This week it was all about the beats. Specifically British b-boying beats from the so-called Intelligent crew. I woke Ed Hanley from Plaid up to chat about Warp, the Black Dog, working with Bjork and what the new album’s all about. As well as continuing my obsessive playing of records from the Clear label (which, as it turns out, was publicised by Lorna!)

Faker – Swallowing bees (demo)
Skullsquadron – Tomorrow morning (demo)
Ride – Leave them all behind (Warner)
Revolver – Heaven sent an angel (Hut)
Mum – Don’t be afraid, you have just got your eyes closed (Fat Cat)
Slowblow – Very slow bossa nova (Mobile)
Bjork – It’s oh so quiet (One Little Indian)
The Black Dog – (unknown, from music for adverts and films) (Warp)
Plaid – Crumax Rinz (Warp)
Plaid – Cedar City (Warp)
Jake Slazenger – ERP (Clear)
Boards of Canada – Left side drive (Warp)
St Etienne – Who do you think you are (Quex Rd – Aphex Twin remix) (Heavenly)
Milkrun – Want from you (demo)
Ubin – Mongrel (Elefant Traks)
Pretty Boy Crossover – Pretty girl megamix! (Shimmer mix) (Clan Analogue)
Wishmountain – (unknown from video 12) (Universal Language)
Super Furry Animals – The man don’t give a fuck (Wishmountain mix) (Creation)
Herbert – The movers and the shakers (album version) (!K7)
Reflection – Vertigo (Clear)
Pasobionic – Echoes of blue (Sensory)

It’s all about the beats on my radio show this week. Specifically British b-boying beats from the so-called Intelligent crew. I’ll be chatting to Plaid about Warp, the Black Dog, working with Bjork and what the new album’s all about.

Pike, Klumpes and Waples are finally back with a new album after taking time out for Pivot, solo jams and lots of touring. It’s breathtaking as ever, but in case that’s not enough, here’s a live set recorded for Tim Ritchie’s killer show on Radio National.

My radio show, Join The Dots on FBI kicked off this week with a mall-hopping epic from Pansy Division and the greatest (new) gay punk band ever Anal Traffic, before going all post punk with Delta 5 and the Au Pairs, Joakim, the Pop Group, and new favourites, The Education.

Pansy Division – At the mall
Anal Traffic – Two pumps and a squirt
Gang of Four – At home he’s a tourist
Anal Traffic – Scapegoat
Delta 5 – You
Au Pairs – Sex without stress
Uter – Tomorrow’s clown
Annie – Always too late (Joakim dub mix)
Joakim – Teenage kiss (Vocal mix)
Justice – Let there be light
Poni Hoax – She sells anger
Maurice Fulton presents Boof – Boombada
The Emperor Machine – Bodilizer Bodilsizer
Roger O’Donnell – For the truth in you
The Cure – Close to me (Paul Oakenfold’s Closer mix)
Gary Clail – Human nature (Paul Oakenfold on the mix)
Mark Stewart & The Maffia – Hypnotised (Unique New York 12″ version)
The Education – Sorry she what?
ROC – Journey to the centre of Brixton (grime edit)
Primitive Calculators – Pumping ugly muscle

After a couple of week’s away from FBI, I dropped into the studio last night and there was a pile of great CDs waiting for me: the new one from Triosk(!) which sounds lovely, albeit with a weird bit at the end. Anyway, this week’s, actually tonight’s show will kick off with AC/DC, Pansy Division and the greatest gay punk band ever Anal Traffic, before going all post punk with Delta 5, Joakim, the Pop Group, and my new favourite The Education. It all happens from 9pm ’til 11 on 94.5FM in Sydney or streamed from the FBI site.

This is one of those cats always on the periphery of the cool stuff in broken beat for my money. Great production, cool collaborations, but just a little close to the wallpaper. Still, it depends when I’m listening – sometimes I think it’s hot. Anyway, go to Thermostat for my review of Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Tide’s Arising.

On other news, it’s been a while since I posted – almost two weeks! – I’ve been up in Queensland for work and generally having far too little time to be able to post on this thing. I didn’t even do my radio show last week, I hope it went well, but I’ll be back this week. More details soon.

This week, I talked with David Best from Fujiya Miyagi, a new band that despite the name are actually from Brighton in the UK, and played a bunch of songs from their great new album. Plus songs from Parisians Poni Hoax, new stuff from FourPlay and a whole bunch more. Look below for the details.

The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties (Polydor)
Antony & The Johnsons – You Are My Sister (Secretly Canadian)
Coco Rosie – K-hole (Touch & Go)
Silver Jews – K-hole (Drag City)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Mama (Spunk)
Pavement – Unfair (Fellaheen)
The Fall – Hey! Luciani (Big Time)
Fujiya Miyagi – In One Ear and Out The Other (Tirk)
Fujiya Miyagi – Photocopier (Tirk)
Fujiya Miyagi – Cassettesingle (Tirk)
MF Doom – One Beer (Chef Madlib) (Stones Throw)
Fujiya Miyagi – Collarbone (Tirk)
Fujiya Miyagi – Transparent Things (Tirk)
Fujiya Miyagi – In One Ear and Out The Other (Tirk)
Poni Hoax – Cheerleader In My Dreams (Tigersushi)
Joakim Lone Octet – Melting Blue Ice (Seiji Remix Disorient) (Versatile)
Mu – Chair Girl (Tigersushi)
Maurice Fulton presents Melonsniffers – I Want To Talk (DJ Q $ Remix) (Pagan)
Max Berlin – Elle et Moi (Tigersushi)
Orlando Voorn & Mad Mike – Never-Blak Presidentz (UR)
Quark Kent – Rock On In (Fromage)
Tim Koch – Speak Canadian (U-Cover)
FourPlay – Drunken Hearted Man Blues (?)

This week my radio show (Join The Dots on FBI 94.5 from 9-11pm Thursday or online) is all about new songs from Poni Hoax and FourPlay, plus digs into the back-catalogue with the Silver Jews, Orlando Voorn, CiM and the Fall.

Edit…
They’re from Brighton, their name’s half record player and half karate kid, and they’ve got a killer new record that’s a bit Kraut rock and a bit electro smash. Listen in to the show tonight for a chat with David Best from Brighton-based band Fujiya Miyagi.

Listen…
Fujiya Miyagi – In One Ear and Out The Other

Here it is, another week. I managed to alienate an (admittedly highly strung) environmentally aware listener by paying out Timeblind’s rastafarian mc (who I’m really into by the way), still given the week that’s been, it still feels like a bit of a holiday hanging out in the radio studio for a couple of hours. I didn’t end up squeezing in Midnight Oil’s Francois Kevorkian produced Species Deceases EP, or any Hoodoo Gurus for that matter, but if you were down for some heavy dubstep riddims and soulful house, then FBI was the place to be.

Electronic – Getting Away With It (Extended mix) (Warner)
Victor Xray Dub System – New Dawn Fades (unreleased)
Victor Xray Dub System – Up Observatory Hill (unreleased)
Shannon O’Neill – Vaguely Familial (Clan Analogue)
G-Type Nerve Agent – Sweet Analyticks (Telemetry Orchestra remix) (Clan Analogue)
Telemetry Orchestra – Under The Knife (Dump Huck)
Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon (Version Galore) (Play It Again Sam)
World Domination Enterprises – Asbestos Lead Asbestos (Rough Trade)
Moving Ninja – Shellcode (Tectonic)
Moving Ninja – Uranium (unreleased)
Burial – South London Boroughs (Hyperdub)
Kode9 – Nine Samurai (feat the Spaceape) (Hyperdub)
DJ/Rupture – Kool Pop Sweat (Soot)
Timeblind – Rastabomba (unreleased)
Nettle – Myanmar (Timeblind remix) (Soot)
Timeblind – What the… ? (unreleased)
Phuturistix – Beat Jerky (Hospital)
RIP – The Chant (Satellite)
Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (Special 1984 Nile Rogers mix) (Rhino)
Francois K – Mindspeak (Wave)
Jamie Lloyd – Movin’ In (Brennan Green remix) (Future Classic)

These records won’t necessarily reward hours walking around head in your headphones listening, but that’s not to say they aren’t cool.

Wodonga via Melbourne lo-fi tape looper and gay pride chanter Alex Vivian (Always) has a seven inch ‘album’ out, produced by Sean Bailey (Lakes), on the marvellous Chapter Music (review here).

Rather than Jamie Lee Curtis’s character in Halloween, Jamie Lloyd is a Sydney househead with a couple of 12 inch singles in general circulation through Future Classic (review here).

LISTEN:
Jamie Lloyd – Movin’ In (Brennan Green mix)
Jamie Lloyd – Night Panda

Oh yeah, and this week’s Join The Dots (on FBI 94.5 tonight from 9 ’til 11) is all about dubstep, deep house and Oz Rock.