Mailer Daemon feat. Peach – ‘Keep on Movin (mixtape version)’

Sydney’s Mailer Daemon puts out competent remix after great remix (of artists like Red Riders, Lost Valentinos, Lions At Your Door); but then, so do a thousand other bedroom producers currently, and to be perfectly honest I’m kind of remix-fatigued.

His original stuff, luckily, is great too. Check this early version of ‘Keep on Movin’, featuring track-virgin (and erstwhile Sydney radio presenter/ lawyer) Peach, spitting often bizarre lyrics (“we stop for diet coke/ and then we keep on moving”) over a phat G-funk era bass-line. How great does that effected Star Wars cantina horn sound? Props also to Mailer Daemon’s Timbaland-esque cameo verse (ghost-wrote by Peach).

See, Oz Hip-Hop? You don’t always have to sound the same.

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Flamingo Crash – ‘It’s Mystery Music!’

I don’t mean to be a negative-nancy, but I really didn’t expect too much of Brisbane band Flamingo Crash’s forthcoming Magoo-produced album… until I heard the first single, ‘It’s Mystery Music!’. Now my expectations are sky-high. It’s Architecture in Helsinki reminiscent quirk-pop made 4 stars with a Neptunes keyboard line and surprising saxophone interludes, and the freshest thing to come out of Brisbane in forever.

Honestly, it sounds like a house-band segment from the Young Ones, and who else sounds like that at the moment? Eat shit my low expectations.

http://www.myspace.com/flamingocrash

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