Sia – ‘Clap Your Hands’ (mp3)
In case you missed it circulating elsewhere on the interwebs, Diplo has remixed of Sia’s latest single ‘Clap Your Hands’ and given it the ol’ warbly bass touch. I like the dude, but I like the original more. Still, check it out – you don’t want to fall behind on Diplo trends and become irrelevant. (Check the video out here).
The last issue of JMag featured an angry quote from me regarding Google deleting music blogs. And that was before they deleted one of Australia’s finest.
Alas, last Friday we lost Mass Hyperbole, run by inthemix.com.au editor Dave Ruby Howe. As Dave points out, around four hundred posts, one million hits and three years of work disappeared at the hand of the almighty.
Fortunately, Dave has already picked up and started a new blog at hyperbole.tv (but sans the awesome banner of its previous incarnation). You should check it out and keep the dream alive. Hopefully (50% Australian) Rose Quartz doesn’t suffer a similar fate.
Vorad Fils – ‘Lioness’ (mp3)
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Vorad Fils is the new solo project for John Hassell of Seekae fame, whose debut ‘The Warmest Static’ also rounds out the excellent POWWOW new music series from Feral Media.
Vorad Fils shares a sense of amazing technical accomplishment with Seekae, but the music isvery different. Whereas Seekae trade on icy, downbeat atmospherics mixed with glitch-y beats, ‘Lioness’ is more sample based, turning snippets of strings and pianos into a beat that bisect IDM and chillwave. That said, Hassell covers a lot of ground on this album, which ultimately sounds like a talented artist unrestrained by aesthetic boundaries.
‘The Warmest Static’ is definitely worth getting your hands on.
Parades – Loserspeak In New Tongue from Parades on Vimeo.
When I posted this track on here last week, I actually had no idea it was going to be the next single, I just thought it was a clear highlight. Apparently the band and the label agree and have released this clip for ‘Loserspeak in New Tongue,’ a track that isn’t an obvious choice for a single but deserves the special attention. It shows off why Parades are different from almost every other band in the country and that they do their own thing pretty fucking well.
So it’s just under a week until music fans book out entire computer labs wait patiently by their laptop to get their hands on some Splendour In The Grass tix. The killer line-up they’ve amassed may even offset the expected drop in bottlenecks following an increase in capacity, increase in price, a move to Woodford and restrictions on patrons under 18. Either way, tickets go on sale at 9am next Thursday the 6th of May, and you probably don’t want to wait until lunch time to hit the site.
Anyway, below is a list of the Australian artists on the bill and links to related posts we’ve featured on the whothehell.net, plus a video on the new Woodford site in case you missed it last week.
The video for one of my fav Australian songs of the year. Am eagerly awaiting this album. Oh, and Ernest Ellis is one of the many Aus artists playing at Splendour In The Grass July 30-Aug 1.
Sia continues her run of really cool lo-tech film clips. Kudos.
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