Our friends over at Onion have begun a count down of their favorite Adelaide producers. Just sneaking in at #10 is our very own 12″ Phildo.
Keep checking it out over the next…… 9 days i suppose to see who else gets in!
I’m rooting for more of our Cuckoo peeps!!!
Congratulations To MartinHo for taking out number 6!!
This is a well deserved win, after making serious waves with his very popular release Green power.
Two gig announcements in one day!! And a third coming up!! HOLYCRAP!
Tornado Wallace (aka Lewie Day) is currently one Australia’s finest exports.
He has just released an E.P with London label Delusions of Grandeur which included a dope remix by Linkwood. These are his two latest triumphs, prior to this he (using the moniker Lewie Day) released with 8Bit, Dirt Crew, Audio Therapy and Hertzlich. The alias Tornado Wallace is most definitely his darker musical thoughts, much slower tempos, warm pads and strings, and measured use of samples.
This is from the Delusions of Grandeur Paddlin EP. Warning this tune could cause you to chug your ass off.
Tornado Wallace – Swimmin’ [DOG010] – preview by Tornado Wallace
Plenty more to come about this gig! Just wanted to get the word out!
Book this one in for Saturday 18th September!
Our friends at T.E.A are presenting us with another great act. Adrian Nicholson aka J U G is an Australian born producer with a string of recent Vinyl and Digital releases. His first tracks dropped in 09 with an EP on Autoreply Music called, The difficult word. This featured 4 tracks including a remix by longtime pal Mark Henning. Soon after he followed up with appearances on labels such as, Vitalik, Release Sustain, Multivitamins.
Pumped to hear him in the flesh. Check out a Dj set here
Listen to some of his tracks below…
A Thursday night throw down not to be missed featuring KON from the legendary KON and AMIR.
Kon is hands down one of the world’s finest DJ’s, Record Collectors & Edit Masters. In conjunction with his homeboy Amir, he is also one of the best compilers of rare soul, funk, boogie, disco and afro/latin joints that only giant cockroaches know.
Google these cats if your wondering what the hell we’re on about…
This will also be the launch of Adelaide’s new (only?) record store, Wax Museum!! PRAISE THE LORD!!! Special give away on the night from these guys too 
Doors open 9pm.
$10 on the door.
Supported by DJs: DL, ERIC THE FALCON & JAPEYE.
Dope Kon mix to check out here..
http://www.zshare.net/audio/27315244a0ec47/
Relive the party with this official Dj set recorded live on the night by the man himself… HMC
Ok seriously now…. It was a bumper of a night, all in attendance will back that up! And we were lucky enough to have got this recorded (my track record with successfully recording nights is about 3 for, and 20 against).
A dope set from the house master, taking us back in time, and, far into the future. There are some tracks in there that i’ve listened to multiple times over and over… If that’s anything to go by…..
Listen to this on the biggest speakers you can find, it’s well worth it 
HMC @ CuckooBar - Supporting Robert Hood
Adelaide Boy turned Melbourne Man Inkswel has just released two video teasers of his latest 12″ on Swat
This E.P titled “Space is my place” isn’t the first release from inks, but is his debut solo E.P.
It’s an epic journey into 80s boogie, Paradise Loft Disco and Detroit inspired deep house.
Release is scheduled for August 1st on Vinyl & Digital. Grab your copy (On Vinyl) from Waxmuseum
Interview with MartinHo on the onion website.
Talking about his track Green Power, Reminiscing about ol’ days and revealing all! 
Robert Hood - Omega Album Tour
For many people speaking the name Robert Hood, could make them weak at the knees… We are extraordinarily lucky to have him play for us in such intimate surroundings. This man has made some very important releases, and most probably change countless lives with them.
I’d rather not prattle on in the normal gloating way, so I’m going to let you read some parts of a great review i read with Robert just before the release of his mix for the 39th Fabric CD…..
**words by Robert Hood**….
I started to produce a bit more and I started recording some demo tapes – I’d got a drum machine and a Roland TR505 from a pawn shop that I started making beats with. I was going to a studio where I paid $15 an hour to make a demo. I met a guy called Mike Clark through my girlfriend at the time – and he knew everybody! He knew Mike Banks, Jeff Mills, in fact all the DJs and producers in Detroit. He introduced me to Mike Banks and I let him hear a demo tape. I think it was a Public Enemy horn sound that I ripped off and made a beat, and Mike was interested. I think what caught his interest was the drum programming. So he wanted to hear some more…and they happened to be starting work on a compilation. So I came along and did two tracks on the album as an MC! Not a producer, an MC. You know, I was interested in hip house at the time – I didn’t really want to be an MC but I couldn’t find anyone else that was willing to do it. I wanted to find an MC that was sort of a cross between Chuck D and Q-Tip for some kind of political abstract MCing. But I couldn’t find anybody so I decided to go ahead and do it myself. So yeah, we wrote two tracks with me as an MC and they produced the beats and we went from there. This was happening in about 1991.
When I recorded those tracks, UR wasn’t even up and running yet. It was just an idea, something that was coming alive as a production unit between Mike Banks and Jeff Mills. I just happened to meet them just before it started. Slowly it evolved to the stage where I was a more active member of the group, especially with the live shows and the label Hardwax. They helped me start that and helped me develop as an artist.
Pretty much after we did the X102 project, Jeff and I kind of branched off and started Axis. It was more of a housey, abstract sound that was different from the experimental techno from UR, and that was different from the Detroit Metroplex and Transmat/KMS sound. It was more of a grounded sound.
M-Plant started in ’94. It kind of borrowed from the sound I was using from Axis and really expanded on that sound. I had developed this “grey area” sound – what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno – it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.
These days I am focussed purely on minimalism and really embracing minimalism, because it’s taken on a life of its own. It’s now a music style separate from techno. I would never have imagined that it would take this direction. I didn’t see that one coming! I saw minimalism in life becoming more and more evident – in furniture, in electronics, in art, in automobiles, appliances – you know I could see that coming. But, as far as music itself being thought of now as an art form? Back then, I think people looked on at it as a trend but they didn’t realise that minimalism is an art form. I did not realise it would take on this characteristic as it has now. So, where I’m at right now is embracing minimalism and seeing how far I can push it – in my interpretation of what simplicity and the music is all about. I am really representing it as an art form and not a trend. As the future evolves, we’re going to get more and more minimal……
Aren’t we lucky!
I’ve been able to have that dance i missed out on last weekend… Not quite the same but a bloody good listen!!
It is with much joy and relief, that i can tell everyone that CKM002 will available for purchase 18/6/2010
Starblazers Vol. 1 is a Various Artist compilation, bringing together 4 new artists (12″ Phildo, Martinho, TACE, FlowerPot) plus another dope hit from The Carter Bros.
