The second episode of our new regular podcast show - presented by Stu Buchanan - features new music from Mei Saraswati, Mental Powers, Kendall Francis, Hollow Press, The Atlas Room, Dora the Extruder, Chris Cobilis and Wooshie, plus an exclusive live collaborative set from  Ambrose Chapel vs Anonymeye, recorded at the recent Vagrant show in Brisbane.

Playlist:
Mei Saraswati - Spiritual Landscape [unreleased]
Mental Powers - Hopus [from 'Pro Bono']
Kendall Francis - 021 Objects (4.) [from '021 Objects']
Hollow Press - Fade Away [from 'Fleeting Joy']
The Atlas Room - Severnya [from 'UnderCurrents']
Dora the Extruder - Sarin Rap [from 'Dora the Extruder EP']
Chris Cobilis - Stormwatch [from 'Heritage Listed Skate Park']
Wooshie - 06 Song For My Father [from 'Boyfriend Material EP']
Ambrose Chapel vs Anonymeye - Live at Vagrant, July 2012 [unreleased]

The first episode of our new regular podcast show kicks off with a PERTH SPECIAL, celebrating our new compilation 'Western Schism', and featuring music from Endless Paths, Kucka, James Ireland & Andrew Sinclair, FM Raster, Cat Hope, These Ship Wrecks and an interview with Kynan Tan.

Playlist:

Endless Paths - Path Two
Kučka - the operation
James Ireland & Andrew Sinclair - Mary Weiss
FM Raster - Pattern 1
Cat Hope - My Own Private
These Ship Wrecks - Sicilian Defence
Kynan Tan - Interview (originally broadcast on Difficult Listening, RTRfm)

In this episode of the podcast, we highlight a new project from New Weird Australia called Wood & Wire - a digital record label which sets out to promote experimentation in Australian music across all genres.  

Wood & Wire focusses on free, artist EPSs and albums, and it launched in June 2012 with four releases from PEON, EMILY GRANTHAM, BOK DARKLORD and MACHINE DEATH.  This podcast episode features tracks from each of these releases, as well as exclusive tracks from the next two additions to the catalogue from SHISD and REGIONAL CURSE, due in July.   

You can find Wood & Wire at woodandwire.com.au, and the project also has its own home on Facebook at facebook.com/woodandwirelabel.

In this week’s podcast, we feature a live set from a new Sydney three-piece called Gold Model. The members of the band are by no means new to music-making – lead vocalist Zed Female (otherwise known as Christina Harvey) can be found in a number of projects, most notably ‘Und’. Producer Stanislavski operates in the orbit of the renowned Clan Analogue collective, and guitarist Snakes also features in many local improvisational projects. In this live set-up Stanislavski takes a back-seat, allowing Zed and Snakes to perform the set as a duo.

The interview and live set was originally broadcast on 3rd May 2012.

Tracklisting: Morphina / Ondine / Kill Me / Sucker In Love / Beyond Belief / The Squeeze / Monkey / Flirting / Dum Dum

In this episode of the New Weird Australia podcast series, we delve into modular synthesis, off the back of a two-day Sydney festival that both celebrates and explores the concept, titled Moduluxxx.

The organisers described the event as somewhere between "a museum, a lan party and a petting zoo". To get the full meaning behind the analogies, we hear from artist and festival co-director, Pia Van Gelder, who also discusses the ideas and activities behind modular synthesis in more detail - and in particular, why it has undergone something of a renaissance in recent times.

The podcast also features an example of the artform in action with a 20 minute set from Nadir - a collaboration between Sydney artist Alex White and Melbourne’s Ben Byrne - and acting as something of a warm-up for their Moduluxxx experience.

The interview and live set was originally broadcast on 26th April 2012.

In this week's podcast, we feature the first of our irregular new series, NWA Profiles - new stories, interviews and recordings from around the country; filed by contributors from New Weird Australia's volunteer network. In this episode, Matthew O'Shannessy and Michael Prior from Tape Projects talk to Melbourne-based improvisor, installation artist and instrument builder, DALE GORFINKEL.

Dale has previously curated the Now Now Festival in Sydney, and currently coordinates the Out Hear Festival, a Melbourne festival focused on outdoor performances and soundwalks. In this report, we hear about Dale's study of ping pong balls, kinetics and the problem of invisible speakers. We also hear a live performance by Dale for prepared vibraphone recorded at Bouverie Studios in Melbourne.

Originally broadcast on 22nd March 2012.

If you're making eclectic and experimental music here in Australia, and you're looking for a way to be heard, New Weird Australia welcomes and encourages submissions from new bands and producers.  This type of brand new work is regularly released through our netlabel, featured on our weekly radio show and to otherwise distributed through our networks.

Sydney's EMILY GRANTHAM is a young producer who contacted us last year, and after submitting a regular series of off-kilter electronic recordings, will soon be releasing her debut EP through New Weird Australia. In this podcast, she plays a special live set written exclusively for the radio show, and chats about her work and future plans.

In Episode 24 of the NWA Podcast series, we present the debut live radio performance from Haunts, recorded only a few days before their second ever show at Dirty Shirlows in Sydney.  Haunts sees the coming together of two members of Sydney’s Underlapper with producer and musician Peter Hollo (Raven, Fourplay).

Underlapper are a well known fixture of the Sydney underground music scene - with three albums under their belt, ranging from the anticon-esque indie hip hop of their debut ‘What Came Forth From The Sea’ to the epic, post rock vocal of their 2011 release, ‘Softly Harboured’.  With the band on hiatus, Greg and Matt teamed up with Peter Hollo to form Haunts, and in this podcast they tell us how it all came together and play an exclusive live set in the studio.

The interview and live set was originally broadcast on 23rd February 2012.

In Episode 23 of the NWA Podcast series, we talk to Ian Rogers, who performs and records as part of two Brisbane projects, No Anchor and Ambrose Chapel.

Ian was in Sydney as part of a a research project titled 'Popular Music & Cultural Memory', and we talk the opportunity to have him in the studio to discuss his musical output and forthcoming projects.  He also brought along new material from No Anchor as well as an exclusive unreleased track from Ambrose Chapel titled 'A Small Return To A Big Nothing'.

The interview was originally broadcast on 16th February 2012.

On this week’s podcast, we celebrate Australian chiptune with two artists who recently represented the city of Sydney at Australia’s first international chiptune festival, Blipfest which took place mid-February in Melbourne.  Ten Thousand Free Men And Their Families and Abortifacient came into the New Weird Australia studio to have a chat and play a live set ahead of the Festival event, and to give us an insight into how they found their way into chiptune in the first place.

Sean from Abortifacient has taken his work overseas, playing with the likes of Ove-Naxx, and touring to Japan, UK, Spain.  He blends breakcore into his chiptune, and his seemingly relentless schedule of releases recently gave us the succinctly titled ‘my name is Abortifacient’.  Tom from 10K describes himself as “a guy who yells at Game Boys” and - when you hear the live set he plays at the start of this session, you’ll know why.  If you are at all sensitive to strong language, you may want to temporarily plug your ears.

This session originally aired on 9th February 2012.