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10 wide-ranging November selections from futurebeat purveyors Surface Tension.. Perth-based club collective Surface Tension have been quietly creeping up as promoters to watch in the past year – we’ve very much been welcoming their diverse taste in talent curation – after teaming up with Get Weird to present the maximalist sounds of Sinjin Hawke in May, in August Surface Tension hosted the oblique club sounds of Melbourne’s Air Max 97, chasing that up in September with Melbourne fringe-dweller Galtier, whom they teamed with the sexy weirdness of New Zealand’s Steezie Wonder. Their local line ups too, bring together a broad spectrum of sounds; from beats through to bass-heavy rhythms. Above: Matt and Stu, two-thirds of Surface Tension   Up next for Surface Tension is international future-beat tastemaker Joe Kay, founder of the super trendy LA-based, internet label Soulection – home to Esta and Lakim, whom you may have caught at Circo Festival earlier this year. If you're in Perth, head

The Internet's own rap prince is flexin' his vision harder than ever in Volt..

The Sydney twins are back in the studio, taking a softer approach on new single Snare.. Fresh from a heap of festival appearances and a five-month studio break, one of Australian electronic music's most hyped acts Cosmo’s Midnight have put the lights back on in front of the speakers, dropping their new single, Snare, featuring London-based vocalist Wild Eyed Boy. It's the first taste of their early-2015 EP release, and shows a little shift in direction for a duo that's never been one to hold back from genre-hopping - turning towards a softer, R&B approach with a chilled, low-slung beat pinned down by Wild Eyed Boy's soothing vocals. They're returning to the festival realms to end the year, with appearances at Beyond The Valley and Harbour Party NYE.

A new single and EP, with all the sales going to charity.. Throughout ten years of music and monkey business, Midnight Juggernauts have long maintained their adventurous course through the music scene. Recently separated across different countries and different projects, they banded back together on impulse to record a series of EPs, the first called Aerials, (out now via the band's own label, Siberia Records) reflects the world from a vertical perspective above and below, explored in the music as well as accompanying video clip and live show production. They're also taking the opportunity to do something a little different with the album release structure - making Aerials available immediately, and in return for a donation to the Aboriginal Benefits Foundation specifically for Healthcare. It's a classic win-win, rad new music from Midnight Juggernauts for you, and supporting a good cause in the mean time. Check out the truly global video clip for the first single from the EP, Freefall

A shedload of good music yes - but a heap more too.. Saturday 29 November sees the inaugural CoLAB Festival hitting University Of WA's Oak Lawn and providing a laidback alternative to a certain event taking over two days that weekend and requiring weeks of gym prep in the lead-up. Billing itself as a one of a kind festival built on the collective ideas of crews local to these waters, to the soundtrack of some of Australia's raddest indie and electronic acts, it's gonna be a rad day out. Why? Well let's take a little gander of what's happening: MUSIC As we mentioned CoLAB boasts a top shelf lineup of established and up-and-coming acts, that looks a little like this: Hermitude, Midnight Juggernauts, The Jungle Giants, The Kite String Tangle, Sable, Indian Summer, Gang Of Youths, The Creases, Citizen Kay and KUCKA. Click any of those links to hear some music/get learned on them. FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD The organisers have teamed up with some of this state's finest fooderies to offer a huge

Naik is launching his single, Visit From Hell, at The Bakery and you should be there.. Naik man has been ticking away for a few years now and is known for his eclectic music style which brings together warped guitar lines, psychedelica and snarling hip hop. Furthermore, Naik is also releasing the first single, Visit From Hell, off his second album, and to celebrate he's having a single launch at The Bakery this Friday 15 November in Perth. Furthermore, Naik is bringing along his mates Mathas (who we recently got to interview Allday), Lower Spectrum and Henry Kissinger, along with good friend of the Pile and the legend responsible for the mind-altering visuals at CIRCO Festival - COMBS. Check out this preview of what you can expect this Saturday, because it looks f'in incredible:

Some new music from some artists you may not know of yet..

The Brissy gun takes a step back from remixes to drop a killer original.. If you read this blog at all you'll know we're big fans of 19-year-old Brisbane producer cln, who lately has been pumping out a series of quality remixes for the likes of Odesza, GRMM and Wookie. But it was his original Sideways EP we first fell in love with, so we're pretty excited he's back on his own stuff, just releasing Satisfy feat. the lush vocals of Sydney outfit Twin Caverns' Lou Millar. And it's another moody slice of electronica from cln, with winding bass and hypnotic melodies under-pinned by cln's ever on-point production. Download it for free below, and check his upcoming show dates after that: SHOW DATES: Friday 28 November – Mammal Sounds Christmas at Shebeen, Melbourne (EVENT) Friday 12 December – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane (supporting GRMM) Saturday 13 December – Seasoned Music, Sydney College of the Arts Friday 23 January – OH HELLO!, Brisbane (supporting ODESZA)

We give you the lowdown on Beaufort Street Festival's big Kahuna; StreetX reveal their Top 5 Vices.. Are you a trendsetter? Are you a gogetter? Do you know better (but you do it anyway)? If the answer is yes to any of the above, then come and claim your spot at Vices, the tropical throw-down at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre this Saturday. Bad Vacation/Flamingos, Lab Six and Street X have all been on their grind putting this thing together. Vices will be a refreshing party microcosm in the Beaufort Street Festival party macrocosm, where dog shows, crochet bombs and 'live street art' reign supreme. Vices. Island vibes. Much island vibage. They’re going to transform the whole place into some type of South Pacific paradise. We're hoping all the trill boys will swap out their bucket hats for cute li’l sailor boating hats. SURELY all the trill girls will be wearing coconut bras made out of the shells of the coconuts that StreetX will be extracting coconut juice out of for their Pina Colada Bar.

Maximum fun on minimum funds - your cheapskate's guide to the weekend.. Money can buy booze and gig tickets and movies and tasty food, all of our standard weekend-go tos, but money can't buy the thrill you'll get skating along the ocean's edge under the stars, experiencing the sweat and passion of live punk in someone's backyard, or the feel-good endorphins that come from watching puppies going insane. Welcome to your $0 weekend. (Image: James Whineray) NIGHT SKATE THE WEST COAST When I was in high school one of my favourite things to do on the weekend was to catch public transport to skate parks with group of friends. While it may not have been that many years ago, I’m fairly sure if I were to throw myself over a set of stairs on my skateboard these days, it would only result in me hurting myself, but that doesn’t mean I doesn’t mean I don’t still enjoy the occasional skate. While it may be dominated by cyclists and mums with prams by day, the coast road between Trigg and Hillarys is

Raw visuals from Melbourne DIY dance party bizarros Zanzibar Chanel.. Melbourne DIY dance party bizarros Zanzibar Chanel are an act that come along once in one’s clubbing lifetime. Their super-weird greatness is hard to describe but their esoteric house certainly stands out a mile in a sometimes bleak nightclub landscape of mediocre house, uncreative electronica and grating trap. Baba-X (who does brilliant solo stuff, too) makes groove-laden hi-fi beats, while part-time diva, full-time dead set legend Zac Segbedzi sings and raps over them and is a delight in a live situation, a big fella, he often goes bare-chested, and sometimes dons a balaclava and nipple tassles. Oh yes. They’ve played in Perth a couple of times and both times the party situation got very, very sweaty. They’ve just released a raw-as-fuck video feat. "Dungeon Master Posse" (who I think is just ZC in alter ego form?) for their new track Mustn't Evolve, from their Drunk at the Jazz Club EP (released in September), whi