Undergrowth - Radio Undergrowth

Filastine > The Last Redoubt

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:04:13 -0700

Filastine creates music and live sets that wreck genre, charting a new sonic map by synchronizing mutated hiphop, smashed-up beats, and international obscura. This year Filastine dropped Burn It on dj/Rupture's Soot Records. A pair of 12" vinyls on Soot and Shockout Records will be out in the fall, and a few scattered tracks can be found on compilations, in films, and a 7". For the last two years Filastine has brought his soundclash to clubs, squats, festivals, and underground spaces across the globe, peforming with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart, sometimes joined by a guest mc or vocalist. Filastine began making music with the live ensemble ¡tchkung!, then founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece anarcho marching band. After much time spent in the Morocco, Filastine produced a record for a street band in Marrakech, Majmouat AbdelHakim, He continues to compose music for the butoh ensemble P.A.N., performing with them in Asia and North America. Sound is also a tool of action for Filastine. He conducts guerilla audio interventions and has been assaulted or arrested by police of many uniforms in the course of his work. For more by this artist, go to: www.filastine.com

Radio Undergrowth> Vacuum Pack by Brent Arnold

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:28:16 -0700

Brent Arnold is a cellist, songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who composes music for film, and does producing, arranging and recording. Current projects include a solo record titled Cinema Deep Crush (due for Fall 2006 release), and groups Invincible Hummingbirds, Jihae Kim, Dark Cutters, Ghosts I've Met, and the Spheres. Arnold has worked with Eyvind Kang, Modest Mouse, Project W, Built to Spill, Sleater-Kinney, Saadet Turkoz, Quasi, Wayne Horvitz, the Go-Betweens, Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, Wally Shoup, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, Jana McCall, Brand New, Andrew Drury, the Murder City Devils, Seattle Experimental Opera, Big Cream, the Ruby Doe, New American Wing, and many others. Has also worked in a variety of forms: experimental, improvisational, pop, rock, noise, ambient, as well as Asian and Middle Eastern music. Born in Sacramento, CA, resided in Seattle, WA for many years, currently living in New York City.

Speeding Ticket by Curse ov Dialect

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:09:45 -0700

CURSE OV DIALECT have a sound as diverse and inclusive as their cultural backgrounds (Maltese, Macedonian, Indian, Maori, and Pakistani). Combining a multitude of sounds from all eras and styles, (these guys sample some obscure and esoteric material!!) quality beats, turntablism and production sensibility and unique flows with a lucid political flavour, Curse ov Dialect tear the hiphop rulebook to pieces and step beyond, creating avant-guarde hiphop opera. In their standout live shows that border on performance art, they deliver their monstrous sound with a punk-rock aesthetic, hyper energy, mad costumes and a refreshing playfulness. These guys keep it (sur)REAL!! This track is from their debut album "Lost in the Real Sky", which is out on Mush (America/worldwide) and Valve (Australia).

Don't Hide Away by Miso

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:49:41 -0700

Miso is the product of 3 years of electronic composition by producer Thomas (Soup) Campbell, and his integration and collaborative composition with instrumentalists, Supina Bytol, Martin Hadley, Naomi Jean and Ben Skepper. Miso have a strong and unique flavour, blending elements of triphop, dub, break-beat and jazz with lush, organic textures of natural timbres, and honeyed vocals. Miso have been making a splash in the Melbourne music scene over the past year. Don't Hide Away is from their soon to be released E.P.

Phone Drones by Dub Ninja

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:21:14 -0700

Dub Ninja a.k.a. Dan Sommariva-Rojo (drummer from fresh local acts Agency Dub Collective and Organic Intelekt) has unleashed his production skills in a prolific partnership with an 808 and other noise tweaking devices to create expansive electro-dub sonic landscapes. This release, influenced by Jamaican and UK dub, dancehall, drum n bass and hiphop, is the culmination of many years of combining technology with live instrumentation, and the latest of numerous dub, hiphop and drum n bass releases. Dub Ninja can be found dropping sets around Melbourne, with the odd freestyle or toast in the mix, making heads nod with his spacious and tasty beats.

Radio Undergrowth> Oh So Cold by Princess1.5

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:25 -0700

Princess One Point Five is a project born of material written outside of songwriter Sarah-Jane Wentzki's former band 'I Want a Hovercraft' in collaboration with producer Richard Andrews (Registered Nurse/Pharmacy Records), Jacob Pearce and Domenic Stanton (Because of Ghosts), and Alex Jarvis. Oh So Cold is taken from her second album, The Truth, a release with a quality of emotional intensity that has the listener soaring over undulating cinematic landscapes and landing on higher ground. Available of Pharmacy Records.

Radio Undergrowth > Mark's Knee by Isnod

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:20:24 -0700

Take the last century of music, put it into a blender and serve under some moody lighting, with chilli and cocktail umbrellas. Out pours ISNOD, a moody, molasses-smooth mélange of many a genre - the soundtrack of the fall of the current roman empire. Expect small moments of beauty and chaos through sound and digital windows of various resolution.

Walkabout-Melatonin

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:31:12 -0700

Walkabout is taken from Melatonin's new album 'Positive Feedback Loop' - a collection of rootsy dub n rocksteady grooves to challenge your mind and move your feet.

With an eco-social justice conscience backed by musicians who've performed with the likes of James Brown and Aretha Franklin, Melatonin purvey an exciting blend of decadent beats with a point. Drawing comparisons to the likes of 'Fat Freddy's Drop' and 'The Clash',

Melatonin also run their own solar powered sound system, and participate in cutting edge eco-social initiatives, as well as playing crazed warehouse and outdoor chill and dance parties.

Live line up includes:
Jared Osborne - beats, samples, melodica
Euan Williamson - tablas, percussion, guitar, bass vocals
Liam O'Keefe - guitar, bass, vocals
Alastair Sorley - samples
Andy Williamson - saxophones, clarinet
Jordan Murray - trombones
Jaqc Gawler - vocals, percussion

"Universal Inna" by Organic Intelekt

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:54:41 -0700

Organic Intelekt formed in 2004 after late night free-style sessions of 3 oclock Bogey and Rojo D over home-made sampled beats. Tracks came together from these sessions and the pair soon enlisted a bassist, pianist and DJ for some live gigs in Nth. Melbourne. Though now a well rehearsed live band, the format was always intended to replicate the sound of spacious loops in sample based music, as opposed to a busy funk-hiphop crossover. The grooves are kinda jazzy-somewhere between A Tribe Called Quest and Portishead, with vocals that are switched on yet cheeky. The boys have been playing on bills from Fitzroy to St. Kilda, with great DJ's and other live acts, and intend to become part of Melbourne's hiphop furniture. Members are 3OB-vocals, melodica Dub Ninja (formerly Rojo D) drums Gansta- keys DJ Heptune-cuts, samples Mark E- upright bass

GIVE IT UP > audio by Cinco Locos

Mon, 01 May 2006 18:14:57 -0700

Cinco Locos is a randomly occuring entity from the tropical verandahs of Darwin with the five crazies; Byron Williams (AKA Toe-Fu from the Herd) on vocals and guitar, Phil Eaton on Bass, Ingrid Smith on Saxophone, Jodie Kell on Trumpet and Justin Moon doing beats and samples. 'Give It Up' is a sample track off their 2002 album 'Opaque Brown'. For more music by Cinco Locos check out http://www.cincolocos.com.au

Refugee

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:37:49 -0800

"Refugee" from the album "Labrats" Solar Powered Sound System

up at the camp, over the fire we heard about something that required immmediate action to be taken coz real bad shit was in the makin' at an ex army u.s. base station another dodgy enterprise of the nation was under way on dis desert day a refugee hostage situation 500 people had escaped a compound of which against their will had been confound with no connection to the outside world they had been locked away without being told of their future destination a real dodgy situation a total human rights violation innocent people men women and children come a long way lookin' for their freedom what once was their home is now a war zone under dictatorship, in poverty their only choice was to flee just to end up behind lock and key but the crew from camp knew what they what they had to do so they all chucked in and bought heaps of food to take down to the refugees that were hangin' by the supermarket waiting for a feed but the cops had barricaded the shops police harassment 3 day non-stop the cops said you can't give them anything to eat or we will arrest you for walking down the street after three days the cops had starved them out we tried to show solidarity with screams and shouts some so weak they were taken back in buses dont even know if they heard our fusses some stayed storng as they walked along at gunpoint back to the place they fled from now their back behind bars and i can still see the scars of human rights abuses why the inoccent the losers? Lyrics by MC Izzy

Metropolis Mission - Culture Connect

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:21:41 -0800

"Metropolis Mission" is a feature track from Culture Connect's new self titled album. Also,check out for their new video clip Natural Intelligence, directed by Undergrowth's Tim Parish in motion pixels. Culture Connects second album will be out on Elefant Traks later in 2006.

What's Going On

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:48:59 -0800

"What's Going On?" from the Frequency Feedback compilation of Australian political hip hop. Featuring vocals by Joelistics from TZU Beats by Ptera Stylus