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2001 |
Perilous 548 After an entertaining Freaky Loops its back to the grind as Sydney enters winter. This winter will be even bleaker because, in very sad news, Club Kooky is closing on April 19th. Having nearly reached a sixth birthday, the venue has decided to move them on. Gemma and Seymour will be taking a well earned break and travelling overseas for a while with Biftek before returning -hopefully refreshed. Catch Ju Ju Space Jazz and Tooth on Easter Thursday and then Biftek and ItchE & ScratchE in the big finale on the 19th. Check the new Kookyburra compilation Beat Encounter and remember the energy and vitality that Kooky has breathed into Sydney’s musical landscape since 1995. It will be sorely missed. In new music, the new Mice Parade album Mokoondi simultaneously released on Bubblecore and FatCat is out. Since the last Mice Parade album, Adam Pierce has been busy in his usual role as drummer in the Dylan Group, and a change of direction away from the vibraphone minimalism towards some highly percussive experiments flirting with African rhythms, a Chinese harp, and some wild jazz structures. Like the previous Mice Parade recordings these are all recorded live into multitrack recorders rather than using samplers which adds a loose organic fluidity rather than the constraints of rigid sequences. Parts of Mookindi are reminiscent of Squarepusher’s more recent jazz-fusion excursions but rather than Tom Jenkinson’s computerised spray of rhythm samples, there is a subdued, smoother and broader palette of sound; and at other times it moves closer to Tortoise, albeit with more direction, less meandering. A spectacular and beautiful album. Big Dada has licensed the collection of the six Clouddead 10”EPs put out by Anticon’s Dose One, Odd Nosdam and Why?. Perhaps the strangest hip hop that still sounds a little like hip hop as you know it, the Clouddead tracks will frustrate some and inspire others. Recorded simply they emanate a distinctly lo-fi feeling with rhymes cascading in and out of a swamp made up of fragments of slightly muted loops. Stranger than other Anticon releases, Clouddead is excellent headphone music of a slightly demented kind that resonates that same kind of playfulness of De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising, but far more musically and lyrically psychedelic. And also the new Buck65 album, Man Overboard, delayed for all kinds of reasons, is also available in Australia now. Continuing the introspective and personal rhymes of Vertex this is another one to check if left-of-centre hip hop excites you. Last of all, Frigid has a live set from Tooth on Easter Sunday and then Downtown Brown from Melbourne on the 22nd. It looks like NZ’s Stinky Jim, formerly of Unitone HiFi and now recording as Phase 5 and running the Round Trip Mars label will be out to play a set on the 29th so prepare your digital dub antennas. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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