Gold have excellent Foolcasts. Here’s Foolcast 019- International Gold by Brodinski, a “globetrotting, internet hardwired, one-of-a kind deejay pal”. His “International Gold” mix showcases the bouncing, bubbling side of Brodi via a tasty selection of recent favorites and new exclusives. Subscribe to the Foolcast via iTunes or your favorite RSS [...]
The Double Dip Daffy Special Mixtape by Dave Does
Butter resident Dave Does brings you back to the old school with his new mix of the month; a throw back mix to all of the electronic music he grew up to in the mid ninties. “Week in week out at warehouse parties as a 15 yr old were the pinacle of my party days. [...]
Oh Boy Fridays in The Diskco Breakdown – DJ NOMSTA
Nomsta has been busy prepping something special for everyone this holiday season and what better way to do so than a sonic gift in the form of some house-y goodness. Oh Boy Fridays in The Diskco Breakdown by DJ NOMSTA is a 1hr 15min set with disco bits and the NOMSTA flavour you guys are [...]
The Fire Is Gone – After The Fall
After The Fall headed back into their home studio on the Central Coast of NSW to start recording their new album in mid 2010, with the first track to see the light of day is “The Fire Is Gone”. The track and direction for the new album has come off the back of road testing [...]
Let It Go feat Miss MIC (Liberate Garage mix) DTW001 – Cosa nostra
The dub version of the track, Let It Go feat. Miss MC (Liberate Garage Mix) by Cosa Nostra is one of the tracks featured on the B-side of the 1st release on Darker Than Wax, a new label by the duo. Be sure to keep a look out for their digital releases online in digital [...]
Killing Time Vol. IV: ‘Black Blood’ – Skitsnygg
After having released his remix of The Ting Tings’ Hands, 21 year old NY based Skitsnygg releases a killer mixtape with an addictive tracklist concentrating on electro house. ————— TRACKLIST: 1. DEADMAU5 – SOFI NEEDS A LADDER (SKITSNYGG + SKELETRONIX ’SOFI GOES TO HELL’ REMIX) 2. ALEX KIDD – MOVE OVER (LUCKY DATE REMIX) 3. [...]
Hands – The Ting Tings (Skitsnygg Remix)
Originally from a tiny town on the New York/Pennsylvania border, Brian Migliore AKA Skitsnygg currently resides in Brooklyn, NY producing heavy, distorted dance floor smashers. Skitsnygg moved to Stockholm in May 2007 to see what the world had to offer. Since then he’s moved around the US and Canada frequently, only to find himself back [...]
