3D World Issue #1016 by TheMusic.com.au

FREE ISSUE 1016 TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2010

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BRIEFS

EPIC&FAIL EPIC MIA

FAR FROM MIA So we’ve had a sneak preview of MIA’s newie /\/\/\Y/\ and we think it’s going to excite a lot of people, but the firﬆ batch of remixes that has trickled through also has us frothing. High Contraﬆ remixing Born Free? Boh! BRAINS, BRAINS, MMM, BRAINS Two of our favourite things in the world – zombies and Tumblr – come together in the awesome blog Zombify (zombify.tumblr.com), which has the equally brilliant tag line: “Found here every cool ﬆ uff about zombie”. ENEMY TERRITORY Th ere’s nothing better than celebrating your fi rﬆ Origin series on foreign soil with a victory – but when New South Wales suck so fucking badly it kind of revokes your gloating privileges…

FAIL THE ACADEMY IS… FUCKED Another boutique cinema bites the duﬆ. And this isn’t even a very ‘indie’ cinema – the Academy Twin on Oxford St is owned and operated by Palace Cinemas, arguably the biggeﬆ nonsell-out chain in the country. It closes its doors for the laﬆ time Sunday 27 June. TWAT OF A WEEK For fuck’s sake Twitter, you knew the World Cup was coming up. Seriously, the amount of time you’ve spent in bed with a hangover, inﬆead sending the fail whale out in your place... for the moﬆ in-demand social network on the planet, your networking skills are shit. SHEEEEEEEIT They might know how to play football, but you can always count on Queensland to take three ﬆeps back every now and then – and now police have been given new powers to ﬁne public swearers $100 on the spot. Next they’ll be allowed to take to long-haired louts with scissors like the good old days… 10 3DWORLD

AFTER SMASHING QUEENSLAND in an interﬆ ate bout laﬆ month, it’s hardly surprising that the next meet of the Sydney Roller Derby at the Hordern on Saturday 26 June has sold out. At this ﬆ age we can’t confi rm whether rumours the girls will sub in for the NSW State Of Origin side in game three are true, but they’d certainly have a better dig than that rabble… LOCAL HIP HOPPERS Koolism have returned with a cracking new single Can’t Stand It with plenty of proper elect ro fl avours in the programming. Yes, that’s an epic space rock Moog solo in the middle. MC Hau says the lyrics were inspired by “a lot of fuckery in this country”. Hopefully forthcoming album The ‘Umu shines the light on cunty behaviour as well… SOCCER LOVING SYDNEY siﬆ ers Joanne and Alanah Argyrou entered the Guinness World Records laﬆ week by watching 87 consecutive hours of soccer related TV at Star City Sports Th eatre. If they watched nothing but replays of the Germans demolishing Auﬆ ralia they’re made of ﬆ erner ﬆ uff than us… MASON IN GOOD track shock! You Are Not Alone (thankfully not yet another MJ homage) is as beautiful as the BAFTA-winning animated clip that accompanies it, with Paolo Mojo, Rene Amesz, Zoo Brazil and Glenn Morrison on the remix package. Drops Monday 9 Auguﬆ…

MARCEL WOODS

COOK WITH ANGELS Ready your glow ﬆ icks and air out the phat pants as Godskitchen is arming itself for yet another Antipodean tour. With the impressive visualheavy Boombox shows of 2009 ﬆ ill fresh in the mind of some fans Future Entertainment have their work cut out for them but the ﬁ rﬆ line-up announcement, which includes Andy Moor, John O’Callaghan, Marcel Woods and Wippenberg, sets a pretty cracking ﬆandard. Godskitchen is locked in for Sunday 3 October in Sydney with a venue yet to be conﬁ rmed, tickets on sale soon. Watch this space for further details.

MADCHESTER ACOLYTES Mancheﬆer’s Delphic made waves back in late 2009 with the release of their debut album Acolyte and quickly followed with a successful Auﬆ ralian tour in early 2010. The Ewan Pearson produced lead single Counterpoint blitzed charts and column inches alike, garnering the band much needed attention to comfortably DELPHIC follow up with the equally brilliant Doubt and Halcyon; all three of which reference the much celebrated synth-heavy Madcheﬆer template which spawned bands such as New Order, Joy Division and the Happy Mondays. Except executed with a glossy modern twiﬆ of course! Returning for Splendour In The Grass, Delphic are also locked in for a series of sideshows which includes a Tuesday 3 Auguﬆ appearance at The Gaelic. Tickets will be available Thursday 24 June through Moshtix for $35 + b/f. ‘Acolyte’ available now through Modular. FLIGHT FACILITIES

TRAY TABLES UPRIGHT One of the lateﬆ acts to ﬆeal the

attention of the international DJ fraternity, Flight Facilities have earned it juﬆ ly with the poptastic Crave You and thanks to the exceedingly cute vocal performance of Gisele, it’s clocking up view after view on YouTube on the back of support from Aeroplane, Erol Alkan and Tiga. Released through Bang Gang 12inches, Crave You has beneﬁted from the remix talents of Cassian and James Curd who’ve helped catapult it up the Beatport charts with ease. Thanks to Street Press Auﬆ ralia and Bang Gang they’re embarking on their ﬁ rﬆ Auﬆ ralasian tour, ﬆopping in at the Civic Underground on Saturday 10 July for the next inﬆalment of Future Classic’s Adult Disco before heading to Japan. Though Crave You is the duo’s only original product ion to date, they’ve produced several remixes for Bang Gang which are equally attention grabbing and well worth checking out.

BRIEFS

STARS

GENERAL OUTLOOK Th is would be a great week to ﬆart telling the truth to people we care about. Then again the truth hurts. Let’s keep up the lying for one more week. AQUARIUS (20 JAN TO 18 FEB) Stop asking people if they’ve seen any of the pornos you appeared in. A lot of people don’t think the way you do. And don’t offer to autograph ﬆ rangers’ breaﬆs. PISCES (19 FEB TO 20 MAR) Trying to convince people you are the baﬆard son of shock rocker Alice Cooper is a pretty sad way to get attention. Take that boa conﬆ rictor off and grow up. ARIES (21 MAR TO 20 APR) Your motto in life has always been “Juﬆ take my wallet, please, I don’t want any trouble”. Smart policy. Now give me your wallet. TAURUS (21 APR TO 20 MAY) Th ings will get sad this week as you have to move into a photo booth while your mother’s attic is being fumigated. GEMINI (21 MAY TO 20 JUN) Never go to the supermarket when you’re hungry. By that logic, never go to a brothel when you’re horny. Begging the queﬆ ion, why go at all? CANCER (21 JUN TO 21 JUL) Working as a door to door salesman is a great way to meet bored, sexy housewives. It’s also a great way to get hit with a broom. LEO (22 JUL TO 21 AUG) Th is is going to be a great week for you, provided you ﬆay away from home made explosives and feral cats. VIRGO (22 AUG TO 21 SEP) You should learn to recycle better. Stop throwing those green reusable shopping bags into the ocean for dolphins to choke on. LIBRA (22 SEP TO 22 OCT) Hey I saw you on To Catch A Predator laﬆ week. Um... you looked good! You looked surprised, but you also looked good. SCORPIO (23 OCT TO 21 NOV) If you haven’t seen Sex And The City 2 yet let me save you the trouble. Carrie dies at the end and Samantha’s vagina falls off. SAGITTARIUS (22 NOV TO 20 DEC) I like you. I like everything about you. I’m drunk. I admit it, I’m drunk. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an erect ion. CAPRICORN (21 DEC TO 19 JAN) Show me your hands motherfucker. Hands up! That’s it. Now don’t be cute. Sorry, I get nervous on fi rﬆ dates.

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IF LA ROUX’S fringe excites you, check out the Kent Mathews photo exhibition from this year’s Bacardi Express showing at Doctor Pong’s throughout July. The exhibition is free, not sure about the Bacardi though… THIS IS SO good we’ve got to run it verbatim. “Gleeden. com, the extra-marital dating website which launched in Auﬆ ralia this autumn is adding some incentive to the ﬆate of origin! In an attempt to spice up the game, Gleeden is offering all the players of the winning team a gift. The elite VIP pack. The gift is worth over $10,000.00.” The world is such a fucked-up place sometimes... EELS FANS (AND we’re not talking Parramatta bandwagon jumpers here) should head to the band’s website at www.eelﬆ heband. com ﬆat to get a free download of Looking Up, the fi rﬆ taﬆe of their forthcoming (27 Auguﬆ) album Tomorrow Morning. The publicity blurb breathlessly extols it as “the brighteﬆ and moﬆ overtly uplifting work of the EELS’ fourteen year career”, which is good because it’s fucking cold and we need some cheering up... ANOTHER WORLD RECORD attempt took place over the weekend, this time act ually attempting to create an entirely new record altogether for the World’s Longeﬆ Song at the Song Summit 2010 conference. Former Machine Gun Fellatio nutter Chi Chat and george crooner Katie Noonan were among the people at the frontline – musical sparks no doubt flew...

FUZZY BASS California based Victor Hugo Ramos – aka Harvard Bass – is a prime example of juﬆ how quickly some careers soar to prominence. Though a keen house/techno fan since the age of sixteen, it was in 2007 that he spawned the Harvard Bass alter-ego and remixed The Sixpack Anthem for Sound Pellegrino’s Orgasmic & Tekitek. An inﬆant hit with the label bosses, Ramos soon HARVARD BASS became a ﬁ xture on the Insitubes sub-label’s roﬆer consequently releasing his successful debut single Caked/81. Managing to grab the attention of DJs such as Laidback Luke, Tiga and Benny Benassi often ensures some degree of popularity in the Antipodes and Fuzzy are putting their money where their mouth is, bringing Ramos out for a whirlwind tour which hits Chinese Laundry on Saturday 10 July, The CBD Hotel in Newcaﬆ le Sunday 11 and Transit Bar in Canberra on Thursday 15. OWL CITY

MIGRATORY OWL

Adam Young is an artiﬆ who lends music journaliﬆs the opportunity to load up on the superlatives, and as Owl City he’s well regarded by plenty of them. Q Magazine went so far as describing material from his fi rﬆ official album Ocean Eyes as a “blend [of] bittersweet longing, wintry elemental imagery and melodies that worm their way into your consciousness with effortless aplomb”. That’s juﬆ ification enough for Young to wing his way her with The Album Leaf for an all ages show at The Enmore Theatre on Tuesday 9 November. Tickets are available through Ticketek from Thursday 24 June at 9am for $67.60.

HIGH PLACES

GET YOURSELF HIGH

Pop acts may be dime-a-dozen and we all know what that means relative to the quality-quantity sliding scale, but there are ﬆ ill pockets of gold which defy critical consensus. Popfrenzy are showing plenty of enthusiasm towards placating Sydney pop seekers with a forthcoming tour featuring New York’s Xiu Xiu and Los Angeles’ High Places. Both acts follow the Popfrenzy booking trend which has seen Deerhunter, Camera Obscura, CSS and many more hit our shores. High Places are touring in support of their recent album release High Places vs Mankind while Xiu Xiu are juﬆ along for the ride! Both acts join Kyü at the Oxford Art Factory on Saturday 2 September, tickets available through Moshtix from 9am Monday June 21.

MIRACLE WORLD Often incorrect ly referenced as a protege of Diplo, Philadelphia’s DJ Sega does in fact also come from the Mad Decent artiﬆ roﬆer which likewise features Major Lazer, South Rakkas Crew, Buraka Som Siﬆema, Bonde Do Role, Boy 8-Bit and Crookers. Sega’s banging mash-ups bear plenty in common with the party hits of his DJ SEGA many label mates and his propensity for grabbing samples from the moﬆ baldly obvious pop-culture sources ensures his continued rise in popularity. His mid 2009 Antipodean tour was quite a hit in and of itself and he’s on his way back to our shores for a second helping. He’ll be joining in the Big Trouble antics at Chinese Laundry on Friday 2 July before heading north to Newcaﬆ le for a gig at The CBD Hotel on Saturday 3 July. His album New Jack Philly on Mad Decent should tide you over in the meanwhile.

BRIEFS

CALENDAR JUNE ALIX PEREZ – Friday 25, Chinese Laundry ERPHUN – Saturday 26, Chinese Laundry OPERATOR PLEASE – Saturday 26, Metro Theatre DISCONNECTED: ROBERT HOOD – Saturday 26, Plantation OZI BATLA ALBUM LAUNCH – Saturday 26, Annandale Hotel JULY GIGI BAROCCO – Friday 2, Candy’s Apartment DJ SEGA – Friday 2, Chinese Laundry MISTA SAVONA – Friday 2, Beach Road Hotel MISTA SAVONA

THE LIKES OF YOU: STEPHAN BODZIN, HUGO – Saturday 3, Arthouse Hotel AIRPORT: SIMON PATTERSON, SIED VAN RIEL – Saturday 3, Gaelic Theatre PURE IVY: HOOK N SLING – Saturday 3, ivy 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 NERO – Friday 9, Chinese Laundry DIAFRIX, OZI BATLA, NIKKITA – Friday 9, Oxford Art Factory CUDDLE PUDDLE: KID KENOBI, KATO & ANNA LUNOE, RO SHAM BO, HOOPS, DIZZ1, TONI TONI LEE & MORE – Friday 9, Oxford Art Factory GODSPEED: NEOPHYTE, TOMMYKNOCKER, BEHOLDER – Saturday 10, Metro Theatre PURE IVY: JAY SEBAG – Saturday 10, ivy ADULT DISCO: FLIGHT FACILITIES – Saturday 10, Civic HARVARD BASS – Saturday 10, Chinese Laundry HARVARD BASS – Sunday 11, CBD Hotel, Newcastle HARVARD BASS – Thursday 15, Transit Bar ALL-4-ONE – Friday 16, Metro Theatre STOLEN RECORDS GALA BALL: KOOLISM, THUNDAMENTALS, OZI BATLA, THE OPTIMEN, DAILY MEDS, PHATCHANCE & MORE – Friday 16, Gaelic Theatre PURE IVY: ANNA LUNOE – Saturday 17, ivy AQUASKY – Saturday 17, Chinese Laundry REDLIGHT: ALEXKID, MARTIN LANDSKY – Saturday 17, Plantation KEVIN RUDOLF, SHONTELLE – Sunday 18, Enmore Theatre SPIT SYNDICATE – Thursday 22, The Harp, Wollongong SCUBA LOGISTICS – Friday 23, Chinese Laundry SPIT SYNDICATE – Friday 23, The Cambridge, Newcastle

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MORE LA ROUX news. She (they?) has put together the second inﬆalment of Renaissance’s Sidetracked series, taking the baton from Hercules And Love Affair. Those with their hand fi rmly attached to their chin will no doubt ﬆ roke furiously when they see Freur’s Doot Doot on the trackliﬆing – Freur of course went on to write such anthems as Born Slippy, Two Monhts Off and Scribble under another name... ALSO FROM RENAISSANCE comes the lateﬆ edition to the longrunning The Maﬆers Series, this time with Hernan Cattaneo subtitling his twodisc set Parallel. With Day and Night discs you know what to expect, but the beﬆ part about the warmup disc is it sounds juﬆ like a big run of Hernan prog rollers slowed down – and finishes with Sigur Rós’ enchanting Svefn-G-Englar to really blow minds... LOLCATS STILL RULE, but we don’t think we’ve seen one on an album cover yet – until now. Take a big bow Klaxons for some truly ﬆ unning work involving a cat in an aﬆ ronaut suit. Oh, and the album’s called Surfing The Void and it’s out 20 Auguﬆ and we don’t think they’re too far away from our shores... TRON LEGACY IS confi rmed to be making a big play at this year’s ComicCon (basically an epic nerd convention in San Diego). Th is is either going to be amazing or a complete disaﬆer...

mixes 2010 available now on Beatport.

PHATCHANCE

ACE BASS FACE

FACE PAINTING Auﬆ ralian hip hop soloiﬆs Phatchance and Coptic Soldier are teaming up for another Face Paint Event at the Oxford Art Factory on Friday 6 Auguﬆ, this time rolling the invite out to an all-ages audience. Supports from fellow I Forget Sorry artiﬆ Johnny Utah (with DJ DNL), The Dyno-Mics, DJ Akouo and Blasé. Tickets available from iforgetsorry. com for $16.90. Coptic Soldier’s debut EP with Miriam Waks The Sound Of Wings is available now through iTunes.

MELTANNANDALE PARTNERSHIP Melt already brings a taﬆe of the eclectic to Kings Cross but with the Annandale Hotel team taking care of bookings from here on in, things are only going to get more intereﬆing. They aim to bring their vaﬆ experience to the 200 capacity room, upgrading the ﬆage and PA to see its full potential as a live venue reached – not excluding all important facilities for DJs.

R&B REVIVAL 90s R&B fans will be hard pressed to forget All-4-One, the Los Angeles based super group who lashed charts with hits such as I Swear and So

Much In Love. The band make their Auﬆ ralian debut in July alongside Brisbane based four piece Kulcha, and Blackﬆ reet’s Chauncey Black. Tickets to the Friday 16 July gig at The Metro Theatre available now for $55 + b/f from metrotheatre.com.au.

CALLING FREESTYLE RAPPERS Caﬆ ing agency A Caﬆ Of Thousands are currently on the hunt for a freeﬆ yle rapper to feature in a new program. Candidate needs to be Sydney based, aged 18–25 and would ideally have skills behind the decks. Details of the project are underﬆandably under wraps for the time being but if this sounds like you, send a portfolio, samples and/or a resume to wendy@acaﬆofthousands.com.au or call Graeme de Vallance on (02) 8411 1048.

SPACED INVADER Canadian electro house artiﬆ Hatiras may not have the massive proﬁle of his countryman Deadmau5 but with plenty of remixes and productions under his belt, he’s certainly hot property in local DJ circles. While a Sydney date is yet to be conﬁrmed, the exrave promoter will be performing at Pang in Canberra on Friday 2 July and the Grand Hotel in Woolongong on Saturday 10 July. Spaced Invader Re-

VOID has a well earned reputation for being one of Sydney’s beﬆ bass nights and they’re going the whole hog with a UK Bass Special on Friday 25 June at Phoenix Bar. Crooked Sound System are presumably covering the whole gamut of genres while the reﬆ take on dubﬆep/oldskool (Farj), jungle (Mark Pritchard), grime/ dubﬆep (Swindle), hardcore breakbeat (James Daak) and future garage/UK funky (Preecha). $10 on the door.

SHWAYZE TOUR POSTPONEMENT Illusive Entertainment regret to inform fans that Shwayze’s Friday 18 June appearance at Home Nightclub was poﬆ poned along with several other dates of his Auﬆ ralian national tour. The lineup including Cisco Adler, The Knux and DJ Jason Smith will remain for rescheduled tour dates which are expected to be conﬁ rmed within the next few weeks. Patrons are advised to retain their tickets until the announcement is made.

EXTRA METALLICA DATES It was obvious that tickets to Metallica’s World Magnetic Tour would sell out in moments and if you missed out, you’ve got another chance. The band perform a fourth show at Acer Arena on Saturday 18 September, tickets go on sale from 9am Friday 25 June through Ticketek.

BRIEFS

CALENDAR PURE IVY: MINX & TASS – Saturday 24, ivy 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 PURE IVY: SAMMY JO – Saturday 31, ivy JODY WISTERNOFF, JAYTECH, BLACK NOISE – Saturday 31, Chinese Laundry AUGUST THE DRUMS – Sunday 1, Oxford Art Factory JÓNSI – Monday 2, Enmore Theatre PASSION PIT – Monday 2, The Forum DELPHIC – Tuesday 3, Gaelic Theatre K-OS – Wednesday 4, Oxford Art Factory PHATCHANCE, COPTIC SOLDIER – Friday 6, The Factory LIBERATE: JOHN 00 FLEMING, MIKE, TRITONAL – Saturday 7, Space A TRIBE CALLED QUEST – Wednesday 11, Hordern Pavilion 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 XIU XIU, HIGH PLACES – Thursday 2, Oxford Art Factory LEE BURRIDGE – Saturday 25, Chinese Laundry OCTOBER PARKLIKE: GROOVE ARMADA, MISSY ELLIOTT, SOULWAX, HOLY GHOST!, THE DANDY WARHOLS, KELE, BUSY P & MORE – Sunday 3, Kippax Lake/Moore Park GODSKITCHEN: ANDY MOOR, JOHN OÇALLAGHAN, MARCEL WOODS, WIPPENBERG – Sunday 3, Venue TBC NOVEMBER JASON DERÜLO – Tuesday 9, Hordern Pavilion OWL CITY – Tuesday 9, Enmore Theatre DECEMBER MUSE – Thursday 9, Acer Arena MUSE – Friday 10, Acer Arena GOLDFRAPP

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MELBOURNE CLUB DUO Denzal Park notch up a second week atop of the ARIA Club Chart with Ascension. It brings them to a total of ten weeks at number one, having already had their previous single Filter Freak on top for eight weeks. Other new local entries this week: Joy by Antoine Dessante (32); I Want You To Fly by Dirty Laundry (35) and Feelin’ Real Good by Toni Toni Lee, aka Spruce Lee (49). THE ANNIVERSARY of the Stonewall riots next Monday and on the weekend the LA Times reported that there is yet another documentary about the mileﬆone in gay politics. Stonewall Uprising began as a one-hour doc for PBS but ended up evolving into a feature-length ﬁ lm. There are no details for an Auﬆ ralian release but if you want your own Stonewall ﬁ lm feﬆ try hunting down 1995’s Stonewall, 1984 doco Before Stonewall and 1999 documentary After Stonewall. You’ll be a well-articulated gay hiﬆorian by Monday. STRIPPING KYLIE and placing her at the centre of an underwear orgy for the video of comeback single All My Lovers seems to have worked. Th e single is the week’s higheﬆ new entry in the Auﬆ ralia debuting at 14 in the ARIA Singles Chart. It’s also number four in the UK (the week’s second higheﬆ new entry behind Kickﬆ arts by Example). Kylie returns to Auﬆ ralia for four days from 21 July to promote her forthcoming album Aphrodite - wearing clothes during her visit.

SALLY SELTMANN

QMF EARLY BIRDS Only 190 or so early bird three day passes to the Friday 26–Sunday 28 November Queenscliﬀ Music Feﬆ ival 2010 remain on sale at the insane rate of $150 + b/f, and though the line-up is yet to be announced it’s surely not far around the corner. Feﬆ ival Director appointee Michael Carrucan takes the reins this year, having previously run V Feﬆ ival Sydney 2007 and Telluride Blues & Brews Feﬆ ival in Colorado. Tickets through Moshtix.

KEVIN RUDOLF TOUR POSTPONED Due to album commitments in North America, Kevin Rudolf and Shontelle’s Auﬆralian tour has been poﬆ poned. Rescheduled dates are yet to be locked in but, according to the promoter, will likely take place in late December or January 2011 at the lateﬆ. All ticket holders are advised to return to their point of purchase for a full refund – watch this space for further news.

HOMEWARD BOUND Better known as New Buﬀalo and the hand

behind Feiﬆ’s 1234, Auﬆ ralian singersongwriter Sally Seltmann is ﬆepping out on her own with new single Dream About Changing – the lead from forthcoming album Heart That’s Pounding. Currently touring North America, Seltmann will be returning to Auﬆ ralia for an album launch tour which hits Oxford Art Factory on Friday 23 July with support from Parades and Kyu. Tickets $23 from Moshtix.

LATIN ROLLING STONES Some forty years after teaming up to dominate the ﬆage, ‘The Rolling Stones of Latin Music’ Los Van Van are ﬆ ill one of Cuba’s moﬆ popular dance bands and can atteﬆ to a global audience that has yet to subﬆantially diminish. They’ll be making their way to Sydney to perform in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Sunday 15 Auguﬆ with support from Latin Block Party. Tickets $49 - $110 from sydneyoperahouse.com.

MORE CLOUD CONTROL Sydney four piece Cloud Control have had a ﬆellar year so far – then again,

touring with Vampire Weekend and having Bliss Release debut in the ARIA Top 20 on its release week would rate highly in anyone’s book! Due to popular demand they’ll be performing at The Annandale Hotel 10th Birthday celebration on Friday 25 June, the Factory Theatre for FBi Sounds Like Sydney on Saturday 10 July and The Metro Theatre on Thursday 29 July.

BOUNDARY SOUNDS INTERNSHIP If you’ve been scratching your head to the point of bleeding in an effort to figure out some way into the music induﬆ ry, this may save further disfigurement. Boundary Sounds are looking for an intern available for a full day on either Mondays or Thursdays to help out around the office and better yet, no experience is necessary. If you want to get involved with Purple Sneakers and the like, fire an email to info@ boundarysounds.com.

SOUTHWARD BOUND With double a-side single Nice Fights under their belt, Brisbane’s Mr Maps are gearing up for the October release of their debut album Wire Empire with a national tour in support of the single release. Thanks Auﬆ ralia Council for the Arts funding, the inﬆ rumental quintet are ﬆopping by at The Excelsior on Thursday 8 July and the World Bar (MUM) on Friday 9 July. Supports yet to be conﬁ rmed.

LARGER

THAN LIFE

ATLANTA’S OUTKAST REVOLUTIONISED HIP HOP BY USHERING IN A NEW ECCENTRICITY, BUT ALL THE ATTENTION WAS ON THE CHARISMATIC ANDRE 3000. NOW ANTWAN “BIG BOI” PATTON, WHO DEPICTS HIMSELF AS “A SOUL-FUNK CRUSADER”, TALKS TO CYCLONE ABOUT FULFILLING HIS POTENTIAL WITH THE CONCEPTUAL SIR LUCIOUS LEFTFOOT: THE SON OF CHICO DUSTY.

ir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Duﬆy isn’t ﬆ rict ly Antwan “Big Boi” Patton’s fi rﬆ ‘solo’ outing. OutKaﬆ’s laﬆ major endeavour, the mega-selling Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, comprised two individual albums from Patton and his compadre Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000. But Patton is apparently beginning anew. “Th is is the fi rﬆ ﬆandalone solo record – juﬆ because the laﬆ one was under the OutKaﬆ umbrella,” he drawls. “Th is is the official solo album right here.” Patton befriended Andre Benjamin at Atlanta’s Tri-Cities High School, an inﬆ itution geared towards the performing arts, but with a gangbangin’ subculture. The wannabe MCs battled each other before forming a unit. They fortuitously ﬆ ruck a deal with LaFace, the ﬆable founded by Antonio “LA” Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. LaFace, a cornerﬆone of Hotlanta’s burgeoning urban scene together with Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def, was known for R&B like TLC, not rap. The Organized Noize producers convinced Reid that OutKaﬆ were hot. In 1994 they premiered with Southernplayaliﬆicadillacmuzik, introducing a flavoursome Southern hip hop – pre-crunk. “The music is like hardcore funk,” Patton ﬆated in 2001. “This is free-flowing – whatever you wanna do: jam, feel good, get mad, get nervous. The music that we make is honeﬆ music. It’s not somebody tryin’ to be like this or somebody tryin’ to make a song like this. You can tell that it’s coming from inside – like, fo’ real. It’s really like juﬆ every day game.” OutKaﬆ referenced NWA, Geto Boys, 2 Live Crew, James Brown, Sly Stone and George Clinton, but Patton also admitted to their being into Def Leppard. OutKaﬆ were equated with ‘alt hip hop’ – as pioneered by The Roots – but they’d prove tricky to pin down, their music ﬆ reet, playariﬆ ic and socially-conscious. The duo consolidated their growing fanbase with ATLiens. A peculiar controversy embroiled their third LP, Aquemini – the metaphoric Rosa Parks infuriated the civil rights legend into seeking legal act ion. However, it was 2000’s Stankonia that took OutKaﬆ to the next level. They demonﬆ rated their preparedness to push the envelope with BOB (Bombs Over Baghdad), its beats inspired as much by British drum‘n’bass as Southern bass. OutKaﬆ then blew up globally with the soul-drenched Ms Jackson, which, it was assumed, Benjamin penned in the aftermath of his split from Erykah Badu. Nevertheless, not even OutKaﬆ could have envisaged how Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below, accessibly avant-garde, would transform them into crossover heroes. Crucially, for his CD, The Love Below, Benjamin decided to sing – and he handled much of the inﬆ rumentation. As such, he was lauded as a hip hop Prince. Hey Ya! was OutKaﬆ’s biggeﬆ hit but, while cameo-ing in the video (alongside Ryan Phillippe!), Patton didn’t contribute to it. Inﬆead he aired The Way You Move. Patton’s fruﬆ ratingly eclipsed Speakerboxxx was progressive ﬆ reet hip hop – it foreshadowed Kanye Weﬆ’s rise.

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OutKaﬆ won the ‘album of the year’ Grammy, yet Benjamin felt increasingly ambivalent about music. The maverick preferred to act – he lent his voice to a crow in Charlotte’s Web – and design clothes. Unlike Patton, he didn’t wish to tour. In 2006 OutKaﬆ furnished an ambitious musical, the Depression-era Idlewild, but the unorthodox project floundered, its ‘soundtrack’ more of a spin-off. OutKaﬆ have been on hiatus ever since. Patton had intended to drop Sir Lucious Leftfoot in 2008. The single Royal Flush – with Benjamin (and Raekwon) – was a false ﬆart. The ﬆage is now finally set. Patton left Jive (which had absorbed LaFace) for Def Jam, with Reid at the helm. It transpires that Sir Lucious Leftfoot was too arty for Jive’s execs, who pressured Patton to “conform” to the prevailing commercial dictates. “I had a couple of creative differences at Jive that didn’t work out,” he says. “But they did the honourable thing and let me pursue my career with LA. I appreciate – and thank – them for that.” Reid, he enthuses, is “a big brother and mentor” to him. “He allows

IS A TEAM. WE BOTH “ OUTKAST DO OUR ASPECTS OF THE MUSIC – PRODUCE AND WRITE AS WELL – SO YOU’RE GONNA GET A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. YOU’VE GOTTA EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON’T GET IT UNTIL THEY HEAR IT – AND, WHEN THEY HEAR THIS ALBUM, THEY’LL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS.”

TRUE BLOOD: DUNGEON FAMILY me the creative freedom to make the music I wanna make – and that was the moﬆ important thing to me.” The LP’s official lead-off is Scott Storch’s Shutterbugg (it follows the promo Shine Blockas with Gucci Mane). “It’s a raw, decent, mature but ﬆ ill wacky, fun, zany and intense lyrical album that I put together,” Patton says. He rattles off his gueﬆs – among them TI, BoB and Janelle Monáe – and beatmakers (Organized Noize, Lil’ Jon, Salaam Remi, plus newcomers), promising “fresh new vibes.” Patton’s departure from Jive wasn’t without a hitch, the label preventing Benjamin from featuring on Sir Lucious Leftfoot. Patton dismissed this as “plain ﬆ upidity” in GQ magazine. Still, Benjamin has produced a track, You Ain’t No DJ. And it may be a blessing for Patton: it really is his turn to shine. Patton hopes that Sir Lucious Leftfoot represents the contradictory facets of his persona(lity). The ‘Chico Duﬆ y’ in the title is a nod to his late Air Force pilot Dad, who exposed him to hip hop. In OutKaﬆ, Patton is perceived as the playa, with Benjamin, in his flamboyant coﬆ uming, the bohemian muso. But Patton, too, is outthere. Sure, the dude breeds pitbulls, but he’s also collaborated with the Atlanta Ballet – and reveres Kate Bush. “That was something that was ﬆarted by the record label a long time ago – the whole ‘playa and the poet’ theme – and they kinda ran with that,” he says wearily. “But I’m juﬆ really a creative spirit, man. I like making music – and juﬆ creating grooves. OutKaﬆ is a team. We both do our aspects of the music – produce and write as well – so you’re gonna get a little bit of everything. You’ve gotta expect the unexpected. Sometimes people don’t get it until they hear it – and, when they hear this album, they’ll know what time it is. I’m dead serious about this music.” Patton has ventured into act ing – albeit to a lesser extent than Benjamin. Of the two, he’s the greater entrepreneur. (Patton mentions his album’s release date at every opportunity.) Patton presides over Purple Ribbon Records, lately launching the bold Monáe in a joint deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy. It’s an aﬆonishing alliance, given that Diddy is so commercial, but, says Patton, it was necessary. He’d ﬆ ruggled to find a diﬆ ributor for Monáe’s music. “Puff juﬆ came along and was like, ‘I’ll put it out’.” That freed him to complete his album. “It worked for everybody.” And Patton has a heart, developing the Big Kidz Foundation to nurture disadvantaged youth. Indeed, Patton is unusually level-headed for one who grew up in the biz. “The induﬆ ry hasn’t changed me at all. I like to make music, 20 3DWORLD

I was put here to make music – and that’s what it’s all about. You have to learn to juﬆ utilise the induﬆ ry to promote your music – and, all the other antics, I’m not even really into all that. So the induﬆ ry can’t change me.” Many of Patton’s peers are critical of contemporary hip hop – The Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA is especially ﬆ rident. They claim that the innovation is lacking. Curiously, Benjamin declined to appear on Drake’s Thank Me Later. Yet Patton is diplomatic. “It’s good for right now. There’s a lot of new artiﬆ s. Everybody’s not gonna be able to do the same type of music. But I can only speak for myself. I embrace the new generation. The thing is you’ve juﬆ gotta let ‘em make the music they wanna make – you make the music you wanna make... I do agree there is a lot of bitin’ goin’ on, like Wu-Tang said, but that’s what they do. I juﬆ do me.” Patton’s conﬁdent ﬁ nal words perhaps say it all: “Long live the funk!” WHO: Big Boi WHAT: Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Duﬆ y (Def Jam/ Universal) out Friday 9 July WHERE & WHEN: Winterbeatz at Acer Arena Wednesday 28 July

Southern hip hop fi rﬆ exploded in the midﬆ of the brewing bicoaﬆal war. For a long time, the Dirty South was marginalised – and scoffed at. But, if any act put the ‘Th ird Coaﬆ’ on the map, it was OutKaﬆ. They were also key players in Atlanta’s Dungeon Family, a hip hop collect ive to rival the Native Tongues. The fold’s other core members were Goodie Mob and the producers Organized Noize (beﬆ known for cutting TLC’s Waterfalls). In contraﬆ to the Native Tongues, the Dungeon Family, named after Organized Noize’s murky basement ﬆ udio, likewise encompassed soul artiﬆs. And they act ually assembled an album – 2001’s Even In Darkness. Goodie Mob’s Cee-Lo Green did an Andre 3000 before Andre 3000 – the rapper cut a soul album. Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect Imperfections never achieved much more than cult ﬆatus, but it did set him up to form the popular Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse. Green, who’s lately contributed to both the Sex And The City 2 and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtracks, is currently recording a third solo album, Lady Killer. And, according to Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, a Goodie Mob reunion LP is on the way. (But will Green be involved?) Not all of the Dungeon Family have had the success they deserve. Organized Noize’s Sleepy Brown should have been a Southern Pharrell. Joi was among the fi rﬆ neo-soulﬆers, working with Dallas Auﬆ in and influencing the direct ion of Madonna’s Bedtime Stories. Yet her four albums have had minimal mainﬆ ream love. Then there’s the lyrical genius that is Witchdoctor. Even sometime Timbaland protege (and white rapper) Bubba Sparxxx has returned underground. “They’re definitely ahead of time but, at the same time, everything has to be in place to prepare a platform for you to launch music,” Patton says of his underrated cohorts. Nonetheless, the MC insiﬆs that “the Dungeon Family is alive and well”. He imagines that Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Duﬆy could signal a renaissance. Joi gueﬆs on two songs. As the boss of Purple Ribbon Records, Patton has facilitated the career of Janelle Monáe – another Dungeon Family affi liate. Meanwhile, Patton’s ally Andre 3000 is readying an album, having lately covered The Beatles’ All Together Now for a Nike ad.

ICON AKAI MPC

MUSIC PRODUCTION CENTRE, 1988-PRESENT THE AKAI MPC IS AN ICONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, BOASTING THE ABILITY TO RECORD AND SEQUENCE SAMPLES VIA AN INTUITIVE AND TACTILE PERFORMANCE INTERFACE – AND DAVE DRI REPORTS THAT, LIKE ALL GOOD INSTRUMENTS, IT QUIETLY CHANGED THE WORLD.

apanese technology manufact urer Akai had watched the creator of the world’s fi rﬆ programmable sample-sound drum machine, Roger Linn, close the doors of his Linn Elect ronics facility due to financial reasons. Akai came to the table with an offer of partnership, and the MPC60 was released shortly after in 1988, taking the beﬆ of Roger’s original LM-1 Drum Computer and pairing it with Akai’s formidable manufact uring and supply chain network. Originally pitched as an extension to the rock and pop ﬆ yles, the MPC caught the birth of hip hop and has since become a household name for beats producers worldwide. The MPC60 hit the scene hard with a comparatively massive 13 seconds of ﬆereo sampling time, and 16 rubber pads that would come to define a culture. As the Golden Age of hip hop rolled on, the popularity of the unit was cemented by the take-up of producers including Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad, Prince Paul and De La Soul. The classic albums spun on every ﬆreet corner, before

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hitting the shelves as ambassadors of the sound and technology of the culture overseas, inspiring another generation that was keen to learn the art, and the inﬆrumentation, of the new ﬆ yle. By the time the MPC60 MKII arrived in 1991, featuring more of the same in a new plaﬆ ic case, the unassuming grey box had become part of music culture across all boundaries. Hip hop claimed it as their own, but the dance, pop and rock scenes were as reliant as their turntablesampling musical cousins. With the relatively high coﬆ of product ion and abundance of subﬆance-inspired experimentation, ﬆ udio drummers in bands like Duran Duran, New Order and Depeche Mode were often sat politely behind an MPC and encouraged to tap in time. The pop scene to this day keeps an MPC within reach, with Kylie Minogue’s 2003 hit Slow originating from an after-session MPC jam between producer Dan Carey and Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini. If the late 80s and early 90s defined the MPC as an affordable product ion solution, by the close of the 90s it was entering legendary ﬆatus. Ironically, it was a landmark case againﬆ rapper Biz Markie that turned the tide on sampling, sending lawyers scrambling over albums like the Beaﬆ ie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, an illegally sampled album produced by the Duﬆ Brothers. The law, and the media attention, only inspired the induﬆ ry further, with DJ Shadow’s seminal Endtroducing entering the Guinness World Records as the “Firﬆ Completely Sampled Album”. Keeping up with demand and technology, Akai released the MPC3000, which signified the end of Roger Linn’s involvement. The 3000 is cited by many as the pinnacle MPC on the market, both due to and despite the move from the 12-bit sampling rate that is identified with classic hip hop “crunch”, and the introduct ion of cleaner 16-bit quality. On a roll, Akai dropped the MPC2000 in 1997, at an unheard of low price of $2000 and with an expanded set of features. Every touring elect ronic band purchased one, being to the ﬆage rig of dance acts then what the Apple Macbook Pro is today. Tom Rowlands sweated on one, Karl Hyde danced in front of one, Liam Howlett mimed behind one. Even the Vengaboys had one. They didn’t use it, but it made them feel like musicians. Which was the magic of the MPC range overall – the enablement of musicianship in the face of cultural, financial or personal reﬆ rict ions in musical expression. Even today, with the MPC4000 in the touring rig of acts like Infusion and Junkie XL, the MPC1000 at home in the rigs of hip hop wizards like Cut Chemiﬆ, and the MPC5000 in the hands of rich baﬆards, the underlying ability to record, sequence and sample within one interface maintains the same enthusiasm in the brand. So much so that the original creator of the MPC range, Roger Linn, has been redesigning his original offering and the induﬆ ry waits patiently to see whether the Linndrum II pays homage or breaks new ground in what is a significant slice of music product ion hiﬆory.

DO NOT MISS OCEAN PARK

MMM… SKYSCRAPER I LOVE YOU FROM THEME PARKS TO HORSE RACING TO A CITY CENTRE DRIVING RANGE, KRIS SWALES ARGUES THERE’S MUCH MORE TO HONG KONG THAN ITS FAMOUS SKYSCRAPER VISTA – THOUGH THE LOCALS ARE PRONE TO ERECTING A HIGH RISE IN THE MOST UNLIKELY OF PLACES.

kyscrapers. Juﬆ shy of 8,000 of them according to Emporis.com’s world database for buildings. When you think of Hong Kong it’s hard to go paﬆ the “special adminiﬆrative region” of China’s jaw-droppingly ultra-modern cityscape, a viﬆa torn ﬆraight from the pages of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga classic Akira which is so impressive Chriﬆopher Nolan found a way to get Batman there for some abseiling action in The Dark Knight, and hip hop/lounge act Fun Lovin’ Criminals deemed it necessary to use the famous night time view from Victoria Peak as the backdrop to the cover art of their 2010 album Classic Fantaﬆic – for reasons beﬆ known only to themselves. Even ﬆadium techno pioneers Underworld, playing the ﬁrﬆ Chinese show of their lenghty career which provided the impetus for this scribe to make the pilgrimage to the area, duﬆed oﬀ the seminal track which gives this piece its title in homage to a view with few rivals on the planet.

A trip by tram (with a queue to rival California’s Disneyland at its worﬆ) up Victoria Peak to witness the panorama which has no doubt shifted several million souvenir fridge magnets quickly confirms why every photo you see from the lookout is taken at night, as smog so chunky you could carve it hangs like a heavy heart over the city and surrounding islands. With the MTR rail syﬆem which criss-crosses the city rivaling the blanket coverage of New York or the efficiency of Berlin – but with its own all-purpose Octopus fare card which can not only get you from A to B but also buy you a beer and a pork bun at a 7-Eleven – making car ownership redundant (though a handful of private vehicles do dot roads congeﬆed by a plethora of taxis and double-decker buses), the pollution doesn’t seem to be generated in the ﬆ reets of Hong Kong Island or Kowloon. A walk over to the south side of Victoria Peak reveals the source of the haze, as three smokeﬆacks from a power plant on a nearby island selfishly pump plumes of smoke in the direct ion of the populace while mere metres away from them a lone wind turbine battles on forlornly for the cause of renewable energy. Then beneath the International Commerce Centre (from which Chriﬆ ian Bale’s ﬆ untman CGIed himself into cinema folklore), the angular Bank Of China Tower and 100 or so other 180 metre-plus monuments to capitaliﬆ excess which 24 3DWORLD

cram onto Hong Kong Island (with only Nina Tower comparing in size and scope on the mainland) is a collision of third world Asia and the weﬆern world which the unsuspect ing traveler would never expect. The slightly less spectacular towers which house the lion’s share of the city’s seven million plus residents are coated in decades of grime which no end of elbow grease could remove, while below them in Kowloon ﬆ reet vendors huﬆ le touriﬆs in and out of reﬆaurants with such haﬆe they barely have time to savour the laﬆ drop of their Tsingtao long neck. And after you’ve negotiated a respectable exchange rate (the Aussie dollar buys around HKD$6.70, which gets you further than you’d think) amongﬆ the neon commercialism of Chungking Mansions, prepare to swat off touts like a ﬆockman swats fl ies if the laﬆ thing on your mind is buying a suit – and be doubly wary if a slightly siniﬆer type extends his offer to something of a more illicit nature. The dichotomy continues as the MTR train winds its way in and out of even more skyscrapers to the north, humble hobby farms and houses lining the railway track as you make your way to the 85,000 capacity Sha Tin Racecourse (which along with the slightly smaller but more legendary Happy Valley is one of two venues which plays hoﬆ to Hong Kong’s national sport). And if you continue from there to cross the border into China at Shenzhen, you realise that the ﬆart of your journey is an oasis of calm – albeit a ridiculously humid one – compared to the manic energy of the mainland.

Don’t be tempted by what is by all reports a bare bones Disneyland near the airport, and inﬆead hit up Hong Kong’s original theme park. Inexplicably built on the side of a mountain, the thrill rides are adequate rather than extraordinary, but the jellyfish pavilion and shark, manta ray and groper fi lled aquarium is ﬆ unning. As an added bonus they also have pandas – the look of disintereﬆ they offer gawking humans is a muﬆ-see. HORSE RACING With two majeﬆ ic courses at Happy Valley and Sha Tin, Hong Kong hoﬆ s between one and three race meetings a week. In a far cry from the booze-sodden racecourses of Auﬆ ralia, local men, women and (possibly) children take their thoroughbreds seriously, ﬆ udiously poring over their form guides and only getting animated come race time. The speed with which the venue empties at the end of a meeting is quite extraordinary. And if you like Engrish, you’ll get a lot of value out of horse names such as Cars King Prawn, Affluence Of Rain and a hundred variations on the Dragon theme. CITY GOLF CLUB What better way to work out the tension of one of the great cities of the world by knocking some golf balls into the diﬆance – and quite literally in the heart of the city in a range again lined by apartment blocks. Four levels of golfers ranging from the very amateur to the wannabe professional do their worﬆ at a centre which is open from 7am til midnight. Hitting the ball over the 50 metre high fencing which surround the range in every direct ion is harder than it sounds. SHENZHEN You haven’t shopped until you’ve braved the ram-jammed shopping malls of the Chinese Special Economic Zone juﬆ over the border from Hong Kong. Prepare to haggle until your (usually female teen) shop assiﬆant is feigning tears, keep your cool if all of a sudden the pile of knock-off handbags in front of you gets whisked away to a ﬆoreroom when the authorities make one of their regular impromptu visits, and always remember that if a pair of “Nikes” is only coﬆ ing you AUD$20 there’s probably a good reason why.

gameplay clocked in at about three to four hours. Portal 2 looks set to be much grander in scope and vision, with a wider array of toys with which to dispense sentry-bots. Maybe this time there will be cake? And speaking of things sweet, the confectionary joy of LittleBigPlanet 2 is on the way, with even more possibilities for those looking to while away the hours crafting their own games: you can design games in genres including real-time strategy, puzzle, racing, 2D shooter, shooter a la Gradius-style or shooter a la Duck Hunt. Finally, things are also heating up in the realm of rhythm games. Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock will feature a Quest mode, which, we’re promised, will take gameplay in this genre into new and exciting directions, and is narrated by true rock warrior Gene Simmons. Rock Band 3 will feature a two-octave keyboard and a positively fierce-looking Pro mode, designed to bridge the gap between bona fide musicians and musicians of the purely virtual kind. A purpose-made Pro guitar will feature no fewer than 102 notes on the neck. Those friendly Rock Band parties just got a lot more intense.

ASSASSINS CREED: BROTHERHOOD

ROCK BAND 3

SORTED FOR E3 THE WHO’S WHO OF THE VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY DESCENDED ON THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER LAST WEEK TO REVEAL EXCITING THINGS TO COME IN VIDEO GAMES. DARRYN KING REPORTS ON THE HOTTEST NEWS TO COME OUT OF E3 2010.

ushing the line “play how you want to play”, Microsoft revealed its controller-free motion-sensing project Kinect (formerly known as Natal). Among the titles demonﬆ rated sans controller at E3 were Kinect Sports, the obligatory sports title that includes bowling, boxing, volleyball, ping pong, soccer, and some rather demanding track and field events; virtual petting zoo Kinect imals; and (look, a game that isn’t a riff on a Nintendo equivalent) Star Wars: Force Unleashed II, which will be making excellent use of Starkiller’s new and improved Jedi powers. Also making use of Kinect will be Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson music game, which will involve both singing and dancing to the gloved one’s greateﬆ hits. Though obviously Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker will remain the defi nitive Michael Jackson game. Sony are putting a lot of energy into pushing their 3D technology, but Nintendo seemed to steal their thunder with the unveiling of the new Nintendo 3DS – which displays 3D images that, apparently, really do work, without the need for glasses. Techno-wizardry would mean nothing without good games, however, and Nintendo certainly delivered on that front, with a 3DS line-up that includes a return of long-lost hero Pit in Kid Icarus: Uprising, new

Mario Kart, Pilotwings, StarFox, Paper Mario, and Animal Crossing titles, and a Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time conversion. It was a strong showing from Nintendo in general. The big news on Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword is its new, more complex control mechanic that takes fuller advantage of the Wii’s motion sensing technology, including more recognised sword movements and the Wii nunchuk doubling as a shield. The muchawaited GoldenEye game is also on the way – as is a certain hungry pink ball thing. From Dream Land to 16th Century Rome: fans of Assassin’s Creed have been crying out for a multiplayer mode for a long time – an Assassin’s Creed death match just makes a hell of a lot of sense, really – and Ubisoft Montreal have responded in a big way. Assassins Creed: Brotherhood will see Ezio leading a clan of clandestine killers. Multiplayer mode will see you rewarded for doing your dirty deeds unnoticed and/ or with flair, and there’ll be a bunch of new acrobatic moves and custom abilities to develop and character skins to acquire. Fans of Valve’s headache-inducing (in a good way) action-puzzle game Portal will yet again be venturing into the Aperture Science Facility – and beyond. As great as the original was,

GET EXCITED ABOUT: The 2D platformer renaissance that we seem to be in the middle of would not be complete without a return to Donkey Kong Country. Retro Studios, the crew that revitalised the Metroid franchise, have unveiled Donkey Kong Country Returns. Donkey and Diddy Kong will be teaming up for some New Super Mario Bros. Wiistyle co-op play. It’s also time to blow away some Helghast with your trusty M82. Guerilla Games blew E3 audiences away with pre-alpha gameplay footage of their fi rstperson shooter Killzone 3, for which we are promised tougher, scarier enemies… with jetpacks. It’s set for release in February 2011. One of the most visually striking games on display at this year’s E3, Child Of Eden is a psychedelic multi-sensory shooter inspired, according to creative director Tetsuya Mizuguchi, by ‘life’. We’re not quite sure what that means exactly, but the gameplay involves interactive music and some truly beautiful imagery. With the motion-sensing Kinect technology, this could be a truly unique gaming experience. Finally, look out for Epic Monkey – for some, the highlight of Nintendo’s highlight-fi lled line-up. Legendary game developer Warren Spector (Deus Ex, System Shock) is dropping Disney’s mascot in a much darker universe, with gameplay falling somewhere in between the Mario and Zelda games and Deus Ex. A much needed shake-up in the House of Mouse.

AT THE FRONTIER MATT UNICOMB LEARNS THAT A SHARED LOVE OF THE GOLDEN ERA HIP HOP SOUND DREW SHANNON KENNEDY TO PRODUCER SANDRO TO HELM WILD COLONIAL, HIS SOLO DEBUT ALBUM AS OZI BATLA.

zi Batla is an MC of many faces. Shannon Kennedy, the man behind the microphone, is a man of even more. As a frontman of one of Auﬆ ralia’s moﬆ visible musical groups, The Herd, he has etched his charged socio-political commentary into the consciousness of thousands of young people around the country. Closer to his Sydney hometown, his efforts as part of Aﬆ ronomy Class, and as a battle MC throughout the 1990s, are recognised by the city’s dedicated hip hop core. Whichever Ozi Batla you know, be it the outspoken political leftie, social worker, or ﬆ rict ly as the rapper whose sole purpose is to get a room jumping, his maiden solo album effort, Wild Colonial, will bring you up to speed. And you’ll be all the better for it. It seems that, fi rﬆ and foremoﬆ, Kennedy is a traditionaliﬆ. With the aim of creating cohesion, fellow Sydney resident Sandro was enliﬆed as the project ’s sole producer. Like Kennedy, Sandro – real name Alessandro Bonanno - is a hip hop puriﬆ. An MPC, SP-1200, and crates of psychedelic 70s samples characterise the producer’s output, with a love of analogue product ion being a driving force behind each track’s creation. “Moﬆ of my favourite albums have juﬆ one product ion team working on them,” Kennedy explains. “We defi nitely share the same approach as to how we like our hip hop made.” The recording process was simple. Bonanno had been sending beats Kennedy’s way since 2008, however the decision to work together exclusively was not made for sometime after that. Years in the hip hop trade meant that Kennedy had a regular supply of beats on offer from an array of producers. The idea of recording a solo album arose in 2008, in the early ﬆages of the creation of Aﬆ ronomy Class’s Pursuit Of Happiness. “I had all sorts of beats,” he reflects. “I have lots of friends who make great music.” But it was a queﬆ for complete cohesion that ultimately brought Kennedy and Bonanno together. Their joint desire to return to the famed golden era sound in Wild Colonial meant that certain ﬆeps had to be taken. One facet, arguably the moﬆ essential, was product ion. After all, when one thinks of hip hop’s moﬆ famed LPs - efforts from Gang Starr, Diamond D and A Tribe Called Queﬆ – the presence of a sole producer or product ion team is a main factor in their perceived success. “Moﬆ of my favourite albums have juﬆ one product ion team working on them,” Kennedy notes. Intereﬆ ingly, Kennedy has chosen to primarily work with artiﬆ s he had yet to collaborate with on Wild Colonial. DJ Bonez, probably beﬆ known for his affi liation with Hyjak and Torcha in the mid-2000s and his following Obese-released LP, lent his hands on the 1200s, laying down the scratches on Kennedy’s solo effort. All together the Kennedy, Bonanno and Bonez trio were an unlikely combination. “I think I caught him at a weak moment,” Kennedy laughs about enliﬆ ing the Melbourne-based DJ. “He’s another person I’ve known for a long time, and I’ve really admired his work. It’s always good to work with people that you have a friendship, or some kind of connection with to begin with.” Specific political references are noticeably absent from Wild Colonial. After all, Kennedy’s moﬆ famous verses have been political, from the charged proteﬆ of 77%, to the more recent The King Is Dead and 2020. However, though the album doesn’t feature any direct political assertions per se, there is a unique political undertone. Moﬆ prominent is the allusion to perceptions of colonisation, be it social or musical. The idea extends further than the British colonisation of Indigenous Australians, and plays with concepts of the colonisation of art. Prior to the album’s release, Kennedy toyed with the concept in a video released in the lead-up to Wild Colonial ’s release, offering up the idea of himself as a coloniser of hip hop, and his awareness of that role. “Th at ﬆatement was prob-

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ably the Spike Lee in me,” he reﬂects. “But I don’t necessarily agree with that notion. It’s deﬁnitely a great idea to provoke thought. “We don’t make hip hop in a vacuum in Auﬆ ralia. It has come a long way around the globe to get where it is now, and to become really popular with young Auﬆ ralians. I think it’s important to be aware of its hiﬆory, in the same way we need to recognise Auﬆ ralian hiﬆory.” The concept is certainly an intereﬆ ing one. The popular notion of “Auﬆ ralian hip hop” has become a juggernaut, and subsequently has become a kind of entity within an entity. It refers to an idea juﬆ as much as it refers to a type of music. Trouble arises, however, when the hip hop produced in Auﬆ ralia is viewed as a body largely separate from hip hop as a whole. To provide some kind of context, Kennedy has drawn parallels between hip hop’s position today, and the

hiﬆory of colonisation, suggeﬆ ing that British colonisation of Auﬆ ralia could be viewed as an occurrence not entirely diﬀerent to the emergence of non-US hip hop. “Hip hop has changed so much in 30 years, I juﬆ fear that sometimes younger liﬆeners don’t have an awareness of the landscape that they’re in,” Kennedy explains. “As much as it has to do with respect , it also has a lot to do with appreciation, and underﬆanding of the whole culture. It has come from a very diﬀerent place to where it is now.” As can be expected, opposition to the idea has arisen. “I’ve upset a few people,” Kennedy muses. “In a similar way to the ‘Auﬆ ralia: Love it or leave it’ mentality. But it’s a better experience when you underﬆand the hiﬆory.” WHO: Ozi Batla WHAT: Wild Colonial (Elefant Traks/Inertia) WHERE & WHEN: The Annandale Hotel Saturday 26 June

ﬆill sophiﬆicated but working well on the floor, and it’s ﬆill with melodies. But I’m trying to get away from this electro attitude, which was ﬆill in there in 2007. I’m also influenced by what I’m playing as a DJ... It’s rockin’ ﬆ uff, act ually! It’s not listening music (laughs) – no, not yet, when I’m old, Okay?”

GO WITH A SMILE STEPHAN BODZIN IS THE ANTITHESIS OF THE PO-FACED TECH PRODUCER, EXCITEDLY FILLING CYCLONE IN ON HIS LOVE OF EVERYTHING FROM MILES DAVIS TO MOTORHEAD AND HIS REVAMPED LIVE SHOW AS HE PREPARES FOR ANOTHER TRIP TO OUR SHORES.

echno has always been cliquey, but Stephan Bodzin doesn’t care to conform. Th is explains why he hasn’t followed the pack by relocating from his native Bremen in Northern Germany to Berlin. He’s also not afraid to be silly. Ahead of Bodzin’s Auﬆ ralian club tour, the promoter advises journos that the German is easygoing – and possesses a great sense of humour. Alas, humour is problematic in techno. The hard-liners are disconcerted by extroversion. One local DJ sniffs that Bodzin is for “the kids”. After all, techno is equated with ultra serious, intellect ual types like Jeff Mills and Richie Hawtin. “Oh yeah, they’re very serious – very serious,” Bodzin laughs. “[But] no, that’s not me! I really appreciate their work, and their performance, sure, but I’m different. I can’t help myself partying with the people and you can see it – I need to smile if I’m happy, if I enjoy it.” Bodzin queﬆ ions whether techno lacks humour. “If you look at Super Flu, for example, they’re really funny.” Bodzin will be bringing his “re-lived” show here over winter. Live elect ronic musicians often abﬆain from DJing yet Bodzin digs both. His reconfigured live set is more advanced than that seen at 2009’s Future Music Feﬆ ival, Bodzin referring to it as “V2”. He’s developed the visual aspect, for a ﬆart. Bodzin is aware that the term ‘live’ is used loosely in elect ronica circles, but he’s capable, dynamic and spontaneous – and no “laptop act”. As for the music? Expect “more clubby rockin’ ﬆ uff,” he says. Bodzin grew up surrounded by music – and synths – with his Dad an experimental musician. In such a cool family, you might imagine

that Bodzin had limited opportunities to rebel. “I was doing the opposite – believe me,” he insiﬆs. “[My father] was into jazz music and, when I was 14, I went ﬆ raight to Metallica and Slayer, juﬆ to do the opposite and really get into trouble. I got back to this elect ronic tradition – it’s not really a family tradition – when I was 30 or something, really late.” Today Bodzin cites as inspirations not only Kraftwerk and Miles Davis, but also the lairy English metal band Motorhead. Bodzin had his ﬆ int in bands but wound up composing music for avant-garde theatre product ions. The classically-trained pianiﬆ was even involved with an Auﬆ rian dance company. “That was serious ﬆ uff – [in terms of] content and meaning and big ﬆories. I was working on crazy soundscapes combined with classical music and really ﬆ range sound backgrounds – I was running around with microphones outdoors and recording everything and ﬆ uff like that. That was intereﬆ ing – a really good time – but the people in this theatre scene are so intense. It was so hard to communicate with them. After six or seven years I said, ‘Okay, people, that’s it, I need some light ﬆ uff now!” That “light ﬆ uff ” he discovered in club culture. Bremen’s Thomas Schumacher approached Bodzin to produce his Elektrochemie LK project. Bodzin formally debuted himself with Caligula/Marathon Man on Marc Romboy’s Syﬆematic. Ironically, Bodzin was producing before he could DJ – the bookings had flooded in, regardless. He eﬆablished Herzblut Recordings in 2006. The next year Bodzin issued an acclaimed album, Liebe Iﬆ... (Love is...). Now, finally, he’s preparing the follow-up. “I was travelling a lot

in the paﬆ. If you see other artiﬆs coming up with one album after the other, 95 percent of them do have a producer in the background. So, to go for good productions, you can’t do it when you travel each weekend – [performing] three shows. You have a hangover until Tuesday and on Thursday you need to get ready for the weekend. After three years travelling, more or less, I ﬆarted getting back into the ﬆ udio in spring. Now I’m about to teﬆ seven or eight new tracks for the ﬁrﬆ time in Auﬆralia – in the live show. They’re ﬆill a bit rough-mixed but, after Auﬆralia, I’ll ﬆart ﬁnishing them for the album, which hopefully – I don’t promise – will be released around winter.” Bodzin’s lateﬆ music is a departure from Liebe Iﬆ.... “It’s ﬆill experimental, it’s ﬆill ﬆraight, it’s

Bodzin has collaborated with Romboy and Oliver Huntemann. He ﬆops short of calling himself a ghoﬆ producer akin to Timo Maas’ cohort Martin Buttrich. Bodzin is especially eﬀ usive in his praise of Schumacher, who’s ever on a queﬆ for something fresh. What’s more, Bodzin respects Schumacher’s judgement: he has “very good taﬆe”. Bodzin has remixed tunes for credible crossover artiﬆs – Depeche Mode, The Knife and Booka Shade. In fact, his biggeﬆ remix of late is Depeche Mode’s Fragile Tension, which he initially declined. “[Mute] were asking, like, three times [for me] to do another Depeche Mode remix. I said ‘no’ two times, act ually, because after Everything Counts, I said, ‘It’s a miﬆake to do another Depeche Mode remix – after the success, it can only get worse’. [But] Martin Gore was asking me personally to do this remix – and that’s the point where I said, ‘OK, what can I say?’ WHO: Stephan Bodzin WHERE & WHEN: The Likes Of You at Arthouse Hotel Saturday 3 July

MENTAL COMBAT Hip Hop With BLAZE

Want something unique, but ﬆ ill beat ﬂavoured? Then head over to Poland for the Funky Mamas and Papas Recordings label. They are a ﬆ rict ly vinyl only outlet for funky beats and have released only 7-inch singles to date. Well, now they have dropped their 9th release and this time it’s an album. It’s from the Wroclaw, Lower Silesia based duo Przaśnik and they drop the also exquisitely named nine tracker Azymic. Th ink eclect ic jazz, a spot of broken beat, an element of swing and some golden era hip hop inﬂuences and mix it up into a diﬆ inct ly Euro concoct ion and you have something very intereﬆ ing indeed. The musicianship combined with the original sample choices turn it into something that is less ‘cut ‘n paﬆe’ and more original sounding. The tracks aren’t of the generic funky breakz tunes that are disposable DJ weapons. No, these tracks are juﬆ as valid for home liﬆening, but ﬆ ill perfect for turntable shenanigans. I also like the fact that they didn’t feel compelled to have a ‘rap’ track. Sometimes I juﬆ want to hear beats without some mediocre dude ruining the experience. I also like that they didn’t include their 7-inch releases as well. Oh, and they join the massing throngs that eschew the CD versions for digital downloads.

JEDI MIND TRICKS

I can’t believe that Jedi Mind Tricks beatmaker Stoupe has veered oﬀ into making, for want of a better term…‘trip hop’. Basically he’s made a hip hop beats album with an indie chick singing over it. The girl is Liz Fullerton and she has already gueﬆed on a few JMT tracks in the paﬆ. They go by the moniker of Dutch and the album is A Bright Cold Day (Enemy Soil). I’m act ually surprised that he could pull it oﬀ, but I muﬆ confess it works. Though I wish there was an inﬆ rumental version so I could liﬆen to the sad tinged music by itself. The publicity prose “conjured comparisons to the dark programming aeﬆ hetics of Portishead, the soul-piercing melodies of Cat Power, and the viscerally provoking tone of Dido” pretty much hits the mark. It’s the folksy tracks that really surprised me. Sure it’s a ﬆ yle that hit its peak probably around the turn of the century, but I guess it’s now juﬆ a ﬆ yle with a really bad moniker. Nice to see this side of Stoupe though, but apparently he’ll be back with a new Jedi Mind Tricks album with his pal Vinnie Paz before the year is out. 28 3DWORLD

MUSIC IS DEAD DARRYN KING TALKS TO NANCY VANDALL MEMBER MIKE FOXALL, WHO’S WRITTEN, ILLUSTRATED, AND RELEASED A ROCK’N’ROLL ZOMBIE COMIC BOOK, THE GRAVE SHAKERS.

ssassination, sleeping pills, a disproportionate number of plane crashes, choking on one’s own vomit… There’s no shortage of rock ﬆars who’ve rocked’n’rolled off this mortal coil before their time. But Frankenﬆein-like mad scientiﬆ Doctor Sponglehoff is not going to let a little thing like dead musicians get in the way of forming the greateﬆ supergroup the world has ever seen. The Grave Shakers is a new comic from Mike Foxall. It follows a naïve girl group, the Cruelettes, and their hapless band manager Randy, who are roped into Sponglehoff ’s insane cloning scheme. “Crazy violence ensues,” says Foxall. “Without giving too much away: things don’t go well. One day someone will write a ﬆory about a rogue scientiﬆ playing God where everything works out swimmingly, but this is not that ﬆory.” The 1978 fi lm The Boys From Brazil, in which a mad scientiﬆ attempts to bring Adolf Hitler back from the dead, is a major influence on the comic. Foxall’s maﬆerﬆ roke is applying the same insane premise to rock’n’roll. Naturally, the real treat of the comic is its ﬆellar line-up of decomposing composers, including Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bon Scott, Jimi Hendrix, and Buddy Holly, as well as more obscure casualties of rock, like radical Plasmatics frontwoman Wendy O. Williams. On the musical side of things, the comic takes inspiration from a fairly notorious Hanna-Barbera KISS telemovie (incidentally from the same year as The Boys From Brazil), KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park. The movie, very much in the vein of a Scooby-Doo myﬆery, featured razorsharp interchanges like the following: “Hey! You’re not allowed to smoke in here!” “I’ll smoke you.” Foxall hopes The Grave Shakers has “slightly more convincing dialogue”. Apart from anything else, The Grave Shakers is a macabre reminder of the glory days of rock – but, to Foxall, rock is not quite dead… yet. “Not on my iPod! The comic has a bit of a theme about rock being conﬆantly repackaged and reimagined and becoming a diluted facsimile of the real thing. But, having said that, I find every few years a band like Airbourne will pop up and I totally fall in love with them. Rock is pretty cool like that.” Foxall originated the concept years ago, during his time as guitariﬆ of defunct Sydney-based punk band Nancy Vandal. “I produced a very rough version of it in an issue of the Nancy Vandal Vandal’s Voice fanzine. It’s been kicking around inside my head ever since. It is pretty rough and

sketchy which also describes my guitar playing.” Foxall’s musical career, he admits, informs at leaﬆ one other aspect of the comic. “The musicians in the comic are naive saps who make terrible career choices. There are autobiographical elements.” Foxall also says the ‘D.I.Y. philosophy’ of punk has made its way into his approach to comic publishing – you can purchase the comics at his website, thegraveshakers.com, or peruse the ﬁ rﬆ of four issues online for free. The ﬆ yle of The Grave Shakers is a combination of traditional and digital ﬆ yles. The panels are drawn in pencil, ink and watercolour – “on ye olde paper,” Foxall says – and sprinkled with digital fairy duﬆ in Photoshop. “I’ve been drawing long before I learnt to play an inﬆ rument so I guess that makes me an illuﬆ rator ﬁrﬆ. However the two things have become so entwined I can’t look at one without the other anymore. Music with an overt visual or cartoony element, like KISS, the Ramones and so on has always appealed to me.”

WHAT: The Grave Shakers WHERE & WHEN: Available now through thegraveshakers.com

FUNK SOULJAH ON THE EVE OF HIS THIRD SOLO RELEASE AS REPHRASE, JAIME OLSEN IS REFLECTIVE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS SOUND AND THE REASON FOR GOING WITH AN ALMOST ENTIRELY VOCAL AFFAIR WHEN HE SPEAKS TO HUWSTON.

ydney based producer Jaime Olsen is Rephrase, known previously for his work in Kaleidavibe and dB Chills. Arriving on the scene in 2003 with a vinyl EP and subsequent 2005 album for Casa Del Discos, Rephrase has always chosen somewhat playful names for his albums. Whilﬆ Beatcoaﬆer introduced us to a poﬆ breaks and chillout sound, Little Victories saw the producer take on vocaliﬆs and capture the world’s attention as a leading nu-funk producer. Somewhat uncomfortable with the tag, Olsen has taken on a range of under utilised rhythms to redefine himself once more with Taking On An Army. “I wanted to move away from that sound” he says, “but you can’t help but sound like yourself. [The album is] not so much linear groove based ﬆ uff like Little Victories, it’s like, when it gets to the chorus it act ually gets to the chorus. The idea was, I was liﬆening to a bunch of different ﬆ uff. Liﬆening to a bit of Motown, Kero One, Jazzanova, Smoov and Turell and The Bamboos, trying to get those sorts of sounds out of a computer and with no outboard gear it came out the beﬆ it could,” he says, adding that sometimes it’s hard being able to achieve all of one’s musical desires as a one-man-band. The snapping snares and deep Rhodes sounds are ﬆ ill signatures of his ﬆ yle, yet the full length vocal numbers are a quantum leap from the club bangers of yeﬆeryear. Olsen puts this down to a commercial decision. “I was looking to do something with more of a pop edge and with that in mind, you need vocaliﬆs to get it across the line and I wrote tunes and had a bunch of people in mind to sing them,” he says. “Obviously people from the fi rﬆ album and a few other inﬆ rumentaliﬆs to make me sound even better!” Also, as a new-ish Dad, Olsen’s priorities have changed, so it’s been not only his sound that has ﬆepped up, but his overall approach to the busi-

ness. Taking On An Army is released by his own Rephrase Music imprint. Aided by technology, some of the album’s ﬆ rongeﬆ points come from Canadian vocaliﬆ Vandal, who, even with the chemiﬆ ry the two seem to share on disc, has never met Rephrase. “I give him a theme of what I want something to be about and moﬆ of the time he’s spot on. It’s hard to find someone you can truﬆ to send you back something and it’ll sound great, without having to time ﬆretch it or chop it up or change the phrasing, this guy is always on point.” One name that certainly ﬆands out on the trackliﬆ is trumpeter and Auﬆralian music legend James Morrison, who kicks the album off with some fine-form tootin’ over a snappy drum’n’bass break reminiscent of London Elect ricity’s Pull The Plug. “He’s by far the moﬆ talented musician I have ever come across,” Olsen reckons. “I went over to his place to record the track with Jimi Polar and when we got there at 8am, he was ready to go! He was tuning up and playing piano like he plays the trumpet whilﬆ I was looking to have a coffee.” Known potentially as much for his exhaustive remix output as he is his original material, Olsen is quick to give props to the album’s only remix thus far, which comes courtesy of Perth’s Assembly Line. “You need to check these guys out,” he says. “They’re up there with Hermitude in the beats department.”

WHO: Rephrase WHAT: Taking On An Army (Rephrase Music)

OGFLAVAS OG Urban news with CYCLONE

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A series of fantaﬆ ic neo-soulﬆers have come out of the UK in recent years, ﬆarting with Amy Winehouse. We had Wales’ charmingly retro Duff y, the feiﬆ y Adele... But not everyone was happy. Eﬆelle, originally a femcee, only found success after hooking up with John Legend and moving to the US. Speaking to the Guardian in 2008, she accused white artiﬆs such as Adele of co-opting the soul – and challenged the media for hailing them as saviours of the music while ignoring black performers. In the meantime, with so many ‘nu-Amys’ on the scene (culminating in the overrated Pixie Lott), there’s been a swing away from neosoul to elect ro. Even Aussie Gabriella Cilmi abandoned R&B for dance on Ten – and shed her audience. It’s into this milieu that London’s Rox, aka Roxanne Tataei, has arrived. The singer/songwriter was one of our year’s big predict ions with her debut, Memoirs. Tataei has an intriguing ﬆory. The half-Jamaican, halfIranian soulﬆ ress honed her vocals in church, participated in The National Youth Theatre, picked up a guitar, and eventually attracted induﬆ ry attention while performing in a jazz ensemble. She’s now signed to Rough Trade. Certainly, R&B traditionaliﬆs will be gratified by Memoirs. There’s no elect ro, no gimmickry. Tataei offers ol’ skool songwriting, real inﬆ rumentation, and powerful vocals. As with Eﬆelle (and Ms Dynamite), Tataei will be compared to Lauryn Hill, whose dressing, circa L-Boogie, she emulates. In fact, she’s worked with Hill’s affi liate Commissioner Gordon, though the primary producer here is the talented Brit Al Shux, responsible for Jay-Z’s Empire State Of Mind. Tataei’s fi rﬆ single is the big ballad No Going Back – with a gutsy delivery, organ riffs and 60s ﬆ ylings – all produced by Shux. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s Winehouse back from the brink. I Don’t Believe – like the deceptively cheery My Baby Left Me, about love-gone-wrong – has been licensed for a Rimmel campaign. Tataei ventures out with the gospel-influenced Do As I Say, reggae Rockﬆeady (way too obvious!), and gentle acouﬆ ic number Heart Ran Dry (evoking Corinne Bailey Rae). The ﬆ ring-laden (and more programmed ) Oh My is a real departure – it sounds like 80s soul. Overall, Memoirs is a conservative debut, and Tataei needs to develop a ﬆ yle of her own, but she has what it takes.

BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY Sweet Soul Music With HUWSTON

It’s exciting to finally hear Paul White’s album Paul White & The Purple Brain (available now on One Handed/Now Again). Technically, it’s a ﬆep forward yet creatively, there are weaknesses to using juﬆ one artiﬆ as a sample source. It makes commercial sense to do it that way, so props to him and the team for taking on the challenge. A very wintery album, full of cold psych dirges and eaﬆern influences, this should certainly be your next beat purchase if you’re a fan of Exile and Madlib. Yam Who’s label ISM return with a new package of remixes for super band Killer Whale called the King Of New York EP, which is another Arthur Russell tribute. Expect wobbly bass mixes from Kid Circus and dubby yet faithful mixes from Free Disco of that anthem Is It All Over My Face? House music man to watch Leo Zero gives us two interpretations of Tell You (Today) which are both very different but oh-so-disco, with one leaning more on the jackin’ sax and the other on a ﬆ rong dubby piano line. Super authentic but at the same time progressive enough to not be treading the same boards Russell did all those years ago.

ARTHUR RUSSELL

Keeping with house music, a nice big fat surprise in a Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) remix of Boohgaloo Zoo’s Teﬆify juﬆ arrived from Love Monk this morning, signalling the oﬃcial ﬆart of a 90s revival. Proving that you can be intelligent and soulful at the same time as beating someone across the head with a slightly acidic bassline, truﬆ a man like Goddard to be able to be tuneful and banging at the same time. Locally, there’s a fair bit to croon about to, with new releases either shortly around the corner or juﬆ out now from Toni Toni Lee, Ooba and Rephrase. Starting with TTL, Feelin Real Good is a faithful slice of nu disco that really captures elements of crossover 80s boogie and elect ro-funk and I’m particularly enjoying the Pete Herbert remix on that package. Ooba is a new project from Ian Mussington (drummer of Space Invadas) and Rick Robertson (dig and eon Beats). Their debut self-titled album is a deliciously reserved Brazilian inspired that is so richly textured and Mussington’s voice is truly wonderful. Finally Rephrase’s third album Taking On An Army sees him teaming up with a caﬆ of gueﬆ vocaliﬆs for an entirely vocal aﬀair that should see his fanbase swell to reach a whole new set. 30 3DWORLD

SUN RISING UP AFTER COMPLETING HIS DEBUT ALBUM, TRANCER RICHARD DURAND HAD TWO OPTIONS WHEN IT CAME TO HIS FIRST OFFICIAL DJ MIX – START HIS OWN SERIES, OR TAKE A BATON PASSED FROM TIËSTO. NINA BERTOK LEARNS HE CHOSE THE LATTER.

xpectations are high and backlash is likely when you take up the baton from the world’s biggeﬆ DJ, but Richard Durand cared little for either when he took on the huge task of continuing Tiëﬆo’s In Search Of Sunrise compilation series this year. After months of tight secrecy and all kinds of ﬆ range rumours, volume eight South Africa is finally out in the open and juﬆ in time to coincide with the World Cup too, as Durand points out. “With every volume you have to choose a country as the theme of In Search Of Sunrise,” he says. “South Africa seemed right because, of course, there is the world championships in soccer and that’s huge news! Also, the trance scene is not very big in South Africa so I thought it could provide a good opportunity to play music there and introduce this genre to the country. It’s not the kind of music that you play from midnight to 6am at a club, definitely not. It’s very relaxed trance music with loads of melodies and tracks with vocals. It’s not too hard or bangin’, it’s juﬆ deep and full of good vibes. It’s the kind of CD you put on to relax and to put you in a good mood.” That may be the case for the liﬆener, but not so much for Durand. Well aware of the pressure that would come from continuing Tiëﬆo’s legacy, Durand claims he took his time to decide whether to continue the compilation series after Black Hole Recordings approached him for the job. “No I did not jump on it!” Durand laughs. “It all ﬆarted when Tiëﬆo was leaving Black Hole Recordings and In Search Of Sunrise is a label thing. Since it’s also my label and I’ve worked with Tiëﬆo before, they asked me in January if I wanted to program the eighth compilation. I had to think about it quite a lot because it was a big risk. I was worried what the fans would think and all the negative things that the Tiëﬆo followers would say. I had also planned to do a compilation CD of my own this year before I knew about In Search Of Sunrise, and I knew if I took this on I probably wouldn’t end up doing my own.” But at the same time Durand saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity being offered to him – sure there may be backlash from Tiëﬆo die-hards, but from an artiﬆ’s perspect ive, taking on this kind of project was a chance to kick down some doors. “I ﬆopped looking at it from the fans’ perspect ive and ﬆarted looking at it from my own perspect ive,” he says. “As an artiﬆ it was a chance to

grow musically and to reach a lot of new people. And I also realised that if I did my own compilation like I had planned, I would be building it up from zero, whereas if I did In Search Of Sunrise number eight, it was an eﬆablished series already. So it was the easier option too.” For Durand, the paﬆ two years have been the biggeﬆ and moﬆ successful of his decade-long career so far. While the Dutch native claims that nothing has yet come close to working on his lateﬆ project , releasing his debut artiﬆ album [Always Th e Sun] laﬆ year came pretty close. “I was really surprised how diﬀerent the process can be when you’re making a compilation and an album. There is a bit more uncertainty when you’re doing an album because you only have a short amount of tracks to work with, whereas a compilation gives you many tracks to choose from. I’m deﬁ nitely going to do another album. It’s not always about playing what you like, it’s also about showcasing what you can do.”

WHO: Richard Durand WHAT: In Search Of Sunrise 8: South Africa (405 Recordings/Stomp)

THE OMEGA MAN FROM MINIMAL NATION TO A MINIMAL GENERATION, DETROIT PIONEER ROBERT HOOD CONTINUES TO INSPIRE WITH HIS LATEST ALBUM OMEGA. TRAVIS COLLINS TAKES A LESSON IN THE ART OF MINIMALISM.

inimal techno is easily one of the moﬆ influential global music trends of the paﬆ decade, but the sound is hardly new. In the early 90s, minimalism was an underground movement that originated in Detroit and was championed by two central figures: Jeff Mills and Robert Hood. While Mills dominated the clubs with his ﬆ ripped-back product ions and wooed audiences with his flawless three-deck mixing, Hood paved his own path as a founding member of Underground Resiﬆance and through his countless singles on his own M-Plant Records. Hood’s genre defining albums Internal Empire and the recently reissued Minimal Nation continue to inspire a new generation of minimaliﬆ devotees. Detroit may have been the birthplace of techno and minimal, but times have changed and so has the music. Hood shared his criticisms for the minimal explosion. “Not very much of the techno and minimal music coming out is timeless anymore. People have jumped on the bandwagon and jumped on the hype of minimalism, and they’re not in tune with continuing the art form. They don’t underﬆand that it’s an art form and they are pursuing it from the perspect ive that it’s a product and a commodity.” Robert Hood blames the recent disposable music trend on the lack of artiﬆ ic vision in modern techno. “If you’re loﬆ and don’t have any direction, it’s easy to let other producers or other DJs influence your direct ion. If you’re really determined about your path, whether it’s the digital realm, playing records or how you produce and express yourself, if you’re ﬆ rong and determined you won’t let anything outside influence you.” The 1971 poﬆ-apocalyptic sci-fi fi lm The Omega Man is the inspiration for Robert Hood’s lateﬆ album Omega. “It’s a great fi lm about a man living in solitary after a biochemical war broke out and deﬆ royed pretty much everyone, and he was forced to fight for his own survival. Th is is my take on the fi lm. The soundtrack came from the perspect ive of having hope in the midﬆ of this black backdrop of hopelessness. The music and the approach for me reflect that.” Robert elaborates further on his own minimaliﬆ adaptation of the ﬆory. “The track The Workers Of Iniquity for example

is about the Family workers. A group of demented people who are trying to basically crucify the laﬆ hope for mankind and the ﬆ ruggle he has dealing with not only his loneliness, but also the band of people he was trying to help.” Robert Hood is more than a little excited about his long-awaited return to Auﬆ ralia. “It’s been years since I’ve played in Auﬆ ralia… So I’m very much looking forward to coming.” Hood maintains his love for vinyl and, unlike his Detroit counterpart Jeff Mills, is unlikely to convert in the future. “It ﬆ ill is, and always will be, important for me to manipulate an act ual record when I DJ. Technology is going to evolve and influence people to a certain degree but it’s up to the individual to take control of their art; take control of their expression and not let the machines and software dictate how we are going to express ourselves. Myself, I ﬆ ill prefer the humaniﬆ approach of mixing vinyl.” Hood goes on to describe the Detroit’s influence on his DJ ﬆ yle. “The Detroit attitude and ﬆ yle is imbedded in me. It’s something that will always be there in my music, being educated by people like Derrick May, Juan Atkins and all my contemporaries. I guess I don’t play a whole lot of Detroit records in my sets anymore, but I will always take a very Detroit approach when I DJ. I like to educate and take people backwards and forwards.”

WHO: Robert Hood WHERE & WHEN: Disconnected at Plantation Saturday 26 June

BROCKOUT Bass Culture with RITUAL

PALOMA FAITH

BIG thanks and shouts to Foreigndub for bringing the music to the people, in a city where clubs are all about making money and promoters are way too cautious about bottom lines (and not basslines) these guys come through with an international for free! I gotta say thanks for getting Rollers Music back in the game as both ALF and I felt like it was a real return to form for us and the setting of a Foreigndub party was the perfect place for it to happen. All the Headz were there, waiting to chat, brock out and spread the positive jungliﬆ vibes that have been missing within our scene for a few years. If we look back to the breaking of the new millennium, we were a group of like-minded crews, individuals and supporters who were all there for each other. We all simply got together to push everything to the next level. “Do you want the truth or something beautiful?” Not only an intereﬆ ing thought but the name of a remix Jonny L has done for Paloma Faith. In his usual ﬆ yle, drums are a monﬆer (although he’s cleaned right up on this – a new product ion ﬆ yle for him perhaps?), that kick and snare let the vocals snake around them until the drop where the typical Jonny L march gets the grittieﬆ bass and smashes this tune to ‘L’ land. Slamming beats, huge bass and freaked out diﬆorted synths that sit aggressively yet quietly in the background making this classic Jonny L. BAD! Another huge favourite of mine is the Triad remix of the new Omar (remember him mid 90s kids?) record. Proper Autonomic ﬆ yle space that is one of the beﬆ marriages of a vocal (in remix context) that I’ve heard for this ﬆ ripped back ﬆ yle of d’n’b. Eﬆelle is also on this and I’m not sure how I feel about her obvious ‘UK-ness’ throughout, but nevertheless the space bass that Triad uses, along with his eerie sonics make this one of those tunes that you can play for the next few years. Shouts to Nether/Jynx for being another purveyor of this ﬆ yle (and a local boy nonetheless). His 31Records oﬀering and new bits that will ﬆart ﬂowing soon will ﬆand the teﬆ of time which, thankfully for d’n’b is a great place to be. Forget the throw away jumpup mash-up foolery, this is the music that you’ll be hearing for the future!

THE ALBUM OF WEEK

ALBUMREVIEWS

VARIOUS/RICHARD DURAND In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa (405 Recordings/Stomp)

65DAYSOFSTATIC We Were Exploding Anyway (Hassle Records)

One of the more influential outfits of latterday poﬆ-rock, Sheffield’s 65daysofﬆatic have nevertheless consiﬆently fallen short of the innate potential of their relatively unique approach to their genre. While a blend of IDM’s complex elect ro-acouﬆ ics and poﬆ-rock’s otherworldly beauty would seem deﬆ ined for success, previous 65dos albums like 2007’s The Deﬆ ruction of Small Ideas have always been defined by prioritising cleverness and innovation over artiﬆ ic accomplishment and musical memorability. We Were Exploding Anyway is, in a way, the band’s attempt to transform this shortcoming into ﬆ rength and, for the moﬆ part, it works. Rather than progressing down a more aeﬆ hetically pleasing route of sophiﬆ icated melody and elect ro-acouﬆ ic abﬆ ract ion (a la Fennesz or Auﬆ ralia’s Seaworthy), 65daysofﬆatic have largely forsaken melody in favour of jarring, angular rhythms and noisy, synthheavy textures. Opener Mountainhead ﬆ utters to life with aggressive, synthetic kicks and multi-layered percussion while the hissing synths of Dance Dance Dance ride atop the kind of pounding jackknife rhythm that could have sprung from a particularly complicated hardﬆ yle single. Ironically, the band’s decision to forsake melody has created the moﬆ immediately accessible work yet – Weak4 is perhaps one of the moﬆ bracing and exciting singles of the year so far – though there’s ﬆ ill a few refinements to be made to the 65dos formula. The band’s shift in focus hasn’t neutralised their shortcomings so much as muted their impact. While the band have truly created an impressive work with We Were Exploding Anyway, they ﬆ ill lack the melodic finesse and compositional ingenuity to craft tracks as evocative as they are ﬆ imulating. If they ever manage to tackle that particular obﬆacle, though, they’ll be pretty much unﬆoppable. MATT O’NEILL

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There’s all sorts of pressure attached to ﬆepping up to a brand with as much heritage as In Search of Sunrise, especially when its former captain Tiëﬆo has already deeply upset the trance faithful by daring to ﬆep away from his exiﬆ ing sound a little. And then, Black Hole Recordings did something as nervy as select ing Holland’s Richard Durand to take the reins, the one responsible for all those massive club bootlegs. Sacrilege! As it turns out though, the decision was more informed than any of the detractors would give it credit for. Th ings are on the right track immediately with Firﬆ State’s opener on the ﬁ rﬆ disc, and it’s followed up with a slice of soaring vocal progressive from George Acoﬆa that’s perfect ly in cue with the sun-kissed hiﬆory of the series.

REPHRASE Taking On An Army (Rephrase Music)

For better or worse, fun trails badly behind sex, fashion and technology when it comes to the music of today. Smiling ceased to be cool but nobody gave Jaime Olsen aka Rephrase the memo. The Sydney producer throws caution, his pants, beer and anything else he can get his hands on to the wind in the pursuit of good times with his lightweight yet infect ious popfunk sound, equal parts A-Skillz, The Bamboos and Steps (well almoﬆ). Taking On An Army is Rephrase’s third album and is heavier on song ﬆ ruct ure and real musicianship than ever before as he brings on board a huge number of collaborators to join the party. Though ﬂaunting a plethora of ﬆ yles, About That Time is the perfect example of where Rephrase’s head is at as Aussie vocaliﬆ Paula

From there it rises quickly into some gorgeous euphoria, though never losing the all-important emotive deepness. While he puts a foot wrong on a few occasions, when you’re packing progressive trance gold like As The Rain Falls, it can be easily forgiven. Durand lifts us even higher on the second disc, shooting for the ﬆars in an attempt to craft a grandiose progressive trance journey that takes us to some breathless places. He doesn’t quite get there, but damn it, he makes a pretty good attempt. The enigma has been preserved, but smartly, Durand hasn’t sold out his own musical identity either. His general approach is ﬆ ill intact – big melodies, his trademark wry cleverness, as well as plenty of surprises. If trance fans wanna snub their nose, they’re only selling themselves out because this one is gold. ANGUS PATERSON

Baxter lets rip Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings ﬆ yle over the sax riﬀ from Lonnie Gordon’s SAW-produced late ’80s pop dance smash Gonna Catch You. Audacious and inspired. It’s one of several tracks to go down this happy, uptempo soul path – Got It Good enliﬆs the trumpeting of local jazz pioneer James Morrison, Winner co-opts raw, rave era breaks while Loﬆ In The City is disco with a social conscience, all three dressed with the vocals of another local in Merenia. Hip hop is never far away. Keeping an eye and both feet on the danceﬂoor, Canadian MC Vandal gets loose on vaguely Latin rattle of Kick The Flow, the handclapping Beﬆ Of Both Worlds and superfunky Without A Second To Lose. Whereas the deep funk scene can be overly reverent, Rephrase barges in drunk as fuck, takes from it what he wants and puts on a party for everybody. DARREN COLLINS

ONE TRACK MIND

ALBUMREVIEWS

TOM BUDDEN The Deal (ALiVE)

Straight-up danceﬂoor fodder that makes no excuses for its feel-good, warm bassline, jacking Chicago-esque percussion, quirky 303 ﬆabs and PIANO. I’m a sucker for a ’90s house ﬆ yled piano loop, and this is as good as it gets.

VARIOUS/SANDER VAN DOORN Trance Energy (Central Station Records)

Following bitterly disappointing compilations this year from both Armin and Ferry, that other smiling Dutchman has swooped in to save the day. It’s almoﬆ ﬆartling how quickly Sander van Doorn has been elevated into big-league ﬆatus, but liﬆening to his CD commemorating the recent Trance Energy event in Holland, it’s not hard to underﬆand why. While recent adventures have seen him dabbling increasingly in techno and house, Trance Energy sees him ﬆeering back to his roots; albeit, in a fashion that shows juﬆ how many diﬀerent faces there are to the genre. Opening with his recent clicky tech-trance anthem Daisy, he slides ﬆ raight into a slew of cruisy progressive numbers to warm things up,

peaking with Arnej’s rising They Need Us before cranking it up a notch with the massive chords of Rank1 & Jochen Miller’s The Great Escape. And that’s juﬆ the beginning, as it’s track after quality track, eventually slamming through to the furious euphoria of tunes like Simon Patterson’s Miss You, ensuring there’s plenty of grunt to be found in the tail end of the mix. There’s also the oﬃcial anthem that van Doorn himself delivered for this year’s Trance Energy, Renegade. Lambaﬆed on internet forums aplenty for not being “trancey enough”, it’s act ually a perfect example of the wide scope of ideas the genre should be drawing from. It says it all, and van Doorn has delivered one seriously kickarse mix here. The programming is absolutely cracking, and it’s a perfect calling card for intelligent trance of the future. One for the true aﬃcanados. ANGUS PATERSON

DARREN EMERSON & JAMIE MCHUGH Gracelands (Chriﬆ ian Smith Remix) (Detone)

The ﬁ rﬆ release from Darren Emerson’s new label Detone is unremarkable cheese at beﬆ, but techno-turned-progressive house poﬆer boy Chriﬆ ian Smith delivers a driving – if somewhat safe – remix guaranteed to feature heavily in the big guns’ sets. The trademark Smith rolling bassline, ﬆ ripped-back percussion and “techno for progressive house heads” sparkly melodies are all there, bookended by some unintelligible Portuguese vocal loops and ﬆ ring ﬆabs, making for a track that’s not exact ly mind-blowing, but will ignite the bigger danceﬂoors.

TRUTH & BEN VERSE Under Current (Aquatic Lab Records)

Under Current is serious badness: crunchy, tight kicks hammer through metallic, heavily reverbed percussion (including an awesome blade sharpening sample), while a devaﬆating neuro inspired bassline and siniﬆer ﬆabs take turns turning your brain to mush. ANDREW WOWK

COPTIC SOLDIER & MIRIAM WAKS The Sound Of Wings (Independent)

There’s much to like about this collaborative release by the Sydney duo of Coptic Soldier & Miriam Waks. Both artiﬆs have put their heads together after touring quite extensively. The Sound Of Wings ﬆands out in many respects, moﬆ ly because this duo attempts to venture where many other artiﬆs dare not. We are introduced to the pair with the song Why Suﬀer, on which Coptic Soldier laces the heavy hitting beat with an exploration of music and its impact on people, in moﬆ cases by bringing them together. Liquid Company is a social commentary on the inﬂuence of alcohol on relationships, a soothing, mellow piano loop setting the vibe for this late-night ﬆory. On her solo track Skin Deep, Waks expresses a ﬆory of

heartbreak in a ﬆ yle that is very reminiscent of the late Aaliyah. Here Waks fi rmly cements herself as a solo artiﬆ. The ﬆandout cut here is the title track, which acts as a catalyﬆ for the mood for the reﬆ of the album. The track is memorable because its almoﬆ hypnotic vibe set by Waks’ vocals forces us to lose ourselves in Coptic Soldier’s poetics. Its effect iveness lies in its ability to take us away from the physical world and into the realm of imagination. The Sound Of Wings definitely has replay value as there are many ideas and concepts that can easily fly over your head during your fi rﬆ liﬆen. Check this out, you won’t regret it. L-FRESH

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SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL FIFA FAN FAIL! “The Sydney International FIFA Fan Feﬆ™ is the place to experience all the excitement of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™.” Th is is a direct quote from the website that promotes what is supposedly a great place to watch the World Cup – if not the place. Only four other cities in the world are hoﬆ ing such an event. The point of this? For football fans to unite and enjoy the tournament that boaﬆs a prize of the moﬆ coveted trophy in the world. A venue to provide screens big enough for people of all ages, all walks of life to be connected by the international language of football. That is the whole idea of this $7 million project. Inﬆead, it is an abysmal, blatant money making circus with a transparent agenda of pillaging bandwagon jumpers who know nothing of football. The ﬆ inking website waxes lyrical of being all about the football, yet will mention at any given opportunity that official merchandise is available on site as well as extortionately priced low-ﬆ rength beer and food that is sure to induce violent illness. I went down to this atrocious event at 3am laﬆ Monday to watch Auﬆ ralia’s fi rﬆ game (ﬆay tuned for an entirely separate rant on Pim Verfuckwitt) only to find that they had ﬆopped letting people into the venue. I was ﬆ unned. Darling Harbour on any given year will reach a capacity of close to 200,000 people on New Year’s Eve. The exceptional folk who organised this joke of an event thought they would not only cordon off an area, but they would also limit capacity to 20,000 people. Now, I didn’t do math at school, but even I know that 20,000 is but a tiny fract ion of what the area can suﬆain. These muppets are entirely missing the point. You don’t EVER turn football fans away during a World Cup to watch an inch of a screen from miles back in two degrees cold! The place was set up like a feﬆ ival, swarming with security guards who weren’t afraid to use force on those diehard fans trying to get into a free event. The whole operation defied what this special moment that only comes around every four years is all about. Th is is the time when people are friendly on public transport. Th is is when you talk football to people in the office you don’t normally like. Th is is a time for family members and friends to be closer and embrace in the warmth that is the football World Cup! SUZI KHAFAGI 36 3DWORLD

WHAT INSPIRED YOUR DJ NAME? Talking to Stu from Coupons one night, thinking of a DJ name for me, but then I was reading an article online and “circumﬆances” was a word in that article. It’s a lame ﬆory!

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE SEEN IN A NIGHTCLUB? My mate put his head through a wall. Never laughed so much in my life! WHAT’S THE WORST BOOTLEG YOU’VE EVER HEARD? Kanye Weﬆ rapping over H,B,F,S by Daft Punk. What was he thinking!

IN A NUTSHELL, DESCRIBE WHAT YOU PLAY? Dirty, grungy, diﬆorted elect ro, but then sometimes easy elect ro. WHAT TRACK TURNS YOU ON RIGHT NOW? Haezer’s Dominator, Redial’s remix of Cullens Easily Impressed & Modern Eyes War.

DJ BOOTH CIRCUMSTANCES

WHAT MADE YOU START DJING? Audiokrunk (Ash) has been DJing for ages and he got me into it. Th rew a few tracks on at a party once and frothed!

THE MOST IDIOTIC REQUEST YOU’VE HAD AS A DJ? My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion. Felt like throwing my headphones at her. I couldn’t believe it!

WHERE & WHEN: BLURRED! @ Plantation Nightclub Friday 25 June

KLUTE CHINESE LAUNDRY: 11.06.10 Week two of the busieﬆ month of drum’n’bass in Sydney in a long, long time continued the quality, with Klute (everyone’s favourite ranga) returning to Chinese Laundry for the ﬁ rﬆ time in a few years, marking a resurrect ion of drum’n’bass Fridays at the Laundry. And what a comeback it was. Morphee & Vesper rolled out the party jams from 10pm, keeping the energy at juﬆ the right level for the evening’s gueﬆ with tunes from the likes of State Of Mind, High Contraﬆ and Omni Trio. Klute took his cue from Morphee & Vesper’s laﬆ track – the excellent Barracuda by MIST – ﬆ arting oﬀ with some lush, deep liquid rollers occasionally punctuated by a cut-up jungle rhythm or ﬆ ripped back techy cut. Nymfo’s Bionic Fingers marked a shift in intensity about half an hour in, with the tunes heading towards rolling tech-ﬆep and neuro territory, characterised by deep sub bass, weird technoid sounds and clangy percussion. And it only got heavier from there. Tunes by Spor, Silent Witness and Break all reared their heads as Klute tore out the arse end of the Cave with some proper heaviness. Fresh from supporting London Elektricity, Linken & Vertigo nailed another closing set with the kind of ease that is going to earn them the

same kind of respect aﬀorded to local legends like Ritual and Shuey in the coming years. Continuing the dark, techy vibes, and of course dropping the now cuﬆomary minimum of one Spect raSoul tune per set, the duo kept ﬆeppers and d’n’b newbies alike raving till close. ANDREW WOWK

BEATPORT CHART 1. Tarantula PLEASUREKRAFT 2. Phuture (Joris Voorn Remix) HARRY CHOO CHOO ROMERO 3. One Night In Havana DJ CHUS, GONZALEZ & GONZALO 4. Apes From Space (Dirtyloud Remix) AAREN SAN 5. Is Mine JAY LUMEN 6. Devil Walking MARK KNIGHT 7. Rock The Disco (David Guetta Remix) ROBBIE RIVERA 8. Air Breaks KOEN GROENEVELD 9. Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B Remode) ADRIAN LUX 10. My Feelings For You AVIICI & SEBASTIEN DRUMS

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THE X FACTOR Reality TV is a cruel miﬆ ress. Like an addict ion to cosmetic surgery, you think it’s going to improve your life, but in the end you juﬆ end up looking like an idiot. That’s why The X Factor tryouts seem like such a terrible idea. The public’s waning intereﬆ in watching reality TV has in no way impacted on the public’s desire to appear on reality TV. So the line for X Factor tryouts was full of what the people who act ually produce reality TV call “D4s”. The D ﬆands for Delusional and the 4 represents the moﬆ serious delusions. These are the people whose only talent is their ability to ﬆand in lines for hours in order to be publicly humiliated. I got sent along to the tryouts and I admit, when I saw length of the line and how slowly it was moving, I was horrified. I soon realised that the X Factor line was intersect ing with three or four different lines for other reality show tryouts. Once I eﬆablished which was the line for the cooking show, the dancing show and The X Factor, I took my place. After an hour of ﬆanding around I realised that, even if I did happen to have The X Factor, I’d have a hard time bringing it after basically lying on a footpath like a piece of shit all day. Basically the whole process sucks and seems designed to break your spirit before you go inside to have your spirit broken again, on camera. By professional spirit-breakers. The line is the tenderising process. And it works. At leaﬆ it worked on me. A lot of the talentless D4s around me, however, seemed blissfully unaware of how demeaning this whole thing was. I decided these schleps probably spend moﬆ of their spare time in lines like these. Good luck to them. I thought the whole thing was menopausal. But I am a professional. So I hung around at this BO feﬆ ival, patiently waiting my turn. What happened next? Should you watch the show to find out? Um… probably beﬆ to juﬆ read my article here next week for the unvarnished truth about my X Factor tryout. You know how those reality shows spin ﬆ uff… DAVE JORY 38 3DWORLD

GIVEAWAY It’s been 15 years since Woody and Buzz ﬁrﬆ took to cinema screens in Toy Story, resulting in not only a generation of kids quoting “To inﬁnity… and beyond!”, but a massive change to the medium of animation as we know it. Now, 12 years after the sequel, Toy Story 3 hits cinemas on 24 June, in 3D, and we’re not going to hold back from saying it’s the beﬆ of the three. Thanks to IMAX Darling Harbour, we’ve got three in-season double passes to Toy Story 3 to give away. For your chance to win one email giveaways@3dworld.com.au with ‘TOY STORY 3’ in the subject line.

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HEADBUTTING – THAT’S A BIT BELOW THE BELT.’’ POOR OLD QUEENSLANDER SAM THAIDAY  GOOD AT FOOTBALL, NOT SO GOOD AT ANATOMY IF THIS QUOTE IN THE HERALD IS ANY INDICATION.

CLUB CLASSICS

MARK MURPHY WHERE & WHEN: Jack at Oxford Hotel Friday 25 June

SET IT OFF STRAFE

(Jus Born Records), 1984. It sounded like nothing else out there at the time. A mixture of elect ro/disco and house. The vocals are juﬆ ﬁ lthy. A danceﬂoor maﬆerclass.

YOUR LOVE FRANKIE KNUCKLES FEAT JAMIE PRINCIPLE

(Trax Records), 1987. It was ﬁ rﬆ released by Jamie Principle in the early ‘80s and Knuckles reworked it into the absolute classic as it ﬆands now. It’s juﬆ a beautiful end of night anthem that ﬆ ill works today.

MOVE YOUR BODY MARSHALL JEFFERSON

(Trax Records), 1986. Apparently it was the ﬁ rﬆ house track to use a piano. Juﬆ an anthemic gem which was a prototype for house music everywhere. I can ﬆ ill remember dancing to this back in the day.

DANCE MUSIC HUB 1. Kids (Original Extended) ROBOKIDS 2. What Is Love 2K9 (Bodybangers Remix) KLAAS MEETS HADDAWAY 3. Music Sounds Better With You (Miniﬆ ry Of Funk WMC Extended) OLI VIBES 4. TNT DELGARDO FEAT GIGAHERZZ 5. Old Sunshine TIM GREEN 6. Devil Walking MARK KNIGHT 7. Come On Let’s Go (PH Elect ro Remix) SIDNEY SAMSON FEAT LADY BEE & BIZZEY 8. She’s A Nympho (Max Farenthide Club Mix) BERNASCONI & FARENTHIDE 9. Tarantula PLEASUREKRAFT 10. Insomnia (Chris Crime Inﬁnity Remix) MIKE CANDY’S & JACK HOLIDAY

(RUGBY LEAGUE) CLUB CLASSICS NEXT TIME ANDREW JOHNS GUEST PROGRAMS THE OPENING HOUR OF TRIPLE M’S MONDAY NIGHT RUGBY LEAGUE COVERAGE, HERE’S A FEW GEMS WE’D LOVE TO SEE GET AN AIRING… DON’T CALL ME NIGGER, WHITEY SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (Epic), 1969

SAY IT LOUD – I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD JAMES BROWN (Polydor), 1968

THE VUVUZELA:

JUST FUCKING ANNOYING

PROUD TO BE BLACK RUN-DMC (Def Jam), 1986

And a movie to wind down with after the big game? INVICTUS CLINT EASTWOOD (DIRECTOR) 2009 In which a black president asks a white football player to win the World Cup to help unite a divided nation. Auﬆ ralia has a long way to go…

GUESTLIST

SIMON GLADWELL

WEDNESDAY BEACH RD HOTEL The Filth presents Sideshow: MIDNIGHT YOUTH + MEOW KAPOW. Doors 8pm. Free. THE EASTERN, BONDI John Glover, Tenzin, Here’s Trouble, Cassian, U-Go-B, Steve Frank, Mistah Cee, Kavi-R. Doors 8pm. $10 after 9pm.

THURSDAY BEACH RD HOTEL Local Swell: MOJADA. Doors 8pm. Free. CRUISE BAR Salsa on the Rocks: Dwight Chocolate Escobar. Doors 8.30pm. Free. NORTHIES CRONULLA Arcade Thursdayz: Tobi V (LIVE), Matt Rossi. Doors 7pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY, GALLERY Shakin’ Howls. Doors 8pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY, LIVE ART SPACE Bird Automatic. Doors 8pm. $10. THE ALBION Gasworks: DJ Fresh and guests. Doors 9pm. Free. RICHARD IN YOUR MIND

SAPPHIRE Fridays: Arrnott Olssen + Resident DJ’s Kate Monroe, Chiller, Miss Match and Dave 54. Free. THE ALBION Gasworks: Nobby Grooves and DJ Karey. Doors 9pm. $10 THE COLLINGWOOD HOTEL Fridays on Fire: Asado, K-Note, the Fuego Band and Empress MC. Doors 9pm. $15. THE EASTERN, BONDI Circus: Mistah Cee, John Glover, Steve Frank, Bondi House DJ’s. Doors 8pm. $10 after 11pm. THE GLADSTONE HOTEL Purple Sneakers Official Cloud Control After Party: Richard In Your Mind DJs, Toki Doki, Chicks Who Love Guns DJs, Kill The Landlord, Kitty Munroe, Praline & Dick. Doors 7pm. $12. THE MARBOROUGH HOTEL Endless Summer Beach: Live band on ground floor, DJ’s on level one. Free. THE OXFORD HOTEL Jack on Fridays: DJs Mark Murphy and MadgaB. Doors 9pm. Free. THE WATERSHED Warped Retro: old skool night. Free.

SATURDAY

FRIDAY BEACH RD HOTEL Dust Tones: The Nomad (NZ) with Oakley Grenell (NZ) & MC Rayjah45, DJ Abilitym Gabriel Clouston. Doors 8pm. CANDY’S APARTMENT Liquid Sky: LAZRtag (LA) Starfucker DJ’s, Vengeance, Moonchild, Itchy & Scratchy, Lights Out! SMS, SlipperyWhenWet, Tongue in Cheek, Show us it, the Multipliers. Live bands: Three Stripe Avenue, A message from the Sun, Emerald Street. Doors 8pm. $15. COHIBAR DJs from 5pm. Free. CRUISE BAR Johnny Vinyl + Strike. Doors 8pm. Free. JACKSONS ON GEORGE Four floors of entertainment and DJ’s. Doors 9pm. Free. KIT & KABOODLE Gameboy Fridays: The Gameboys, Free Swedes, NAD. Doors 10pm. $10. OATLEY HOTEL DJ Tone. Doors 8pm. Free. OPERA BAR After Work Session: Vermouth feat members of La Fiesta and Martini Club. Doors 5pm. Free. OPERA BAR, SWAT Live: SWAT DJ crew plus liveMusicians. Doors 8.30pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY, GALLERY BhangLassi & Theodore. Doors 7pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY, LIVE ART SPACE Hell City Glamours. Doors 8pm. $18.90 presale. PHOENIX BAR Void – UK Bass Special #2: Farj, Crooked Sound System, Swindle , Preecha, James Daak, Mark Pritchard. Doors 10pm. $10. Q BAR + 34B Sosueme’s 3rd Bday: Sosueme Allstars, We Go Bang Bang, Tin Can Radio, Sosueme DJs, Falcona Djs, Murray Lake, DJ sets from;Bluejuice, The Holidays, Bridezilla, The Protectors, The vines, Howling Bells, LITK. Doors 8pm. $10-$15.

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BEACH RD HOTEL Rex Bar: DJ Mickey Morphingaz. Doors 9pm. Free. CANDY’S APARTMENT Ritual: Bloody Disco, Down ‘n’ Dirty, Jackpop, Teez, Digital Mayhem, Suda, Matthew Brunton, Suda. Doors 8pm. $20. CHINESE LAUNDRY Erphun (USA). Doors 9pm. $15-$20. COHIBAR DJs from 9pm. Free. CRUISE BAR Casa + Simon Neal (UK). Doors 8pm. Free. FAVELA Musik Matters: Ben Morris, Matt Cahill, Ryan Bond, Danny Lang, Emme, Jack Sword, Frankie Romano, Phil Hudson, Saywhut, Caz. Doors 8pm. HOTEL CHAMBERS Red Room: Old skool, nusoul and RnB Supermassive Deluxxe feat DJ Kitsch. Doors 8pm. $20. JACKSONS ON GEORGE DJs Lenno and Aladdin Royaal plus guests. Doors 9pm. Free. NORTHIES CRONULLA Khyle Frost (LIVE), DJ Ryzie Ry. Doors 6.30pm. Free. OPERA BAR Soulful House. Doors 8.30pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY, GALLERY Betty Airs, The Jewel and the Falcon. Doors 8pm. Free. TIMMY TRUMPET

THE ALBION Gasworks: DJs Charlie and Jorgie Jay. Doors 9pm. $10 THE ANNANDALE HOTEL Wild Colonial Album Launch: Ozi Batla, The Last Kinection & The Tongue. $25. THE BELVEDERE HOTEL Greg Lines: Live acoustic sets from 8pm till 11pm. Free THE MARBOROUGH HOTEL Funkstar: Live band on ground floor, DJ’s on level one. Free. THE WATERSHED Sky Bar: DJ’s from 10pm. Free. PLANTATION Disconnected: Robert Hood, Ben Dunlop, Defined by Rhythm, Dopamine. $25

SUNDAY BEACH RD HOTEL Bondi Cultura: Samba Friends. Doors 6pm. Free. COHIBAR DJs from 6pm. Free. HOME TERRACE Spice: Simon Caldwell, Sweatshop Boys, Murat Kilic and YokoO. Doors 5am. NORTHIES CRONULLA Sunday Sets: Dave White Duo (LIVE), DJ Danny Simms, DJ Matt Rossi, Timmy Trumpet. Doors 2pm. Free. OATLEY HOTEL Sunday Sessions: DJ tone and friends. Doors 7pm. Free. THE ALBION Sundayze with Fresh: Jorgie and Adrian. Doors 6pm. Free. THE BELVEDERE HOTEL Mission Jones: FUNK, Soul, Jazz from 5pm till 8pm. THE WATERSHED DJs from 3-6pm. Free.

SPANK RECORDS

NO SIGN OF YACHTS ON BP WEBSITE

THINGS NOT TO DO IN CASE OF OIL SPILL

1. Hammerhead EP LEFT 2. Neeve’s For None EP WORST FRIENDS 3. Let’s Get Loﬆ Volume 2 KZA 4. Out of Bounds EP TIGER & WOODS 5. Disco Deviance 14 THE REVENGE 6. This Is Happening LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 7. Scion A/V Remixes THE JUAN MACLEAN 8. The Other Man EP MICHA KLANG 9. Ol’ Dirty Vinyl MOODYMANN 10. More! BOOKA SHADE

In case you are not aware, the US is currently experiencing its worﬆ oil spill in hiﬆory – now known as the Deepwater Horizon spill. Right-wing nuts are trying to blame Barack Obama, centraliﬆs are trying to blame anyone but Obama and left wingers are trying to blame a CIA plot. Everyone’s finger-pointing and the world’s media and the net’s bloggers are watching the BP-made disaﬆer’s big players’ every move. So, y’know, there are a few things these players should avoid doing when they really should be appearing to be concerned about this man-made fuck-up: 1. DON’T EAT THE CAVIAR Babow. In the weeks following the beginnings of the spill, US president Obama went on a fundraising blitz for a SF senator that included a $34,000-per-head dinner that had caviar on the menu. Ummm, the spill has hit Gulf Of Mexico working class fishing communities hard. If you’re gonna eat seafood at a time like this make it something from the affected area… and deep fry the bejeezus out of it. 2. DON’T GO YACHTING No one thought of telling BP CEO Tony Hayward that attending a yacht race on the weekend might not seem like the beﬆ idea. No amount of, “He’s spending a few hours with his family. I’m sure that everyone would underﬆand that,” is going to pretty up this lapse in judgement. Hayward, your company is seen as ﬆopping working class men from getting in their barely-seaworthy boats to make a living while you slowly get around to paying them compensation. But there you are gallivanting in oceans unsullied by BP, rubbing shoulder pads with the world’s yachting elite. DO THE MATH! 3. DON’T CHANT OUT LOUD The same conservative Republicans who are condemning Obama for ‘allowing’ this spill to happen because he didn’t act faﬆ enough on elect ion promises to cut back offshore drilling are the same ones who supported VP wannabe Sarah Palin’s followers call for MORE offshore drilling, including opening up Arct ic wildlife refuges for drilling. Maybe next elect ion they’ll remember not to be fi lmed by news media around the globe chanting, “DRILL, BABY, DRILL.”

TWEETER OF THE WEEK

CLUB CLASSICS

SWEATSHOP BOYS WHERE & WHEN: Spice at Home Terrace Sunday 27 June

@DIPLO im watchin the NbA ﬁnals in russian with a bunch of naked 80 yr old Korean dudes in a 168 degree sauna 41 minutes ago via web when did micheal rappaport play for the celtics? about 1 hour ago via web

THE MAN WITH THE RED FACE LAURENT GARNIER

i love to get demo emails that title “new hit song of the year” about 20 hours ago via web

(F Communications), 2000. For being the song of an Ibiza trip a couple of years ago and for Mr Garnier’s 25 minute rendition at Stereosonic laﬆ year.

shit... dropped a followee// i need to get back to 666.. who should I follow? about 21 hours ago via web in tokyo .. dunno why about 21 hours ago via web Juﬆ foresquared my ass @coﬆco.. Th is place is way more hood then I remember 3:46 PM Jun 15th via UberTwitter oh shit.. w.t.f. am i doin sittin on this bench.. im supposed to go to korea..... 11:18 AM Jun 15th via web i think i can feel my laptop givin me proﬆate cancer 10:49 AM Jun 15th via web The dude @Borgore tried to use a clarinet in this drumﬆep track and the computer spit it out and crashed 9:12 PM Jun 14th via UberTwitter I’m ﬆartin an emo dubﬆep folk band called jilted rubber 10:40 AM Jun 14th via UberTwitter

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EROTIC DISCOURSE BOBBY PERU

(20:20 Vision), 2006. Ahh, one of the ﬁ rﬆ vinyls I ever bought, ﬆ ill love this track today for the same reason that I originally did – its originality and how fun it was to try and sing and explain this song to someone who hadn’t heard it.

FLASHBACK MAX LINEN

(Phonetic Recordings), 2004. “Where is my wife?” ha ha – this was one of the few vinyls a mate’s older brother had, ﬁ rﬆ time I touched a set of decks.

WE’RE BREEDING A YOUNG SOCIETY OF THE ‘ENTERTAINMENT-STYLE’ OF CLUBBING. THE CLUBS ARE PROVIDING AN ENTERTAINMENT SPACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE PHOTOS OF ONE ANOTHER AND THE MUSIC IS LITERALLY WALLPAPER.” MELBOURNE TECHNO EXPONENT CHRISTIAN VANCE SHARES HIS THOUGHTS ON “FACEBOOK CLUBBING” WITH CYCLONE IN OUR SISTER PUBLICATION INPRESS. NAIL + HEAD.

Auﬆ ralia was fi rﬆ on the “WTF’s with Whitney” bandwagon. It all ﬆarted with that Brisbane gig which was meant to be out-of-the-way enough for Ms Houﬆon to treat as a dress rehearsal for her live comeback proper at home in the US later in the year. Reviews were savage, reporting the diva to be out of breath, disoriented and ﬆ ruggling to hit the requisite notes. The reﬆ of her Auﬆ ralian tour was a PR disaﬆer – once the Murdoch press smelled blood they circled for the kill: papz shots of shattered Houﬆon backﬆage; tales of punters wanting money back and talk of the tour being a financial disaﬆer. For a while, though, diehard fans tried to overlook ﬆories of, or their own experience of, how Houﬆon relied on her backing singers to save her ass on her anthems in concert. In the Mrs Brown days she got away with that kind of behaviour in backwaters like ours. But during the time she spent on hiatus (ummm… yeah, that’s an attempt to be polite) the internet came along. What happens in Bris Vegas no longer ﬆays in Bris Vegas. A bad review no longer disappears the day after it’s folded into gak wraps. It hangs in cyberspace… linked to Facebook pages, re-tweeted, emailed to BlackBerries and made the basis of comical iPhone apps – there is probably even someone out there with a ringtone of Houﬆon’s onﬆage coughing fit from the Brisbane show. But that’s not news. Nor is it news that her attempt to make the Down Under debacle seem nothing more than a bad hallucination by playing in the UK was misguided. (The Guardian described

her as “wheezing and grating” in Birmingham, then blaming the air-con for voice problems in London and eventually juﬆ ditching the troublesome Greateﬆ Love Of All from her tour set.) Now her gigs are international train-wreck mythology. It’s almoﬆ as if people are snapping up tickets juﬆ so they can have a guilt-free night of heckling; so, the boss chewed you out for being late – go scream abuse at the woman who has never had to be on time in her life… and yet she got to smoke her millions away. “Get orf ﬆ age, ya minger!” Cathartic, isn’t it. Well, the news is, it was recently Denmark’s turn. Perhaps it was all that pent-up anger the Danes were experiencing after hoﬆ ing this year’s Eurovision, only to have their dreams of back-to-back wins dashed by that (a)cute(ly) self-aware German waif. So they were in no mood for Houﬆon shenanigans. At the laﬆ count, according to the LA Times, “a couple of hundred” ticket holders walked out of a Copenhagen show. Well, that made them feel better about losing Eurovision. But what about those pre-World Cup jitters? Houﬆon was juﬆ asking for that ‘zero ﬆ ar’ review in Berlingske Tidende, Denmark’s oldeﬆ newspaper (and one of the top three market leaders according to their Google-translated website). The same review added, “She looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years to live.” Now that’s a world tour: Brisbane, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Foreﬆ Lawn Cemetary.

GREATEST FLUB OF ALL

YOUTUBE OF THE WEEK The ﬆory behind the clip for Down By The River – the ﬁ rﬆ taﬆe of the forthcoming Bliss N Eso album Running On Air – is as intereﬆ ing as the track itself. The exact details are sketchy but we know a Victorian hinterland mansion, American BMX champions and riﬂe shooting in Bumfuck USA are involved…

MY BAD FAGGOTINO OK. I’m totally gay. But, I’m not as faggy as some. When I came out to my mum six years ago, the fi rﬆ thing she said was, “As long as you’re safe.” Then she added, “You’re not going to change the way you speak are you?” I was hoping not. And no, I didn’t. Then after my “coming out” convo, Mum said to me, “Darling, what’s the difference between a queen, fag, poof, or gay?” I really didn’t know the answer then. But, after what I juﬆ experienced, I think I know. I was invited to the opening of a new shopping complex, which was like a blacked out Weﬆ field. Yes, black. Literally, everything was, er… black. Its called MidCity. When we arrived, we were led down a black carpet and pushed into the food hall area with black curtains covering up the Oporto and KFC logos. Probably the moﬆ random thing is that they flew Nicole Richie in to open the place. Yes, Nicole fucking Richie. Her dad was famous for dancing on the ceiling. She is famous for wearing denim overalls and shoving her arm down a cow’s ass with Paris Hilton. All she had to do was walk in, say a few words, and talk about her favourite Auﬆ ralian designers, who are – surprise, surprise – “Ksubi and Sass & Bide”. Please, what has changed in ten years? Weren’t they our hotteﬆ exports in 2000? BORING! Our fashion PRs have some work to do. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, the fags. It’s quite embarrassing watching these guys trying to get noticed by hanging onto bloggers, journaliﬆs and social wannabes with their Vidal Sassoon helmets. It makes me feel sick to fuck guys, ya know? Fuck, sometimes I juﬆ wanna smash their faces in with my champagne glass. Or juﬆ give ‘em a good slap. Is that bad? I’m so not a fag. Oh, shit, maybe I am. But, I’m not a faggy faggot. I’m juﬆ totally gay. Faggot. It’s almoﬆ like maggot. Clinging onto anything that’s famous and screaming at each other in Kath & Kim voices. Drinking all the free champagne and trying to get their pics taken with Nicole Richie, who was desperately trying to avoid them. Every time they asked for a pic with her she would say: “How bout I juﬆ take a pict ure of you inﬆead?” That was pretty cool to watch. They, of course, didn’t say anything in return and juﬆ smiled for the camera. Their own camera. After all that wanking off. My partner, who’s the ﬆ raighteﬆ gay man in Sydney, looked at me and rolled his eyes. That was our cue to exit ﬆage left and go get a kebab. ROO

TUBETIME The incredible world of television with 5SPROCKET

Dog Squad (Channel 7) is a New Zealandbased reality TV show about dogs on the police force. I came out of this program disappointed - it wasn’t the team of high tech super-intelligent canines I was expecting. The dogs seemed disintereﬆed in solving crime. They have had the motivation to make it through firﬆ year of dog cop academy, but have since become complacent. None of the dogs discovered clues, developed criminal profiles, or even shook hands. The show could very easily be improved by: 1. Having more dog close ups. 2. Having more dogs, in different varieties (such as cool, fat, ethnic minority). 3. Give the dogs weapons. 4. Have subtitles so we can see the dog’s thoughts - or if the budget can ﬆretch digitally manipulate their mouths so it looks like they’re talking. We have the technology. 5. Dogs walking on their hind legs pretending to be people. Inﬆead of watching the similarly themed alternative Send In The Dogs (Channel 9), I will give it time to develop into the show of my fantasies, which includes intense chase sequences, dogs driving cars, dogs on two way radios and frequent puns about being a dog cop, such as ‘throw me a bone’ or ‘I’m juﬆ a dogtect ive’. Have you ever wanted to know how the magician made the toothpick disappear? Neither have I. Secrets Of The Magicians Code (Channel 7) is a program that continues to marginalise magic by demonﬆrating its extreme ﬆ upidity. The greateﬆ myﬆery about magic is how anyone could possibly make a living out of wearing a gimp mask and putting women in a box. “Here’s a trick to impress your friends with,” says the voice over, speaking direct ly to the lone six-year-old boy who will throw away his future to become a failed magician/ person, becoming a point of ridicule within his extended network of friends and family. Remember kids, magician is not a profession, it’s a reason for divorce. Commercial of the week: ‘BEADOS’ Colour and Create Studio - a shortcut to popularity and acceptance for any bullied seven-year-old girl. Cool kids (identified by sunglasses) make bead versions of simpliﬆ ic animal images in less than three hours! How could your social abusers resiﬆ the charms of a bead-lion or a bead-hat? twitter.com/5sprocket 44 3DWORLD

FILMREVIEWS

TOY STORY 3 Pixar continue their unbroken run of smash hits with Toy Story 3. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since the original Toy Story introduced us to Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), but Toy Story 3 embraces this by growing older alongside the fans – Buzz and Woody’s owner Andy is about to head oﬀ to college and hasn’t played with his beloved toys for years, but reluctant to throw them away, he packs them in the attic. However, his mother throws them out by miﬆake. The two toys, along with their ﬆalwart mates like Jessie (Joan Cusack), Rex, Hamm, Slink and even a rogue Barbie doll ﬁnd themselves donated to the Sunnyside daycare centre, where the toys are presided over by Lots-O-Huggin Bear (Ned Beatty). But there’s a siniﬆer side to this place where toys get played with daily – and our heroes’ tale is about to get a little dark as they realise their days may be numbered. The CG, voice caﬆ and plot are absolutely top-notch here, and the script by Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) succeeds remarkably

well in delivering a cascade of poignant emotional beats. Th is isn’t juﬆ a ﬆory about toys. As the toys seek a scenario where they’ll be played with day after day, rather than be content to be banished to the oblivion of the attic, they’re tapping into our fear of mortality, our wish to live on – all of which makes a little vinyl cowboy and plaﬆ ic space ranger very human, very relatable charact ers. It’s a remarkable achievement, and a pitch-perfect cap on the trilogy. Let’s hope they have the good grace to leave things here. WHEN: Screening in cinemas 24 June

BAZ MCALISTER

LEGION Dear oh dear. Angels with guns and awesome big spiky weapons ought to be super-cool, but sadly, Legion doesn’t quite deliver the goods. The action takes place in some shitheel, backof-beyond American roadhouse in the Mojave desert, run by Bob (Dennis Quaid), and ﬆaﬀed by his son Jeep (Lucas Black) and pregnant waitress Charlie (Adrianne Palicki). Archangel-with-aconscience Michael (Paul Bettany) shows up with some news: God has ﬁnally had it with Mankind and is sending the reﬆ of his angels to eliminate every man, woman and child on the planet. Michael reckons this is a tad Old Teﬆament in its extremity and

has decided he knows better than the Big Fella, so he’s come to protect Charlie’s unborn baby (surprise surprise), the saviour of humanity. Much fighting ensues. Th is is all tremendously silly ﬆ uff but it’s not helped by a lack of internal logic, and a script larded with cliché. Effects-wise, writer/director Scott Stewart is an old visual effects hand, so as you’d expect, things on this front are solid and occasionally impress. Quaid ﬆruggles along with what he’s got, but it’s fantaﬆically difficult to get inveﬆed in any of the other characters ﬆ randed in the roadhouse, a select ion of two-dimensional cannon fodder who richly deserve everything they get. As the Archangel Gabriel, wonderful character actor Kevin Durand is batting well below his average here. Legion is juﬆ a case of nothing new, nothing original, nothing spectacular. WHEN: Screening in cinemas now

BAZ MCALISTER

GAMEON With KRIS SWALES

LOMO SPINNER 360° Not so long ago in a galaxy much like this one, amateur photography was a far more hit-andmiss affair. The digital era means that anyone with a $250 budget and a reasonably keen eye can capture a moment, and if you don’t capture it firﬆ time round you can try, try, and try again until the moment is saved to perfect ion. But for the point-and-shoot hobbyiﬆ those holiday happy snaps/social photos used to be a far more random affair, and you never really knew what you were going to get until the developed photos came back from the lab. The Lomo Spinner 360° takes that old-skool randomness and ramps it up a notch. It’s the lateﬆ addition to a long and decorated line of “toy” cameras from an Auﬆ rian company which has taken its name and inspiration from a device originally designed by Russian Professor Radionov for use during the Cold War. Originally built for use by Russian spies, its image quality, shape and size was deemed unsuitable for its initial purpose, but the slightly diﬆorted photographs it took caught the intereﬆ of Auﬆ rian art ﬆ udents Wolfgang Stranzinger and Matthias Fiegl in the 90s and a company was born. Espousing a “shoot from the hip” ethos, the Lomo brand has a dedicated legion of hobbyiﬆ and professional photographer followers, with the Supersampler (which exposes four separate horizontal images onto a ﬆandard photograph using four lenses shooting milliseconds apart) and Act ionsampler (which uses the same principle but with lenses in a square formation) probably the moﬆ recognised products of an evergrowing range. The Spinner 360° is more pull-and-shoot than point-and-shoot. Utilising ﬆandard 135 roll fi lm exposed through a 25mm lens, the lack of a viewfinder means you really have to truﬆ your inﬆ incts when lining up a shot. And rather than working at the push of a button, the Spinner 360° requires you to line up a target, pull a drawﬆ ring back a little under a foot, and pray you’ve nailed your target as the

camera body spins in a complete circle and exposes between four and five ﬆandard frames at a time (you’ll get around eight shots on a ﬆandard 36 shot roll of fi lm), fi lling the whole width of a 35mm fi lm roll – sprocket holes included. If your hand is ﬆeady enough it’s possible to capture the perfect panorama, with two aperture settings giving you the option of shooting under perfect sunlight or overcaﬆ conditions. As far as pract ical applications go, this would be the perfect way to shoot that intereﬆ ing band bio shoot you’ve always dreamt of, particularly if your band has a line-up of a sizeable nature. But from an artiﬆ ic viewpoint the possibilities are almoﬆ endless, conﬆ rained only by how quickly you can move your camera hand any which way as the Spinner does its approximately half-second revolution. Although it seems at times to fall juﬆ short of the full circle spin its name implies, the Lomo Spinner 360° is yet another successful addition to the brand’s eﬆeemed product line – and despite its affordable $220 price tag, in the right hands it’s much more than juﬆ a toy. Product supplied by Lomography Auﬆ ralia/NZ.

TECHNO SCAPE

SOUNDADVICE Gear reviews with DAVE DRI

With JEAN POOLE

VUVUZELA VIDEO REMIXING While South Africa is busy getting their plaﬆ ic horn on, the reﬆ of the world has responded with a flurry of fi ltering techniques to keep the vuvu drones from our ears... BUZZKILL Audio nerds the world over muﬆ love soccer, because there’s been a huge outpouring online of ways to fi lter out the drone. Create Digital Music have done a pretty great round-up of these (goo.gl/kqBz), tackling everything from EQing with onscreen TV controls (get rid of 233, 466, 932 and 1864 HZ if you can), free VST plug-ins for Mac and PC, acouﬆ ic engineers explaining the science of why vuvuzelas are annoying (I act ually enjoy the medieval carnival/ sacrifice kinda vibe they add), vuvuzela orcheﬆ ra (yes, really), vuvuzela radio (uhuh), and how to re-route audio signals using JACK or Soundflower into another application that has better audio fi ltering and VST capacities. AUDIO RE-ROUTING Wormhole2 (plasq.com/wormhole) – allows routing of audio between machines on a network. Now you can make use of all the processing power in your ﬆ udio. For example; set aside a machine for complex inﬆ ruments or eff ect s, route audio out to it, then back into your favorite DAW. Or route audio between your PCs and Macs to get the beﬆ of both worlds. Or share audio between laptops on ﬆ age. Soundflower (cycling74.com) – a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) syﬆ em extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use – it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Soundfl ower is free, opensource, and runs on Mac Intel and PC computers. Is often used for podcaﬆ ing to combine two diff erent audio ﬆ reams, or to combine/skip interview voices etc. Jack (the Jack Audio Connect ion, jackaudio.org) – a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating syﬆ em, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of diff erent applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other. Jack is diff erent from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. Th is means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation. 46 3DWORLD

SENNHEISER HD 202

Headphones are in the class of microphones, monitor speakers and fi rﬆ dates – difficult to compare, easy to spend hours ﬆ ressing about, and easy to settle with second beﬆ. Thankfully, the years have pushed forward some ﬆ rong contenders and manufact urers like Pioneer and Sennheiser have been championed in the DJ and ﬆ udio arena where the mix of coﬆ, performance, reliability and comfort changes for specific needs. Two great examples of this are the Sennheiser HD 202 for the sub-$100 niche, and the classic and robuﬆ Sony HDJ-1000 in the mid-$200 range. SENNHEISER HD 202 The Sennheiser range has long been a favourite of DJs and producers, having crossed over from the audiophile market with a killer range of releases including the HD 202. The closed back design fits lightly and securely, although the adjuﬆable earpiece allows for one-ear wear during monitoring or an onﬆage chat with an overly ﬆ imulated fan. The light conﬆ ruct ion may pose an issue, but the sheer number of these units seeing daily service in ﬆ udios and weekly service on ﬆages in live act and DJ rigs, indicates that the simple build belies a clever use of high quality materials. The act ual sound quality is worthy of the Sennheiser logo, and deceives the low price for a dynamic presence that makes the overhyped competition seem poor by comparison. The HD 202s may suffer only in that the balanced audio quality, and certainly the attention to the even dynamic response may find competition in an overenthusiaﬆ ic monitor, causing the overall volume to draw up in compensation. Likewise, the comfortable fit attenuates a fair amount of external sound sources, but the level of bleed will be a contributing factor for those living more in the DJ booths and less in the home ﬆ udio environment. For the price, however, there is little to no competition for sheer audio quality.

PIONEER HDJ-1000 No ﬆ ranger to the DJ, the Pioneer HDJ-1000 is built like a tank, even if it can also sound like one. The fans of these cans are feverish in their passion for the hyped bass, the incredible volume that they can be pushed to, and the invincible build. More than a few touring acts are holding veteran HDJs together with gaffer tape and perspiration. Not that you need to worry, unless your passport and fl ightcases are equally as beaten around. For the working DJ, the HDJs will be an inveﬆment for years to come, with a comfortable configuration of swivels for any number of monitoring positions, sweatresiﬆant pads, and a space-saving foldaway design. The trade-off here is that the tough build does come at the coﬆ of balanced audio quality. These are not audiophile cans, with the booﬆed bass allowing for better monitoring in high-SPL DJ booths, and the slightly muted dynamics to protect your ears while monitoring at inevitable high volumes. Having said that, these are intended design features that excel in the club, but one would certainly have another set of phones for home liﬆening or those long fl ights to headline at Ibiza. IN COMPARISON Given nearly $200 of difference here, and the different niche markets, there is no direct comparison between the HDJ-1000 and HD 202. Inﬆead, they should serve as an exciting reminder of how far DJ culture has come. The HDJ-1000 is a perfect example of a solution for high volume, frequent use monitoring – with an emphasis on performance and less on music appreciation. The HD 202, at the other extreme, couples affordability with audio quality, and while it can certainly excel on ﬆage or in the booth, it’s native environment is the home ﬆ udio, the infrequent club show or the third day of that week-long psy-trance rave that you hope no-one at work sees the Facebook photos of. The other benefit, there, is that you’re only out $60 if you lose them somewhere in the foreﬆ. Gear for review supplied by Lightsounds.

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THE FINAL RED BULL RECIPE. Taurine, glucuronolactone, caffeine, B vitamins, sucrose, phenylalanine and glucose.

RANDOM NOTES. We are told that Red Bull is the most popular energy drink in the world and no wonder when it goes so well with vodka. It’s great to drink at festivals too, as usually there are hordes of people lined up at the bars while the Red Bull kiosk queue is orderly and fast-moving because most punters rarely click you can get vodka with your Red Bull. Aaah – stupid punters. It also takes us back to bacchanalian days spent in Ibiza where they serve this drink in pitchers (warning: six pitchers between four folk can lead to forgetting to pay your bill – that was not a runner!).

DID YOU KNOW? Red Bull is supposedly based on an old Thai energy drink. It has been banned in France. Last year batches of Red Bull Cola were found to contain traces of cocaine.

V RECIPE. Taurine, carbonated water, sugar, guarana extract, caffeine, B vitamins, food acids and caramel colouring.

RANDOM NOTES. While Red Bull dominates the global market, V is the energy drink of choice in Australia and New Zealand. We discovered in the process of our energy drink research that it does mix well with Berocca. We were attempting to create the ultimate hangover cure and instead created the ultimate office odour – we had to clear the floor and take early lunchbreaks. The smell cleared mid-afternoon (or, at least, that’s the time we told our bosses it took).

DID YOU KNOW? V comes in berry and lemon flavours.

MONSTER RECIPE. Carbonated water, sucrose, glucose, taurine, sodium citrate, panax ginseng root extract, l-carnitine, caffeine, sorbic acid, benzoic acid, niacinamide, sodium chloride, glucuronolactone, inositol, guarana seed, pyridoxine hydrochloride, sucralose, riboflavin, maltodextrin, cyancobalamin.

RANDOM NOTES. Having only been around since 2002, we like how the logo has a werewolf vibe about it (hey, we liked werewolves before Twilight). Our laboratory tests revealed that Monster goes well with Red Rock’s Sea Salt & Balsamic Vinegar potato chips but not so well with sweet chilli-flavoured Grain Waves.

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$$ ATTENTION ALL STUDIOS $$ Want to become an agent for Valleyarm? Valleyarm are a global digital music supplier and are seeking studios and producers Australia wide to be official agents, you’d be responsible for signing new bands and artists to add to our catalogue and getting paid to do so. If you ever have bands asking how they can get their songs on iTunes then this is the perfect chance to bring in extra revenue with excellent monthly bonuses available! Training and point of sale is available to get you started straight away. Email info@valleyarm.com or Call 03 9525 5589 iFlogID: 48416

TUITION

VIDEO/PRODUCTION Panoramic Video create interactive 360 degree online videos that are a unique addition to any website, putting your fans and web viewers virtually there with you. We can add in hotspots into the videos too so that you can direct users to other web sites for ticket or music purchasing, and with the ability to be embedded into other pages such as blogs etc, a Panoramic Video is a perfect choice for viral marketing.. Our videos keep the interest and by their nature keep users and fans on your website for longer than a standard video. It’s cool, and it’s unique, and a great option if you are looking for something different and innovative.. Costs will vary depending on where you are and what we do for you, but our rates are very reasonable.... We are a new innovative business in Melbourne and looking to help promote local bands and artists with our interactive videos.. so give us a call for a great deal. Check out some of our samples at www.panoramicvideo.com.au then give us a call on 03 9457 7600 today.. We would love to hear from you! iFlogID: 2774

MUSICIANS WANTED 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

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

ABLETON CERTIFIED TRAINER

MUSICIANS WANTED FOR POP BAND

Ableton certified trainer and author of Ableton video training for Groove 3 (USA) Craig McCullough is available locally in SE Qld for private Ableton and music technology training. Video training is also availble from www.groove3.com.

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

KEYBOARDIST REQUIRED Singer-songwriter requires keyboardist for gigging. Own gear and transport essential. Think Wilco, Decemberists, Flaming Lips. We rehearse in the inner west. www. lostinthewoodsmusic.com iFlogID: 5383

HEAVY PROJECT SEEKS SYNTHS Unique heavy project seeks Synth player ASAP to begin Live shows followed by recording. Must be commited and ready for a different band experience. Located in Belmore, Sydney. Call Phil 0424304618 iFlogID: 5529

KEYBOARDIST AVAILABLE!!! I am looking for a job that is musically related, preferably performing or something along those lines. Studying a B. Music (Performance) at AICM. mobile number: 0435544916 email: brat.dog@ hotmail.com Thankyou iFlogID: 5531

KEYBOARDIST WANTED For 50s & 60s RocknRoll Band Make New Mates, Have Fun & Play Gigs Practice in Osborne Park (WA) Area Mike - 0438 935 031 Leave a Msg if No Answer iFlogID: 5666

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 $80 100 Full Colour A4 Gloss Posters = only $40 100 Full Colour A3 Matt Posters = only $50 100 Full Colour A3 Gloss Posters = only $80 and many more options to choose from Posters • Flyers • Handouts • Business Cards We can print a sample for you while you wait and complete the job within the hour. bsd@zip.com.au www.blackstar. com.au iFlogID: 4552

PI BAND ART AND DESIGN

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

100% devotion to music and the packaging it comes in. Pi (Paul Ikin) has a Complete Design Studio aimed at album cover design, packaging and Band Websites. Based in Melbourne Central Complex its easy to get to. Some of the services include * Art Layout design for CD’s/Digipack/Gatefolds, * Vinyl Sleeves 12” & 7”, and professional Band Websites. Feel free to visit our site to find out more about our services www.paulikin.com iFlogID: 4626

TECHNO WANTED FOR ITUNES!

SUPER CHEAP COLOUR PRINTING

Attention all Techno, Dance, Electronica bands, DJs and producers! Valleyarm Digital are releasing an Aussie Electronic compilation album called “Technically Australian”. The album will be exclusive to iTunes and will released and promoted worldwide. Submit your track (1 per band) and bio to info@ valleyarm.com now to secure a spot. We’ll also be offering a $5000 online marketing and global digital distribution deal to a “Stand Out” act that we think has what it takes...this could be you!! iFlogID: 5514

With over 20 years experience, ACE Design & Print has gained an unequaled reputation as a reliable supplier of quality printing with exceptional service and competitive prices. Our print services 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

OTHER3 ELECTRONIC MUSIC GURU WANTED!

ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS WANTED Electronic musicians wanted to form a live act. Preferably using Ableton & with some hardware. Influence :- Groove Armada, Bent, Justice, Faithless, Röyksopp, Nightmares on Wax, Thievery Corporation, Air, Bonobo, Cassius. Tell me a bit about yourself & preferably send some links to your soundcloud : whooyeah@gmail.com. Also Want to hear from other musicians that would like to colaborate on this type of project. iFlogID: 5522

SERVICES GRAPHIC DESIGN WANT A LOGO FOR YOUR BAND?

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