Keep The Cheer

Courtesy of Adrian Tisado

Fromage Disco

Fromage Disco are Nate B and Travis H ( Dr Disconyx) – two melbournites with a keen love of synthpop, post punk and disco. Apart from their eponymous Club night the two have been working as a production duo with future and present releases on Lightspeed Recordings and Sean Bronson’s (of Future Disco fame) Need Want label.

Winston: How did you guys first get into electronic music and in particular your brand of disco and house music?

Fromage Disco: Well we both listened to a lot of hip hop when we were young and I guess it was a natural progression into more beat driven music.  I got into US house such as Doc Martin, Farina, etc and UK tech house like Terry Francis and Craig Richards.  Travis always liked experiemental music, house and disco a bit of rock and funk. Attending clubs like Durr and Trash and a couple east end clubs like bar22, Mother Bar. The mixing of indie, house, disco and club has been going on since 2000 and he wanted to do that, in his dj sets and productions.   Then we ended up meeting on a love of the disco/nu disco scene a few years ago now, inspiring us to find great music both new and old and leading to us starting the Fromage Disco parties back in 2006. We’re big fans of DFA, Eskimo, Permanent Vacation, Tirk, Wall of sound, Delusions of Grandeur, Running Back, and all that and more ends up going in our sets.

Winston: How did you hook up with Lightspeed recordings? Read the rest of this entry »

Neurotic Erotic Adventure

Neurotic Drum Band is John Selway and Elliot Taub.  Their music has that playful, tongue in cheek sci – fi feel. Kitsch but also fresh Neurotic Erotic Adventure is an amazing 8 minute sonic journey.

Neurotic Drum Band – Neurotic Erotic Adventure

Link via Anthem Magazine

Launch Me Into Space

The Juan MacLean are one of the greatest electronic acts of this decade – hands down. They are touring Australia again around New Year. As I said in the last interview I really want to hang with Juan. Probably his biggest achievement this year is remixing Sidwho?’s Bowie For President.

Winston: First off I would like to say how amazing I thought your show was last year with Cut Copy.

Juan MacLean: That was actually or first bit of touring that we did in almost 2 years – that was sort of the warm up for the album tour.

Winston: You were playing the theremin a lot is that something you still do?

Juan MacLean: I put it through a lot of delay and wah wah pedals sometimes on  the record – live I play it quite a bit. It’s a hard thing to stay away from actually – I find myself playing it more than I should. I have been playing it since I was a teenager.

Winston: Are you still touring with the guys from Holy Ghost? Read the rest of this entry »

Lightspeed Recordings Part 2

The finally installment of our chat with Agent 86 of amazing Lightspeed Recordings. They have recently put out 2 more singles since our first installment (great read if I do say so myself) – Go Chic Lightning by Bodie Lee and Acid Strings by Fromage. Checkout their launch party at Cuckoo Bar on the 12th of December.

Winston : How did hip hop eventually came into your music or was it all just music to you- irrespective of genre?

Agent 86: It is all just music to me. Hip hop has influence me more than any other form of music. Having said that hip hop is just one angle of my music. I play rock and disco – it is just music to me. I kinda have a certain sound that I like – and when I say sound I don’t mean a particular instrument or type of sound. It’s kind of like certain melodies and keys that I like. I guess in strange sort of way they all connect together even though they might be different genres Read the rest of this entry »

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia AKA K-Von is one of Adelaide’s more compelling DJ’s. With his ubiquitous record bag of dusty vinyl gems he has toured Brazil with Nokia’s annual MobJam party, played the underground depths of Sydney’s infamous Club 77 aswell as our own Rocket Bar. Rather unsurprisingly his forray into production is equally as compelling with Williamsburg Get Down to This.

Prince of Persia – Williamsburg Get Down to This

He has also put together a mix that he describes as ’2001 a Space Odyssey’ meets ‘Rumble in the Jungle’

Prince of Persia – Sabre Knights Mix

Movements

The only live band I have seen this year that really impressed me was the Swiss – sorry everyone else. They are the coolest ever. I  can’t put my finger on it but there is something more to them than just a trio super talented musicians letting loose. I think we are all waiting with baited breath for the their second EP out on Modular.

Triple J’s accolades are sure to be the first of many to come over the next few months for the new EP with tracks like Bubble Bath – available to stream on Triple J. Check out their interview aswell – Tony is pretty funny.

The Swiss – Movements (Brennan Green edit)

Link via Really Good Records

Miserable edits

M Division is a sweet Melbourne based label doing some cool stuff lately. I first heard about them a few months ago when Aaronak  played Inverto’s live cover of Chip E’s Seminal Time to Jack.

They are kindly giving away the 3rd volume of their Miserabalist edit series- which contains 4 very different and interesting tracks.

Miserable Edit 3

The Gallery

Winston: How did the Gallery begin?

Nicky Siano: It began out of the passion to want to provide a place … I wanted a place that really blew my mind. The only way to do that was build something that I had in my head that I thought when I am dancing. It was really about pleasing me more than anything.

Winston: It’s the type of thing where if you are having a good time everyone else is

Nicky Siano: Exactly

Winston: What was your fist inclining of the disco craze beginning?

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Lightspeed Recordings Part 1

Lightspeed Recordings is a an amazing record label started by Adelaide’s prodigal son – Agent 86. Recently their Late Night Tough Guy Edits EP shot to the top of the Juno disco charts. We chat about the label, edits and the early Adelaide house scene.

Winston: How did Lightspeed records begin?

Agent 86: I was running a few parties last year,  that were new disco orientated and I guess I was kind of moving in that direction as a DJ for a while. My productions were also on that disco tip. After doing a few parties I thought maybe I could expand it by putting out my own music. After talking to a few people it seemed like a good idea to make a label to put out any sort of music that I really dig. It’s on the disco tip at the moment, like everything that I do it’s not limited to one genre. For the time being the disco scene is probably what I’m feeling and that’s the direction that Lightspeed will be taking for the immediate future.

W: How did you get HMC (AKA Late Night Tough Guy) involved?

A: I DJed with him back in Adelaide in the 1990s, we have been friends ever since. It was really just a matter of having a chat to him; he was producing and doing edits and when I told him about my plans for Lightspeed he was really into it.

W: On the subjects of edits is it hard to put them out do you need to clear them? Read the rest of this entry »