3D World Issue #1014

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CONTENTS

An amiable Devin Abrams discusses the fourth SHAPESHIFTER album and how new drummer Johnny Hooves has slotted smoothly into the stool vacated

by Johnny Hooves

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Tour announcements, Epic/Fail and other tasty morsels in NEWS

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Expect a mix of sweetness and light on the new album from indie-dance mavericks MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS

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Rather than add to their genre collection, THE CAT EMPIRE are all about the songs on their new album

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Former multi-instrumental purist STATIC REVENGER was shown the light by some Detroit techno legends

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When he goes solo, GIFT OF GAB is all about exploring the cosmos

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SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM have a name which is as difficult to comprehend as their sound is to pigeonhole

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Album number one for DELOREAN combines the learnings of ten years of musical exploration

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RENAISSANCE MAN on moving to Berlin, touring the world, and architecture in Helsinki (not really, but they are Finnish)

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PURPLE SNEAKERS DJS on the club that became a label that focused on the club but now is back on label priority watch

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The latest albums and singles get put under the microscope in CD REVIEWS

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SOCIAL CLUB gets saucy with Minx

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Dig a little deeper with our specialist genre COLUMNS

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Social snaps galore in SUSHI. Don’t let your mother see this!

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What to do, and where to do it in LISTINGS

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SPENCER SUSSER talks about his debut feature film Hesher, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman

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The week in arts: CULTURAL CRINGE, FRONT ROW, and THEATRE REVIEWS

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FILM REVIEWS: Sex And The City 2, Mademoiselle Chambon, and Mugabe And The White African

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BEN MENDELSOHN and DAVID MICHÔD discuss the new Aussie crime film, Animal Kingdom

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3D NEWS

JUNE

KLUTE – Friday 11, Chinese Laundry GIFT OF GAB – Friday 11, Oxford Art Factory REMEDY: TOTAL SCIENCE – Friday 11, The Loft UTS GENERIC COLLECTIVE FIRST BIRTHDAY: RENAISSANCE MAN – Friday 11, Civic MIAMI HORROR – Friday 11, Waves WE LOVE SOUNDS: UNDERWORLD, TIGA, THE PROXY, CROOKERS, ELLEN ALLIEN, MANDY & MORE – Saturday 12, Hordern Pavilion and Surrounds RON CARROLL – Saturday 12, ivy LEE MORTIMER – Saturday 12, Chinese Laundry PICNIC: THE REVENGE, DJ SPUN – Saturday 12, Civic MIAMI HORROR – Saturday 12, Manning Bar WHAM!: SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM – Saturday 12, World Bar SALMONELLA DUB, TIJUANA CARTEL – Saturday 12, Coogee Bay Hotel MAD RACKET: TOM TRAGO – Saturday 12, Marrickville Bowling & Recreation Club SHAPESHIFTER, ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE SOUND SYSTEM – Sunday 13, Metro SHE: MR V, DJ JORJ – Sunday 13, ivy RAP CITY: DJ PREMIER, THE BEATNUTS, MASTA ACE & EDO G – Sunday 13, The Forum FIERCE ANGEL: MARK DOYLE, LADY V, SORAYA VIVIAN – Sunday 13, Trademark DESTINATION: ALI B – Sunday 13, 202 Broadway RENAISSANCE MAN – Sunday 13, QWB NOUVELLE VAGUE, BERRY – Wednesday 16, Factory Theatre NOUVELLE VAGUE, BERRY – Thursday 17, Factory Theatre CASSETTE KIDS – Friday 18, Oxford Art Factory MOBIN MASTER – Saturday 19, ivy TOM NEVILLE – Saturday 19, Chinese Laundry DANCE CLUB: NADASTROM – Saturday 19, Oxford Art Factory URTHBOY, LOOSE CHANGE – Saturday 19, Sandringham Hotel ALIX PEREZ – Friday 25, Chinese Laundry ERPHUN – Saturday 26, Chinese Laundry OPERATOR PLEASE – Saturday 26, Metro Theatre ROBERT HOOD – Saturday 26, Civic Underground OZI BATLA ALBUM LAUNCH– Saturday 26, Annandale Hotel

JULY

GIGI BAROCCO – Friday 2, Candy’s Apartment MISTA SAVONA – Friday 2, Beach Road Hotwl THE LIKES OF YOU: STEPHAN BODZIN, HUGO – Saturday 3, Arthouse Hotel AIRPORT: SIMON PATTERSON, SIED VAN RIEL – Saturday 3, Gaelic Theatre DROP THE LIME – Saturday 3, Chinese Laundry GIGI BAROCCO – Saturday 3, Lot 33 RIP-THE-RUNWAY: LIL KIM, JUELZ SANTANA & SKULL GANG, CHINGY – Friday 9, Sydney Entertainment Centre TRANCE NATION: TYDI, MARLO – Friday 9, Home GODSPEED: NEOPHYTE, TOMMYKNOCKER, BEHOLDER – Saturday 10, Metro Theatre ALL-4-ONE – Friday 16, Metro Theatre REDLIGHT: ALEXKID, MARTIN LANDSKY – Saturday 17, Plantation KEVIN RUDOLF, SHONTELLE – Sunday 18, Enmore Theatre SPIT SYNDICATE – Thursday 22, The Harp, Wollongong SCUBA – Friday 23, Civic SPIT SYNDICATE – Friday 23, The Cambridge, Newcastle JAMES HOLDEN – Saturday 24, Chinese Laundry SPIT SYNDICATE – Saturday 24, The Gaelic Club SPIT SYNDICATE – Sunday 25, The Wall LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, HOT CHIP – Monday 26, Hordern Pavilion SCISSOR SISTERS – Tuesday 27, Big Top at Luna Park WINTERBEATZ: BIG BOI, FATMAN SCOOP, NE-YO, T-PAIN – Wednesday 28, Acer Arena YEASAYER – Wednesday 28, Metro Theatre FOALS – Wednesday 28, Manning Bar GOLDFRAPP – Thursday 29, Big Top at Luna Park

AUGUST

THE DRUMS – Sunday 1, Oxford Art Factory JÓNSI – Monday 2, Enmore Theatre PASSION PIT – Monday 2, The Forum K-OS – Wednesday 4, Oxford Art Factory LIBERATE: JOHN 00 FLEMING, MIKE, TRITONAL – Saturday 7, Space LOWRIDER – Friday 13, Annandale Hotel UTOPIA HOMEGROWN: DARREN STYLES, MARK BREEZE, MC WHIZZKID, BITROK, SHADES OF GRAY & MORE: Saturday 14, Hordern Pavilion and Surrounds MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS – Friday 20, The Forum TRANCE NATION: TYDI, MARLO – Friday 20, Academy THE CAT EMPIRE – Sunday 29, Hordern Pavilion

SEPTEMBER

LEE BURRIDGE – Saturday 25, Chinese Laundry

OCTOBER

PARKLIKE – Sunday 3, Venue TBC

COLD AS ICE

Excited by the prospect of catching Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Nino Brown and Phinesse at Winterbeatz 2010? Then brace yourself, as the Wednesday 28 July all ages event is about to get better with the addition of Outkast member Big Boi, pictured, and the seemingly inescapable Fatman Scoop; if you don’t know who either artist is then perhaps it’s time to emerge from under your rock. Be it The Way You Move or Rosa Parks for the former or Be Faithful for the latter, both have enjoyed their fair share of commercial success and are unlikely to give it up any time soon. Held at the Acer Arena, tickets to Winterbeatz 2010 start at $99 + b/f and are available now.

PARKLIFE TURNS TEN

It’s hard to believe that Fuzzy’s Parklife festival turns ten this year as its maiden sunshine drenched outing feels as if it were no more than yesterday. Alas, time drags on and on Sunday 3 October the festival hits a milestone with a bang. Fuzzy cofounder John Wall states, “this year’s going to be huge … there are some really cool surprises for music lovers across the country. If you think you know Parklife, you’re going to love where we’re taking the line-up this year. It’s not what you expect.” With the Junior Boys and house favourite Claude VonStroke having graced the line-up last year there are certainly big boots to fill. Announcement comes Wednesday 9 June – watch this space for further details. And there will be some surprises...

Trance fans are spoilt for choice of late; while Liberate has occupied plenty of attention lately by providing many a lauded guest entertainer, Airport is no slouch either. For its return flight to the Gaelic Theatre on Saturday 3 July, Airport has enlisted Simon Patterson (of F-16 fame) and the more progressive Sied Van Riel who contributes to 405 Recordings’ two disc Airport compilation alongside Australian progressive trance artist Trent McDermott – who’ll be joining other locals Nathan Cryptic, Alex Panik and DJ Ruby in support. While the compilation won’t be available until Saturday 19 June, you can snag general admission tickets from Moshtix for $49.60 now.

EPIC & FAIL EPIC MORE ESSENTIAL DIGGERS

It’s been on rotation for a week at 3D World HQ, and last Saturday morning’s two hours of Essential Mix power from progressive house’s Mr Consistency John Digweed is still blowing us away. If the first 45 minutes doesn’t have you reaching for the lasers you probably don’t have arms…

HALFWAY MARK

We’re almost six months into 2010 and long-players from Janelle Monáe, Kasper Bjørke, Trentemøller, Shapeshifter, Gorillaz, Four Tet, Noisia, Pantha Du Prince and UNKLE already have 3D World in an ‘album of the year’ lather – if we get half as many contenders through the rest of the year the podium could get very crowded…

DIM MAK INVADERS

It was recently announced that Music People would be hosting a Dim Mak-themed We Love Sounds 2010 kick-on at the Metro – following on from the previous performance of label head honcho Steve Aoki at the venue which he allegedly rates in his top five shows of all time. Electro hungry locals will be pleased to find Joachim Garraud, Felix Cartal, Autoerotique, pictured, and Sonic C – who’ll be having his first legal tipple in Oz – featuring alongside yet more to be announced acts across all three rooms of the Metro on Saturday 12 June. Tickets to the Dim Mak Australia Take Over party are available now though metrotheatre. com.au for $40 + b/f and selling fast.

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A HOLIDAY…

…and since there’s fuck-all chance of us getting a holiday anytime soon, we’ve decided to go with a change instead. See you next week…

FAIL THE FIX IS ON

Apparently it’s not just Pakistani cricketers who can get in on this fixing racket, with the Chartfixer site claiming to be able to get you into the ARIA singles charts by paying their minions to download your track from the relevant portals. At last, the ARIA Top Ten finally makes sense…

NEVER TEAR US APART

NOVEMBER DECEMBER

WET WET WET

MUSE – Thursday 9, Acer Arena

Tigerstyle continues its impressive stream of international bookings with one of Fergie’s best signings to his Excentric label – the talented Erphun. Beloved of progressive jocks across the globe, his productions link into the current cross over between techno and prog house which has the likes of John Digweed forging ever deeper into uncharted musical territory. It’s unsurprising then that Digweed recently signed Erphun’s The Little Rascal and Termination Sequence for his Bedrock Eleven compilation. The Californian artist will be making his Sydney debut at Chinese Laundry on Saturday 26 June.

FLY AWAY

With Fabric now in administration the future of the London clubbing institution is on shaky ground – and while that doesn’t necessarily affect us on the other side of the world, if the compilation series ever wraps up it’ll leave a big hole in the CD racks of dance music enthusiasts. All our digits are crossed…

JASON DERÜLO – Tuesday 9, Hordern Pavilion

PROG BY ANOTHER NAME

Dear rain, now that you’ve fucked off, please stay gone for a bit. Love, us.

COASTWARD BOUND

Coaster 2010 headliners Cypress Hill aren’t the easiest act to compete with but that won’t stop others on the line-up from trying. Taking place at the Gosford Showground on Saturday 25 September, Coaster 2010 also features Birds Of Tokyo, Art vs Science, Bluejuice, Basement Birds, Silversun Pickups, Cloud Control, Hungry Kids Of Hungary, Boy & Bear, Illy, Spit Syndicate, The Aston Shuffle, The Holidays, Slow Down Honey, The Chemist and City Riots with more acts yet to be announced.

Tickets aren’t on sale until Thursday 1 July but in the meanwhile you can keep up to date by checking www.coasterfestival.com.au or, you know, watch this space.

SHE’S WITH ME...

Reckless Republic have to date gifted Sydney clubbers with plenty a good party and don’t seem like slowing down any time soon. In fact, they’re launching a brand new weekly event called Plus +1 at the Civic Underground on Friday 2 July, gathering talent from Sydney’s most respected event crews including Loose Kaboose, Shrug, Colour, Bug In The Bass and Good Sorts amongst others. Details of the launch are thin on the ground but upcoming international guests include Pablo Cahn, Holger Zilske, Johnny D and Scuba, so we’re on the right track. Besides, any event which seeks to glue together disparate elements of the Sydney underground is good in our books.

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PERFECT TEN

BETTER KNOWN TO CLUBBERS OF AUSTRALIA AS DJ DREY, ANDRE LACKMANN SHARES THE STORY OF TEN YEARS OF INTHEMIX WITH LIZ GALINOVIC. Ten years ago, a dance music lover with an IT background and a creative streak was spending his evenings in clubs photographing the goings on of Australia’s dance music scene. This man, Andre Lackmann, known to his bedroom audience as DJ Drey, then decided he felt like “mucking around with web technologies and the internet and that sort of thing”.

“I was going clubbing a lot at the time and wanted to teach myself some web programming. So it all came out of that dual passion for computers and technology and dance music.”

BE WARNED

Australian reggae acts are few and far between but so long as artists such as Mista Savona are hanging around, who’s counting? He’ll be touring throughout July in support of recent album release Warn The Nation and stopping by the Beach Road Hotel on Friday 2 July with his full ten piece band plus special guests Vida-Sunshyne and Jornick. With even the Sydney Morning Herald calling Savona’s album “the most authentic reggae to ever come out of Australia” you know the guy has to be doing something right. Did we mention that the Elefant Traks, Savona Records and ozreggae.com presented event is free? Probably worth noting.

DUB DIVING

As the boss/creator of Hotflush Recordings, Paul Rose – aka Scuba – can rightly lay claim to being responsible for some of dubstep’s finest moments. A formidable DJ/ producer in his own right, Rose’s recent album Triangulation is both futuristic and optimistic, despite dark overtones. Anyone who signs a track like Hyph Mngo has to be a little bit happy, right? Rose will be paying the Civic a visit on Friday 23 July thanks to Niche Productions and is supported by Mark Pritchard, Simon Caldwell, Johnny Faith and Monk Fly. Tickets available now though Moshtix for $26.50.

COMMON TOUR POSTPONED

Though the reasons for Common and Kid Capri’s tour postponement are yet to be established, the important thing to consider is that it’s not a cancellation! Better yet they’ll be making their way out some time in September, which means tickets to the Friday 11 June event at The Forum remain valid for the reschedule. Ticket holders can still request a refund from the place of purchase while new tour dates are expected to be announced within the week.

RIP-THE-RUNWAY

Rip-The-Runway is set to make the most of its five hours at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday 9 July with an urban line-up that’s hard to fathom. Presented by SRMG Entertainment and 3D World, it features the eponymous Lil’ Kim, relative new comer Juelz Santana and his band the Skull Gang, DJ Drama & Willie The Kid, the chart hassling Chingy and Houston’s hero Young Twinn plus more yet to be announced acts. Tickets start at $129 + b/f and bookings made through the SRMG website enter you into the running to win a Hyundai i30 or backstage passes.

Each jock on the bill will be playing educator, picking one their favourite labels to construct their set. Mark Pritchard will be heading for the DMZ, Luke Snarl is taking on the inimitable Hyperdub, Lorna Clarkson will be getting busy with Warp, Victim is picking some Planet Mu gold and Eli is billed for some Rhythm & Sound. With entry setting you back a paltry $10 there’s no reason not to head along and explore.

BLASKO TOUR

In a surprise move, Sarah Blasko has drafted the synth wielding Seja in support for her Spring tour. Well known for her work with Regurgitator and Sekiden, Seja is quickly amassing support as a solo artist and her debut album We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares has certainly provided a great start. Blasko and Seja will be performing at the Enmore Theatre on Friday 29 October, presented Street Press Australia. Tickets on sale now for $72.10 through enmoretheatre.com.au and Ticketek. A special tour edition of Blasko’s As Day Follows Night will be available in July and fans should note that she’ll be packing a retrospective program across all tour dates so if you’ve got your favourites, now is the time to hear them!

JAZZ ROOMS TURNS TWO

Russ Dewbury’s A Night At The Jazz Rooms events have quickly become a staple on many a music enthusiast’s calendar thanks to his keen ear for unique performers and musical adventurousness. On Saturday 12 June he’ll be celebrating its second birthday at The Basement with Melbourne nine piece Afro jazz hip hop collective The Black Jesus Experience and the Jazz Rooms Soundsystem featuring Sydney vocalist Michelle Martinez and Jimi Polar on keyboards for what promises to be an especially potent fusion of style and substance. Tickets are available through Moshtix for $25 + b/f otherwise it’s $30 on the door.

RIDIN’ SOLO

Singer-songwriter Jason Derülo first made his name contributing his talent to the works of Lil Wayne and Sean Kingston yet it was a short time before he reached stardom in his own right. Though popular on our shores for some time it’s only now that he’s been confirmed for a full scale national tour, hitting the Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday 9 November. Having spent time on the road with Lady Gaga for her North American Monster Ball tour and smashed the ARIA charts several times over with his selftitled album and plenty of singles, he’s well and truly prepped to launch on Brisbane audiences with all his energy. Tickets on sale Tuesday 8 June through Ticketek.

Just like all good birthdays, as well as a party InTheMix will also be getting a few presents. The first gift for the little man with the headphones is a fresh logo created by an actual designer. “I’m no designer, believe me, it was just something that I knocked up in those early days,” Lackmann says of the brand’s distinctive logo. “Stealing some clip art from here and from there and putting it together and it’s lasted for ten years so it’s probably time that an actual designer produced our logo rather than a design hack like me.”

The second gift is something Lackmann’s team have been working on since 2006 – a makeover. “[The site’s] getting a complete redesign; a whole new technology back end, exciting new social networking features, a whole new photo gallery system, just basically a bunch of all new stuff.”

Over the past ten years InTheMix has evolved and expanded and at 10 years old it’s still only a child with a big future ahead. Although exhausted from the “seven day a week, ten or twelve hour day project,” Lackmann shows no signs of packing it all in.

It’s been a while since we’re heard anything new from Sapphire Lounge but a revamp of their VIP bar and the launch of Sapphire Fridays has the venue management singing from the rooftops. On Friday 11 June they’ll be reintroducing themselves to Sydney with assistance from the lovely Kate Monroe and Miss Match plus residents Dave 54 and Chiller. Percussionist Rob Morrish will also be getting amongst it with a whole host of celebrity guests and fashion models amping up the eye candy factor tenfold. Complimentary canapes and cocktails until 10pm.

Okay, so big Kevin Rudolf may not appreciate Santa’s reindeer so much as supports, but he’s gotta have some wing men/women right? Well US RNB hype artist Shontelle makes a pretty darn good alternative and having featured alongside Akon on the Confessions Of A Shopaholic soundtrack (Stuck With Eachother) and penned the Obama campaign anthem Battle Cry, she’s successful in her own right. Rudolph’s debut album To The Sky hits shelves on Friday 11 June courtesy of Cash Money and Universal Republic. Tickets to the Sunday 18 July gig at the Enmore Theatre are on sale now through Ticketek for $69.50. California based two stepper Tyga will also in support.

Since giving you your cake so you can eat it too back in March with Shackleton’s first Sydney appearance, Index have been AWOL from the club scene. On Friday 11 June they’ll be returning to the Phoenix bar with a rather interesting concept which reaches beyond the usual floor filling fodder clubbers have become accustomed to elsewhere.

To celebrate the 10th birthday of InTheMix, Lackmann and his entourage have been planning all sorts of things from events to a redesign of the whole website. As well as being “heavily involved” with the We Love Sounds and Winter Sounds System tours, they will also be doing some more community based events toward the end of the year.

SAPPHIRE SEXINESS

AND DASHER AND DANCER AND PRANCER AND…

INDEXING LABELS

“We just thought maybe we could get into some parties for free and stuff... and it worked.”

It’s a big project and a successful one. Something for Lackmann to be proud of even if it meant he hasn’t had the time to expand his DJ skills. “Maybe in an alternate life I would have been a superstar DJ, but not in this one.”

With Shapeshifter currently touring their new album The System Is A Vampire, it’s a pleasant surprise to find fellow NZ dub/drum n bass stars Salmonella Dub making their way out at the same time. They’ll be performing a one off gig at the Coogee Bay Hotel on Saturday 12 June with locals Tijuana Cartel, DJ Rudeboy, MC Mana & The Mighty Asterix in support of their late 2009 album release Freak Controller, which marks a return to form for the veteran band. Tickets are available now through Moshtix and theatlasagency.com for $39.80.

Inescapable in 2009 and doubtless keen to maintain their formidable momentum, British pop duo The Ting Tings are making their way across the ocean for yet another Antipodean tour. They’ll be making their way to Sydney for an all ages Splendour In The Grass sideshow at The Enmore theatre on Wednesday 28 July, tickets for which will be well and truly available by time of print from Ticketek for $56.10. With an album on the way and plenty of chart topping hits behind them you can guarantee that tickets will sell fast so get in quick.

If it wasn’t their intention to create a successful website that would eventually expand so as to become a company with its own record label, touring division, radio station and much more, then what was Lackmann’s intention?

“It’s going to get bigger and better I would say. With all the new features coming through we hope to build a new level of excitement on the site, give people more things to do. And we’re going to see lots of exciting stuff over the coming months and years.”

SALMONELLA HOTEL

RUNNING TINGS

What came out of a passion for technology and dance music? InTheMix, Australia’s online dance music community is what came out of it – a website dedicated to the goings-on of the dance music scene, from features, interviews, reviews and images, to forums and other social networking functions. And Lackmann admits it was an accidental success. “We didn’t intend to create a business out of it. It’s not like we were sitting around thinking ‘this would be a great business opportunity’. In mid 2000 to 2001 there was a massive tech crash and it was a terrible time to be starting a tech business. I think if we actually had thought about the business side at that point we wouldn’t have done it.”

LOCAL ANGLE NOT ALI A BUT ALI… B! (NO NOT G)

It’s been a quiet time for breaks fans and though the genre is hardly disappearing, quality artists seem few and far between of late. One of its most consistent warriors, Ali B has always made the most of diversity in electronic music with his label Air Recordings and continually overshoots expectations to inject his DJ performances with a little wow factor. He’ll be making a much appreciated appearance at 202 Broadway on Sunday 13 June for the Destination crew with support from Say Whut, Sideshow Rod, BKP, Randomweapon and Smacks. If you need a little Ali goodness to tide you over, head to airrecordings.co.uk where you can sample his brilliantly named Oh Shit mixtapes.

Hot on the heels of Lightsounds’ Circuit Breaker 2 compilation is the yet to be released, not for profit, Aus Electronic Beat Compilation. Plowing a similar furrow it traverses a broad range of musical styles including, but not limited to, neu classical, post indie, lounge, smokey dubstep, hip hop and warehouse party acid techno.

Though it’s yet to reach the pressing plant, you can catch a sneak peak at the content by checking out soundcloud.com/aus-electronic-beat-comp where label boss Daniel Brophy has posted Skid Row 88.9 fm presenter Periscope’s What You Wanna Do amongst other tracks. The compilation will also feature tracks from Resin Dogs, Atone, Edseven, MonkFly, Monkey Marc, Null Object, Little Nobody, Boot from Sun in Aquarius, Trimaxis, Kris Keogh, Dailymeds and many more.

PLAYING ROCKSTAR

Local label Bam Bam Musik has consistently satisfied many electro heads, and it’ll doubtless continue the trend with the release of Tom Piper and Jono Fernandez’s Rockstar. Having already reached number three in the ARIA club charts, it’s ably helped along by the vocal performance of Marvin Priest; son of the legendary reggae vocalist Maxi Priest. The hooky singalong track should be available by time of print, having already smashed the airwaves for sometime beforehand.

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THE STEADY DECADE-LONG EVOLUTION OF KIWI DRUM N BASS OUTFIT SHAPESHIFTER HAS BEEN CAPTURED PERFECTLY ON THEIR SUPERB FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM THE SYSTEM IS A VAMPIRE – NOW DEVIN ABRAMS AND HIS COMRADES ARE FACING LIFE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAN WHO HAS LONG BEEN THE BACKBONE OF THEIR UPLIFTING LIVE SHOWS, AS KRIS SWALES DISCOVERS.

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THE DUMMIES’ GUIDE SHAPESHIFTER MEMBERS:

Nick Robinson, Sam Trevethick, Devin Abrams, Johnny Hooves, Paora ‘PDigsss’ Apera.

SINCE: 1999

FROM:

Christchurch, New Zealand

LABEL:

Truetone Recordings

ALIASES:

Nicky Research, Verse 2 (Nick Robinson), Sambora (Sam Trevethick), Sunshine Sound System (PDigsss), Pacific Heights and DJ Reno (Devin Abrams).

QUOTABLE QUOTE:

“It’s still the same set up – I read somewhere a description of us; three pasty geeks on keyboards, a metal drummer and a charismatic singer. That’s still the same ol’ recipe. Pick a sound, turn it up as loud as possible; away you go that’s Shapeshifter.” Nick Robinson to amplifier.co.nz Life in the land of New Zealand-bred drum n bass mainstays Shapeshifter couldn’t have been rosier circa September 2009. With work on their fourth studio album The System Is A Vampire complete, Devin Abrams, Nick Robinson, Sam Trevethick, PDigsss and Redford Grenell set out on their annual jaunt through the venues of Australia to preview tracks like triumphant lead single Dutchies alongside anthems like One and Bring Change which had made its late-2006 predecessor Soulstice such a slowburning success. But the trip was soured when drummer Redford Grenell perforated his eardrum and the September 19 Sydney show was canceled, and when the band returned for a make-up show for Sydney fans in November Grenell’s stool was occupied by Melbourne resident Johnny Hooves in a move which is now permanent.

It’s a big change for fans who had watched Grenell blossom in the Shapeshifter engine room, and a no doubt crushing blow for Grenell himself given The System Is A Vampire makes such an impact due to the power and precision of his live drum takes. And the band’s synth and saxophone man Devin Abrams still exhales sharply when asked about the split some six months later.

“I think it brought a lot of personal reasons to the forefront,” a clearly emotional Abrams explains. “The ear thing was kind of like ‘I can’t jeopardise my career for the rest of my life touring’, and you can’t really blame the dude – how are you going to give up music for the rest of your life if you’re going to keep touring for the next couple of years, you know? I think it brought up some issues that he needed to address, and it was a really mutual decision really. It was like, ‘you’ve got to go and do what’s best for you, and the door is always open if you want to come back’.

“But it came out of nowhere, it was so leftfield. Obviously the ear thing, it was really obvious that ‘fuck, he’s going to have to take time out, it’ll be a while before we plays gigs again, we’re all aware of that’, but fuck it was like breaking up with your girlfriend man ‘cause we’ve done ten years together. He’s my brother man, and he will always be family to me. I just hope he finds what he’s looking for and he’s happy, it’s just something he’s got to go through.”

Fortunately Hooves, who attended jazz school with Shapeshifter’s foundation line-up a decade earlier in Christchurch and has also enjoyed dnb releases of his own on Obsessions and State Of Mind’s SOM Music, has slotted into the band dynamic nicely.

“We didn’t want someone who could just play drum n bass, we wanted someone who could play reggae, hip hop, all the feels,” Abrams says. “We were shitting our pants because Redford is the best drummer I’ve ever played with and I was really nervous going into this summer tour we did in New Zealand, worried that it would be the end of our band, [but Hooves is] blowing all of our expectations out of the water.”

It helps that the upheaval has occurred on the back of perhaps the band’s best studio representation of their breathtaking live shows to date. Whereas the evolution from the taut, machine-like rhythms of 2004’s largely instrumental Riddim Wise to the more soulful song structures of Soulstice required something of a leap of faith for the band’s fans, The System Is A Vampire sounds like a logical extension of its predecessor – only with the band set up directly in front of you to leap between dub, downtempo, dancehall and rinse-out, sometimes within a single bound.

The uniform sound and structure of the record belies the fact that it’s the first project they haven’t tackled while living and working in the same space together

(Abrams admitting that last time round “we all moved to a little beach town called Kaikoura in the south island [of New Zealand] and lived there together for six months and we almost killed each other”), with Robinson and Trevethick setting up camp in the northern New South Wales beach village of Kingscliff to complete the bulk of the work.

“Obviously the base was that we had the whole studio set up at Sam and Nick’s house in Kingscliff, but me, Digsss and Redford all lived in separate cities. We all kind of wrote the music together, and then Sam and Nick would work away at it and work away at it, then I’d come back and record all my synth lines and sax stuff, then I’d come back a month later and check out the mixes, it was just kind of coming and going as we needed to.”

While the work of Grenell drives the record, the more personal lyrical approach of vocalist Digsss is also a key factor. “I know he definitely went a lot deeper on this one with his personal experiences,” Abrams confirms. “I can’t really speak on behalf of him, but I know with Twin Galaxies it has a very personal meaning for him with his father, who passed away quite a while ago. He has definitely put a lot of that emotion into the songs, definitely more than on Soulstice for sure.”

And even with the deep, spiritual core of The System Is A Vampire seeming to share a common spirit with the more considered offerings of producers like dBridge (who remixed One in 2008 and is currently so-hot-right-now thanks to his Autonomic podcasts with Instra:mental), Abrams says that this time round the band looked even further inward for inspiration than they had before.

“Whereas Soulstice was kind of the last gridlocked album where we wanted to make a drum n bass album that we could play live, this album obviously you can tell there’s no click tracks, you couldn’t DJ it really – it’s not meant for that. Obviously all of us are very aware of what’s going on in the drum n bass scene, and we get a lot of tunes and definitely appreciate what’s going on, but with this album we definitely focused on our own sound.”

Though it’s nearing midnight at Abrams’ Wellington base, he’s more than happy to share a joke on discovering that Australia and New Zealand own the two greatest land claims on Antarctica after a recent trip there with his partner (when 3D World suggests that more New Zealanders live in the Australian section he quips, “They’re getting all of the jobs at the research base!”), continuing to make music into old age (“I want to be in the musician’s senior home still making beats, the nurses bringing me cocaine to get me going in the morning…”) and subbing in for his vocalist for this interview slot at the last minute.

“I got a text saying he was having his wisdom teeth pulled out. So Sam broke his arm playing tennis, and Digsss is having his teeth pulled out. It’s a fucking circus mate – it’s not very rock’n’roll is it?”

But Abrams himself admits the band’s rock’n’roll days are long behind them. With Robinson now a father and the band making a comfortable living from Shapeshifter and other creative outlets, a three week jaunt through Europe, North America and Asia is as close as they’ll will get to launching a full-scale assault for international glory on the back of album number four – and the band couldn’t be happier with their lot.

MEDIA HYPE:

“Shapeshifter has woven its musical roots ever so deeply into the genres of soul and hip hop, and while there are definitely elements of Shapeshifter’s work that are predominately of the drum n bass staple, they’ve quite literally succeeded in orchestrating their greater vision into the fold.” musicfeeds.com.au

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY ALBUMS Real Time (Low Profile, 2001)

Riddim Wise (Truetone Recordings, 2004) Soulstice (Truetone Recordings, 2006) Live (Truetone Recordings, 2007) The System Is A Vampire (Truetone Recordings, 2009)

SINGLES

DNA EP (Curious Recordings, 2001) Been Missing/Relocator (Salmonella Dub, 2003) Bring Change (Truetone Recordings, 2006) One (BrandNu:X, 2008) Remixes EP (Truetone Recordings)

“I hate to sound ‘old’, but I think we’re all settling down and enjoying having partners and having kids,” self-confessed “senior rocker” Abrams says. “We love it, it’s the best job in the world, don’t get me wrong – we’re always going to enjoy the gigs, no matter what the financial situation is we’re going to love playing music. But for us to go all that way it has to be justified to our families, to the bank [laughs], that we can go away and come back and not be away for too long.”

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THE DARK CRYSTAL THE RENEGADES OF AUSTRALIAN INDIE-DANCE, MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS, ARE BACK WITH THEIR TRICKY SECOND ALBUM, AND CYCLONE SPEAKS TO DRUMMER DANIEL STRICKER ABOUT THE DARK/OPTIMISTIC DICHOTOMY OF THE CRYSTAL AXIS.

After spending considerable time overseas, the Midnight Juggernauts – Vincent Vendetta (vocals, keys), Andrew Szekeres (vocals, guitar) and drummer Daniel Stricker – reconnected with Australian fans in late 2009 on their first national headline tour in over a year-and-a-half. They subsequently joined Big Day Out. The “retro-futurist” trio even filled in for a sadly absent Echo & The Bunnymen at the Melbourne Laneway Festival, Vendetta tantalisingly crooning the opening lines of The Killing Moon. “That was so bizarre,” Stricker laughs groggily, having only flown in from Europe this morning. “I’m a massive fan of that band... We were all really nervous about playing that show, because obviously there’s gonna be a lot of diehard Echo And The Bunnymen fans. But it was a lot of fun.”

The Bunnymen’s influence has long pervaded the Juggernauts’ music, the Australians similarly enamoured of drama, mystery and otherworldliness. And, in fact, The Crystal Axis is trippier – or more psychedelic – than its predecessor. The Juggernauts could yet out-Muse Muse. However, instead of conspiracy theories, they offer euphoric lyrics about life, death, love and travel.

Vendetta and Szekeres bonded in a Melbourne high school, performing in (they say) generic rock outfits. They’d discover Daft Punk – and the spectrum of electronica.

The Juggernauts debuted in 2005 with an eponymous EP – unofficially known as Raised By Wolves – that manifested a punkier sound. Their next outing, Secrets Of The Universe, encompassing the signature Shadows, signalled a subtle departure.

The Juggernauts, now DJing, were developing a style that owed as much to the New Romantic David Bowie, Ultravox and Visage as any French electro act. The duo recognised their own potential. Indeed, the Juggernauts were soon attracting interest beyond Australia. (Justice approached them for a US jaunt). The sci-fi-themed Dystopia arrived in 2007, the Juggernauts traversing Krautrock, cosmic disco, glam, goth, synth-pop and ‘70s space-rock. Importantly, the Juggernauts’ sophistication was such that they transcended ‘nu-rave’.

The Juggernauts ‘stole’ Stricker from Lost Valentinos. The Sydneysider initially played drums part-time, alternating with Glenn Dickie, but the Juggernauts needed someone to commit. “The guys would send me a CD in the mail and I’d be driving around in my car, tapping away, practising the songs,” Stricker recalls. “I remember the first gig we ever did was a support at The Metro and we hadn’t even rehearsed together. We didn’t rehearse together for ages.”

The Juggernauts might have aligned themselves with Modular. But, being “very DIY”, they decided to remain independent, launching Siberia Records. Nevertheless, the Juggernauts eventually signed to EMI, home of Daft Punk, internationally.

Despite solid press, global crossover success has eluded the festival favourites.

Much hinges on The Crystal Axis.

The Juggernauts again self-produced the LP, the lead single, This New Technology, surfacing last year. (It was featured on the hipster manual Kitsuné Maison 8 alongside Delphic.) This time around Stricker, who also DJs, was fully integrated. “This record has been all three of us doing it together in a room, jamming stuff out, then working on it separately, and then coming back together again. It’s been a different process. It’s very much a record that’s indicative of all three of us – ‘cause we all like different music.” Stricker holds that, more than Dystopia, The Crystal Axis is eclectic – and experimental. “It’s definitely got an air of optimism about it, especially lyrically,” he says. “There’s a dark undertone which is evident in a lot of our music but, at the end of the day, there’s hope – light at the end of the tunnel. Compared to Dystopia, it goes off into so many different tangents. There’s no real kind of fourto-the-floor dance tracks – there’s groove-based stuff – but it just keeps veering around so many different genres.”

Stricker, who namechecks bands like Manchester’s Stone Roses, says they were listening to music, not just from the ‘70s, but also the late ‘50s.

Today Stricker still resides in Sydney, although his band mates have pressured him to relocate to Melbourne. (He wants them to come to Sydney.) “We always joke about it, but it’s actually not a problem at all.” The Juggernauts prepared The Crystal Axis on the NSW coast and then recorded in Melbourne – but they did contemplate cutting it in Paris. “When we got back [to Australia], we had all our equipment here and we’d started buying all these new toys that we’d been experimenting with – and [so] it felt like the logical thing to do, just work on it here.

We brought over a guy from New York [Chris Moore] to help us engineer it, but we just felt comfortable in our own space.”

Ironically, since Stricker quit Lost Valentinos, that band have moved closer sonically to the Juggernauts. The drummer loved their underrated Cities Of Gold – he was involved in the early writing. “I think it’s a great record. It was really different to the original EP that we did. I’d played in lots of bands before that, but that was probably the first time I’d ever been into a big proper studio and done stuff. It was a lot of fun, but the dynamic was really different then. We had Kirin J Callinan [Mercy Arms] playing in the band at the time as well... It was just a very different time.”

The Juggernauts have found some strange allies, but none stranger than Solange Knowles, Beyonce’s rebellious sister. The alt-RNB star hung with them over summer. Word is that the Juggernauts are working on her next album, together with Lightspeed Champion. “She’s just a really nice human being,” Stricker enthuses of Knowles. “We met her at the end of 2008 when we were touring. We were in Paris, and we went to something, and she was there. She was a fan of the band.

We met her, hung out. Ever since then, we’ve just been talking and we’ve been writing some stuff together – I’m not sure exactly what it’s gonna be yet. She came out here to Australia, which was cool, and she came to a couple of festivals with us and wrote some music – but it’s still evolving. But she’s really cool. She’s got great taste in music. I think her own material – her songwriting – is really good. She’s an independent person. And, for the situation that she’s in, she’s just a really down-toearth, normal human being.”

WHO: MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS WHAT: THE CRYSTAL AXIS THROUGH SIBERIA/INERTIA / PLAY THE FORUM WHEN: OUT NOW / FRIDAY 20 AUGUST

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THERE’S A DARK UNDERTONE WHICH IS EVIDENT IN A LOT OF OUR MUSIC BUT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE’S HOPE – LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.”

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THE EMPIRE STRIKE BACK

THE CAT EMPIRE’S PARTY-FRIENDLY ECLECTICISM HAS ESTABLISHED THE MELBOURNE GROUP AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST DISTINCTIVE SUCCESS STORIES OVER THE PAST DECADE. MATT O’NEILL SPEAKS TO TRUMPET-PLAYER/VOCALIST HARRY JAMES ANGUS ABOUT THE BAND’S FORTHCOMING FIFTH ALBUM CINEMA. The pervading sense Angus gives of the forthcoming album is one of escapism – and one suspects that the motives behind Cinema have been brewing for a considerable amount of time. In addition to The Cat Empire’s own stylistic restlessness, there have been numerous hints over the past handful of years to suggest a creative hunger unsatisfied lurking within the band. Angus alone has spent the past five years exploring other avenues of creativity with projects like hip hop duo Jackson Jackson, jazz quartet The Conglomerate and roots outfit Tinpan Orange.

There’s been a sense of change brewing beneath the veneer of The Cat Empire for the majority of the band’s impressive career.

An infectious blast of jazz, rock, pop, reggae and soul, the initial formula of the Melbourne outfit’s work was in and of itself a highly mutable concept but, as the ensemble have progressed, audiences have seen The Cat Empire consistently evolve and explore a number of different directions – from the celebratory anarchy of 2003’s eponymous debut to the more worldly tones of 2006’s Cities.

Recent months, however, have seen the undercurrent of artistic turbulence within the band leap to the foreground with tantalising results. The release of 2009’s exhaustive live DVD Live at the Bowl seemed to lay to rest a significant chapter of the band’s history and, with the recent release of new singles Beyond All and Feelings Gone, The Cat Empire seem intent on ushering in a decidedly different era of the band. Feelings Gone reveals a darker tint to the band’s standard soul while the dubbed-out fury that is Beyond All proves almost unrecognisable as a Cat Empire work.

“I guess both of those songs are departures in their own ways,” trumpet-player and vocalist Harry James Angus considers of the two songs – both taken from the band’s forthcoming fifth album Cinema. “We really just wanted to write some new songs that we’d enjoy playing live and get away a bit from the genre-hopping reputation The Cat Empire has got over the years. They are pretty different from each other, though – with Beyond All, we wanted to make something really intense, whereas Feelings Gone was pretty much the opposite.”

“We didn’t set out with any kind of over-arching ambition of things we would like to do differently. We just wanted to get away from that reputation we’ve got of appropriating different genres for different songs and exploring more of our own sound,” the trumpet-player re-iterates. “I guess for a band like us, there’s always going to be this grey area about what kind of music we’re actually playing, but, especially on our earlier albums, we’ve always had this attitude of ‘now we’re going to write a European waltz, a song like James Brown, a song from Cuba’.

“We’ve gotten pretty sick of that and we’re trying to get away from it,” Angus elaborates. “It’s now more about ‘I want to write a song about this’ and ‘I want to write a song about that’ – it’s about capturing a mood, as opposed to adding slashes to our genre. I often think about jazz musicians – and a lot of us come from a jazz background

WWW.3D WORLD.COM.AU – in that they all work so hard and so long on harmonic knowledge and technique to become masters of their instrument but, when you go and see them play, they haven’t even worked out how to finish a song properly.”

One can hardly begrudge the group’s grasp for freedom – in a way, it’s surprising that it hasn’t arrived earlier in their career. The Cat Empire have now been at the forefront of the Australian musical consciousness for over half a decade. Their first two albums (2003’s The Cat Empire and 2005’s Two Shoes) both reached double platinum status while their most recent album So Many Nights debuted at number two on the Australian charts following its release in 2007. It’s difficult to imagine the band not feeling encumbered by such success and national recognition.

“We have gotten really sick of being described as a jazz band, to be honest. I certainly don’t resent it. I think if you play in a band, ‘what style of music do you play?’ is definitely a fair question,” Angus explains. “But when it comes down to the media side of the band where the music is constantly defined by the label it’s given and you’re in a band that have never really earned one label or another, you feel like a dodgy salesman – a vacuum cleaner salesman selling someone something that doesn’t work or that isn’t a vacuum cleaner at all.

“Throughout my whole career, all I’ve ever really done is write music and rock up and play. In regards to our ten year anniversary as a band, I don’t think that milestone was as big for me as something like our 600th gig or 700th gig. It feels like a year ago, it was five years,” the trumpet-player continues. “I just don’t know anything about all the other stuff that comes with being in a band – the photo shoots and radio play and whatever. When we write music, for example, I have no idea which song is going to be a single or is more likely to be on the radio.”

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I OFTEN THINK ABOUT JAZZ MUSICIANS... THEY ALL WORK SO HARD AND SO LONG ON HARMONIC KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUE TO BECOME MASTERS OF THEIR INSTRUMENT BUT... THEY HAVEN’T EVEN WORKED OUT HOW TO FINISH A SONG PROPERLY.”

Cinema seems to have, at least temporarily, liberated the band. Angus may make reference to various limitations surrounding The Cat Empire’s career and public profile (and even goes so far as to admit he contemplated leaving music altogether last decade) but the trumpet-player consistently refers to such limitations only in the past tense. It seems that, with Cinema, The Cat Empire feel they have rewritten their profile somewhat and awarded themselves a new lease on life. The optimistic honesty that has so characterised their music seems, for the moment, to also define their career.

“A few years ago, I was really worried because The Cat Empire isn’t exactly Leonard Cohen. I really wanted to be taken more seriously as a serious artist but, now, I’ve kind of come to thinking that’s a bit of a myth,” Angus muses. “It’s all based on the right photo shoot. It’s such a construction – the street-wise, the insane musician.

We sit there with thirty thousand songs on our iPod and claim that this guy or that guy was a real artist because he died when he was 14 or whatever. I don’t know what a serious artist is anymore. I’m happy with what I am now.”

WHO: THE CAT EMPIRE WHAT: CINEMA THROUGH EMI/ PLAY HORDERN PAVILION WHEN: FRIDAY 25 JUNE / SUNDAY 29 AUGUST

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LIKEABLE LAD

STUART EVANS LEARNS THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ROCK CAREER OF STATIC REVENGER BY HIS CURRENT COLLABORATION PARNTER HELPED KICKSTART THE ONE HE’S CURRENTLY CHOSEN.

was a real fucking musician. I looked at those guys as DJs who played other people’s records,” he says.

But that all changed when the Detroit pioneers challenged him to mix two records together. “I couldn’t mix two fucking records together to save my live. DJing is such a different skill set. I desperately wanted to learn their craft and go deeper with their music. The day I realised I couldn’t mix two records together was the day I became fucking obsessed by it,” he says.

Times have changed as White’s demonstrated his skills the world over.

However he and his latest collaboration partner, Richard Vission, have history.

“Richard Vission ruined my career as a rockstar,” he says. “Back in 1996 I had a rock dance band called Charm Farm that was signed to Mercury Records. We had a song called Superstar which I supplied the lead vocal and a girl supplying backing vocals. Vission got his hands on the vocals and destroyed them.”

White’s quick to point out that there’s no bad blood between him and Vission.

“Far from it as we’re very good friends.

The record company actually sent him the vocal track. Vission took my vocal and cut it to make the tackiest Top 40 record remix that you will ever hear and subsequently destroyed my rockstar career,” he laughs.

White was strategic in approach to the track’s release. “I hated the remix and wouldn’t let the record company release it. Sadly Richard started playing it on his radio show and it got a good reaction.

Basically the record ended up being the most requested song of the entire year.”

White’s live sets are also renowned to be entertaining. As part of DJs Are Alive, he says he tries to liven things up by bringing instruments into proceedings. “Yeah, I love to add a bit of a live band experience to my sets. I like gadgets, my own edits and often play over songs.”

He likes cats. Correction – Dennis White, known as the Static Revenger, likes that. “What do I like? As a man I like it when my team wins a match.

Women generally say they like everything from Gucci to shopping, so I Like That is best looked at from a woman’s perspective,” White laughs.

Of course White’s talking about his recent triumph I Like That, a fresh collaboration with Richard Vission and vocalist Luciana. “If we released I Like That three years ago I reckon it would’ve bombed. It’s a case of changing musical cultures as the record now has a place and a story to tell. We didn’t set out to make a commercial record. We set out to make a dancefloor record,” he tells.

White’s also known for clubbing sounds including Everything Is Beautiful, Long Time and Happy People. Based in Los Angles, White’s a known producer and spinner who’s had three number one Billboard tracks with Weekend Players, Madonna and Kristine W. He’s also a talented fellow. He’s out shopping in Beverley Hills and yakking down the phone, intermittently answering questions and pausing to try on shoes. “I’ve just bought myself an Yves Saint Laurent suit and it’s a fucking rockstar suit,” he shares.

The American’s a jack of all trades. He’s also an innovator. He directed the music video for Inner City’s classic Good Life and formed Detroit alternativerock-dance band Charm Farm. His resume makes for impressive reading as he’s directed the likes of Paul van Dyk, Meck and Toolroom’s Mark Knight.

And if that’s not enough he’s a multi-instrumentalist and Berklee College of Music Graduate. Perhaps his inner instrumentalist is bursting to come out. “My inner instrumentalist is bursting to come out a little bit. It WHO: STATIC REVENGER all started with Derrick May and WHAT: I LIKE THAT THROUGH VICIOUS/UNIVERSAL Kevin Saunderson and Detroit techno. When I met those guys I

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SOUND PELLEGRINO COFOUNDER CÉDRIC CAILLOL AKA DJ ORGASMIC STRUGGLES TO PIN DOWN HIS LABEL’S SOUND FOR CARLIN BEATTIE AS HIS SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM PREPARES TO HEAD DOWN UNDER. “Last time I toured, the crowds didn’t get it,” Cédric Caillol admits. The musician is one half of the label’s touring Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team outfit, which features fellow Frenchman Teki Latex (Julien Pradeyrol) in equal measure. “Everyone was thinking I was going to be playing the hard stuff, but I wasn’t into it. Even the DJs that were there to support us… they were all dropping things like Bloody Beetroots.

It makes it easier for us and the show if people know what we’ll be doing.”

It’s easy to see how the group’s in vogue sound at a given point might be misconstrued or incorrectly labeled.

Both Caillol and Pradeyrol make it their direct objective to chase a specific style or image; one that’s in a constant state of flux and progression, growing with every turn.

“Right now is just another evolution. We don’t plan our sets, so I can’t really say what our upcoming shows will be like,” admits the DJ. “It’s a free thing and comes from the unconscious. We’re improving it and making changes all the time. It depends on the party. Expect a lot of new stuff – it’s not going to be a Sound Pellegrino ‘Best Of’.

“Everything comes down to the moment. If it’s rainy, we’ll play sunny

music… and if it’s sunny, well I don’t know,” he laughs. “When we started out, we didn’t sit down and try to build a sound. There’s definitely something in common with everything we do and the people we collaborate with, but I think it’s all in the approach. We want to go further and always progress.”

Prompted on whether their methods towards sustaining an up to the minute sound might limit the label’s identity and accessibility, Caillol answers honestly. “People can decide to do what they want. They can call sounds whatever they think of. This is something we have to do. Basically it’s a passion. I’ve been making mixtapes since I was 13 years old, recording tracks off the radio and cutting two tapes together. With music, it’s a drug or something. Or it’s our food, our lunch… we’ve got to eat it up. We have to – it’s natural.

“Everything has to happen at the right time,” he continues. “People will get bored of the same hard stuff and go looking for something else. Someone has to change the game… if it’s the right time. In the ‘90s the dance scene was very electronica, with little differences in the music mixing it up. Since 2000, all the music has been merging together, with all the labels looking to each other and doing the same thing. I just don’t get it. The attitude that you have to go for a market makes sense – I get that, but you have to really go for it. Make people move. Make real bodies move. Recently there’ve been a few genres that have come out of exciting places, a lot from the UK, like the grime house. It’s cool that something else is coming back. I don’t really know what it is, but it’s better… different. It’s not like everything else, where you discover something and suddenly it’s all over the place and everyone has it. The sounds we’re after are for people to be with and live inside. I’m really enjoying the stuff coming out of Mexico right now too, the Guarachero music. It’s the next big thing, kind of very ghetto. It’s a lot of dumb stuff – really cool and cheesy.”

WHO: SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM WHAT: PLAY WHAM! AT THE WORLD BAR WHEN: SATURDAY 12 JUNE

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THE QUICK TALKER TIMOTHY PARKER TELS RIP NICHOLSON ABOUT THE “COSMIC FUNKY HIP HOP” OF HIS SECOND SOLO ALBUM AS GIFT OF GAB.

A scheduled phone call with Timothy Parker is turned to an emailer, which in hindsight seems short-minded as the West Coast USA MC eats dictionaries and spits Alphabet Aerobics under the moniker of Gift Of Gab. The interview was met by Parker, forever stargazing, already mapping ahead from his latest interstellar album drop with pen to paper. “I’m situated in the Bay Area, which has been home for the past 13 years,” he explains concisely. “You caught me on a writing day, working on future releases.”

Despite the name and his heavy word flow, Parker is brief and to the point with his responses, but with his most recent solo venture Escape 2 Mars, the original Solesides MC has all but blasted off into space after leaving behind another conceptually interplanetary record.

Timothy Parker first met Chief Xcel in Sacramento at high school and a year later in 1988, worked their hip hop together. During a college hiatus, Xcel joined an eccentric hip hop collective called the Solesides and by ‘91 Blackalicious was formed in the Bay Area of Cali – and by 1994 the pair had promptly dropped their debut single, Swan Lake. By ‘99 they reshaped into Quannum and released the A2G EP. Gift Of Gab blossomed into one the most technically skilled lyricists to flourish from the West Coast.

Blackalicious furthered their catalogue with 2000’s NIA and 2002’s Blazing Arrow while Parker trekked on several guest appearances alongside DJ Vadim,

New Flesh (from the UK) and Michael Franti from Spearhead. From here Gab recorded his solo debut with producers Vitamin D and Jake One from Seattle in 2004 for 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up – a return to a creative space spent outside he and DJ Chief Xcel’s Blackalicious priorities.

And most recently with producers DNAEBEATS and Mighty Underdog partner Headnotic, Gift Of Gab drops his second solo effort Escape 2 Mars. It has been described as “funkadelic psychedelica”, “daisy-age hip hop, space-jazz experimentation and neo-soul” and from the gift horse’s mouth, “cosmic funky hip hop is the best way I could describe the album”.

It keeps in theme with the first, dropped five years ago. But the album is not just intergalactic in theme and soundscape, but also in message.

“The title track addresses global warming, whereas Electric Waterfalls is more about conspiracy theories,” he summises. “There are other topics addressed but since I started the process with those songs I decided to go with a space like theme.”

Across the record Parker provokes a greener consciousness but without pushing the guilt trip – he insists this is only his outlook.

“I think its up to each individual to make change. I am an observer. I observe and I write about what I see and how I feel,” Parker states, arguing that the process of writing lyrics and making music is therapeutic. “Creating is like therapy, escaping into my own world. Performing is when I get to share that world and receive automatic feedback,” he adds on his imminent Australian visit with San Francisco beatsmith DNAEBEATS as his sidekick.

The last time he graced our shores was for Parklife 2008 as part of Blackalicious, who Parker adds will continue with another album. “Xcel and I have started working on the next Blackalicious album. Expect an EP towards the end of the year, and a full length in 2011. I love the chemistry of working with different producers, but it’s always good to get back in the lab with Xcel.”

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STATE OF FLUX

ON THE BACK OF A SUCCESSFUL DEBUT EP THAT THE BAND THEMSELVES DON’T RATE, EKHI LOPETEGI OF DELOREAN TELLS NINA BERTOK THEIR FIRST ALBUM IS A COLLAGE OF TEN YEARS OF MUSICAL INFLUENCES.

were so good. It’s a good thing artists don’t review their own music. I guess it just shows you that you can’t predict or plan what’s going to be a successful piece of work and what’s not. It’s such a chance.”

More than anything, according to Lopetegi, Delorean wanted Subiza to “speak to the people”. By that, Lopetegi says he means that the band’s main focus is always for the audience to feel the music rather than merely hear it.

“The basic idea was to mix house music and pop music but it was more about the vibe rather than just the sounds,” Lopetegi explains. “We produced it with a big focus on the texture and the layers underneath. The EP was still us being caught halfway between the indie-rock live band sound and electronica, so there is a huge gap between the EP and the LP.” Lopetegi claims that those who followed Delorean’s remixes sometime around 2008 and 2009 would have seen this album coming. Their remix work on tracks for The Teenagers, The Mystery Jets and The Big Pink provided a glimpse into the future sound now found on Subiza in 2010.

“The EP was always not much more than just a first try for us,” says Lopetegi.

“Now that the album is done, we feel like a certain way of doing things has come to a completion with this album. Once you know how to do something, when you master your own techniques, you move onto the next level.

“For us, that’s the live show which we’re not 100 percent happy with yet.

We think of Daft Punk as a reference to how we want to look and sound live, without copying obviously! I saw them in Barcelona three years ago and it blew my mind. If we can work on a set like that from beginning to the end, that would be amazing.”

From hardcore punk, to upbeat pop, to tech house… It’s pretty much unheard of in club circles, but Barcelona foursome Delorean have dipped their toes in many different musical waters before embracing their current dance leanings with debut album Subiza.

“All of us came from punk and hardcore bands in Basque,” chief songwriter Ekhi Lopetegi announces. “It was probably about 10 years ago now and I can’t remember much about those days but that’s how we first met. We were going to lots of shows and sometimes we practiced together until we got bored and wanted to try something different. We wanted to surprise ourselves but also people who knew us for the music we were doing then. I guess we didn’t really care what they would think because we did it anyway.”

It was several years ago when Delorean first started turning their attention to pop tunes and layered melodies, but it wouldn’t be until 2009 that the band really found its niche. Embracing every genre it had covered since 2001, Lopetegi and his band of ex-punkers combined all their efforts into their debut Ayrton Senna EP which garnered rave reviews from Pitchfork and the Guardian soon after. Confirming that 2009 was definitely a good year for the band, Lopetegi claims Delorean were now ready for bigger and better things – starting with a re-introduction.

“Everybody seemed to love the EP but to be honest, we weren’t really that thrilled with it,” Lopetegi confesses. “We didn’t hate it or anything, but I can’t say we were that happy with the songs.

WHO: DELOREAN To us, they ended up sounding too watered down and just really WHAT: SUBIZA THROUGH TRUE safe, which was not what we were CONTROL trying to do. Let’s just say we were shocked that the reviews it got WHEN: OUT NOW

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UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT

VILLE HAIMALA FILLS NINA BERTOK IN ON THE INTERROGATION PROCESS THAT ALL RENAISSANCE MAN TRACKS GO THROUGH BEFORE BEING CONSIDERED FOR RELEASE.

Rose’s label and it sounds a lot groovier and housier than anything we’ve done.

With our original productions, we always have to have a lot of different tracks to choose from before we decide to release something. For every 40 tracks, you’ll get only one good track.

We sit down and we look at what we’ve got and we’ll ask, ‘does the world really need another track like this’ or we ask, ‘is this track unique enough to deserve to be released’? You have to ask this because there are literally thousands of new tracks each day which sound the same… So we interrogate our songs!”

Which is why putting together a Renaissance Man full-length debut is going to take a while, warns Haimala, even though the duo has already started the process.

“It’s already under construction now,” he says. “Maybe we focus on the songs too much but I think that’s probably a good thing, even if the process takes forever. We realise the fact that dance is not usually the traditional context for an album, it really can be difficult to make a dance album without focusing on tracks individually. First, we want to find out what kind of an album we want to do and what side of us we want people to hear. That’s what’s being planned at the moment, all the foundations.”

Studio-wise big things are happening for Renaissance Man but on the touring front things are taking off just as much with the duo making their first Japanese trip before hitting Oz again.

“Japan is going to be exciting because we’ve never been there,” Hamala enthuses. “But I’m really happy to even just play in Berlin because it’s really one of the capitals of electronic music.

Helsinki had a strong house scene in the ‘90s then it died down. I thought it would get stronger again, but I just don’t think house is one of its strongest points anymore unfortunately.”

It was architecture in Helsinki that first got Renaissance Man duo Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala together in 2008. As a result of the collaboration came one of last year’s biggest underground hits Spraycan, which saw the two DJs make their debut at Australia’s Stereosonic Festival in 2009. Two years after forming, Haimala and Kalliala – stage names Downtown and Jaxxon – are making a quick return down under for the release of new EP Babbadabba.

“Martti and I used to work in an architect office,” Haimala. recalls “We got together to design a new club. I have been DJing for about seven years but Martti has been doing it for much longer. We both came from musical backgrounds, I guess, but with Spraycan it was the first time that we actually tried to combine our ideas about music into a real song.”

Much to the duo’s surprise, the track had the likes of Switch, Brodinski, Riva Starr and Duke Dumont raving on about Renaissance Man’s knack for the playful, horn-laced but heavy-hitting bass sound, earning the duo a signing on Switch’s influential Dubsided label. And while the EP What Is Guru was soon to follow, Haimala admits that nothing has compared yet to the success of Spracycan – until now.

“When I listen to that track now, it’s still a nice song but at the same time it feels very simple and thin,” Haimala says. “I think WHO: RENAISSANCE MAN our production style has gone up WHAT: PLAYS GENERIC COLLECTIVE FIRST in quality a lot more now. It just feels richer. I think our new EP AT CIVIC / QWB Babbadabba is a lot more exciting.

WHEN: FRIDAY 11 JUNE / SUNDAY 13 It came out last week on Jesse

BIRTHDAY

THE COLOUR PURPLE

THE PURPLE SNEAKERS DJS ARE UPPING THE ANTE WITH THEIR FIRST MIX COMPILATION – CYCLONE’S ONLY QUESTION IS WHY IT’S TAKEN THEM SO LONG. Sydney has a tradition of spawning iconic – and influential – DJ cliques, from the house Sneaky Sound System to the nu-rave Bang Gang. The Purple Sneakers’ story begins with Martin Novosel, aka PhDJ, who founded the indie-dance club of the same name at The Abercrombie Hotel – “a shitty old man’s pub” – in 2005. That venue closed over summer, prompting them to relocate their “house party” to The Gladstone.

“I started it when I got back from the UK. I was living in the UK for three years and overstayed my visa and got this letter... I really wanted to start a record label in the UK, but I wasn’t allowed to, ‘cause I was on the wrong visa.

So, basically, I came home to Sydney, wanting to start a record label, and didn’t know how to fund it. I thought, ‘Fuck it, I’ll just start a nightclub and that will fund it’ – ‘cause that’s what I knew how to do quite well: DJ. Then that club night, Purple Sneakers, went on to become a really successful club.

We released a whole bunch of records, but the record label part of things essentially became a charity, it really wasn’t a viable business – meanwhile, the club stuff took off.”

Though Novosel aspired to promote a club with an ‘anything goes’ policy, the idea was to also focus on new, not retro, music – and mash-up style. “I like music to be genuine – and for the

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DJs to be genuine. If you really like house music, then you should play house music. You can always tell when the DJ’s not playing something they like...

For me, that’s the main thing: I can’t bullshit. I always had to play what I love playing so, when I started Purple Sneakers, I went, ‘Well, I like a bit of indie, a bit of electro, a bit of punk, a bit of hip hop, a bit of anything’.”

Today Novosel is joined in the Purple Sneakers fold by fellow DJs MIT, BenLucid and Nick Findlay (the assistant to triple j’s Richard Kingsmill, no less). And Novosel, who now operates his Boundary Sounds as an artist and events company, is a part-time Sneaker. Novosel has moved back to London where, among other activities, he’s DJing at nightspots like Club NME. “I’m in the UK managing Philadelphia Grand Jury,” he explains. “I guess I’m starting Boundary Sounds over here.”

However, Novosel will return to tour behind the Purple Sneakers’ double-CD, We Mix You Dance. His set, Chin’ Strokin’, is, as the title underscores, orientated less to the dancefloor than the lounge, with tracks from The Drums, The xx and Animal Collective. “It’s a bit more education, rather than entertainment.” Novosel conceived We Mix You Dance as a series on realising that there was nothing akin to a Ministry of Sound comp brand for indie kids.

Still, the first volume’s strength lies in the fact that the Purple Sneakers are not merely following the 2000s’ indie-dance craze but representing – and reconciling – two facets of contemporary pop culture: indie and electro. Prior to Purple Sneakers, Novosel felt that most indie clubs were too conservative.

The DJs would spin obvious Brit-pop classics – and didn’t mix. “That’s why I don’t really like the term ‘indie club’ or ‘indie’ DJ,” he says. “We’re club DJs who play non-club music.”

WHO: PURPLE SNEAKERS DJS WHAT: WE MIX YOU DANCE THROUGH BOUNDARY SOUNDS/INERTIA / PLAY GLADSTONE HOTEL WHEN: FRIDAY 11 JUNE / FRIDAY 11

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INTO THE GREAT WIDE YONDER Trentemøller

ONE TRACK MIND WITH TIM FINNEY

In My Room/Stomp From when the first twisted, scraping bellows of Trentemøller’s Into The Great Wide Yonder ring out, you’ll realise there’s little frivolity to be found here. The opening deluge of The Mash & The Fury summons the sound of the apocalypse, not unlike the exploding smoke plumes that adorn the front cover, and it’s a signal that no one’s going to be given an easy ride. The electronics are as dense as ever, but they’re now more likely to be superseded by bluesy guitar twangs, hollow live drums and bruised, achingly sad female vocals. But there’s still a sense of the familiar here, and if you witnessed the raw acoustic edge Trentemøller brought to his tour of Australia back in ‘07, you’d already know the dark menace he’s harnessed to full effect here. From the raw emotional pain of Sycamore Feeling¸ through to when Trentemøller finally lets in some light with the closing Tide, it all draws together perfectly. The electronics and the instruments overlap to the point where the sound textures merge, but Trentemøller’s biggest achievement is how he’s taken this rawness, and somehow managed to draw melody and musicality out of it. If you’re looking for ‘beats’, you won’t find them here – but in its own abrasive, self-assured way, this is a masterpiece unto itself. Don’t assume you’re necessarily going to “like” it; just know you’ll have no choice but to respect it, and maybe eventually love it.

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SINGLE OF THE WEEK

CALIFORNIA GURLS

Katy Perry Feat Snoop Dogg EMI

I’m by no means a Katy fan, but this is actually really great, and probably her best attempt at a pop song so far. I read someone describe it as being like Ke$ha with most of the annoying bits removed, which is basically spot on if you agree that Ke$ha’s choruses are mostly fine (if somewhat generic) while her drunken slurred spoken word verses are objectionable. What a shock that Katy would jump all over the only trend to emerge in teen pop since her last album – but the result is a deeply enjoyable piece of discofied synth-pop with that kind of shiny, burnished synth-chord sound precisely midway between Kylie’s Love At First Sight and, um, Kylie’s In My Arms. The song itself is slight to the point of being ridiculous, but expecting depth from a song called California Gurls is like expecting erudition from a puppy. It’s just not the point.

WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP

THE FLAMING LIPS & STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS

DJ-KICKS

Warner

Not long after James Holden introduced himself to the progressive house gurniverse with the jaw-dropping Balance 005 compilation in 2003, he charted a course directly up his own arsehole which took him through his misunderstood At The Controls mix before finally landing him at his destination in 2006 with the bewilderingly self-indulgent The Idiots Are Winning. He’s been lost in the recording wilderness for much of the past few years, so his return with the latest edition to the ever-reliable DJ-Kicks series is a welcome one. It seems a perfect fit for a triumphant return for Holden, and the end result is just that – well, sort of. Holden’s DJ-Kicks is more about the head trip than the body journey, and it’s a mesmerising ride through esoteric electronica for the most part, with the occasional nod to the dancefloor. The opening stanza moves through the indie and punk-funk sounds of Piano Magic and Grackle before Mordant Music’s Olde Wobbly deposits you in the middle of a lost tribe in the heart of the cosmos. If names like Caribou, Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and Steve Reid, Legowelt and Mogwai (whose The Sun Smells Too Loud is turned into a glitch minimal opus by Holden himself) ring a bell from there, then there’s a certain familiarity to the sonics Holden explores on this journey. His DJ-Kicks is an unconventional journey for sure, but thankfully not one destined only to click with the chinstroking elite. Hop on board and enjoy the ride.

Dark Side Of The Moon

Oklahoma psych rock mavericks The Flaming Lips and friends tackling Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon is the greatest idea for a tribute album since, well, The Easy Star All-Stars re-imagined the 1973 magnum opus as Dub Side Of The Moon in 2003. Wayne Coyne and his merry men (and woman) are certainly a more logical fit, but their reading is much less faithful to the source material than its dub-reggae counterpart. So while Speak To Me unfolds in much the same way as the original (with Henry Rollins on spoken word duties and Peaches providing the screams), Breathe shares only the motifs with its tribal-garage groove and Coyne’s atonal vocal drawl. Then the spiraling wig out of On The Run is recreated with looping guitar leads over a 4/4 house beat before alarms signal a slightly ominous Time with Stardeath And White Dwarfs (fronted by the falsetto of Coyne’s nephew Dennis) coming to the fore. By the time Peaches wails her way through Clare Torry’s one-ina-million vocal performance on The Great Gig In The Sky, you’ll barely bat an eyelid.

Money plays out over an off-kilter programmed drum loop with vocodered vocals, while a beatless Us & Them is perhaps the closest in spirit to its inspiration until Any Colour You Like emerges exactly as you’d expect Floyd to pen it in 2010. And while Brain Damage and Eclipse aren’t quite the emotional high you hope for, that doesn’t stop a potential vanity project gone horribly wrong becoming an instant cult classic.

Various Artists (Mixed By James Holden) !K7/Inertia

KRIS SWALES

KRIS SWALES

HIGH GLOW Jes

405 Recordings/Stomp Jes Brieden would have to have one of the sexiest voices in electronic music and thankfully doesn’t seem content to lay down vocals on cheesy tunes for Armin van Buuren, instead putting out her own flavour of downtempo rocktronica which is a breath of fresh air for dance music aficionados. After initial success with the group Motorcycle (who did the seminal As The Rush Comes) she has now branched out on her own with High Glow being her second artist album after Disconnect in 2007.

Each track on this album has its own rhythm and feel to it and it’s fascinating how the style drifts between vocal trance, instrumental rock and pop music. The first half of the disc is definitely more positive than the last half of the CD as it pushes a nice easy 4/4 beat with dancey tunes like Awaken, Such A Long Time and Lovesong in particular, which has a really nice ‘80s vibe with its echoey pads and warm, driving basslines. Regardless of what is going on in the background Jes just plows along with her melancholy tones, sounding like she is eating her poor little heart out from the sadness of God knows what. This kind of music either touches you or it doesn’t – nonetheless the production value is clearly there and she has managed to find a niche market with releases such as this one. High Glow is definitely a success for Jes and a worthy follow up to her previous release. It loses a little punch somewhere along the line as the mood shifts from rebellious to sad, but still remains a unique effort in an often generic market.

JC ESTELLER

DESTROY

Various Artists (Mixed By The Bloody Beetroots & The Aston Shuffle) Ministry Of Sound/Universal Harder than most recent offerings from the iconic Ministry Of Sound label, Destroy delivers what it promises – “a musical force more hazardous than anything known to man, openly divulging the most reckless side of electro with two discs of razor sharp tracks”. The Aston Shuffle’s mix is pumped full of mostly upfront tracks with a side of club regulars such as Kissy Sell Out’s Garden Friends and The Aston Shuffle’s own I Wanna See You remixed by Harvard Bass. On the flipside, The Bloody Beetroots mix is significantly more amped up with a noticeable gritty and hard electro atmosphere to it. This disc should be reserved for veterans of the scene as others may run off with their tails between their legs. Trippy sounds, stretched out basslines and shrill beeping can quickly revert back to ambient chill-out session style tracks such as The Bloody Beetroots own 31 Seconds To Die. Destroy is worthy of the Ministry of Sound title but is nothing to shuffle and scream about. But with the lure of The Bloody Beetroots who’ve shot to cult status in rapid time, it’ll have scene diehards’ ears burning. Destroy – back to basics, this is simply dirty, sexy electro.

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Not new, precisely, but I thought it was worth paying tribute to the curiousness of the massive success of this club track, which even now haunts the upper reaches of the charts. When was the last time a largely instrumental house tune actually did this well? We No Speak Americano does of course contain a vocal swiped from Tu Vuo Fa L’Americano, but this is just the hook that spices up its Cuban horn pirouettes, which fit squarely within the Classic Records/Derrick Carter mould of bumpin’ boompty house. Simultaneously, the tune belongs to that tradition of liberally sampling winsome, sepia-toned Latin and South American tunes that has haunted post-minimal European dance these past four years or so – a trend that hit its aesthetic pinnacle with Ricardo Villalobos’ Enfants (Chant) and its (prior) crossover peak with Samim’s Heater. As always, the spoils of the day go to the latecomers, but Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP shouldn’t be punished for finally pushing these two lineages to the point where they combine to resemble the maddening irresistibility of Doop more than anything else.

I LIKE IT

Enrique Inglesias Feat Pitbull Universal

I was expecting a combination of Enrique and Pitbull to mean some kind of wimpy-meets-horny (equals “pervy” I guess) Latin pop outing, but instead I’m greeted with blaring trance chords. Which is indicative of the state of the world. I don’t know what Enrique has done to his vocals here – it’s not typical auto-tune, but he sounds like a constipated computer, and the obnoxiously stomping trance-pop backing hardly does him favours, especially when his voice goes all strained for the falsetto chorus (this appears to be deliberate, though I can’t for the life of me imagine why). Pitbull meanwhile is the kind of rapper who sounds great on the right track and ignorable on anything else, and not all of his gratuitous Spanish catchphrases can stop this from sounding like the musical afterbirth to some much better hypothetical song the two dudes could have done together. This’ll probably be a massive hit just to piss me off.

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WILD COLONIAL

CRYSTAL CASTLES

ONCE UPON A NIGHT

Elefant Traks/Inertia

Cortex/Shock

405 Recordings/Stomp

Ozi Batla is a man of many faces. Throughout his 20-odd-year career, the Bondi native has been a feared battle MC, poster boy for hip hop’s left as a member of The Herd, and a forerunner in sculpting a hip hop/reggae fusion in Astronomy Class.

This year, however, we get the chance to see Batla in a light we have yet not – as a standalone MC. Across Wild Colonial, Batla has not wasted one bar. Through all the glamour The Herd, tours and festival slots bring, sometimes we forget that Batla – and the entire Elefant Traks crew, for that matter – are, and have been for years, participants at Sydney hip hop’s very core. They’re not some external entity looking down from above, but active members. Wild Colonial sees Batla affirm his place as a participator. The album’s most prominent banger, Mics Peeps And A Light solidifies that notion. Noticeably absent are the political undertones one may expect, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as they are replaced by an introspect we rarely, if ever, have heard from Batla, with Doesn’t Matter seeing him at his most reflective moment to date. Across the board, production is first class. Helmed by Sandro – think Def Wish and Good Buddha – the LP relies on a staunch analogue aesthetic, and it pays off. Beat-wise, check the psychedelic Shoot The Breeze and the blissful instrumental Don’t Wanna Wait for highlights. Perhaps Sandro’s most appealing quality is his ability to mix experimentation with retrospective boom-bap, which, in essence, is what Wild Colonial as a whole stands for.

This Canadian duo creates perfect music to crank up in your bedroom and convince your parents that you are on drugs. Opener Fainting Spells threatens to vacuum your soul out via your eardrums as the listener is catapulted directly into the ‘mystery sound’ universe of Crystal Castles. Somehow these tunes capture the soundtrack to your nightmares (Doe Deer) while simultaneously tapping into an emotional well of melancholy (Celestica). Lyrics are incidental to the spectral quality of Alice Glass’ vocal and sound like somniloquies during Year Of Silence. Baptism is a relentless, electronic drill sergeant. Ethan Kath’s production experiments beyond what’s comfortable to hear and you may reach for the balance knob during Violent Dreams or try to swat an invisible giant mosquito as Vietnam – with its arcade game melody and irresistible driving beats – kicks off. Laser warfare attacks Birds and why has no one ever penned a song named Pap Smear before? It’s not as uncomfortable as the name would suggest. Live drums by Christopher Chartrand punch their way out of Intimate, which could be a space aged Popcorn. The assault on your receptors in the last half of the song could be used as a torture device. At times paranormal, the second album by Crystal Castles presents another achingly beautiful canvas of sonic art. A precarious listening experience that reaches into your suppressed memories and taunts your furies. The perfect companion piece to screaming underwater.

Just over a year since his studio album Twice In A Blue Moon was released trance maestro Ferry Corsten is busy again with a new compilation entitled Once Upon A Night. This time round he hits the nail on the head harder with an evenly tempered mix of vocal and uplifting trance that has a bit more depth to it than his artist album did. It’s definitely typical Corsten style, much more uplifting than driving, with the first half of disc one dedicated mostly to dreamy vocal numbers that are gentle to the ears and mind. The second half of the disc picks up a notch but somehow manages to stay with the same vibe; you can definitely feel that Ferry is trying to evoke a certain type of emotion with the journey he is taking you on. By the time you get to the Amurai’s Yerevan remix of Ain’t She Pretty it really seems like the Ferry Corsten of old is back, as the sound transitions into good, old fashioned, no-nonsense trance that is just as suited to listening to in a pair of headphones as it is to decimate a dancefloor of punters at 3am. The disc closes out with The Slider’s Meteor which is a nice little cracker of a dance tune. Despite the increased tempo the second disc actually loses a bit of verve until the halfway mark where Rafael Frost’s If Only picks things up with a warmer, more dynamic feel to it. After that it all gets a bit same-samey and it’s a shame Corsten didn’t change it up with some different textures as what might hold a dancefloor doesn’t necessarily make for perfect music to listen to on a compilation CD.

MATT UNICOMB

BRYGET CHRISFIELD

JC ESTELLER

Ozi Batla

Crystal Castles

NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK

TRENTEMØLLER Into The Great Wide Yonder (In My Room/Stomp) The great Dane moves into a moodier electronic field.

VARIOUS/HAVANA BROWN Crave Vol 4 (Universal) No word yet as to what to expect from the RNB series in ‘10.

CHRISTINA AGUILLERA Bionic (Sony) Sia, Ladytron, Goldfrapp… sounds more exciting than the single indicates.

JUNE 11 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Further (EMI) Eight new tracks – eight new videos.

Swoon.

LORN Nothing Else (Brainfeeder/Inertia) From the label that gave us Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer…

Ferry Corsten

GORGE Mood (8bit/Stomp) Deep German house, two discs orginals and remixes.

VARIOUS/MICHAEL MAYER Immer 3 (Kompakt/Stomp) Drops Ben Watt, Massive Attack and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

WOLFGANG VOIGHT Freiland Klaviermusik (Profan/Stomp) Kompakt man restarts ‘90s label with piano-driven beats.

VARIOUS Diggin’ For Soul (Outta Sight) Rare grooves from Joe Tex, Little Arechie, etc.

VARIOUS/NIGHTMARES ON WAX Wax On Records Vol 3 (Wax On/ Stomp) Funk, jazz, hip hop and electronica.

WOLF + LAMB Love Someone (Wolf + Lamb/Stomp) Dirty fresh house from Brooklyn.

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ISSUE # 1014

TUESDAY 8 JUNE

2010

MINX

WHERE AND WHEN WAS YOUR FIRST SET?

It was in Adelaide at a club called Savvy, and if I recall correctly it was towards the end of 2004.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ALL TIME 12”?

I used to be so into Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell and also Felix Da Housecat’s remix of Sinnerman by Nina Simone.

WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE DJS?

Dirty South, Axwell, Hook N Sling, Claude VonStroke, Aeroplane, Headman, Surkin and I would love to see Eric Prydz and Avicii play one of these days!

WHAT’S THE FUNNIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN FROM BEHIND THE DECKS?

It was during a show in Port Lincoln, SA with Andy Murphy, and a rather large male proceeded to let himself backstage whilst he stripped down to his jocks, then walked on stage and danced his heart out till he was eventually removed from the building. It was a crack up!

WHAT’S THE WORST REQUEST YOU’VE GOT?

It’s not so much a particular song, I just find it extremely annoying when people come and ask me to play RNB, hip hop, hard dance etcetera. Pretty much any other genre than the ones I actually play.

Very frustrating.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF WHAT YOU DO?

They love what I do! They have both been to see me play and both love their music too! I get to make people dance all over the country and abroad, and they think I’m very lucky to have a job like this – and I am!

WHAT DOES THE SYDNEY CLUB SCENE NEED MOST? More house!

FAVOURITE CLUB TO PLAY?

Electric Circus in Adelaide will always be a favourite of mine, having been resident there for several years.

Tank was always a lot of fun also, and the Prince and Q-Bar in melbourne are great fun too.

WHAT’S YOUR BEST ALL TIME GIG?

I’ve had a few awesome moments, but there are a couple that pop straight into my head. One was when I got the chance to support Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso in Mykonos in ‘07 (it was my first international gig and was jumping out of my skin with excitement), and the other is closer to home. Stereosonic festival the past couple of years has been amazing! In 2008 I played after Paul van Dyk for a mammoth crowd in Adelaide, and last year I played after Deadmau5 (also in adelaide). Such a buzz!

WHAT GIGS HAVE YOU GOT COMING UP?

Well I’ve just joined the team at ivy as one of their new residents for their new night called pure ivy, so I’ll be there now as much as I can be. I also have another trip to Dubai approaching, playing at an awesome club called 360. I will also be helping out Smiles and Coursey while they are playing in Europe, by cohosting their Novanation radio show once a month till August, and lots of gigs across Oz to be announced soon, booked through my new 360 agency!

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STARS GENERAL OUTLOOK

Getting back with your ex-lover may seem like a great idea, but let’s face it, there’s a reason we dumped those morons in the first place. Make a few tentative booty calls then stop calling altogether.

AQUARIUS

20 JANUARY TO 18 FEBRUARY A long boring week at work will be alarmingly interrupted when an armed robber bursts in and demands money or he’ll start executing customers. Which will be difficult as you work in a Salvos and there are no customers.

PISCES

19 FEBRUARY TO 20 MARCH You’re a long way from home but there is a candle burning in your front window, leading you home safely. In the meantime, if anyone fucks with you, feel free to mace them and make a citizen’s arrest.

UNDERSIDE FACE FACTS

I’m at a crossroads with my Facebook account. A big part of me still enjoys it and another part of me thinks it’s time to defriend everyone and then shut my account down forever. Kind of like a mass cult suicide – I kill all my friends and then kill myself.

The same bullshit happened with MySpace a few years ago. When I got a MySpace account I figured I’d have it forever. I imagined myself as an old man, tending my MySpace page each morning at 5am. And finally leaving it to my children when I die. But then Facebook came along and the MySpace love affair was over. I just took the MySpace account out to the back paddock and blew its brains out like it was a dog who bit a child. What I didn’t realise was that all I was doing was replacing one tedious social networking site with another one.

I’ve just had enough of the whole horrible phenomenon. I don’t give a fresh turd about your upcoming ‘event’. I certainly don’t need my iPhone to clear its throat every two minutes to tell me about some arsehole I’ve never met who is running a comedy night in Brisbane. I know I just need to change the notification settings (I don’t understand that last sentence), but until I do, my phone will be in cahoots with Facebook.

My phone is like an over eager secretary. I tell it not to disturb me unless it’s something important, but it just can’t help itself, knocking on my door constantly to inform me “Mr Jory, someone in Perth is holding an open mic night and they’d really love you to come.

Just so you know.”

I don’t care about any of these events, I own an actual copy of Scrabble and I was less excited than I thought I’d be to see how fat my school friends have become.

Added to which, Facebook started to lose its cache with me once online predators started sliming around. When people are getting murdered through their Facebook connections, playing Restaurant City suddenly seems pathetic and kind of disrespectful. My

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ARIES

21 MARCH TO 20 APRIL You will finally get busted for being illiterate when your bosses down at the book store watch you fumbling with a book, trying to get it open.

A quick check of your education history will explain everything.

TAURUS

21 APRIL TO 20 MAY Let me know when you need another drink because it’s definitely your round and so when you go to the bar you better get me a beer as well you cheapskate piece of shit.

Get me a water as well.

GEMINI

21 MAY TO 20 JUNE GUESS WHO (DON’T SUE)?! Who was that Oscar nominated Gemini seen drunk driving a unicycle off the edge of a made up jetty at a beach no one has ever heard of.

Needless to say it was SO SYDNEY!

CANCER

21 JUNE TO 21 JULY Give yourself a warm round of applause, a big hug and a wank. Let yourself love yourself, no matter how many people are watching. Unless you are masturbating in public of course.

LEO

22 JULY TO 21 AUGUST Knee high fuck me boots and a shotgun are one way to make an impression, but remember you are applying for a job at a day care centre. Perhaps wrap the gun in a nice pashmina or something.

VIRGO

22 AUGUST TO 21 SEPTEMBER You will take a soul searching walk in the bush this week and it will lead to disaster when you collapse mysteriously and start bleeding out of the eyes, ears, nostrils and anus. Maybe cancel the bushwalk.

LIBRA

22 SEPTEMBER TO 22 OCTOBER Treat yourself to some pampering this week. Get some bath salts and eat them, then visit a prostitute.

Finally, pick a fight with a shopping centre security guard and fall down an elevator shaft.

SCORPIO

23 OCTOBER TO 21 NOVEMBER You’ll have an amazing few days when a sudden addiction to cosmetic surgery leads you to have seven separate procedures between Tuesday and Friday of this week.

Delete all old photos of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS

22 NOVEMBER TO 20 DECEMBER You need to start being honest with me before I can start to give you a decent prediction. In the meantime I can tell you that I will be coming to your house this week to beat you in front of your family.

CAPRICORN

21 DECEMBER TO 19 JANUARY Keep spinning plates this week.

Keep the pressure on. Don’t waste time and don’t waste money. You need to focus and make every minute and every dollar count. And don’t wear denim shirts.

ACID TONGUE OVERACHIEVERS

May I be the first in 3D World to say: congratulations, Jessica Watson. Honestly, I mean that.

You may have technically missed out on setting a new world record for being the youngest person to sail around the world, but the sight of your fresh-skinned and tawny-haired wholesomeness is enough to make even the harshest cynic feel a slight gust of the salty Atlantic ocean on their vitamin D deficient face.

And closely following after Watson’s feat of endurance is Jordan Romero, who last month became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest at the tender age of 13. And let’s not forget crazy old Laura Dekker, the 14-year-old who wanted to sail around the world so badly that Dutch courts had to legally forbid her to do so, which only made her want to do it more.

Why have teenagers developed an obsession with breaking records?

We seem to have on our hands a group of unbeatable athletes who can reach the highest peak in the world and live out at sea for seven months, but they can’t buy alcohol or vote in a federal election. They’re like the ideal citizens of a world run by a mad Christian dictator.

But worse than that, all this bizarre celebration of teens breaking world records is taking way too much attention away from the traditional teenage activities of yore that we all remember so fondly, such as stealing all the alcohol from the downstairs fridge and drinking it all in the crawlspace. Those were the golden days, when the furthest you ever ventured outside was a boozy walk down the road on a mission to buy more illicit things, and then it was straight back to the dark enclave of your room for more huddling around the stereo.

1. WE ARE BORN

SIA

2. OMG

RUSKO

3. HORSE POWER

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS 4. ELECTRIC DREAMS

PHILIP OAKEY & GIORGIO MORODER

If anything, your teenage years are the perfect time to fail and be shit at everything. It’s always the teens who breezed through school, managing to fit in without any real sense of awkwardness or disillusion who are the most shit awful to talk to at parties, and who also generally find real life too hard to cope with as soon as it inevitably bites them in the arse.

5. ESSENTIAL MIX MAY 2010

So when will this tirade of teenagers climbing, sailing, and achieving end? Not only are their achievements very annoying to people who have entered their adulthood in relative mediocrity, but it sets a completely unrealistic bar that other teenagers probably feel they have to live up to.

8. NEON SAXOPHONE

And anyway, teenagers already have to hang out with other teenagers – a challenge far worse than any high altitude or mid-sea collision. Have you heard a teenager speak lately? It’s like listening to a speed-addict read the newspaper, if all the news was about Twilight. Why don’t we just applaud them for the courageous

JOHN DIGWEED

6. FOREVER & EVER AMEN (SAINT ETIENNE REMIX)

THE DRUMS

7. CENTRAL

TECHNASIA

LEWIS CANCUT

9. AUNDY (DJ MARKY AND SPY REMIX)

CLAUDE VONSTROKE

10. THIS IS HAPPENING

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

feat of endurance of having to listen to each other? That’s probably the real reason Jessica Watson decided to live alone at sea for seven months – she couldn’t take the pressure.

HOLLY HUTCHINSON in town to celebrate Generic Collective’s First Birthday at Civic this Friday 11 June – and we’ve got three doubles to give away. To win, email your name, address and telephone number to giveaways@3dworld.com.au with ‘RENAISSANCE MAN’ in the subject line.

policy is, once the murderers and paedophiles show up, the party is officially over (this policy began after my disastrous sixth birthday and has continued ever since).

So that’s it. I’m going to give myself a few weeks to get my affairs in order and defriend a bunch of people in a way that leaves them confused and hurt and then I’m going to close my Facebook account forever.

I’m sure some new and improved social networking site will come along to replace Facebook, but I’m going to do my best to resist it. Just like I did with Glee. And heroin. I‘ve got enough distractions in my life not to need the added pressure monitoring everyone else’s moves. I don’t care what you do and you don’t care what I do. Let’s just admit that and get on with our respective lives for God’s sake.

Oh and please follow me on Twitter!

DAVE JORY

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DIM MAK AT METRO TICKETS

GIVEAWAYS RENAISSANCE MAN AT CIVIC TICKETS

They were last seen here smashing Stereosonic apart last year, and now the two lads who make up Renaissance Man (that’s singular – confused?) will be back

After packing the Metro to such an extent last year that Steve Aoki rated it one of his top five shows of all time, Music People and Dim Mak are joining forces once again Saturday 12 June to give the veue another thorough smashing. Confirmed so far is a massive line-up of heavyweight internationals from the Dim Mak stable, with Joachim Garraud, Felix Cartal, Sonic C and Autoerotique playing and more surprises planned.

How would you like to enjoy the VIP treatment at the show, with access to the seated section at the top right of the Metro main room, a separate bar, drink tab, toilet access and mad view of the stage? Yep, sounds pretty fucking sweet, and we’ve got three double passes up for grabs! For your chance to win, email your name, address and telephone number to giveaways@3dworld. com.au with ‘DIM MAK’ in the subject line.

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ARIA CLUB CHART 1. HEY HEY (DF’S ATTENTION VOCAL/DIM CHRIS/RIVA STARR/TOM DE NEEF MIX)

DENNIS FERRER

2. I BELIEVE (JONO FERNANDEZ/ BASSJACKERS/ORIGINAL MIX)

NICK GALEA FEAT AMBA SHEPHERD

3. ROCKSTAR (DANNY T/CHRISTIAN LUKE & CHARDY/ANGGER DIMAS/ DCUP/STEVIE HART MIX)

PIPER & FERNANDEZ FEAT MARVIN PRIEST 4. WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO

YOLANDA BE COOL & DCUP 5. DANCE THE WAY I FEEL (ARMAND VAN HELDEN MIX)

OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL 6. ONE

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 7. GETTING OVER YOU (THOMAS GOLD MIX)

DAVID GUETTA FEAT CHRIS WILLIS, FERGIE & LMFAO 8. ASCENSION (KAM DENNY MIX)

DENZAL PARK

9. R.E.F.R.E.S.H. (FEAT SCRIBE) (ORIGINAL / 12 INCH / TOM PIPER / SANTIAGO & BUSHIDO MIX)

ITCH-E & SCRATCH-E

10. MY FEELINGS FOR YOU (ANGGER DIMAS/DIGITAL LAB/THE NOISE MIX)

AVICII & SEBASTIEN DRUMS

INDUSTRY WATCH DIM MAK’S AUSTRALIAN INVASION THE IDEA BEHIND OUR NIGHT IS… To fill all three rooms of the Metro Theatre once again for a massive rave party where everyone walks out going ZOMGWTF BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE!

WE’LL BE PIMPING THE SOUNDS OF… DIM MAK baby.

THE TALENT WE’VE GOT LINED UP TO PLAY INCLUDES… Some of the biggest and coolest names in dance music today: Joachim Garraud, Felix Cartal,

Autoerotique and SonicC, plus VAMP DJs and more TBA.

THE OTHER TRICKS UP OUR SLEEVE INCLUDE…

We can’t say – hence the TBA! Everyone loves surprises and we definitely have a massive surprise in store for this night…

CHECK OUT OUR NIGHT IF YOU’RE THE KIND OF KID WHO LIKES…

If you’re the kind of kid who loved Steve Aoki at the Metro in October, or the kind of kid who loved Boys Noize at The Forum, or the kind of kid who heard about how epic those shows were and has been kicking

him/herself for not going, and waiting in hope for another round!

THE THING WE PROVIDE YOU CAN’T GET ANYWHERE ELSE IN SYDNEY IS…

More major international headline talent than you can count on one paw! Plus a massive sound system, world-class production, and up for it party crowd that will actually fill the venue and be into the music.

HA. Also guaranteed that this is the only party in Sydney this weekend that you will leave dripping in sweat, champagne and tears of joy.

WHAT: DIM MAK’S AUSTRALIAN INVASION AT METRO THEATRE WHEN: SATURDAY 12 JUNE

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CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THE FUSS OVER BANKSY TO ME.....SMASHING THE SYSTEM BY SELLING T-SHIRTS ON 8BALL AT 20 QUID A POP. FIGHT THE POWER!”

C’MON SHADOW DANCER, DON’T YOU KNOW IT’S ALL ABOUT FIGHTING THE SYSTEM FROM THE INSIDE? JUST ASK RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.

TECHNOSCAPE RENTING CARS, BIKES + SOFTWARE How’s this for a decent software pricing model – rent QLab for $3 a day? QLab is a pretty amazing looking piece of event software that allows control of audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace.

It offers sample accurate synchronisation of audio and video across different machines, sync for incoming timecode, real-time video and animation, camera control and quartz composer integration for customisation. Browsing through the features, plenty of well considered detail is evident, and it looks to be a powerful and flexible solution for controlling many sources of media during a live event. You can buy the pro bundle for US$599, but for a lot of people, the $3 a day licence would be pretty ideal for one-off events.

It’s a wonder more software companies don’t get in on this sort of model. And other people too.

CAR SHARING Taking a leaf out of Kurt Vonnegut’s book, and looking at civilisation from a distance, we do seem to be a species of oil crazed demons, intent on paving the planet over, and shuffling ourselves around in vehicles that weigh a whole tonne all by themselves. In cities with better urban planning and public transport, it’s obvious to citizens living there that not every single person needs to own a car to survive. Extending this idea another step, car sharing is about renting out cars for short periods of time and thereby reducing the amount of cars needed for a suburb. Some people need a car daily for various reasons, but for others who only need the occasional trip, the car sharing service can save a lot of money (and other problems such as maintenance etc). If you drive less than 15,000km a year you will probably find car sharing will save money. There’s three main car sharing groups operating in Sydney and Melbourne, each blowing their own eco-trumpet about the benefts of having access to a newer, fuel efficient

human, after all. Much in common after all, we are human after all.”

BILLBOARD CLUB CHART 1. DUST IN GRAVITY

DELERIUM FEAT KREESHA TURNER 2. GETTIN’ OVER YOU

DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS FEAT FERGIE & LMFAO 3. BEAUTY IN THE WORLD

MACY GRAY

4. NOT MYSELF TONIGHT

CHRISTINA AGUILERA 5. PRETTY MESS

ERIKA JAYNE 6. OMG

USHER FEAT WILL.I.AM 7. RUDE BOY

RIHANNA

8. RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

BWO

9. ROCK THAT BODY

THE BLACK EYED PEAS 10. IMMA BE

BLACK EYED PEAS car when you need it, and through sharing it with others, effectively reducing the amount of cars needed. Look up Flexicar, GoGet and Charter Drive.

RENTING TWO WHEELS? Like car rentals, daily bicycle hire has long been an available option for visiting tourists and wandery folk. Arguing that the short trip rental could appeal to the general public, and potentially encourage them to leave cars at home, the Victorian Government has launched a $5 million scheme which will see 600 bicycles available to pick up or drop off at 50 different bike stations across Melbourne (see melbournebikeshare.com.au).

Subscriptions cost $50 a year, $8 a week or $2.50 a day – and the first half an hour of every trip is then free, $2 for the next half an hour and so on. A credit card is needed to participate, and helmets aren’t included, so it’ll be interesting to see whether people find bringing a helmet into the city more convenient than bringing a car...

JEAN POOLE captivated me. It’s the lyrics in the background that make it for me.

WHO’S AFRAID OF DETROIT CLAUDE VONSTROKE

(Dirtybird), 2006.

Claude VonStroke is by far my favourite producer – his ability to use simple sounds, hooks and loops, combined with his build-ups that drop back into the same beat just a little tweaked.

The breakdown in this song is my favourite of all songs.

CLUB CLASSICS

3D WORLD SOCIAL CLUB ASKS LOCAL DJS WHICH TIMELESS MEGA-BOMBS STILL BLOW THEIR MINDS…

THIS WEEK: DETNUM

PJANOO

ERIC PRYDZ Data Records, (2008).

Love this track for its consistent beat and its melodic feel. The breakdown is the best by far, where the simple de de de de drops over into the same sound but with more passion – and the beat is perfect for dance events.

BE

BORN SLIPPY

WHO: DETNUM WHAT: PLAYS DANCE CLUB AT OXFORD ART FACTORY / RAW PORK AT LEPANIC WHEN: SATURDAY 19 JUNE / FRIDAY 25

HUMAN AFTER ALL DAFT PUNK

(Virgin), 2005.

This music will forever be timeless, it’s that simple. They use the most amazing sounds and vocals that captivate, I mean... “We are

UNDERWORLD (Junior Boy’s Own),1995.

Just has a great feel to this song and it was one of the first that fully

LAIDBACK LUKE & STEVE ANGELLO (Mish Mash), 2007.

Straight up no fussing here, a great house song that every clubber will go nuts to, so always worth a spin and it’s pretty dope.

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DANCE MUSIC HUB CHART 1. MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU (MINISTRY OF FUNK WMC EXTENDED)

OLI VIBEZ

2. INSOMNIA (CHRIS CRIME INFINITY REMIX)

MIKE CANDYS & JACK HOLIDAY 3. TNT

DELGARDO FEAT GIGAHERZZ 4. THIS IS WHO I AM (COMMERCIAL CLUB CREW REMIX)

KANDYMAN

5. WHAT IS LOVE 2K9 (BODYBANGERS REMIX)

KLAAS MEETS HADDAWAY

6. NUMB (HANDZ UP EDIT)

JAN WAYNE VS RAINDROPZ!

7. PLAZMATIC CREW (EL FABIIANI REMIX)

SIDNEY SAMSON FEAT LADY BEE AND BIZZEY 8. DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (JONNY BLEVINS MIX)

DATAMOTION

9. HAVE A NICE DAY (ALL TECHED OUT)

MIC PERRI, M1, MATTEO DIMARR 10. HAPPY DAY (TONY RODRIGUEZ & SERGIO WOS)FUNKTASTIK

IN THE STUDIO WITH...

RAVE RADIO

THOUGH YOU’RE BOTH ONLY SHORT IN THE GAME IT’S GOTTEN OFF TO A SEEMINGLY CRACKING START, HAD BOTH OF YOU BEEN SPENDING PLENTY OF TIME IN THE STUDIO PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST RELEASES? James T: It’s all happening for us now. We both honed our skills for the last few years in the studio as we didn’t want to just start releasing music for the sake of it.

Brett Allen: We’ve now developed our sound and coming out of hibernation.

James: We’re both very pale from this.

DO EITHER OF YOU HAVE MUCH IN THE WAY OF A MUSICAL BACKGROUND OR WERE YOU BOTH PRETTY GREEN WHEN IT CAME TIME TO START WRITING?

Brett: I grew up with DJing as a kid and was surrounded by music as my family ran a nightclub. I would skip maths class to buy vinyl from the local music store.

James: When I got sick of doing piano lessons since the age of 7, I started tinkering sounds with my laptop under the sheets on school nights. I thought it was way cooler!

So we both were surrounded by dance music way before we

DJ BOOTH BOUNCE CREW

figured out it was a career path.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR DJ NAME?

WHAT IS IT ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER THAT MAKES IT MORE APPEALING THAN WORKING INDIVIDUALLY? James: Sharing a passion together and sharing the same goals is far better than riding solo – it’s very romantic. You can get lost in your own headspace working alone, having someone there to say “yeah, that’s rockin’” or “what the hell are you on?” makes such a difference. We’re working with Craig Obey and Jolyon Petch on separate projects at the moment for added influence.

WHERE DID YOU DRAW YOUR INSPIRATION FROM WHEN WORKING OUT HOW YOU’D LIKE RAVE RADIO TO SOUND? Brett: As far as our live show goes, we wanted to do something that’s a bit different. Our sets are made up of our own bootlegs and remixes while our sexy singer Sheridan Leigh sings over the top – it gives the edge over just DJing.

DID IT TAKE YOU A WHILE TO FIND THE RIGHT VOCALIST TO WORK WITH? Brett: Sherridan sang in a cover band that played at the club we played at – it was audible love at first, err…hearing? She rocked it – had the whole club singing with her on stage. We were like – HER!

It pretty much sums up what we like to keep our sets, fun and bouncy.

IN A NUTSHELL, DESCRIBE WHAT YOU PLAY. Fun, bouncy party mash-up – hip hop, breaks, Dutch, dnb and anything fun in between.

WHAT TRACK TURNS YOU ON RIGHT NOW? Pete: Nick Thayer – Gonna Getcha (Blacknoise Remix)

HAVING HEARD YOUR MUSIC REMIXED

BY QUITE A FEW LOCAL ARTISTS WHAT HAVE YOU COME TO EXPECT RESULTS WISE AND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH IN FUTURE?

James: [Our label] Midnite Music is proud to support local talent! There are some solid producers kickin’ about that it’s only a matter of time before they get colossal.

Brett: We want to support their work as they do with us! Working with in the future? Nick Galea, Kaz James, Denzel Park.

James: Any washed up, out of work pop star would be wicked! Like Peter Andre or Nicky Webster or something!

WHERE DO YOU SEE THE PROJECT GOING FROM HERE?

James: We want to keep Rave Radio

pretty dancey and radio, but you have to do everything in this industry to make it. I’m working with a wicked singer, Chad Trent, at the moment on his solo pop tracks – very Sam Sparro meets Chris Willis stuff.

Marty: Sporty-o – Let Me Hit It (Audiostalkers VIP Breakbeat remix)

Brett: For Rave Radio we want to build our remix work up, doing everything from main room tech to electro. We just did a remix for Central Station thats really nu disco.

We’re tapping into the commercial dance market and starting to tour nation wide.

Pete: Listening to Kid Kenobi’s first Clubbers Guide To Breaks and the Gimix Mixtape by Dexter. It really opened my eyes to what a DJ is capable of.

WHO: RAVE RADIO WHAT: I WANT YOU FEATURING SHERRIDAN LEIGH THROUGH MIDNITE MUSIC WHEN: OUT NOW

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MAD ABOUT /\/\ /\ Y /\ Well we now know what MIA’s much-anticipated new album /\/\ /\ Y /\ (that’s Maya if like us you weren’t quite clver enough to work it out) is going to look like now – but on the back of Born Free and XXXO we’ve got no fucking idea what it will sound like. The album drops 9 July here in Oz. Expect much enthusiastic dissection to follow in these pages and beyond...

IN OTHER NEWS: THE GOVERNMENT WAS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES FELL BY 12 TODAY.” SKREAM’S REACTION TO THE ENGLISH CABBIE GOING POSTAL WAS UNSURPRISINGLY FROWNED UPON BY SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS.

Both: Phat Stack – Jump Up To This (Audiobotz Remix)

WHAT MADE YOU START DJING?

Marty: I’d have to give some credit to Kid Kenobi also, watching him play back in the day when breaks was massive definitely gave me the urge to learn.

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE SEEN IN A NIGHTCLUB? Well weirdest/funniest thing would be at the end of one of our sets the promoter held up a bra that had been thrown at us in the DJ booth, saying “You know its been a good party when you find one of these”.

WHAT’S THE WORST BOOTLEG YOU’VE EVER HEARD? Pete: A mash-up of Lady Sovereign and the Futurama theme song which sounded like it had promise but was very much below par.

Marty: I really like MJ, so the majority of bootlegs that came flooding out after MJ’s death.

THE MOST IDIOTIC REQUEST YOU’VE HAD AS A DJ? Pete: Anything by T-Pain, Ne-Yo or Chris Brown. Still waiting for a Beiber request ha ha.

Marty: During a party set a guy telling me I should be playing Gabber and getting quite aggressive when I said I don’t have any.

WHO: BOUNCE CREW WHAT: PLAY CHINESE LAUNDRY WHEN: SATURDAY 26 JUNE

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JUNO DOWNLOAD CHART 1. ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

DJ AGENT 86

2. NOTHING BETTER

ERICK MORILLO & EDDIE THONEICK FEAT SHENA 3. SCOTCH HOP

BURNT ISLAND CASUALS (AKA HARRI & THE REVENGE) 4. OTP PARTY BREAKS VOL 2

JACQUES RENAULT 5. GANGSTER

DREADZONE

6. KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (ORIGINAL MIX)

CHOPSTICK & JOHNJON FEAT FRITZ KALKBRENNER 7. JAM HOT/BIG THROWDOWN

JOHNNY DYNELL

8. STATIC ON THE WIRE

HOLY GHOST

9. TATTOO MAN

FAZE ACTION

10. SPLIT THE ATOM EP

NOISIA

GIVEAWAY

GIFT OF GAB AT OXFORD ART FACTORY TICKETS

Longtime voice box of Blackalicious Gift Of Gab has struck out on his own for a second time with the Escape 2 Mars longplyer, this time with West Cost production pal DNAEBEATS on the boards. Gab and his new offsider will be showing off the sounds of that long-player and much more besides when they hit Oxford Art Factory this Friday 11 June, and thanks to the good people at Other Tongues we’ve got three double passes to give away. For your chance to win, email your name, address and telephone number to giveaways@3dworld.com.au with ‘GIFT OF GAB’ in the subject line.

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CAN’T BELIEVE I’VE JUST SEEN AN AD FOR 101 BEST BARBEQUE SONGS COMPILATION. THAT MUST’VE BEEN ONE HELL OF A MARKETING MEETING. WHAT NEXT?” WELL DAVE SEAMAN, NOW THAT MINISTRY OF SOUND HAS DONE A DUBSTEP COMPILATION WE THINK ALL POSSIBILITES HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED FOR THE TIME BEING...

touches on near the 10 mins we are always holding off on the next mix. Let it play . .

epic strings, percussion and goose bump sequencing that swings you to another time and place, doesn’t get much bigger than this – and yes, you do close your eyes and gurn!

LUX DEMENTIA

AFRILOUNGE (Connaisseur Recordings), 2007.

I dont think we have ever played a b2b set without dropping this gem, whether it be at a club or kick-on session. Perfect kick drum intro that seems to mix into just about anything, wobbly bassline that grabs attention, floating synths then before you know it the deep, dark and emotional piano strikes.

Always gets hands in the air and feet on the floor.

SIGH OF RELIEF

BRETT JOHNSON

CLUB CLASSICS

3D WORLD SOCIAL CLUB ASKS LOCAL DJS WHICH TIMELESS MEGA-BOMBS STILL BLOW THEIR MINDS…

THIS WEEK: SWAIN & ABBOTT

(Messilla Valley Madness), 2003.

This is a classic house tune to both of us. Great bounce and groove with US West Coast flavour hi-hats, fat bassline that gets you moving out of nowhere. Such a dreamy sound for a summer day session but still dives into the club atmosphere! Even though it

SONNENBRAND

H.O.S.H. & SOLOMUN (Diynamic), 2006.

We are both huge Diynamic fans, especially the older stuff. This tune evokes a headbanging sensation behind the decks and on the dancefloor. What more could you ask for? Straight up epic DIY tune that just keeps rolling and rolling like a boulder outta control!

LOVELEE DAE

plain. There are so many remixes that we can’t pinpoint an exact one favourite, they are all classics.

From deep to tech or straight up old school house sounds, doesnt matter, cause “it’s a lovelee dae and the sun is shinning, everywere I go, I see children smiling...” – and we will definitely be smiling.

WHO: SWAIN & ABBOTT WHAT: PLAY SPICE AT HOME TERRACE WHEN: SUNDAY 13 JUNE

BLAZE

(Classic Recordings), 1997.

This record is timeless, simple and

YOUTUBE OF THE WEEK

THE BRIGHT FOREST

CULOE DE SONG (Innervisions), 2009.

Founder of (Brisbane crew) Subtrakt Rikki Newton is the biggest fan of Innervisions and got us onto this producer, written at a tender age with sounds of kin in deep house. This is a cutting edge deep house monster with

Well we can’t say our Kylie’s new single All The Lovers does a hell of a lot for us on a musical level, but if you’re after some cheap titillation thre’s plenty to like about the film clip – in which Kyles writhes about on top of a massive of semi-clad couple in various states of foreplay. Tasteful stuff.

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HIP HOP HAPPENINGS WITH BLAZE

STEINSKI

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble just dropped a limited vinyl EP as the debut release on Irish label Choice Cuts. A couple of their previous releases were only available via the UK label Honest Jons. Best cut from this Heritage EP is their version of Outkast’s Spottieottiedopealicious which they’ve shortened to Spottie. The dubby beat gets major horn work with their tremendous energy intact. The EP was recorded in the hinterlands of Dublin earlier this year and is worth tracking down. The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are from the south side of Chicago and are made up of nine members, with astoundingly eight of them being brothers. They started out in 1986 as the Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble – Phil Cohran being their dad – but pity their poor mother who obviously had to work overtime for her participation in the group’s original continuous nine month inception.

This passed me by last year, but I was perusing the music section in my local newsagent and came across Issue Two of a magazine called Respect. Now I hardly ever look at US rap mags, because they are usually filled with people that shit me to tears. Always the same bling/club dudes that bore me senseless. Anyway.... I saw Fiddy on the cover, but it was in black and white. So that jumped out at me already. A quick flick through it and I noticed it was image heavy. Hmm, interesting already. So yes, it’s a photography based hip hop magazine. That I can handle and even appreciate, usually it’s the inane editorial promoting bland cookie cutter MCs that piss me off in most US rap mags. I like me some good snaps. Scan of the cover and inside and I already see a selection from Janette Beckman. Sure it features all the usual suspects such as Eminem, Snoop, Jay-Z, Diddy, etc… but hopefully we

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JANELLE MONÁE

JANELLE MONÁE: SPACE ODDITY Music critics don’t often agree on ‘instant classics’. They were wildly divided on Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak. Before that, much insider dialogue centred on Eminem, circa The Slim Shady LP. Sure, the kid had skills, but some felt uncomfortable about his politically-incorrect lyrics plus the cultural ramifications of a white rapper.

However, just about every reviewer is in love with Janelle Monáe right now. Many are proclaiming The ArchAndroid to be an early contender for ‘album of the year’.

Ironically, the new female artists (La Roux’s Elly Jackson, Little Boots, Pixie Lott...) haven’t necessarily lived up to the hype, at least creatively. Yet 2009’s most genuinely talented (and outlandish) newcomer, the UK’s VV Brown, failed to cross over. Could it be that, as a black artist, Brown is making music that veers too far away from ‘urban’ – and so she can’t find her niche? OG Flavas had hoped that, in a post-MIA world, the music industry’s old racial barriers were collapsing.

Nevertheless, Ebony Bones has also slipped through the cracks. Fortunately, Monáe has leapt over any such barricades – and, mercifully this media darling has the proactive support of Warner.

Peculiarly, Monáe is signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy but, happily, you won’t hear him ‘rapping’ on The ArchAndroid. Monáe’s other ally, Big Boi, cameos on the seriously funky Tightrope, which captures her flexing swagger, James Brown, not TI, stylee. In fact, ‘celebrity’ guests are few – if underground street poet Saul Williams actually counts as one.

Monáe has been compared to Lady GaGa but, beyond their shared love of theatre, they’ve little in common. GaGa’s music is generic – and prosaic – but Monáe is an innovator. Her most obvious predecessor is the eccentric Andre 3000, but she’s even more expansive. The ArchAndroid journeys through everything: nostalgia, cabaret, swing, rock, psychedelia, punk, funk, disco, hip hop and electro. And Monáe’s songs

will see a wider range of artists being featured, though it is more about the photographers than it is about their subjects. I’m sure they’ll end up doing a book sometime in the future. Looking at the comments on the site and it already appears to be a difficult mag to find.

The debut issue didn’t even register on my radar and I’m a magazine fiend.

Another cool magazine worth hunting down would be the UK’s Bonafide mag. It started out in landscape format with an unusual simplistic spot colour palette, but is now heading towards the usual full colour Wax Poetics/Shook style of layout with their third issue. It’s the usual content of funk, hip hop, soul, but it’s already showcasing some tasty content. Yes, I know the internet is more immediate and the info can get out of date, but it’s nice to have something tangible that can be read on the loo.

Check it at bonafidezine.com.

Get yer Google on and search for The Simonsound and Ruckus Roboticus with their two hour episode on Solid Steel. The Simonsound, who were busy promoting their debut album Reverse Engineering, is the brainchild of moog synth wunderkind Simon James and Matt Ford (aka DJ Format). It’s a fantastically future-retro adventure in which the sounds of yesteryear are recreated to musically describe the next millennium. It’s all well and kooky, but it’s the cover versions of B-boy smash It’s Just Begun and the Kraftwerk inspired Tour De Mars that get me geed up. It’s all very lunar landscape audio circa the 1950s, but it’s the funk/hip hop sensibilities that give it a nice touch.

Two other mixes that gave me some life encouragement would be a very worthwhile effort from Steinski and his superb contribution to the launch of the Irish music site choicecuts. com. Yes, the dudes who just released the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble EP. The other mix which I loved was from Brooklyn’s DJ Kevlar and his Turntables On The Hudson styled Latin beats selection Fiesta Up In Here.

Good to hear these type of beats mixed together so skillfully.

all have a twist. The ArchAndroid is also a concept – or fantasy – album that, perhaps more than the Detroit techno contingent, puts Afrofuturism into Fritz Lang’s proto sci-fi Metropolis. Monáe is calling it an “emotion picture”.

Indeed, Monáe has dreamt up a messianic robot alter-ego, Cindi Mayweather. The narrative is explained in the liner notes, yet it’s not essential to enjoying the album. The concept is reminiscent of Princess Superstar’s My Machine. But, if Superstar’s album served as a post-feminist critique of pop’s clones, then Monáe’s motivations are obscure.

What she does is generate a metamythology, eschewing old archetypes.

Significantly, Monáe totally deconstructs ‘neo-soul’, that (limiting) preserve of the countercultural black artist.

Still, for all its avant-garde flair, The ArchAndroid stands as a pop album and so it’s accessible – as were those great ‘70s opuses (like David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust...). The ArchAndroid is never overwhelming, pretentious or selfindulgent. Tellingly, Monáe’s heroes are canny pop operators, like Salvador Dali, as well as the cult African-American science fiction writer Octavia Butler.

Monáe has had a buzz for a while. Based in Hotlanta, the Kansas City native popped up on OutKast’s Idlewild ‘soundtrack’. In 2007 she issued an EP, Metropolis: The Chase – the single Many Moons received a Grammy nod – and theoretically this album (full title The ArchAndroid: Suites II And III) is the sequel. (There’s a final ‘suite’ to come.)

Monáe lately guested on BoB’s album – her Vampire Weekend-sampling The Kids its stand-out. Highlights on The ArchAndroid? It’s a tough call with Monáe’s wealth of musical ideas.

Faster sounds like Prince’s Paisley Park posse hitting Broadway. Monáe has a go at punk rockabilly on Come Alive (The War Of The Roses). Wondaland is new wavey – like Sandii & The Sunsetz mimicked by Bat For Lashes.

57821 is pastoral soul from ‘a’ (not ‘the’) renaissance. And the Debussysampling Say You’ll Go is balladry as it should be: sweet, not sugary.

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DEEP AND TECHY WITH ROBBIE LOWE

KING ROC

Winter is officially here – it’s cold and the weather has been pretty shitty. Great if you’re a fish or a surfer because it’s been wet and the surf’s up. Seems also a better time for Sydney’s club scene as winter tends to have the right ingredients for them to start working, also with less distraction from the summer festival madness. It’s a welcome sight if you ask me and there’s nothing quite like a good old fashioned pumping club night.

I walked into this scenario recently at one of Sydney’s supreme deep house nights Shrug. Just before midnight the bar and dancefloor of Civic Underground was rammed. And the music was spot on with Chemistry’s Jordan Deck spinning very appropriate warm-up sounds, holding a deep and groovy vibe. Credit to him as in that situation with an already decent sized crowd it’s easy to get a little over excited and start bashing it out too early in the night. When I played after Jordan and before Clive Henry, I didn’t have to do much really. The platform was already laid out for a cracking party. I bailed after my set because I had to play Spice in the morning, but apparently it was full at 5am which is awesome.

There’s good talking that Reckless Republic are taking on Friday nights at the Civic. For anyone not familiar with RR, they have a good reputation of doing some awesome parties in Sydney and of course are responsible for the successful Spice after hours weekly party. The launch party called Plus +1 is early July with a tasty list of local jocks locked in. From my understanding one of the ideas behind Fridays is bringing together some of Sydney’s underground promoter groups under the same roof. It’s all positive and especially with what seems to be a hole in the market

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AUSSIE HIP HOP WITH MATT UNICOMB

LOOSE CHANGE

So Spit Syndicate’s album Exile is out. It’s pretty good. You may have heard people say that their new LP is a huge improvement on their first, Towards The Light. I’m not sure where I stand on that one. There’s no denying that Towards The Light was a dope album. You’d be hard pressed to find a debut that was further reaching than Towards The Light, regardless of the type of hip hop being made. They’ve copped some opposition from some sects, which, I think, is a tad harsh. Like most of the hip hop criticism in this country, the majority was not based on technique, but on the type of rappers Spit Syndicate were.

Towards The Light was, to a degree, more of a mixtape than an LP. The beats were pretty varied, as was the subject matter. Nonetheless, the end result was one of Australia’s better debuts, and one that pushed Spit Syndicate to a level of prominence few MCs have achieved at such an age (early-20s). Exile, in comparison, is a lot more refined. The improvements were made technically.

Conceptually, Spit Syndicate are as they’ve always been. And that’s a good thing.

On both of their full-length endeavours, Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice have created a genuine atmosphere, which is a rare thing. This atmosphere is one of youth, eclecticism, and fervour, and comes from a focused and coherent approach.

Personally, I’ve always felt Spit Syndicate’s darker tracks more than their party stuff, and Exile hasn’t changed my mind. However, Starry-Eyed, produced by Horrorshow’s Adit, is pure heat. Jimmy’s verse over a drum-less piano line – can

for a consistent Friday night in Sydney at the moment. If all goes to plan this will be the awaited return of Colour as there are a couple of dates locked in.

For any budding producers out there wanting to learn the ins and outs from some of industry’s best, there‘s a new production course starting called Sine Wave Education. It’s an Ableton workshop arranged by DJ/producer Tim Jirgenson and Night Works Audio. The course will cover all areas including the basics, mixing, sequencing and equalising etc. The focus on the course is for easy learning and understanding whilst not leaving you too out of pocket.

Some of these production courses can be pretty expensive. Think I’ll even check this out, could do with a few more tips. I’ve worked with Tim Jirgenson in the studio before and always walked away a lot better for it.

Check it out online for more details.

Like usual I’ll wrap it up with music.

Most of these I played at that same Shrug I was rambling on about earlier.

They are worth a mention! I couldn’t help but look up occasionally to see the dancefloor enjoying these and that’s always a good sign. First is The Candy Dealers remixing Unclesound’s The Clock. It’s a sweet record with a deep progressive type vibe and joins the list of good work from The Candy Dealers lately. Andre Lodemann’s remix of Omar’s Lay It Down is a gem deep house record and never sounded as good as on the Civic’s sound system, as did Kirk Degiorgio’s Ripple Effect, Pol On’s Toga, Carlo Lio’s Seven Moods, Martin Buttrich’s Back It Up, Ben Klock’s Many To Many and my own track Real Time which has just been signed to Proton Music.

The biggest weapon at the moment would have to be King Roc & Dimitri Nakov’s Jardin Nights. It’s a relatively relaxed house tune that really creeps with subtle builds, and everything comes together on a decent sound system. Finally, a couple tracks from the vault are Cevin Fisher’s Love You Some More and Rino Cerrone’s Ordinary Morning.

anyone spot the sample? – has become one of my favourite 16s of the past few years. Fans of Towards The Light would be familiar with Lupi’s The Lucky Country, one of the 2008 album’s finer moments. This time around, The Creditors stands in as its counterpart, a brooding and cryptic narrative over another Adit gem.

In other local news, Loose Change’s self-titled debut is out now, available for free download at loosechangehiphop. com. The four-person crew – P Major on beats, Ellesquire and Rapaport on the mic, and Sam Z on the 1200s – have been kicking around Sydney for a while now, both together and separately. On the basis of his battle activities and 2009 LP, Rapaport is probably the most well known of the quartet. On the beat front, the entire album is on point. P Major obviously has an affinity with analogue, and it pays off. Look Around is a fine example, with a thick synth bassline and dope (909?) drums. Overall, though, Survival Of The Fittest is the joint, with P Smurf, one of Sydney’s more familiar faces, stepping in for a guest verse. While I’m on the topic, the LP’s artwork and sleeve is ill. Loose Change launched the album last Friday, but for those of you that couldn’t make it down, or were there and are keen to check the lads again, they’ll be supporting Urthboy at the fundraiser for his European Tour, set to go down at The Sandringham on 19 June. I’m not sure how many copies of the album the boys have left, but if you’re at the upcoming Urthboy gig, be sure to harass them for one.

Failing that, head to their site and cop the MP3s.

Finally, Ozi Batla’s Wild Colonial LP is out. I’m not going to go into why this should be on your list – it just should. It is definitely different to what I was expecting. There are no blatant political undertones, which is surprising considering Batla’s continued vocal approach to immigration and climate issues. I’d be hesitant to say that the album, as a whole, is Batla’s most technically advanced work to date, but it’s definitely his most insightful and sensitive. Until next time, stay frosty...

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GIFT OF GAB AT OXFORD ART FACTORY

GIG OF THE WEEK

SHE LONG WEEKEND SPECIAL AT IVY (SUNDAY)

Ivy will be hard to beat for long weekend festivities thanks to Experience Entertainment and it’s SHE “soulful house experience” brand, which takes over both venues of the level this Sunday. New York house veteran Mr V joins SHE favourite DJ Jorj (Defected) and an enormous line-up of local supports that includes Graham Cordery, Liam Sampras, Nick Vidal, Adam Jacob (on percussion), Angelina (vocals), Yogi, Dave 54, Robbie Santiago, Danny De Sousa and Kocho in systematically demolishing many a set of dancing feet.

Doors open at 6pm, $30 entry. Tickets are still available for $25 + b/f from shesydney.com and all usual outlets. VIP tickets are also available for $40 + b/f and include a complimentary cocktail on arrival plus access to the exclusive VIP area.

WEDNESDAY

THE WALL AT WORLD BAR

The ever ingenius folks at The Wall bring you the Throwing Secret War Shapes Poster Competition this Wednesday courtesy of Throw Shapes and street art battle promoters Secret Wars. Free entry.

COMMUNION AT MELT

Seabellies, Cameras, Pluto Jonze, Lanie Lane and Wade Jackson from 7:30pm. Entry $12.

WEDNESDAYS AT THE EASTERN

Eclectica from John Glover, Tenzin, Here’s Trouble, Cassian, U-Go-B, Steve Frank, Mistah Cee, Naiki and Kavi-R. Free til 9pm, $10 after!

SIDESHOW AT THE BEACH ROAD HOTEL

For the indie electro rock lovers, The Filth presents an unrivalled mid-week kick start with Coopers Unannounced and Royal Chant.

Doors open at 8pm, free entry.

THURSDAY

TEENAGE KICKS AT WORLD BAR Multifaceted pop, electro and mash-up sounds from Howling Bells Djs, El Mariachi, Johnny Segment, Sugar Ape and 16 Tacos. Doors 8pm, free entry.

THURSDAY AT MELT

Tiff & The Kids join 5 Coffees and DJ Dave for eclectic entertainment at Melt from 8:30pm onward.

THE BASICS AT OXFORD ART FACTORY

Melbourne based indie rockers join Fergus Brown and Richie Cuthbert in the Live Art Space this evening from 8pm, tickets will set you back a mere $14.80 and are available through Moshtix. Carborator and Southern Comfort will also be performing in Gallery space, entry to which won’t cost you a cent.

THE STRIDES AT THE BEACH ROAD HOTEL

Folk, blues, and pop jams from The Strides from 8pm. Free entry.

DA BOMB AT GASWORKS, THE ALBION

Smooth hip hop and RNB from DJ Fresh and guests. Free from 9pm.

FRIDAY

CHEMICAL BROTHERS FURTHER ALBUM LAUNCH AT HUGOS LOUNGE

The Chems’ latest eight track offering gets its first Sydney airing

at Hugo’s this evening. Resident jock Graz and a selection of guests will be spinning selections from the album throughout the night from 8pm. $10.

SOSUEME AT QBAR + 34B

The Preachers, Lyyar, Hattie Carroll, The Future Prehistoric, Joyride, Rose, Alison Wonderland, Coitus Interruptus and Lonewolf prep the dancefloor for some indie rock and electro madness this Friday for yet another instalment of Sosueme.

Doors open at 8pm, $10 cover.

GAMEBOY FRIDAYS AT KIT & KABOODLE

Joyride, Hansom and the inimitable Gameboys join forces for another electro flogging at Kit & Kaboodle.

Doors open at 10pm, $10 cover.

INDEX AT PHOENIX BAR

Index returns to the Phoenix Bar with its latest party concept – the label tribute night. Mark Pritchard, Luke Snarl, Lorna Clarkson, Victim and Eli will be taking on the catalogues of DMZ, Hyperdub, Warp, Planet Mu and Rhythm & Sound respectively in an impressive crossover of futurist beats. Doors open at 10pm, $10 cover.

RENAISSANCE MAN AT THE CIVIC UNDERGROUND

The Generic Collective bring wobble merchants Renaissance Man to Sydney for a second helping with support from Kato, Levins, Generic DJs, and The Wedding Ring Fingers.

Tickets $23.10 through Moshtix or $25 on the door. Kick off at 10pm.

CLASH AT CANDY’S APARTMENT

Indie bands Mrs Bishop and Joysticks get you warmed up to rock the casbah with DJs Kraag, ShowUsIt,Threesizteen, Diskoriot,Frankie Jay, Paul Girdler and Twobble Twins pumping out mashups and electro anthems with reckless abandon. Doors 8pm, $20 entry.

MUM AT WORLD BAR

This week’s line-up includes live acts Delta Riggs, Papa vs Pretty, Fear Of Monsters and The Shake Up downstairs, while Leeroy MacQueen and The Gussets celebrate their EP launch alongside Myth & Tropics, Dark Bells and Baby Blue Bergman upstairs. DJs Walkie Talkie, Skully Boo, Sweetie (FBi), Nude DJs, Animal Chin, Kitty Monroe, LLoyd, DiDidoesFiFi, Jack Shit, 10th Avenue & Sammy K, 16 Tacos and Luke Yeah (Disco Punx) provide a boogie infusion. Doors 8pm, $10 cover.

PURPLE SNEAKERS AT THE GLADSTONE HOTEL

Indie, rock, pop and hip hop jams from Nick Findlay, BenLucid, Toki Doki, Fantomatique, Kill

The Art Factory goes hip hop this friday with Blackalicious member Gift Of Gab making his debut appearance at the venue alongside Ozi Batla and Loose Change. While pre-sale tickets to the Live Art Space will set you back $38.40 through Moshtix, you can get into the Gallery space for nix and catch The Domestics pumping out some funk alongside Olympia Milk Bar.

KLUTE AT CHINESE LAUNDRY

The Laundry takes a step towards the dark side with drum n bass legend Klute. Local supports from Riggers, ROFL, Doctor Werewolf, Morphee & Vesper, Lynken & Vertigo and R!M!E! Doors 10pm, $20 cover.

REMEDY FEAT TOTAL SCIENCE AT UTS LOFT BAR

The Foreigndub crew bring UK drum’n’bass duo Jason Greenhalgh (Q Project) and Paul Smith (Spinback), aka Total Science, to the Loft Bar with support from Vice Versa, Foreigndub, Fire & Whitey and Ritual vs ALF. Doors 6pm.

TOURISM LAUNCH AT TAO LOUNGE

The Tao Lounge welcomes its newest house oriented party, Tourism, which features local veteran Jimi Polar plus Oliver Gurney, Mark Craven and the Franchis Bros. Doors open at 9pm, entry $5 before 11pm or $10 after.

FRIDAYS AT SAPPHIRE

Sexy house sounds from Kate Monroe, Miss Match, Dave 54, Chiller and guest percussionist Rob Morrish from 8pm. Complimentary cocktails and canapes until 10pm.

Free entry.

FRIDAY AT OPERA BAR

Funk, breaks and house from Vermouth, featuring members of La Fiesta and Martini Club with Mumma Megs. Doors 5pm, Free!

FUEGO AT COLLINGWOOD HOTEL

Latin, reggaeton, funk, hip hop and R&B sounds from Don Juan, Asado and Dennis Tha Menace; hosted by Empress MC. Doors 9pm, $15.

BIG WHOOP AT MELT

Live indie rock action from Sound Casino, Underlights, Radio National and Sticky Fingers. Entry $12.

NOBBY GROOVES & DJ KAREY AT GASWORKS, THE ALBION

Sexy house hits with DJ Nobby Grooves and DJ Karey from 9pm til late. $10 cover.

DUST TONES AT THE BEACH ROAD HOTEL

The best in Australian and NZ hip hop is what you can expect at Dust Tones and this week The Botanics, Joyride and DJ Ability feature.

Doors open at 8pm, free entry.

RNB SUPERCLUB AT TANK

Australia’s leading urban club brand presents Sydney’s biggest weekly RNB party featuring leaders of the RNB pack, Def Rok, G-Wizard, Eko, Troy-T, Lilo and MC Jayson.

SATURDAY

WE LOVE SOUNDS 2010 AT HORDERN PAVILION

With a line-up that includes Underworld, Crookers, Laidback Luke, Markus Schulz, Tiga, Steve Aoki, Felix Da Housecat, Gareth Emery, M.A.N.D.Y (live), Joachim Garraud, Proxy (live), Zombie Nation (live), Ellen Allien, Roger Shah, Paul Ritch (live), Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, The Revenge, Thomas Von Party, Sonic C and plenty more you’ve sweet bugger all to complain about

… unless you’re a real spoilt sport. Second release tickets still available through Ticketek for $126.80. Gates open at 12pm.

DIM MAK AUSTRALIA TAKE OVER AT THE METRO THEATRE Electro fans will be hard pressed to find a better way to cap off their We Love Sounds experience than by heading along to the Dim Mak party at the Metro – with Joachim Garraud, Felix Cartal, Sonic C and Autoerotique plus more acts to be announced it’s going to be mighty interesting indeed. Tickets available for $40 + b/f from metrotheatre.com.au.

MAD RACKET FEAT TOM TRAGO AT MARRICKVILLE BOWLING & RECREATION CLUB

It’s been a while between drinks for the Mad Racket crew but they’re making up for lost time with their royal dress up theme in honour of Queen Liz’s birthday and the assistance of Dutch guest jock Tom Trago. Local supports from Zootie, Simon Caldwell, Ken Cloud and Jimmi James. Tickets $30 + b/f from Resident Advisor, In The Mix, Spank Records, So Music and RedEye Records.

TRASHBAGS PRES THE PROXY AT OXFORD ART FACTORY With tickets setting you back a little over $25 through Moshtix, Trashbags are providing awesome value for moolah in bringing The Proxy all the way from Russia to thrash out buzzing electro goodness in the Art Factory Live Art Space this Saturday. Local supports from Redial, Nadisko, Obey, Ra, Gus Lakeview, PMA, Le Night and Always Never. Then the Gallery space hosts Betty Airs and Made In Japan from 8pm; Gallery entry is, as always, free!

BONDI MUSIC FESTIVAL AT BONDI BEACH PAVILION

King Tide, Porcelain, Sticky Fingers, Snifferdogs, Red Slim, Wormholes Exist, Glenn Cardier, Geneveive, The Cardinal Groove, Iron Bar Hotel, Tony Gibson, Three Quaters Hazel and many, many more will be joining the fray for this year’s Bondi Music Festival from noon til midnight.

Tickets $28 + b/f from Moshtix, $30 on the door.

A NIGHT AT THE JAZZ ROOMS AT THE BASEMENT

A Night At The Jazz Rooms celebrates its second birthday at The Basement this Saturday with Melbourne based nine piece, The Black Jesus Experience taking centre stage. The Jazz Rooms Soundsystem are joined by Michelle Martinez on vocals and Jimmy Polar on keys while Russ Dewbury gets things going behind the decks alongside special guests. Doors open at 9pm, tickets $25 + b/f from Moshtix or $30 on the door.

PICNIC PRES THE REVENGE & DJ SPUN AT THE CIVIC UNDERGROUND

Picnic join forces with Future Classic’s Adult Disco to bring the UK’s hot property of the house world, Graeme Clark – aka The Revenge – and NYC legend DJ Spun to the Civic Underground for a night of dusty, chunky grooves.

Tickets $20 + b/f from Resident Advisor or $30 on the door. Kick off at 10pm.

DISCO DISCO AT CANDY’S APARTMENT

DJs Elmo is Dead, Down n Dirty, E-Cats, Disco Critics, Whitecat, DUI, Black Tie DJs, Detektives and special guests the Hump Day Project provide more dirty disco, fidget house, airhorns and daggering anthems than you can possibly wrap your head around from 8pm onward at Candy’s this evening. $20 on the door.

WHAM AT WORLD BAR

Wham teams up with the United Colours crew this week to bring you the Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team (DJs Teki Latex and Orgasmic) all the way from France with support

from Kato, Wax Motif, Chux, Bad Ezzy, James Taylor, Kerry Wallace, Mark Walton, Miss Gabby, Elaine Benes, Yogi, The Jackal, Saez and Wedding Ring Fingers. $15 entry before 10pm or $20 after.

GHETTO DISCO AT QBAR + 34B

A frankly massive line-up including Cassian, Pipemix, Jamie von Party vs Paul done, Steve Castel, Stress Less, Slicker cities, Alpine Circuit, OMZ LAY, Monkey Genius and Coitus Interruptus greet enthusiastic clubbers at QBar + 34B this Saturday with a flurry of finely placed indie electro rock punches.

Doors open at 8pm, $10 cover.

SALMONELLA DUB AT THE COOGEE BAY HOTEL

NZ drum n bass heavy weights Salmonella Dub make a one off appearance at the Coogee Bay Hotel this Saturday with support from Tijana Cartel, DJ Rude Boy, MC Mana and Mighty Asterix.

Doors open at 8pm, tickets available from Oztix for $39.80.

SIENNA AT ESTABLISHMENT

Sienna hosts DJs Def Rok, Troy-T, Lilo, G-Wizard, Eko, Zoo Rok, Elektroy and MC Jayson at one of Sydney’s most luxurious venues.

Expect the greatest in Top 40, classic R&B, sexy house and ol’skool grooves every Saturday.

Doors open at 9pm.

KINKY MOVEMENT AT MELT

Keen house heads will surely appreciate catching UK veterans Kinky Movement at Melt this evening, where Illya vs Matt Roberts, Husky, Ant Best vs Rob Marshall, Travis Hale, 2 Phat DJs and Emme Jay vs Matt Mandell are on support duties behind the decks.

Doors open at 9pm, $25 cover.

SUNDAY

GAY BASH’S FOURTH B’DAY AT THE OXFORD HOTEL

Gay Bash goes Osh-Kosh-B gosh for its fourth birthday celebrations and be warned, you can expect plenty of clowns, naps, nappies, fairy bread, balloons, Jesus-juice, tantrums, pony rides, DOCS, lolly bags and traumatic memories.

Tunes from Sirens, Perfect Snatch, Nina Las Vegas & Bad Ezzy, Bloodfart, Levins, Sex Azza Weapon, Booms, U-Go-B, National Treasure, Radge, Pete vs Toby DJs, Nolan Nolan, Meryl Streeptease, Bitch Science, Berko, Goldie & Willard and many more. Tickets $22.50 from Qjump.

DUBRAVE VS FUNKTRUST AT OXFORD ART FACTORY

Local jocks from the Dubrave and Funktrust crews are lined up to thrash the Art Factory this evening in an epic head to head beat down.

Nick Thayer, True Vibe Nation, Mark Walton, MC Shureshock, MC Hayley Boa, Will Styles, Tape2tape, Flux-3, Jayem, Learned Hand, Gadget, Frenzie, Rubio and VJ Spook will be providing beats, mic skills and visuals between them to make this a long weekend party to remember forgetting. Doors open at 9pm, $20 cover.

FIERCE ANGEL 6 AT TRADEMARK HOTEL

Fierce Angel founder Mark Doyle teams up with Paul Goodyear, club saxophonist Lady V and Soraya Vivian on the mic for another fierce house program to pique your Sunday partying interest. Alex Taylor, Oxford Hustlers, James Tobin, Kate Monroe, Quirksta and Mark Loasby round out the line-up and with doors opening at 2pm you can guarantee a full afternoon.

Second release tickets still available through Moshtix for $44.10. The Fierce Disco 4 Official afterparty takes place at Filthy Gorgeous (Tunnel Nightclub) from 10pm – Fierce Angel ticket holders receive $5 entry on presentation of stamp.

RAP CITY AT THE FORUM

DJ Premier and Nick Javas head a massive line-up that includes

The Beatnuts, Masta Ace & Edo G, Total Eclipse, DJ Victor Lopez, Brethren (featuring DJ Mathmatics) and Daily Meds for a positively massive evening of beat infused goodness. Doors open at 8pm, second release tickets $63.20 or $100.90 for VIP from Moshtix. .

SNOW PARTY AT ALBION HOTEL

Seventeen DJs, two stages and eight hours of music is what you’ll be getting at the Albion Hotel Snow Party this Sunday. Tommy Funk, Scotty O, Anthum, Heavy D, Jorgie Jay and DJ Fresh join the massive line-up in providing plenty of R&B, house and hip hop bombs to keep you moving. Doors open at 8pm, $25 entry.

M-PHAZES AT SPECTRUM

Melbourne’s hottest hip hop property of the moment, M-Phazes, makes his Sydney debut this Sunday at Spectrum with support from Joyride Sound System, Mailer Daemon Sound System, Sosueme DJs, P*A*S*H and Hot Damn plus many more.

Doors open at 8pm, tickets $14.90 from Moshtix or $15 on the door.

ALI B AT 202 BROADWAY

Air Recordings head honcho Ali B brings his inimitable brand of breaks infused party madness to Sydney for yet another thrashing of 202 Broadway’s Funktion One soundsystem. Local supports from Dj Say Whut?!, Sideshow Rod, BKP, Randomweapon and Smacks.

Doors open at 4pm so you can soak up the afternoon atmosphere.

SPICE AT HOME TERRACE

Can’t bear to let the night end?

Sydney’s premier After Hour Club kicks off at 5.00am with Brisbane based deep tech exponents Adam Swain & Dan Abbott featuring alongside local talents Schwa and YokoO.

SUPERJAMM AT ESTABLISHMENT

The ever glamorous Superjamm punctuates the long weekend with a typical blend of upfront, accessible party tunes from DJ Def Rok, Troy-T, Lilo, G-Wizard, Eko, Zoo Rok, Elektroy and MC Jayson for the launch of RNB Superclub Vol 10 – Platinum One Entertainment’s latest compilation outing. Doors open at 9pm.

SUNDAY DIRTY SUNDAY AT CANDY’S APARTMENT

Dutch, fidget, electro, disco… doesn’t matter which variant of house music you can imagine, chances are the DJs on this Sunday Dirty Sunday bill are going to wheel it out – so long as there’s a nasty, dirty beat to it of course.

Teez, Dorkatronique, Smokin Joe Mekhael, SMS, Zomg! Kittens!, WizzFizzKids, Sweet Distortion, Bass Thiefs and Swampy Bob are on deck duties. Doors open at 8pm, $20 cover.

KONTRAST AT MELT

Kick back with a decent drink and the knowledge that you’ve the whole next day to sleep it off at Melt where you can catch Illya, Joey Katz, Joey Tupaea, Venuto and special guests in the booth.

Doors open at 9pm, $20 cover.

BONDI CULTURA AT THE BEACH ROAD HOTEL

Sydney’s finest funk, reggae and world music event greets Ziggy & The Wild Drums for another Sunday evening session to set the soul ablaze. Doors open at 6pm, free entry.

MONDAY

SPICE AT HOME TERRACE

Still going strong? Don’t want the weekend to, ah, end? Well fear not as Sydney’s premier After Hour Club kicks off at 5.00am for yet another long weekend close with local deck botherers Trinity, Matttt & Tomass and YokoO.

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“Just asked Allison Kilkenny to marry me. She said yes! Good thing or the next few years of Citizen Radio would have been fucking awkward.”

Comedian Jamie Kilstein announces to the world that he and his Citizen Radio (NYC) co-host Allison Kilkenny are to tie the knot. That’s going to make for one, uh, kil-er of a wedding.

DVD OF THE WEEK David Cross: Bigger And Blackerer - David Cross, probably best known as Tobias Fünke in Arrested Development, but also seen in such movies as I’m Not There and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, has released a live stand-up DVD through Sub Pop Records, and it’s pretty damn funny. Offensive and completely irreverent, you need to get your hands on it. Now.

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THE MONO-MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: CINEMA’S ICONIC LONERS

1. Alain Delon in Le Samourai (1967) 2. Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952) 3. Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976) 4. Alan Ladd in Shane (1952) 5. Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) 6. Steve McQueen in Bullitt (1976) 7. Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

GIVEAWAY

REBEL WITH A CAUSE ALICE LICE TYNAN TALKS TO FILMMAKER SPENCER SUSSER ABOUT THE FILM CURRENTLY KNOWN AS HESHER, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, SCREENING AT SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL. Who would have thought Hesher, a film named after its foul-mouthed, heavy metal-loving protagonist (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) would owe a debt to Star Wars? But trace the story back ten years and sure enough it was on the Sydney set of the Star Wars prequels writer/director Spencer Susser befriended Natalie Portman (Hesher’s co-star and producer) and the Edgerton brothers, Nash and Joel, who would go on to found Blue-Tongue Films, a creative collective that also includes David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) and Luke Doolan (Oscar-nominated short Miracle Fish). In fact Michôd ended up co-writing Hesher with Susser, while Nash and Doolan were both brought on board as editing consultants.

“I was on Nash’s film, The Square, and there would be days when Nash couldn’t see straight, and I could say, ‘Well this is actually working, it’s cool.’

Then there’d be days on my set when I’m freaking out and he’s calm as can be,” Susser says. “I think when the pressure’s not on you, it’s a lot easier to see [clearly]. So sometimes it’s nice to have someone point that out.

Shrek is a name synonymous with the 2000s, the loveable green ogre having become one of the biggest faces in animation this past decade. The fourth instalment of the Shrek series – Shrek: The Final Chapter – hits cinemas in Australia Thursday 17 June in 3D and 2D. This time featuring magician Rumpelstiltskin, who is hired to help Princess Fiona with her curse in exchange for being crowned king, until events lead to apparent betrayal and he seeks revenge. Thanks to IMAX Darling Harbour, we’ve got three in-season double passes to the film (in 3D) to giveaway. For your chance to win one email giveaways@3dworld.com.au with ‘SHREK’ in the subject line.

“It’s worked out in a cool way because there’s no real ego involved, it’s just like, ‘Oh, you’re my friend and I want [your work] to be as good as it can be.’”

Hesher’s Australian connection continues in the writing (“we wrote a lot of it in Sydney”), as well as in Susser’s singular regret, “If I could do one thing all over again, I would shoot the movie in Australia.

I really like working there and there’s a freedom that comes with it that you don’t get [in Hollywood].

“I started making films by myself with no budget and just some friends, so I really want to put every penny on the screen. When you make a film with all the unions here, which are all set up for great reasons to protect people, there’s just so much money that gets spent that doesn’t go on the screen, and I find that really frustrating.

“We had a pretty big crew, which I didn’t want, but you just have to, those are the rules and you need 100 people to do what you’re trying to do and I’m like, ‘But why? I feel like I only need ten of these people, the other 90 people I don’t need and they actually just make it very slow.’”

Having a big-name cast with the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt ((500) Days of Summer, Brick) and Natalie Portman (Garden State, V For Vendetta) also came with its own surprises.

“Some days were tricky, because when you work with movie stars it comes with other things, for example paparazzi, which I had never experienced before,” he admits. “Trying to shoot with ten guys clicking cameras, it’s a whole new challenge. And it’s frustrating for me, but the poor actors who have to try and stay focused with these people clicking away, I wasn’t crazy about that.”

Nevertheless, Susser is incredibly happy with his cast. In creating the titular Hesher, Susser lucked out with Gordon-Levitt.

“He’s such a chameleon, he really is able to become a different person and I was so impressed when I met him. We got on really well and he’s just really talented and really smart and really, really hardworking. It was too important to me to work with someone who wasn’t going to do that, and so I was lucky, everybody just worked their arse off.

heavy metal anarchist who comes into their lives and helps them learn to deal with this loss.

“When I was that age I also had experienced a loss.

They say write what you know, and so I did, and maybe it was one way of dealing with this stuff that never goes away. But I also didn’t want to make a depressing movie, so the idea of this Hesher [as a] crazy character makes this sad story entertaining.

He’s a liability, you never know what he’s going to do, and hopefully he always surprises you. He’s fun to watch, he likes to blow shit up and he’s got a foul mouth.”

With such a singular lead character, Susser is also quick to quash rumours of the film’s name change (to Rebel).

“It’s such bullshit,” he says, explaining that it was part of a sales agent’s packaging process. “I don’t know why they did it, and I don’t really care because it doesn’t mean anything.”

Hesher will be presented (name intact) at the Sydney Film Festival for its second-ever screening in the world. After screening the film at Sundance, Susser returned to the editing suite to wrestle with the sound design.

“I’m going to finish mixing, then that night get on a plane, [then] arrive in Sydney with the film under my arm and then it will screen that night.

“I was very, very fortunate to get a great cast.

Natalie was someone that I had in mind when I was writing and she was the first person I sent the script to when I felt like it was ready to go. And she signed on the next day; she just really loved it and she wanted to produce it.

“For me it’s really important. I do see Sydney as a second home and I want to make films there and I really want to be a part of the film community there.

“The film is about a [13-year-old] boy and his dad dealing with the death of the mum. So it’s really about dealing with loss, and then there’s this crazy,

WHERE & WHEN: State Theatre Monday 14 June, 5:10pm

“I just hope I can walk by the time I get there!”

WHAT: Hesher

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WICKED Capitol Theatre

Just Macbeth!

Two years, several new principal cast members and one million visitors later, the Australian production of Wicked, one of the most important and successful musicals of the last decade, is still flying high. It must be said that, given everything that Wicked has going for it, Stephen Schwartz’s songs and lyrics don’t quite rise to meet the dizzying heights of the rest of the production – the Wicked cast’s recent Into The Woods concert highlighted the superiority of a certain other musical theatre Stephen. Still, there are some fine moments, such as the opening, No One Mourns The Wicked (a close relative of the overture from Les Misérables), and What Is This Feeling? (a close relative of the school dance from West Side Story). Anyway, it’s perhaps remarkable that Wicked is an enjoyable night out even without the strongest score to come out of Broadway. First and foremost it’s one of the most visually spectacular shows you’re likely to see (though I’m not actually sure about the relevance of the dragon), Winnie Holzman’s book is genuinely funny (Lucy Durack nails most of the show’s comedy as Glinda) and, even if the teeth of the Gregory Maguire novel it’s based on have been dulled a bit, the story is fairly ingenious. Plenty of fabulous ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ moments for new audiences – and certainly enough for audience members making a return visit to enjoy all over again.

Season ongoing DARRYN KING

ASSASSINS

Theatre legend Peter Brook is in Sydney for the opening of his latest production 11 And 12. The 85-year-old has been working on the show for 15 years - not quite as long as it took him to put together his nine-hour epic, The Mahabharata, which was apparently a 20-year project. His latest venture is the true story of two Islamic sects that descended into violence over a dispute about how often a prayer should be said.

Dreary Macquarie St in the CBD came to life briefly last week when displays were switched on for the start of the Vivid Sydney festival of light, music, and ideas. A new light event celebrating 200 years since the arrival of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, Macquarie Visions is transforming landmarks such as St. Mary’s Cathedral, Parliament House and Sydney Conservatorium Of Music into a storytelling journey along the length of the street until Thursday. Electric Canvas, an Australian company known for its expertise in large-scale projection, uses projections and moving light images to illuminate the many legacies and achievements of Macquarie’s tenure as Governor of New South Wales. The lights go on from 6pm until midnight.

Author Randolph Stow, who won Patrick White and Miles Franklin awards during his career, has died in Essex, England. He was 74. Stow grew up in Geraldton in Western Australia and his work drew on his experiences with Indigenous people in remote areas. His many novels include To The Islands, based on the 1928 Umbali massacre. It won him the 1958 Miles Franklin award and is considered an important contribution towards reconciliation. One of his volumes of poetry, Outrider, was accompanied by prints of paintings by his friend, Sidney Nolan. His other novels include The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea, as well as Tourmaline, The Girl Green As Elderflower, Visitants and The Suburbs Of Hell. He also wrote reviews for The Times Literary Supplement.

A Judge has found three works thought to be by Australian artists Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson to be fakes. Blackman and Dickerson took art dealer Peter Gant to court for supplying the forgeries, which were bought for $24,300 by a Melbourne businessman. Justice Peter Vickery found the supposed Blackman drawings, Three Schoolgirls and Street Scene With Schoolgirl and Dickerson’s Pensive Woman, were not genuine.

He said they were “deliberately contrived to deceive unsuspecting members of the public.”

Auditions start in Sydney this week for TV talent quest The X Factor, hosted by actor Matt Newton.

Seven has put more than $20 million into the project and recruited radio host Kyle Sandilands and singers Natalie Imbruglia, Guy Sebastian and Ronan Keating as judges.

Punters are lining up at the Capitol Theatre each night for a special ticket offer to the musical Wicked. A ballot is drawn two hours before the curtain goes up and one or two front row tickets at just $30 each can be won.

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BARD IN A BLENDER Believe it or not, the above image is actually from the Bell Shakespeare’s upcoming performance of Just Macbeth!, which, yes, is a new(er) version of the Bard’s classic play. This time with blenders.

Based on children’s author Andy Griffiths’ book of the same name, Just Macbeth! turns tradegy into the tragically silly. And we can’t wait. Starring Patrick Brammall, Pippa Grandison, John Leary, Rhiannon Owen and Mark Owen-Taylor, Just Macbeth! (not just for kids) runs Saturday 26 June to Saturday 31 July at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House. More info and tickets from bellshakespeare.com.au.

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Carriageworks ever hurt you? No, you insensitive jerk, Carriageworks are putting on Winterland for you, a festival of hot chocolate, mulled wine, Finders Keepers markets, karaoke, bands, an indoor ice-skating rink and endless fun. It’s happening pretty much the entire month of July (Monday 5 to Sunday 31). Head to carriageworks. com.au for all the snowy details.

LOVE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES The Seagull? Masha accepts Medvedenko’s proposal even though she loves Konstantin, who loves Nina, who loves Trigorin, who is the lover of Arkadina, who is Konstantin’s mother and the sister of Sorin, whose house they are staying at. Dr Dorn blames the moon and the lake for making everyone feel romantic.

There’s lots of subtext. Work out Chekhov at the Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville until 27 June. Further info from sidetrack.com.au; tickets fromseatadvisor. com.au.

POSSIBLY GREAT FILM FESTIVAL, AYE OFF WITH A BANG Canadians are so polite. They’ve given plenty of notice that their film festival, Possible Worlds, will be running from Monday 2 August to Sunday 8, with 20 new features and documentaries screening across Sydney alongside filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions and parties like last year’s Darryl’s Hard Liquor And Porn Film Festival (which we attended, but, much like Fight Club, we’re not allowed to talk about). Run by Sydney organisation The Festivalists, they’ll announce the full programme on Canada Day, 1 July, at possibleworlds.net.au. Tickets on sale the same day.

A FREEZE IS COMING “- ON ICE” is probably one of the best ways of ending a description. Makes things sound heaps kitschy and fun and like there’ll be leotards involved. Does anything – ON ICE sound bad? Well, ‘attackers’ maybe, but when has

Bang, written by Jonathan Gavin and directed by Kim Hardwick, keeps up the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre’s run of excellent new Australian drama.

With a cast of six playing multiple characters without leaving the stage, it deals with family, religion, violence and romance via pivotal moments in our lives. It’s on Thursday 10 June to Sunday 4 July.

Tickets and info from belvoir.com.au or the venue.

TOTALLY WICKED COMP FOR EARLY BIRDS Get to the Capitol Theatre two-and-a-half hours before a performance of Wicked and you can go in a lottery to get one or two front row seats to preDorothy Oz for $30 instead of, um, lots more than that. It’s drawn two hours before curtains up, so plenty of time to be all ‘dinner and a show’ like you are on a date in the past.

Punctuated as it is by frequent gunfire, Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins is a sensational if somewhat nerve-shattering night of theatre.

In the Sondheim catalogue it’s preceded by the fractured fairy tale Into The Woods – in this production, as in that, the narrator is unwillingly and spectacularly drawn into the action – but Assassins is much, much darker.

It’s a character study of the men and women who have tried to kill the American President… which makes the subject matter of a certain other musical playing in Sydney seem like something the anthropomorphic cat’s dragged in. It’s a terrific musical with great songs and a great book, but the other excitement here is seeing the next generation of Australia’s actors on the cusp of their careers. It’s part of NIDA’s Season of Comedies, directed by NIDA’s Head of Acting Tony Knight and performed by third-year students. There are definitely some performers to watch. Andrew Steel is at once funny and frightening as Samuel Byck, the man in a Santa suit who wanted Nixon dead; Kurt Phelan captures the vaudeville looniness of President Garfield’s killer Charles Guiteau in a wonderfully physical performance; and it becomes impossible to prise your eyes from David Berry’s commanding and in-control John Wilkes Booth. A couple of dud notes are easily forgiven.

Assassins has all the pizzazz of a professional production and then some, and just may be the most thought-provoking offering on a Sydney stage right now.

Season finished DARRYN KING

GNOSIS

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House The stage was bare with Akram Khan being flanked by his musicians, all tastefully dressed and sitting barefoot on the floor. Instruments included a cello, tablas, taiko drums and a sarod, with Indian vocals throughout and the sound of Akram’s pants, lined as they were with rows of tiny bells jangling rhythmically as his bare feet tapped and stomped. The music was exotic and as polished as you’d expect from the best musicians from around the world. Unfortunately if you were seated even a little off to one side at least one of the players was obscured from view. The first act saw the dancer go through traditional Indian dance sequences as well as taking time out to chat politely and engagingly to his appreciative audience. The second act was Akram’s take on the story of the wife of a blind king who wears a blindfold for her entire life to share her husband’s experience.

Season finished LEE BEMROSE

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MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON

Largely silent and utterly affecting, Mademoiselle Chambon is an exquisite tale of sorrowful love. In what’s surely a case of high-wire casting, writer/ director Stéphane Brizé has the real-life ex-husband and wife pair Vincent Lindon (Welcome) and Sandrine Kiberlain (Après vous...) play out the enthralling affair between a smalltown builder and his son’s schoolteacher. Indeed, one can’t help but wonder about the emotional subtext being communicated in the series of excavating looks the couple share. Lindon is captivatingly gruff and vulnerable as the once happy husband and diligent son, Jean, whose entire existence gets thrown into unspoken turmoil as he falls head over heels for the eponymous Véronique. The two meet when Jean’s wife succumbs to a bad back and he is forced to duck out of work to make the school run. Véronique later invites him to speak about his trade to the class, then to fix a draughty window. Such innocent engagements soon palpate with their mutual attraction, and yet at every turn Brizé – adapting a novel by Eric Holder – eschews trumped up Hollywood passion and angst, instead allowing the film to sit with the dense emotional reality of their situation. Beautifully, tenderly acted, and captured

Mugabe and the White African

with the lightest of touches, Brizé and his cast succeed in imbuing their modern fable with a classical feel, complete with a train station climax. Like a silent scream, Mademoiselle Chambon’s restraint only compounds its resonance, effortlessly drawing the audience into this latest affair to remember.

WHERE & WHEN: Screening in cinemas from 10 June ALICE TYNAN

MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN

Dispossession of land is one of the major tools of oppression an imperial power can wield. In most cases it is whites taking land from indigenous owners. Australia’s sorry history in relation to Aboriginal land rights is an obvious example.

However, in some cases the colour divide is actually tipped in the other direction. The horrific situation unfolding over the last few years in Zimbabwe is a classic example of corrupt black African rule stripping white now-indigenous landowners of their landrights. Mugabe And The White African is a gripping doco by British filmmakers Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, looking at the sorry state of affairs in this country crippled by a government which opted for land redistribution after opposition to their

rule gathered momentum. White farmer Mike Campbell and his family exemplify the struggle to hold onto their 3,000 acre mango farm, even if it costs them everything. Once they decide to take President Mugabe to court in Namibia, they are systematically targeted for savage beatings.

The film tracks Campbell’s resistance and struggle to protect the jobs of 500 black Africans working on the farm. His story highlights how Mugabe has driven whites out of Zimbabwe through a bogus promise to return land to poor blacks but instead all the repossessed properties wind up in the hands of his family members or political cronies.

This film was made covertly and the footage then smuggled out of the country. It makes for chilling but compulsive viewing.

WHERE & WHEN: Screening at Dendy Opera Quays as part of Sydney Film Festival Monday 14 June, 12pm PRISCELLA ENGALL

SEX AND THE CITY 2

Take Sex out of the City, then what have you got?

Sex And The City 2. Take once-loved characters and transform them into whiney, out of touch jerks, then what have you got? Sex And The City 2. And take one minute and stretch it into two-and-a-half damn hours, what have you got? Yes. Sex And The

Sex And The City 2 City 2. This last point might be forgivable if the two-and-a-half damn hours were sustained by more than half a damn idea. There are exactly 0.002 units of thought to sustain every minute of film and - guess what - that just isn’t enough. As a result, the sum total of what SATC2 manages to achieve is approximately “zero”; or “nothing” using the old imperial units of measure. To emphasise this point, allow me to summarise the “plot”: Carrie’s happily married. Miranda is unhappily employed. Charlotte is a sometimes unhappy parent. Samantha never changes and that’s part of her appeal. Some things happen - a gay wedding, Charlotte gets paint on her vintage Valentino, Miranda’s boss is being mean and (horror, horror) Mr Big buys the worst thing imaginable in the entire world ever for Carrie and their apartment: a flat-screen TV. On the verge of a total epic meltdown, they all decide to ditch town and go to Abu Dhabi, which is where most of the film unfolds. Then there’s some contrived drama. And some really superficial attempts at engaging with the sexual politics of the Middle East. At one point Samantha dry humps the air and shrieks, “I HAVE SEX!” while surrounded by a circle of conservative Muslim men. This is all as embarrassing as it sounds.

And it only gets worse. Stay the hell away.

WHERE & WHEN: Screening in cinemas now ROWENA GRANT-FROST

ONCE WERE ANIMALS ON-SET FIGHTING, CIGARETTES, AND SUNDANCE: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE AUSTRALIAN FILM EVERYONE OVERSEAS IS TALKING ABOUT. ALICE TYNAN SPEAKS TO ACTOR BEN MENDELSOHN AND THE FILM’S WRITER/DIRECTOR DAVID MICHÔD. The poster for Animal Kingdom simply declares the film is ‘A Crime Story’, when it is in fact a searing portrait of family loyalties, love and dysfunction, brutally tethered to the nihilism that comes with so virulently living outside the law. With an impressive ensemble cast including Guy Pierce, Jackie Weaver and Joel Edgerton, the film also makes the most of its titular metaphor; one that is too meaty not to wonder if it can apply to writer-director David Michôd’s debut feature production, particularly when it stars a lion of an actor in Ben Mendelsohn.

The film’s ambition and precision as well as its win at Sundance clearly marks Michôd as the new player in town. And Meldelsohn, for one, has noticed.

“Fuck, I mean can you imagine coming out of the blocks any stronger?” he declares. “David’s got a beautiful brain [and] he’s very connected in, he’s got a lot going on concerning human dynamics.

He’s the kind of person who’s got a feel for uptown and downtown, [and] he’s a man that’s shown a significant mastery of the medium. I think there’s plenty for people that like films to be a bit hopeful and excited about with David.”

For Michôd, Animal Kingdom has been a ten-year labour of love, and one that developed from the efforts of his short film work. “You spend all those years writing something of that size, but not actually being able to imagine ever being in a position where you can make the thing,” the filmmaker says. “And what felt at the time like a relatively sudden shift in the whole landscape, where it didn’t feel just makeable, it felt inevitable.”

This paradigm shift brought Michôd to his first feature film set, alongside Mendelsohn, who admits, “I was essentially raised on set, I’m probably more comfortable on a set at work than anywhere really.” And together they brought to life in Pope Cody what will surely come to be one of Australian cinema’s most malevolent and coolly nightmarish protagonists.

On the page, Michôd reveals, “I had an idea of a particular kind of damage, a particular kind of man who had never been fully functional, but had managed to survive within a certain kind of network of people and within a certain kind of social framework. When that framework starts to unravel, as it does for him in the movie – we’re in a particular era where his main field of criminal expertise is becoming ever increasingly unviable – such that when that framework in which he has just managed to be functional starts to unravel, so does he. There’s a particular kind of damaged child in there that, when lost and confused, lashes out.”

Mendelsohn came to Pope during a frenetic period of working back-to-back (and overlapping) films, Knowing, Beautiful Kate, and Prime Mover, as well as TV shows Tangle and Who Do You Think You Are. “It ended up being kind of perfect, because I think working that hard is actually really good for me,” he says. “It’s kind of full on, but I actually do very well [to] pedal to the metal. And I just didn’t care anymore; I didn’t care how full-on it got inside.

“I have no idea how the people in the world of the events are – never seen ’em, never heard ’em, can’t feel ’em. So I took one or two things from people that I’d run into, impressions that you get.

The most important of which is that people who are actually dangerous don’t need to pretend they’re dangerous.”

However Meldelsohn also admits, “It wasn’t a fun film to make. They don’t have to be. I had a lot of fun while I was there, but it was a difficult shoot at times.” This, it seems was in part the byproduct of Michôd’s incisive psychological characterisation.

“You’re dealing with something that is particularly up close and, well, more than personal, it’s hyper personal, and when you’re doing that you need your full range of dysfunctional kind of feeling set to be able to be on display and accessed. So in order to do that you just want to do it. And that’s

just kind of an unspoken agreement or a pact or the film taking over, or all those sort of things, that ‘we’re doing this.’

“But it really got ugly for a while. There were fights on this set, there were punch-ups. We were able to do stuff with each other and still come back from there [because] we all kind of adore each other. We’re not like the Codys but we got a family rapport going.”

For Michôd, however, the tension took its toll. “I starting smoking almost two packs a day,” he admits. But then again with rave reviews across the board, perhaps the ends justified the means. In this nigh saturated market of crime-time TV, Animal Kingdom comes as a refreshingly weighty and beautifully constructed piece of cinema.

“I didn’t want to make a film that was a glorification of criminal endeavours, I didn’t want to make a film in which these characters were really cool. I have a deep, strange, if not love...empathy for these characters, but I didn’t want to make a kind of cool, rock’n’roll crime film, I wanted to make something more substantial than that.”

While Michôd remains quietly anxious for his film to strike a chord with Australian audiences, Meldelsohn is droll.

“I think this film is such a palpable experience that it’s going to be fine,” he says. “And if we don’t catch you buggers here in Australia, don’t worry, we’ll catch a lot of the rest of the world anyway.”

WHAT: Animal Kingdom WHERE & WHEN: Screening in cinemas now

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GUITARIST TO FORM/JOIN BAND i am looking to form a serious band, influences include Stone Roses, The Smiths,

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GUITARRIST WANTS TO PLAY GIGS I’m a 22 year old guitar player looking for gigs with cover bands or originals. I can play a lot of different styles and I wanna play on stage as soon as posible. I can also do recordings. Send an e-mail to nikki.rausch@hotmail.com or call me: Nikki- 0404963050 iFlogID: 5199

GUITARRIST WANTS TO PLAY GIGS I’m a 22 year old guitar player looking for gigs with cover bands or originals. I can play a lot of different styles and I wanna play on stage as soon as posible. I can also do recordings. Send an e-mail to nikki.rausch@hotmail.com or call me: Nikki- 0404963050 iFlogID: 5201

LEAD GUITARIST AVAILABLE Lead guitarist looking to jam/form a heavy metal band, preferably on the central coast but willing to travel. Influences: Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest, Metallica, Iron maiden - Blake 0403138542 iFlogID: 5350

OTHER SAXOPHONIS AVAILABLE Experienced saxophonist is looking for bands and studio sessions. Jazz, funky, afro, reggae, latin, rock, folk. If interested contact me at 0410041979. Cheers.

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PRO TROMBONIST AVAILABLE Professional Trombone player available for gigs, session and tours. Jazz, Funk, Latin, Pop, Rock and Classical. Can sight read, improvise and write parts. Contact Brendan 0409833827. iFlogID: 4101

SAXOPHONIST AVAILABLE Experienced saxophonist based in Sydney is looking for bands and studio sessions.

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SINGER LOOKING FOR LIFE TIME BAND genuine music man searching life time members. iFlogID: 2424

HAVE VOCALS WILL TRAVEL Vocalist looking for home. Happy to begin with new band or established. Influences blues rock punk folk metal everything.

Have experience playing in bands and vocal training. iFlogID: 5369

MUSICIANS WANTED BASS PLAYER BASSPLAYER WANTED we are 3 guys who have been around the block a few times and we have decided to form a new lineup to have some fun. we’ve been doing the odd gig with a fill in bass and are looking for a permanent. we are 38-48 and have been playing a long time. we’re doing covers at the moment to get started in the pub circuit. rehearsing at barden ridge(menai) we are easy guys and dont mind a beer or 2.. srv, chisel, ac/dc, diesel, anything that gets bums off seats. call 0420 317537 cheers! iFlogID: 3799

WANNA BE IN MNY BAND??!

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BASS PLAYER WANTED We are a rock covers band playing classics from the 70’s to current styles. AC/ DC is a big influence along with Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam and Hendrix. We are easy going down to earth people looking for the same. We’re looking for someone who is committed and doesn’t take themselves too seriously. We have a view to play local gigs around Wollongong and eventually doing originals and touring. If you’re interested in rocking your way to the top then look no further. Call Dale on 0409 408 596 iFlogID: 4573

SERIOUS BASS PLAYER REQUIRED SERIOUS BASS PLAYER (male or female) to perform a mix of original & cover material. Music is similar in style to: TOOL SYSTEM OF A DOWN - A PERFECT CIRCLE - DAVID BOWIE Ability to sing background vocals an advantage. Must be ready to begin rehearsals ASAP. NB* Genuine inquiries only as commitment is essential.

Ph. 0410 80 94 74 or email - julianfrederick@gmail.com iFlogID: 4647

BASS PLAYER WANTED Female fronted originals band seeks musically open minded bass player. Rehearsing in inner west. We like PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, The Bellrays, MC5, Nick Cave, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath.

Call 0410 865 035 or email newtons4@ aapt.net.au iFlogID: 4699

BASS PLAYER WANTED Female bass player/vocalist required for working covers band, easygoing, gigs booked, classics to modern, band ages between 23-40. Call 0416 216 970 or email metalwolf@optusnet.com.au iFlogID: 4739

VOCALIST WANTED Professional band with clubwork and agent, looking for charismatic male vocalist.Ideal influences would be 80’s 90’s pop/soul.Must be true showperson. Age: 35 - 50years of age. For details call Cora on 0418 122 370. iFlogID: 4994

BASS PLAYER WANTED Bassist wanted to join melodic metal band with death/black/thrash influence. Must be determined, skilled and have own gear and transport. Easygoing but professional environment. Ages 18-30 Wollongong/ Sydney based. Influences: Dimmu, Old man’s child, arch enemy, children of bodom, immortal, megadeth, slayer, amon amarth etc. Interest gained nationally and internationally with distribution deals on offer for the band. Great opportunity. www.myspace.com/asmodaiaus or email asmodai_aus@hotmail.com iFlogID: 5302

BASS PLAYER WANTED Female fronted originals band seeks musically open minded bass player. Rehearsing in Sydney’s inner west. We like PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, The Bellrays, MC5, Nick Cave, The Donna’s, Thin Lizzy, Sahara Hotnights, Black Sabbath. Call 0410 865 035 or email newtons4@aapt.net.au iFlogID: 5365

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BASS PLAYER + DRUMMER WANTED I’m a Sydney based artist looking for a bass player and a drummer. I’d love to give everyone a go but we can only consider accomplished players. We are and will continue to be gigging regularly around Sydney. With the music getting regular airplay on FBI and attention from all the right people, we need musos that LOVE the music I do and believe 100% in it. Let Management know if you’re interested by emailing: management@taylorkingmusic. com or calling on 0404 370 768 Check out the music at my Myspace: www.myspace. com/taylorjking iFlogID: 3484

WANNA BE IN MY BAND??!!!

Who wants to be in a all girls original pop rock band hav some fun and make some $$$?! Guitar/bass/drummer needed. Must be able to sing passable back up vox and luv performing!Practice 1-2 times per week. Gig asap. All ages welcome. www. myspace.com/nicolesero 0435 426 012 iFlogID: 4394

FOLK/ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY DRUMMER We are a 4 piece folk/acoustic/blues/ country band consisting of 2 x vox, 2 x guitars, double bass, stomp box and keys looking to find a drummer to add colour and energy to our songs. We play all original material and are currently gigging around Sydney and recording our debut EP in June this year. We play a mix of styles so looking for someone versatile.

Must be willing to commit to at least 1 night a week rehearsal, gigs and festivals.

If this sounds like you then please contact Susie on susiehurley@live.com iFlogID: 4425

SONS OF GENGHIS NEED DRUMMER! Sydney Based “Sons Of Genghis” need versatile drummer, if you play like primus meets Chilli Peppers, Faith no more meets Pantera,this is the band for you and we want your chops!! Check the sounds at www.myspace.com/sonsofgenghis. Call Jono 0410 330 702 or Andy 0420 771 357. iFlogID: 4485

SERIOUS DRUMMER REQUIRED - NSW DRUMMER REQUIRED (male or female) to perform a mix of originals & cover material.

Music similar in style to TOOL-SYSTEM OF A DOWN-A PERFECT CIRCLE-DAVID BOWIE. Must be ready to begin rehearsals ASAP. NB* Genuine inquiries only as commitment is essential. ph. 0410 80 94 74 or email - julianfrederick@gmail.com iFlogID: 4641

DRUMMER WANTED - SYDNEY High energy, versatile drummer wanted for Sydney Alt rock band. (20-30y/o) must have good gear, transport,live experience, ect many influences ranging from Deftones, Butterfly Effect to QOTSA, Foo’s ect to name a few. We have gigs + opportunites waiting. material ready to go. No time wasters please. email: scoobysnacks@live.com.au or call: 0458 338 102 iFlogID: 4794

THE WATT RIOT NEED DRUMMER Hard hitting drum demon required for Sydney band The Watt Riot. Have done some cool stuff like win jjj unearthed, release two EP’S, toured with great bands.

Contact Johnny on 0403529600 or thewattriot@hotmail.com only the seriously talented and committed need apply. iFlogID: 4796

DRUMMER WANTED Sydney based melodic hardcore band Thoughts Under Fire are looking for a reliable drummer, whos ready to gig and record, songs written already, our influences are Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon, Escape The Fate, The Used, Scary Kids Scarying Kids, A Day To Remember,contact Kat on 0424372751 iFlogID: 4944

BRAIN, FISHMAN, IGOR, HERB drums for Mool Project. currently a duo playing odd style stomps, grooves and changes, with t.waits/n.young/ish vox. view to record and gig. myspace.com/ themoolkingdevice for a rough idea. Elegio 0431 225 686 iFlogID: 4946

BLUES ROCK DRUMMER WANTED

EXPERIENCED KEYBOARD PLAYER

Drummer needed urgently for original blues rock band based southern Sydney area with record company backing and management. Some interstate touring required, approx. once a month, with your travel and accommodation costs covered.

Paid gigs but you’re in it for love not money. ABN, drivers licence and reliable equipment essential. No session players please, we want someone committed to the project. See www.annipiper.com for more info and phone Rich 0412509198 iFlogID: 5000

Keyboardist needed for newly established unique multi-genre band. Must have gear, be able to tour interstate & not be afraid to put on a show.

Influences-Deftones,!!!,Mindless.Self.

Indulgence,Depeche mode. female(or well hung gent)preferred-talent essential. Ph Jeff - 0418616835 or email teknofear1984@gmail.com iFlogID: 5316

DRUMMER REQUIRED

MUSO’S WANTED TO JAM/FORM BAND

Drummers are like girlfriends: it’s best to meet them through friends, at parties, or browsing in the non-fiction section of your local library. But I’m desperate, so here goes: singer-songwriter seeks drummer with gear & transport for gigs.

We rehearse in the inner-west. www. lostinthewoodsmusic.com iFlogID: 5122

THE WATT RIOT NEEDS DRUMMER Sydney/Wollongong band The Watt Riot still require a drum demon to join the gang. Need to be a talented, solid playing, hard hitting individual that is into all things loud and epic!! check out www.myspace. com/thewattriot for tunes and info. Call Johnny on 0403529600 or email thewattriot@hotmail.com. iFlogID: 5216

LOOKING FOR BLUES ROCK DRUMMER Hello im looking to start a band and im looking for a drummer Ages 17 to 25 with a professional attitude , My Main influences include The White Stripes, Raconteurs, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, Led Zeppelin, Dead Weather, and Alot of Blues Music. I live around the Castle Hill Area, And i am currently studying music,If you are interested please email me. And please include a contact number If possible. And we’ll have a jam Cheers. Beau Dean. BeauDeanMusic@gmail.com iFlogID: 5304

GUITARIST NOEL GALLAGHER-OASIS COV BAND OASIS cover band requires a NOEL GALLAGHER. That means good singing ability and tight rythm ability. Lead not essential.

Please be a fan of the music, have your own transport and some good gear. Call Blake 0420 774 819 iFlogID: 3161

WANNA BE IN MY BAND??!!!

Who wants to be in a all girls original pop rock band hav some fun and make some $$$?! Guitar/bass/drummer needed. Must be able to sing passable back up vox and luv performing!Practice 1-2 times per week. Gig asap. All ages welcome. www. myspace.com/nicolesero 0435 426 012 iFlogID: 4392

ANGUS YOUNG DIRTY DEEDS - Australia’s leading tribute to AC/DC are in need of a professional Angus Young impersonator for immediate work. If you look like Angus Young and are an Angus nut, you live and breathe AC/DC, you can get down on the floor and spin on your shirtless back while shredding to Whole Lotta Rosie - then we want you!

This is the busiest AC/DC tribute show there is with the best crew so be prepared to commit fully. Send your bio, recent photos and any other supporting evidence of your bad self to info@dirtydeeds.net.au for consideration. www.dirtydeeds.net.au iFlogID: 4723

LEAD GUITARIST/SINGER WANTED Original Songs ready to be released. Need a experienced Lead Guitarist. Preferably one who can sing. The songs are a mix of Pop, RnB, Funk, Soul, Reggae. Requirements: minimum of 2years on stage experience, age between 19-26. Project will be backed up by world renowned Producers & Promoters. For more information please contact Louis: 0409811111 or George: 0420583356 iFlogID: 5207

KEYBOARD SKILLED KEYBOARDIST WANTED to complete lineup of new show. Ability to cover orchestrations and excellent sounds to match a must. High quality show with good pay. Contact: onemoreguitar@ yahoo.com.au iFlogID: 4323

SYNTH PLAYER WANTED!!!

RED FIRE RED; explosive new Australian rock act are auditioning Synth players for album launch and touring. Check out our music at www.myspace.com/redfirered Must have pro experience and gear. If you’re fired up about what we do email us at redfireredband@gmail.com iFlogID: 4859

MULTI-GENRE KEYBOARD PLAYER SEEKING KEYBOARD PLAYER WITH A LIKING AND SKILL IN VARIOUS GENRES OF MUSIC FROM THE 60’S ONWARDS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A LONG TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH A PROFESSIONAL LYRICIST, SINGER WITH AMBITION TO FROM A SONG-WRITING DUO TO CREATE SONGS FOR ALBUMS, FILM AND OTHER MEDIA. PROFICIENCY IN APPLE, GARAGEBAND A DISTINCT ADVANTAGE. , PLEASE CONTACT ENRICO ON 0407 781156 FOR FURTHER DETAILS. iFlogID: 4976

MUSICIANS WANTED FOR POP BAND Melbourne bassist seeking RELIABLE, DEDICATED, CONFIDENT, CREATIVE musicians to form pop band. Influences: Faith No More, INXS, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, GnR, Soundgarden, The Police, Godflesh, Icehouse, M.I.A, Depeche Mode, Pantera, Genesis ect listen to demos at soundcloud.com/integra and call Mike on 0424 838 782 iFlogID: 5226

OTHER muso’s wanted to jam form rock/metal band, steve,0424487379 iFlogID: 2814

MUSICIANS AND AUDIENCE WANTED Details: http://hotelwilliam.yayabings. com.au This is the underground melting pot of music jam sessions, organised by the Yayabings Music Club with the JazzKatts romping the Fusion Bar. Musicians/ singers, comedians and artists at all levels perform by coming in on that evening.

Totally impromptu and musicians may improvise with other musicians/singers or perform their own set. Local/Backpackers/Internationals all welcome. iFlogID: 2923

GET YOUR MUSIC ON RADIO! Want to get your music heard on radio?

Australian Broadcasting Media(ABM) has over 30 radio stations so getting your music out there is no problem! Interested? email andy@zfmcountrywide.com iFlogID: 3458

ELECTRONIC MUSIC GURU WANTED! ELECTRONIC MUSIC GURU WANTED FOR THE FLAMBOYANT Saba ‘FEELING FEMININE’ SHOWS! GOOD AT SEQUENCING AND PLAYING LIVE! INFLUENCES: LA ROUX, THE PRESETS, DELPHIC, HOT CHIP, MGMT. CALL SABA: 0410-450-375. CALL BEN: 0410-344-107. iFlogID: 3822

MUSOS WANTED FOR BAND guitarist ,singer song writer seeks lower mountains muso’s to form band. Drummer, Bassist, Guitarist and Vocalist welcome. Influences include The Cure, the Church, Bowie, Dylan etc Please call Dave on 0405059558 iFlogID: 4300

HELP Hi I’m Brad, I’m 23 and i live on the northern beaches. I’m trying to start a Punk Rock band and I cant do it by myself. If you can play the guitar or drums or whatever and want to start a band, then please call me. I don’t care how good or bad you are at your instrument-your probably better than me! My influences are The Clash, The Ramones and The Pistols. My No. is 0404 909 416 iFlogID: 4561

BANDS WANTED FOR ITUNES ALBUMS Valleyarm Digital are looking for bands to be included on compilation albums that will be featured on iTunes worldwide, you’ll still own 100% of your recordings & publishing plus make money from the sales!!

All genres are welcome and we’ll also be offering a Worldwide Digital Deal to a band or artist that we think we can market on a global scale! This will include $5000 worth of online marketing and a worldwide release on all the major digital stores.

Submit your tracks (1 per band/artist) along with bio and contact details to - info@valleyarm.com www.valleyarm.com iFlogID: 4843

SINGERS/MUSICIANS WANTED! Talented Musicians, Singers/Songwriters Wanted for collaborative project. Im a Perth based Producer seeking friendly and talented singers and musicians in any style for serious yet fun musical projects leading to an album and gigs. Interested? feel free to contact me : recording_studio19@ y7mail.com iFlogID: 4931

WESTERN SYDNEY - MUSOS WANTED 38 y/o guitarist/songwriter looking for likeminded people to form a not-too-serious band for writing, playing and recording in my garage studio in St Clair (Western Sydney). Weekends only, just for fun. Originals, covers and maybe a few gigs. Call Steve 0424 505 361. iFlogID: 5044

SINGER NOEL GALLAGHER-OASIS COV BAND OASIS cover band needs a Noel Gallagher.

That means a good singer with tight rythm guitar ability. Lead not essential. Good gear and transport required. Call Blake 0420 774 819 iFlogID: 3159

GOSPEL SINGERS WANTED Five world-class passionate vocalists wanted for a Gospel music CD project.

Must have beautiful, passionate, powerful and devotional delivery. iFlogID: 3585

SINGER-DANCERS WANTED! SINGER DANCERS WANTED FOR THE FLAMBOYANT Saba ‘FEELING FEMININE’ SHOWS! STYLISH ELECTRO-POP CABARET! THE MORE FLAMBOYANT THE BETTER! CALL SABA: 0410-450-375.

CALL BEN: 0410-344-107. iFlogID: 3824

Sabbath etc etc. Contact Daniel: 0403 885 433, for more information and demos. iFlogID: 4187

SKA SINGER WANTED We are a new band called Low Gear. Have had about 16 practices together at home, and now about 10 in a studio. We’re not looking for anyone interested in making money as soon as they join a band as we are not gigging yet, but will be looking to just for fun to start, then who knows.

Whilst we dont like to admit to being influenced directly by any particular bands, we all like a mix of, The Specials, Toots and the Maytals, Madniess, Reel Big Fish, Prince Buster, Sublime as far as ska goes, we also individually have many opposing influences such as, The Clash, The Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers and thats just me!

We have had a great time in the rehearsal rooms in Marrickville, Sydney for the past couple of months, doing 2 hours every fortnight until we get storage then looking to make it more regular. We are now finding that we are hitting a wall without a singer and are looking for someone to come along and give us some input and help us over this hurdle. We are looking for a singer who is decent, but doesnt feel the need to bash it out at 100% all the time, someone who can relax into a voice and also belt out some cheeky stuff every now and then too. If you feel you would have a good time practising with us, give us an email and see how you go. If you enjoy our company then I am sure you would be a welcome friend. iFlogID: 4579

VOICE OF AN ANGEL Have you been told you have the voice of an angel? Do you want to put it to good use? Come along and sing for a local Church and see your gift grow. Share what you know, let us share what we know. Call 95441144 for a chat about your gift and how we can help see it grow. iFlogID: 4593

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SHOW Established and agent backed Oz Red Hot Chili Peppers Show are looking for a experienced singer. Must be based in Sydney, with own transport. info@ozredhotchilipeppersshow.com.au iFlogID: 4679

BRAIN JOHNSON DIRTY DEEDS - Australia’s leading tribute to AC/DC are in need of a professional Brian Johnson impersonator for immediate dep work. If you look like Brian and can scream your lungs out in the style of Johnson to all the AC/DC classics - then we want you! This is the busiest AC/DC tribute show there is with the best crew so be prepared to work. Send your bio, recent photos, mp3’s or any other supporting evidence of your bad self to info@ dirtydeeds.net.au for consideration. www. dirtydeeds.net.au iFlogID: 4731

SINGER WANTED! Sydney Modern/Alternative rock band with heaps of ORIGINALS! Seeking a male singer, 18-22yo, with good range and powerful voice. Contact Jae for more details on 0432 438 433 iFlogID: 4802

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SINGER Sydney based, agent backed and well established Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute require a singer. Please send bio and pic to info@ozredhotchilipeppersshow.com.au iFlogID: 5035

ROCK CHICK WANTED Expirienced female singer wanted for rock covers band, Rockfest.. Age and apperance is not an issue. Strong quality vocals is a must. You will be sharing the stage with a very expirienced male singer and quality musicians backing you up. You will be covering the likes of Baby Animals, Divynals , Paramore, Mellissa Ethridge , Pink, Lilly Allen , The Donnas,Pat Benatar etc..... We rehearse in the Campbelltown area. Phone Carcus on 0423264460. iFlogID: 5093

SINGER NEEDED Singer needed for hard rock band. We’re looking for a singer, male or female, for our all original hard rock band. The guitarist and I (bass) have been playing together for over 8 years now and over 3 years with our drummer. We have been writing new songs the last 2 years and continue to work on fresh original material. We have also been playing gigs all over Melbourne for the last year getting some stage experience up but we are really dying to get a frontperson with a voice that works with our music. We’re willing to give anyone a listen, we’re all easy going and in it for the fun above all else, but also been keen to take the next step and make it a serious commitment. Have a listen at our myspace link upon application. http:// www.myspace.com/psyecho Please note the myspace recordings are over 2 years old now and we have progressed in style and skill greatly since then. iFlogID: 5131 Creating a band is Western Sydney Penrith Region It will be a Pop rock with a nice bounce to it, for example boys like girls, motion city soundtrack, Rufio and others like that style if interested call me on 0433 028 200 or e-mail me on shane_greig1@ hotmail.com and please no calls after 10 would be Appreciated iFlogID: 5148

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SINGER

PINK TRIBUTE NEEDS SINGER The Australian Pink Show, Sydney’s well established and leading Pink Tribute needs a Fill In singer. We require someone with experience and the stage presence to be Pink. We are agent backed and have loads of gigs ready to go. You need to be available on weekends to perform. So... Ya reckon you can do it? then email Rob at info@ozpinkshow.com.au or go through the link on our website www.ozpinkshow. com.au iFlogID: 5379

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BEAUTY FOR A CAUSE CAMPAIGN ALEY GREENBLO, A CURRENT FINALIST FOR MISS EARTH AUSTRALIA HAS RECENTLY BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE FACE OF THE “BEAUTY FOR A CAUSE CAMPAIGN”. ALEY HOPES TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT CURRENT ENVIRO PROBLEMS AND HAS SET OUT ON A MISSION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! THIS “DOWN TO EARTH” COMMERCE LAW STUDENT IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT & IS DEDICATED TO ENSURING THAT OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET REMAINS CLEAN & LITTER FREE! ALEY HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY ACTIVE IN PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS & HAS TAKEN ON VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL INITATIVES. “IT IS SO EASY AND EVERYONE CAN HELP BY DOING THE SMALLEST THINGS!” iFlogID: 5082

GREEN, GLAM & GORGEOUS Aley Greenblo who was crowned as a finalist in January for the MISS EARTH AUSTRALIA PAGEANT TEACHES THE WORLD HOW TO ADOPT A GREENER WAY OF LIFE. Aley is studying COMMERCE LAW at UNSW and has been speaking out to encourage others to get active. In a speech Aley delivered to her fellow peers on Friday she mentioned that “MANY PEOPLE ARE INTIMIDATED BY THE IDEA OF ‘GOING GREEN’. IN REALITY HOWEVER, “GOING GREEN IS VERY SIMPLE AND MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW EASY IT IS TO FOLLOW AN ECOFRIENDLY LIFESTYLE”. ALEY GREENBLO’S ACTS INSPIRE US TO INCULCATE GREEN LIVING IN OUR LIVES AND SPREAD ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN OUR OWN LITTLE WAY. TO FIND OUT MORE GO TO: http://aleygreenblo.blogspot.com/ or facebook: aley greenblo iFlogID: 5314

GRAPHIC DESIGN WANT A LOGO FOR YOUR BAND? Want a logo to differentiate yourself from other bands? We can make you stand out from the rest! Boggleworks are currently offering a special price of $250 (RRP $349) for your very own custom designed logo. Visit www.boggleworks.com for more info. Be sure to enter the promotional code “IFLOG” for the special discount! iFlogID: 2808

GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES MYSPACE - WEBSITES - ALBUM ART POSTERS - LOGOS - PROMO - TSHIRT DESIGN - Graphic Design services for everything in the music industry. Website packages start at $449 Custom Myspace $899 WE KNOW YOUR BUSINESS Email for a free quote/consultation paul@cattanachdesign.com.au or vist the website www.cattanachdesign.com.au iFlogID: 3643

100 COLOUR POSTERS ONLY $80

are designed for fast production and fast delivery within your budget. Here are some prices for your consideration, let us know your specific requirements and we can quote & deliver! 100 A4 Posters printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $40 250 A6 Leaflets printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $50 250 Full Colour Digital Business cards onto 300gsm gloss = $50 100 A3 Posters printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $80 1000 Business Cards in full colour 2 sides with plastic coating = $160 1000 A5 Flyers printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $210 1000 A4 Letterheads printed in full colour onto 100gsm bond = $230 1000 A4 Flyers printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $300 500 A2 Posters printed in full colour onto 150gsm gloss = $490 1000 A5 Booklets 8pp printed in full colour onto gloss = $735 500 Presentation Folders printed in full colour on white board = $795 iFlogID: 4914

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This 5-week stand up comedy course gets u on the fast track of stand up comedy.

Covering writing and stage techniques to prepare U for the spot light! How to develop a solid 3-5 minute comedy routine based upon any and all topics! Plus as an added bonus, All graduating students will perform live and be videotaped at Sydney’s Comedy Court stand up show and competitions. www.comedyintheraw. com.au or 95472578 iFlogID: 4506

Trust the professionals to capture the fun and magic of your party or event! 21st parties, sports clubs, nightclubs, promoters, concerts, seminars plus corporate and social functions! We’ve been awarded “Best scene Photograph” PDMA in 2009, member of the AIPP and have extensive experience in photographing events from parties through to music events of 40,000 revellers, so you can be assured of affordable quality and professional photos for your party or event! Check us out or make a booking today at www.atomikarts.com iFlogID: 3672

STAND UP COMEDY COMPETITIONS Comedy Court and Quick Some Comedy Quick, presents Australia’s only live audience digital voting stand up comedy competition and show featuring up to 10 comics per week plus audience open mic (do u have what it takes?) Every Friday and Saturday night. 8pm. Star Bar Theatre. 600 george Street (formerley Planet Hollywood)$10-$15PP. Dinner and Show packages available. Great Music, Great laughs,Great Food, Great Fun. www.comedyintheraw.com.au or 95472578 iFlogID: 4502

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PRO TOOLS/LOGIC TRAINING UTS:Pro School offers high quality, professional short courses in Digidesign Pro Tools 8 designed to improve your music and audio postproduction skills. PT 101 12-13 July PT 110 14-16 July PT 201 19-20 July PT 210M 21-23 July Logic Pro 101 7- 9 July Ring 9514 9931 or go to http://www.utsproschool.uts.edu.au to book your place iFlogID: 4586

ICE CREAM FACTORY PHOTO STUDIO Inexpensive photo/video studios for hire from $150. Located at Turrella (10 mins drive from Newtown) iFlogID: 4768

ILLUSTRATOR! BOOKS TO ALBUMS Do you need an affordable Illustrator?

Freelance illustrator Paul Ikin can create a range of styles for your project. No hidden cost at an affordable price. Album Covers Film Clips - Book Sleeves - Children Books - Online Images - Fliers - Posters - Editorial Artwork. Visit www.paulikin.com - T: 0403 996 129 iFlogID: 5133

TRUCK AND DRIVER FOR HIRE 4 Tonne Truck with Hydraulic Lift available for Hire for deliveries - private, commercial or contract (by negotiation) $65 p/hour for man and truck $85 p/hour for two men and truck. Call Derek 0423979396. iFlogID: 5137

PI BAND ART AND DESIGN

Introduction to ableton live course available that will end with you writing your very first track!! Max 2 people per class.

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SINGER FOR GRUNGE/ROCK BAND

Established and agent backed OZ Red Hot Chili Peppers Show are looking for a experienced singer, to front the band. Must be based in Sydney, with own transport, and ready to gig on weekends.Gigs waiting.

Please email details to info@ozredhotchilipeppersshow.com.au iFlogID: 5242

Sydney Grunge/Rock band Samsara looking for a talented singer and front man to join a complete band looking to gig and record. An albums worth of music is already written but need vocal melodies and lyrics. Influences include Silverchair, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Black

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Professional Sydney based band with club work and agent requires a frontman for Simply Red tribute show.For further information call Dianne on 0418 122 370. iFlogID: 5290

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ILLUSTRATOR AVAILABLE Qualified and trained. Freelance illustrator for childrens books, album cover, book covers, you name it! Based in Melbourne Central Complex but can do work for anyone anywhere. www.paulikin.com ---Paul:0403 996 129 iFlogID: 4639

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own pleasure or dream of being a singer on stage, all aspects covered from diction, breathing, microphone technique, pitch, harmony,working with live bands and performing. Utilising the latest techniques from the US, sing without stress or fear. All lessons can be recorded and take place in a relaxed and fully equipped studio in Botany. All ages welcome - female teacher- children welcome. INTRODUCTORY OFFER: $30 per lesson for the first 3 months. Conditions apply. iFlogID: 4437

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BEG - INT. GTR LESSONS Beginner to Intermediate Guitar Lessons in the Northern Beaches area. $25 for half hour. Most styles (excluding classical, flamenco etc.). About me: 1st year uni student, 3 years experience teaching at a music academy, 7 years playing the guitar.

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Call if interested...$210pw, 2 weeks bond required Pandora 0421 635 737 iFlogID: 5080

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THE CHILLI MAN IS BACK!!!!

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