World is fukt. Music, not surprisingly, reflects that. But there’s joy and dancing and energy to be found here as well as anger and only a bit of sorrow. Dance a new world into being! LISTEN AGAIN and enjoy something whyoncha. Stream on demand from fbi.radio or podcast here. Oh and by the way, I DJed on Friday night (March 20th) at White Bay Power Station for Art After Dark / Sydney Bienalle, curated by Liquid Architecture. Mara Schwerdtfeger did a beautiful set, and we were graced by a performance from Tujiko Noriko as headliner. I recorded my first set, which opened the evening, a pretty wide-ranging mix that I’m sure you’ll like if you’re a follower of this show! raven · "Omphalo Centric Mixture", live @ White Bay Power Station for Liquid Architecture Youniss – TakeThat ft. Pink Siifu [VIERNULVIER/Bandcamp] Youniss – Gits Worse ft. Petite Noir [VIERNULVIER/Bandcamp] Sometimes it’s good to become acquainted with the underground & cutting edge in odd corners of the world. I was lucky to perform at the brilliant dunk!festival last year with my band Black Aleph, a festival in Europe’s best-kept secret, the lovely northern-Belgium city of Ghent. Specifically, the festival occurs in a few theatres and venues around an arts centre / platform / community called VIERNULVIER (404), which itself has a phenomenally-curated boutique record label. It’s from this connection that I discovered Antwerp-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer & taxi driver Youniss Ahamad. In a fair world, Youniss would be as big as other genre-crossing punk/indie/hip-hop acts, or at least would have the critical recognition he deserves. In this dizzying world of non-stop (bad) news and constant interconnectedness (unless you’re under Iran’s internet blackout or myriad other less-advantaged or more-oppressed populaces), it’s hard for anything to cut through, but I wish that Good Effort! would do so. It’s loosely themed around gentrification, which as it always does is pushing the multicultural residents of the area of Antwerp where Youniss lives out of their homes and community centres. But it’s full of great songwriting, switching between post-punk, jazz and hip-hop on a dime. Youniss plays most of the instruments as well as singing & rapping, but he does also invite some top tier guests, including Belgian clarinettist Dienne, Congolese/South African singer Petite Noir, and underground rappers like Quelle Chris and Pink Siifu. Do yourself a favour and stick this in your ears asap. Kim Gordon – No Hands [Matador/Bandcamp] OK, we all know by now that Kim Gordon is the coolest, releasing now a series of albums (PLAY ME is her third since 2019) in collaboration with Justin Raisen, a producer comfortable in the pop world as well as the more leftfield. Gordon’s delivery has always been more drawled than sung, and her fragile voice somehow suits these simple, bass heavy grooves to a tee. I don’t have much more to say: her social commentary is compact because she knows the words to say. Her style is both now and then, because she’s always been the Kool Thing after all. BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Kuya Neil – Copy + Paste [CONTENT.NET.AU/Bandcamp] BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Kuya Neil – Luzon Bleeding Heart (ft. Sevy) [CONTENT.NET.AU/Bandcamp] You know this will be the shit, with Eora’s BAYANG mixing together his love of punk/metal with underground hip-hop, and Naarm’s Kuya Neil as usual throwing plenty of experimental club sounds from all over – bits of jungle, uk bass, baile funk, anything. Another CONTENT.NET.AU affiliate, Sevy, lends a verse to “Luzon Beating Heart”. Grasps_ – Dream On [Grasps_ Bandcamp/Nina Protocol] Christian Grasps_ might be known for his ambient & beat-based electronic productions, including credits with the likes of BAYANG (tha Bushranger), but you might also find him playing piano & singing, or on this new single, playing guitar and singing. There’s a nice bit of a surge in the middle that hints at mayhem that never quite arrives, but that’s by design. A touching little piece. Travis Cook – unfinished symphony [Travis Cook Bandcamp] It’s Travis Cook, on Kaurna land, still bringing a track per week to Bandcamp. Most of them are fragments, as unfinished as this one, but also fun, good production. Laces – Doormen [NLV Records/Bandcamp] Naarm musician Laces is touring UK & Europe with Ninjarachi, and has released his Oekno I EP to accompany them, released by Nina Las Vega’s NLV Records (also home to Ninjarachi). Laces shares with Ninjarachi meticulous electronic production, but this is far more abstract. It was presented to me as “ambient”, but that’s only half the story – there’s beautiful sound design, but also glitchy beats and glitched vox. world’s end girlfriend & samayuzame – Sweet Suicide (Syndrome) [Virgin Babylon Records] So, vocals aren’t usually a prominent part of the music of World’s End Girlfriend, the Japanese master ...
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