January 2, 2015Mad delay getting this up here, tradition does dictate first of the New Year but what can we say…it’s been a crazy series of events lately. Simply put, 2014 was freaking awesome. So much good music, new labels and strange directions for wax and cassette labels that kept us interested for the full twelve months, if consistently broke at the…
December 20, 2014It was only a few weeks ago when I first hear of Mad Nanna, a group out of Melbourne actively releasing from 2010, occasionally toted as a four-piece but also, and in this instance a duo. And while I’m yet to dig through their catalogue at all, I’m totally smitten by this live album that I picked up on a…
December 15, 2014Very big cassette drop here that we had to get straight in to the headphones the second it arrived in the post. Glad we held out for the physical format of Level Up! before listening, as this is a heavy heavy mix, based around selections from one of the finest catalogues in dub that features some of the most amazing…
December 13, 2014Funny how you get attracted to some records by timing, sleeves, labels or whatever reason. I was going through a Dirty Three revival – in particular 1996’s Horse Stories album – when I first flipped through the tracks on the self-titled debut for Horse Lords. Not sure it had anything more than an animal connection initially, but nonetheless I was…
December 11, 2014Unless you were there it’s hard to convey the influence and importance of Koolism to the Australian music scene. Between the late ’90s and early 2000’s it was the first time that a lot of us heard a non-US or British accent on a rap. And it wasn’t just as a starting point: throughout their career Koolism remained homegrown and…
December 3, 2014Free records, what?! Dubkasm? Fucking crazy. If I’m reading this right then the good folk over at RwdFwd are giving out 100 copies of a system shattering record from their online store tonight. And yes I realise that posting this may cost me my own copy, but everyone involved here is down for spreading the message, so who are we…
November 24, 2014Damn, this LP is really going to turn some heads. You know those releases that turn out to be game changers? The plates that swerve the way you start buying records, if only for a temporary time? I can recall a few; Blind Joe Death, Marcellus Pittman’s Erase The Pain 12″, The Heliocentrics, Rhythim is Rhythim and Ras G’s Ghetto…
November 22, 2014Few artists get us this excited with a new release, but then again there’s only a select few constantly peaking our interest, and a select few who’s sound remains distinctly their own with every release. Nad Spiro is Rosa Arruti, Barcelona based sonic experimentalist undoubtedly making some of the most interesting music out there. We first discovered her work through…
November 20, 2014After a few days getting back to nature we were plunged in to a week of travel and a new level of hecticness reserved for the inner-circle of hell, hence the radio silence over the last seven days. Very pleased to be returning not only with new discoveries from Melbourne, but also to a few welcome deliveries of tapes and…
November 10, 2014And we have a winner! The Dead Albatross Music Prize crowned it’s second ever champion last week, with Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze announcing results across a three-hour show on Reel Rebels. Gutted that the bickering and squabbling over who should and shouldn’t have made the shortlist is over for another year, but well stoked at the caliber of contestants that…