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I’ve been meaning to post this for several weeks now, and I’m finally around to it! I’m not entirely sure how I found Warm Kitten (this seems to be a common theme in my discovering of all things Perth) but I’m really glad I found them. I should probably just end this post after saying – how good is the tagline?! haha but I won’t because you need to know what the blogs all about…
There’s a great selection of disco-influenced music and commentary too! You can often catch the man behind Warm Kitten at Llama Bar playing for Run Rabbit Run as Jorg Thor I believe, is that right George?! Anyway you’ll here more about Warm Kitten soon, this is just to let you know it exists if you didn’t already 
Warm Kitten (Blog)
I’ve been sent some info about this film comp, and I’m going to share it with you, but I’m also going to add my opinion since I’ve touched on this throughout my psych degree, and have found lots of evidence to suggest why these kinds of campaigns don’t work. First the info;
The Face Facts short film competition is asking young Aussies to produce an original 60-second film to highlight the dangers associated with taking the drug ecstasy. The competition asks the question – how would you warn your own mates about the dangers of taking ecstasy. The winning film will receive a cool $10k cash, while five runner-ups will pocket $1k each.
The competition opened at 10am today, and those keen to get involved can find more details at the microsite (here). Entries close on April 30, when six final films will be chosen and uploaded to this microsite. Then anyone can log on, watch the films, and vote for their favourite to be in with a chance of winning $5k themselves!
My objections are pretty simple and you can read them after the jump… [...]
Hey guys these two tracks are going to be up for a little while before they’re released on the 22nd of March. Everyone loves the Philly Jays, and you can see why. These tracks are just straight up awesome! PGJ are about to tour in Perth and then once the tour is over they’re off to the UK, so catch them before they disappear.
Philadelphia Grand Jury – I don’t want to party (party)
Philadelphia Grand Jury – Wet winter holiday (Mike FWD remix)
Philadelphia Grand Jury (Myspace)
There’s a new solution to music piracy! Here’s the idea; companies sponsor the Guvera site, and users can come along and download music for free, doing this still means artists/labels/owners still get paid. It’s about to launch on March 30, and then we can see if it has the goods! There’s a couple of things I’m concerned about. The first is whether ALL music will be available, will it be certain artists only, or certain tracks only. It isn’t going to stop piracy if it’s a select few tracks, there has to be variety. The second is the quality of the tracks you download, will they be 128kbps, i.e. useless for dj purposes and people will still download it off blogs illegally because it’s 320 kbps.
I genuinely don’t know the answers to my two concerns, so I’m going to find out and put a reply on this post. I think it’s an awesome idea, it’s from the Gold Coast, great to see Australian companies leading the way, and hopefully the idea takes off. I’m strapped for cash everytime I get to beatport! haha
Guvera (website)
Having seen The Men Who Stare At Goats, one can only imagine how the pitch might have gone. “So, there’s this book, about psychics. In the army. The United States Military set up a Jedi training camp – yeah, we’re calling them Jedis – to train people with psychic ability to fight Iraqis. Or communism. Whatever you want. And George Clooney’s gonna be in it! Why are you looking at me like that?”
Well, at least it’s original.
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Creator of Valerie, super star producer and Cut Copy devotee Anoraak, is coming to Limelite on the 12th! He told me about the problems with music in France and where his major fan base lies, and he explained how his love affair with Cut Copy began (I think that’s a pretty popular question for Anoraak). Read the full interview after the jump…
Anoraak (Myspace)
In Nantes is there a big following for the kind of music you make on the Valerie Collective?
Umm, my phone isn’t working very well, can you repeat that?
So I repeat the question and ta-da!
Yeah in France it’s super popular.
What about in your town?
I think it’s a little popular, but yeah sometimes we have some parties there and it’s really packed. It’s working well [...]
The other day I called up Johnny one half of the legendary club night Optimo, who are coming down to play for us on Sturday the 13th of march. This is gonna be a very exciting night indeed. I had chat with Johnny about the night and how they are taking it to Perth. After ze jump!
Ok, can you tell us how the night came about?
Well me and Keith were both doing residancies at a few different clubs and [...]
FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL…. !!!
The hype surrounding this festival was massive ! I think it went down for me as the best all-round festival line up easily in the last 3-4 years and many others would definitely agree with me on this. What I liked about it best is that everyone had their own story to make out of it.
The “trance-heads” would have been planted to the melodies of Above & Beyond, Jaytech & Matt Zo @ the ANJUNABEATS stage while some were going hard with the sounds of Dubfire & Sven Vath in THE LIKES OF YOU tent and many others were probably floating around the place. In the end Mellen Events did great to cater for all types of music lovers !
On the day itself, i thought the weather did many of us a great favour, as some of us were trying to prepare for the initial forecast of 41 degrees! Don’t get me wrong, everyone sweated their asses off.
The first on my list was Dubfire, I got stuck in the line so I didn’t get to watch his opening but DID HE PLAY A SET ! Peeps who [...]
“I love big, ambiguous Perth events that not very many people go to,” remarked my companion dryly as we gazed around the lackluster event masquerading as a beer festival on Saturday, January 20. Having become interested after the inclusion of Seth Sentry in the live lineup (faithful Perthquake readers will know that your humble reviewer is rather infatuated with Mr Rubbery Bacon), it seemed reasonable to hope that the day would bring a few laughs and some good music.
Not so much.
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I think Saturday night was the coolest house party/event I’ve ever attended in Perth. From the half pipe dance floor to the make shift lounge and Carribean food van. Oh and the free beer, champagne, punch and Carribean BBQ chicken from said food van. ha! And… all the money went to Haiti aid relief. I’m not sure if I really need to say anything more about how great the set up was, but the Djs were great too. Especially one of Perth’s best dj duos Work Experience Djs. They played some cool tracks that built a great dancefloor even though they were interupted a few times for prize giveaways. That’s right, there were prizes too! Work Experience Djs were followed by Lost Boy who had some pretty solid techniques for weaving in and out of a few tracks, great work with the remix of Delphic’s “Doubt.” I’d say it was the What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow remix, but not sure if that’s correct. Anyway it was an awesome night and I’d keep an eye out for the next party!
