280904 22:33

this could well be the most eclectic post of all time...

IUNO [NETHERLANDS]
fracture mp3
thanks to the folks from iuno for getting in touch. check out their web site at iuno.nl for a fine selection of tunes to download. there's a great degree of variation even in the few tracks that are there - i'm finding touches of moloko, kosheen, even portishead in there, and the above track is a storming fusion of dark drum'n'bass breaks, nasty keyboard riffs and great vocals courtesy of stella bergsma. the band are a collective - seemingly shepherded by steven de munnik - and, judging by some of the photography, also featuring a string section. a good discovery, well worth checking out further.

ON ENSEMBLE [US: LOS ANGELES]
fingertips mp3
if you're one of those people who's had a 'taiko drumming' experience, or similar, you'll know it's a joy to behold. it has all the strength, energy and hardcore intensity of your average megadeth gig, but we're talking traditional oriental drumming here, so no mullets are involved. dumb banter aside, on ensemble fall into a more traditional category than usually featured on this blog, which is exactly why you need to download and have a listen. this los-angeles quartet allow for guilt-free exploration of non-contemporary sound, and on the above mp3 they genuinely bend genres like einstein bent time. more info from their web site here.

LOVE OF EVERYTHING [US: ILLINOIS]
proud brave nothing mp3
i'm feeling that it's good to buck my electronic obsession now and then, and when i do so, i tend to revert to disjointed, fractured, fucked up lo-fi - so thank god for love of everything. if you enjoyed casiotone for the painfully alone, i think you'll find this track will bring you a few more blessings. cheers to the good people from redder records for giving me the heads up. they tell me that love of everything is bobby burg of joan of arc and make believe fame - and they've also got heaps more mp3s from whence this little diamond came.

R.E.M. [ATHENS, GEORGIA surely?]
i've been high (matthew herbert mix) mp3
so what the freak are r.e.m. doing on here? have i gone absolutely out of my tiny mind? well, it's kinda obvious - you don't often hear r.e.m. being remixed by anyone, much less matthew 'herbert' herbert. i enjoyed herbert's radioboy incarnation a long while back - live sampling of detritus, looped back into his performance, stuff like macdonalds cartons and coke cups. the big band project stretched the temprament a little, but their remix of oi va voi's 'refugee' was on form. basically, i'm trying to say i like the guy, but it seems like i'm heaping on a few caveats at the same time. christ, i'm getting picky.

GIANNI NANNINI [ITALY]
contaminata (apparat rmx) mp3
couldn't leave you without a little hint of electronica, could i? now this would seem to be the italo-german equivalent of bruce springsteen getting the remix treatment from boom bip... gianni nannini, not well known for his leftfield experiemention, here gets the commercial crap kicked out of him by shitkatapult's apparat (shitkatapult, other then being the best named record label in the world, is run by the supremely talented and ass-kickingly awesome electro-rock-bass-whatever maestro, t.raumschmeire). it's actually considerably less breakcore than you might think - gianni still goes off on a freddie mercury tip towards the end, and you get the feeling that apparat just couldn't destroy the guy completely. in saying that, it's unlike anything else you'll hear this month. for more of the same, check out a wonderfully insane live set to download from barcelona 2003 on apparat's site.

<<< new blogs >>> hello new fellow mp3 bloggers - been a while since i updated the blog list, so there's a heap of killer sites i recommend you check out. go say a gutteral 'guten tag' to cowboytranceorchestra (recent posts include fautline, rem, zwan), the ugly elephant (ali khan, utada, bleep), the new black (check out the excellent susan cadogan, also posts from the pixies and new birth. also a mention of our friend, wanda dee...). props too to edit209 for a hilarious collection of bootlegs - cecile's electro-dancehall stormer 'hot like we' was one of my recent raves, so to hear that coupled with belle & sebastian is an experience not to be shirked. very belated 'hellos' and madder props to an idiot's guide to dreaming, smart music, the swish , heraclitus sayz, moebius rex and the mighty mp3 blogs aggregator. top marks though to 'best new blog on the block' goes to dozerblog - check this list, nobukazu takemura, b. fleischmann, subtle, clouddead and mrs doctor who theme tune arrangement, delia derbyshire - solid!

[[[ other shit ]]] fat planet's also now syndicating some of this on-going ramble to the good folks over at usounds.com - flip over and say hi, and tell 'em we sent ya! also, check out brad weslake's smart radio schedule for "interesting broadcast sound available either online, or via radio waves in sydney, australia". and lo and behold if those damn fine folks at better propaganda have only gone and posted not one, but two, tracks from fat planet's current 'artiste am pedestal' dj rupture. check it here.



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260904 18:45

today's playlist is now online here. thanks to fbi's german interns, hannah and lena for bringing in a selection of deutsche musik. methinks its time to give those girls their own radio show... by strange quirk of fate, i'm dj-ing at sydney's 'bing bang bong' club next week with a set of german-only music! more info over at zerogweb.net. and here's some tunes from today's show...

VISIONARY UNDERGROUND [ENGLAND]
100 vibes (feat. aref durvesh & matthew barley) mp3
i played a track from dj feelfree today, one of the main forces behind the uk asian drum'n'breaks crew visionary underground. i use the term drum'n'breaks intentionally, as it's also the title of the album from which the track 'sonic solution' came from - 'nasha - eastern drum'n'breaks'. it's a top flight compilation of some of the finest dark, alternative asian music being made in the uk right now. to generalise (which you know i love to do...) it's much like asian dub foundation when they roll out the drum'n'bass welcome mat. there's heaps more mp3 downloads on the visionary underground site - i'll check them all out and report back one day soon...

AIR [FRANCE]
planet vega mp3
played a great remix today of the new air single 'alpha beta gaga'. the mix is by mark ronson and features rhymefest dropping his mc skills all over it. sadly, no free mp3 of that one, but check out this li'l rarity from the grand royal compilation 'at home with the groovebox' (courtesy of the old faithful, epitonic)

LIMITED EXPRESS (HAS GONE) [JAPAN]
downtoborn (edit) mp3
sadly this is not a full-length mp3, rather a short edit designed to act as a teaser for their 2002 album 'feeds you!', released on john zorn's tzadik label. i played their version of the la's 'there she goes' today - now that's what i call a cover version, pretyy much nothing like original. if the boredoms had a younger punk sibling, then limited express (has gone) could probably play them in the bio-pic. stuterring, off-kilter, psychadelic pop-punk. everything you could wish for in a band, really.

GIRL WITH A MONKEY [SWEDEN]
mark my words mp3
a great example of someone who found this blog, emailed me some of their music and it finally found its way on air on today's show :-) how curiously the world works... although apparently not quite so strange - although the band are ostensibly a swedish six-piece, apparently the singer (monika kovacs) was brought up in western australia. which, from where i'm sitting, might as well be as a far away as sweden...

FORMER SELV [US: MICHIGAN]
nichiyobi mp3
thanks to smart music for turning me on to this one. former selv is another name for detroit-born jerry abstract, now resident in seattle. apparently, he's a techno boy at heart (wit a 12" on t.raumschmiere's shitkatapult), but as former selv it's broken beat electronica that's to the fore. check out their brief interview for more info.

i also played quite a few tracks today that have already been posted on the blog. if you want to download, here they are again...

THE STILLS [CANADA]
retour a vega mp3

ISSA BAGAYOGO [MALI]
bana direct download mp3

JIMI TENOR [FINLAND]
beyond the stars mp3

UGRESS [NORWAY]
manhattan sapphire mp3



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240904 09:06

free'n'legal african mp3s are hard to come by, yet it seems like the old analogy with public transport applies here. you wait an age and nothing appears - then three come along at once...

SHIFFAI [SENEGAL]
savages mp3
senegal is shaping up to be home of african hip hop with some solid releases so far from positive black soul, daara j and pee froiss. there's a site decicated to senegalese hip hop called senerap - i've yet to have a full exploration, but it seems to be the perfect place to start our education. through the site, i discovered nomadic wax, a label who've just released a compilation entitled 'african underground vol. 1: hip-hop senegal' (available to buy online from november). they've also released an album from senegalese hip hop artist shiffai entitled 'the chosen one' which was produced by NY's nomad. shiffai mixes english and his native wolof language, and there's undoubtedly some patois thrown in for good measure. any hip hop head will get their kicks from this great mix of traditional and contemporary - the sound of hip hop coming gloriously back to its roots.
update 260904: nomadic wax are in the process of removing mp3s from their site, and have asked us to link to streams instead - head on over the site to listen to streams from both shiffai and from the forthcoming compilation.

ISSA BAGAYOGO [MALI]
bana direct download mp3
much like senegal, mali also has a strong output of contemporary artists - oumou sangare, tinariwen and rokia traore to name a few. issa bagayogo is part of the roster belonging to san francisco's six degrees label. six degress have also been responsible for bringing india's karsh kale and midival punditz to the fore, along with algeria's excellent dj cheb i sabbah. issa is their first african signing and the above mp3, 'bana', has at it's base a midtempo, dubhouse, four-four shuffle, that fortunately avoids the trappings of afro-house (i'll confess straight up that ive never been an afro-house fan). this is apparently due to the fact that issa still records in mali, rather than with western producers, thus avoiding the temptation to beef it up for the dancefloor. got to applaud that decision! the track is an out-take from his third album 'tassoumakan' and does not appear on any commerical release. thanks to six degrees for the link - buy the album online here.

MANN FRIDAY [ZIMBABWE]
counting down (sea point mix) mp3
i came across these guys on the queep site (well worth a look for unsigned artists, plus a good mix section featuring q-burns abstract message). they're made up of musicians from zimbabwe, south africa and the u.k. they've been touring a show called 'zimbabwe ruins' - an audio / visual theatre piece that paints a direct picture of this history of their troubled land. according to queep, most of their music wanders into the acoustic ballad territory and - that not being my bag here @ fat planet - i've posted a downtempo semi-electronic mix of one of their songs. not sure who's on production duties, but it's a solid, laid-back piece that serves the band well.

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200904 19:16

strangely slim pickings this week in terms of downloadable mp3s from the show. still, what we lack in quantity we hope to make up for in quality. yesterday's playlist is online here.

JUKES [ENGLAND]
wandering star mp3
jukes is the solo project for bristol-based vocalist tammy payne. i played a track on today's show called 'i wasn't even looking' which favourably recalls one summer ten years ago, hearing portishead's 'sour times' for the first time. one of those instance where you stay in the car with the engine off, just so you can make sure you catch the title and the artist's name. it's no surprise that jukes sounds similar, for the project is co-produced by portishead bassist jim barr and tammy also recently laid down some vocals for p'head mainman geoff barrow's new project, mackay. the above mp3 is a cover of the classic standard, not to be confused with a track of the same name from 'dummy'...

BELA BUTONO [AUSTRIA]
platanja mp3
came across a great album recently ' body movement', chock full of new music from the austrian label 'soundlab'. one of the stand-out tracks is 'last summer' from this four-piece, who gather around the band's creative core, alexander reitterer aka uez. i'm tempted to say that it reminds me of the austrian production team, kruder & dorfmeister, which is more of a compliment than anything else. this mp3 is from a 2001 release entitled 'dagena'. three more downloads from this release available here.

AVRIL [FRANCE]
french kiss mp3
avril is fred magnon, responsible for the excellent 2002 album 'that horse must be starving' (from which the above mp3 is taken - a cover of the li'l louis classic) and this year's follow-up 'members only'. more of the same excellent french electronica - some of the key players of the current electronica boom seem to be originating from western europe - see also portugal's thisco label. there's a version of this track on a compilation called 'paris lounge 3' which is a 4-4 acoustic stomp that's not to be missed.

MOUSE ON MARS [GERMANY]
mine is in yours mp3
[re-post] had the great pleasure of interviewing jan st. werner from mouse on mars on today's show. like all of my interviews, i do intend to transcribe them for this site before too long.

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150904 08:47

BEANS [US: NEW YORK]
diamond halo grenade mp3
this track is taken from beans' new warp records album 'shock city maverick' (see warp epk). beans has always been on the electronic side of hip hop, collaborating in the past with fine folks such as prefuse 73 and el-p. this track takes him further into beat-driven electronica, however for heavier exploration in this area, check out 'bubonic' on the new e.p. 'down by law' - produced by mark pritchard (jedi knights, reload), it's closer in feel to some of the two-step electronica mapped out by dizzee rascal on his new 'showtime' album. dizzee has stolen the lead from so many people in the last 12 months, making everything else sound a little dated. fortunately, beans is coming up fast behind - the new album hopefully will prove the point. you can also still download the excellent mutescreamer (prefuse 73 mix) here: mp3

DJ RUPTURE [SPAIN]
high resolution mp3
following the nettle post, here's some more of spain's dj rupture. although recorded under his 'usual' name, this also drops some eastern influence, albeit lower in the mix - the predominant feel is sample-heavy midtempo broken beat, with a vocal ripped from aaliyah coming halfway through. things build to a more frantic pace towards the end, hitting some quality breakcore around the 3 minute mark. unlike some of the more excessive territories explored by kid606 et al, rupture manages to keep everything together, making the whole thing completely listenable. good on 'im.

OZI BATLA [AUSTRALIA]
starship troopers mp3
heard any aussie hip hop yet? well, there's a huge scene down here - ranging from the party hop of folks like the herd and koolism to more leftfield tunes from the likes of the excellent hermitude and macromantics. ozi batla (from the well-respected 'elefant traks' stable) falls somewhere in between all this. he definitely has the aussie MC stylings, however lyrically he's coming from a darker corner. the above track featured on 'the elefant collection' volume one.

THE STILLS [CANADA]
retour a vega mp3
thanks to the folks at vice recordings, here's a little rarity - montreal's the stills with a french language track, proving there's so much more to rock than dirty boring bands like jet. switching to new york in 2002, the band hooked up with both the yeah yeah yeahs and interpol - if you're going to make friends with anyone in manhattan, that seems like a pretty good start. their album is called 'logic will break your heart' and, on the strength of this track, is definitely worth investigation.

+++ thanks etc +++
a heads up to thomas barlett at salon.com (check out the wednesday morning download section) for his kinds words on fat planet, thanks too to the ever-excellent better propaganda for their front page link to this 'ere blog (check out their recent mp3 additions for diplo, milosh and solvent). thanks also to queep for the link + props - an interesting site to check out, if you like discovering new music with more a dancefloor friendly appeal, this is a good pitstop. in other 'fat planet in the news' news... i also managed to worm my way into one of the main sunday newspapers here - the sun herald - rambling on about 'chip music' and making some dodgy comparisons to conceptual art - hilarious! it's not posted online, so you'll just have to take my word for it....

i'm not a fan of metallica, but you must see their documentary 'some kind of monster' - it's one of the most compelling movies i've seen in a long time. if metal's not your bag, fear not - there's very little music throughout, just a never-ending parade of oddly life-affirming moments as the band struggle with their own internal disputes and an impending fear of failure. (and i'm now strangely interested in their new album - curse those marketing fiends!)

// don't forget to vote in the online music awards! see yesterday's post >>>

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140904 09:15

hey ho fat planet people! in one of my other lives, i do the odd li'l bit of web design / development with my good lady wife. and, lo and behold, it seems we've been nominated in this year's ONLINE MUSIC AWARDS for our development of the gronland records site.

the animated arctic characters have obviously inspired the judges (bless 'em) and we've landed a nomination in the category of BEST LABEL SITE alongside warner music, xl recordings, tokyo dawn and four music.

to secure the top spot, we need your vote! as the award is voted by web users, we ask you to check out the URL below and register your vote:

http://www.onlinemusicawards.de/#register

voters will be emailed a voting ID and a link - your email address will not be used in any other context and will deleted after September 30th.

thanks for yr support - we love you all :-)

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130904 08:39

yesterday's playlist is now online. some of the culprits who found their way on air can be downloaded below...

BLEEP [CANADA]
coils mp3
when i first came across this toronto based trio i heard them described as a 'glitch version' of the cocteau twins, which instantly got my attention. the cocteau twins were a scottish band who made their name in the mid-late 80s with a series of beautiful, abstract albums, fusing layer upon layer of guitar with some rudimentary rythyms and the gorgeous vocal of liz fraser. they've yet to be bettered in many ways and their music remains unfettered by time. very few bands (if any) have taken up the challenge of building on their template, but it seems like bleep are having a go. the results, fortunately, are very successful if the above track is to be taken as an indication. check out the comfort stand records site for four more tracks.

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & GARY NUMAN [US / ENGLAND]
metal better propaganda page
surely not ... ok, here's where i confess my early devotion to mr numan. first record i ever bought? 'the pleasure principle'. that whole 'am i human? maybe i'm a robot?' schtick really did it for me when i was eight years old. it's no secret now that many of today's electronic musicians rate tubeway army and numan as being hugely influential. numan basically took the model laid out by kraftwerk and basically turned into it pop music. as far as electro pop goes, numan is up there with folks like the human league and telex and a couple of others. so it shouldn't be a surprise that bambaataa chooses not only to duet, but to cover one of numan's tracks (from 'the pleasure principle'!). what is strange is the fact that some critics can overlook the fact that numan made 3-4 good albums and a bucket load of really bad ones. pretty much anything after 1982, in fact. he's spent the last ten years doing an embarassing imitation of trent reznor (who himself does an embarassing imitation of al jurgenson from ministry). still, those early releases will forever remain etched in many memories. if you buy one of his albums, 'replicas' by tubeway army is the one to go for. how could you resist songs with titles such as 'i nearly married a human'?

COBRA KILLER [GERMANY]
let's have a problem mp3
last year was of course the time when rock and electro disco got back into bed together. there are a few bands who stand above the crowd, but as more and more join the bandwagon, the whole scene is starting to feel a little tired. so, god bless t.raumschiere. his 2003 album 'radio blackout' was for me one of the real stand outs in the electro rock genre, taking the whole concept into territory that actually feels new, rather than a retread. check out his collaboration with miss kittin 'the game is not over yet' and you'll see what i mean. good to see that he's turning his hand to production with this mp3 - i know very little about cobra killer, save for their excellent track 'heavy rotation' on last year's marke b compilation from the wire magazine. this track is taken from their new (third) album, '76/77' on monika.

MUSLIMGAUZE [ENGLAND]
turkish sword swallower mp3
as bryn jones, muslimgauze had over 120 releases to his credit before his untimely death in 1999 at the age of 38. bryn recently came back into my orbit thanks to an amazing compilation released via colors magazine called 'ottomanic' - representing comtemporary middle eastern music with an album of sounds that have rarely (if ever) found their way into record stores in the west. and it's reassuring to see that they chose to reference muslimgauze as he is warmly regarded as being crucial to the development of that sound. check out his epitonic page for a history of his music and an impressive selection of further downloads.

UGRESS [NORWAY]
manhattan sapphire mp3
and to someone i only discovered this week - ugress, a solo producer from norway, whose music seems predominatly crafted from samples. the above track is a great marriage of hindi vocal and fat beats, something i'm sure i'll be playing out in the near future :-) there's a whole stack of mp3s available at his site.

RHYTHM KING AND HER FRIENDS [GERMANY]
get paid mp3
[re-post] played the track 'frankie' from their new album 'i am disco'. the above track also features on the album.

NETTLE [SPAIN]
gutted (mehmet irdel remix) mp3
[re-post], for more info, see post dated 030904

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050904 19:20

fbi's first birthday supporter drive came to an end yesterday - thanks to everyone who called up during the ten days to pledge their financial support to the station. and a special huge thanks to all the people who called up during 'fat planet' - we broke the record for the number of pledges in one single hour, fantastic stuff! yesterday's playlist is now online and as a back-slappin' thank you, here's some tunes from artists on today's show...

NEO MIKYAKO [ENGLAND]
my nuthin' babe mp3
a duo from the uk making more of that crunchy electro rock that seems to be filling floors down here in sunny old australia. someone recently called it "datarock" which freaked me out - i'm all for splintering genres, but "datarock" sounds a little too mechanical for something that's still imbued with dirty rock'n'roll posturing. mind you, i hated 'mathrock' too, such an ugly phrase. more of the above on the queep organic music site.

JUANA MOLINA [ARGENTINA]
no es tan cierto mp3
her last album 'seguendo' was one of my highlights of last year - a rare blend of acoustic and electronic music that doesn't fall into the noddle-some realm of 'folktronica', it's far more beautiful than that. seems like we're coming very late to juana, both 'segeundo' and the so-called 'new' album ' tres cosas' have been circulating for a while in argentina, but only recently received a worldwide release thanks to the domino label. the above track (from 'tres cosas') is indicative of the intricate subtleties that infuse juana's entire output - the relative lack of any electro-trickery simply adds to the beauty.

OMR [FRANCE]
the door mp3
a great find, a m/f duo from france, taking on the blueprint laid down by so much french electronica - layered harmonies, breathy french vocal and a hard edge to the beats. i've been getting into the recent album from m83 ('dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts' - highly recommended ), proving that there's far more to french music than kitsch electro-pop, light rhumbas and dirty old men. every week i discover more and more fascinating sounds, and these people are no exception. try and pick up a copy of their limited edition album which features an outstanding selection of remixes from prefuse 73, ellen alien, abstract keal agram (m83 labelmates), console and russia's dj vadim.

BOYS FROM BRAZIL [GERMANY]
collision mp3
re-post: see post dated 030904

TO ROCOCO ROT [GERMANY]
from dream to daylight mp3
fresh from their recent album 'hotel morgen', trr have released an e.p. of all new material entitled 'cosimo'. the track from the show was called 'days'. sadly no recent mp3s to be had, so we'll have to make do with this track from their 2001 collaboration with i-sound. nine years on, to rococo rot are cementing their status as one of the contemporary pioneers of downtempo electronica. also recommended is trr founder robert lippock's new 'remix' album ' falling into komeit'.

TABLA BEAT SCIENCE [INDIA]
sacred channel mp3
i've never really engaged with bill laswell's axiom releases for a couple of reasons - firstly, not really having an idea where to begin and secondly, for fear that once i start, i might not be able to stop. my compulsive music purchasing is already way of control without getting into a whole new back catalogue. well, curse that laswell, because tabla beat science is so damn tasty that i probably now can't prevent myself from further investigation. the project sees some of the finest contemporary indian musicians getting together for an electro tabla jam session and the results are inspiring. this isn't a lame east meets west crossover attempt, this is a genuine collaboration that is carried off in fine style, marrying laswell's western dub sensibilities, outstanding tabla from drum'n'bass producer karsh kale, some electro tweaking from midival punditz (whose 'bhangra fever' featured on my 'best of 2003-04' show last week) - all wrapped up with the work of 'master percussionist' zakir hussain. hit that download.

TRANJOIK [NORWAY]
mawlid el nur / anna f (mutamassik mix) site
re-post: see post dated 250804

DAEDELUS [US: CALIFORNIA]
a mashnote mp3
i played a track from the daedelus / boom bip split 7" inspired by' donnie darko' - '28:06:42:12'. my sister-in-law susie went to see the directors cut recently and wasn't too overawed by it. the film seems to be enjoying a phenomenal cult status - i enjoyed it the first time around, it made me smile for sure, but it seems to be drifting off into hazardous territory (those dangerous 'top ten lists') and i can't say it really belongs there. talking of films, i tried my hand at part 3 of matthew 'mr bjork' barney's 'cremaster' cycle at the weekend. i'm torn between the beauty of the repetitive simplicity and the sheer mind-numbing boredom of the whole thing. maybe i'm just a heathen after all. anyway, back to the mp3 - an old one from epitonic, taken from a various artists compilation on emperor norton called 'freeways'.



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040904 09:01

fat planet has made it's way onto the bbc! well, kind of... thanks to jody from the bbc's collective who gave fat planet a heads up in his column this week. here's a link right back at ya!



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030904 08:56

BOYS FROM BRAZIL [GERMANY]
collision mp3
dark electro pop from germany with a devilish guitar hook and a tasty little break thrown in for good measure. we've moved through the post punk rebirth now (surely?) and i've started to hear more and more music that borrows from a much later 80s period. somewhere between jesus and mary chain (see dead combo) and the electro end of the sisters of mercy. i wouldn't go so far as to say that boys from brazil have delivered us a goth tune as such, but the vocal certainly hints that way. i always thought the next revival was going to be acid house, maybe we've got to get goth out the way first? all of this goth chat is doing boys from brazil something of a disservice - play it loud in a dark room and i'm sure you'll get a buzz from it.

FRX & OVE NAXX [JAPAN]
breakin noise (extract) mp3
not for the faint hearted - ove naxx is regarded as a rising star in japan's breakcore / noise scene as this extract from his forthcoming release on accelmuzhik proves. naxx released an e.p. last year on dj rupture's tigerbeat6 offshoot, soot, so coming out of the kid606 stable, you'll hopefully have some idea of what to expect. good to know that insanity in japanese music is alive and kicking.

NETTLE [SPAIN]
gutted (mehmet irdel remix) mp3
and more with a dj rupture link - well, truth be told nettle IS dj rupture to all intents and purposes (also part of the project is graphic artist DD). whilst rupture's releases usually stride top quality breakcore, nettle sees him on a different trip, taking in north african / middle eastern influences, beautifully exemplified by this mp3 remixed by mehmet irdel. it's broken and disjointed, starting with a couple of minutes of hand claps and percussion, bringing a downbeat halfway through, before drifting off into some beautiful glitch at the end. much like mutamassik, if anyone degrades 'world music', play them this and watch their reaction.

WHITE HOLE [GERMANY]
peter built mp3
first came across this pair on the recent kitty-yo compilation ' futurism ain't shit to me' with a track from their e.p. 'chaterflug'. the above mp3 is taken from the same release - on the surface it's mixing hard downtempo beats with some wavering analogue synths pads, although nothing is really as it seems. it could pass you by if you don't listen closely, but there's something in there to make me suspect that white hole are worth further investigation - i'm just not sure what it is. answers on the a starship to the usual address.



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010904 19:31

as promised, i've pulled together a free compilation of some of my favourite mp3 finds over the last twelve months - all to commemorate ONE YEAR of fat planet broadcasting on fbi 94.5!

click here to download your free copy of the 16-track compilation and some fat planet artwork to adorn your cd collection too. here's the track listing - the download page also includes some comments lifted from the blog.

normal service will be resumed shortly ;-)


1. NO NAME NO FAME buena vista fight club [CROATIA]
2. WAYNE & WAX a it dat (dj c it dat) [US: MASSACHUSETS]
3. CUT COPY going nowhere [AUSTRALIA]
4. THINK TWICE under the bombs [FRANCE]
5. NEUTRINO syupaman [JAPAN]
6. THE ASTROGLIDES the man with the golden reverb [ISRAEL]
7. MC VANEESINHA dance de peteca [BRAZIL]
8. 2/5 BZ bugün eve içine kus geldi [TURKEY]
9. LARS HORNTVETH tics [NORWAY]
10. ERIK LEVANDER bermond (bauri remix) [SWEDEN]
11. JUANA MOLINA quien? [ARGENTINA]
12. OUMOU SANGARE nebife [MALI]
13. ROBERT LIPPOCK i can tell [GERMANY]
14. COCOROSIE by your side [US: NEW YORK]
15. JAB MICA OCH EL caca biohjelm [DENMARK]
16. SIXTOO feat DAMO SUZUKI storm clouds & silver linings [CANADA]

update 090904: track 8 replaces the previous 'b-bam' mp3 which is currently unavailable. the downloadable artwork has also been amended to reflect this change.



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