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

Seekae UG interview part 1

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

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

‘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

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.

purchase

Origami Productions

free download at Pacemaker

Origami blog… good luck translating!

Shingo’s website

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 

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!

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

www.voidsound.com

‘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?

‘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