Features / Music

Drake's doing four headline shows around Future Music Festival.. Following the announcement he'll be headlining Future Music Festival 2015 comes the not-unexpected news that Canadian hip hop royalty Drake will be playing a few of his own headline shows around the festival, joined by fellow Future act 2 Chainz. Late last week www.draketour.com.au popped up which was a pretty obvious indication of what was to come, and today sees the announcement of four dates over Feb/March next year. Check the dates below and click HERE to sign up for Frontier Touring Presales, running from Thursday 27 November (2pm AEDT) to Friday 28 November (2pm AEDT) before general release 10AM local time Monday 1 December via Ticketek. Wed 25 Feb - Allphones Arena, Sydney (PRE-SALE) Fri 27 Feb - Rod Laver Areana, Melbourne (PRE-SALE) Tue 3 Mar - Perth Arena, Perth (PRE-SALE) Thu 5 Mar - Entertainment Centre, Brisbane (PRE-SALE)

The Aus' dance legends make a short film doco to go with their new compilation.. Global Melbourne dance music ambassadors Cut Copy recently released Cut Copy Presents: Oceans Apart, digitally and on vinyl via the band’s own dance imprint, Cutters Records. The 19-track continuous DJ-mixed provides a snapshot of new and exclusive music from their hometown’s thriving underground dance music scene and club culture. Not ones to rest on their laurels, they've now unleashed the mix CD's accompanying documentary, providing a behind the scenes look at how compilation came to be. The 12-minute film offers a rare, fascinating glimpse into the Melbourne music scene. Following its premiere with The FADER, you can now stream it online, below: "…'Oceans Apart' aims to allow their listeners to hear a side of Australia that is as unexpected and expansive as the landscape itself." – DJ Mag  "It's impeccably mixed metaphysical disco, existential house and healing music [...] moving freely to this advent

Beautiful new music from Glaswegian producer Jon Cooper AKA Turtle.. "A slow burning piece of beauty," is how NME has described Glaswegian producer Turtle's output thus far. And it's hard not to argue. Following from the release of his debut EP Who Knows, which saw comparisons to the likes of Jon Hopkins and Sohn, Lavender (premiered on blahblahblahscience.com) is the first single to be taken from Turtle's upcoming second EP - Colours, due in 2015 via Beatnik Creative. Along with those illustrious names, I'd also thrown in Thinking In Textures-era Chet Faker into the mix, especially Lavender. A restrained piece of electronica, one that instantly puts Turtle on my map for upcoming electronic artists. Follow Turtle: FACEBOOK

New tunes and an Aussie tour for the Aussie house duo.. Sydney duo Kato and Adam Bozzetto AKA Wordlife have a party-packed December coming up to celebrate their new EP Dat Groove, featuring Chicago dance legend DJ Funk, and a remix from another club lord in Sinden. Along with the tour dates you can see after streaming this charging slice of four-four, they're also joining in the fun that is the epic two-day EMC Play showcases (more info HERE). Dat Groove drops via the duo's record label home Motorik November 28. Follow Wordlife: FACEBOOK

"New New Navy is subtle, textured, emotive and arguably more mature."

"Troxler is fearless."

"That’s really the reward for the difficulty of this record, I think, that I’m a better songwriter now because of it.”

Pusha T, Future, French Montana, and Travi$ Scott do over Hudson Mohawke's 'Chimes'.. 28 year-old Glaswegian tyke Hudson Mohawke makes earth-shaking, maximalist electronic bangers and devastates pretty much every building he's asked to play in. A few months ago he released his first proper solo record since 2009's Butter - dropping the Chimes EP on Flying Lotus' Warp Records label. Packed tight with spectacular synthwork and brass bad-assery, the four tracks sit somewhere between experimental and danceable, and whilst at four tracks in length it might not be a feast, there's certainly plenty enough to blow your mind in there. The cover art's a trip, too. Yung HudMo's no stranger to the rap world: as one half of the triumphant TNGHT duo, his unreleased track R U Ready formed the backbone of Blood On The Leaves, a huge number off Kanye West's Yeezus (there's a good read about HudMo's work with Yeezus over at Pitchfork). HudMo went on to rack up production credits on Kanye's I Am a God, D

Talking Turkish electronic jazz clubs, her industrial goth band and Slayer.. Porn star-turned-author-turned-model-turned-actress-turned-DJ (not all in that order) Sasha Grey touches down in Australia in a couple of weeks for her upcoming Here I Am DJ tour, and we were fortunate enough to get a little bit of chat time in between her traversing the globe. As mentioned in the tour announcement (check it HERE for all the show dates), the time for getting sulky when someone you know from a different career turns to DJing is over. As long as they can back it up with actual skill, it's fair game. I guarantee at least one person in your friend circle is a DJ. I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks what Grey's got, but until then you can find a little more about how she got started in the clubs, what we can expect for the shows, and her knowledge of Australian music. Hey Sasha, thanks for taking the time to answer these questions! I’ll start with a pretty basic/annoying one – your DJ career is

Some funky as hell music out of Sweden.. Tobtok is the nomme de plume of Swedish producer Tobias Karlsson, who I'll admit was relatively unknown to myself until his latest EP Savanna was passed on to me having just been released on French tastemaker label Kitsuné. The five-tracker features a couple of remixes, along with an Australian connection on the track Free in the form of Hoodlem. You may recall Hoodlem from a track we shared recently that Rat & Co jumped on remix duties for (listen HERE). Free is a different beast - a funky, grooving slow disco jam, with Hoodlem's vocals doing good tangs over the top. Take a listen below, and check out the rest of the EP on Tobtok's SOUNDCLOUD. Follow Tobtok: FACEBOOK

We're still mad about Giraffage. He christens his new EP on Australian shores this week..

Welcome to your $0 weekend.. Just cause your bank account’s in the negative doesn’t mean your weekend’s gotta be a drag. Here's our guide on how to extract the mostest fun on the leastest money.   Header Image: Lukasz Wierzbowski LET MEI MOVE YOU Hands down the best thing you’ll spend a fiver on all weekend. Yep, it’s not free, but it’s cheap-as, and it’s worth every cent. One of Perth’s most captivating and soulful female singers, Mei Saraswati (whom you might have seen totally destroy the Boiler Room in her other act, Savoir - check out new music from those guys here), has assembled a super group of talented Perth musicians to back her (already brilliant) solo compositions. You’ll also get to check out the loose, spaced-out experi-funk/disco of Cosmo Gets, who have a new live show, replete with trippy visuals and alien vocoders, that absolutely rules. Sat Nov 22, 8pm – 12am, The Bird, 181 William Street, Northbridge. $5. “Dress breezy”. Event HERE. Above: Mei Saraswati (photo by Amb