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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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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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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Rambl holding it down solo style with a fat sack full of wax containing fabulous new heat from the likes of Dimlite, new kid on R&S, Pariah, Detroit house heads Omar-S and (!!) Ron Trent on the deep detroit hip-hop vibes, a cut from the utterly beautiful new album from Take (you’ll be hearing more from [...]
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One of the shows favourite musical friends, Melbourne’s Neil Stafford, joined myself, Rambl, in the studio this week and since the planned guest had fallen through at the last minute, the two of us just threw down a bunch of tunes, both old and new. Most of the artists have had links to their business [...]
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APRA APRA APRA Yes that’s right it was APRA week and as such I spent the time playing some fave local cuts, including heat from AOI, Dizz1, Monk Fly, The Crumbs, Monkeymarc, Qua, Terminal Sound System, Mista Savona, The Frequency Lab Crew, Super Melody, guest from a couple of weeks back Sidwho?, a mega-mix by [...]
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Late again but here nonetheless! Rambl and Inkswel hitting the air with crazy new bizz from the very atmospheric abstract beats of Dem Hunger, to the new skool soul of French MPC don, Fulgeance, under his Peter Digital Orchestra alias, a wealth of soulful new Grooveman Spot jammies and a little bit of Dorian Concept [...]
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I started the show this week with a little Stones Throw selection playing cuts from two new albums from the Jackson’s aka Otis and Micheal aka Madlib and younger brother Oh No. That led nicely into an amazing library record, some old and new future beat love and the incredible “New York is Killing Me” [...]
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Jamie Lidell returns to Melbourne’s Corner Hotel after last years amazing sell-out show. This time he is bringing his One Man Funk Tornado, a mash up of synths, beat-boxing, soul singing and crazy assed electronic mayhem! Support from Mad Racketeers Simon Caldwell, Ken Cloud, Zootie and Jimmi James, Melbourne faves Research and Development (Rambl and [...]
Rambl solo this week. Started straight off with some funky / crossover sounds coming out of the UK with Joy Orbison’s amazing remix of Four Tet’s New ‘Love Cry’ single putting us in the mood for some more twisted dancefloor biz from the UK. A bracket of beatey styles including the new Funkineven jam on [...]
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Rambl presenting the show this week. Started off with a few cuts from Melbourne-based producer AOI’s latest “mixtape”, Spotwelders Vol. 2, which utilisises classic hip-hop acapella’s over AOI trademark crunchy beats. Definitely worth peeping this and other great AOI moments at datarook.net/aoi. After some more future beat business from HudMo, Mike Slott and the fantastic [...]
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The last show of 2009! And what better way to celebrate than jump on the ‘Best of’ bandwagon. It was an absolutely bumper year of music as far as we here at the City Rises were concerned, and since this show was cut short for reasons I will not go into, the only proper and [...]
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We started off this week with a selection from Inkswel, before Martin L and Rambl journeyed through a selection of future beats, funky, techno, wobble and more. Enjoy! outrageous soulz :: maxmillion dunbar :: future times niks :: juju & jordash :: dekmantel souls brother :: sa-ra creative partners :: ubiquity baby come on (ront [...]
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Our second show. Rambl, Martin L and Inkswel all present. We started with some local future beat styles from Monkey Marc who has a debut album about to drop, check his myspace here, the Monk Fly mashup sampler from local label Frequency Lab, and a cut from the debut ep from Sydney’s Dizz1 on Nod [...]
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Welcome to the debut episode of The City Rises which airs each Friday night (Sat morn) from Midnight till 2am on Triple R, 102.7FM. After a slightly flustered beginning we quickly moved into the business. Tonight was a night for each of us to deliver a little snippet of what can be expected from the [...]
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Download Against The Arctic 17th November part 1 Download Against The Arctic 17th November part 2 This is a recent Against the Arctic fill-in I did for Declan to get us started. :::::::::: Apologies that it took so long to get this up! Technical difficulties, travel (to syd) and internet woes all combined – with [...]