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MAPCAST September

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Our new September MAPCAST podcast is out! The podcast features the best new tracks from around the world picked by Robbie x the Music Alliance Pact bloggers.

Download the podcast for free HERE.

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MAPCAST SEPTEMBER – TRACKLISTING

His Clancyness – ‘Zenith Diamond’ (Italy)

A Fase Rosa – ‘Casa’ (Brazil)

Mood-Fu – ‘Perros De Fu’ (Mexico)

Manor – ‘Architecture’ (Australia)

Poetrip – ‘Aşa Ceva’ (Romania)

Iván Fajardo – ‘Me Voy Dejando’ (Peru)

Worldwide Collaboration Company – Crying Launer Remix (China)

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Don’t forget to listen to all 29 tracks from our original MAP September post + visit us on Soundcloud over yonder.

 

 

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SEQUENCE: Bligh Twyford-Moore

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Bligh plays in Sydney band Post Paint, recently capped off a month-long stint hosting a Bill Murray ‘Murrathon’ for Fringe Fest – and was banned from the internet this week for uploading an image of Tony Abbott with a really small dick.

This guy has also turned ‘stalking’ into a literal art. Earlier this year, Bligh decided to begin painting portraits of all his internet friends. I’m not sure what number he’s up to, but he’s made his way out of Sydney because I found one of my shady internet snaps turned into a neat little portrait the other week. Thought we’d return the favour by enlisting photographer Jack Toohey to turn up at Bligh’s Newtown terrance and trail him for a whole Sunday afternoon for our next SEQUENCE photo essay.

If you’d like to contact Bligh for commissions, click here. If you’d like your portrait painted, click here. If you want to know what happens when a photographer returns with a rad set of photos and a portrait by an artist completely stoned, then keep scrolling.

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JACK TOOHEY: Facebook / Web 

BLIGH TWYFORD-MOORE: Facebook / Web

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WIN: Budweiser DJ/Producer of The Year Award

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We get music submissions from all kind of genres. For those of you who’ve recently submitted ‘dance’ music in any of its dizzying forms – we don’t ‘h8’ you, we’re just old and cranky and bassdrum makes us feel tender. We haven’t forgotten about you though. If you’re not the bedroom poet type, then here’s your chance.

Maybe you have dreams of being this guy. Or this guy. If you’re a budding DJ, electronic producer or Flerm type –  you’re probably within earshot of winning this competition. Budweiser, our pals from VICE and those guys down at the Australian Independent Music Awards are doing a nationwide sweep – giving one hotshot the chance to win a pretty massive prize – if ‘beer, babes and bass’ are your kinda thing.

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Here’s the deal – you get flown from your shitty bedroom lab in sleepy suburbia to NYC to play at a host of club things and chauffeured around to some ‘industry’ parties. Also gratis for the winner; a shiny new Pioneer DDJ-SX4-channel Serato DJ controller to play with. There are other things too – like a feature mix on Mixcloud, Grooveshark and a feature profile in Resident Advisor, as well as in VICE magazine. Someone told us that the winner would be ‘selected by an independent judging panel of music and entertainment industry experts’. That same source said that the Black Eyed Peas’ producer was on the panel. So, hell with it.

Entries close in less than a week, so get to it. For a shot, you can submit up to 6 tracks in your entry HERE. Winners will be announced on the 7th November at the 2013 Australian Independent Music Awards in Sydney.

Find out more information by clicking through here.

 

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WIN: Nick Lynar @ The Gasometer

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We’ve ousted several producers named Nick in our time (Nick Murphy, obvious). One we’re hoping shares a similar fate is one that Sam brought to our attention last month – local producer Nick Lynar and his track ‘Twisted Angles’. If Lynar’s unique sound, Rob Taylor’s Luke Steele impression or several babes skateboarding down a hill doesn’t impress you, then yeah, you’re probably a happless twat.

For everyone else, we’re presenting Nick’s next show at The Gasometer this Friday. Friendships, EDarcy and Sub Dapper are supporting. Yeah, we know it’s Grand Final Eve or whatever, but if you’re considering giving up a good night of beats for drinking piss and wearing Freo colours with your neighbours, it’s time to reevaluate life (or #lyf, however you roll).

Our pals from new label on the block Leisure House have two doorspots for us to give away. Drop us your name + contact details to editors@whothehell.net by 5PM Wednesday 25th for your Friday night sorted.

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LISTEN: Motion Picture Actress – ‘I Keep Falling Around Here’

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I have heaps of dreams about falling. Dreams about my teeth falling out into my hands. Dreams about people stealing my food. Last night I woke up in a sweat after dreaming a Jewish lady tattooed the words ‘PEARL JAM’ in metalcore font across my abdomen without my consent.

The new track from Motion Picture Actress is a little more soothing. MPA is Brisbane producer Thomas Brydon (who recently played the ‘Cool Party’ gig we presented with Silo Arts up at Bigsound two weeks ago).

‘I Keep Falling Around Here’ is another wavering imprint of MPA’s general sound. The track is more ‘drip-wave’ than some of his previous creations which placed stronger emphasis on more hip-hop leaning beats. My ears sometimes feel a little displaced loitering around in the strange world of sounds (or ‘feels’ as they might have in EDM-land) but there are some rad arpeggiated sounds and lots of dreamy, cascading bleep things that make me feel like bathing in lavender salts and coding HTML at the same time. This track pries up the wormhole to the portal of your dial-up internet dreams. Listen up.

 

 

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PREMIERE: Isaac De Heer – ‘Streets of Del Mino’

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Here’s your first look at the new clip from Melbourne’s Isaac De Heer for his track ‘Streets of Del Mino’.

Since picking up supports for The Temper Trap and Luke Steele, Isaac’s been focusing on penning and recording tracks on his travels abroad through Ireland, India, France and the UK. ‘Streets of del Mino’ was put together with with the help of UK producer and friend Roger Mars and producer Tony Dupe (Holly Throsby, Jack Ladder and Grand Salvo).


‘Streets of Del Mino’ is the kind of ideal tune you want to be peddling home at dusk to. There’s something a little bit Neutral Milk Hotel, a little bit Scott Matthews about this that I love. As for the video we’re premiering, you’ll be glad to know there’s no stock footage, wanky colour filters or green screens in this one. Just Isaac wandering around the rabbit hole of suburbia – and some very, very clever editing skills courtesy of Romesh De Silva.
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‘Streets of Del Mino’ is the first track from Isaac de Heer’s forthcoming Streets EP to be released Oct 26.

 

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MAP September 2013

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If you’re one of those stale people who stream music and never update their ipod until someone publicly ousts you (guilty) – then we can fix that. Have a listen to all the best new songs picked by us and our blogfriends around the world. And when you’re done, pack it up in a 29 track free download.

PS. We’ve also got a whole series of MAPCAST podcasts, check them out if you haven’t already. Our host Robbie is one helluva annoyingly talented bilingual dude, so if you make some noise he might just do the next podcast in Estonian or Spanish or something. Listen + D/L Robbie’s picks for MAPCAST August here.

Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 29-track compilation through Ge.tt here.

ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Travesti – Beduino

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Fernando Floxon and Alejandro Torres are the cosmic rockers behind Travesti, a band whose music is often associated with transgression and misunderstanding, with songs that are dense, powerful and provocative. Their lyrics, always clever, rough, usually offer a certain social criticism. Beduino is our favorite from Suicidio Latino, their fourth studio album.

AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
Manor – Architecture

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The general assumption that tormented bed friends make better musicians most of the time is true – right? In respectable ‘dream-pop duo’ tradition, we hope these two are. Architecture is timeless pop right from the first off-beat. The track is set with slingback hooks, dreamy vocals and a fledging groove that sounds too much like Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek doing a cover of Men At Work’s Land Down Under for anyone to ignore.

AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig
Beach Girls And The Monster – I Go Surfing

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This band draws their inspiration from American surf rock of the 1960s. Accordingly, their rendition of The Beach Boys’ Kokomo suits them so very well, not only because of the obvious band name correlation, but also because it blends perfectly into their own sounds. The aptly titled I Go Surfing is the first song of their four-track 7″ EP of the same name that was released earlier this year.

BRAZIL: Meio Desligado
A Fase Rosa – Casa

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Música Popular Brasileira meets alternative rock at its best. This four-piece band is one to keep our eyes and ears on.

CANADA: Quick Before It Melts
The Provincial Archive – Common Cards

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Back in 2011, Edmonton, Alberta’s The Provincial Archives made Canadian music touring history by being the first band to actually play live in each Canadian province’s actual archive; 10 shows billed as The Provincial Archive LIVE at the Provincial Archive. Common Cards marks their recorded music return, and is the first taste of music from their forthcoming third LP.

CHILE: Super 45
Otoño – Scheider

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After eight years of silence, Otoño are back with their psychedelic guitar-rock. Their atmospheric, drowsy sound grows every second until it explodes in a whirlwind of white noise, a perfect landscape for their gloomy, self-reflective lyrics. Scheider is taken from the quartet’s Páramos EP, released via LeRockPsicophonique.

CHINA: Wooozy
Worldwide Collaboration Company – Crying Launer Remix (feat Chairman Ba & MC Stone)

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Nobody knows who the people behind World Collaboration Company are, but anyone in China who listens to them will find something familiar. WCC mash up cross-talk recordings, TV series samples, Chinese propaganda songs as well as rock and hip hop, and put an overwhelmingly sarcastic touch to it. While some criticize WCC’s sound collage approach as being too lighthearted, others can argue WCC are simply one of China’s best and most clever sample players. Love them or hate them, one thing you can’t deny is WCC reflect the true pop landscape of modern China.

COLOMBIA: El Parlante Amarillo
MULA – A. Grisales

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With much pride we present MULA, a kind of supergroup formed by Santiago Botero and Mange Valencia. Armed with saxophones, bass, drums and guitars, they effortlessly incorporate anything from punk to jazz to champeta – they don’t recognize genres, but sounds. It’s a very particular and special view that takes form in the track A. Grisales, inspired by Colombian TV’s first diva, Amparo Grisales.

DENMARK: All Scandinavian
SPEkTR – The Infirm

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Three years on from their second album Personetics, SPEkTR release The Door Is Paint On A Rock EP on September 23. Frontman Manoj Ramdas (also The Raveonettes, The Good The Bad) calls it Soundtrack’n’Roll and there’s no good reason to argue with that description. Here’s the awesome EP’s first single, The Infirm, which also comes with this video.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: La Casetera
Mediopicky – La Ola (feat Cristabel Acevedo)

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Urban-alternative sensation Mediopicky pairs up with Cristabel, one of the twins from the folk duo Las Acevedo, to make a sweet, summery track. La Ola, from Mediopicky’s upcoming EP Cantinas, features moombahton beats specially made for Cristabel’s tender voice, conveying that feeling of saying goodbye to the last days of summer.

 

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