Detroit techno and house royalty Mike Huckaby is returning to Australia later this month. Already playing Subsonic, now he’s announced an intimate Sydney headline show. Huckaby has been on the scene for well over 20 years, and if his most recent release is anything to go by (a remix of Motor City Drum Ensemble’s killer Raw Cuts), he’s still at the very top of his game. He’ll hit the Burdekin Hotel on Friday November 28.
Iranian-American Dubfire (aka Ali Shirazinia) will return to Sydney next month. Last seen in Australia for Future Music Festival, this time around he’ll be performing a series of intimate club shows. He’s one half of the Grammy-award winning duo Deep Dish, his SCI+TEC imprint is recognised as one of the top techno labels in the world, and he’ll be hitting the Greenwood Hotel on Saturday December 20.
Two of the biggest names on the 2014 OutsideIn bill have locked in a last-minute Sydney headline show. Giraffage and Brenmar will be taking to the Oxford Art Factory this Thursday November 20 joined by local heroes Polographia and Mike Who. Be quick.
Tour rumours: thought that all of the parties taking place over the NYE/NYD period had been announced? Think again. Word on the grapevine is that a few more heavy-hitting internationals still have tours to be announced, including Oliver $, Franky Rizardo and Crazy P.Stay tuned.
For the DJs out there, Pioneer have just announced a brand new digital deck. Dubbed the XDJ-1000, it comes with a major difference to their standard CDJ line – it’s the first deck that won’t play CDs. Yep, only USBs. Sure to be the most divisive release on the market this year, it’ll also feature a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard for track searching. It’ll be available for purchase next month.
Best releases this week: Atom™’s Ground Loop (on The Bunker New York) is slaying me. It’ll crush a lot of dreams if he does not play a Sydney show when he visits for Adelaide Festival next March. Other highlights include Locked Groove’s Enigma (on Hotflush), Blacknecks’ 006 (on Blacknecks) and Plant43’s Scars of Intransigence (on Shipwrec).
Recommended:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20
Giraffage, Brenmar
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21
Jonas Kopp
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22
Lost Disco: Seth Troxler, Âme, Pachanga Boys,Optimo
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23
Laura Jones,Gavin Herlihy
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28
Powell
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29
OutsideIn:Pantha Du Prince, Seekae, Client Liaison
Manning Bar, Sydney University
THURSDAY DECEMBER 5
SATURDAY DECEMBER 13
Robag Wruhme
SUNDAY DECEMBER 14
SATURDAY DECEMBER 20
Lido, SOPHIE, Nadus and QT
SUNDAY DECEMBER 21
THURSDAY JANUARY 1
Spice Afloat:Space Dimension Controller, Trus’Me (UK), Oliver Koletzki (GER), Niko Schwind
Sydney Harbour
SATURDAY JANUARY 10
SUNDAY JANUARY 11
Omar-S
FRIDAY JANUARY 16
Omar Souleyman
SATURDAY JANUARY 17
Tim Hecker, Ben Frost
SUNDAY JANUARY 25
Mister Saturday Night
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22
Moodymann
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