Alison Wonderland

Published on February 5, 2010 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment Tags: , .

I have a sick remix to brighten up this miserable Friday afternoon, it comes from Sydney based DJ Alison Wonderland, who is slowly becoming one of Sydney’s most sought after party starter djs. Her musical background is quit diverse, she started out as a classically trained musician, turned indie bass player, and now ripping up the Sydney scene as a DJ. It comes as no surprise to me and anyone around her that the next path she would follow would be into production and based on this first track I see a bright future.

Born from a late-night revelation on a stormy eastern Sydney shore, Sherlock’s Daughter front woman Tanya Horo weaved the fatasy worlds of the sepia-tinged memories of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, fleeting new-world colonial adventure & ornate pagan ceremonial impressions. Bridging the gap between insanity & parable, the 5 piece knit together a heaving experience of heavy dream pop through shifting frames of multi-instrumentation… The music is replete with diverse elements such as live videogame tweaking, percussive sandpaper, echoing handclaps, marimba, sampled rhythmic scenes and sweet, uneasy harmonies.

♪ Kids (Alison Wonderland Remix) – Sherlock’s Daughter

Links:
Alison Wonderland Myspace
Sherlock’s Daughter Myspace

Slightly Morbid

Published on February 3, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: .

markquin

Back from England with a crush on Big Ben and a huge list of artists and other creative types that I found inspiring in the motherland. But on an unusual note, I thought I’d continue my blogging with one artwork that I didn’t find exactly inspirational, rather, frightening as shit! I was so freaked about Mark Quin’s ‘Self’ artwork, in fact I’m kinda freaked out right now as I Google Image search it. One thing ‘Self’ doesn’t lack is that ‘wow’ factor; located in London’s National Portrait Gallery (Way better then the National Art Gallery itself) ‘Self’ is a 3D model cast of the artist’s head frozen inside a glass and metal container. Where things get interesting is what the cast is made from; a combination of 10 pints of the artist’s own blood (collected over a period of 5 months) with other preservative chemicals. Pretty creepy. Unaware of what it was made of, I initially approached the artwork admiring the mahogany crystal like appearance of the sculpture as it seemed to float within an glass container filled with water…To then be completely repulsed upon reading what it actually was, yet I couldn’t help staring. I hope you find it as hauntingly fascinating as I do.

Alyssa

Elmo Is Dead

Published on January 29, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

For someone who claims to be dead Chris Emerson aka Elmo Is Dead is doing a pretty good job of balancing production work, mixtape making and djing throughout Sydney. In the past year he has exploded onto the scene since parting way with his childhood friends Kas_Cid.

He managed to be the runner-up in the Soho DJ Search Competition and world famous judge Tommy Trash,  said this”Wow… I think you’ve just given fRew a little Dj Boner over here”. Was also a finalist for the ITM finalist ITM We Love Sounds Mixtape Competition and was the youngest performer at last years stereosnic music festival

Last year I featured some bootlegs last year on the old Deckhead and one of them peaked at No.1 on the hype machine music chart and Ajax played the track at We Love Sounds.

He has sent through two of his latest bootlegs today, I must apologise to all of you and him for holding them for so long, its just that they are pretty amazing to play out when I dj and wanted to keep these dj weapons for myself. Much like his dj sets, these two tracks are crowd pleasers. His ability to mash these together is pretty creative and is something that he mimics live.

Hopefully there will be more tracks to come over the next few months and maybe even a mixtape or two to showcase his ability.

Bootlegs:
♪ Underground Theme (Elmo is Dead Bootleg) – Debonair Samir/Bart B More/Seductive

♪ Make it Creamy (Elmo is Dead Bootleg) – Alvaro/Arcade/Federico Franchi

Jax

United Colours

Published on January 28, 2010 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

KATO, ACT YO AGE, BAD EZZY, WAX MOTIF & CHUX team up to present a very special party……..

UNITED COLOURS!

A new monthly night dedicated to the rising Tropical Tech sounds currently taking cutting edge dancefloors all over the globe by storm

What is tropical tech you ask? a new fusion of house music where the rulebook is thrown out and sounds from around the world are thrown in. Expect shakers, cowbells, vocals you can’t understand, UK Funky, chants, whistles, whoops, wonky bits and bass bass bass. You’ll hear tracks from artists such as Solo, Riva Starr, Claude Von Stroke, Renaissance Man, Coyu, Zombie Disco Squad, Tigerskin, Tim Green, Douster, Brodinski, Roska, Kingdom, Mowgli, SIS, Justin Martin, Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, Julio Bashmore, Myd and heaps more.

Future parties will see special guests dropping by to shake their stuff but to kick it all off we thought we’d keep it tight, nice and family like, so get down to Phoenix on the 29th of Jan and JOIN US!

Love,

United Colours Crew

 

As a bonus Wax Motif has sent through a live mix to get you in the mood for this wonderful evening!

Wax Motif – United Colours Promo Mix

Spirits of Vengeance

Published on January 27, 2010 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Mark and Oscar are two pretty rad dudes from Sydney, they have been producing for the better part of two years and are slowly taking the world by storm. During the end of their high school years they decided that it would be a good idea to try and get into some music production starting out in their bedroom and ever since this fateful day they haven’t looked back. Already having an official Crookers coming out this year on the German Man Recording, and having their remixes supported by some of Sydney’s heavyweights including Wax Motif, Anna Lunoe, Kato, John Glover and Tenzin to name a few.

They follow up this dj work with a killer dj set which can be heard weekly at Candy’s apartment, they produce some of the most ridiculous mash ups and edits for their sets which keeps the crowd wanting more. A warning tho Mark often enjoys wearing red pants so don’t be too scared when you witness this.

They are definately in my ones to look out for this year with their harder electro style.

If your a Sydney resident you can catch the boys playing at Le Rouge tomorrow (28th) night supporting international freshmaker Tom Piper. Facebook event. Also peep their myspace for future gigs around the town and listen to all their tracks.

♪ Bad Touch – Bloodhound Gang (Vengeance Remix) (320kbs)

♪ Crazy – Gnarls Barkley (Vengeance Remix) (320kbs)

♪ Lapdance – N.E.R.D (Vengeance Remix) (320kbs)

♪ Song 2 – Blur (Vengeance Remix) (320kbs)

Jax