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The City Rises #058

Rambl and Dan Dare holding down the studio this week, with new jams from Dimlite, Pavel Dovgal, Raime, Julio Bashmore for the new PMR Records, the industrial sound of Jam City’s Magic Drops, Georgia Anne Muldrow as Jyoti and oOoOO. Check it! kitty cradle frog :: dimlite :: brainfeeder move :: devonwho :: klipmode girango :: [...]

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The City Rises #055

Rambl solo in the studio with a (sort-of) best of 2010. Moving into a new year with lots happening under the hood so keep your eyes peeled! * EDIT: Apologies for the skipping tune at the beginning – at least you know we’re dropping vinyl! computa love :: b bravo :: brownswood recordings counter balance [...]

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The City Rises #052

Rambl on the ones and twos this week, with special guest Western Synthetics, whose debut album May Day Radio has just dropped on his own Sub Continental Dub label. We had a chat about music, politics and location and then played a mix which he put together recently. Excellent business and great to hear more [...]

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The City Rises #051

Had in a guest DJ from around the traps in Melbourne, previously of Adelaide, Mr. Sammy Soda, who delivered an amazing mix of techno, minimal wave, progressive, psychedelic jazz, ambient electronic and kraut sounds, I was quite blown away. Top Quality. You can catch him DJ’ing on less of an abstract tip at the Croft [...]

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Galapagoose Vids Online

When Melbourne’s Galapagoose came into the RRR studios two weeks ago he set The City Rises alight with his 40 minute, 100% live set of deftly played head nodders and foot stompers. We’ve had calls, emails, likes, reposts and several hundred listens since he was on, and that was just for the music! Now we [...]

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The City Rises #045 w/ A13 & Affiks

We’re heavy steppin’ on the surface of the moon this week with Rambl and Dan Dare in the chairs joined by special guests A13 and Affiks who staged a takeover of The City Rises a la Rockers… A13 is one of Melbourne’s busiest dubstep djs, regularly supporting the heavier players shooting through this town and [...]

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The City Rises #044 w/ Galapagoose

Reach for the MF LASERS!! We got a crazy show this week, with a special guest drop in from the one-and-only Galapagoose. Boy this shit rocks. All 100% live, straight from the machines. We had a 15 minute chat about his music and gear before unleashing him on an unsuspecting public and he didn’t stop for [...]

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The City Rises #040

The posting of this show got lost somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney but the shit’s too hot to not deliver. Heaps of great releases, a few available for FREE download including this beat collection from Koen, this cut from Teebs’ new album, Ardour on Brainfeeder and a remix by Actress of Kode9′s “You Don’t Wash” (Yes, I’ve [...]

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The City Rises #043 w/ Baddums and AOI

Rambl in the studio with special guests Baddums and AOI, in to throw a few jams down and tell us about Render this Thursday night at Bar Open. For all you bedroom producers this is another chance to meet like-minded individuals and get your track played over the sound system at Bar Open. If you’re [...]

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Inkswel Space Is My Place Launch This Saturday @ Dr Croft

Sightings of Inkswel have been rare lately and this is why. Since being lured to Melbourne from his hometown of Adelaide, Inkswel has quickly established himself as one of Melbourne’s busiest DJs, producers and promoters. After dropping a dope 7″ on Wax Museum last year and popping up on compilations around the traps, Inkswel will [...]

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The City Rises #036

Rambl and new host Dan Dare together for the first time and didn’t we have some jams for you! Starting off with the awesome Shlohmo remix of Comfort Fit and Wonkybikez from Tokyo Dawn label mate, Swede:art, we kicked into some serious future beat styles before mellowing out a little with new jams from Matthew [...]

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Too Much! with Ramadanman this Saturday

Dont’t miss Ramadanman with Mark Pritchard, Dizz1, Consquence, Kuya, Fuishbar, Same O, Myst and David Bass at Too Much! this weekend.

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You Don’t Wash (Actress Remix) – Kode 9 – Free Download

The Marimbas get a workout on Actress’ remix of Kode 9′s “You Don’t Wash.” You can download this jam FREE here. More new biz on this week’s show.

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The City Rises #035

Real DJs drink LAVA cause their tunes are too damn hot!! Another scorching show delivered direct over the airwaves and intertubes. Rambl delving into the crate with brand new jams from Machinedrum and Comfort Fit heading up some mad beat business including long-awaited freshness from the machines of RRR favourites Mount Kimbie off of their new [...]

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The City Rises #032

This week we had Melbourne’s own DJ Dust in to lay down a mix and like last time she did not dissapoint! Taking in Dubstep, Funky, House and Hip-Hop flavours with a heavy injection of futurama, I was hastily googling and taking down the tracklist for not just your benefit, dear listener, but my own [...]

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The City Rises #030

Melbourne’s excellent DJ Nam joined us in the studio this evening for his trademark selection of bass-heavy beats – and after wowing us solidly last time he was on his game once again. Nam is one of the folk behind Melbourne monthly night, Glitch This!, which continues to go from strength to strength having just [...]

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The City Rises #029

Rambl in the chair once again, delivering my usual late-ass show. Loads of new business that makes it worth the wait, though! I must apologise firstly, for accidently dropping and then falsely naming Ital Tek’s amazing Talis when I meant to play Pan Sonic first up. Oh well, you get to enjoy Talis twice and [...]

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The City Rises #025

Rambl holding it down solo yet again this week with the usual collection of wicked new sounds and a smattering of older gems. Stay tuned for some good links later tonight! android romance 1 & 2 :: jneiro jarel :: label who / alpha pup newports :: houseshoes :: all city understand feat blackspade :: [...]

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The City Rises #024

This week we delved into the electrics, starting with FlyLo’s ‘Zodiac Shit’ which I can’t believe hadn’t yet been played on this show. This was followed by head nodders from All City and Eglo records, fave labels of 2010, and some more craziness from Actress, Illum Sphere, Andy Stott’s alter-ego Andrea and the Ghostly International [...]

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The City Rises #023

Inkswel and Rambl in the studio tonight, busting loose with some fresh magic. Cuts from Swiss soul-maverick Skymark, a new Madlib alias and Comtron released on Rush Hour led into fave James Blake and recent visitor A La Fu. The Detroit soul of Omar-S took us to another cut from the organic mechanoid funk of [...]

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