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The City Rises #108 with special guest Debian Blak

With winter closing in on the northern hemisphere is was good to place the focus on local music this week. New tracks from Naps, Galapagoose, Jacob Silver, Kane Ikin, Mike Kay & Ben Houghton and Kloke showing that Melbourne’s scene is as varied as it is productive. We also featured our first international guest of [...]

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The City Rises #107

Dan Dare with our first show of 2012. Mysterious as always, see if you can guess the tracks on this one… Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #101 with special guest Tony Black

Ah yes, the last show for 2011, on New Years Eve no less. To mark the occasion we enlisted the skills of the one and only Tony Black, host of one of Melbourne’s great electronic music shows, The Beat Delivery. Tony is no stranger to the airwaves and picked things up in grand style. Bring [...]

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The City Rises #104

It seems like we say this every year but 2011 was a great year. The quality switch has been left in the  ”on” position for a while now and we’re continually surprised by the quality and variety of musical output. This is by no means a definitive “best of” list. We could have had a [...]

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The City Rises #103

All hands on deck this week at the new time slot of Sunday nights, 8-10PM EST on Triple R Melbourne for the month of December. Nice. Aside from the usual quality jams, Rambl got the chance to talk production, Timbaland and astral travelling with LA producer Mono/Poly. Charles first piqued our interest a few years back [...]

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The City Rises #102 with special guest Jani Ho

Melbourne sure is full of surprises. This weeks surprise came in the form of Jani Ho, a Melbourne resident who arrived from Finland via New York some time ago. Tired of battling to get music released, he started his own label Finn Audio some time ago and treated us to some gems from the back [...]

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The City Rises #100

Dan Dare holding it down for our 100th episode. It’s been 2 years of the The City Rises and we sure hope you’ve been enjoying it as much as we have. Hold tight, loads more updates on the way! Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #099

99th show. Crazy stuff. Loads of new tracks this week, including some great cuts courtesy of some of the This Thing crew. Thomas William (from Sydney) and James Ireland (from Perth) with a couple of beautiful tracks showing that there’s plenty of home grown talent out there. They were amongst a fairly worldly track list, [...]

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The City Rises #098

Great week for music this week in Melbourne. We were lucky enough to catch the one and only Anthony Shake Shakir. Cracking stuff. Dan Dare was flying solo for this one, we’ll get a track list happening real soon. Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #095

Dan Dare flying solo with a killer show. Track list coming soon… Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #094

After all the hubbub of Radiothon, APRA and the UR special it was pretty refreshing to just have a mix and drop some new heat. Kicked off with a few cuts from the new Ichiro album, and the new material from Farben, Pangaea, Thriller (amazing Radiohead remix) and Martyn is amazing. 2011 won’t let up! frictional beat no.2 [...]

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The City Rises #088 :: Radiothon 2

Ah yes, back again for another dose of Radiothon goodness. Dan Dare, Rambl and Martin L in the place with very special guest Ben Houghton with an array of pads, buttons and flashing lights to supplement a top notch track list. Ben is no stranger to the show, we’ve been dropping tracks of his and [...]

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The City Rises #085

2011 has had so many heaters and they just won’t let up! Loads of new jams and a few classics wedged into the gaps. You know how we do. Check! samiyam :: my buddy :: brainfeeder ras g :: crenshaw bus :: ramp ras g :: 40 bus :: ramp wooshie :: jennifer lopez :: [...]

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The City Rises #084

Dan Dare holding it down for more goodness. Hold tight for the track list. Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #083

Dan Dare rolling out the good stuff. Track list coming soon. Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #081

The City Rises crew were fortunate enough to play at the This Thing 001 launch party on Friday night and whilst Dan Dare and Rambl helped with proceedings Martin L rolled out 2 hours of the good stuff for the airwaves. Aside from some great new material from the likes of Samiyam, Sam a la [...]

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The City Rises 078

Dan Dare with more nuggets from the deep… Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #079

Dan Dare, all killer, no filler. Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #077 – APRA Special

It would be easy to think that we were all about tracks from far flung places but rest assured there are some ridiculously talented producers in Melbourne and beyond. It was APRA week so interspersed with some faves from abroad we’ve dropped a load of released and unreleased material from some of our favourite local [...]

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The City Rises – Max Headroom Special

We were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to host a special show in RRR‘s performance space on Thursday night. On top of showcasing our sound to a different time slot we also had some great live performances from the very talented Mike Kay and Andras Fox. We also had a special off air [...]

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