Sweet merciful Jesus – praise the house, techno and disco gods.
Resident Advisor has outdone itself with the 530th incarnation of its podcast series, serving up nine freakin’ hours of Motor City Drum Ensemble[above] going back-to-back with Jeremy Underground [below], recorded live from Offenbach’s seminal club Robert Johnson. It’s 638MB of pure bliss. If you thought the recording of the two sparring at Dimensions was great, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Head to the website to download before it’s archived – it’s ‘mix of the decade’ worthy.
A whole host of new local and international heavyweights have been revealed for the 2016 Subsonic Music Festival. My picks? It’s hard to go past the Dial and Smallville co-founder Lawrence, Detroit’s DJ Bone and Canada’s The Mole. Pretty keen on checking out Sonja Moonear, Dana Ruh, Honey Dijon and Madmotormiquel, too. Seth Troxler is obviously a big name on the bill, too – not my thing though. They join the likes of Lee Scratch Perry, Mad Professor, Josh Wink and Ben UFO, who were all revealed in the first announcement. It’s going down from Friday December 2 – Sunday December 4 at the Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort.
A name that is rising mighty quickly, Randomer [above], has locked in an Australian tour. With his releases already finding homes on the likes of Hessle Audio, Hemlock, L.I.E.S. and Clone, the UK native boasts Aphex Twin, Ben UFO, Surgeon and Len Faki in his fan base. He’s also one heck of a DJ. Case in point: his 2014 Boiler Room set is still a classic. He’s coming our way on Saturday November 26, venue TBA.
The Belfast-born, London-based, blogger/production/DJ duo Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson AKA Bicep have locked in their return to our shores. Having first positioned themselves as global tastemakers via their Feel My Bicep blog (and now label), they’ve gone onto release their own productions on the likes of Throne Of Blood, Traveller Records, Mystery Meat and Love Fever. Expect a night of curveball Chicago house, Detroit techno, yesteryear Italo and rarely heard disco when they come to the University of Technology on Sunday October 2.
Tour rumours: Dubfire, Pig & Dan, Radioslave and Green Velvet are all coming our way over the next few months. Lock it in.
Best releases this week: is there anyone on the planet better with an MPC than Andrés? Doubtful. His latest Mighty Tribe (on La Vida) is so on point it hurts. I’ve also been spending a lot of time spinning Trevino’sCasino (Aus Music), Pan Sonic’s Atomin Paluu (Blast First Petite), NHK yx Koyxen’s Doom Steppy Reverb (Diagonal), Hieroglyphic Being and The Configurative Or Modular Me Trio’s Cosmic Bebop (Mathematics US), and Keita Sano’s Explosion (Mister Saturday Night). Oh, and, errrr, ummm. Just listened to the collaborative single ‘Sweetz’ by Burial and Zomby. Pretttttttty fucking trash. Not a good foreboder of things to come for Zomby’s forthcoming third album Ultra (Hyperdub).
Recommended:
SATURDAY AUGUST 6
FunkinEven @Club 77
Greg Beato @Secret Location
SATURDAY AUGUST 13
Damiano Von Erckert @Club 77
SATURDAY AUGUST 20
Return To Rio Launch Party: M.A.N.D.Y. @Manning Bar
Gunnar Haslam @Jam Gallery
Edd Fisher, Otologic @Club 77
SATURDAY AUGUST 27
Darshan Jesrani @Club 77
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11
Red Bull Music Academy Weekender: Mr. Fingers, Bok Bok, Peanut Butter Wolf + more @Various venues
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24
Rebekah @Burdekin Hotel
SUNDAY OCTOBER 2
Bicep @UTS
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 – SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Return To Rio: Carl Cox, De La Soul, Eric Powell, DJ EZ + more @Del Rio, Wisemans Ferry
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
Randomer @TBA
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2 – SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
Subsonic Music Festival: Lee Scratch Perry, Mad Professor, Josh Wink, Ben UFO + more @Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort
[Lawrence photo © Christian Werner]
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