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Okay, let’s be clear. We’re talking about Supafest here, a pop oriented hip-hop and R&B festival. It’s up at Joondalup Arena and all ages. One shouldn’t be attending and expecting Laneway style conditions and crowd. Expect juvies, people with rats tails, dickheads, long ass lines, video interludes with Pharrell pretending to be Cab Calloway and leading the crowd in “Minnie the Moocher” (yes this happened), conventional interludes getting girls on stage to dance and something called the “bling ring”. But that being said, Supafest has been one of the most fun and entertaining festivals I’ve been to this season. Read on after the jump [...]
It’s been about three weeks since I said I’d put these mixes up, so here they are finally! The Robot Skream mix has plenty of heavy electro in there, whilst retaining some accessibility with familiar vocal tracks. It’s upbeat and it’s easy to see why they keep crowds interested. Better than the Rest by robot skream
Sleeyhead’s mix is more downtempo, going through some lower bpm tracks and as always has a whole host of different tracks. Definitely a fun party mix for any evening. Enjoy the talent Perth has to offer guys because it’s always there, you just have to be out and about to find it! Hold On, Be Strong – Sleepyhead by 72 & sleepyhead
Creamfields is comin’ up (tickets here) and one of the plethora of dance acts on display is Sweden’s Dada Life. I interviewed one of them (unfortunately I wasn’t told which one it was and my six-in-the-morning-brain failed to ask) and it was… cool. Now I found out I was talking to Olle. From my research I had a feeling I wasn’t going to be dealing with the most talkative man, and it turned out that way. He wasn’t rude, just very short. So, enjoy this short interview about their bangin’ beats at Creamfields
So you guys are on tour at the moment?
On tour in Toronto today. Its going fine. It’s just a stupid mistake starting a tour straight after Miami.
The supporting acts proceeded to appear more plumpish as the night wore on, and it seemed likely that the most dangerous man in hip hop was not going to show up but to the jubilation and relief of his long awaiting fans, he meandered on stage taking up a substantial part of it. MF Doom was doing Perth… [...]
Mind The Gap have never let me down in terms of good nights out and there was no denying the atmosphere at Shape on the 30th. With two incredible names on the stage, Calibre and DRS, it was no wonder the crowd was bouncing and grooving to the seductive liquid drum and bass sounds for two and a half hours straight. [...]
Last week I got to have a chat with Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom, collectively Nadastrom, who are heading our way for the Creamfields festival (info, tickets). I got to ask plenty of neat questions, from the evolution of moombahton, the big artists pushing the genre and all the info about where Nadastrom are at. I was really nervous because I didn’t actually know that much about Nadastrom, despite their large success in the alternative electronic music scene, but everything turned out okay with their help! Full interview after the jump… UHall Residency Mix Vol 1 by Nadastrom Hey, how ya doin’ guys?
Matt: Good. How are you?
Yeah good, now how come you guys always do interviews together?!
Hahaha we like doing them together, we’re always together. We still like doing stuff together haha. [...]
Tick Tock made a move down to the south of the city last Friday night and brought with them a party starting line up to get the Freo crowd groovin’. I had a blast all night long enjoying the most disco-house music I’ve heard in a while. The crowd was a little thin for the venue, but that’s the way the East End is, unless it’s completely packed it looks empty, but it didn’t stop me from enjoying some quality acts. Gloves was a standout favourite over the whole night, and he always is, but he never ever gets the response he deserves. Full review after the jump…
When I first listened to Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You it really annoyed me. Admittedly I didn’t pay much attention, but what I was hearing was another smashing electro album without anything new to add to the scene. After talking to Harold I took another listen, and was glad I did. There are great contrasting tracks, the album moves between the exceptionally heavy, loud and noisy, like the popular track The Monkeys are Coming, to the far softer acoustic tracks like Broken Arms. The album was recorded in Dan Coop’s (keyboards) house, and you get a sense the loud and noisy tracks are an inevitable by-product, but there were moments of calm in the intense storm. Then there are the tracks that move perfectly hard and soft like We Are the Dead, maybe at one point they just flipped out when trying to write something less intense. The album is well balanced between the two styles, there’s just enough of each to keep you dancing, and not bore you with repetitive noise.
The familiarity of the samples in Wagon Christ’s new album makes it distinct from the experimental music I’ve heard over the past 6 months. Toomorrow is a great rework of the sounds of yesterday. I don’t feel like I could name any of the originals, but it feels like a melting pot of popular electronic music over the past 20 years. Take a listen to Respectrum for a decent representation of what I’m on about… (anyone know the sample? haha I probably should!)
The structure of the album follows a pretty similar pattern, samples that are just obvious enough to pull you in, but then take you on a new journey swirling around in the sea of experimental. However, the songs themselves aren’t all alike, it’s the complete opposite, the recombination of these pieces drives a whole new world of different sounds. It’s been an enjoyable journey of perceived nostalgia, get sucked into Toomorrow today.
I never thought the day would come where the great MF Doom, ruler of the underground world of hip hop would unleash his wave of villainy on our sleepy city, but he’s playing this Friday night at Metro City (tickets). Daniel Dumile alias MF Doom has been devising a style that is so dangerously unique for decades now, with his secret persona inspired by the ultimate anti hero: Doctor Doom, his sense of humor and child like qualities are what separates him from many of the commercial musicians of today.
Since his days with KMD, Dooms lyrical style packed with bizaro metaphors and jerking phrases has successfully allowed him to avoid the mainstream. Doom’s style deviates from typical verse/chorus structures, instead choosing to follow prolonged lazy rhymes and heavy sampling of cool Marvel cartoon shows.
The metal masked super rapper/producer has been like a plague with his record with Madlib –Madvillainy spreading to every continent. Forever collaborating with a multitude of varying artists and updating his special herbs box set, his next release with Danger mouse (another cartoon inspired producer), took him to even greater masses.
In 2009, Doom released an exceptional album, ‘Born like this’ and two years later we get a tour. But trust me there’s been a lot of people who have been dying to see this bad guy for even longer.
Such an unexpected surprise.
For your sake lets hope it’s the real MF Doom this Friday at Metro City and not a doom bot, because if it is the real deal. Well Perth get ready to be enslaved for ever and ever for the Mad Villain will produce a night of ruthless and relentless destruction MOOHAHAHA…
