Polaroids Of Androids

Useless Children
SKIN

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First there was the horrifying realisation. This was quickly followed by a brilliant tip-off. And now this is the real-time solution. Full circle interactivity. You really do control the action here at the Jamberoo Heavy Metal Bong Club^TM.

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September 2, 2010 @ 14:54 · Reacharounds   3 comments

Fishing
Girlish Meadow + OOOO

Fishing - Girlish Meadow [MP3]

Life. Right? Sometimes it's great/easy. And sometimes it's nutty/hectic. Yesterday it was the latter and that's why my initial plans of wandering down to Sydney University to: a) smash some smart bitches and; b) see Fishing play a FREE show with Jonny Boulet were demolished at the last minute like a renegade goth through a high school cafeteria.

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Kyu
Pixiphony (High Places Remix)

The original version of Pixiphony (included below for comparison purposes) was vocally overwhelming, as well as displaying a darker, more aggressive underside of The Kyu Ladyship. Even with this more forceful approach, the musical portion still seemed to be lusting for some sort of robotic interference.

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August 31, 2010 @ 23:25 · Reacharounds   1 comment

Onra
Moving

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R.I.P SEASON OF SNEAKERS.

Yes, unfortunately, today is the very last day of my man JTL's beloved fashion/advice column/sexy webspace Season Of Sneakers. It was one helluva ride but like all blissful things (handjobs, rimjobs, unpaid internships) it has had to come to an end.

So.. this is a swansong. Some musical liquor pouring.

This song is actually a significant homage to today's web funeral, not only because it's unexpectedly smooth like 3am Dancefloor JTL, but also because it was Mister JTL who actually invited me into the magical world of French hip-hop beatsmith Onra in the first place.

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My Disco
Turn

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Grind you down (slowly) into lovely sweet coffee beans. Percolate those pills of energetic bliss with some tribal bongos and the kind of minimalism where silence is the unofficial fourth member. The pleasure, as it always has been, can be found in gaps between the metronomic consistency and the occasional, joyous, caffeine-induced spurts.

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August 30, 2010 @ 22:33 · Reacharounds   3 comments

Bearhug
The Wash

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The brilliant closing track off Bearhug's new EP To Anything.

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Street Chant
Stoned Again

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Something is in the air at the moment. Maybe it's because summer is starting to sneak through the clouds. Maybe its the widening gap between the cunts (everyone) and the legends (you and me). Or maybe even it's the depressing state of affairs not only in Australia (the Chinese Communist Collation only got 1.3% of the votes in the recent federal election), but also on a global scale with oil leaks, WikiLeaks and endless shit Weezer vs Weezy mash-ups sucking all the love out of the world like a Black Eyed Peas comeback album.

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August 25, 2010 @ 17:41 · Reacharounds   8 comments

Die! Die! Die!
HT

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I'll tell you sumthin for nuthin right now, amigo/s - I've had a fairly tuff time shaking off The Weekend Is Over Blues today. The misery has been lingering like a five day hangover/bender. Which, co-incidentally enough, is exactly what the weekend was. Long weekends, right? Five days of bliss, with nothing on the schedule except boozing with babes and buds and babes. Plenty of buds. And bad photos. And hung parliaments. And headaches. And great times. Oh, the GREAT times. Maybe one day we'll sit down together and I'll tell you all about them.

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Marf Loth
Sour Cream Compilation

First things first.

I'm 98% sure it was me that played Marf Loth on the radio last year. Apologies Mr Loaf, I never meant for you to get hurt and/or blindly robbed by The Music Business. Maybe after 3am doesn't count.

Actually, how does the whole APRA process even work? Do they pay all artists every time they get played (if they're registered)? What's "APRA Week" then? All the time I fought sleep depravation and did graveyard radio shifts at FBi that was something I never really understood.

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August 20, 2010 @ 11:20 · Reacharounds   2 comments

Salem
Asia

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(fun) FACT: Salem were doing this "drag" thing long before the P4Ker Generation-Y's gave it a label, a half-speed wank and obsessively over-analysed the genre's obsession with triangles.

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Gonjasufi
Ancestors ((Dreamtime) Mark Pritchard Remix)

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While conversing with Milky Dodds a few weeks/months ago I expressed my concern that I'd maybe overdosed a bit on Gonjasufi's utterly brilliant album A Sufi And A Killer and was beginning to tire of it slightly. I'm not sure what kind of pull MD has over at The House Of Inertia (or even who he had to pull) BUT it would seem as though my high rotation sanity is about to be saved.

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Justin Bieber slowed down 800% = Sigur Ros

Originally here.

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Seekae
Blood Bank

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Due to the fact I spent some time living in Britannia during the beautiful 1980s and because of that decade's love affair with Disco Dick, Boy George Michael and horse feet in mouths, I'm deemed a hazard to the wider community and thus not allowed to donate blood. My mother donated 50 pints before this rule was enforced. 50 pints is roughly about 1000 litres in The New System or an ordinary Friday at The Frog & Hound in North Sussex.

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No Age
Glitter

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This brilliant little slice of stoner lullaby pop is the first single from No Age's upcoming new album Everything In Between, which is out September 24 via Sub Pop.

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Mickey Mickey Rourke
Candy Cults (featuring Top Girls)

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Over the past few months Mickey Mickey Rourke has been steadily spamming/bombing us with snippets of his music, as well as some fantastic self-written press release quotes ("i was kinda stoned trippin' off" etc).

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The Strokes
In Her Prime (Demo)

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THE Strokes - TONIGHT!!

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Peabody
Black Narcissus

Hey Peabody - THANKS.

Thanks for not making us look like foolish knobheads for including you in our Most Fuckable Artists Of The Past 4000 Years series. I know a lot of people were like "really?". And some other people were like "Art Vs Science?". And we blocked a lot of IP addresses that day. It was the kind of work which is tough, grueling and painful BUT really really worth it.

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July 21, 2010 @ 22:27 · Reacharounds   2 comments

Super Wild Horses
Mess Around

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Update (21/07): Super Wild Horses are also doing a FREE in-store at Repressed Records on Sunday afternoon.

The majority of Super Wild Horses' new LP Fifteen sounds just like this - rough as guts, no bullshit garage rock with a lovely warm splash of warm sunshine/babe juice. I can imagine that indie teenage boys are frothing at the gash over this deliciously noisy pop shit.

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July 20, 2010 @ 12:10 · Reacharounds   5 comments

Capone-N-Noreaga
Favor For A Favor

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1. "Shaking in Jamaican"
2. Evil (big belly) laughs
3. "I feel like the heavens are talking to me"
4. Mocking the sped up vocals on the beat

And that's just the intro.

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Animal Shapes
Ransacking The Chinese Room

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On first listens I wasn't really sold on this song. A bit too "black fingernails" for my tastes. Then, like a pleasantly moist towelette/vagina, it smacks me in the face with a binary breakdown. Some cheeky "one zero one one zero ... 101010111" shit.

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