Category Archives: The City Rises

The City Rises #086

 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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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 #082

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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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 #080

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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The City Rises #076

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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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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The City Rises #075

Rambl dropping serious bangers, old and new. Dilla to HudMo, Africa Hitech to Rhythm & Sound, Gold Panda to Actress. Serious biz. pause feat frank n’ dank :: j dilla :: bbe spotted :: hudson mohawke and Mike slott :: lucky me two bottom blues :: flying lotus :: plug research dirtdegree :: tom trago [...]

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The City Rises #074

Dan Dare ridin’ solo with the heat. Check! Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #072

Rambl and Dan Dare this week with a special mix from New Zealand’s Frank Booker. Frank co-hosts the Hit it and Quit it radio show in Auckland with friend of the show and no stranger to Melbourne, Recloose. fast life (computer jay’s skeezer remix) :: drive me home :: cdr marriage :: gold panda :: [...]

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The City Rises #073

New to old and back again, LA beats to Detroit techno, that’s how we roll. Check the playlist peeps, serious gold for you this week. Check! ascension :: morphosis :: delsin multicolour :: memotone :: black acre murasaki kumo :: mike gao :: machina muerte bad day :: young montana? :: alpha pup featuring mndsgn [...]

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Technical Issues

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 [...]

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The City Rises #071

Dan Dare with two more hours of the good stuff. Check back soon for the track list! Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #070

Dan Dare in control this week, hold tight for that track list! Podcast: Download

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The City Rises #069

Rambl rolling out some bangers this with with very special guest Able who was in to promo the Uncomfortable Beats night down at Bar Open in sunny Fitzroy. Rambl took it all the way from Burial, 2562 and Lone through to Jae Jeremiah, Cannibal Ox and Naminé. Hold tight for more shows about to hit [...]

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