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In the second of our series of recaps over last year's Sonar festival, we are touched to republish our inspiring interview with King Midas Sound. The brainchild of uncompromising producer Kevin Martin aka the Bug, dub poet Roger Robinson and Japanese vocalist Kiki Hitomi, KMS wowed the underground and growing overground of bass music.

Their apocalyptic, sensitive and at times romantic take on sound system music is uniquely theirs, and in this interview they discuss their uncompromising approach to innovation in sound, challenging the audience and the difference between darkness and intensity. Taken just after the release of their critically acclaimed debut LP 'Waiting for You' on Hyperdub, this is a priceless insight to one of the most exciting new groups in the subsonicsphere. 

As we rev up for another year of the Sonar Festival, Forcefed Fistfuls recaps over two of our favorite artist interviews from last year. The first is this, with the enigmatic hip hop beatmaker and dancefloor experimentalist LUNICE.

Part of the hot-tipped Lucky Me collective (which spawned the creative juggernauts of Jackmaster, Hudson Mohawke and Rusty, to name a few), in 2010 Lunice was still fresh-faced, with his first official tour in Europe. Since this interview, the man has collaborated with Diplo, released two EPs, 'Stacker Upper' and 'One Hunned', with Lucky Me and refuses to sit still.

Here Mr Cloak and Dagger talks to the young producer about his history in music, how he got into making music through breakdancing and his unique view on live performance. Check out more Lunice over at the Lucky Me collective:

www.thisisluckyme.com/html/1music/artists/lunice.html

The London based DJ, Oneman is often referred to as a DJ's DJ, which is something pretty hard to pull off since every kid these days wants a Serato package for their Christmas stocking. Yet, alongside the likes of our previous Super DJ guests like Jackmaster and N-Type, Oneman is a world class DJ and true FFF Radio favourite.

On a balmy summer night in Brisbane, i was lucky enough to catch a secret and very private show with Oneman thanks to the hard work and good vibes of the locally based DubThugs crew. Following an up close and personal mix featuring everything from The Police to Prince and Township Funk to Garage, I spoke to Oneman at length about that 'swing thang', his new record label, producing his own upcoming tunes, DJ'ing at Rinse FM, that 'London thing' and the gossip around the recent revival of UK Garage. Simply click Play in the transport control on the top of this episode to hear the interview in high quality audio.

Oneman plays a lot of old tunes, an exception in a scene obsessed with the perpetual "moving forward never backwards" motion of dubplate culture. Infact, Oneman tells me he has never subscribed the the Dubplate chase and this was evident in his exceptionally fluid and live Serato performance in Brisbane. Watching Oneman mix within arms reach, i was able to see how Martin Clark observed that Oneman can mix two tunes very quickly by riding the pitch in the mix. Oneman, doesnt push the record plate, he corrects the mix via pitch once they’re already public – he knows he can correct the mix as it happens.

When Loefah put him forward for Mary Anne Hobbs' pinnacle Generation Bass showcase in 2008, his talent as a DJ was undeniable, yet mixing early DMZ releases into old UK garage records will only take you so far. Instead he spent the next two years walking a new path, eventually ushering in a new generation of producers and sounds distinct from the grime, funky, dubstep, and garage scenes that inspired them.

By summer 2010, armed with peerless mixing skills and new Serato tricks, Oneman broke one of the records of the year, Girl Unit's "Wut" and Sbtrkt's collab with Jessie Ware, as well as launching his 502 label with two fresh new artists, Fis-T and Jay Weed.

As we near the end of the hyper arc of Dubstep, Oneman reminds us how right from the start he placed the true musical lineage of Dubstep - UK Garage and Grime - at the centre of the mix.

Oneman stayed true to this over time whilst embracing the newer Garage sounds and so had long ago arrived at the place that uninformed media are now calling 'post-Dubstep'. Today, Oneman is at the nexus of producers that are mixing the sounds of Garage, Grime, House, UK Funky, Purple and Dubstep, into one big genre-less love-in.

Oneman has a horde of mixes up on Mixcloud and various guest mixes around such as a fantastic Ragga/Garage mix for the Heatwave Collective and an uber fun selection for the Lucky Me mix series.

www.myspace.com/1mandj

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Gang Colours debut EP 'In Your Gut Like A Knife' meets urban electronica with aching shoe gaze on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Read my review of this fantastic EP over here and enjoy listening to Gang Colours 'In your gut like a knife' on our music player.

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In April, the Frequency Lab presented the release of Roleo's Binge Beats EP (TFL DL006); a five track collection of 'future beats' with two remixes by label boss Monk Fly and production duo Claws & Fangs. Binge Beats is the debut EP from young Surry Hills beatsmith Roleo; the title acting as a reference to Roleo’s prolific output. The EP finds the young Sydney-based producer fusing elements of traditional hip hop, wonky, and 8bit, to position himself as one of Australia's leading innovative producers.

Roleo is best known as the producer behind the Daily Meds hip hop crew, who’s unique 'crack-hop' sounds have already grown a strong following in the Australian hip hop scene and extensive air play on the ABC's Triple J. Without the Daily Meds MCs, Roleo has even more sonic room to take his beats to the next level; on Binge Beats, Roleo combines authentic originality with soulful themes, abstract beats, epic synth lines and 8bit gangsterism.

Highlights include the stoner bubbling and hand clap inducing Tokin', followed by the waste swaying Mr Oizo esque romp of Forever Breaks; as well as the swag filled disregard and synth hammering of Out of the frame. Monk Fly's remix of the block busting Freudian Slip is done in his recognisable fine style as Sydney's future beat baron; and Claws & Fangs give the same tune a dubstep rework complete with hyper LFO action and bicycle dance moves.

With the release of this exemplary EP, alongside his underground contemporaries such as Elliot, Aoi, and Suckafish P Jones; Roleo can proudly stand up as a focal point for the future of Australian hip hop. 

Tracklisting:

1. Tokin’
2. Forever Breaks
3. Freudian Slip
4. Future 3.9
5. Out Of The Frame
6. Freudian Slip (Monk Fly remix)
7. Freudian Slip (Claws & Fangs remix)

Available digitally from online stores such as iTunes, Boomkat, Addictech, Juno and Emusic.
Also available from our online Frequency Lab store www.thefrequencylab.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/theroleo

Hessle Audio first label compilation '116 & Rising' is a timely output that places the label firmly at the head of the bass bin vanguard. Read my review of the compilation over here

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This latest offering from hip hop producer Aoi finds the underground hero of the north strike out in his new southern base of Melbourne with a 12" vinyl sampler, Funnel Web, courtesy of Wax Museum Records. Having followed Aoi since his first releases and mixtapes, I can say with some certainty that alot of people have been waiting quite some time for this now and it's great to see this multi-talented musician ever moving forward.

While i was still getting to know my Cannibal Ox and Antipop Consortium, Aoi was already holding down the entire city of Brisbane with his noisy, loose and dirty brand of underground hip hop. Whilst partaking in local bands such as the indie group Shuriken (on guitar); Aoi was mostly a sample based based love affair with a source catalogue to make most producers producer's weep. However, I enjoyed finding a few snaps with my own digging obession into nerdism's like The Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series. Otaku aside, this latest output by Aoi demonstrates his recent forays in to more synth driven tracks, perhaps absorbing more of the future beats movement in to his RZA-esque aesthetic, and likely also a result of continuing power ups in his production skills.   

Armed with a spare room full of dusty old records, analog synths, and some software, Aoi has created some of the most attention grabbing, psychedelic bangers in the country. They've even turned the heads of international acts, seeing him support the likes of RZA, Ras G, Oh No, Phat Kat and Guilty Simpson, along with contributing beats to the work of GDP and his Slangcorp crew in New Jersey, USA.

Aoi's also been highly sought after as a remixer. Last year alone saw him re-working tracks by Faux Pas, Kharkov, and Qua (Mush Records). Somehow he also finds time to perform live around Melbourne, with MPD and laptop, and it was one of these sets that caught the eye of Wax Museum Records. Wax Museum dragged him away from his loop-digging and live show routine in order to give them enough material to fill a 12" record, and the Funnelweb EP was born.

Funnel Web 12" sampler tracklisting:

01. Time goes on
02. Floral Foam pt.2
03. Blast!
04. Eye beam
05. Boobytrap
06. Jumble wash
07. Carpentry dub
08. The hump
09. Just one more time
10. Space wasps
11. Boating accident
12. Last day for us

Pre-order Funnel Web 12" at Wax Musuem
Download the cultural treasure that is Aoi's discography here: http://datarook.net/aoi/discog.htm

Prince Nod reviews Fabriclive56 by Ramadanman / Pearson Sound over at PulseRadio.net

Prince Nod's interview with Mosca has been published over at PulseRadio.net. Big thanks to Generic Collective bring setting this up for the interview with Mosca and a great night of local DJ's.

The Frequency Lab recently released a new talent in the form of New South Welshman Elliot, with his debut album Found Sounds (TFL DL005) released 13th March. This 13 track introduction to Elliot's sonic palette is an impressive collection of beats that is sure to turn headz and set the artist up as a producer to watch in 2011.

Inter-spliced with the sounds of intoning electronic prayers and interstellar transmissions, Elliot's Found Sounds balances the illbient and abstract with sleuth grooves and bouncing bass. Theres a pleasant sense of searching amongst the bubbles of synthesizers and gameboys, side-chained kicks and spacious clicks as well as a jazziness that will appeal to both old school hip hop headz and followers of future beats.

In fact, tracks like Warm jazz rain and Sun setting over bird cage part 2 are reminiscent of Australian underground contemporaries such as Pasobionic, Aoi or Hermitude and equally as impressive. Thanks to The Frequency Lab you can download one of the highlight tracks from the album, Sun setting over bird cage part 2 here on Forcefed Fistfuls.

Label boss Monk Fly summarises Elliot's release nicely as a "sonic journey, an album to indulge in from start to finish." Forcefed Fistfuls is inclined to agree and its certainly refreshing to get your teeth into a full length Australian release whilst many artists forage towards releasing the two track 12" format. Go digest it now!

www.thefrequencylab.com
http://thefrequencylab.bandcamp.com/

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I heard about Dro Carey a week or so before this post via local Sydney DJ Nicky Damage and instantly wanted to know more. A trip to Dro Carey's Tumblr and Vimeo sites soon became an epic audio visual journey through this prolific artists catalogue of original music.

I quickly realised big things were happening and this was confirmed when i read that the Sydney based producer is one of FACT magazines top 10 producers to watch in 2011 with a string of upcoming releases at home and abroad. After making contact i was promptly provided with an exclusive Dro Carey mix for Forcefed Fistfuls, along with an illuminating Q&A session. 

Dro Carey - Bulletproof Atrium from DC vampira on Vimeo.

DRO CAREY Q&A with Prince Nod

PN: Tell us who Dro Carey is in one sentence....please.

DC: Both a loser and someone you shouldn't play with; a metro goon.

PN: Whats happening with your latest releases?

DC: I did the Trilogy Tapes one - Venus Knock. That was an EP limited to 200 pressings but because they sold out in a week 200 more have been repressed. Another Trilogy Tapes release is finished and coming soon, titled LBEP. And another Trilogy one is in the works, titled Chion Edits.

As well as an EP for Ramp recordings called Journey With The Heavy that's gonna be double vinyl. Finally there's the Much Coke EP coming out in March on Sydney label Templar Sound. On Hum and Buzz [Ed: run by Ikonika and Optimum] I have the Candy Red/Hungry Horse single coming.

PN: What can you tell us about your collab with UK Grime producer/MC TRIM? !!

DC: Aidan Bennison of Templar Sound organized that. He asked Trim over twitter and some supportive folks like Fact and Ben UFO essentially kept that request bumped up the twitter feed, if that makes sense. He heard the beat and put something together within a week or so.

He sent the acapella stems and I did a new mixdown and that's gonna be on the Much Coke release on Templar Sound. It was a weird experience because for so long I'd been contacting MCs to no avail and then this suddenly came about without me doing anything!

PN: Your Vimeo channel, who is doing the video and how/why?

DC: I do those videos. Through mainly found footage and sometimes segments I've filmed myself. I feel it can be a good compliment to the music and also promotionally helpful as well.

Dro Carey Trilogy Tapes Promo from DC vampira on Vimeo.

PN: What are some of your main musical influences?

DC: I'm influenced by a range of music and production styles, Detroit Techno, Chicago house, garage rhythms, R&B, avant-garde/minimal synth records

PN: You mentioned in your Fact magazine interview "Even my most sugary productions are based around subliminal experiences of awkwardness, aggression and guilt".  As a producer... and a neurotic, I think i understand... does this mean music is 'therapy' for you?

 DC: I guess its therapy. I mean the core goal is to construct something fun and worth listening to, but also there's this ridiculous undercurrent essentially that embodies all those emotional things. It's very hard to provide evidence for this, given its electronic music, and I'm really not trying to simulate depth that isn't there.

Basically I'll just say that yeah its an outlet for a range of neuroses. Hungry Horse was probably the first conscious realization of this, as it is an elaborate pun/inside joke concerning an ex-girlfriend (which is really lame now that I think about it).

PN: Whats your argument for producers letting their guard down; are you yourself capable of being anything other than honest in your music making, or could you whip out a pop track anytime if you wanted?

 DC: Actually, whipping out a pop track would be the pinnacle of honesty for me. In fact I'm going to have take an issue with 'whipping out'... Writing a pop/hit song is the hardest thing for an artist to achieve. It takes more skill than any other musical pursuit. I am many stages from developing to that point and it is the ultimate thing I can hope for. It's years away.

Like I'm streetfighting right now, kicking a few dudes in the faces and impressing a small pit of people, but I want to be olympic.Some kind of Taekwondo gold medal. Refining your sound is never a corruption of an ideal, I don't believe selling out exists. Letting your guard down is a matter of aiming for this but still being yourself, of not being elitist no matter what rung of the music world you're on. Perhaps what I mean is that your personality can sell out.  

Dro Carey - Passtime Machine from DC vampira on Vimeo.

PN: How did you fit into the experimental minimal ambient, noise, cut-ups/collages scene earlier in your oeuvre?

DC: ... I only ever played one show of that sort of material. It was at a warehouse that is essentially a glorified shed, with more young people squatting/sharehousing in other rooms of the building than those actually in the audience at the stage for the show. Like there were maybe ten people there for the show and I could hear one of them saying 'what are you doing' over my set. As I walked in a guy was kicking a dog, and I ate this curry there (I still had to pay 5$ for it though I was the 'headline') that caused my throat to seemingly fill with concrete the next morning.

The two other artists played much better sets before me and the guy that organized it lost a fair bit of money. Like maybe when you're 50 years old you'll get to play some cafes in Europe and be fetishized as an outsider by the classical world for the duration of a festival or something. Basically you need to come to terms with the fact that Timbaland is EAI and just integrate your experimentation into something accessible on some level.

PN: Do you jam with anyone locally?

DC: No one at the moment... but I am just starting to get in touch with some Sydney guys. There are a lot of really talented producers in Sydney that I slept on. 48/4 [Ed: see our FFF feature] is one of them and he's just contacted me this week about a label/project he's starting.

PN: You seem to be well noticed overseas, but still underground here in Australia. Is this accurate, and do you see this changing?

DC: It's like Momus predicted, the internet age allows us not 15 minutes of fame, but to be famous to 15 people. And for me 10 of them are in Japan and 4 in the UK. Or some ratio like that.

I'm underground everywhere, but I guess you could say I'm Artesian when it comes to Australia. Wouldn't mind tunneling up to underground status.

Dro Carey Forcefed Fistfuls Mix

Tracklist:

1. Stagga - Ghetto Yutes
2. Nochexxx - Timepiece
3. Crooked Luck - Steel
4. Sir Fresh & DJ Critical - I'm Smooth
5. DJ Q - Final Boss
6. Seiji - Sticks
7. Sinden vs. SBTRKT - Seekwal / GS Boyz - I Wanna C Ya Acapella
8. GS Boyz - I Wanna C Ya Acapella
9. Royal T - Orangeade (Walton Edit)
10. Kahn - Helter Skelter
11. Soulja Boy & Lil B - That Boy Can Fly (Gucci Wings)
12. Terror Danjah - Ride 4 Me
13. Young Jeezy - I Got This
14. Dro Carey - Delirium Event Line
15. George Fitzgerald - Don't You (SCB Edit)
16. James Fox - Put It Back (Ramadanman Refix)
17. James T. Cotton - On Time (Rick Wade's Grimetime Remix)
18. Chromatic - Hypnotic
19. BD1982 - Utukku (Ikonika & Optimum Remix)
20. Yong 3rd & Tay 3rd - Fucc Dat Nigga (Tell Em I Said It)

Follow Dro Carey at his bursting tumblr page

http://drocar.tumblr.com/

Prince Nod

The Frequency Lab's abstract hip hop signee records an exclusive DJ mix for Forcefed Fistuls featuring a number of his own tunes from his recent album 'Found Sounds'. A must have mix of future beats all mixed with vinyl goodness. Happy Easter!

ELLIOT: FORCEFED FISTFULS MIX:

1. (unknown) - Matthew Atkins
2. Sun setting over bird cage part 1 - Elliot
3. Boxed in - Mike Slott
4. The Makings - House shoes
5. Stellar Suzie - Afta 1
6. Radio Attack - Prefuse 73
7. Space hopping - Elliot
8. Not another Monkier - Elliot
9. Wait - Knxledge
10. Chocolate money - Kelpe
11. Space bird - Dysphemic
12. Fat manual - Herrmutt lobby
13. Shadows of tomorrow(Flylo remix) - Flying lotus
14. 12 KVxd mod(5-4) - Elliot
15. Fireball - DZA
16. Analove - Fulgeance
17. Skulltaste - Mux Mool
18. Barrio - Lopez
19. I know all the b****s (Bullion remix) - Mr Beatnik
20. transmission - Elliot
21. The dreams of men part 2 - Elliot
22. 8 bit try - Boom baptist
23. Satta marijuana - P.U.D.G.E
24. Circuit breaking - Dibiase
25. Sound barrier - Xperimental beats
26. Thundering plants - Elliot
27. Tomato smash - Shlohmo
28. Winter warfare - Jordan Rockswell
29. Ride the rhythm - Unity
30. Who 8 my bits - Elliot
31. Don't let the rain come in your ass - Bretzel zoo
32. Illuminations - Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane

More by Elliot:

http://soundcloud.com/found_sounds/
http://www.myspace.com/founddynamics

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Having been completely taken over by the creative resurgence of garage in what is now being referred to as a post dubstep world, i found listening to 'Hello Lonely Hold The Nation' and 'We Make Hits Not The Public' by Downliners Sekt, an invigorating experience. Simultaneously a flash back to IDM and Industrial whilst also reminiscent of Burial and the electric melancholy of emotive 2-step and garage, Downliners Sekt have been making waves across the world from their base in Spain with our friends at Disboot Records.

Commissioned for mixes by Mary Anne Hobbs while at Radio 1 and Rob Booth of Electronic Explorations, as well as tipped by Fact Magazines 'New Talent', these mixes of post-industrial sound collage and abstract beats are a good entry point for those wanting to 'make sense of the noise'. Yet there is so much more to explore with this group, both musically and conceptually in their approach and mission to creating, distributing and performing their work. Go check out their website to get the full story and download all their releases - for free under a creative commons license - while your at it.
http://www.downliners-sekt.com/

from under spinning lights by downliners sekt

Downliners Sekt - Negative Green from diebmx on Vimeo.

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The Red Bull Music Academy is on in Tokyo this year and promises to be yet another experience of a lifetime for those lucky producers and DJ's who are accepted. Today we landed a Red Bull Music Academy Radio interview with Joao Barbosa (aka J-Wow of Buraka Som Sistema). In this clip he answers a few questions from the RBMA application form. For those applying this year, it may provide some inspiration to get through the hefty  form!

J-Wow on Red Bull Music Academy from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Since J-Wow was a participant at the 2002 Sao Paulo academy, his group Buraka Som Sistema have gone on to rock many a show, such as the Laneway festival 2009 where Forcefed Fistfuls Radio spoke to the band. It was a short wave, but Buraka Som Sistema blasted through a whirlwind tour of Australia as part of the St Jerome's Laneway festival, bringing the sound of Lisbon and Angola to the opposite side of the globe. Having caught these guys live at Sonar 2008, Suckafish was dead keen to get these guys on the show, and we were lucky enough to catch them for a quick interview before their rawkus set at the Brisbane arm of the Laneway festival.

With members hailing from Lisbon and Portugal, Buraka Som Sistema are a collective of Djs, Musicians and MCs acting as ambassadors and innovators of the emerging african techno mutation of 'Kuduru', a style that is blowing holes in the blogosphere worldwide. Dj Riot, Lil John and Kalaf talk about their approach to the genre, the messages that get sent when broadcasting music from largely ignored regions of the globe and transcending language in favor of physicality in new dance music.

www.myspace.com/burakasomsistema
http://www.enchufada.com/

In celebration of Mary Anne Hobbs' 14 years at BBC Radio 1 we are re-posting our exclusive feature length interview recorded with The Godmother of Dubstep at the Sonar 2009 festival in Barcelona.

 
This two part up close and personal interview with Mary Anne Hobbs is a unique insight into the leading lady of electronic music. In Part 1 we speak with Mary-Anne about her turbulent history working as a journalistic hopeful in the cutthroat British music industry and how she found herself at the helm of BBC's radio 1. We also speak to her about her mission with her annual 'BBC Radio 1 Breezeblock presents' stage at the Sonar festival in Barcelona.

Standing at the helm of the pioneering experimental show on Tuesday night / Wednesday morning 2.00-4.00am (formerly known as the Breezeblock), this passionate and authorative DJ talks to us about her 3rd annual Sonar showcase, the radio show that exploded Dusbtep across the world, working in an egg packing factory, and much more.



A true favourite and even idol of Prince Nod and Suckafish P Jones, this discussion is an absolute treat!

In her last broadcasts for Radio 1, Mary Anne Hobbs is presenting some delectable line ups...Make sure you tune in to the end of an era and the beginning of a new... 1. 2 Sep 2010 02:00–04:00 BBC Radio 1 Digital Mystics guest mix. The future sound of electronic music 2. 6 Sep 2010 00:00–02:00 BBC Radio 1 Dubstep Warz 2006 Another chance to hear Mary Anne's Dubstep Warz edition from 2006. 3. 6 Sep 2010 02:00–04:00 BBC Radio 1 Sonar Special - Flying Lotus, Roska and Joy Orbison. The future sound of electronic music. It is already widely apparent Mary Anne Hobbs is as essential to todays music generations as John Peel (RIP) to his. Her contribution as experimental show host was to help break dubstep, hosting a 2 hour dubstep special in 2006 that introduced many to artists such as Skream, Loefah, Digital Mystikz, Kode9 and more.

She writes, “... i resigned from BBC Radio1, after an amazing multi-dimensional 14 year career. “The great freedoms the BBC have given in me as a broadcaster, have allowed me to help break so many confrontational artists as diverse as Slipknot and Skream, and of course, the whole genre of Dubstep in recent times. My current Experimental show is in peak condition, it’s never been stronger. And although it’s a very emotional decision to leave the show that I love so much, it’s also an optimum moment to bow out, at the very top of my game.

“My work for Radio1 on the Breezeblock, Rock Show, many fascinating documentaries about everything from David Bowie to Dubstep, on daytime, at festivals and award ceremonies, has been exceptionally rewarding. These have been glory days not just for me, but for all the artists who have shared my BBC platform, and of course, the listeners everywhere from Beijing to Berlin, Baltimore to Blackpool, who shared a great passion for future sound."

“I will continue to DJ live, work in film, and curate at Sonar festival in Barcelona. I have also accepted a new job mentoring and teaching students at Sheffield University’s radio station, TV station and the newspaper that operate out of their superb Forge Media Hub, which presents me with a really exciting new challenge.”

Here Here! FFF Radio sends Maximum Respect to Mary Anne and Best Wishes for the Future! XXO

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Future Sound - An Underground Electronic Music Documentary from Jamie Whitby on Vimeo.

Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London's forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation. Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher, and Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set.

Ive had my ears tuned to Brisbane based producer Elroy 4.0 for some time now and with the prolonged hype about the release of his first EP on the virgin Ender Records, i thought it time to showcase this innovative young talent from our hometown. Elroy's glorious tune Nemo´s New Shimmery Coat was recently feartured on the superb and highly listenable net label compilation Jus Like Music & Apple Juice Oscillations Part 2 - a free digital download - and he recently reached No. 4 in the Triple J Unearthed electronic music charts. Not bad for Triple J listerners!

  Elroy 4.0 - Nemo's new shimmery coat by Elroy 4.0

However, it is now Elroy's "Laser Storm" EP which is highly anticipated locally and represents a spearhead of Brisbane's small, but enthusiastic and hardworking future beats scene. Check out this quick mix of the four tracks featured on the single and look out for Elroy's shows at White Rhino club nights in Brisbane.

Laser Storm Forecast by Ender beats

Writing to me from the surf and sun of South America, Elroy says upon his return to BNE he is looking at beginning another EP and finding ways to express his new found interests in UK Funky and Tropicalia. This is exactly what i want to hear from such a young artist, as it is clear Elroy is more than capable of carving out his own unique sound amongst the deluge of future beats emerging across electronic music genres and cities around the world, big and small.

Elroy's current EP standout is the tune, Laser Storm, sinister synth work and pulsing surges of sub-bass moving through space like a dense, strobing fog in slow motion, setting the tone for Boss Master Battle on the flipside. Interesting remixes are also present from resurgent Puzakhi, and Epoch. Puzahki wholly deconstructs the piece and bakes up a highly narcotic, disjointed, de tuned, bugged out Hip Hop beat that’s heavy on the digital and Epoch takes the narrative of Boss Master to the next level, propelling the battle through a frantic 135 bpm break beat video game arcade rave off.

Elroy 4.0 - Laser Storm EP (Ender)
A1 – Laser Storm
A2 – Boss Master Battle
B1 – Boss Master Battle (Puzahki remix)
B2 – Boss Master Battle (Epoch remix)

Releasing on the 09 October 2010.

www.myspace.com/elroy4.0
www.ender.com.au

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48/4 is one of Sydney's most exciting new talents abounding from the oneofour beat collective. 48/4 has releases coming up on Frequency Lab as well as Feral Media, and is a unique sounding beatmaker to keep an eye and an ear on. You can do so here, with this exclusive 48/4 mix for Forcefed Fistfuls Radio - check it!

Upon first hearing 48/4's tune 'So Like You' on a 104 mixtape (props to Aoi) i was instantly hooked by its aching vocal and regal arpeggiations. The other tune that really stands out on that mix tape is Roleo's 'Pink and blue dots'. Download it here

While your at it, check out the new triple j Unearthed podcast for 48/4's choon 'so like you' and hear how the oneofour collective is similar to a book club.

48/4 Mix for Forcefed Fistfuls Radio Track list

1. intro
2. guh 48/4
3. Guillotine(48/4 RMX) Faux Pas
4. noname 48/4
5. so like you 48/4
6. poos pooh 48/4
7. btw 48/4

http://www.myspace.com/fortyeightfour
http://soundcloud.com/48-4hamish
http://www.oneofour.net

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In my continued exploration of the Sydney future beats scene, i present Daly City signee and scene leader - Monk Fly. MONK FLY (aka Chris Hancock) is a Sydney DJ/ Producer/ Radio Show Host with a love of abstract, fat future beats. Monk Fly's high end production and natural musicality reflect the quality and diversity of work that this one man powerhouse is involved with, both locally and globally.

In Feb this year MONK FLY released a new EP, Far Side Of Zen, through label Daly City Records in the U.S.  One tune to especially keep an ear out for is 'Well if i ever'; a distorted caveman lope meets robot alarms and metallic kinetics. Its a readymade for the headz and essential crate content Boomkat | Addictech | Junodownload

Together with his partner in crime JONNY FAITH, Monky Fly runs the Sydney based future beats club night HEADROOM: a Sydney club night dedicated to cutting edge wonky hip hop, future beats & bass heavy treats. MONK FLY also hosts the future beat radio show FUTURE FACE on Sydney radio station FBI 94.5FM and is the lad behind THE FREQUENCY LAB record label, a small boutique Sydney-based imprint dedicated to local left-field beats. The first release in The Frequency Lab’s new digital series, Fictitious Sevens, features a heavy, melodic, wonky roller called Triptych by Know-U & a wonky pimping remix by Monk Fly.

Triptych (Monk Fly remix) by MonkFly

And dont forget your weekly dose of bass from Monk Fly and others at Sydney's Basic.

BASIC – Every Thursday @ 202 Broadway, Sydney 8pm-1am, FREE, quality beats
Presented by Headroom, SITP, Void & Foreign Dub in collaboration.

TFLDL003promomashup by TheFrequencyLab

http://soundcloud.com/monkfly

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Prince Nod

With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. Beginning his career at SBS, Australia's multi-cultural radio & TV network, presenting a national radio show 6 nights a week, Brendan caught a bug for linguistic diversity and global rhythms. Currently, bP hosts the nationally sydicated radio project Dialectic Radio. The program features DJ sets by local and international guests with a strong leaning towards the world of global music.

Recorded 26th of June 2010 in Melbourne Australia, bP's latest DJ mix bounces across continents and beats and woven through the mix is a spanish poem "Sonet 20 - Puedo Escribir los Versos mas Tristes Esta Noche" by Pablo Neruda, read by Hernan Palacio.

melbourne - 'minimal fracture' freestyle LIVE at Dialectic/Horse Bazaar by bp555

Prince Nod

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