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 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.

On this week’s podcast, Thomas William vs Scissor Lock - a unique collaboration between two prolific Sydney producers.

Thomas William is a fixture of Sydney’s experimental music scene, shapeshifting through many guises as a musician, teacher, and director of artist run initiative, Serial Space. His blend of shifting synths, broken percussion and unstable tunings has so far featured on three full-length releases, two as Cleptoclectics, and a third most recently on Melbourne’s ‘This Thing’ imprint.

Marcus Whale’s relentless restlessness has seen him present a unique combination of manipulated voice, feedback and laptop processing under his Scissor Lock pseudonym, as well his much-lauded Collarbones project with Travis Cook (aka Cyst Impaled) and his debauched faux R&B boy band Black Vanilla (formed with Guerre and Marseilles).

The pair gave audiences a first glimpse of their project with a face-to-face match at New Weird Australia’s ‘Unpopular Music’ event in 2010, and then in March 2011 they visited us on New Weird Australia to play a short live live-to-air set and to talk about the genesis of their collaboration.

On this week's podcast, an in-studio live to air set and interview with Yolke.

Formed while field researching sound in 2008, this Melbourne psych ambient four-piece released their debut album 'Poppy Wash' back in 2010, and it quickly drew references to shoe gaze, krautrock and folktronica, with some of the reviews citing the pop quirks of Caribou and Ariel Pink as influences.

Last month, Yolke embarked on an east-coast tour of Australia along with their 'Fallopian Tunes' label-mates Trjaeu, Wild Dog Creek, Document Swell and Red Hymns, which also saw them all and taking in an appearance at the inaugural Wormwoodstock Festival in NSW. The live-to-sir set includes three extended tracks from Yolke, including new and unreleased material - and we’ll also hear a track from the 'Poppy Wash' album and from their road trip buddy, Document Swell.

The live set originally broadcast on FBi Radio on 26th January 2012.

Breathing Shrine is a psychedelic / noise / drone band from Melbourne. After touring the USA twice as a duo under the name of Grey Daturas, Bonnie Mercer (guitar) and Rob Mayson (bass & drums) decided to continue under the new name of Breathing Shrine. Ahead of one of their rare live appearances in Sydney, Bonnie & Rob join Stu Buchanan to discuss the birth of Breathing Shrine, the freedom that it now affords them and what the future may, or may not, have in store.  The podcast also includes a performance from Breathing Shrine, recorded live on New Weird Australia, titled '27-01-2011'.