Rooftop Cinema soundtrack
There's no denying that a soundtrack can make a film. It can also make your night and, if you're lucky, make your summer. This year Rooftop Cinema has got some sound advice from Sophie Brous - musician (jazz, chanteuse), new Program Director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and presenter/broadcaster on Triple R (Dance Cadaverous, Wednesday nights 10pm-midnight 102.
Calypsoul: Caribbean Soul and Calypsoul Crossover 1969 - 1979
Strut Records is a UK-based boutique label that stumbled a bit and is coming back strong. After releasing the first two discs in the 'Disco Not Disco' series, the level of unreleased, old, significant music that they were able to put together for compilations went downhill, fast. No matter how slighted 'Spasticus Autisticus' was when it was released, it doesn't need to show up on more than one of your compilations.
Bang Gang Deejays, D is for Disco, E is for Dancing
Recently I caught up with Jamie Doom from the Bang Gang Deejays. We took a few minutes to chat about the new album they are releasing, why Melbourne is better than any other city in Australia, who the Bang Gang would knife fight, and poo. While one of these topics was awkward, overall the interview turned out well.
K7 Tapes
The Rapture, those seminal disco punk innovators, have hooked up with the incredible German label !K7 to skip the DJ kicks lineup and put out their own DJ mix entitled K7 Tapes. This obviously caused an earthshaking ‘hell yes' from within the indie underground and resulted in at least one worldwide disaster.
21:100:100
Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have a clue who any of these people are?
Sound art, drone, noise, improvisation, avant-garde: confusing terms that can baffle us regular folk and leave us asking, ‘Will it be one of those wrist-slitty gigs again?'
As with any conundrum, it's best to turn to a professional.
Cookin' Hot Buttered Soul - An Isaac Hayes Tribute
Oh just because he kicked the bucket you thought you were free from the ass kicking you deserved from that bad muthafu-SHUT YO' MOUTH! Look, I was just talking about the man behind the legend, Isaac Hayes. Not only did he wear more bling than most rappers today could even imagine, he also played a bounty hunter preying on a man named Gator, and a cartoon elementary school chef who sung about balls.
Background Briefing
We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims of Web 2.0, social media and lifecasting, listening to Background Briefing is like taking a warm bath in journalism juice.
Background Briefing truly is Aunty at her finest - rational, thorough and educational.
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