Off The Record

Daniel Bortz[above]will be making his way to town this weekend.

Since first making waves with his rework of James Blake’s cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love’, the German head has gone on to release on the likes of Crosstown Rebels, Fiakun, Get Physical Music and Innervisions, and now runs the Munich-based label Pastamusik. Expect a smattering of everything from house, techno, ‘80s new wave, hip hop and disco when he hits Chinese Laundry on Saturday October 15.

Another international coming our way this weekend, Max Chapman has locked in two Australian dates. Breaking through in 2011, over the past five years Chapman has had a genre-sprawling career with his eclectic releases finding homes on Twisted Fusion, Delusion Music, Dilate Records, Hatchwork and Manocalda. Alongside AJ Christou and Mark Horsey, he also co-founded Resonance Records. He’s coming to Civic Underground this Saturday October 15.

One of the most (and let’s be honest, only) intriguing names to come from Iceland in recent years, Bjarki [below], is coming our way. Championed by Nina Kraviz and her label Trip, his productions span the realms of Chicago-influenced house and jacking deep techno. His 2015 EP Arthur And Intergalactic Whales featured one of the most ubiquitous tracks of the year in ‘I Wanna Go Bang’. Give a spin of his 2015 Resident Advisor mix (made exclusively from his own unreleased productions) to get in the mood before he comes for Chinese Laundry on Friday November 18.

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Tour rumours: well, according to the neck beards over on reddit, Daft Punk will be announcing a world tour on Thursday October 27. The claims come from deciphering cryptic clues on the recently launched website alive2017.com. Jump into the source coding and you’ll see what I mean. Wait and see, I guess. Fans will, of course, know that Daft Punk last toured the world in 2007 with their Alive 2007 tour, which wrapped up in Australia. Remember that shit? Nevereverland or something was the name of the festival. People complained because it clashed with Meredith. Muscles played. What the hell happened to him?

Best releases this week: there’s some more fire coming from the Text imprint with the vinyl-only release of Designer & Four Tet’s Mothers / Dark. Otherwise I’d suggest spending some time with two new full lengths: Machinedrum’s Human Energy (on Ninja Tune) and Fis’ From Patterns to Details (Subtext). Also, jump onto the Rinse FM SoundCloud and have a spin of a live recording of Mount Liberation Unlimited from their set during the recent Beats In Space x Daytime Session party. Tasty, tasty stuff.

Recommended:

FRIDAY OCTOBER 14

Asquith @TBA

SATURDAYOCTOBER 15

HNQO@Chippendale Hotel / Burdekin Hotel

Daniel Bortz@Chinese Laundry

Max Chapman @Civic Underground

SUNDAYOCTOBER 16

Fort Romeau@Cruise Bar

SATURDAYOCTOBER 22

Seven Davis Jr@Civic Underground

SUNDAYOCTOBER 23