I’ve been doing Join The Dots since March 2006, which makes it just over two years, but I’m finishing this week to make room for program reshuffle at the station. Listen for a Berliner smorgasbord from Gudrun Gut’s various projects, new tracks from Melbourne label Straight Up, Bill Cosby and a bit of rockabilly. 94.5 in Sydney, 9-11pm.

Mad Dr X - Show Me (2 Dogs remix)
Resin Dogs - Coming With the Sound (feat Haiku D’Etat)
Aceyalone and RJD2 - Mooore
Kenny Segal - Last Words (feat Abstract Rude and Hermitude)
Hermitude - Imaginary Friends
The Tongue - Animal Crackers (feat Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Lo Mein
Jay Dee - Reckless Driving
Slum Village - Can I Be Me?
Lootpack - Attack of the Tupperware Puppets (feat Oh No, Declaime and God’s Gift)
Connie Price and the Keystones - Tell Me (feat Aloe Blacc)
Ohmega Watts - The Platypus Strut
4 Days in Geneve - 4 Days in Geneva
Pavement - Zurich Is Stained
Skeletal Explosive - Little Bird
Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities - What They Said
TV On The Radio - Dumb Animal
Subtle - Deathful (feat Tunde Adebimpe)
Ned Collette - Hours
Robert Wyatt - Just As You Are
Tooth - Dawn of the Duck
The Bites - Adelaide
School of Two - Adelaide Matters
Robert Luke - But It Ain’t Through With Us

Michael Cera & Ellen Page - Anyone Else But You
Kimya Dawson - France
The Moldy Peaches - Jorge Regula
Adam Green - Eating Noddemix
Young Marble Giants - Ode to Booker T
Pants Yell! - Tried to be Good
The Go Betweens - Draining the Pool For You
Robert Forster - Pandanus
The Blackeyed Susans - Who’s Loving You
The Triffids - Lonely Stretch
The Paradise Motel - Raining Pleasure
David McComb & Adam Peters - Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On
The Jackson Code - Strange Cargo
Kaye Louise Patterson - Astronaut
Beach House - Astronaut
Francis Plagne - Astronomy Fountain
Chris Abrahams/Mike Cooper - Oceanic Feeling - Like Part One
Tom Hall - Reflection
Lullatone - Goodnight Train
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Sad Man On the Train
Suckafish P. Jones - Totally Debase
Underlapper - Left Wing Guardian
Broken Chip - Summer Stars
The Cassettes - Sweet Virginia
Guns Are For Kids - 1865
Zombie Ghost Train - Black White and Dead

Smog - Morality
Benny Sings and the Rednose Distrikt - Miss Moral
Build An Ark - Love, Sweet Like Sugar Cane
Mia Doi Todd - Night of a Thousand Kisses
Mia Doi Todd - My Room Is White
Dntel - Rock My Boat (feat Mia Doi Todd)
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear’s Not Scared Mix)
Joel Stern/Abject Leader - Phermone Wings
Blank Realm - Entered
Yes Nukes - GG Allin’s Dick
Yes Nukes - Boys
Captain Ahab - I Can’t Wait For Summer
Say Cheese and Die - Half Sleeve (Toecutter remix)
Toecutter - (Don’t) Hate What You’ve Become
Toecutter - I Milk Myself
Curse Ov Dialect - Red Candles
Al Duvall - Labias and Genitalmen
New Waver - Chadstone
Naked On The Vague - All Aboard
Naked On The Vague - Old Leader
Vincent Over The Sink - 22 Paintbath Place
Lamp Puffer - Phenyl-ket-sauce-force-o
Lakes - Sea Encounter
Tactics - Buried Country
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Dragonfly Pie
Boy Dirt Car - Drive
Richard Easton - Coffin (Remix)
Kaye-Louise Patterson - Astronaut

Chris, Kieran and Shelagh from Sydney band Yes Nukes tell me they’ve been selling t-shirts and tapes at their raucous warehouse and Sydney Park gigs.

I was in Melbourne last week and got a couple of tapes from Daniel Spencer after seeing his band Blank Realm play a show at the Bus Gallery on Little Lonsdale. It’s not the first time I’ve been given tapes lately either.

How many people trading tapes even had tapes when they were growing up, and how much effort does it take to record that way rather than using computers or whatever else? Do you think it’s a contrived kinda aesthetic decision - that links these artists into ’80s noise tape scenes - or something more natural?

If you haven’t heard Yes Nukes, listen on their myspace or read this gig review from We Come From Garageland:

yes nukes were next, whom have recently lost their synth and acquired a bass player by the name of shelagh. this move has made their great songs sound 500% better, and basically just completed what was already a fantastic band.

yes nukes recently decided that the easiest way to have a good set is to turn their amps up as loud as possible, which they put into effect tonight. chris managed to bleed all over my drum kit too, which was a bit special! splattered snare! burst ear drums! so punk rock.

the new sound has added a definite grunge to yes nukes, which i can only assume was their intention. i strongly recommend checking them out.

Yes Nukes will be in to the FBI studios on Thursday night to talk tapes, DIY gigs and contrary band names on Join the Dots (from 9pm on 94.5FM).

The Clouds - Colourblind
Tim Oxley - In The Country
Sunnyboys - The Seeker
Louis Tillett & Charlie Owen - Around You
Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams - She’s Got the Right to Remain Silent
Chris Abrahams - From a Tower Lost as Heat
The Necks - Townsville
Dave Miller - Front to the Back to the Neck
Victor Bermon and Isaac Purcell - Soft Neck
Autistici - Attaching Softness to a Shell [A]
Mr Lif - Mo Mega (feat Blueprint, El P, Akrobatik)
Aesop Rock - Forest Crunk
Blockhead - Insomniac Olympics
Baby Dayliner - Nature’s Clause
Louie Austen - Hear My Song

Chris Abrahams from legendary Australian trio The Necks is coming into the FBI studios for Join The Dots this Thursday night.

The Necks are kicking off a new first Wednesday of the month night at the Factory Theatre, Enmore, called places+spaces. Other acts to play there include Kristin Berardi Septet with Mike Nock, James Muller Trio, Steve Hunter, Band of 5 Names, Adrian Klumpes, Elana Stone, Sandy Evans and Bobby Singh.

The March 5 gig will be recorded for ABC Classic FM. This week’s radio interview is on Join The Dots, Thursday from 9pm.

Warumpi Band - My Island Home
Toys Went Berserk - Stolen Ground
Tooth - Sorry Cake
Comfort Fit - Sorry
Nina Simone - Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Hall & Oates - I’m Sorry
Kev Carmody - Milky Way
Kathryn Williams - All Apologies
Mark Kozelek - I’m Sorry
Clubbed To Death - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)
Allen Su - Preface
Tang Ren Ti - Shanliang de Xin (Good Heart)
Schizbreak - Imagination
Lonely China Day - Sorrow
Robert Henke - Layer 02
Monolake - Static
Deadbeat - Where Has My Love Gone
Akufen - I Won’t Buy You
Aluf - Japanese Burgers
Dave Miller - One Light, Dark Room
Stina - Tinkerplay

Prop - Syndro (Band of Five Names’ Solo Trip remix)
Roam The Hello Clouds - Phases
Triosk + Jan Jelinek - Neckless
Our Brother The Native - As They Fell Beneath Us
Charlottefield - Pacifically
Max Richter - Harmonium
Roni Size & Cypress Hill - Child of the Wild West (Murder Dem Remix)
Vashti Bunyan - Turning Backs
Espers - Widow’s Weed
The Baird Sisters - Snow
Meg Baird - Do What You Gotta Do
Nina Simone - I Hold No Grudge
Ivens - The Grudge
Def Wish Cast - 3rd Degree Burn
13th Son - The Hush (feat Spit Syndicate)
Jase Connection - All Out (feat Raph & BVA)
Celsius - Straight Outta Wentworthville
Brass - How Significant We Are
Sodastream - Brass Lines
Small Sips - Sliding Door
Richard Easton - Distant Dove
The Small Knives - Hardin Your Heart
2 Litre Dolby - Nostromo
Knievel - Someone Had To Tell You
Grant McLennan - Who Said Love Was Dead
Glide - Here She Comes

King Curly - Family Life
Ross McLennan - He Seems To Think We’re His Family
High Pass Filter - Skint (Ross McLennan’s Skinflint mix)
Aluf - Marinated Rizlas
Ryzla - Bushed
Alex Jarvis & Friends - My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
Because of Ghosts - Bright Things Come to Confusion
Telemetry Orchestra - Confused Muscles
Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle
Muscles - The Lake
Blank Realm - Lake
Chasm - Don’t Let Your Guard Down (feat Dialectrix & DJ 2buck)
Tooth - Avoiding the Road to Recovery
New Buffalo - Recovery
New Waver - Monday Mornings All Right For Working
Naked On The Vague - Brown Sun/Sydney Lane Rd
Shannon O’Neill - Vaguely Familial
Beardwagon - We Rock So You Don’t Have To
David McComb & Adam Peters - Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On
Daughters - A Room Full Of Hard Ons And No Place To Sit Down
Autistic Daughters - The Glasshouse and the Gift Horse
Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash
Peregrine - The Good Ship
Mark Walton Fretless - Kahana to Hana
Christian Prommer - Beau Mot Plage