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