The last of our Sunday shows fell on Christmas day and after much food and revelry, and buckets of hail and rain, a sodden Dan Dare and Rambl threw down some serious beats from Thundercat, Raja, Blue Daisy, Black Star and Zomby before playing a pre-recorded interview with acid-house and jungle legend, A Guy Called [...]
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This week we had local producer Ben Houghton on the show for a 40-minute live set from his MPC2000XL, hand-made 808-kick and laptop. Ben is part of the This Thing collective in Melbourne and has been putting out soulful biz for some time now. Click on the links to check out his soundcloud, facebook and [...]
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Well after a hiatus which involved Martin L in Japan, Dan Dare doing gigs and Rambl battling various illnesses including a week-long bout of gastro, The City Rises returns in fine style with another selection of bodaciousness for our wonderful listeners. We started off with a few classic moments in 7″ bliss from a few [...]
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Dan Dare and Rambl in their respective chairs this evening as we delve into another APRA special, featuring fantastic local biz alongside some of the best from around the world. With tunes (some exclusive) from locals Thrupence, Dream Kit (with a remix of Near Myth), Kloke, Donald’s House, Lower Spectrum, Vertigoface, Dizz1, Inkswel and The [...]
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Rambl and Martin L were extremely excited to present The City Rises Underground Resistance Special in anticipation of their forthcoming show this Sunday, 25th September at the Forum presented by Stable Music and part of the Red Bull Music Academy world tour. It’s going to be a great show with The Bamboos, Deadbeat, Mike Huckaby, [...]
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Rambl in the chair joined by Kloke, UK lad now based in Melbourne, whose tunes have been blowing up the spot, with tracks to appear on new label Granholme as well as a forthcoming participant to the Red Bull Music Academy, and support coming from the likes of Martyn, Kode9, et al. We’ll be hearing [...]
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Rambl was joined in the studio this evening by Chilean artist, designer and musician Bryan Phillips aka Galambo, to talk about his new concept album, Andakoyo, as well as his recent move to Melbourne. Co-produced with head of Konn Records, The Peronists, Andakoyo is a beautiful 25-minute excursion into the tribal soul of Chilé, shifted through the [...]
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Yes that’s right, it’s Radiothon time – August 12th-21st! As you may know, RRR covers over half its running costs from subscribers alone – and mostly during this 10-day festival of community radio. Hopefully you enjoy what we do, so perhaps you would consider getting behind us during this Radiothon, to let RRR and The City [...]
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As Martin L said in the previous post, 2011 has sure been heating up – and we ain’t talking about global warming! So much great new stuff, and it just keeps on coming! Firstly, though, a little tribute to soul legend The Left Reverend Eugene McDaniels, whose amazing music has been sampled so many times [...]
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Rambl holding it down this week with new jams (and a couple of older ones) from the usual suspects, check the Vanilla release (available here for £1)! Plus we gave away a copy of Shabazz Palaces new record. In the second hour we were joined by DJ Neil Stafford, who stayed silent with his vocal chords [...]
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Another post from Rambl (that’s him in the photo, playing before Mount Kimbie), this one a little more recent: with a Sonnymoon remix of Flying Lotus’ wonderful Zodiac Shit which you can download for free from Fresh Selects; a preview of the debut This Thing release featuring friends of TCR and Melbournites Mike Kay and Wooshie [...]
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Been waiting awhile for this one. Rambl behind the desk, with a trip through the cosmos! How appropriate to have a photograph of The Sun Ra Arkestra playing a free concert in Melbourne’s Federation Square for the opening of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. It was quite a show, too! 40 minutes of the most [...]
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Hi TCR fans, It appears that there is an issue resolving the links to our images and audio files when using Chrome and Internet Explorer. However Firefox seems to handle them fine, so if you are having difficulties listening to the shows, please try Firefox. We will attempt to get to the bottom of it [...]
Dan Dare and Rambl setting things off in fine style this week. Fresh LA styles from the likes of Matthewdavid, Teebs and Jeremiah Jae (with Melbourne’s Electric Sea Spider sandwiched in between). Then it was time to roll out the bangers! New material from Melbourne’s Kloke, shiny new 2562 (from his awesome new Fever LP) [...]
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This week we welcome back Dan Dare who’s been on extended hiatus and joins Rambl in the chair. No guests, just awesome music and a little bit of banter. Great new jams from B.Lewis, Galapagoose, Shlohmo, Golden Girls, Samsun, Lawrence, Andras Fox, Caribou, Falty DL and Wagon Christ. It’s a bit of a mouthful but [...]
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Loads of great stuff this week from around the globe but particularly from Australia! Yes that’s right, at some point I realised that I’d played around 7 tunes from our very own. So big ups and bless the local talent from the new Finest Ego New Zealand and Australian Beat Maker comp, Galapagoose on the [...]
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Tomorrow (Friday) night, folks!! Get yourself down to Brown Alley for Heavy Innit!! featuring DZ, Roska, Cooly-G, Dizz1, Harmonic 313, A13 and Affiks and many more. PLUS if you get there early you’ll be able to hear from Declan Kelly and Rambl back-to-back! Shyeah! We had A13 and Affiks on the show a couple of weeks back, [...]
Rambl in the studio with special guest Jerry Poon aka JPS from Melbourne’s own The Operatives. He came in to have a chat about the upcoming Espionage show featuring Mount Kimbie, Lorn, and many others happening on March 5th at Revolt art-space, Kensington. He also obliged us with a mix of killer beats, including quite [...]
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Check it out! This Saturday February 19th at the Wayside Inn in South Melbourne, we have two of Holland’s greatest exponents of intergalactic hyper boogie, I-F and TLR, joining the M Division and Meccanoid crews for a proper throw down on a massive Funktion One system! They came on the show just last week for [...]
This week we had Melbourne producer and DJ Andras Fox joining Rambl in the studio for a chat, some exclusive jams and a 100% live performance on Galapagoose’s monome and mlr program. You can check out the fantastic Mr. Fox’s Soundcloud page to hear more, and watch out for his release coming soon on Audio Parallex [...]
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