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Triple J Announces House Party Tour
Stash your valuables! Triple J’s House Party is hitting the road this August with special guests Nina Las Vegas, Flight Facilities, Cassian and more.
The massive club tour, derived from the popular Saturday night radio program, will kick off in Sydney, Perth, Fremantle, Brisbane,…
Guy J Interview
Australia has its own cult mix compilation brand in Balance, rivalling Global Underground in its prime. Israeli progressive house trailblazer Guy Judah, or just Guy J, is the latest DJ to headline a volume in the arty spin-off Balance Presents…, after London’s jozif.
In fact, Judah’s set…
DJ Friction Interview
D&B is big again, with DJ Fresh a pop star and Rudimental blowing up. Now the Brit DJ Friction (AKA Ed Keeley) once hailed as ‘the new Andy C’, is dragging the music back into a cool subterranean with his intricate FabricLive 70.
The Fabric mix-CD packages…
Q+A With Alison Wonderland
Alison Wonderland came to prominence through EMI’s She Can DJ competition – but there’s a lot more to the Sydney DJ than a talent contest.
Did a lot of thought go into releasing Get Ready as the debut single from your album?
I play mostly hip…
Ilario Alicante And Alejandro Mosso: Cocoon Ibiza
Cocoon is the Law & Order of techno. Reliable, slightly predictable but if it’s on, you won’t turn it off.
Even if one of the discs on here is a new signing Alejandro Mosso’s mix of his productions and remixes, it’s not like when (the then) relatively…
Mayer Hawthorne: Where Does This Door Go
If you liked Mayer Hawthorne’s last album, How Do You Do (2011), you’re definitely in for something different on his latest full-length effort.
Gone are the days of homages to the great Motown classics and the retro-soul sound of the ‘60s – it’s in with the ‘70s…
Jay Z: Magna Carta…Holy Grail
If you can forget the irony of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics being used in an album released as a Samsung app, you might enjoy listening to this album. With a host of big names on Magna Carta…Holy Grail, Jay Z teams up with Justin Timberlake on the opening track Holy Grail…
Listen: Cut Copy Unveil New Single ‘Let Me Show You’
Not ones to be satisifed with an iTunes release, over the weekend Cut Copy unveiled their latest track Let Me Show You via a series of exclusive 12” vinyls hand-cut in a booth at Pitchfork Music Festival. One of the lucky punters to walk away with one of the vinyls has
Maya Jane Coles Interview
Londoner Maya Jane Coles, oft namechecked by other DJ/producers, has finally delivered her debut album, after 2012’s acclaimed DJ-Kicks. Comfort will impress devotees with its deep and dubby soundscapes – not to mention Tricky cameo.
The Comfort title is ironic since Coles – who composes, produces, engineers and mixes her…
James Blake Interview
The post-dubstep auteur James Blake has delivered one of 2013’s best albums so far in Overgrown, surpassing even his soulfully discordant and cerebral eponymous debut, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Now he’s headlining Splendour In The Grass.
But, first, the Brit, conducting nocturnal phone interviews in…
Q+A With Nick Thayer
Last year Melbourne DJ/producer Nick Thayer unleashed his Like Boom EP via Skrillex’s OWSLA. Now comes the follow-up, Worlds Collide, with input from… Mötley Crüe drummer-cum-DJ Tommy Lee.
How did you connect with Skrillex?
It was very organic. I just got an e-mail one day – probably about a…
Thundercat: Apocalypse
Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner’s version of funk is Bootsy Collins and Stevie Wonder jamming in the Enterprise at Warp Drive. His space age funk is more nuanced on his second album, Apocalypse, which sees him evolve as a songwriter with gorgeous tracks such as Heartbreaks & Setbacks and Without You. The…
Gildas Kitsune & Jerry Bouthier
At the tail end of last decade, two labels were briefly the coolest imprints on the planet: Pedro Winter’s heavy disco of Ed Banger, with Justice as it shining disco ball, and fellow Parisian label Kitsune, run by Gildas Kitsune, who like Winter once worked with Daft Punk. Ed Banger…
Pet Shop Boys: Electric
Pet Shop Boys have returned with another cyber exploding album called Electric. In typical Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe fashion, the album is fast paced and sounds like a mid-‘80s throwback when their songs dominated the dance scene. This album is pure dancefloor and the stand out tracks to listen…
Classixx Announce ‘Listen Out’ Adelaide Sideshow
LA-based duo Classixx are playing Adelaide’s Cats At Rocket this September as part of a special Listen Out sideshow.
The Kitsune Records twosome, which is comprised of electro protégées Michael David and Tyler Blake, will be performing tunes from their recent debut album Hanging Gardens, which was released in May…
Vydamo: Becoming Human
It’s with little surprise after seeing Art Vs Science at Southbound 2010, where they basically played until they melted their faces off, that high-energy vocalist Jim Finn would eventually burn out. Following antics on a US tour, Finn ended up on dialysis following a kidney transplant in 2012. Turning a…
Maya Jane Coles: Comfort
London native and current darling of the deep beats realm, Maya Jane Coles has just dropped her first studio album Comfort – a textural blend of tech, deep house and also some slower moments, all linked by a ribbon of silky, stripped-back femininity. There’s a lot to like here, with…
Funk D’Void Interview
The deep techno stalwart Funk D’Void (AKA Lars Sandberg) may be known to play pre-gig ping-pong matches with fans but, as a DJ/producer, he avoids gimmicky. Sandberg, based with his young family in Barcelona, Spain, last toured Australia’s clubs at the end of 2012, in support of his Balance 022…
Juan Atkins Cancels Australian Tour
Juan Atkins has announced that he will not be able to undertake his Australia tour due to a bad case of food poisoning which has left him hospitalised. While Melbourne has been quick to replace Atkins with Phil Kieran and Funk D’Void, as far as other cities are concerned, organisers…
Porter Robinson Interview
Porter Robinson’s upcoming DJ tour is selling out – but it may be the final time Australians see the American electro-house prodigy as they know him. Robinson is developing a ‘live’ show for 2014. That the general quick-mix DJ who’s twice joined our festival circuit, has committed to a club…
Bliss N Eso Interview
On the surface, Jonathan Notley, Max MacKinnon and Tarik Ejjamai are just three regular dudes, but put them together and something magical happens. As Bliss N Eso, their fifth album Circus In The Sky is the prime example of this phenomenon, something that McKinnon (MC Eso) describes as…
South Australia DMC Finals: Rocket Bar, Sat Aug 3
After nearly a decade of absence, world-renowned DJ competition World DMC Championships will return to Adelaide this August to unearth some of the best turntablists in the state.
This year will mark the competition’s 30th anniversary, with SA heats kicking off at Rocket Bar on…
Delta & Funkoars Head Up ‘Word Adelaide’ Freestyle MC Competition
Word Adelaide is hitting the streets this Aug 15 -18 to celebrate all things spoken word – including rhymes. As part of the event, a national-reaching Freestyle MC Competition will be held at Thebarton Theatre for MCs to compete in acapella, beatbox and instrumental rounds for the chance…
Darkbeat: 10th Anniversary 3CD Collection
Prior to getting my filthy mitts on this album I’d never heard of Darkbeat. Now I must say it is a label I will keep my eyes open for because this album of 43 tracks is nothing short of the business. Spanning a spectrum of styles within the four-beat realm,…
Q+A With Yuksek
In 2011 French DJ/producer Yuksek, AKA Pierre-Alexander Busson, revelled in vintage pop on a brilliant second album, Living On The Edge Of Time. He actually sang. The Reims native, bored of DJ culture, would then bring his band to last year’s Splendour In The Grass. But now he’s re-embracing club…
