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EPIC&FAIL EPIC

AMERICAN DREAM

Can we get a collect ive “fuck yeah!” for Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP? The local lads have juﬆ hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart with We No Speak Americano, the club bomb that keeps going and going and going.

DON’T BE DAFT

Can we get a collect ive “OMG” for the Tron: Legacy trailer? Kickarse eﬀects, awesome act ion, Jeﬀ Bridges, old-skool video game arcades, and the beﬆ music Daft Punk have issued in close to a decade. Fuck yes, this will own. Pwn even.

DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER

And while we’re at it, can we get a collect ive “what the fuck juﬆ happened?” for Inception? Ta muchly.

FAIL THE BLAND LEADING THE BLAND

Have the words “Great” and “Debate” ever applied so loosely to anything as they did to The Great Debate on Sunday night? Channel Nine pract ically admitted defeat in advance by dressing The Worm up in a chef ’s outﬁt in their promos. Donkey voting never seemed so appealing.

THE STAND

Good on dumped Liberal Party candidate for Chiﬂey David Barker ﬆanding by his anti-Muslim and anti-atheiﬆ sentiments – it won’t make us feel so bad with the anti-obesity campaign we’re about to launch.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.?

Quality tuneage? Check. Pumping sound syﬆem? Check. Drunken idiots slam dancing into you while you’re trying to cut sick on the danceﬂoor? It’s time to leave the building Elvis… 12 3DWORLD

THE HORSE MIGHT not necessarily be dead, but that does not mean it cannot be flogged. Yes, we’re talking Twilight, which has a brand new spinoff book in Love At Firﬆ Bite: The Unofficial Twilight Cookbook. You can make and subsequently sink your teeth into such delicacies as Harry’s Famous Fish Fry, Wolf Pack Waffles, and Edward’s Cornflake Chicken. No, we could not make this up if we tried… IN KIND OF related news, Miniﬆ ry Of Sound have put a new spin on the dance compilation series with Running Trax – “a 3-Disc set, providing a three-ﬆage running soundtrack and in-sleeve fitness tips so you can jog, run then sprint your way to looking good and feeling great this summer!” according to the press release. Because Miniﬆ ry clearly cares only about your fitness... WE MENTIONED A few weeks back that Red Bull Flugtag was hitting Sydney Sunday 7 November – now we’re letting you know that you have to get your entry by this Wednesday 28 July. Get your entry kit from www. redbullflugtag.com. au now! NEED MORE SOCIAL networking in your life? Welcome to XUMANII, which sells itself as “combining the beﬆ features from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Uﬆ ream” to allow users to live ﬆ ream to their personal profi le page with minimal tech requoirements. Google that shit…

EVE OF THE MIRAGE

Armin van Buuren’s annual Antipodean pilgrimage invariably has trance fans frothing with excitement. For the reﬆ of us who grew into his music many years ago, it’s the latter end of the scale which is always favourable as it’s within a marathon set that the vaunted DJ tends to truly shine. It was back in 2008 that we received his fi rﬆ ARMIN VAN BUUREN Armin Only shows in local parts and he’s pushing the boat out in 2010 with an epic nine hour set at Armin Only – Mirage on New Year’s Eve. The catch? He’ll be playing one show only in Melbourne. Details regarding venue and ticketing are yet to be revealed – fans beﬆ ﬆart booking fl ights, accommodation and plenty of time off work to make the moﬆ of this exceedingly rare occasion. RICARDO VILLALOBOS

NEVER TOO MUCH

The announcement of Tiëﬆo as the headline artiﬆ for Stereosonic 2010 was plenty enough excitement for some but the reﬆ which was to come could barely have been more surprising. It was with much loud exclaiming and laughing that we read of the other acts in the line up: Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, Robyn, Major Lazer, Sebaﬆ ian Ingrosso, Benny Benassi, Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Infected Mushroom, Jeﬀ Mills, Afrojack, Luciano, DJ Sneak, Annie Mac, Caspa & MC Rod Azlan, Giuseppe Ottaviani (GO! Live), Reboot, DJ T, Bart B More, L-VIS 1990 and Aly & Fila. Also welcome is the choice of new venue – Sydney Showgrounds. Limited $119 ﬁ rﬆ release tickets to the Saturday 27 November event available from 9am Thursday Aug 5. GORILLAZ

GORILLAZ SOUTHWARD BOUND

News of hiﬆoric Glaﬆonbury and Coachella Feﬆ ival performances have left Auﬆ ralian fans weeping for an opportunity to catch the Gorillaz closer to home, and thankfully, we’ll all soon have the opportunity to do so. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlitt’s virtual band will be cramming the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Thursday 16 December with a one off show that could very well feature cameo ﬆage appearances from collaborators such as Bashy, De La Soul, Mick Jones & Paul Simonon (The Clash), Kano, Little Dragon, Mos Def, National Orcheﬆ ra for Arabic Music, Gruff Rhys, Shaun Ryder and Bobby Womack. With recent album Plaﬆic Beach having hit number one on the ARIA charts, you can guarantee that every man and his dog will want a piece of the act ion. Tickets on sale from 9am, Friday 6 Auguﬆ through Ticketek. Exclusive fan club pre-sale offer available through gorillaz.com.

BRIEFS

STARS

GENERAL OUTLOOK Mildly sexy easy liﬆening music may be all we can handle this week. Put the PVC sex suit away in the wardrobe. AQUARIUS (20 JAN TO 18 FEB) A rumour will circulate that you were in the car with Lindsay Lohan the night she shot JFK. Th is will aﬀect your employment prospects. PISCES (19 FEB TO 20 MAR) Being out of your comfort zone, you may be forgiven for act ing ﬆ range this week. But don’t eat gravel in front of your boss. ARIES (21 MAR TO 20 APR) People will be impressed when you tell them you once went on a semi-abusive blind date with ageing hunk Mel Gibson. TAURUS (21 APR TO 20 MAY) Rediscover your love of fresh fruit this week, then bash your local grocer for failing to make his weekly payments on time. GEMINI (21 MAY TO 20 JUN) Learn to control your anger before it deﬆ roys you. Speciﬁcally, you have to resiﬆ the urge to punch the elderly. CANCER (21 JUN TO 21 JUL) You will discover new reserves of maturity and sophiﬆ ication. Th is will come in handy when you get locked in an elevator with 50 goths. LEO (22 JUL TO 21 AUG) After sleeping outside overnight to get Simon & Garfunkel tickets, you will be shocked to realise you are in the line for Maﬆerchef auditions. VIRGO (22 AUG TO 21 SEP) Would you be able to, in a completely nonsexual way, examine this odd discolouration on my penis? With your mouth? LIBRA (22 SEP TO 22 OCT) You really blew that audition laﬆ week. Have you ever considered a job behind the camera? Like ‘Assiﬆant Camera Polisher’? SCORPIO (23 OCT TO 21 NOV) Your inability to maintain an erect ion will lead to a Cuban Missile Crisis ﬆ yle international incident. Nice going limp dick. SAGITTARIUS (22 NOV TO 20 DEC) Legal problems aside, this should be quite a relaxing week. Provided you can put the looming jail term out of your mind. CAPRICORN (21 DEC TO 19 JAN) Self discipline is crucial now. Teﬆ yourself. How much can you put up with? How hard can you work? Why do you have a knife at my throat?

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WHO KNEW PIGEONS had good taﬆe in music? A bunch of said birds in Nashville were responsible for having a Kings Of Leon gig shitcanned after juﬆ three songs by letting fly with their excrement from above in a show of winged unity not seen since Alfred Hitchcock lensed their revolt in his 1963 cinematic classic The Birds… APPRENTLY THERE WERE a few Splendour In The Grass tickets floating around laﬆ week, so if you snapped them up, congratulations! If you missed out? Too bad, so sad. And if you already had tickets? Game on molls, see you at Woodfordia… LIGHT IS FINALLY shed on the title and release date of the Miami Horror debut album. It’s going to be called Illumination, it’s out Friday 20 Auguﬆ, and it’ll be preceded by the digital release of single I Look To You this Friday. Main man Ben says, “The debut album feels as if it’s a sequel to the fi rﬆ album that never happened.” Clearly next level shit… THIS IS TOO good not to run verbatim. “2K Games Auﬆ ralia is excited to announce that the “Face of Playboy Swim 2010,” Sheridyn Fisher, is the official ambassador for their upcoming epic mobﬆer game, Mafia®II. Sheridyn’s involvement with Mafia II highlights the agreement between 2K Games and Playboy magazine to use more than 50 of their vintage covers and Centerfolds in Mafia II...” We’re a sucker for an Aussie-girlmade-good ﬆory.

KLAXON, KLAX OFF

Klaxons may be one of the paﬆ decade’s biggeﬆ hype acts but they’ve not simply faded into the background. The wait for sophomore album Surfing The Void has been long but the thousands of YouTube views for lead single Echoes proves that folks are ﬆ ill plenty intereﬆed. Shot in the Egyptian desert, the video is a potent reminder of the band’s ﬆ riking presence, which is sure to have Auﬆ ralian fans transfi xed at their Thursday 2 September KLAXONS Enmore Theatre gig. Along with a solitary Melbourne appearance, the Klaxons’ Sydney appearance marks the only opportunity you’ll have to see them on their Down Under The Void tour. Tickets on sale from Thursday 29 July. Surfing The Void hits shelves on Friday 20 Auguﬆ through Modular.

IN SEARCH OF SUNRISE

When Tiëﬆo abdicated the Black Hole Recordings trance throne, few fans were surprised that he swore in Richard Durand to take his place. A regular remixer to the RICHARD DURAND Dutch giant, his DJ sets are well regarded amongﬆ exponents of the genre for a combination of slick skill and well thought out select ions. Durand is headed to Sydney for a performance at the Gaelic Theatre on Saturday 4 September with support from Swedish trancer Jonas Stenberg and Melbourne’s Trent McDermott. Ticketing details are yet to be released so watch this space for details. Durand’s lateﬆ release In Search Of Sunrise 8: South Africa is out now through 405 Recordings.

THIRD TIME FAT

The Fat As Butter promoters are celebrating the beach front feﬆ ival’s third year in the game with a three ﬆage event with a moﬆ impressive, and moﬆ massive, line-up. Wolfmother, Ice Cube, Bliss N Eso, The Beautiful Girls, Tame Impala, Children Collide, The Jezabels, Cabins, Sneaky Sound Syﬆem, The Potbelleez, ICE CUBE Muscles, Grafton Primary, Horrowshow, Tim and Jean, Metals, Yacht Club DJs, Ian Carey, Static Revenger feat Luciana, Vandalism, Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock and Tenzin are but a sample of the full roﬆer of artiﬆs you can expect to see at Camp Shortland, The Foreshore on Saturday 23 October. If that’s not quite enough, there’ll also be a plethora of market ﬆalls, an international food bizarre, a sideshow alley of games and rides, artwork inﬆallations throughout the event site and roving performers. Tickets $117.35 through Ticketek from Monday 26 July.

GLEEFUL VAMPING

Talk to any fan of vampire-centric literature, fi lms and television series’ and you can guarantee a good few will put Buff y The Vampire Slayer fi rmly at the top of their favourites liﬆ. Why? Because of the clever screen-writing from induﬆ ry legend Joss Whedon, whose often underrated resume bulges with credits for work JOSS WHEDON on Titan AE, Roseanne, Parenthood, Speed, Alien Resurrection, Toy Story, Firefly, Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Glee and the yet to be released fi lm-adaptation of Marvel Comics’ The Avengers. On Sunday 29 Auguﬆ he’ll be giving a presentation at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall which will cover his ongoing love affair with popular culture, ﬆorytelling and the common themes in his work. Whether you’re simply a fan or an aspiring screen-writer who needs a little inspiration, this is a not to be missed opportunity to get up close and personal. Tickets ﬆart at $49 from sydneyoperahouse.com.

BRIEFS

CALENDAR JULY 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 THE OPTIMEN, UNDERTOW – Friday 30, Beach Road Hotel GOOD SORTS: PABLO CAHN – Friday 30, Civic DESTINATION: NAPT, PEO DE PITTE – Friday 30, 202 Broadway PURPLE SNEAKERS: DAPPLED CITIES DJ SET – Friday 30, Gladstone Hotel SAVAGE – Friday 30, The Collector Hotel PURE IVY: SAMMY JO – Saturday 31, ivy JODY WISTERNOFF, JAYTECH, BLACK NOISE – Saturday 31, Chinese Laundry RICHARD ASHCROFT, KATY STEELE – Saturday 31, Enmore Theatre SAVAGE – Saturday 31, Woodport Inn AUGUST THE DRUMS – Sunday 1, Oxford Art Factory JÓNSI, SETH FRIGHTENING – Monday 2, Enmore Theatre PASSION PIT – Monday 2, The Forum DELPHIC, PLUTO JONZE – Tuesday 3, Gaelic Theatre K-OS – Wednesday 4, Oxford Art Factory FRIENDS: MIIKE SNOW DJ SET – Wednesday 4, Fringe Bar COLD BLANK – Friday 6, Candy’s Apartment PHATCHANCE, COPTIC SOLDIER – Friday 6, The Factory PURE IVY: RICHARD VISSION – Saturday 7, ivy LIBERATE: JOHN 00 FLEMING, MIKE, TRITONAL – Saturday 7, Space DOUSTER, MIGHTY FOOLS, SHARKSLAYER – Saturday 7, Chinese Laundry SAVAGE – Saturday 7, Gaelic Theatre BRET EASTON ELLIS, DOMINIC KNIGHT, MODELS – Tuesday 10, Oxford Art Factory A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, DJ MASEO – Wednesday 11, Hordern Pavilion DJ MASEO – Wednesday 11, Oxford Art Factory DEEKLINE, AJAX, KILLAQUEENZ – Thursday 12, Manning Bar DJ MARKY – Friday 13, Chinese Laundry DISCO VILLAINS – Friday 13, Candy’s Apartment LOWRIDER – Friday 13, Annandale Hotel JÓNSI

THE TRAILER DOESN’T quite have that blockbuﬆer zing one would hope for, but it’s time to ﬆart getting excited about Tomorrow When The War Began nonetheless. Lincoln Lewis leads a young caﬆ of eight in their ﬁght againﬆ invaders no one saw coming, based on the John Marsden book which has sold over 628,863 copies. Which is a very precise number. It’s out Thursday 2 September... SPEAKING OF PRECISE numbers, or even slightly imprecise ones, Hey Hey It’s Saturday limped to a conclusion laﬆ week with an average 1.17 million viewers despite having the impressive doubleheadline act of Kylie Minogue and Tony Abbott. But it did come in at an admirable sixth place on the night behind such ratings juggernauts as The Gruen Transfer on ABC. IT DOESN’T GET more epic than The Arcade Fire, and fans of the band can expect more of the same when The Suburbs is unveiled next Monday 2 Auguﬆ. With two versions of the album’s title track, two tracks (Half Light and Trawl) coming as consecutive twoparters, and other feel good titles like City With No Children, we smell a concept album brewing… GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY! We’ve had sneak liﬆen of the forthcoming long-players from Underworld, Skream, and Klaxons and there is much joy to be found for fans when they ﬁnally drop.

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SHARKSLAYER

TO THE CLEANERS

available through Ticketek now.

With the inﬆallation of a brand spanking new NEXO soundsyﬆem and the addition of plenty more hot local artiﬆs to their books, things are heating up at Chinese Laundry. On Saturday 7 Auguﬆ the venue welcomes international beatsmiths Mightyfools, Douﬆer and Sharkslayer to join Jeﬀ Drake, Spenda C, Matttt, Club Junque and more for the Chinese Laundry Re-Up. Entry $15 before 10pm or $25 after. Doors open 9pm.

Singer-songwriter Jason Derülo ﬁrﬆ made his name contributing his talent to the works of Lil’ Wayne and Sean Kingﬆon yet it was a short time before he reached ﬆardom in his own right. Though popular on our shores for some time it’s only now that he’s been conﬁrmed for a full scale national tour, hitting the Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday 9 November (solod out) and Wednesday 10 November. Tickets on sale now through Ticketek for $79.90.

SIDE ORDER OF SOUL

LATIN’S STONES

The announcement of A Tribe Called Queﬆ’s impending Antipodean tour was cause enough for excitement all on its own, yet the addition of De La Soul’s DJ Maseo (Pasemaﬆer Mase) in support had hip hop fans at burﬆ ing point. He’s lined up to perform a support slot at the Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday 11 Auguﬆ and then for an afterparty at the Oxford Art Factory. General admission will set you back $94.90 while Platinum tickets – which include VIP entry to the afterparty – coﬆ $160.90, both

RIDIN’ SOLO

Some forty years after teaming up to dominate the ﬆage, Los Van Van are ﬆill 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.

A/V EXCURSION

Melbourne’s Kynan Robinson is well known for his

contributions to bands such as CW Stoneking, The Primitive Horn Orcheﬆ ra and more, yet it’s his work as The Escalators which truly pushes boundaries; calling on all his talent and daring to fuse auditory and visual aspects in a truly engrossing live show. Inspired by legendary ﬁ lm-maker David Lynch, The Escalators Friday 6 Auguﬆ show at The Sound Lounge will be haunting. Tickets through sima.org.au.

RETURN CRUSADE

Rampantly popular Chriﬆchurch based MC Scribe is making yet another visit to our shores in lieu of his yet to be released third album The Crusader 2. While we’ve been waiting, the Chriﬆchurch based artiﬆ has been plenty busy enough contributing his voice to tracks for J Williams and Itch-E & Scratch-E amongﬆ others, each of which paint a pict ure of ﬁne form. Scribe performs at The Roxy Hotel on Saturday 11 September; tickets $73.20 from Moshtix

BIG ASPIRATIONS

There’s no shortage of independent hip hop labels sprouting up lately and Big Village is positioning itself as the lateﬆ and greateﬆ. In celebration of its launch, label artiﬆs Loose Change, Daily Meds, True Vibenation, Tuka (Thundamentals), DJ Max Gosford and DJ Morgs will be performing at the Sandringham Hotel on Saturday 7 Auguﬆ with Jeswon hoﬆ ing. $10 cover, doors open at 8pm.

BRIEFS

CALENDAR ART VS SCIENCE

UTOPIA HOMEGROWN: DARREN STYLES, MARK BREEZE, MC WHIZZKID, BITROK, FLATWOUND & MORE - Saturday 14, Hordern Pavilion and Surrounds DJ MASEO – Saturday 14, Chinese Laundry SAVAGE – Saturday 14, Mona Vale Hotel LOS VAN VAN – Saturday 15, Sydney Opera House ART VS SCIENCE – Thursday 19, Uni Of Newcastle MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS – Friday 20, The Forum BAG RAIDERS – Friday 20, Chinese Laundry SHARKSLAYER – Friday 20, Candy’s Apartment ART VS SCIENCE – Friday 20, Uni Of Wollongong SAVAGE – Friday 20, Garden Hotel Dubbo TRANCE NATION: TYDI, MARLO – Friday 20, Academy LEE COOMBS – Friday 20, The Maram ART VS SCIENCE – Saturday 21, Metro Theatre DEEKLINE, AJAX – Saturday 21, Chinese Laundry THE TRANSATLANTICS, KON – Saturday 21, The Basement M-PHAZES, MUPH, MANTRA, DIALECTRIX – Saturday 21, Transit Bar SAVAGE – Saturday 21, Fanny’s Newcastle M-PHAZES, DRAPHT, MUPH, MANTRA & MORE – Thursday 26, Annandale Hotel M-PHAZES, DRAPHT, MUPH, MANTRA & MORE – Friday 27, Uni Of Wollongong MOMMA’S BOY, PHIL K – Saturday 28, Chinese Laundry M-PHAZES, DRAPHT, MUPH, MANTRA & MORE – Saturday 28, Cambridge Hotel ENVISAGE: LEE COOMBS – Saturday 28, Chinese Laundry Sandbar at Slipp Inn THE CAT EMPIRE – Sunday 29, Hordern Pavilion AN AFTERNOON WITH JOSS WHEDON – Sunday 29, Sydney Opera House SEPTEMBER KLAXONS – Thursday 2, Enmore Theatre XIU XIU, HIGH PLACES – Thursday 2, Oxford Art Factory HORRORSHOW – Friday 3, Gaelic Theatre IN SEARCH OF SUNRISE SOUTH AFRICA: RICHARD DURAND, JONAS STERNBERG – Saturday 4, Gaelic Theatre THE LIKES OF YOU: AGORIA, SUPER FLU – Saturday 4, Plantation HORRORSHOW – Saturday 4, ANU Bar SAVAGE – Saturday 4, Hellenic Club MOMMA’S BOY – Friday 10, Candy’s Apartment SCRIBE – Saturday 11, The Roxy Hotel

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THE BIG MOVER in the ARIA Club Chart this week was Melbourne vocaliﬆ Zoë Badwi, whose Freefallin’ has has leapt 14 places into #9, thanks no doubt in part to remixes from local chart faves TV Rock and Denzal Park. Hook N Sling and Snob Scrilla hold ﬁ rm at top spot with Gotta Make Your Move, while other new entries come from KillaQueenz at #36 with Break The Rules, Juan Kidd and Staﬀord Brtohers featuring Rae with I Gave You Everything at #40, and Redroche and Olav Basoski with Not Over You (Audio Slingers Mix) at #44… FINALISTS FOR THE 2010 Radio Awards have been announced, and somehow in the year 2010 Kyle and Jackie O are ﬆ ill in the running for the hotly conteﬆed Beﬆ On-Air Team category. So all we can really do is cheer on Hamish and Andy, Ants and Becks, the FiveAA Breakfaﬆ Show, The Matt and Jo Show, Hughesy & Kate, and Fitzy, Claire and Jules when the ceremony is held on Saturday 16 October down at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. At leaﬆ Roy and HG are hoﬆ ing to keep the baﬆ ards honeﬆ… WE MENTIONED THE Tron:Legacy trailer a few pages back, and if you’re keen to get an earful of the Daft Punk soundtrack then get yourself over to the website of LA radio ﬆation 107.7 The End and ﬆart ﬆ reaming six of the tracks ﬆat…

MIIKE SNOW

SWEDE BOOTH

Swedish indie pop trio Miike Snow may be better known for penning blog favourites Animal, Burial and Silvia but they’re apparently dab hands in the DJ booth too. Whilﬆ on tour producers Chriﬆian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg – equally well known as Bloodshy & Avant – will be performing a series of DJ sideshows, including an appearance at Fringe Bar for FRIEND/s on Wednesday 4 Auguﬆ.

UNDERGROUND TABLES

Need a weekly hip hop ﬁ x? Fear not as The Valve has you covered with their brand new event Underground Tables, which kicks oﬀ on Wednesday 4 Auguﬆ. Mixtape maniacs the Dirtbox Kings and the PK Crew round out the live acts, while Loko1 and Discorossco get busy in the booth. Expect upfront and honeﬆ local music free of frilly gangﬆa pop bullshit.

MELTING POP Melbourne based pop three piece Otouto hit the mark earlier this year with the launch of their delicate LP Pip, which had folks from Faﬆer Louder, Mess+Noise and The Age in quite a fuss. Their very Domino friendly sound will go down a treat on

their Auguﬆ mini tour which hits Melt Bar on Friday 13, with support from Collarbones. The rather fun video for their album track W.Hillier is on the web now.

TECH TRIBUTE

We’re rarely averse to a good spot of tech house around these parts and Good Sorts seem to have us covered with a Friday 30 July outing at The Civic Underground. UK based Colombian expat Pablo Cahn has been making waves with releases on Luciano’s Cadenza, his Descarga EP providing one of the 2009 summer’s biggeﬆ hits in Tribute. Claire Morgan and Murat Kilic support, $20 cover.

WARDROBE REVAMP

Get out your old clothes and ready yourself for some local designer showcases as the Exchange For Change feﬆival is set to sate your fashion thirﬆ with three days of indulgence from Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 July at Carriageworks. Aimed at celebrating ethical fashion design and behavior, it features a Designer Showcase on the Friday night, and a massive clothing swap on the Saturday, plus talks, workshops and live music.

NEW IN TOWN

An iconic ﬁ xture on the Sydney feﬆival calendar, the

annual Newtown Feﬆ ival returns to the Camperdown Memorial Reﬆ Park on Sunday 14 November, once again calling on emerging creative talent to contribute to the program. Feﬆival organisers have released an expression of intereﬆ invite to a massively broad range of performers and artiﬆs involved with music, art, poetry and more. Further info at www.newtowncentre. org/feﬆival.

CONCERT TO END SLAVERY

Non-proﬁt organisation Project Futures is pushing forward in 2010 with a Thursday 29 July fund raising event at Shore School featuring The Whitlams front man Tim Freedman, Lukas Opacic and Scott Mathers. With Freedman’s performance billed to raise awareness of modern day slavery, this ought to be an eye opening event well worthy of participation. Tickets available from project futures.com for $45.

TONE

Sick of the ‘Cross? The Surry Hills/ Darlinghurﬆ entertainment precinct is about to get another intereﬆing addition in TONE – a venue that was previously a 1920s textile factory. Currently in the process of extensive reﬆoration, the ﬁt-out will include a new ﬆate-of-the-art sound syﬆem, live performance space and cutting-edge audio equipment in order to service the beﬆ live touring artiﬆs and DJs. Keep an eye on www.tone. net.au for launch info.

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CALIFORNIA’S RICHARD GONZALEZ, AKA RICHARD VISSION, SHOULD BE AS BIG A GLOBAL STAR AS THAT UPSTART DAVID GUETTA YET, UNTIL NOW, THE VETERAN HOUSE DJ/ PRODUCER HAS CONCENTRATED ON THE USA. THINGS CHANGE FAST IN DANCE MUSIC, HOWEVER, AND CYCLONE TALKS TO THE LA SCENE STALWART AS HE CELEBRATES AN AUSTRALIAN CHART SMASH AND SHEDDING THE UNFORTUNATE “HUMPTY” NICKNAME. ICHARD GONZALEZ is touring Auﬆ ralia behind the mega crossover single I Like That, his hook-up with Static Revenger and English divette Luciana – a track originally issued on his own Solmatic Records but licensed to Vicious Vinyl here. It’s been certified double-platinum in Oz and was a top requeﬆ on MTV, and Gonzalez admits that the song’s phenomenal Auﬆ ralian success took him aback. “I was a little surprised, I muﬆ say,” he drawls. “We knew we had a good record, but none of us foresaw it turning into a pop record. So it was definitely a pleasant surprise.” He’s anticipating his fi rﬆ Antipodean trek in many a year, considering it a “mini-vacation” with his fiancee.

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It might be assumed that Gonzalez is tied to Los Angeles because of his weekly “underground” mix-up, PowerTools on Power 106 FM (KPWR), which he claims is the longeﬆ-running dance show in the US. (The ﬆation act ually leans towards urban, purporting to be “where hip hop lives”.) But he says not, as the programs are prerecorded. “One of the reasons I didn’t tour a lot internationally the laﬆ few years is I always put out mix compilations that were licensed for North America, and I always had a tour to support those mix compilations. But, since then, I’ve juﬆ been concentrating on putting out a lot more original material, leading me to visit some places internationally.” Old-timers will know this American Pete Tong under a diﬀerent DJ guise: Richard “Humpty” Vission. The “terrible” handle was beﬆowed upon him by the-powers-that-be at Power 106. Gonzalez loathed the ‘Humpty’ but was compelled to use it on his branded mix CDs. He’s ﬁnally shed it. “There’s no more ‘Humpty’,” he extols. “There’s an online petition

in the States for me to bring it back, which is hilarious... I see it popping up on Twitter every now and then. I don’t think it’s too big of a movement – I hope not!” Gonzalez calls LA home, but he was born in Toronto. His mother couldn’t hack the Canadian winters and so they headed to warmer climes. He grew up a ‘Valley Kid’ – that is, in the San Fernando Valley. Gonzalez began airing music in the early 90s. He was a member of the posse The Movement,

fronted by the rapper (and DJ) Hazze, their big hit Jump!. In fact, Jump! crossed over here and that was around the fi rﬆ (and laﬆ) time Gonzalez toured Auﬆ ralia. Faﬆ forward to 2009 and Gonzalez teamed with old pal Static Revenger (Dennis White) for I Like That. White, too, has a curious paﬆ. The Detroiter, a fellow LA transplant, was music director for Inner City, then formed the alt-dance group Charm Farm (remember Superﬆar?), and eventually devised Static Revenger, unleashing Happy People. He also directs music videos, I Like That included. Gonzalez has cut a follow-up single – minus his cohorts. “Hopefully, there will be promos being released upon my visit to Auﬆ ralia,” he says. “[But] I do have a follow-up single that’s called 1980s – it has a couple of different titles, Product Of The 1980s or 1980s – and that will be my follow-up for Auﬆ ralia.” Meanwhile, White has a new record, Skin I’m In, with Luciana. The three will reunite for another single soon. Gonzalez is also plotting an album – he has ﬆockpiled sufficient tracks – but it’ll be no more than eight songs. Dance culture evolving at such a rate, he’d prefer to release more, and more often, so that everything is current. Gonzalez has eﬆablished himself as a prodigious remixer, ﬆ retching back to the likes of Ace Of Base. He’s turned his hand to hits by everyone from Nelly Furtado to Gnarls Barkley to Lady GaGa. Frankie Knuckles abandoned remixing because he was sick of interfering A&Rs – and Gonzalez can empathise. “I’ve gotten to a point right now where I have

to really like the song – and I also have gotten to a point where I let them know ahead of time exact ly what I’m doing. So there’s not a lot of going back and forth – ‘Hey, can you put some more vocals in?’ ‘Can you do this?’ I let them know exact ly, like, ‘I’m juﬆ gonna use the fi rﬆ verse and chorus and that’s it. If you guys are cool with that, then we can move forward. If not, I have no problem passing on the project ’. I think I’ve gotten to a point where a lot of labels truﬆ me in what I’m doing and know that a remix that I’m gonna do is gonna get played by myself, obviously, and other DJs. They’re gonna get a certain amount of play, because I bring a certain amount of value to the project.” Some of Gonzalez’ remix clients will surprise. He tweaked Radiohead’s Reckoner, although Thom Yorke is typically into more underground elect ronic fare. Regardless, Gonzalez has influential fans. He remixed the Black Eyed Peas’ Meet Me Halfway and, will.i.am being fi xated with dance, they performed that version on tour, as well as at the American Music Awards. Nevertheless, Gonzalez’ moﬆ

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THERE’S NO MORE ‘HUMPTY’... THERE’S AN ONLINE PETITION IN THE STATES FOR ME TO BRING IT BACK, WHICH IS HILARIOUS... I SEE IT POPPING UP ON TWITTER EVERY NOW AND THEN. I DON’T THINK IT’S TOO BIG OF A MOVEMENT – I HOPE NOT!”

famous ‘pal’ has to be Madonna, for whom he’s remixed several singles, among them her dubious cover of Don McLean’s American Pie. She’s apparently the sole artiﬆ to suggeﬆ he alter a remix. “One time I got some feedback from Madonna to make the mix less safe – which I thought was cool.” He appeared alongside the Queen of Pop as her DJ at the Grammies when she ﬆaged Music. Gonzalez even played her birthday party – in a (no doubt swanky) “backyard”. Still, he and Madonna have a businesslike – and formal – relationship. They’ve never had a conversation about music, but Madge did go over his playliﬆ for the b’day. “I thought I was gonna have to play all this radio ﬆ uff, and hip hop ﬆ uff, and she was like, ‘Play some house music’. I was like, ‘All right, cool!’” Dance is again mainﬆ ream in the US and Gonzalez is in his element. Ask who he admires of the new crop and he cites Dutchman Laidback Luke. But Gonzalez doesn’t merely play peaktime house, or elect ro, in his club sets. He’ll “surprise” with some minimal and “proggy ﬆ uff ”. In later years Gonzalez has sought fresh challenges. He’s doing a Guetta, entering the pop sphere. He has collaborated with American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, who’s penned songs for Chriﬆ ina Aguilera. She had him produce music for Hilary Duff ’s Dignity of 2007. (“They were juﬆ taking some of my tracks and writing pop tunes over [them],” he says.) In 2010 Gonzalez is a busy guy. He’s been working with Asian-American hip hoppers Far Eaﬆ Movement, Lady GaGa wannabe Natalia Kills, Dutch R&B singer Eva Simons (of Silly Boy fame), and Briﬆolian popﬆ ress Lolone. And then he’s vibing with the Auﬆ ralian Vassy. The sometime neo-soulﬆ ress is reinventing herself as a dance diva, signing to Ultra. “Vassy

is amazing – one of the beﬆ vocaliﬆs I’ve ever worked with in my entire life. Her single [Hiﬆory] juﬆ dropped here in the States – and I think she’ll be having a second single that will be a little more global before the end of the summer. She’s an artiﬆ who you’ll deﬁnitely be hearing a lot about in the near future. She came here to LA, which is crazy, and I got set up in a writing session with her one day. We juﬆ clicked. We ﬆarted working on a whole bunch of music. We’ve been working together for two-and-a-half years now. She’s moved more into a dancier [sound], music-wise, but her vocals are ﬆ ill kinda neo-soul. She ﬆ ill has that richness, that realness – she’s a real singer, which is amazing.” WHO: Richard Vission WHERE &WHEN: pure ivy at ivy Saturday 7 Auguﬆ

THE POLITICS OF JACK

OUSE MUSIC originated in Chicago, and techno in Detroit, but today many Americans assume that ‘dance music’ is a European export. Early on, both ﬆ yles attracted racially mixed audiences, yet young blacks fell away with the rise of ‘urban’. Some commentators believe that house never took off in the US, as it did in Europe (and Auﬆ ralia), because it was linked to disco – and the American disco backlash was always less about grumpy rock fans than a uniquely prevalent homophobia. Still, rave flourished, drawing moﬆ ly white kids. The American music media proclaimed Moby the ‘King of Techno’, dissing the real godfather, African-American Juan Atkins. ‘Elect ronica’ exploded in the 90s as a new form of ‘alternative’, with predominantly British acts like The Chemical Brothers. But their ascendancy Stateside ﬆalled, ‘elect ronica’ all but a fad. Sasha & Digweed were hailed as heroes in the US – but, again, to the resentment of homegrown DJs. Now, in a bizarre twiﬆ, hip hoppers, often antithetical to house (Jungle Brothers excluded), are working with its producers. The irony? While Diddy collaborated with the Chi-town Felix Da Housecat, others, like will.i.am, are seeking out Europeans such as David Guetta. Though not a hip hop fan, Richard Vission reckons that the urban/dance fusion was inspired by US rockers like The Killers – a band Kanye Weﬆ has namechecked – who fi rﬆ experimented with elect ronic elements. “[Some in] the hip hop community went, ‘I need to do something new and fresh that hasn’t been done within my circle of music’ – and they ﬆarted embracing elect ronic music.” (Mind, Timbaland was emulating British drum‘n’bass before that...) At any rate, the DJ maintains that Los Angeles, not Chicago, Detroit or New York, is where it’s at. “LA is the mecca for dance music right now. It’s very edgy. It’s edgy, but it ﬆ ill has commercial [aspects]. We have underground cool clubs, we have big events, we have underground raves that happen every weekend – LA’s the spot for music. You also have radio that supports dance music here – which is very cool.”

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THE CHUCK TAYLOR ALL STAR

CONVERSE SHOE,1917-PRESENT

LIZ GALINOVIC LOOKS AT THE CHUCK TAYLOR ALL STAR – ALSO KNOWN AS “CHUCKS” OR “CONS” – AND ITS EVOLUTION FROM HUMBLE BASKETBALL SHOE TO THE FOOTWEAR WHICH REFUSES TO GO OUT OF FASHION.

hese days it is very unlikely that you would see them on a basketball court unless you were watching your dad attempt to reclaim some former high school glory, but this is exact ly where Converse’s Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker made its fi rﬆ public appearance – on the ball court. Opening in 1908, the Converse Rubber Corporation, makers of gumboots and other rubber based foot wear, decided it would be more beneficial for the company to expand their shoe horizons. Looking to the growing popularity of basketball for inspiration they were very lucky to spark the intereﬆ of semi-pro player Chuck Taylor, whose belief in the shoe brought about their great success. Charles H Taylor was so inﬆ rumental in the imprinting of the All Star onto American society that Converse eventually imprinted his name on the ankle patch. Before Taylor joined the company’s sales department in the 1920s, sales had been slow. In the 30s Taylor designed the signature all white high top with the red, white and blue trim for the 1936 Olympics and during WWII, as a serviceman in the US Air Force, Taylor’s sporting of the monochrome black All Star saw it become the official sneaker for the US Armed Forces. By the late 50s, Converse owned a monopoly of the athletic sneaker induﬆ ry (80 percent market share) and Taylor was eventually inducted into the Basketball Hall Of Fame in 1968 before dying a year later. It 24 3DWORLD

was w as after this that things took a diﬀerent turn. The poﬆ-Taylor years saw the rise of Nike and Reebok with all their pump, gel and air cushion technology so that Cons became the counterculture shoe for those who couldn’t aﬀord to indulge in the new trend, or baby boomers who refused to give up their good old Chucks. Th is period of sneaker fashion evolution led to the rise in popularity of the All A ll Star throughout the punk rock scene thanks to bands like the Dead Boys and the Voidoids. Moving into the 80s and 90s, the shoe came to be more associated with greasy haired, ripped jeaned, holed jumpered adherents of grunge. Kurt Cobain, said to have been wearing them when he died, was rarely seen without them and the things he wrote on their rubber toe in life. Th is pract ise of writing on the rubber soles is a trend that ﬆ ill pervades contemporary youth culture. Unfortunately Converse’s choice to embrace the countercultural nature of their shoe throughout this period may have contributed to their faﬆ falling sales and eventual bankruptcy in the early 2000s. Although there were gasps of horror across the United States, the shoe was saved, manufact uring moved to Asia and the company eventually purchased by their hiﬆorical rival, Nike. Today, the company taps into plebeian trends and designs the All Star accordingly. Rather than attacking your cons with a Sharpie you can purchase the canvas shoes pre-scribbled by eﬆablished artiﬆs, in preripped and dirty Ramones and Nirvana editions, or in clean, plain and bright colours for all ages and sizes. But it is not juﬆ baby boomers and lovers of rock’n’roll who feel a connect ion to one of the world’s higheﬆ selling sneakers. Designers of haute couture such as Marc Jacobs, who prefers bright pink cons, can be seen paired with designer suits and dresses at fashion shows and red carpet events around the globe. There is no denying the legacy of the All Star and their almoﬆ 100 year exiﬆence. Since 1949 the original Chuck Taylor design has changed in no way other than colour, of which there are a myriad. It may no longer be the sneaker of choice for serious athletes and soldiers in Afghaniﬆan, but as a casual leisure shoe, few look paﬆ it.

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE AFTER RAILING AGAINST THE STATE OF THINGS FOR SO LONG, KHEAVEN BRERETON TELLS LIZ GALINOVIC THAT HE NOW APPROACHES HIS MUSIC AS K-OS FROM A POSITIVE VIEWPOINT.

e was born Kheaven Brereton in Trinidad and raised in Canada as k-os, a highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial hip hop ﬆar. Being rought up in the Jehovah’s Witness faith by his parents before choosing to “do his own thing” in his late teens does not mean that Brereton turned away from spirituality, a fact made clear by an artiﬆ who exudes a kind of philosophical temperament often seen in those who have at some ﬆage in their life known a god – a characteriﬆ ic that is in ﬆark contraﬆ to the claim that he is “not a very thought out person” as he adequately disproves. Beginning his music career in the early 90s with the release of singles such as Musical Essence and Rise Like The Sun, Brereton eventually withdrew from music, later expressing that although he had written many tracks throughout this time he was unsatisﬁed with all of them. It was a self criticism that was to continue until the 2000s when he released his debut album Exit (2002) followed by Joyful Rebellion (2004), both critically acclaimed with the latter going platinum in Canada. There was more success to come with 2006’s follow-up Atlantis: Hymns For Disco again going platinum in Canada, not to mention by now his evident global success. Always fairly vocal (and somewhat publicly) when it came to criticism – there has been some acidic banter between Brereton and various media individuals and musicians over the years – he’s described his previous works, Joyful Rebellion

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in particular, as rants againﬆ the ﬆate of hip hop. But with Atlantis things appeared to have changed. And with 2009’s Yes! this change became far more evident. “I think anybody who, especially for me because I grew up in a religious household, my dad was a miniﬆer and I didn’t have any real life experiences so, when you don’t have experiences to write about, you write about the ﬆate of things.” Pausing to think about this, as he does often, he continues with a chuckle. “I don’t know it’s like a default. If you’re boring then I guess you can only attack the ﬆate of the music within which you exiﬆ. But when I ﬆarted putting records out, I’d have experiences and I travelled the world, met girls, I would have weird and crazy nights that I would juﬆ log in my diary or write on the computer and these are what ﬆarted to become the ideas for the songs.

“There’s always going to be that consciousness or knowing that the ﬆate of the music that I’m in needs to be uplifted. But the more life I’ve lived the more ﬆress has come off the topic of the ﬆate of hip hop and the social, what’s going on outside of me. Now I’m dealing with what’s going on inside of me. It’s one thing to talk about what’s going on outside of you all the time, what’s going on in the block, what’s going on in politics, what’s going on in the White House; but if you can choose to talk about what’s going on inside of you, then I believe from the specific comes the general. If you’re specific about what’s going on inside of you then you relate to the world in general. Cause everyone is going through those things right.” Yes! definitely reveals a more personal side to Brereton, with many tracks hinting at the demise of a relationship and the out-of-your-hands nature such endings can entail. With this in mind, it contributes to the all round sense of relaxedness that Brereton seems to discharge at this ﬆage in his life, even down to the product ion process. “I play a bit of the guitar, I play the keyboards. My whole thing is there are guys that play better than me. In the earlier years of my career I was probably more of a control freak so I’d have to come up with the initial idea and then I would present it to guys who were better players, I would talk to my engineers, play them a few records and say ‘this is the sound I’m trying to get’ as far as the product ion sound. But as I’ve become more free and intuitive, I don’t really need to be all over my own records as far as always trying to play ﬆ uff or control how things are sounding. Now I want to put people in a room who are going to come up with the beﬆ vibe ever – that’s my ﬆ yle of product ion, select ing the people with the beﬆ vibe to bring something intelligent to what I do.” Th is sense of being at ease with what he does humorously came to a head when select ing the title I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman for the album’s hit single. Although he expresses an admiration for a beautiful and intelligent woman, this was not a ploy to gain a meeting with the act ress. “It’s ﬆ range and it’s weird and I’d juﬆ gone to a party the night before, it was 10am and I had a suckering headache and my publisher was like ‘come on you have to tell me the name of the song now, you have five minutes’, and I was like ‘I don’t know... I wish I knew Natalie Portman?’ and he said ‘Are you serious?’ and I said ‘yeah.’ He’s like ‘that’s it. Ok. Bye’.” Brereton speaks often about intuition and claims that like any job once you’ve been doing it for so long, it becomes intuitive and the self applied pressure eases. “I think this album was really the album where I ﬆarted to realise I didn’t have to think about it too much. Not only because the title is Yes! which kind of precedes the whole mentality of positivity but more because with this record I juﬆ let myself loose even more.” WHO: k-os WHAT: Yes! (Universal) WHERE & WHEN: Splendour In the Grass Sunday 1 Auguﬆ, Oxford Art Factory Wednesday 4 Auguﬆ

BACK ON THE ISLAND FETED STATESIDE FOR HIS “WORK, WORK, WORK” ETHOS AS SAVAGE, THE KIWI MC BORN DEMETRIUS SAVELIO REVEALS TO CYCLONE WHY HIS 2008 ALBUM SAVAGE ISLAND IS ONLY NOW GETTING A LOCAL RELEASE.

own with the Dawn Raid ﬆable, NZ’s answer to Def Jam, Demetrius Savelio was originally a member of Deceptikonz. They formed in the Auckland suburb of Manurewa in the mid-90s and, in 2002, debuted with Elimination, home to P-Money’s Fallen Angels. In a sign of what was to come, the Samoan Savelio proffered the solo – and very personal – cut Broken Home. Like the Wu-Tang Clan, the Deceptikonz MCs promptly embarked on ﬆ rategic solo careers. In 2005 Savelio presented Moonshine, initially airing the engaging Swing!. The album’s soulful title-track saw him team with the then newcomer Akon. (Savelio rapped on a remix of Locked Up.) He and Akon remain tight. “Akon is one of my very good friends,” Savelio says warmly. “We linked up together before he had even signed his deal to a major label. He was very surprised at fi rﬆ that I wanted to work with him over other bigger rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan, Buﬆa Rhymes and that. He was an artiﬆ who no one knew. I knew that he had the potential to be a superﬆar.” “When we did the firﬆ [demo] of Moonshine, I could juﬆ tell then and there it was gonna be a great song – and it was. It was act ually Akon’s fi rﬆ number one single worldwide before Lonely. When I went back to the States the fi rﬆ time, he invited me to his show out there in New York at a place called Spotlight. I went there and he gave me the biggeﬆ hug. I hadn’t seen that dude in a long time – and he invited me to the afterparty and he introduced me to people like Lil’ Kim and juﬆ sat down [and] caught up with me. He’s a really good dude. When it came to recording Savage Island in Atlanta, he sent over his right-hand man, his on-tour DJ, and his producer as well, so he [Benny-D] came to executive produce the album for me. So Akon’s a very good friend of mine.” Savelio himself has since exploded Stateside, Swing! remixed with party rapper Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em (another version features Pitbull). Bizarrely, Swing! was licensed for the 2007 film Knocked Up, Savelio buoyed by the response to his song in the flick. “I missed the premiere for the movie here in Auckland. I was overseas in the Islands at that time doing a big concert out there. But, when I came back, I went with my family to watch the movie – my brothers and siﬆers, obviously not my kids [laughs]. When they played Swing! I was really surprised to see people in the crowd get up and ﬆart clapping.” Swing! has now been certified platinum Stateside. Along the way, Savelio scored an American deal with Universal Republic. He’s solidly toured the US, appearing at one show with Lil Wayne in New Jersey. Nevertheless, for Auﬆralian fans, it’s been ages between albums. Indeed, in NZ, Savelio followed Moonshine in early 2009 with Savage Island, but the album is only now surfacing here. (It materialised in a different incarnation Stateside at the end of 2008.) Savage Island entails trademark

Savage club joints like Wild Out (Chooo Hooo), with Baby Bash. So why the delay? Did Savelio juﬆ want us to forget his hooking up with Young Divas on that cover of Loverboy’s Turn Me Loose? “To be honeﬆ, it’s juﬆ ever since music’s gone digital, the sales have dropped dramatically and people are not selling as much as they used to. A lot of major labels are very careful on the timing of each record. For Savage Island, I think they wanted to hold off on it for a little while. I did a couple of shows around Auﬆralia [at] the end of laﬆ year, and they all sold out, and it made them think 2010 was the right year to drop it. For me, anyway, it’s worked perfect ly around my schedule ‘cause I’ve been in the US for the laﬆ two years as well.” Well before Swing! went global, Savelio was cameo-ing on a remix of David Banner’s Ain’t Got Nothing. More recently, the MC has had yet other golden opportunities, one of which he couldn’t fulfil, to his great disappointment. “One of the main things that we had to turn down was performing at one of the NBA games there in the US. It was because we had double-booked ourselves. That’s probably the only one that we’ve had to turn down that I was really gutted about, because I’ve always wanted to go to a NBA game in the States. Even while we were there for the laﬆ couple of years, we juﬆ had no time to fit anything in – it was all work, work, work.” And Savelio, is now going through another transition. Deceptikonz have officially bowed out. They’ve juﬆ issued a final album, Evolution: Paﬆ, Present, Beyond, and ﬆaged a farewell show. But they’ll continue to liaise with each other. “Whenever I’m touring in the US, I always take one of the Deceptikonz with me,” Savelio says. “It’s only right to have someone who you know, [and] who knows you back to front, when it comes to being on ﬆage. I can always rely on a solo Deceptikonz to have my back when it comes to performing. That’s what it’s gonna be like in Auﬆ ralia when I tour as well. I’m definitely gonna have either Mareko or Alphrisk from Deceptikonz touring with me. It’s gonna be one hell of a ride.” WHO: Savage WHAT: Savage Island (Dawn Raid/Universal) WHERE & WHEN: The Collector Hotel Friday 30 July, The Woodport Inn 31 July, The Gaelic Theatre Saturday 7 Auguﬆ.

THE BOY WHO NEVER GREW UP WHEN JORN UTZON WAS FEVERISHLY SKETCHING THE SWEEPING CURVES OF A NASCENT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, NEVER DID HE SUSPECT THAT ONE DAY ITS STAGE WOULD PLAY HOST TO A GEEKY INDIE FILM DIRECTOR JUST SHOOTIN’ THE SHIT WIH HIS FANS. BAZ MCALISTER CHATS TO KEVIN SMITH ABOUT HIS GRAPHIC FESTIVAL SHOW.

hen the call is piped through to Kevin Smith, he’s juﬆ gotten back to his digs from a packed day one of San Diego ComicCon – the Mecca of the geek world. Oﬆensibly he’s there to sit on a panel and talk about the new Batman comic book series he’s penning for DC with his friend and collaborator Walt Flanagan, The Widening Gyre. Unofficially, he’s there to geek out. The biggeﬆ buzz of this year’s day one, he says, is the Tron: Legacy footage. But these days, Kevin Smith doesn’t have to wait in line for sneak previews. Known as a pop culture taﬆemaker of larger ﬆature than Ain’t It Cool News’ Harry Knowles (both figuratively and probably literally), he’s able to call on mates for favours. So while right now countless comic book fans are packed into a crowded hall in San Diego lapping up clips from Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim comic adaptation, Smith saw it months ago. And it is good. Slightly more low-key than Comic-Con but no less cool is Smith’s next engagement, the Graphic feﬆ ival at Sydney Opera House – a celebration of how fi lmmakers, comic book creators and pop cultural icons like Smith have shaped ﬆorytelling. “I’m ﬆ ill trying to figure out where I fit in,” Smith says in his habitually humble, selfeffacing way. “I guess it’s like ‘We’re having a comic book convention, and he likes comics, bring him’. I’d be going regardless. If this is the only way I’ll get to play the Sydney Opera House, man – well, I’m a comic book guy.” Smith’s become famous for his An Evening With gigs, where he climbs on ﬆages the world over to connect with fans, tell ﬆories and ask queﬆ ions. So far he’s sold out one show in the Opera Theatre, with a second show in the larger Concert Hall selling nicely. He ﬆ ill can’t really

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believe his luck. Smith’s laﬆ An Evening With DVD was fi lmed on his birthday, in a theatre six blocks from the hospital where he was born in Redbank. Before he fl ies down to Sydney, he’s doing the same thing again for his birthday this year – and it’s a mileﬆone more significant than moﬆ, as he’ll be turning 40. “I think it would be a big thing if I didn’t have the job that I have. Th is job keeps you eternally young. Have I had ﬆ ress over the laﬆ 15 years? Yes, but it’s minimal compared to what moﬆ people have to go through. Th ink about it: not only do I have my dream job but they pay me sick amounts of money to do it. If you’re paid to make pretend for a living, you are living as a child. That’s why we have assiﬆants and whatnot, because we can’t do anything for ourselves. That keeps you young. So even when the world

is like ‘You’re fat and you got thrown off a plane’ [which infamously happened to Smith on a Southweﬆ Airline fl ight earlier this year] yeah it ﬆ inks, but this is way better than if Clerks had not been picked up.” So for Smith, there’s no such thing as mid-life crisis. Firﬆ of all, he says, he passed mid-life some time ago. “We’re all thinking we’ll get to 80, but I’m not getting to 80,” he says matterof-fact ly. “And I have the wife, the kid, the job, I’m very happy. I’m never in crisis. People hit that wall and they’re like, ‘I’m halfway through my life, what have I done with it?’ but I don’t have that. I’m like, ‘What’s next?’.” What’s next for Smith is Red State, his firﬆ attempt at a hardcore genre fi lm – in this case, horror. After three years of wrangling funding he’s about to roll cameras this summer.

“We found this awesome location about half an hour from where I live in LA. It’s this old, closed-down detention centre, 42 rolling acres of every different look you could want. And beﬆ of all, 80 percent of it we can knock off inside the 18-foot walls and barbed wire of this place. In the age of the Internet it’s tough to do anything that surprises people – unless you’re Mel Gibson, he’s very surprising but generally when you make movies people are out with their cellphone cameras and shit, so shooting in this prison, nobody’s going to know what we’re doing in there.” Smith calls Red State a different beaﬆ from his previous movies, saying he’s taken a leaf from John Landis’ playbook to help him shift gears. “Landis went from Animal House to American Werewolf [In London], and those two fi lms are very different. So Red State is played ﬆ raight, and the caﬆ I’ve put together, which I guess we can talk about in a couple of weeks, that’s a caﬆ of actors, man. I don’t mean that I’ve never worked with actors before – you print that and Ben Affleck sees it, he’ll cry – but I mean that I got lucky. Any big names I got to work with, it’s all been about goodwill. But the caﬆ I’ve assembled for Red State is serious motherfucking hardcore actors.” And, he says, directing this script he wrote three years ago is becoming a ﬆrange prospect for him. Smith only recently became a ﬆoner, discovering weed in his late 30s. “It’s so angry and dark and it goes after everybody,” he says. “Where did this come from? So now the ﬆoner version of me has to direct this script that the angry version of me wrote three years ago.” WHO: Kevin Smith WHERE & WHEN: Graphic at Sydney Opera House Sunday 8 Auguﬆ and Monday 9 Auguﬆ

MENTAL COMBAT Hip Hop With BLAZE

PRINCE PO

Prince Po and D-Strong team up for the tidy eight track EP Get Off The Playground (Domination Recordings). Now I’m more than familiar with the Organised Konfusion MC, but less so with beatmaker D-Strong. I’m also amazed that I’ve never heard anyone use Howard Beale’s rant from the excellent 1976 fi lm Network, but the absolutely brilliant Bring It Back uses a hefty chunk for almoﬆ a third of the tune. The other monﬆer jam is Superiority Complex with Aarophat. There are remixes of both, but there’s nothing wrong with the originals. I’m so glad that this ﬆ yle of hip hop has never gone away despite the trends, gimmicks and fads that have tried to bury it – pure beats, scratches and dudes who can rap proper. Dilated Peoples’ Rakaa (Iriscience) finally goes solo with his Crown Of Thorns (Decon) album. Product ion is from his crewmates Evidence and DJ Babu as well as The Alchemiﬆ, El-P, Exile, Oh No, King Jahzzy, Sid Roams and !llmind. The Eric Bobo and DJ Rhettmatic conﬆ ruct ion Rosetta Stone Groove features Noelle Scaggs from the LA funk band The Rebirth and it’s a nice example of what Rhett and Bobo have been doing recently. Look it up. The DJ Honda joint Ambassador Slang is overloaded with gueﬆs, too many to mention here, but of note is that the Samoan/Kiwi King Kapisi pops his head up amongﬆ the other 10 MCs. The KRSOne joint Human Nature is Exile channeling some early Rza-ﬆ yled beats. The Alchemiﬆ rips one open with Aces High while Defari, Fashawn and Evidence join Rak. Better than I expected. Another great album has been the new Marco Polo full-lengther The Stupendous Adventures Of Marco Polo (Duck Down). Apparently this is a collect ion of tracks that Marco hasn’t managed to fit on any of his other releases, but I don’t care, it has enough ear splitting tunes for me to get wet about. I nearly peed my pants when I heard Large Professor on the hyper kinetic remix of The Radar. Incredible. Dude is. I mean come on, he samples The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations for the late 80s legend Grand Daddy IU on The Veteran and yet I fully accepted it. IU ﬆ ill sounds superb and he rips all the shit rap to pieces. And the appropriate Guru scratch brought a sadness to my ears. Man, I loved this release. And liﬆen to Surreal’s ode to the way in which this ﬆ yle of music was sidelined on So Basic. Golden moment. 30 3DWORLD

CAN’T STOP PROGRESS

JODY WISTERNOFF’S CAREER AS A PRODUCER HAS SPANNED TWO DECADES AND COUNTLESS GENRES – BUT THE UK DJ TELLS MATT O’NEILL HE’S A LONG WAY FROM THE RETIREMENT HOME.

t isn’t atypical for producers to explore different genres over the course of their careers. While dance music is in many ways built upon dedication to specific scenes, sounds and communities, DJs and producers traditionally shift through ﬆ yles and aeﬆ hetics as often as circumﬆances will permit. The fact that Jody Wiﬆernoff ’s career has managed to encompass everything from hardcore and hip hop to progressive house and elect ro is, therefore, not all that surprising. The producer’s real diﬆ inct ion is that he’s managed to segue between so many disconnected ﬆ yles with such fluid grace. The career of a DJ is usually defined by a jagged and unpredictable charge from one plot point to another – but Wiﬆernoff has always evolved smoothly throughout the entirety of his career. The producer began his musical career with his brother in the late 80s with their prepubescent hip hop duo Tru Funk Posse and, since then, has navigated effortlessly through early hardcore and house through to elect ro before finally settling into something of a progressive house groove from the mid 90s with crossover project Way Out Weﬆ and his own solo work. While the development looks schizophrenic, Wiﬆernoff has never so much surprised as intrigued. “I think the easieﬆ way to look at it is to say I play house music and then people can take from that what they will,” Wiﬆernoff considers. “There’s a lot of ﬆ uff about there but, when it comes to writing a club set, I tend to gravitate to that sort of material. I really love the big, high energy tracks but, really, you can only pull those out occasionally. They don’t really work a lot of the time so I kind of have to ﬆ ick with the gentler, more midtempo ﬆ uff. “I’m always looking for whatever will get a react ion, though,” the DJ elaborates. “The only real conﬆants I’ve found are that I love percussion and I really need tracks that have some kind of emotional content – which basically translates to a ﬆ rong melody for me. I think that’s the only thing that’s act ually lacking in dance music right now. There’s a hell of a lot of ﬆ uff out there but there aren’t many tracks that have good melodies and, particularly, good hooks.” Wiﬆernoff has no intention of slowing down his development, either. In addition to his conﬆant touring schedule (the producer will travel all the way to Auﬆ ralia for a weekend of dates, for example), Wiﬆernoff has continued to thrive as a producer while Way Out Weﬆ have gone from ﬆ rength to ﬆ rength over the paﬆ handful of years – recently releasing

a remix version of their 2009 album We Love Machine and performing at the legendary Glaﬆonbury Feﬆ ival. “Yeah, it has definitely been a while – but what else is there to do?” Wiﬆernoff says with a laugh. “I love this ﬆ uff, man. It all sounds very clichéd but I’m ﬆ ill loving banging out the beats and travelling all over the world. I’ve got a family now, so I’m not at the point where I can ﬆ ill party all the time and party before and after my set, but I ﬆ ill love leaping in and out of that world every weekend or so. I’m very thankful to have been involved in this world and I always will be. “I’ll fight for it as well,” the producer laughs. “Any young whippersnappers want to take me out from behind will have a fight on their hands!”

WHO: Jody Wiﬆernoﬀ WHERE & WHEN: Chinese Laundry Saturday 31 July

R&B is currently heavily inﬂuenced by it – that I don’t think a dance act really has to do much to appeal to those kinds of audiences. I think, at this point in time, all the doors are open.

THE ONE AND N-LY

BRITISH BREAKS GENIUSES NAPT (AKA TOMEK NADEN AND ASHLEY POPE) APPEAR TO HAVE STUMBLED UPON SOMETHING MOST COMMENTATORS CONSIDERED EXTINCT – A NEW SOUND, AS MATT O’NEILL REPORTS.

here’s a great deal of ﬆ igma attached to the concept of innovation. There are two prevailing schools of thought on the subject ; it either doesn’t exiﬆ or it doesn’t sound good. The general idea behind both perspect ives is that humanity have now been documenting the creative process for such an incomprehensibly long period of time that we’ve either uncovered every reiteration of a new creative approach or, at the very leaﬆ, all those that deserve to be found. The lateﬆ darlings of Britain’s highly competitive breaks community, NAPT would appear to have found a way around this problem. The product ion duo has, since the early noughties, consiﬆently managed to avoid easy categorisation with their product ions – fusing disparate aspects of house, elect ro and breaks into their own inimitable ‘N-Funk’ ﬆ yle. Furthermore, they’ve managed to do so in a way that not only doesn’t alienate audiences, but pract ically dares them not to liﬆen. “I would say the only genre we really belong to is N-Funk,” Ashley Pope explains. “When we fi rﬆ ﬆarted playing around in the ﬆ udio we didn’t feel there was one genre title that really captured our work. People mention breaks but we also draw from a lot of other genres and influences; we like house, we like elect ro, we use a lot of melodies and we use a lot of samples. N-Funk was the only category we felt our work really fit.” The innate accessibility of NAPT’s ﬆ yle is a crucial point of difference. There have been a number of exciting new developments within elect ronic and dance music in recent years but few of them have managed to capture the imagination of mainﬆ ream liﬆeners without being diluted or misrepresented in the process – but NAPT’s work has ensnared audiences from across the board. The pair’s work has appeared on every variety of record label from Island to Fingerlickin’. “I think dance music is quite mainﬆ ream at the moment,” Pope considers. “The mainﬆ ream is so influenced by dance at the moment – certainly US

“It’s a massive cliché but it does kind of ring true that everything moves in a cyclical nature in music,” Naden continues. “I think, in the UK, indie rock and guitar music had, until recently, been very popular for a very long time and I think now people have ﬆarted to move away from that sound – a lot like how people moved away from dance music at the end of the 90s.” In emphasis of the relative singularity of their sound, NAPT have act ually managed to court the mainﬆ ream without compromising their connect ions to the insular and political dance music communities of their own country. The pair may have remixed noted acts like UK Garage icon MJ Cole but, at the other end of the spect rum, have won Beﬆ Producer and Beﬆ Track for UK’s Breakspoll two years running – the only artiﬆs to ever have done so. “In music, I think a lot of success is based on serendipity, luck, being in the right place at the right time, contacts and that sort of thing,” Tomek Naden explains. “So the only thing you can really do is work hard and hope the reﬆ will come together and that’s what we decided to do.”

WHO: NAPT WHERE & WHEN: Deﬆ ination at 202 Broadway Friday 30 July

OGFLAVAS OG Urban news with CYCLONE

MIA MIA: THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

Is MIA ‘urban’? That’s the queﬆ ion ARIA chart compilers had to ask themselves the other week. MIA emerged as an elect ronic dance act but, befitting her renegade ﬆatus, she’s always transcended, if not deconﬆ ructed, such tidy classifications. Beloved of rappers like Jay-Z, the femcee (is she a femcee?) has resurfaced with her eponymous third album, /\/\/\Y/\. Anyone expect ing MIA to commercialise her sound after Paper Planes, a fluke US crossover hit, or her work on the Oscar-nominated Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack will be dismayed. MIA, who ﬆ udied fi lm at a London art school, is a new era performance artiﬆ – a funkier Laurie Anderson – and single-handedly reviving agit-pop. Ironically, with /\/\/\Y/\, MIA aimed to make a “musical” album, not a set of (subversive) club bangers. Oﬆensibly /\/\/\Y/\ examines the politics of digital information, but at points it’s as much a critique of her media identity. MIA has connected with familiar allies – Diplo (her ex!), Switch and her NEET Recordings signing Blaqﬆarr – as well as Rusko, who doesn’t necessarily give her dubﬆep. /\/\/\Y/\ is a challenging liﬆen, but this anti-pop ﬆar has yielded her moﬆ varied – and boldeﬆ – album. It’s a sonic collage of punk, induﬆrial, electro, dancehall, worldbeat, synth-pop and Timbalandﬆ yle hip hop. The Suicide-sampling Born Free sounds suspiciously like 90s rocktronica – albeit cooler. MIA slows things down for a few songs. She sings on XXXO, disconcertingly evoking a young (brash) Madonna. MIA is auto-tuned on the reggae It Takes A Muscle, an obscure cover. It’s similar to Robyn’s Dancehall Queen, which Diplo also helmed. /\/\/\Y/\ entered the UK charts at #21, MIA’s higheﬆ yet but, her profi le being so great, she might have done better. The reviews are sharply divided, the hipﬆer Pitchfork especially hoﬆ ile. For all her defiance, MIA is contradictory, but then so is Nas, not to mention moﬆ ‘ﬆ reet’ rapper-cum-superﬆars. The Sri Lankan Tamil refugee is engaged to Benjamin Bronfman, the spawn of a mega-rich family, his Dad a Seagram’s heir and Warner Music CEO. Indeed, MIA, rather than Princess Superﬆar, could be the female Eminem because of her flair for generating controversy. She confronts, and provokes, but she also entertains. One of a kind.

MASTER TELEVISION A TELEVISION SHOW THAT FORCES A POLITICAL DEBATE TO RESCHEDULE MUST BE GOOD, RIGHT? NO, NOT REALLY - IT JUST NEEDS TO BE MASTERCHEF. 5SPROCKET WEIGHS IN ON THE ABSURD PHENOMENON THAT BRAINWASHED A NATION.

he journey has come to an end, again. After 14 weeks the second season of MaﬆerChef has drawn to a close, and I am ﬆ ill ﬆ ruggling to find someone to cook dinner for me to my exact ing ﬆandards. The ratings for the show, over two million viewers per night, prove that suckers are lapping it up like cats to cream (do cats drink cream?). It is a runaway hit - a bizarre hybrid of reality television, advertising, and buoyant school camp optimism. Seeing the conteﬆants on your television screen makes me feel like I know them, love them; they are my children. When they cook a nice meal it pleases me. When they have a rough day I choose to ignore them. And like any parent, the day comes when you muﬆ decide which child you like the moﬆ. That is what the MaﬆerChef finale is all about. The finaliﬆs for 2010 were Adam, 30, Asian with facial hair, and Callum, an awkward kid who plays with knives. It is an achievement that they have made it this far without having their sexual perversities leaked to the media, no ex-girlfriend selling their obscene affair to Today Tonight. Right now Callum and Adam are national heroes of the Jessica Watson scale - but how could we forget such memorable characters as the builder, the guy with the beanie, the ranga, and the guy who always made curry? These classic characters deserve more than to lose their 15 minutes, ﬆarring in advertorials for foot cheese and Zumba classes. Under the guidance and tutelage of the MaﬆerChef hoﬆs George (bald), Gary (not bald) and Matt (Preﬆon), we have seen amateur home cooks under enormous pressure. Can they mash potatoes? Can they run around and look fluﬆered? Can they repeatedly say how important everything is, direct ly to camera, juﬆ in case we forgot what happened a minute ago? The series finale brings all the threads together - with the eliminated (loser) conteﬆants, judges, and gueﬆ chefs reunited to watch the final cook off and engage in a group hug session. The fi rﬆ of three challenges faced by Adam and Callum was a ‘Basic

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Skills Teﬆ’. Th is involved identifying powders, sauces, and integrated advertising opportunities. Callum ﬆ umbled on hollandaise, ﬁ rﬆ ly by taﬆ ing it, then by calling it “meow”. Adam now had the advantage heading into the second challenge - take an ingredient and cook it in three diﬀerent, spectacular ways. Being described as the “pork maﬆer” and good at “pounding pork”, Adam decided to ﬆ ick with the classics and touch himself. Callum, on the other hand, chose the timeless combination of chicken and peas, which was good enough for the judges to bring on

the synthesized victory theme music. The final battle was to make a ridiculous dessert - a meringue ‘egg’ full of cuﬆard on a bed of frozen guava covered in a blow-torched biscuit, to be presented on the nipples of former Home And Away ﬆarlets. Although both had impressed the judges, Adam was deemed to be the kind of person that could sell a book and be a TV ﬆar, so he won MaﬆerChef. Streamers went off, grandmas were wheeled in, and everybody touched each other. The theme of friendship was once more hammered home, because MaﬆerChef isn’t about cooking - it is actually about becoming close friends with other people, then being infinitely more successful than them. That’s real friendship. Now another season has come to an end, and we aren’t allowed to like Katy Perry for another year. One of the greateﬆ commercials ever produced, MaﬆerChef can only become bigger and better every year until it becomes unprofitable. Not since the fi lms of Lars von Trier has there been such an emotionally exhauﬆ ing and violently manipulative tear jerker. The only thing that could make me cry more over the show was if they did it with kids. Imagine that - kids with knives, running! Now that’s muﬆ see TV. Junior MaﬆerChef will screen later this year.

BUSINESS MUSIC

Serious Underground Business With PAZ ROYAL FLUSH From the king of swing to the king of rock, there is none higher. Royalty is the place to be in music circles. While moﬆ only get as far as a tug on the crown jewels, some got as far as an MBE (Norman Jay). In Norman’s case he pioneered sound syﬆems and coined terms like “Rare Groove”. Moﬆ music performers are all show. Clearly Empire Of The Sun are delusional, Yo Majeﬆ y have jeﬆers in the court and maybe King Tubby has as much right to the title as King Kong. Conquiﬆadors like Don Diablo and Don Rimini haven’t performed like predecessor Hornando Cortes who discovered Mexico, Aztec Empires and maybe Warachero. However Diablo has discovered that teaming with Diplo will win him more followers. Mexico embraced Diablo unlike Cortes, but then Don Diablo brought his new dubplate Make You Pop, and Hortes brought the Spanish Inquisition. The attraction to royalty is prized by Prince Money from legendary donut hunting blog The Highness. It is regal to be invited to The Grindin’ network, and Prince Money plotted his royal patronage through poﬆing tit-bits on Bubbling, Kwaito, Dirty South and Cumbias. Prince Money is a title dubious as Homer Simpson’s Max Power or Symbol’s formerly known as Prince phase (“Prince” is regal enough). When the American’s try royalty, their lack of Commonwealth underﬆanding leeds them on a ﬆray path, like Fergie. GaGa may be on the right path. Lady is a term of monarchial title of learnt nobility, our moﬆ famous Lady being Diana, Princess of Wales or simply, Lady Di. Not an iconic jungle raver or Radio 1 DJ (but could be the reference in Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana), her title opened the path for acts like Lady Sovereign, Lady Saw, Ladyhawke and eventually bashments ﬁrﬆ lady, Lady Chann. Chann is not a Chinese dynaﬆ y title – Chann is Chanelle Williams (juﬆ like Lady Di). Her sound is Northern London dance-hall and bashment, and more than obvious she will team up with local royalty KillaQueenz for the throwdown. To respected party promoters the combination is obvious, as it was to South Rakkas Crew who dropped them both onto the Double Up riddim. Juﬆ who is courting these ladies for title of King? I know Mat Cant’s recent mix features both talented camps. It is hoﬆed by Lady Chann and his remix for KilleaQueenz – Break The Rules, is hot property. Moﬆ of us are simply juﬆ collect ing APRA royalties...

KILLAQUEENZ

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CUTS BOTH WAYS WHETHER ROCKING A CLUB OR WARMING A STAGE FOR THE SCISSOR SISTERS TRAVELLING ROADSHOW, SAMMY JO TELLS JANE STABLER HE STILL FEELS NERVES.

etting Scissor Siﬆers tour DJ Sammy Jo on the phone from Barcelona the day after Spain’s World Cup win is predictably challenging. In demand internationally in his own right as well as part of the Siﬆers supergroup, the DJ is apologetic down the line from Spain. “Its 10am, its not unreasonable,” he says of the time of day. “I wish I could say I’d been out partying all night, but we won the World Cup laﬆ night so there was juﬆ noise, it was going crazy, it was fun. I was tempted to go out but I have two of my friends with me from Sydney, so we had a mini party here.” One woud imagine it’s one of the few parties he attends that could be described as “mini”. With two concurrently running music careers, Sammy Jo is no ﬆ ranger to an insane tour schedule, but admits that doing his own thing is less ﬆ ressful than travel with the group. “I love [DJing solo],” he enthuses, “It’s great, its totally different than DJing at one of [Scissor Siﬆers’] concerts. You walk into a club and it’s going off, it’s so much energy and you have to bang out a two hour set. With concerts you have to ﬆart with something and work into it. It’s nice to have a different way of using your brain. I’ve always loved traveling, and after a while it does get a bit taxing, but usually there’s a method to it.” With the DJ considering New York City as a chillout deﬆination, you get some idea of how hard he is working. In both facets of his career he is known for his party-ﬆarting abilities, but laughs off his out-there reputation. “In terms of when we’re all on tour, the crazieﬆ shit you’re going to see is what’s happening on ﬆage,” he says of the Scissor Siﬆers’ shows. “Everyone’s energy is on that, creating the beﬆ night for whoever is at that show. By the time everyone is done, everyone is spent. It’s a grueling schedule, so on tour everyone is pretty mellow after the show and wants to hang out, but when the tour is done everyone can party.” And party he does – but when it’s a solo show, he doesn’t wait until it’s over to do so. “I guess its weird because I love being in control of the party, and

you are in a way as a DJ, because you play the music, but you’re ﬆill hiding in the DJ booth. I’m a total dork, I’ll dance around the booth and sing, and the guy who taught me to DJ always used to yell at me and tell me not to sing along to the records!” Despite his joking around, there is no disputing the fact that Sammy Jo takes his career very seriously, and when he is playing sans Siﬆers, the pressure to perform comes down solely to him. “DJing can be ﬆ ressful only in the sense that I want it to be a good night,” he considers. “Very rarely do I juﬆ walk in with a cavalier attitude about it. I ﬆ ill get nervous about gigs, especially playing places I’ve never played before. There are so many things, like you don’t know what the crowd will be like or what they’ll want to hear. I think it’s a good thing [to ﬆ ill get nervous], it shows you care.”

WHO: Sammy Jo WHERE & WHEN: pure ivy at ivy Saturday 31 July

CLAMP DOWN! Alt.indie.pop with DCR THE STROKES

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

JOSH WHEATLEY SPEAKS TO REECE SHEARSMITH, BEST KNOWN AS COCREATOR AND STAR OF THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, ABOUT HIS MACABRE AND INGENIOUS NEW TV SERIES PSYCHOVILLE.

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o much of television is dumb and it’s made to juﬆ be there in the background like wallpaper,” says Reece Shearsmith, co-writer and ﬆar of the BBC series Psychoville. Together with his former League Of Gentlemen player Steve Pemberton, Shearsmith continues to push the limits of television comedy. “We wanted to try to write one of those sprawling American dramas that juﬆ has a great big hook where you juﬆ can’t not watch the next one.” With characters such as vengeful hook-handed children’s entertainer Mr. Jelly, a grotesque duo of serial killers, and a ‘little person’ with telekenetic powers, Psychoville gleefully dives into the depths of insanity and murder. “You get a thrill from being immersed in that world, and it’s quite an unsettling place to be,” says Smearsmith, “but morbidly it’s like a car crash, you want to turn your head and have a peek.” The series features multiple narrative threads and a riveting ﬆory arc, diﬆ inct ly unlike the situational ﬆories that dominated League Of Gentlemen. Dawn French joins Shearsmith and Pemberton in the caﬆ of Psychoville, playing a deranged nurse that believes her baby doll is alive. “We’d seen her do a thing called Tender Loving Care [officially called TLC], where she played a nurse in an old people’s home, where she was killing the old people. She hasn’t done chilling like this for quite some time.” When Psychoville was pitched to the BBC, ‘dark’ comedy wasn’t in vogue. “We thought if we’ve got Vicar of Dibley in it, it could be the Trojan Horse to get us through the door.” Along with Trilogy Of Terror and The Shining, Shearsmith cites the fi lms of Alfred Hitchcock as a major influence on the series’ tone, with the fourth episode an extended homage to Rope. “We did it all in one take, of course... [In] the whole half hour there isn’t a cut,” he says. “The camera ﬆarts and doesn’t ﬆop for 22 minutes.” Its housing-flat characters lack the gentlemanly finesse of Jimmy Stewart, inﬆead celebrating their murder with a plate of biscuits and a dance to Black Lace’s Superman. The episode was written to deal with an unexpected BBC funding cut, but Shearsmith is proud of the ‘triumph’. “There’s something quite mesmerising about it,” he says. “It’s like not blinking. I think you are completely drawn into it, because it juﬆ glides through itself.” The writer/performer insiﬆs on never repeating himself, which has upset some of the cultish League fan-base. The team’s feature fi lm, The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, was maligned for departing from the television WHAT: Psychoville (BBC/Roadshow)

series’ ﬆalwart characters. Psychoville has been criticised for its diﬃcult ending. “I kind of love it that people got so enraged because it meant people were completely hooked and demanded answers,” Shearsmith says. “It didn’t matter that some things are not answered. You’re never going to get a satisfying ending to a thriller thing anyway, it’s juﬆ like ending a Twin Peaks or a Loﬆ.” With only two of the four League members extensively involved in Psychoville, did the group call it quits? “We haven’t disbanded, we’re all really close and we ﬆ ill feel for each other, so if we get the right project again we’d do it… It was ten years ago the ﬁ rﬆ one was on the BBC... We’re old men now, it’s harder to get together to do things. We’re like the Pythons.” A one-hour Halloween special is scheduled for October, with series two airing next year.

The plan originally was that by the time you read these words Clampdown! would be in Brisbane, soaking up the sunshine and sipping dirty whiskey sours at The Bowery. But one broken foot later and not only are we ﬆ uck in this crummy shithole of a town (oh hai Sydney) but we’re going to miss Splendour In The Grass – its fi rﬆ at Woodford, and its fi rﬆ spread across three days. So in honour of this epic fuck up on God’s part, Clampdown! will dedicate the next 300 words to talking about The Music Feﬆ ival That Is Happening Th is Weekend That We’re Not Going To. We will miss The Strokes. Recently they made their comeback at an intimate gig in London under the pseudonym of Venison, before playing one of those epic feﬆ ivals featuring almoﬆ every band on the planet, and only playing old material. Love you, Casablancas & Co. (And obviously since we were heading to Splendour, we’ve missed tickets to the Sydney show.) Will they play new songs? We will miss Band Of Horses. Due to the layout of the Woodford site and the fact the Tour de France covers less ground than the diﬆance between ﬆages at the 2010 feﬆ ival, whilﬆ they only overlap by 15 minutes, both Horses and New York City’s Other Fineﬆ pretty much clash because unless you have headwear with attached helicopter rotors there’s no way you can make both shows. We will miss Florence & The Machine. Have you heard that track on the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack? Holy Jesus Fucking Chriﬆ. Worth the price of the ticket to the feﬆ ival alone. We will miss LCD Soundsyﬆem. No pow-pow-powpow-powing from us. Alas. We will miss Byron Bay Organic Doughnuts. Presumably they are going to make the trip north of the border, because it’s not Splendour without BBOD. Inﬆead, Clampdown! will spend this weekend ripping CDs to iTunes and rediscovering albums that have been at the bottom of piles for years. Notable fi nds so far: Tragic/Athletic’s 2006 record It Was Tragic, They Were So Young, a Marissa Nadler CD-R she sold at shows during a long-forgotten Auﬆ ralian tour, and VHS Or Beta’s Bring On The Comets. Juﬆ quickly, Klaxons have a new album coming out, which we’re very excited about. While its title, Surfing The Void, brings to mind MGMT, we’re looking forward to what Ross Robinson (The Blood Brothers, The Cure, At The Drive-In, and, uh, Vanilla Ice) brings to the party. It’s out 20 Auguﬆ through Modular.

THE ALBUM OF WEEK

ALBUMREVIEWS

HYBRID Disappear Here

(Diﬆ inct ive/Inertia)

VARIOUS/DIMITRI FROM PARIS Get Down With The Philly Sound (BBE/Inertia)

Without disco there would be no house. Th at is a given. The pounding 4/4 rhythm, the blaﬆ ing horns, the soaring ﬆ rings, the soul-drenched vocals, the hardfunkin’ guitars and burbling bass; the real disco wasn’t Travolta and The Bee Gees, the real disco was born in Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound ﬆ udios and played in the black, gay clubs of New York, Chicago and San Francisco. In the early 70s Sigma hoﬆed the comingling of writers and producers Gamble and Huﬀ, remixer Tom Moulton and musicians like Vincent Montana Jnr and the sprawling MFSB (later Salsoul) Orcheﬆ ra. Together they invented the disco sound that went on to birth the music we dance to today. Being a disciple of this sound it has been left to Dimitri From Paris to compile the beﬆ and moﬆ important pieces of music from this time and place, the songs heads know and love, the songs endlessly sampled during the disco-house craze of the late 90s, the songs anybody who considers themselves into real disco muﬆ own. Though at the time many dismissed disco as ‘mindless’ it had something to say – Carl Bean spoke to millions, bravely declaring his homosexuality to the world on Born This Way, Eddie Kendricks’ He’s A Friend comes ﬆ raight from the pulpit of gospel church while Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes’ Bad Luck is drenched in social commentary. On a second disc here Dimitri takes nine of these classics and faithfully re-edits them; assiﬆ ing DJs by taking the variation out of the live drummed tempo and reorganising breaks and hooks for maximum danceﬂoor devaﬆation. There are few better ﬆarting points than Get Down With The Philly Sound to introduce yourself to the hiﬆory of our music. DARREN COLLINS

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After a decade of producing critically acclaimed elect ronic dance music, Mike Truman and Chris Healings of British duo Hybrid have undergone a subtle reinvention with their fourth ﬆ udio album Disappear Here. The addition of singer/songwriter Charlotte James is the moﬆ notable change, leading Hybrid to produce a collect ion of fully-ﬂedged muti-inﬆ rumental songs rather than juﬆ pure dance tracks with vocals overlaid. Opening track Empire is eccentric and ominous, aggressive drum beats accompanied by layers of elect ric guitars and sweeping ﬆ rings performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orcheﬆra which build to a dramatic climax before fading out with eerie outer worldly noise. In contraﬆ the title track is an emotive and introspect ive

KYLIE Aphrodite (Warner)

For a lass who isn’t known as a songwriter or a singer with a diﬆinctive or powerful voice, little old Charlene – or Kylie Minogue to use her correct title – has eked out an eﬆablished career that’s been largely based on the talent of others. Her ﬆ yle has rarely deviated from pop, camp disco, or a misguided attempt at indie and alternative. Her laﬆ album, X, was about hope and achievement – not surprising given she’d survived breaﬆ cancer. Aphrodite, executive produced by Stuart Price (of Madonna fame), is easily her beﬆ eﬀort in eons. The house-like piano keys on Get Outta My Way has Kylie contemplating change as she moans “You’re getting boring” to a backdrop of beats. The early 90s like Illusion has all-encompassing

ballad as not so great lyrics like “I’m in the wrong house in the wrong room” are delivered by James, who is in her element here supported by a downtempo classical piano and acouﬆ ic guitar. While never predictable, the album is permeated with a sense of familiarity. Th is is particularly obvious in Break My Soul which is like a montage of Hybrid’s cinematic efforts on fi lms such as Wolverine, X-Men and Déjà Vu, ﬆaccato ﬆ rings ascending into sweeping orcheﬆ ral arrangements for dramatic effect with a ﬆ rong Middle Eaﬆern flavour. An intereﬆing and imaginative album, Disappear Here will certainly appeal to an audience beyond the dance floor and marks Hybrid’s progression towards an accessible ﬆ yle full of commercial potential. Juﬆ don’t expect a dancefloor record and you won’t be disappointed. AMBER MCCORMICK

ﬆ rings and gentle melodies to keep it bubbling along whilﬆ Better Than Today is vocally conventional with cheesy lyrics “what’s the point of living if you don’t wanna dance?”. Too Much, which was co-written by Scottish dance nut Calvin Harris and Scissor Siﬆer Jake Shears, is a typical hands-in-the-air eﬀort. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love), with its thumping undercurrent, is the neareﬆ to a club anthem on the album. Everything Is Beautiful, written by Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley, is ﬆale and the album’s sole sombre and downtempo moment. With its vintage 80s sound, house DJ/producer Sebaﬆ ian Ingrosso’s assiﬆance with Cupid Boy is retro without the overblown noﬆalgia trip. As there’s no real identity, soul or purpose to Kylie’s music, Aphrodite at leaﬆ has Kylie back on-form. Whoever she is or whatever she represents, Kylie’s got the music bang-on this time around. STUART EVANS

ONE TRACK MIND AEONS Beyond The Satellites EP (Scorpio Music)

MARQUES HOUSTON Mr Houﬆon (EMI)

Mr Houﬆon is the fourth solo album from LA-born R&B artiﬆ Marques Houﬆon, or is it Omarion or Ne-Yo.... hard to tell them apart when he too is presented in a shiny suit and shades to match. The Immature artiﬆ has invited long-time producer Chris Stokes to eliminate any chance of his art maturing – a great ﬆart. With the ﬁ rﬆ track and lead single titled I Love You, expectations for something moving and intelligent are halted. Featuring the only gueﬆ raps of gritty Harlem Dipset’s Jim Jones, Mr Houﬆon himself proceeds to ﬆart whining, openly and continually. Even Jones is loﬆ underneath Houﬆon’s barrage of “oohs” and “aaahs”, which settle in for a long haul throughout the entire album.

EL-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (Gold Duﬆ Media/ Inertia)

El-P, an abbreviation for El-Producto, is the one of the moﬆ accidently ﬁtting artiﬆ names ever. As a rapper he is more than talented when it comes to ﬂow and lyrical content, often taking liﬆeners on wild and dark journeys through his subconscious. His work is often described as avant garde with its dense, dark, quite often aggressive and multi-layered sound, not to mention the variety of genres he incorporates. Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 is a product of this. It’s a collect ion of inﬆ rumentals – some new, some used before – and all eloquently mixed together. If you’ve heard El-P’s catalogue, you probably won’t be surprised by this, but if you’re a fan, you won’t be disappointed either. It’s typical of his ﬆ yle as he fuses classic hip hop with rock, jazz and all manner of sounds giving you the impression he is a mad scientiﬆ in the ﬆ udio. Sans vocals this mix makes for great background music and the tracks names indicate it’s not necessarily without a narrative. It moves from faﬆ paced to chilled out and of course, wouldn’t be El-P if it didn’t sound haunting. LIZ GALINOVIC

A nice beat is found on Sunset – that is until Houﬆon weeps over the track again and any glimmer of subﬆance is loﬆ. Every track is physically and mentally draining, like breaking up with your fi rﬆ love till sunrise. It is something that should be walked away from after breathing the words “we need to talk”. When you consider that the demographic of Marques Houﬆon has to earn two hours of minimum junior wages to afford this CD one should really juﬆ turn to their old CDs of Mario or Trey Songz or R.Kelly for the same output, if not better. Incredibly, Houﬆon has been at it for almoﬆ 20 years! Th is is painful from an artiﬆ who is ﬆ ill very ﬆ uck in Immature. Marques Houﬆon seems to be surrounding himself with people who tell him that this is great music and nothing like we’ve heard before. And has already moved onto his fi fth LP, Mattress Music. Can’t wait! RIP NICHOLSON

MAGGOT MOUF You’re All Ears (Broken Tooth Entertainment/ Obese)

Broken Tooth Entertainment is one of the very few imprints in Auﬆ ralian music that has built a reputation that automatically precedes the reputation of its artiﬆs. The quality control in place at the BTE is unrivalled in Auﬆ ralian hip hop, and, as Maggot Mouf ’s debut LP demonﬆ rates, shows no sign of letting up. Unsurprisingly, You’re All Ears is Mouf ’s moﬆ accomplished eﬀort to date. However, rather than the ﬆ rict ly cohesive eﬀort you’d expect from a debut album, we’re given a rather intricate splattering of themes. The approach has led to a select ion of jams that moﬆ would never have expected from the Melbourne resident, where contemptuous but levelheaded assessments of authority (Puppet Maﬆer) are put alongside his own thoughts on rap’s current ﬆatus (Spit). Occasionally it would’ve been nice to hear Mouf throw an extra verse in some of the tracks, particularly on What U Lookin At. But when it’s all said and done, You’re All Ears will go down as one BTE’s premier releases. 2010 isn’t the year of the tiger – it’s the year of the Maggot. MATT UNICOMB

Where The Sky Meets The Sea is hiﬆ rionic, arpeggio-ﬁ lled elect ro-pop whose dramatic baritone vocals recall Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore. Th is is a good thing, though too familiar to really ﬆand out excepting a brief, lovely breakdown near the end. The title track is more girly and French houseaping, Via Lactea is ﬆ raight Duran Duran, while Raise Your Flag drifts uncomfortably close to prog rock territory, though the harpsichord solo is a nice touch.

CHITA Eyes On You EP (ChitaMusic)

Chita looks like a Eurovision ﬆarlet, and her slightly shrill vocals maintain the resemblance, but her “tribal pop” – basically typical R&B-pop with slight elect ro touches and then showy syncopated percussion – hasn’t been big in Eurovision circles since about 2003 in the aftermath of Holly Valance’s Kiss Kiss, which I kinda wish these songs would spend more time ﬆ udying.

TAIO CRUZ Dynamite (Universal)

When it comes to this new breed of obnoxious auto-tuned male R&B singers who can’t sing (see also Jason Derülo), their ﬆ raightforward club numbers tend to be much better than their more emotive eﬀorts, perhaps because there’s less to fake. So this is better than the irritating Break Your Heart (though not as good as Derülo’s equivalent, In My Head), but a charming piano vamp bridge aside there’s nothing notable here. TIM FINNEY

3DPLAYLIST 3D 1. Dark Night Of The Soul DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE 2. You’re All Ears MAGGOT MOUF 3. Falcone BUMP DJS 4. Break The Rules KILLAQUEENZ 5. Satellite JOHN DIGWEED & NICK MUIR 6. The Transatlantics THE TRANSATLANTICS 7. Music For Prophet KLUTE 8. Mirror Mirror GHINZU 9. Collected Works A MOUNTAIN OF ONE 10. Parables For Wooden Ears POWDERFINGER

JACK PREST WHERE AND WHEN WAS YOUR FIRST SET? “It was at my high school dance in ’98. I used my folks’ CD player and one borrowed from a friend with a desk mixer and brought the house down!” WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ALL TIME 12”? “From my collect ion it would have to be Microphone Mathematics by Quasimodo on a hip hop tip, That’s The Way Love Is by Ten City for house, and my extremely worn copy of Maceo & The Macks’ Cross The Tracks B/W Soul Power ‘74 for funk ﬆeez. I know you only asked for one but that’s the beﬆ i can do.” WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE DJS? “Kid Koala is without a doubt the moﬆ incredible DJ on the planet. His version of Moon River is the only time a DJ has moved me emotionally, in the same way as a great musician, he keeps pushing boundaries. Keb Darge, for pure select ion of gems, laﬆ time I saw him I thought my feet would fall of I danced so hard. Locally Ed Seven is always killing it.” WHAT’S THE FUNNIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN FROM BEHIND THE DECKS? “Levins blind drunk, ﬆanding on the decks pulling apart the ceiling at the Abercrombie.” WHAT’S THE WORST REQUEST YOU’VE GOT? “‘Can you play some hip hop?’ While I’m playing Passin’ Me By – The Pharcyde.” WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF WHAT YOU DO? “Although they don’t really underﬆand they are super supportive, I mean they lent me my ﬁ rﬆ decks! But the only cool record they had was Jimi Hendrix – Crash Landing, which they didn’t even know they had till I found it.” WHAT DOES THE SYDNEY CLUB SCENE NEED MOST? “Less hobby DJs. I’m all for someone spinning tunes at a mate’s party, but it has gotten to the point where this is almoﬆ the norm. Some of Sydney’s beﬆ DJs are hardly gigging while you go to clubs and hear some douche playing obvious tunes badly.” FAVOURITE CLUB TO PLAY? “I have to say either Melt or The Croft Inﬆ itute in Melbourne. That said I often prefer warehouse and house parties to clubs. Warmer, more inviting atmosphere with people more open to enjoying themselves” WHAT’S YOUR BEST ALL TIME GIG? “Snow Ball at USYD a couple of years back. Played in the hip hop room which was in the ante-chamber to Manning Bar. The room was so full that people couldn’t get through the main bar. It almoﬆ caused ﬆ uct ural damage to the building, so much so that the next year they moved the ﬆage downﬆairs.” WHAT GIGS HAVE YOU GOT COMING UP? “Coming up I’ll be getting club at the next F$%K Yeah party on Auguﬆ 7.” LISTEN TO JACK PREST MIX ON HODGIE’S THE MIX-A-NATION RADIO SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT BETWEEN 6-8PM ON BONDI FM 88.0 OR ONLINE AT BONDIFM.COM. PIC BY CARINE THEVENAU

ACID TONGUE

JOE BLOW IS SINGLE Quite recently, one of my closeﬆ friends split up with his girlfriend – well, she split up with him to be precise. We had an idea it was coming and when he walked into my house carrying a bag of his belongings we knew his hopes for reconciliation had failed. Looking at that bag of “ﬆ uff ” caused a collect ive ﬆomach drop. One of the worﬆ, moﬆ painful and truly fi nal characteriﬆ ics of a break up is the returning of each other’s things. Depending on how long the relationship laﬆed, this can involve anything from a borrowed book to clearing the ex’s shirts, hoodies and jeans out of your wardrobe and his boxers out of your undies’ draw. At leaﬆ, it was the worﬆ and moﬆ final thing until the development of Facebook. The Joe Blows and Jane Does turning up single on the News Feed day in day out has to be one of the worﬆ and moﬆ painful characteriﬆ ics of contemporary social networks. A damn violation. I don’t care if there’s some hidden setting somewhere that allows you to keep this kind of information a little more private, it shouldn’t be a bloody default to share it. And what could be worse than this plebeian level of what we moﬆ often see on the cover of trash magazines? The idiots who think it’s appropriate to comment. Idiot Dickhead: “Omg! What happened?” Pretty Stupid: “Are you ok babe?” Big Gronk: “Nawwww that’s terrible! What happened? Let me know if you need anything.” Really? I mean, REALLY? Do these people expect a publicly aired response? Silly Twit: “Thanks guys :-( It was a really hard decision to make but it was for the beﬆ. He rings me crying all the time and I don’t know what to say to him. I mean, like, how can I help him with this? It’s not like it was easy for me.” Break ups are damn painful and as they can often leave us in vulnerable ﬆates, we generally tend to reveal these ﬆates to our neareﬆ and deareﬆ over several bottles of wine and Beyonce CDs where we can weep in peace. Not on bloody Facebook for the hoards of school friends we never see anymore and work colleagues we hardly know. What next Facebook? Bump Watch? Will tagged photos of myself innocently placing a hand on my ﬆomach automatically generate the caption Is She Pregnant? LIZ GALINOVIC

HOW DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR MC NAME? “Well, my real name is Chance – I think there’s something about bad puns and ‘ph’ f ’s that captured the 15 year old version of myself – Phrase and Drapht are working it too, ha ha.”

clip for Inkﬆains yeﬆerday involving about 60 litres of food coloured ﬂour water and Dulux, I ruined maybe three sets of clothes in total, I’m ﬆ ill picking paint out of my hair.” FAVOURITE COMEBACK LINE? “I don’t really do ‘lines’, I prefer awkward noncommital rambling.”

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN RAPPING? “Well, I’m 22 now, my ﬁ rﬆ on ﬆage appearance was battling at 16 – but I’d been dabbling (albeit poorly) before then.”

WHAT’S YOUR DREAM COLLABORATION? “Probably Death Cab For Cutie, this is only because my girlfriend would likely see ﬆ raight through the Katy Perry track.”

ARE YOU AFFILIATED WITH ANY CREW? “I Forget, Sorry!” WHAT CAN YOU REMEMBER ABOUT YOUR FIRST GIG? “It was launching a games room at a library in Glebe, there were three of us in my group at the time, there were two microphones both plugged into an oﬀ yellow speaker your grandma might use for Karaoke nights at hers. The crowd of 4-11 year olds were rapt with our performance and became life time

MCBOOTH PHATCHANCE fans, only one of them cried.” EVER EXCRETED ANY UNUSUAL FLUIDS BEFORE ROCKING A SHOW? “Not personally, but my ﬆage partner Coptic Soldier is a big fan of the cheeky spew, it only takes half a middie of light to get him going.” WHAT’S THAT ON YOUR SHIRT THERE? “Funnily enough, dried paint. We shot a

WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT THE LOCAL HIP-HOP SCENE? “Probably the diversity and competition, there’s such a small pie and so many talented artiﬆs vying for a piece that the overall sound and output is really impressive. Only a few years ago I found it a real challenge to ﬁnd local CDs I enjoyed, nowadays it’s a ﬆ ruggle to keep up with who is doing what – the younger generation are very innovative.

WHAT: Inkﬆains (Independent/Obese) WHERE & WHEN: Face Paint at Factory Theatre Friday 6 Auguﬆ

ABOUT TAKING IT UP A “THINKING NOTCH. NOT SURE HOW OR WHAT THAT MEANS BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD LIFE PLAN. ANY IDEAS?”

NOT SURE ELIZABETH BANKS – ONCE YOU’VE MADE A PORNO WITH SETH ROGEN YOU’VE PRETTY MUCH PEAKED.

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3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION THE FIRST DEGREE

PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA JULIA GILLARD (Auﬆ ralian Labor Party), 2010. The sudden and surprising appointment of Julia Gillard as Auﬆ ralia’s ﬁ rﬆ female Prime Miniﬆer had every one a little dazed and confused. The whole boning of K-Rudd was unsettling to say the leaﬆ, but to not revel in the elevation of a female to the top spot would be a real killjoy. Associating J-Gill with matchﬆ icks and Ronald McDonald was fun for a while but with her popularity dwindling rapidly in the midﬆ of an elect ion she will need more than girl power and comical hair to keep her running the country.

THE SECOND DEGREE

JULIA EURYTHMICS (Virgin Records), 1985. Julia was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A Stewart for the Eurythmics album 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother), which served as the soundtrack to the ﬁ lm 1984, an adaptation of the political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The character of Julia in the novel is a subversive member of the Junior Anti-Sex League.

THE THIRD DEGREE

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cindy Lauper (Epic), 1984. When George Orwell thoughtfully penned his dyﬆopic maﬆerpiece during the embittered 1940s he would undoubtedly have never imagined the ﬆate of excess, materialism and downright wacky experimentation that would act ually come to deﬁne American popular culture in 1984. Cydni Lauper’s Girls Juﬆ Want To Have Fun became a feminiﬆ anthem and was a worldwide smash hit giving the parents of teenage girls everywhere a huge headache. And her hair colour occasionally matches our PM’s.

UNDER SIDE

‘I-OVERDOSING’ i-Dosing is the lateﬆ craze for people who want to alter their consciousness, but who don’t have the phone numbers of any drug dealers. It’s one of those hyped up subﬆ itutes for taking drugs, like guarana, fi reworks displays and going to see Avatar when you’re drunk. It works on the same principle that says that if you are hungry, all you need to do is to look at photographs of food and you can feel full. Paranoid media reports laﬆ week directed us all to YouTube clips showing a young girl gripped by apparent terror. Others show kids shaking and deeply diﬆ ressed. Apparently these ‘digital drugs’ can alter the brain in similar ways to real narcotics. I had to experience i-Dosing for myself, so I went online and found something called ‘i-Dosing Oceanic Inversion’. In line with the inﬆ ruct ions, I turned off the lights, pulled a hoodie over my head and cranked up my speakers. I was prepared to experience total inversion and get high on the digital drug. It turns out ‘i-Dosing Oceanic Inversion’ is juﬆ a lame YouTube clip of shorelines and cliffs.In other words, ‘i-Dosing Oceanic Inversion’ is the nonﬆarter of the year. Do people honeﬆ ly believe they are getting high via the repetitive droning music and upsetting graphics? I think perhaps if you were Amish and you’d never seen a computer before and someone showed you ‘i-Dosing Oceanic Inversion’, you might feel slightly dizzy for a few seconds. But the reﬆ of us will have to look elsewhere for self-medication. Th e reason ‘i-Dosing’ is legally available and downloadable on the Internet is not because of some legal loophole.Th ey’re juﬆ not very good and they don’t do what they say they will.So say no to ‘i-Dosing’. Not because it’s dangerous, but because it is pathetic. If you’re that keen to get high, try making meth in your shower cubicle inﬆ ead. DAVE JORY 42 3DWORLD

RETRO/GRADE CHART 1. Pulsar RETRO/GRADE 2. Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) MIDNIGHT MAGIC 3. Moda RETRO/GRADE 4. Hupendi Muziki Wangu (You Don’t Like My Music) KID 5. You Are In My Syﬆem THE SYSTEM

6. The Congregation of Discalced Clerks MUGWUMP 7. Counter (Avanti Feat Bottin Remix) BEPPE LODA 8. Get it Right TENSNAKE 9. Hyperact ivity (Jacques Renault Remix) RONI NACHUM 10. Ruckus JAMIE JONES

We’re ending our three week tribute to Katy Perry with the cover art for her new album Teenage Dream, which drops Friday 27 Auguﬆ and is rumoured to be fairy ﬂoss scented. Now we’ve heard it all.

DJBOOTH

PATO DE GOMAH

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Yep, we fucked up laﬆ week, as we’re sure the eagle-eyed among you spotted. Our apologies to the local hip hop heores ﬆ ill very much known as Spit Syndicate, and our assurances to you all that the guilty party has been forced to liﬆen to nothing but the chick from Big Brother’s version of Underworld’s Underneath The Radar for the reﬆ of their days...

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR DJ NAME? “Every Patrick in Chile they call them Pato, and Pato means duck and Pato De Gomah means Rubber Duck.” IN A NUTSHELL, DESCRIBE WHAT YOU PLAY. “Progressive tech trance (music that makes babies – so wear protect ion, juﬆ ask your Mum).” WHAT TRACK TURNS YOU ON RIGHT NOW? “Armin Van Buuren – Full Focus (Extended Mix).” WHAT MADE YOU START DJING? “I previously juﬆ promoted parties and my beﬆ friend Tennille Scicluna heard me after a party

once, so she booked me to play at ARQ at A Night of Trance, the room was packed and I didn’t want to get oﬀ.” WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE SEEN IN A NIGHTCLUB? “Some guy jumped from the mezzanine to the main ﬂoor at Home and he was taken to hospital.” WHAT’S THE WORST BOOTLEG YOU’VE EVER HEARD? “Tricky Nation (Tricky Trick vs Zombie Nation).” THE MOST IDIOTIC REQUEST YOU’VE HAD AS A DJ? “Abba – Dancing Queen.”

WHERE & WHEN: Progression Project Second

Birthday at Tao Lounge Saturday 21 Auguﬆ, In Search Of Sunrise: South Africa at The Gaelic Saturday 4 September

YOUTUBE OF THE WEEK Ever wondered how to make a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months? Sure you have, and Harrison Krix has act ually done it. The cooleﬆ dork alive has documented the process with a three minute video of ﬆ ill pics cut to Aerodynamic, and it’s more epic than anything the French elect ro duo have done in a while – though the Tron: Legacy trailer tuenage they’ve concocted sounds pretty hot...

GUESTLIST

DJ DEF ROK

WEDNESDAY

ACER ARENA Winterbeatz: Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Big Boi.6.30pm. $79 + BF. BEACH RD HOTEL The Filth presents Sideshow:The Joy Formidable, Jinaja Safari, DJs. 8pm. Free. MANNING BAR Foals (UK). 8pm. METRO THEATRE Yeasayer. 8pm. Sold Out. THE EASTERN, BONDI Local DJs. Doors 8pm. $10 after 9pm. WORLD BAR The Wall. Art, music, comedy. Free.

THURSDAY THE ALBION Gasworks DJ Fresh and guests. Doors 9pm. Free. BIG TOP,LUNA PARK Goldfrapp.7-11pm. $89.90 + BF. BEACH RD HOTEL Local Swell King Tide.Doors 8pm. Free. ENMORE Band of Horses. 7.30pm. $61.50 + BF. YEASAYER

THE EASTERN, BONDI Circus: Local DJs. Doors 8pm. $10 after 11pm. THE GLADSTONE HOTEL Purple Sneakers: Doors 7pm. $12. LE PANIC Disslove, Undergroud House. Free Entry before 11pm.$10 after. JACKSON’S ON GEORGE Four ﬂoors of entertainment and DJ’s. Doors 9pm. Free. KIT & KABOODLE Falcona Fridays: Falcona DJs. Doors 10pm. $10. THE MARLBOROUGH HOTEL Wild Catz: Live band on ground ﬂoor, DJs on level one. Free. METRO THEATRE The Magic Numbers, Cloud Control. 8pm. $55 + BF. NORTHIES CRONULLA DJ Radish. OATLEY HOTEL Live music. Doors 8pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY AJAX, Singha, Joystixx, Le Night, Whatever Crew, Pillow & Knickers. 9pm. $15 at the door. OXFORD HOTEL The Polo Lounge: old-skool Chicago House. Mark Murphy (Spank! Records), Magda, Syd (Speakeasy). TANK RnB Superclub: DJs Def Rok, G-Wizard, Eko, Troy-T, Lilo and MC Jayson. Q BAR+ 34B Sosueme: Chum Bucket, Pregnancy, Bare Grillz, The Cadres, Aeons DJ set, Mike Who, Lonewolf, Kit Lennon, DJ wanted, SIDP. 8pm.$10. WORLDBAR Mum: Short Pance Romance, Institut Polaire, Vilains of Wilhelm, Indigo Rising, The Understudy, Spookyland, Ray Ray Ray & The Jetsons. 8pm. $15.

SATURDAY

THE GALIEC THEATRE Freshly Cut, Chaingain.8pm.$10 + BF. NORTHIES CRONULLA Arcade Thursdayz: Tobi V / Dj Matt Rossi 7pm. Free. METRO THEATRE Hell Yeah.8pm. $67.30 + BF OXFORD ART FACTORY Gallery: World’s End Press, DJ. Doors 8pm. Free. 0XFORD ART FACTORY Mission In Motion, Ladies & Gentlemen and Yell Yell rebellion.8pm.$10. WORLD BAR Teenage Kicks: Indie DJs. The Vines Djs, Vivienne Kingswood, El Mariachi, Johnny Segment & Urby Doors 8pm. Free. SHORE SCHOOL North Sydney Ken & Joan Smith Auditorium: Concert to End Slavery w/ special guest Tim Freedman (The Whitlams).$45.

FRIDAY 202 BROADWAY Destination: Napt,Peop De Pitte.$15-25. THE ALBION Gasworks:Nobby Grooves,DJ Karey. Doors 9pm. $10. THE ARGYLE House DJs. Doors 5pm. BEACH RD HOTEL Dust Tones: The Optimen (Out of Money album Launch), Gabriel Clouston, Undertow, Edseven. Doors 8pm. Free. THE COLLECTOR HOTEL Savage. 6pm. $13. OXFORD ART FACTORY Gallery World’s End Press, DJ. 8pm. Free. CANDY’S APARTMENT Liquid Sky: Matt Cant. 8pm. $10/$15. CHINESE LAUNDRY Bang Gang Deejays,Northie,Benson, ROFL, Typhonic , Sotiris $15 before 11pm, $25 after. CIVIC Good Sorts: Pablo Cahn. 10pm. $10-20. THE COLLINGWOOD HOTEL Fridays On Fire: DJ’s K-Note, Mac and Asadao, 9pm. $15.

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THE ALBION Gasworks: DJ’s Andy Marc, Matt Hoare. Doors 9pm. $10. THE ARGYLE House DJs. Doors 5pm. Free. THE BASEMENT Brazilian Funk Aﬀair: I Like it Like That Orchestra, Samba Soul Kingdom. 9pm.$25-30. ENMORE THEATRE Richards Ashcroft, The United Nations of Sound, Katy Steele. 8pm. $73.10 + BF. BEACH RD HOTEL Rex Bar: DJ MICHA. 9-12pm. Free. CANDY’S APARTMENT Ritual: Heat, Down n Dirty, Kitten. Doors 9pm. $15/$20. CARMEN’S Free before 9pm. $15 after. THE OPTIMEN

CHINESE LAUNDRY Jody Wisternoﬀ (UK), Jaytech, Black Noise (UK), Matt Cant, Sam scratch, Teejay, King Lee, Scott Wright, 9pm. $15-25. CIVIC UNDERGROUND Adult Disco, Doors 10pm. $10 before 12am, $15 after. THE COLLINGWOOD HOTEL Slinky Saturday: DJ Steve, DJ Trisha. Doors 9pm. $10. ESTABLISHMENT Sienna: DJ Def Rok, Troy-T, Lilo, G-Wizard, Eko, Zoo Rok, Elektroy & MC Jayson. 9pm. THE GAELIC CLUB School Of Seven Bells. 8pm. $38.50 + BF. THE METRO Midlake. Doors 8pm. $50 + BF. IVY Pure Ivy: Resident DJs. Doors 6pm. $20. JACKSON’S ON GEORGE Doors 9pm. Free. THE MARLBOROUGH HOTEL Live band on ground ﬂoor, DJs on level one. Free. MARRICKVILLE BOWLING & RECREATION CLUB Mad Racket: Disco Circus ft. Dean Dixon, Dave Fernandes. 10pm.$25 + BF. NORTHIES CRONULLA Khyle Frost / Dj Ryzie Rye. Doors 6.30pm. Free. OPERA BAR Groove Royale. Doors 8:30pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY Live Art Space/ Gallery: Double Dragon; ten Sydney bands and one from Melbourne.8pm.$2.30-5. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE Sapphire Saturdays. THE WATERSHED Sky Bar: Electro Mash-up DJs from 9:30pm. Free. WOODPORT INN Savage. 6pm. $13. WORLDBAR Wham: Mat Cant, Destroy Disco, Illya, Discopunx, Foundation, Danny Lang, Temneim, Saez, Gabriel Clouston, Daigo. 8pm. $15.

SUNDAY THE ALBION Sundayze with Fresh: DJ Fresh, DJ Adrian Allan, DJ Jorgie Jay. Doors 6pm. Free. BAR BONDI SOULed Out Sundays: Local DJs, Doors 7pm. Free. OXFORD ART FACTORY The Drums. 8pm. $38.50 + BF BEACH RD HOTEL Bondi Cultura: Tropical Jam. Doors 6pm. Free. NORTHIES CRONULLA Sunday Sets: From 6pm. Free. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE Free before 12am.

MONDAY MANNING BAR Two Door Cinema Club. 8pm. ENMORE THEATRE Jonsi, Seth Frightening. 8pm. $73.10 + BF. THE FORUM Passion Pit.8pm. $66 + BF.

IS PRO“DAM NOUNCED: ‘DAME’. IT’S SHORT 4 DAMON. ALL MY FRIENDS CALLED ME DAM(E) ALL MY LIFE. THE ‘E’ WAS DROPPED ‘CAUSE A ‘DAME’ IS A LADY.”

WE WISH DÂM-FUNK TWEETED THIS BEFORE HE TOURED OZ EARLIER THIS YEAR - WOULD HAVE MADE LIFE MUCH EAISER FOR DUMB JOURNOS AND WANNABE HIPSTERS ALIKE.

SPANK RECORDS CHART 1. She’s A Bad Beautiful Th ing GADI MIZRAHI & SOUL CLAP 2. Edit The Edit 2 GREG WILSON 3. Don’t Break It ZEV 4. La Pena #7 LA PENA 5. Vibes: New & Rare Music D RICK WILHITE PRESENTS URBAN TRIBE 6. Shelter JAY SHEPHEARD 7. Black Keith MRSK FROM SWEDEN 8. Down Is The New Up ANTONIO DE ANGELIS & ARNAUD LE TEXIER 9. Ghetto Disco GHETTO BROTHERS AKA BLAKE BAXTER & ORLANDO VOORN 10. House Of Trax Volume 5 VARIOUS

GIVEAWAYS DANCE MUSIC HUB CHART 1. What Is Love 2K9 (Bodybangers Remix) KLAAS MEETS HADDAWAY 2. The Revolution (Inﬆ rumental) KILL FRENZY 3. Sing Sing Sing (Yolanda be Cool & DCUP mix) JAZZBIT 4. Billy Jean At The Weekend (Extended Mix) LONDON DJS 5. Get Busy (Bernasconi & Farenthide Club Remix) LUKE PAYTON 6. Kids (Original Extended) ROBOKIDS 7. Maﬆer Plan KILL FRENZY 8. The Revolution KILL FRENZY 9. Atlantium NEIL QUIGLEY 10. Smooth Cock VEEMAN JANSSEN

NOT SO BAD IF YOU “DIARRHEA’S THINK OF IT AS “RECTAL NECTAR”.” THANKS TO ACTOR THESTEVEWEBER FOR THAT INSIGHT – WE BELIEVE “DUUUUUUUUDE” IS THE APPROPRIATE REACTION.

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BEN & JERRY’S PRIZE PACK When it comes to ice cream it doesn’t get much taﬆ ier than what Vermont company Ben & Jerry’s produce, so anyone with a sweet tooth will be very excited about this prize pack! As well as three pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, you‘ll get a bunch of Ben & Jerry’s merchandise including pens, poﬆcards, a bag, and your very own pint cozy to wrap around your tub so you can dig away until your heart (and ﬆomach) are content, without your hands getting cold – it is winter after all. For your chance to win, email your name, address and telephone number to giveaways@3dworld.com.au with ‘BEN & JERRY’S’ in the subject line.

K-OS DOUBLE PASS You’ve heard his recent album Yes!, you’ve read his interview in these pages, and now you’re keen to see him rock Oxford Art Facotry on Wednesday 4 Auguﬆ, right? Right! Well we have one double pass up for grabs. For your chance to win, email your name, address and telephone number to giveaways@3dworld.com. au with ‘K-OS’ in the subject line.

2010:A week-by-week AN ELECTION ODYSSEY guide to the 2010 elect ion campaign.

THE BAD

THE GOOD

LABOR

LIBERAL

GREENS

OTHER

Going up in the polls ‘coz Abbott proved popular in the The Lame Debate despite being booed on Red Faces earlier in the week.

Those same polls showing Abbot’s rise in popularity show the Greens as maybe scoring the balance of power in the Senate

The Speedo-clad proteﬆor. We believe this is known as highbrow ﬆ reaking.

Bucks for bombs. Gillard offers a rebate for trading in you old car for a more fuel efficient model. Woohoo, off to the scrapyard.

The Greens seem unlikely to direct all preference votes to Labor as initially expected. Oops!

Despite a promise to tear up Work Choices, Lib MP Bruce Bilson says they are ﬆ ill looking for a way to make it easier to dismiss workers. Watch him get shooshed this week.

THE UGLY

Bob Brown on his newfound support in Qld: “There are people leaning out of bars to say ‘G’day, Bob Brown, like what you do’.” Liﬆen closer next time, Bobby, they are probably yelling “Gay, Bob Brown!”

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Straight outta WTF: Gillard’s environmental focus group. Can you spell ‘cop out’?

The only thing ickier than Abbott discussing his thing for “ﬆ rong” women was him announcing that he wanted immigration numbers halved.

The big two bullies debateblocked the Greens.

The moﬆ crushing issue for the Chriﬆ ian Democrats? “Do you agree or disagree with Fred Nile’s Bill to ban face coverings in public?” They give “burka” as an example but will it include Halloween masks, motor cycliﬆ helmet visors and bridal veils?

Family Firﬆ’s Steve Fielding in the Senate: “Drug addicts and welfare cheats can go out there and get themselves pregnant and then after 20 weeks have an abortion and ﬆ ill pocket the government’s cash.”

TWEETER OF THE WEEK

@SPROCKETLOVE Tip: Bruce Springﬆeen is good love making music. 5:07 AM Jul 18th via TweetDeck Tip: If a person you know is being diﬃcult, assume they secretly love you then walk away. They deserve it. 6:18 AM Jul 17th via Twitter for iPhone If your secret admirer emails you saying they don’t like you anymore it means they want you baaaaaad. 2:29 AM Jul 15th via Twitter for iPhone Glenn Shorrock is currently touring. Now THAT is a good night out. 2:39 PM Jul 14th via Twitter for iPhone Tip: Return her pet cat before you forget to feed it. 1:47 AM Jul 14th via Twitter for iPhone In your down time, think of cool names for yourself such as ‘chad’, ‘ice’ and ‘keith’ 1:42 AM Jul 14th via Twitter for iPhone Put on some Boyz2Men. Sit, and watch the butter melt. Then make some toaﬆ. And lather it in jam. That, my friends, is love. 1:37 AM Jul 14th via TweetDeck Spice things up in the bedroom. Do the hokey pokey. That’s what it’s all about. 11:08 PM Jul 13th via TweetDeck In the mood for romance tonight? Win her heart by covering everything in red satin. Have candles. Satin is inﬂammable, it doesn’t burn. 11:01 PM Jul 13th via TweetDeck

FLOORED

SPIT SYNDICATE GAELIC THEATRE: 24.07.10 Spit Syndicate’s Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice have the type of charisma that money juﬆ can’t buy. It’s a quality that permeates their musical ﬆ yle and is one of the many reasons why their sophomore album Exile has been embraced by audiences far and wide. It was no surprise that their album launch at the Gaelic Club in Sydney turned out to be a sold out event. Following two impressive sets by local support acts Skryptcha and Thundamentals, DJ Joyride warmed up an already eager audience with tracks from The Tongue, Biggie Smalls and Lil Wayne. Opening with the downtempo Exhale, Spit Syndicate hit the ﬆage in full force managing to win over the audience before their ﬁ rﬆ lyrics were out. Exile banger Crooks and Crimes Scenes was next, followed by the upbeat Showtime which had the entire venue bouncing along to create a truly celebratory atmosphere. Dolled up ladies of the front row were particularly excited when the boys launched into their dreamy ode, Pretty Girls Make Graves. A purple bra thrown on ﬆage for Nick was a clear indication of one fan’s enthusiasm. Other highlights of the performance included the hip hop tribute track Kings Only and a freeﬆ yle interlude where Nick and Jimmy showcased their lyrical talents. An honourable mention muﬆ go to the multi-talented DJ Joyride who brought

MOBILE PHONE DISCO

With the rise and rise of disco by the hour it’s getting so you are shamed in public if you aren’t on the bandwagon, so here are some helpful tips for taking the disco vibe with you everywhere. DIAL-A-DISCO Download the Crazy Disco app to have a mirrorball at your ﬁngertips any time, you can ﬁnd it on ezone but only if…. The disco lights you downloaded from appﬆorehq aren’t blinding you. No more harch comedowns as your weekend continues on the Monday’s bus ride to work. KID DISCO Fried your brain on the weekend? Then try Disco Dancin’ Wubbyz. Not only does it keep the disco alive but as the whacked-out discodancing Wubby is act ually designed as a kids’ memory game, it’s educational too! 50 3DWORLD

the show to life with his soulful backing vocals, keyboard playing and deft mixing. A lengthy encore consiﬆing of tracks Weapon Of Choice, Here Today Gone Tomorrow and ﬁnally Contour Lines wrapped up the show well. Still burﬆ ing with energy, Nick, Jimmy and Joyride remained on ﬆage lavishing their audience with thanks while dancing to Kanye’s Celebration. After a very busy month of shows around the country Spit Syndicate really did it big for Sydney, and their home town could not have been more pleased. AMBER MCCORMICK

MAKE YOUR OWN DISCO The EasyMix phone app has been described as “sequencing for the lazy”. That’s a good thing, right? It’s a virtual desk with loops and samples suppled. And hey, it does the timing, rhythms and sync for you. DISCO FINGERS Here’s the pitch: “Digit Disco is a disco dancemat for your fingers.” Who can resiﬆ? Find this app at wattonearth.com. JUST JUNO Or, you could juﬆ bookmark the Juno site on your phone and grab from their disco download chart every week. May we suggeﬆ this week: 40 Th ieves’ Don’t Turn It Off ; Jimmy Edgar’s Hot Raw Sex or Den Haan’s Burning Cock Theme. Or local cuts from Toni Toni Lee and Agent 86. [But the flashing lights will enhance the experience.]

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR DJ NAME? “Kael was a self appointed nickname I used in high school and work. I juﬆ told everyone it was my middle name to ﬆop them asking queﬆ ions, I juﬆ liked the sound of it, so I used it inﬆead of my real laﬆ name.”

DJBOOTH DANIEL KAEL

IN A NUTSHELL, DESCRIBE WHAT YOU PLAY. “All kinds of house – Dutch, elect ro, progressive, tech.”

was cool back then to eight-year-olds, and I would tell everyone “ima be a dj when I grow up”. At that time Tiëﬆo was my idol.” WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE SEEN IN A NIGHTCLUB? “A guy doing pushups in the middle of the danceﬂoor.” WHAT’S THE WORST BOOTLEG YOU’VE EVER HEARD? “Sexy Bitch David Guetta and Sexy Bitch Dirty South Remix – why?”

WHAT TRACK TURNS YOU ON RIGHT NOW? “DJ Bam Bam – Bonaﬁde Huﬆ ler.”

THE MOST IDIOTIC REQUEST YOU’VE HAD AS A DJ? “I haven’t really had any requeﬆs that are that bad that I can remember. Moﬆ of the crowds I’ve played for have been pretty cool and liked what I liked.”

WHAT MADE YOU START DJING? “Two older brothers used to drill trance and techno into me as a little kid. I used to liﬆen to that while everyone at school was into Britney Spears or whatever WHERE & WHEN: Wreak Havoc at Greenwood Hotel

Saturday 14 Auguﬆ, Soho Friday 20 Auguﬆ

ARIA CLUB CHART 1. Gotta Make A Move HOOK N SLING FEAT SNOB SCRILLA 2. One (Your Name) SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA FEAT PHARRELL 3. Phazing (Tiëﬆo mix) DIRTY SOUTH 4. Elevated (Dabruck & Klein/Club Mix) TV ROCK & TARA MCDONALD 5. California Gurls (Armand Van Helden/Passion Pit/ MSTRKRFT mix) KATY PERRY FEAT SNOOP DOGG 6. The Bum Song TOMMY TRASH & TOM PIPER 7. Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B mix) ADRIAN LUX 8. ADD SUV (Armand Van Helden mix) UFFIE FEAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS 9. Freefallin’ (TV Rock/Denzal Park Mix) ZOË BADWI 10. 3am Eternal (Lorne Padman/Stonebridge mix) MIND ELECTRIC

MY BAD

You know the Global Financial Crisis (AKA GFCoiii) is over when an invite arrives for party called Clicquot In The Snow. I should be there right now. But, I’m not. All by myself. Don’t wanna be all by myself! When I received the invite I frantically searched for fl ights and hotels in Th redbo, but was I going to fork out a coupla K juﬆ so I can rub shoulders with 80 Sydney, umm, “A-Liﬆers” and drink champagne till the sun goes down over Mt Bulla? I wasn’t going to miss this party of the year. Oh no. I wasn’t. I don’t care that I’m nearly $20,000 in debt. I muﬆ. I muﬆ. I muﬆ increase my buﬆ. Weﬆ pac? Help me out here, will ya? As I type this, those 80 lucky baﬆards are sipping away on free Clicquot and skiing down those soft powdery white slopes. I sit here; writing this to you, dear readers. Don’t get me wrong. I love you all greatly. But, let’s face it. I should be there. Shouldn’t I? No, Weﬆ pac didn’t help me out. Apparently, I’m not allowed an increase on my credit card or a new one. What’s a guy supposed to do? I love a little bit of luxury, what of it? I like dining out. I love parties. I like going to the movies, Gold Class of course – who doesn’t like sipping on a pinot while watching Leo Di Caprioska’s lateﬆ lament?) Why do I have to suffer juﬆ because I like the finer things in life? If it wasn’t for me, the GFCoiii would ﬆ ill be happening. In the paﬆ year alone, I have injected a good amount of money into this economy. Yes – moﬆ of that was credit from Weﬆ pac, but, I put it all back. That’s what I was intending to do in Th redbo! Dressed in my matching pink & black ski outfit with fur trim – I give Kerri-Anne Kennel a good run for her money! Th is morning I woke up to five texts from people at the event, asking me where I was and saying that I should be there. Yes, I know. I should. You don’t have to rub it in, peeps. I hope you’re all there drinking yellow snow. ROO

TUBETIME The incredible world of television with 5SPROCKET

Hey Hey It’s Saturday (Channel 9) allows us to look back as a nation to the happier year of 1986, when foreigners weren’t welcome and handicapped midgets on push-bikes were comedy gold. Hoﬆed by an oﬆ rich puppet and a man who injects smiles, its rapid fi re wit is a incapacitating blaﬆ to the brain segment that regiﬆers taﬆe. It isn’t juﬆ sexiﬆ puns that make this a hit at the RSL club - even more hilarity comes through frequent ‘silly’ sound effects (like a whip!), caricatures, a man in a duck suit on a bicycle, and Russell Gilbert, who is apparently ﬆ ill alive. Like a delicious cuﬆard tart that has been left in the sun and force fed to a person with no jaw, it is unpleasant viewing that only Tony Abbott could condone. I’m sure there was an era for quality programming like Hey Hey, but thankfully the people who like this shit are all dead. But in case they aren’t all dead, there is Border Patrol (Channel 7). Unlike the home-grown Cuﬆoms, which is evidence of our Government protect ing our precious land girt by sea, this is a New Zealand based show so it is difficult to care. Diver cops inveﬆ igate an underwater drug ship, gearing up in a room that has a Poﬆ-it reading, “Do not ﬆart on engines - divers at work”. Meanwhile, an unwelcome lizard makes its home in a factory and the bat-phone rings. Quarantine officer Daryl McSkimming decides to fume out the area and nuke the fuckin’ thing. At this time, a dog sniffs out a meat sandwich in an airport and was promoted to the position of Chief Commissioner. “The little dog found the sandwich, madam”. New Zealand may have found its version of The Wire. If you have ever wanted to laugh at the folly of wealthy, white Americans, you couldn’t do much better than Monﬆ er Moves (SBS). In this show, couples commission a team of expert house movers to move their priceless mansion to an impossibly difficult place. A team of toothless grinning yokels in hardhats saw a 200-year-old heritage site in half, chasing after runaway cranes and sinking homes through sheer incompetence. In desperation, the home owners cry, “well, at leaﬆ the carpets aren’t ruined” before they explode into flames, sink, and are spat on accidentally, all of which were predicted in a snappy animated sequence moments before. 52 3DWORLD

FILMREVIEWS

INCEPTION

It’s not often Hollywood goes with a crazy idea. We’ve come to rely on the ﬆ udios to produce book adaptations, comic book adaptations, video game adaptations, even fi lm adaptations… Seeing the pattern here? Hollywood doesn’t like coming up with original ideas anymore. So in Chriﬆopher Nolan – a non-Hollywood visioniﬆ working in the Hollywood syﬆem – we have this generation’s George Lucas or Steven Spielberg; a director that’s taken a hold of the baton passed on by the once-great Ridley Scott; a man creating intelligent act ion drama. Whilﬆ not taking anything away from the excellent Batman franchise that Nolan has made his own, you can tell Inception is Nolan’s pet project – and Warner Bros. want to keep their number one director happy, which means going againﬆ the current tidal wave of celluloid shit and releasing something that act ually makes you think. And make you think, it does. So much so that Nolan dedicates the firﬆ half of the fi lm to exposition, the characters setting up the labyrinthine second half – certainly one of the greateﬆ (and longeﬆ) set pieces ever captured on fi lm. The conﬆant explanation of what’s going on – or what’s about to go on – does get a little tiresome, its hip caﬆ throwing lines at each other like characters from a Richard Linklater fi lm, but the visual splendour that accompanies these moments – the scene where Paris folds in on itself being the perfect example – is simply awe-inspiring. The Matrix heralded the beginning of the laﬆ decade; Inception launches act ion fi lms into the next. Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a trained thief in the art of extract ing information from people’s dreams, is hired by a Japanese businessman (Ken Watanabe) to do the opposite: plant an idea in rival businessman Robert Fischer’s (Cillian Murphy) mind, to split up his father’s company. Cobb enliﬆs a team of extractors (Joseph GordonLevitt and Tom Hardy), an architect (Ellen Page), and a chemiﬆ (Dileep Rao) to enter Fischer’s dream, and it’s from here the details get complicated – often batshit crazy, in fact – as dreams within dreams are entered, and it becomes rather difficult to keep track of what exact ly is going on, as scenarios crumble around us. But that’s part of what makes

the fi lm such a thrill ride. (Watching how what’s happening in the ‘real’ world impacts the dreams is a nice trick.) If Chriﬆopher Nolan made his mark with 2000’s Memento, and then cemented his reputation as one of this generation’s beﬆ directors with The Dark Knight (2008), Inception more than suggeﬆs fi lm ﬆ udents in the years to come will be dissect ing the Brit’s ideas - which draw on the themes of classic maﬆerpieces Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey - and techniques in ﬆ udying one of the medium’s fineﬆ. And the moﬆ exciting part is that his career is only in its infancy. WHERE & WHEN:

Screening in cinemas now DCR

GAMEON With 5SPROCKET

TELSTRA T-BOX

In this confusing age of television, internets and spacebook there is a need for a product that simplifies it all, taking us back to the glory days of Microsoft Encarta. Say hello to the Telﬆ ra T-Box, a black brick that aims to revolutionise home entertainment by taking it back to remedial basics. With internet connect ivity, television receiver, a hard drive recorder, and on-demand movies, it is a ﬆ unning piece of technology for the parent who is terrified of email and video ﬆores. It is a device for the family – something to get the kids away from the PC and in front of the TV where they belong. The T-Box is simple enough to set up and use within 20 minutes – all you need is a television set, a BigPond internet connect ion and no common sense. To use the T-Box you will need an internet connect ion – BigPond is the recommended provider simply because it can’t be used with anyone else. Access to the internet is either ‘metered’ or ‘unmetered’, which lets you know if what you are watching contributes to your monthly download usage limit. One of the major selling points of the T-Box is ‘BigPond Movies’, a video rental on-demand service. No more going to the video ﬆore! With a simple click of a button and charge to your credit card, you can access one of over 1300 titles (no porn). No more late fees! Because once you’ve hit play on the fi lm it deletes it in two days. This is a good idea until your Dad learns how to torrent. The T-Box also features an interface to see clips on YouTube, access to which is ‘metered’. Of course with YouTube clips being in variable quality from ﬆandard definition to fucking horrid, the experience can be a mixed bag. To

search for a clip on YouTube, all you need to do is type in the search word and hit go! Typing in a word on your remote is time consuming – for example, hit the number 3 twice for the letter ‘F’. However, the YouTube viewing experience is not the same on the T-Box, as it neglects to feature all the comments of witty abuse, which is half the fun. A further feature of the T-Box is the digital TV tuner and hard drive recorder. You can pause live TV and record shows to a 320 GB hard drive, so you will never miss an episode of your favourite freeto-air shows such as Ellen, Meerkat Manor or Heartbeat. Which brings us to BigPond TV, a handful of channels that feature news, sports and music

videos. While it is branded as a ‘BigPond’ channel, moﬆ of the content is repackaged from other places (the news is from SkyNews, the sport is from other TV networks). It is also broadcaﬆ in throat-gagging ﬆandard deﬁnition because it was never designed for the HDTV set at all – they were initially BigPond’s live internet ﬆ reaming channels. One of the major selling points is the T-Box’s easy to use remote. Cordless, with volume and channel controls and direct ional buttons, the remote is sleek, elegant, and exact ly the same as every other fucking remote control in the world. Selling an ‘easy-to-use’ remote control is about the same as saying a DVD has an interact ive menu; that food comes as edible; that air can also be breathed. The Telﬆ ra T-Box doesn’t do much, and it doesn’t even do that very well. The beﬆ feature about it is watching free to air TV in high deﬁnition, which if you own a HDTV comes anyway. If you are an idiot, buy this. If you do not know how a TV works, buy this. If you are afraid of the internet, buy this. Otherwise you have the right to laugh riotously at any person ﬆ upid enough to buy this 1995-era contraption, including your parents. The Telﬆ ra T-Box is available to purchase outright for $299*, or available as park of a bundle with your current Telﬆ ra plan. *Min coﬆ for T-Box is $908.35 based on T-Box, BigPond 2GB Elite ADSL $49.95/ mth over 12 months and $9.95 delivery fee. Cuﬆomers with an exiﬆ ing eligible BigPond Broadband service can pay $299 to buy the T-Box outright.

TECHNO SCAPE

INTHESTUDIO INTHE STUDIOWITH...

With JEAN POOLE

TEN TECHNOLOGIES TO FIX ENERGY AND CLIMATE Unimpressed by the climate policies on offer for Auﬆ ralia’s upcoming elect ion? You need to read Chris Goodall’s book with the above title ($25, allenandunwin.com). The Executive Summary? Shifting from the ‘shackles of fossil fuel dependence’ to a lowcarbon economy is juﬆ like the transition from VHS to DVD. Kind-of. ACTUALLY... As Goodall notes in his introduct ion, it’d be a miﬆake to frame the transition away from fossil fuels as anything but immensely difficult. The laﬆ century of induﬆ rialised oil burning has an enormous infraﬆ ruct ure built up around it, and it will take a long, long time before we are able to shift away from it. That said, he does manage to paint a compelling pict ure of how we could successfully combine new technologies and a variety of energy reduct ion initiatives. That anyone can write a book in this arena, and come off sounding even vaguely optimiﬆ ic, is commendable in itself. RECOMMENDED TECH The liﬆ can probably be guessed, but Goodall’s skill is in usefully framing the technologies and the problems surrounding their more widespread implementation, while noting realiﬆ ic limits and expectations. Wind and solar take up the fi rﬆ two chapters, and while success ﬆories are pointed to, he also mentions that even in a beﬆ case scenario they will ﬆ ill supplement rather than replace fossil fuels. MORE ENERGIES From where else? The ocean (tides, waves, currents, temperature differences). From our homes (fuel cells and micro generators of power that allow us to harness the heat too, inﬆead of losing moﬆ of it at power plants). From savings within super-efficient homes and electric cars. Motor fuels from cellulose – which means land battles ahoy (600 million cars competing for the food needs of 6.6 billion people), though potentially combined with carbon sequeﬆering (burying carbon) in ways that both improve soil and food yields, as well as reduce carbon footprints. MIA? Goodall explains in his epilogue why he didn’t include nuclear power ﬆations (bad economics), geoengineering (need to research but not prioritise now)and energy efficiency (not really a technology) in his liﬆ of technologies, and manages to end on a note of optimism. JEAN POOLE

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PABLO CAHN

WHAT ARTISTS OR RECORDS REALLY GRABBED YOUR ATTENTION WHEN YOU STARTED OUT? “It was moﬆ ly Jeﬀ Mills – Live at The Liquid Room – Tokio that grabbed my attention, I was like ‘what the fuck is that?!’ I had heard some of the more commercial dance ﬆ uﬀ on the radio in Colombia before that and I had a bit of a liking for it but it wasn’t until I heard some proper techno that something switched inside my mind. Th is was a time where EDM in Colombia was pretty much unheard of and there was only a very tiny scene, which I joined ﬆ raight away!” BEING COLOMBIAN YOU’VE GOT A PRETTY RICH MUSICAL HERITAGE TO DRAW FROM, HOW MUCH OF THAT ACTUALLY FILTERS BACK INTO YOUR MUSIC? “The Latin ﬆ yles of

music that comprise my musical heritage, like Salsa and Cumbia, have a very ﬆ rong emphasis on things like rhythm, groove and syncopation. I believe the same kind of emphasis is very present when writing tracks.” IS THE COMBINATION OF HOUSE, TECHNO AND TRADITIONAL LATIN MUSIC LIKELY TO HAVE MUCH LONGEVITYBEYOND CURRENT TRENDS? “I think the whole ‘Latin vocal conga house’ thing is juﬆ a recycled trend that was also popular a few years back and will probably come back in 10 years or so. However, I believe it is possible to make Latin-inspired music outside of this trend, like for example that record Valparaiso by Argenis Brito and Los Updates that came out recently.” WHERE DO YOU DRAW INSPIRATION FROM WHEN WRITING YOUR GROOVES AND HOW DO YOU RELAX INTO A FLOW IN THE STUDIO? “Sometimes I may be liﬆening to some Afrobeat or whatever and get a musical idea from that, other times it would be after a long weekend of partying and so on. When writing tracks, I always make sure that I have a groove that can play over and over again without it getting too boring too quickly, and that’s when I know I have a ﬆ rong foundation on which to build the track. As for the flow, I act ually don’t have a way of relaxing into one or at leaﬆ haven’t found one yet. Some of my ideas develop easily but I can get completely ﬆ uck while working on other and this results in loads of unfinished tracks buried in the depths of my hard drives.” DO YOU SAMPLE A LOT OR DOES SYNTHESIS TEND TO EXCITE YOU MORE? “I use both act ually. Using acouﬆ ic samples is nice because it creates a nice ‘real’ organic aeﬆ hetic in your tracks, which is kind of the sound I aim at moﬆ of the time, but it it is also possible to create organic sounding ﬆ uff through synthesis. By using both you create

a nice whole where both samples and synthesis contraﬆ but complement each other at the same time. As for the basslines, I usually use synth sub bass combined with tuned low-pitched percussions like toms and ﬆ uff like that but sometimes depending on the whatever track I may be working on I use other techniques like fi ltered disco/ funk loops, sampled basslines...” WHAT RELEASES DO YOU HAVE ON THE HORIZON? “I have a remix coming up on Riva Starr’s new label Snatch! Recordings and another one for TripTrax, a label from my friend in Switzerland. Also working on a full EP for Cadenza that I hope to finish in the near future. As for collaborations I have a couple of tracks with Cesar that are crying to be finished for a while now and hopefully will soon!” WHO: Pablo Cahn WHERE & WHEN:

Good Sorts at Civic Friday 30 July

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LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME YOU ARE THE FIFTH MOST POPULAR FASHION BLOGGER IN THE WORLD. IS THIS TRUE?

“Pish! Try the fifth most hated blogger in the world.” HOW DO YOU COPE WITH THE FAME? “Like most bobble-headed celebrities, I self-medicate.” WHAT MADE YOU GO FROM BLOGGING ABOUT SHOES AT WWW.IMELDA.COM.AU TO MEN’S FASHION ON WWW. THESTYLE TYRANT.COM? “After four years I realised I was fast becoming the old fag who lived in the shoe (blog) and it was time to diversify. Last year I trialled one of Sony’s Alpha DSLR cameras during the Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival (MSFF), after I returned the camera Sony spoke to me about the possibility of giving me a camera so I could extend my work. There was a massive gap in blogosphere for a quality men’s street style blog that needed filling.” WHO CHOSE THE WORD ‘BLOG’? IT’S NEARLY AS BAD AS ‘LOGIE’? “According [to] Wikipedia, ‘the term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog”, was coined by Peter Merholz who jokingly broke the word “weblog” into the phrase “we blog” in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams Pyra Labs used “blog” as both a noun and verb (“to blog,” meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”) and devised the term “blogger” in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.’” WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN A ‘LOGIE’? “Yes! Then I’d use it to beat yo ass to the curb for asking such a stoopid question!” WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALF ON HOME AND AWAY? “I’d like to get him fucked-up on Quaaludes and take him fishing.”

TELL ME ABOUT THAT INFAMOUS SEE-THROUGH RAINCOAT YOU HAVE? “Well, it’s a see-through blazer (not a raincoat) but I can see how you’d be confused. It’s from Subfusco’s spring/ summer ‘10/’11 collection, I like the creepy paedo/flasher-vibe it adds to my wardrobe.” SOME PEOPLE IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY PISS ME OFF. DO THEY PISS YOU OFF? “Sometimes but I save the hate for slow-walkers and gingerhaired children.” WHAT’S AUSTRALIA’S OBSESSION WITH THE DISCO DRESS ABOUT? “I assume it’s about releasing your inner-slut (I know that’s what it’s about when I shoe horn my gams into a disco dress) but bay-bay, I’m a footwear virtuoso so I’m not really qualified to answer that!”

MEET MATTHEW JORDAN. HE’S THE FIFTH-BEST FASHION BLOGGER IN THE WORLD. RUPERT NOFFS DISCOVERS THE SYDNEY-BASED WRITER WANTS TO SLIP A MICKEY TO HOME AND AWAY’S ALF SO HE CAN WIN A LOGIE FOR HIMSELF.

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MUSICIANS AVAILABLE

KEYBOARIST /RHYTHM GUITARIST

OTHER PRO TROMBONIST AVAILABLE Professional Trombone player available for gigs, session and tours. Jazz, Funk, Latin, Pop, Rock and Classical. Can sight read, improvise and write parts. Contact Brendan 0409833827. iFlogID: 4099

SAXOPHONIS AVAILABLE Experienced saxophonist is looking for bands and studio sessions. Jazz, funky, afro, reggae, latin, rock, folk. If interested contact me at 0410041979. Cheers. Lorenzo iFlogID: 2848

SAXOPHONIST AVAILABLE Experienced saxophonist based in Sydney is looking for bands and studio sessions. Jazz, funky, afro, reggae,latin, rock, folk. If interested contact me at 0410041979. Cheers. Lorenzo iFlogID: 4974

SINGER JASON AYRES Acoustic Pop-Rock Specialist -www.jasonayres.comiFlogID: 5777

MUSICIANS WANTED DJ DJS WANTED Are you or someone you know still banging away in their bedroom. Ready for a serious DJ residency? We’re looking for three DJ’s ready for weekly events. All styles welcome. Send a demo to Dave 195 Parramatta Rd Homebush, NSW 2140 iFlogID: 6422

KEYBOARD COVERBAND REQUIRE KEYS Sydney based, agent backed coverband requires a keyboardist. We are looking for ages 18 - 35 yrs, and we are playing modern covers. Must have good gear, own transport able to gig most fri / sat nights. Please send your details to brotherbooth@gmail.com iFlogID: 5903

KEYBOARD PLAYER NEEDED Keyboard player wanted, backing vocals a plus. Own transport a must. Must have good gear and experience. We are currently a Sydney 3 piece looking at expanding to 5 piece. Think most bands on the creation records and 4AD labels. Contact Sam on 0415292247 and listen to us on www.myspace.com/ ourpendingname iFlogID: 6313

KEYBOARD PLAYER NEEDED Keyboard player wanted, backing vocals a plus. Own transport a must. Must have good gear and experi-

Rich Uncle Skeleton is looking for a keyboardist/rhythm guitarist all rounder to expand our sound. We need someone who is able to write new parts over the songs off our debut album and co-write new material. Think Radiohead and NIN style keyboards and fairly simple rhythm guitar parts. Good gear and own transport essential, backing vocals a bonus. We have a nationally distributed album, major label interest and interstate gigs on the way. www.myspace.com/ richuncleskeletonband contact Fox on 0408739583 or email foxofss@ gmail.com iFlogID: 6278

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

PIANIST/KEYBOARD PLAYER WANTED Singer/songwriter seeks Keyboard player/Pianist, guitarist and drummer to record demos and jam with view to gig. Influences include Smiths, Paul Kelly, Sundays, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake... Located inner city. email me at ilanrl@hotmail.com or call 0450024690. iFlogID: 6103

SINGER GOSPEL SINGERS WANTED Five world-class passionate vocalists wanted for a Gospel music CD project. Must have beautiful, passionate, powerful and devotional delivery. iFlogID: 3585 NORTH SHORE BASED GOSPEL BAND NEEDING SINGERS WHO CAN DANCE FOR AUDITIONS CONTACT BEN 99444984 OR snapper_watson@hotmail.com iFlogID: 5919

SINGER-DANCERS WANTED! SINGER DANCERS WANTED FOR THE FLAMBOYANT Saba ‘FEELING FEMININE’ SHOWS! STYLISH ELECTRO-POP CABARET! THE MORE FLAMBOYANT THE BETTER! CALL SABA: 0410-450-375. CALL BEN: 0410-344-107. iFlogID: 3824

VOCALIST / MC WANTED Male or female vocalist or MC wanted for sydney based Downtempo, trip hop, dark moody beat project. Influences are from right across the musical spectrum so pretty much anything goes. If you are interested in getting creative and collaborating then please send a demo to itsmaximillion@gmail. comiFlogID: 6346

SONG WRITER

MUSICIAN & BAND WEBSITES

SONGWRITER / MUSICIANS WANTED

Create your presence online and get noticed. Sydney based web designers are here to help you create and design your website with ease. We specialise in building websites that work. When you hire us to design your website we’ll give you a product that looks great and that actually works for your business or service. Packages start from $400 Call Richard or Kelly on 0424 125 169 iFlogID: 6665

Musicians wanted to write songs with for upcoming 80’s pop/rock project, decent guitar/keyboard ability a must. iFlogID: 6339

SERVICES BEAUTY SERVICES BEAUTY WEBSITE: COVETED CANVAS If you love beauty, you’ll love Coveted Canvas! We’re the beauty website for you, with tips and tricks, product reviews, salon reviews, competitions, insider advice and a personalised Q&A section like no other. With info spanning from hair to makeup, skin to nails, if it’s beauty related you’ll find it on Coveted Canvas. www.covetedcanvas. wordpress.com iFlogID: 6341

SPRAY TANS $25 @ COOGEE Tans by Tahni located at Coogee is offering a Thursday special of $25 for a 2hr sunless contour spray tan. Tahni uses Australia’s Naked Tan, botanical based professional formulation which involves a 10min salon application with wash & wear in just 2hrs. Tahni’s professional approach, warm personality will help you feel relaxed. She also offers a loyalty card, and Naked tan products to hydrate and nourish your skin giving you a longer lasting gorgeous tan. For a booking call Tahni on 0414 895 645. iFlogID: 6153

GRAPHIC DESIGN 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

AFFORDABLE GRAPHIC DESIGN We can promote your band with great design for a great rate! We specialise in great promotion and killer design on a limited budget. Our services include posters, logos, adverts, programs, album covers, Shirt design, illustration, flyers, websites and much more. www. melissahowarddesign.com 0402 796 254 iFlogID: 5881

FULL COLOUR POSTERS Visit our website for an extensive price list and other services! iFlogID: 6348

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

MYSPACE BAND PROFILE FROM 200$ I’m starting a new business in CSS programming and I’m willing to charge very cheap to gather some folio with customized myspace profiles. This price will certanly increase after some productions, so be quick to not loose the oportunity. To know more about my work visit www.fugadalula.com.br/blog To quote: renato@fugadalula.com. br Thanks! iFlogID: 6481

OTHER FRESH TEES - SCREEN PRINTING T-shirts, Hoodies, Caps, Polos, Screen Printing, Direct 2 Garment, Transfers Embroidery, Artwork Design,0415 139 056 info@freshtees.com.au iFlogID: 6027

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

MULTIMEDIA FOR MUSICIANS Reapers Image Design. All your multimedia needs met-logos,cd art & layout design,posters,stickers,video editing & filming,DVD construction, Multimedia solutions. Cheapest rates in Melbourne, we’ll beat any other legitimate quote. reapersimagedesign.com.au <http://reapersimagedesign.com.au>0417 393 706 iFlogID: 5849

MUSIC VIDEOS Bands who have recently made videos with us include El Duende, Line Drawings and Grace Before Meals. Get your band on Rage and Youtube, or make a video for your myspace page. Fantastic concepts and slick production that wont break your budget. See examples of our videos on facebook.com/ dynamic.screen.content Call Darrin on 0413555857 (we’re based in Sydney) iFlogID: 6681

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

PHOTOGRAPHER AVAILABLE

Recently returned from Japan where I worked semi-pro doing portraiture, fashion,editorial and music photography. Covered local punk,rock, horror-metal gigs in Tokyo as well as doing shots for album covers/inlays and promo material. Looking to establish myself here in Sydney. Using Nikon professional gear and photoshop(CS3) ,Lightroom and Capture one for post-production. Very reasonable rates. iFlogID: 5973

PHOTOGRAPHY Global Sanctuary Photography are currently running their yearly May, June and July specials. To name a few people we have shot: John Mayer, Jimmy Barnes, Iva Davies, Cruel Sea, Panic at the Disco, Human Nature, Killing Heidi and Delta Goodrem. We come to you on location or at your gig or come to our awesome warehouse studio at Botany. Studio style or grungy warehouse, the choice is yours. We are creative and easy going producing quality work using canon pro gear. Call us on 0416 144 277 or email us at globalsanctuary@ mac.com. Visit www.globalsanctuary.biz iFlogID: 4518

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ART CLASSES Art classes which focus on refining your drawing skills technically but as importantly re-designing your whole orientation as to what drawing is for you, and why you are doing it. Working with a very experienced mentor, these classes provide an ideal way to upgrade everything about how you draw, and additionally fast tracks a new folio of drawing works for you. Whether for fun or professional development, these classes will open new perceptual and expressive pathways in your art making and beyond. iFlogID: 6568

food,entertainmet,accommidation and 3 islands!Early booking discounts.Go www.djbootcamp.com. au to book 95472578 info. Sails August 29, 2010 iFlogID: 4498

P&O’S DJ CRUISE SETS SAIL SOON Australia’s first professional DJ Cruise sets sail in just a few months. We still have a few cabins available. One Price includes Food, room, entertainment and 5 days of DJ Training with Australia’s only award winning and Apra endorsed DJ School The DJ/MC Bootcamp. All gear will be supplied, plus book this month and get $75 bucks of on board spending credit. Call 0295472578 or log on to www. djbootcamp.com.au to book. Be a part of history, Australia’s first Professional DJ Cruise with P&O cruise lines. iFlogID: 5983

POPPING BREAKING&HOUSE CLASSES Choose from 40 classes per week, ALL ages, ALL levels, So many styles to choose from. Visit www. caramelldancestudio.com for times, or call: 0402672080 iFlogID: 6196 Whether you just want to sing for your own pleasure or dream of being a singer on stage, all aspects covered from diction, breathing, microphone technique, pitch, harmony,working with live bands and performing. How to get into the music industry. Utilising the latest vocal techniques from the US, sing without stress or fear. All lessons can be recorded and take place in a relaxed and fully equipped studio in Botany, SYDNEY. All ages welcome - female teacher- children welcome. INTRODUCTORY OFFER: FREE first lesson to assess your needs and direction, then $30 per lesson for the first 3 months. Conditions apply. Contact: alteregoprom@gmail.com or phone 0403 869 364 iFlogID: 6516

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AUS SCHOOL OF STAND UP COMEDY

LARGE, SUNNY ROOM IN BONDI JCT

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

Hi, looking for a cool open-minded female to share my unit with. Smoking ok..outside. Older style unit in good conidtion, huge room, close to shops,beaches, buses and trains. Washing machine, dryer, microwave, digital tv, dvd, and video player available for you to use. Room is unfurnished..prefer someone working or studying who would like to stay for at least a year. Very friendly, cosy home. Call if interested...$210pw, 2 weeks bond required Pandora 0421 635 737 iFlogID: 5080

HIP HOP GROOVE CLASSES Suitable for beginners to advanced dancers. Learn foundation party/ club dances in a non-stop 1 hr class. Monday’s and Friday’s 7pm at Caramell Dance Studio, 78 Pyrmont Bridge Rd Camperdown. www.caramelldancestudio.com ph: 0402672080 $16 Per-class iFlogID: 6194

P&O/DJ BOOTCAMP CRUISE P&O have teamed up with DJ Bootcamp to bring u Australias first 8 day/3 island professional DJ Course Cruise.Learn DJing and enjoy,

WANTED OTHER DRIVER/S WANTED Are you looking for a cheap way to get interstate? Wicked Campers often look for drivers to get a vehicle one way and you can score the ride for free. Just pay petrol and a bond for the van. Drop them a line on 1800 24 68 69 and ask them more about free Relocations iFlogID: 4550