Monthly Archives: February 2012
Vinyl Retention: Fybe:One
Every Wednesday, Sardi lets us know what’s tickling his eardrums in the world of dance music…
Southwest London artist Fybe:One is a man of many talents. Illustrator, graphic designer, DJ, label boss and, of course, music producer. It’s the latter that… Read More
Review: Coke Bust — Degradation 7″
Coke Bust
Degradation 7”
Refuse Records
Six songs, five minutes, no time to wind down. That’s the only way to describe this ferocious 7”. After compiling some of their earlier releases as well as some new tracks into… Read More
Machine Drum New Beats Teaser
Last week we announced a rather amazing Easter Thursday show at The Bakery featuring Machine Drum, Jacques Greene and a whole stack of amazing local artists.
So now that we’re all in the mood, it’s rather great timing that Machine… Read More
Eat a Bag of Mix: Adam Trainer
Eat a Bag of Mix is the name of a feature here on life is noise where we get a DJ, musician, producer, industry figure or just someone with good taste in fucked-up and weird music to give us a… Read More
Ourobonic Plague — “Posthumous Frost Conspiracy”
As if Post Human Possibilities wasn’t menacing enough, Perth’s Ourobonic Plague has just put out Posthumous Frost Conspiracy, which is “the whole Post Human Possibilities EP all slowed and smashed into one sludge drenched dirge.”
Needless to say, it’s great… Read More
Drowning Horse — “Sorrow”
In news that has got me rather excited (and my neighbours rather worried), Perth’s Drowning Horse have recently announced that the masters to their upcoming new record have been received.
They’ve posted an extract of “Sorrow” on their Read More
Two Minutes With Charge Group
We spend a couple of minutes with Charge Group and find out what’s going on…
What’s going on in the world of Charge Group?
Number two album comes out March 16 in Oz and Europe, which we’re pretty massively excited about.… Read More
Vinyl Retention: Bufi & Juan Soto
Every Wednesday, Sardi lets us know what’s tickling his eardrums in the world of dance music…
Every now and then I seem to get lost in an endless link-clicking cycle. You know, you see or hear something you like and you… Read More
Review: Puta Madre Brothers — “It’s a Long Long Way To Meximotown”
As soon as you hit play on Puta Madre Brothers’ It’s A Long Long Way To Meximotown you feel as if you have entered some bizarre party situated in an alternate universe or, at the very least, another country. Three one-man-bands from Melbourne join together to develop a faux Mexican trio, complete with bad Spanish and almost believable personas. Read More
Collarbones — “Don Juan” (Daedelus Remix)
After touring Australia last year, Daedelus has given the remix treatment to Collarbones, the Adelaide/Sydney duo that supported him on the tour.
As Deadelus explains, “each night they’d play the original song [“Don Juan”] and I was quite impressed with its… Read More
Grails Need You
Portland’s Grails put out the best record of 2011 (according to us), so the news that a hard drive failure has put the next few albums by Grails and associated acts in jeopardy is pretty tragic.
The good news,… Read More
Cow Parade Cow
Besides being the name of a television series starring Gary Sweet that I seem to remember being unsurprisingly terrible, Big Sky is the name of the new record by Perth band Cow Parade Cow.
The record has an incredibly communal… Read More
Hanetration
Hanetration’s Tenth Oar EP is out now for free download, and is some mighty impressive glitch-filled drone.
The record feels incredibly busy, in the best possible way, with field recordings, loops and fractured rhythms punctuating a dream-sequence-in-a-film style ambiance that… Read More
Pelican
Ataraxia/Taraxis is the name of the new EP from Chicago four-piece Pelican, coming out in early April.
The record marks a change in recording methodology for the band, with Ataraxia/Taraxis being Pelican’s “first release built by making recordings in multiple studios… Read More
Whiskey Ramble: Observations from the World of Dentistry
Picture the scene: it’s the tail end of the ‘60s, the decade most romanticised for its ideals, however misplaced, its spiritual awakening, however misguided, and for bringing some kind of revolution, however non-existent. A younger man has just gone to… Read More
JJ DOOM
After ditching the “MF” prefix for Born Like This, DOOM swaps it for a “JJ”, this time teaming up with Jnerio Jarel for their debut collaborative effort, Key to the Kuffs. “Banished” gives us a hint at what… Read More
