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Features / Music
Ryan Hemsworth's Diplo & Friends Mix
Featuring a heap of fire, including an un-released Cosmo's Midnight slice of bliss.. Last week saw Diplo & Friends' radio show host a Valentine's Special and who better to get in the mix than the king of emotions himself, Ryan Hemsworth. The one-hour mix is as excellent as you'd expect, traversing a glorious menagerie of genres and featuring a whole heap of un-released and exclusive material. What got our bones rattling was an un-released remix from our At The Pile headliners, Cosmo's Midnight. Rather than being a synth-filled banger we're used to from the old Cosmo's, it's very much in line with latest single Snare, a super-blissful and chilled out piece of electronica, packing feels for days. That one comes in at 23:00, but of course this entire mix is spot-on: Head to our At The Pile event - March 7 at Gilkisons Dance Studio - HERE, or grab tickets HERE.
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Mixtape: Hudson Mohawke, Valentine’s Day Slow Jams VIII
Stream / download a steamy new mix from Scottish loverman HudMo.. "Lay back, and let Hudson Mohawke take you away..." 29-year-old Glasgwegian producer Hudson Mohawke, the producer and one half of TNGHT, has been busy working on a follow up to his Chimes EP, and has also been putting in work producing for Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, and singer Antony Hegarty, producing Hegarty’s album. "The album I’m producing for Anthony is really cool as fuck," he told NME recently. But he’s not been too busy to neglect a very special tradition: for eight years now, HudMo has released a love-themed mix on Valentines’ Day every year; and it’s always a corker. Slow Jams VIII is no different: kicking off with a big, jazzy, live-sounding version of Can’t Hide Love by the original casanova D'Angelo, the mix also features Klymaxx, Bill Withers and Stephanie Mills: it’s the perfect mix between slinky disco grooves, Whitney Houston style big pop, and soulful R & B – with a bunch of gunshots and HudMo I
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10/10 Would Listen: Flower Drums
Flower Drums' lead singer Leigh Craft selects some dreamy jams for us.. Flower Drums are putting out some of the nicest, warmest garage-pop we’ve heard in ages. They're like Perth's answer to Toro Y Moi or Washed Out. As we enter into 2015, Pilerats are keeping a firm ear on this four-piece from Perth, who had a winner of a year in 2014, performing at Laneway Festival and giving us two super strong tracks: Bad Websites, and Don’t Wait, the latter featuring vocals from fellow WA artist St. South. Flower Drums have an EP due out next month; and we’re expecting it to make quite the splash, particularly with the current Australian music climate really embracing vocal-driven harmonies with an electronic backbone as per Flower Drums’ style (with Chet Faker being the case in point here). Flower Drums’ lead singer Leigh Craft has great taste in music – his personal Facebook page is always filled with great picks from left-field artists and rising talents. Leigh’s put together ten songs he’s v
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No Money Weekend
Maximum fun on minimum funds.. Here's our weekly pre-weekend tips for means to extract the mostest fun, on the leastest money. Particularly handy if you spent all your money at Laneway last weekend. Particularly handy if you're spending more time out during the week than you normally would on "just a few casual white wines" and "just a few cheap Fringe Festival shows", that actually amount to a considerable outlay by week's end.  Particularly handy if you left your wallet in the back of a taxi, or you have no idea where you left your wallet. Particularly handy you know exactly where your wallet is, and you know exactly how much money it does not contain.  (Image: Clara Canepa) STATUS MUSIC UPDATEThe Rosemount plays host to a big show presented by Status Factory Records this Friday which is gon’ be a real banger for local music lovers. The larger-than-usual home grown line-up includes Eleventeen Elston, Felicity Groom, Flower Drums, Gunns, Runner and Golden String. For a mere 10 smacker
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New Music: Karl S Williams - Is This Love [Premiere] + BTS Photo Exclusive
A new single, Bluesfest shows, national tour, music video feat. Thelma Plum and more.. Guitar slinging, banjo-wielding man of impeccable hirsuteness, Karl S Williams is kicking 2015 off with a massive heap of news, which we're gonna do the best we can in wrapping up in this post. After a barnstorming 2014 that saw a record deal with Warner's indie imprint Footstomp Music which lead to the release of his debut album, two national headline tours, wowing punters and industry alike at BigSOUND and CMJ Music Marathon and more, he's grabbing this year by the horns with a new single, a new video clip featuring Thelma Plum, and a heap of huge shows. He'll be joining uber-chiller Donavon Frankenreiter as part of his Bluesfest sideshow on April 16 at The Triffid, before embarking on an national tour of his own to celebrate new single Is this Love, with a video on the way featuring leading lady Thelma Plum.  You can stream Is This Love below, which was mixed by legendary producer Victor Van Vugt,
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