Filed under: FM 99.3, Underground/Head's Down radio, interviews | Tags: ambient, Commander Keen, DJ Meatbrick, Enya, FM99.3, K.D Lang, Seekae, Seekae interview, Underground, Will and Toby's
Sydney ghetto ambient group Seekae (pronounced ‘C’ ‘K’ in homage to platform pioneer Commander Keen) are the new Enya. Our taxi driver told us this, and although his argument for such a ridiculous assertion was Richie-thin, we believe he has a strong point.
We won’t get into that. Of more interest is how you can claim you’re ‘ghetto’ and then mention that you incorporate the glockenspiel into your routine. That ain’t fly.
They popped into Underground (every THURSDAY 10pm-12am FM99.3) because they’re on the cusp, the verge, and the edge of whatever follows being on the cusp, the verge, and the edge of something. Audio of the entire interview to be posted REAL SOON. Highlights included:
*admission that they’ve recently scored the theme to groundbreaking film ‘The Willpower’
*Alex regularly has his hair permed at The Salon for Hair – Turramurra (proud sponsors of North Shore FM99.3)
* they actually don’t know when or who will be releasing their forthcoming debut album
* they’re pretty sure that have a show scheduled at Will and Toby’s Supper Club, September 4
* George spent a night in with K.D. Lang during her recent Australian tour
* they’re the new Enya
* their plans to split and then reform for 2010
* the addition of DJ Meatbrick to their live act
some of the above is truer than other parts but importantly, new music was played, we dug into their live performance, some of their inspirations, and all up a good time was had.
2nd HALF OF INTERVIEW AND PODCAST OF ENTIRE SHOW TO BE POSTED MAD SOON
Filed under: Brownswood, FM 99.3, Ghostly International, Madlib, Raw Fusion, Tru Thoughts, Underground/Head's Down radio, broken, dubstep, funk, hiphop, jazz | Tags: 40 Winks, Afta-1, Big Quarters, Blue Note, Brownswood, Brownswood Bubblers, Buff 1, Busta Rhymes, Caural, Cool Kids, D. Rose, Damu the Fudgemunk, Daru, Daz-I-Kue, DJ Cozmos, DJ Mujava, Duke Dumont, Durlin Lurt, Esthero, exactly, F-One, Fat Beats, FM 99.3, Freedom School, Haircut, Hearin Aid, Hint, I.G. Culture, incubator, Insight, J Davey, J8 Months, Jay-Z, Jean Grae, Jessica Tonder, Kanye West, Kay, Kid Cudi, Kinny, Linn, Loretta Haywood, Madlib, Madvillian, Mitchell and Dewbury, Moodgadget, Moovmnt, Mr Bongo, Mush, Mux Mool, Natural Resources, Pac Div, Proton, Quantum Soul, rappersiknow, Raw Fusion, Reggie B, Russ Dewbury, Seekae, Soil and Pimp Sessions, Spoonface, Stacey Epps, Stones Throw, Trishes, Tru Thoughts, Underground/Head's Down radio, Wale, Warez, Warp, wonka beats, Zed Bias
Brownswood keep delivering – Bubblers 3, number three in the Brownswood Bubblers series is hittin places. Fucking hell. That Trishes song is a folk heater….
dusted off some recent and very recent mixtapes this week to find all manner of bananas just growing inside all of them. Plus, Madvillian remixed, more Hint quality, Buff 1 headlines some underground hiphop choices, new Hova and a small mention to Sydney band SEEKAE who should be GUESTS on the program next week. Cannot fucking wait.
‘UNDERGROUND/HEAD’S DOWN’ – THURSDAY 10pm til 12AM on FM 99.3 (Sydney EST)’
Duke Dumont – ‘Prelude’ – Dubsided
Kid Cudi ft. Wale – ‘Is There Any Love’ – mixtapin
Mux Mool & Big Quarters - ‘Dealbreaker’ – all here
40 Winks – ‘Lucid Effect beats’ – Project Mooncircle
Hint ft. Kinny – ‘Afro Love Forest’ – Tru Thoughts
Daru & Reggie B. – ‘Juni’s Revenge instrumental’ – 4Lux Recordings
Jessica Tonder ft. Proton – ‘The Bee remix’ - exactly
Stacey Epps – ‘Floatin’ – Brownswood
Esthero – Superheroes (Afta-1remix) – moovmnt
Seekae – ‘Longtime Fishpie’ – myspace
Warez – ‘Soul Pop’ – Moodgadget
Caural – ‘I Won’t Race You’ – Mush
J Davey – ‘Mr Mister’ – Interdependent
Haircut – ‘A Thousand Paper Cranes’ – incubator
Linn – ‘Available (Hearin Aid remix)’ – Raw Fusion
Madvillian – ‘Cold One’ – Stones Throw
I.G. Culture – ‘Ra Bops in Blackness’ – Freedom School
Soil and Pimp Sessions – ‘Fantastic Planet’ – Brownswood
Madlib – ‘Funky Blue Note’ – Blue Note
Durlin Lurt – ‘Glasscutter’ - beats
Jay-Z – ‘Jockin Jay-Z’ – boots
Busta Rhymes – ‘Got Bass’ – leek
Cool Kids – ‘What It Iz’ - exactly
Spoonface – ‘Circus World (Zed Bias remix)’ – Playectra
Quantum Soul – ‘Rising Sun (F-One remix)’ – Dub Ting
DJ Mujava – ‘Township Funk’ – Warp
Mitchell & Dewbury Band – ‘Beyond the Rains’ - Mr Bongo
Loretta Haywood – ‘Dis Boy Dat Girl (Daz-I-Kue remix) – white
Buff 1 – ‘Electrifying Music Maker’ – Fat Beats
J8 Months ft. Kay, D. Rose, DJ Cozmos – ‘Magic’ – rappersiknow
Pac Div – ‘Taste’ – nets
Damu the Fudgemunk & Insight – ‘How Many of Us (vocal version)’ – wonkabeats
Natural Resources – ‘Negro League Baseball’ – fuggin classic
Filed under: FM 99.3, Kindred Spirits, Madlib, Stones Throw, Tru Thoughts, Underground/Head's Down radio, broken, dubstep, hiphop, mixtapes | Tags: 2000 Black, 2562, A Made Up Sound, AC Lewis, Andre 3000, Applepips, Bangbang, Blu, Busta Rhymes, Clyde, Common, D-Power, Dandelion, Daz-I-Kue, Devon, Domu, Elzhi, Eska, F.S. Green, Fat Beats, FM 99.3, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Ghostface, Guilty Simpson, Hint, Hollyweerd, Homegrown, Hyperdub, Ice Kid, J Rose, JME, John Legend, Kindred Spirits, Knowledge, Laura Vane, Little Dragon, LV, Madlib, Mantis, Martyn, Morgan Zarate, Mwelsee, Ndidi, Nod Navigators, Origami, Owusu and Hannibal, Peacefrog, Pharell, Red Astaire, Royce, Rustie, Shingo Suzuki, Skream, Sound in Color, Stacey Epps, Stones Throw, Tayo, Tectonic, TiRon, Toddla T, TRG, Tru Thoughts, Ubiquity, Underground/Head's Down radio, Up Hygh, Wiley
Hint? WTF? not only has ‘At The Dance’ been a huge tune all year but now he comes out like this??!! Driven from Distraction is frankly huge quite frankly. It gets played this week, the show gets doper because of it. All good really.
and of course, much muchness from the dubstep side of things – that TRG remix blows the socks and pants off, Shingo Suzuki and Blu collab well, Busta Rhymes like what??!!the??!!fuck??!! and more…
‘UNDERGROUND/HEAD’S DOWN’ – THURSDAY 10pm til 12AM on FM 99.3 (Sydney EST)’
Devon – ‘Alphabetsoup’ – beet tape
Guilty Simpson – ‘Footwork (original Madlib 12″ mix) – Stones Throw
Mweslee - ‘Raw War’ – Nod Navigators/Kindred Spirits
Owusu and Hannibal – ‘Delirium (Up Hygh mix)’ – Ubqiuity
A Made Up Sound/2562 - ‘699′ – Subsolo
Skream – ‘Precression’ – Tectonic
Rustie – ‘Response’ – Stuff
JME – ‘Ghetto Superstar’ – mixtape
Little Dragon – ‘Recommendation (Toddla T remix)’ – Peacefrog
Tayo – ‘March of the Soundbwoy (TRG remix)’ – CAD
D-Power ft. Wiley, Ice Kid – ‘Out of the Game’ – mixtape
Common ft. Pharell – ‘Announcement’ – Universal
Hint ft. Laura Vane – ‘Keep Your Shirt On’ – Tru Thoughts
Hint – ‘The Mist Lifts’ – Tru Thoughts
Bangbang – ‘Too Tight (FS Green remix) – nets
LV ft. Dandelion – ‘CCTV’ – Hyperdub
Clyde – ‘Neva That (Clyde remix)’ – Mantis
Busta Rhymes – ‘Packin Them Things’
Morgan Zarate ft. Ghostface, Eska – ‘Sticks and Stones’ – around abouts
Knowledge - ‘Family Matters’ – spacemy
Elzhi ft. Royce – ‘Motown 25′ – Fat Beats
Georgia Anne Muldrow – ‘Olesi instrumental’ – Stones Throw
Stacey Epps – ‘Addicted’ – Japanubia Music
J Rose – ‘Redde Holt’ – CDR
Shingo Suzuki ft. Blu - ‘Hi(gh) Music’ – Origami
Blu ft. TiRon – ‘All the Kings’ – dopeboyz
Daz-I-Kue – ‘Move Pt.1′ – Sound in Color
2000 Black – ‘If You Got 3 Wishes’ – 2000 Black
Red Astaire – ‘Change Your Way Fools’ – Homegrown
AC Lewis ft. Ndidi Cascade - ‘Tickles (Domu dub)’ – Suntzu Sound
Hollyweerd – ‘Pinball’ – mixtape
Martyn – ‘All I Have is Memories’ – Applepips
John Legend ft. Andre 3000 – ‘Green Light’ – bootboot
Filed under: Brownswood, Elefant Traks, FM 99.3, Fat City, GAMM, Raw Fusion, Sonar Kollektiv, Tru Thoughts, Underground/Head's Down radio, Warp, broken, dubstep, funk, hiphop, jazz | Tags: Bling 47, Brownswood, Christian Prommer, Christian Prommer's Drumlesson, Clyde, Colonel Red, Connecticut, Cool and Deadly, dakkord, Defintive Jux, Del Palo, Discoconductor, DJ Skoob, DMC, Eklektik, El-P, Faada, Fat City, Fatima, Fleur Earth, FM 99.3, GAMM, Gringo Starr, Head's Down, Hi Perspective, Hint, Jahtari, Jay Dee, Jay-Z, Karen P, Kissey Asplund, Loefah, Lopez, Mantis, Moka Only, Origami Japan, radio, Samon Kawamura, Seiji, Shingo Suzuki, Simbad, Skream, Soil and Pimp Sessions, Sonar Kollektiv, Spoonface, Spoonface and WAH Syndicate, Tempa, TettoryBad, The Tongue, Trackheadz, Tremendo & Quiroga, TRG, Tru Thoughts, Underground, Waajeed, Yann Kesz, Zaki, Zuco 103
‘UNDERGROUND/HEAD’S DOWN’ – THURSDAY 10pm til 12AM on FM 99.3 (Sydney EST)’
Tremendo & Quiroga – ‘Himno HH’ – Del Palo
Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson – ‘Around the World (Samon Kawamura remix)’ – Sonar Kollektiv
TettoryBad ft. Fatima – ‘Unite (One)’ – Sonar Kollektiv
Jay-Z – ‘99 Problems (EL-P remix)’ – Definitive Jux
Shingo Suzuki ft. Moka Only – ‘Flyable’ – Origami Japan
Hi Perspective ft. Kissey Asplund – ‘Faster (Yann Kesz remix)’ – The Pusher
Spoonface and WAH Syndicate ft. Colonel Red – ‘Move On Up (WAH Syndicate remix)’ – Faada
DJ Skoob – ‘interlude’
Jay Dee – ‘Get Down’ – Bling 47.com
Waajeed – ‘The Dragon’ – Fat City
Connecticut – ‘Charisma’ – Eklektik
Lopez – ‘Barrio’ – Keep Up!
Samiyam – ‘Moon Boots’ – Warp
Hint – ‘The Tremmuh’ – Tru Thoughts
TRG – ‘Everything We Stand For’ – Cool and Deadly
Skream – ‘Monsoon (Loefah remix)’ – Tempa
Clyde – ‘Roll of the Beast’ – Mantis
Trackheadz ft. Zaki - ‘Feel’ – DNH
Discoconductor – ‘Something Betta’ – GAMM
Soil and Pimp Sessions – ‘Go Next!’ – Brownswood
Zuco 103 – ???????? (Seiji remix) – out there
Gringo Starr/Fleur Earth – ‘Brennen Euch Aub’ – D’akkord
LATE
Filed under: FM 99.3, Underground/Head's Down radio, good shit, hiphop, jazz | Tags: 20syl, Blanco Nice, Blu, DJ Geem, Hocus Pocus, Marina P, Metaphor Like No Other for the Abstract Truth, Moka Only, Ol' K, Origami Japan, Shingo Suzuki, Thirdiq
Shingo!
Japan got it on lock….Shingo Suzuki’s new album ‘The Abstract Truth’ has a shit long sub title that hints at wankiness and a lack of talent (seriously, the amount of poorly mastered, bit-talented artists who sell their stuff on Juno etc.!) but is quite the opposite!
guests like Moka Only, Blu and fellow Origami labelmate Thirdiq amongst others, swell jazz leanings and boombap hiphop good times. Definitely deserves the time and effort.
free download at Pacemaker
Origami blog… good luck translating!
Filed under: FM 99.3, Underground/Head's Down radio, broken | Tags: Colonel Red, Elroy Powell, Faada, FM99.3, Michael Gosling, Philip Craig, Spoonface, Underground, WAH Syndicate, Whole Heap ah WAH
Spoonface and WAH Syndicate need some shine – dub, broken styles that are some of the best I’ve heard all year!
“WAH Syndicate are Elroy ‘Spoonface’ Powell’, Philip ‘Floor Fillah’ Craig and guesting artist Michael ‘Kaspa’ Gosling, all in it to flip it’ and make the music they make for fun frolics and pure sonic fornication.All from comparatively varied musical backgrounds they collaborate to create a truly eclectic combination of reggae-tinged-Jazz-matazz-hop-dance-movery. If there is such a genre.
their label, Faada, has a poor Myspace site and the rest, but still??!!!
purchase and samples here
Filed under: Elefant Traks, hiphop | Tags: Adit, Atmosphere, Bliss N Eso, Elefant Traks, Horrorshow, Solo, Spit Syndicate
Adit and Solo form Horrorshow, Sydney based label Elefant Traks‘ first signing for quite some time
“What began with early experiments in beat making and writing lyrics steadily increased in confidence and by the age of 18, Solo was joining Spit Syndicate on stage (supporting the likes of Atmosphere and Bliss n Eso) and Adit had progressed far beyond those first few tentative steps. Horrorshow slowly began drafting and developing material before deciding in 2007 to start recording – resulting in a collection of songs entitled ‘The Grey Space’.
It was not until 2008 that these songs caught the ear of Elefant Traks on the strength of a growing buzz and strong recommendations. Not long after, the pair signed to the label and The Grey Space was given a release date of August 16th 2008.
The funny thing is, Elefant Traks were never planning to put out a release around that time as the schedule was completely full. Perhaps that’s the best way of introducing Horrorshow – a group that demands your attention with a heartfelt offering that showcases honest lyricism and rich production at a level that is unexpectedly mature. So keep an ear out, because in 2008 – grey is the new black…”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Horrorshow/6424773286
serious niceness that needs to be supported!
Filed under: dubstep | Tags: DMZ, dubstep, Garage Pressue, Loefah, Mark Pritchard, Phoenix Bar, Void
Void been putting in work for some time now, ensuring Sydney has quite the dub night
guests stay fresh but Loefah?? of them DMZ?? you can’t beat that with a bat…
Friday night @ Phoenix Bar w/ the usual ever excellent Mark Pritchard and Garage Pressure in support
Filed under: Brownswood, good shit, jazz | Tags: Brownswood, death jazz, Soil and Pimp Sessions, storm
‘Storm’
couldn’t help but take note of all the death jazz talk on the Brownswood blog
there’s a seriously dope, in depth podcast on the stuff that can be downloaded from the above link
and of course, Brownswood Recordings have these Japanese guys signed called Soil and Pimp Sessions who have a thing for rabbits and out there, outrageously good sounds. Jazz badasses.
the video for ‘Storm’ above is just the tip of icebergs and causes me to feel like I’m having a brain freeze. But in a good way ya dig?
Filed under: Melting Pot Music, Underground/Head's Down radio, good shit | Tags: Badu, dakkord, Fleur Earth Experiment, Les Nubians, Melting Pot Music, Underground
‘Ausduck’
Melting Pot Music…. this is just holy schnitt!
signed to the Berlin melting pot the Fleur Earth Experiment, FEX, Das Fleur, whatever they may be, are fresh breaths that make me exclaim ‘Badu Les Nubians and noneoftheabove’
fresh indeed for Underground this week
time is short so I can’t explore the side groups or loves that these people share but more will be uncovered shortly JUST CHECK THE LINKS and go with the floh
http://dakkord.eu/fex - band info
