This week on my radio show Join The Dots it’s all about heavy dubstep riddims, soulful house and Oz Rock – Midnight Oil, Womack & Womack, Roll Deep, Moving Ninja, Larry Levan – listen on 94.5 FM in Sydney or online via this thing. Incidentally, it shouldn’t do this, but if you open that thing more than once you get a cool doubled beat. Well it sounds cool right now listening to Levins playing reggaeton bombs on his show.

Hell yeah. Like his label boss DJ/Rupture, former NYC and now Berlin-based DJ/music maker Timeblind rolls in jungle, dancehall, hip hop, techno, grime and on and on. It’s hot. Click on the record or find more at his site.

This week, Wally De Backer from Melbourne bands Gotye and The Basics came on my radio show to talk about the new Gotye album “Like Drawing Blood”, and played some favourites from Icehouse, Faux Pas and The Jaynes.

Anthony Atkinson- Break In The Weather (J Walker remix) (Candle)
Sodastream- Chorus Line (Fooltribe)
Machine Translations- You Behind The Sun (Way Over There)
Richard Easton- Underground (Candle)
Heligoland- A Street Between Us (Alone Again)
Gotye – Out Here In the Cold (Samples ‘n’ Seconds)
Gotye – Waiting For You (Samples ‘n’ Seconds)
Icehouse – Can’t Help Myself (EMI)
The Jaynes – Somebody’s Dream (unknown)
Faux Pas – For The Trees (self-released)
The Avalanches – Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Modular)
Gotye – The Only Way (Samples ‘n’ Seconds)
Moonrock – Lounge Chair Drifter (Creative Vibes)
Illpickl – Cool Ass Style (feat Sleeping Monk) (Warner)
Ramon & Company – The Duck Walk (Creative Vibes)
Quro – Lyric Night Fri 11:48pm (Creative Vibes)
The Herd – Royal Jelly (Elefant Traks)
Groovescooter (feat Quro) – My Spine (Is The Bassline) (Groovescooter)
Amphibian – Empty (Don Meers remix) (Groovescooter)
Telafonica – For the Manifesto of Some World View (4-4-2)
Don Meers – Electronique Mascara (Groovescooter)
Ollo – The Lunatics (Have Take Over The Asylum) (Groovescooter)
Tooth – Ballad of the Expendable (Soft)

Georgia Anne Muldrow’s debut EP on Stones Throw is one of the more interesting/fascinating things I’ve listened to in ages. Difficult to pin down, musically challenging and deliciously soulful, it’s a record that shouldn’t just slip past.

Read my review at the Cyclic Defrost blog and listen to her song Larva (click the record sleeve).

A friend told me on the weekend that he didn’t talk to me for ages because I looked so intimidating when I’m DJing. Me? I couldn’t believe it either. Anyway, apparently it’s true. I’m like a latter day horned devil behind the decks, or something. Anyway, I hit record while listening to a bunch of music last night.
It’s no Gold Teeth Thief, but if you feel like listening to music (like Style Council, Hermitude, Geeneus, IG Culture, What What and so on) this might be the tonic:

1. The Style Council – Long Hot Summer (Club mix)
2. Hermitude – Ruffwon
3. Demon Boyz – Recognition
4. Jake Slazenger – Lux
5. Spymusic – Notracktitle
6. Geeneus – Da Journey
7. Lionrock – Wet Roads Glisten (remix)
8. Trickski – Hormony
9. Friends from Rio vs Bembe Segue – Cravo E Canela (IG’s Sun of Scientist mix)
10. Tek 9 – Keep It Hot feat What What (IG mix)

Gotye’s debut got critical props. He’s back with a Francois Tetaz-mastered sequel that sounds like five bands fighting for space – electro, northern soul, dark emotional pop.

Wally De Backer (Gotye/The Basics) on FBI’s Join The Dots Thursday 25/05/06 from 9pm.

Joakim’s at the mixing desk. Bits of Italo, indie, noise – Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Fall – the new album sounds more compilation than album. Here’s a taster:

This week on my radio show Join The Dots I talked tape loops, rural gay beats and Bear Pride with Chapter Music’s latest signing, the rude, crude and delightful Alex Vivian (aka Always), Drew Daniel (Matmos) gave it a huge plug (nudge nudge) on Pitchfork, plus Vivian’s about to go and play some shows organised by Upset The Rhythm englandside soon. He’s playing tonight at Lanfranchies (Surry Hills, Sydney) too.

Otherwise, last night’s show started with Scottish pop and electronic beats (Highpoint Lowlife through to Camera Obscura), ’80s post punk (Birthday Party to Essendon Airport) and Melbourne indie pop. Well I had to find some way of working in the new record by Sodastream – even if they did quote me on the front of the CD saying something like “Sodastream make me fall in love with music all over again” without actually saying my name. Say my name!

Anyway, here’s the songs.

Ele-mental – Futuristic Dinosaur (Kieper)
Halogen – Half Asleep (Audio Cephlon remix) (Karmic Hit)
Bovaflux – McDowall Imprecision (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Village Orchestra - All The Little Lights Going Out (Highpoint Lowlife)
Orange Juice – I Guess I’m Just A Little Too Sensitive (Polydor)
Belle & Sebastian – Waiting For The Moon To Rise (Jeepster/Spunk)
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken (Elefant/Popfrenzy)
Lloyd Cole – Chelsea Hotel
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows (Columbia)
Nick Cave – Tower of Song
The Birthday Party – Release The Bats (Missing Link)
Conway Savage – Streets of Laredo (Beheaded)
The Moodists – Gone Dead (Chapter Music)
Baby Truth – 1980s
Always – Bear Pride = Powerr (Chapter Music)
Always – Friends (Forever) (Chapter Music)
Essendon Airport – How Low Can You Go (Chapter Music)
Andersens – Swan (Chapter Music)
Karl Smith – Your Work? (Chapter Music)
Sodastream – Anniversary (Trifekta)
Jens Lekman – You Remember The Riots (Orchestral Version) (self-released)
The Cannanes – Tennyson (Chapter Music)
Architecture In Helsinki – Like A Call (Trifekta)
The Matinee Orchestra – Thanking You For Listening (Baked Goods)

The dots return this week with an all singing all dancing tramp through the Scottish woods. Well not exactly, but my radio show JOIN THE DOTS starts with a pop and electronic beats from Scotland – think everything from the excellent Highpoint Lowlife label through to the new Camera Obscura album. The show’ll get a little deviant and talk tape loops, rural gay beats and Bear Pride with Chapter Music‘s latest signing, the rude, crude and delightful Alex Vivian (aka Always). And there’ll be a touch of ’80s post punk like Birthday Party, Essendon Airport to tide you over ’til next week! It’s all happening Thursday night from 9 until 11pm.

This week, Sir Robbo came in as a guest on my weekly radio show. With not one but two albums set for release, including the lush double Tooth album that’s in shops this week (well actually just one shop – Title on Crown Street in Surry Hills or Planet Gong in Europe/UK), and a gig last Friday at the Hermitude farewell at the Gaelic Club, Robbo* played some of his new material as Tooth, as well as his new remix of The Herd’s “Burn Down The Parliament”.

Maddslinky – Dark Swing (Sirkus)
Chris Bowden – Beautiful Nasty (4 Hero mix) (Ninja Tunes)
Herbaliser – Something Wicked (Herbaliser Bossa mix) (Ninja Tunes)
Hermitude – Imaginary Friends (Elefant Traks)
Sir Robbo – The Path (feat Hau, Ozi Batla, Urthboy) (Warner)
*Tooth – Harmony Brew (feat Daevid Allen) (Soft)
*Soft Machine – She’s Gone (unknown)
*Gong – And You Tried So Hard (unknown)
*Tooth – Avoiding The Road To Recovery (feat Daevid Allen) (Soft)
*The Herd – Burn Down The Parliament (Astronomy Class remix) (Elefant Traks)
Purdy – On The Roof Of The World (Soft)
Shogun Kunitoki – Montezuma (Fonal)
Bjork – Submarine (feat Robert Wyatt) (Universal)
Mapstation – Warm Distance (feat Annie Whitehead) (~scape)
Super Numeri – The Chart (Ninja Tunes)
Jaga Jazzist – Plym (Smalltown Supersound)
Shining – The Smoking Dog (Rune Grammofon)
A Tribe Called Quest – Jazz (We’ve Got) (Jive)