Against The Tide: Cool tunes for your ears

A radio show from Melbourne, Australia. Live on PBSFM every Monday evening from 5-7pm Everybody like music.

www.pbsfm.org.au/againstthetide

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6 months ago

It’s been so very long…. so here is an adorable cat.

Hello! Hi! I realised that I have been extremely lax in blogging this year. Who can say why? Is it a lack of enthusiasm? A lack of time? A lack of good photos of cats to put as the main picture?

I wanted to get back into the swing of things. Especially considering Against The Tide has moved into the much more listener friendly time of 5-7pm on a Monday. Oh yeah! Daylight!

The change has been slightly odd for me. Going from late nights alone in the studio to the busy daylight times with people popping in and out all the time, staff members waving at me through the glass.

You can check out the back catalogue of the shows I’ve missed (I could make a blog post for all of them… :-/) HERE.

And here is the quick version of the rundown for yesterday’s show: Played some tunes from Meredith bands, played some tunes from Australian bands, accidentally played a tune from an English band I thought was Australian for some bizarre reason. Good work, me.

You can listen back to this week’s show HERE.

Playlist for Monday the 3rd of December 2012

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Fox & Sui | Summer Storm | Taboo

Brous | Streamers |

Prudence Rees Lee | Emmannuelle | Court Music from the Planet of Love
Django Django | Hail Bop | Django Django

Jonti | Nightshift in Blue | Twirligig
Elizabeth Rose | Fight or Flight | Crystallise

Galapagoose | Ploy

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1 year ago | Notes: 2

Rainy nights.

Sometimes when it’s cold and rainy there is nothing that is better than staying in and playing records on the radio. Sometimes you don’t wanna leave.

You can listen back to this weeks show HERE.

Playlist for Saturday 28th of April

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Air Drops | Champions Chariot | Air Drops EP

Abstract Cannon | All These Years feat RLMDL | Sequences/Melting Sitcoms EP

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1 year ago

Record Store Day: The show in which I attempt to play vinyl in the studio. :D

I’ve always been a bit scared of vinyl. Despite the fact that most of my time as a child was spent playing my Mums old Skyhooks and Elton John records on our old 80’s record player. When it comes to announcing, I’ve been nervous about fiddling with the record players in the studio. NO LONGER. In celebration on Record Store Day, I went and bought a bunch of vinyl and played them on the radio. Pretty good! Records are fun. They are such lovely objects. Oh man, I think I’m in love.

You can listen back HERE.

Playlist for Saturday 21st of April

Gold Panda | back Home | Gold Panda - DJ Kicks.

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1 year ago

Shark Week.

I did this week’s episode in a Shark costume. I think that’s all we really need to say.

Listen back HERE.

Playlist for Saturday the 14th of April

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Geoffrey O’Connor | So Sorry (The Townhouses Remix) |

Hourglass Sea | L.A. Lights
fail.safe | confines | parallels

Jamie XX | Touch Me |

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1 year ago

HAPPY EASTER (This post is quite late)

Making myself a promise that I will make up all my radio posts today. Gonna do it. It’s totally achievable.

Easter weekend’s show is HERE.

Playlist for Saturday the 7th of April.

Bogdan Irkuk | The Thracian Plain | The Thracian EP

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1 year ago

The one after that one before.

Ooh dear I don’t know whether to actually make a post about this one or not. The audio archive for it didn’t capture properly and therefore it’s lost forever! I’ll never hear myself fumbling over announcing the name of the Sufjan Stevens album ever again (until the next time I play it…) Um so yeah. This is pretty much a post with a bit of rambling and a picture of that giant demon baby that was in Melbourne last year along with it’s giant demon baby siblings. They were everywhere! Somebody should really write a B-Grade horror film about it. Giant demon babies.

So anyway the point to this is, you can’t listen back to this show. But here is the playlist anyways. You’re welcome.

Playlist for Saturday 24th March 2012.

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Glass Candy | Candy Castle | Beat Box (Tour CD)

Santigold | Disparate Youth (The 2 Bears Remix)
Fort Romeau | SW9 | SW9

Sebastien Tellier | Cochon Ville | Skyline

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1 year ago

Aleks and The Ramps play some songs! So the Ramps released their new album a few weeks ago and it’s pretty damn awesome! If you don’t believe me you should totally listen back to this show and hear for yourself. The dudes (and lady) came in to record a live set for Against The Tide and argue about fonts. Good times. B-)

You can listen back HERE.

Playlist for Saturday March 17

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Oliver Tank | Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion | Dreams

Jessica Says | Collarbones | Queen of The Night
Catcall | Satellites |

Aleks and the Ramps Live To Air

Mystery Twin | Middle Dream
Erothug | We Should Have Built From Metal | Touching
Flash Forest | The Romantic Bone In My Sour Body

Seekae | 3 | +DOME

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1 year ago

Hello team! Get ready for two weeks worth of updates in one go! My March shows have been pretty sporadic, because I’ve had weddings and parties and anything that have been going on. FULL ON TIMES. So lets chill out a little with some musics shall we?

This show was that day a few weeks ago when it rained and rained and rained all day long and I didn’t get out of bed until 5pm and wandered into the studio in a rain soaked, sleepy daze. That is the best kind of way to announce Against The Tide. We are all aware of this.

You can listen back to the show HERE.

Playlist for Saturday March 3

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Hot Chip | One Pure Thought | Made In The Dark

galapagoose | summersun | parquet #3
Azari & III | Reckless (With Your Love) | Azari & III

John Talabot | Naomi |

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1 year ago

Last Weekend of Summer. ThankyouGoodbye.

I am very sad about the end of Summer. Summer is a wonderful wonderful time. And now it’s all over. :( BUT Autumn is pretty sweet! It looks like it’s totally going to rain for an entire month but WHATEVS. Everybody can just stay inside and listen to albums and drink wine and make out with each other. That’s life!

You can listen back to last Saturday’s show HERE.

Playlist for Saturday the 25th of February

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
POLICA | The Maker | Give You The Ghost

Zwicker | Oddity (John Talabot Misterioso Remix)

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1 year ago

Losing My Voice. :-/

This week’s show was made slightly more difficult by the fact that I seemed to lose my voice just before the show started and regained it shortly after the show finished. Clearly I had done something to offend the radio gods. However the music was good. And because of my lack of voice, I barely interrupt the flow at all! ;D

Listen back HERE.

Playlist for Saturday 18th of February

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Nurses | Fever Dreams | Dracula

DRC Music | Hallo (feat. Tout Pussaint Mukalo) | Kinshasa One Two

A radio show from Melbourne, Australia. Live on PBSFM every Monday evening from 5-7pm Everybody like music. www.pbsfm.org.au/againstthetide

A radio show from Melbourne, Australia. Live on PBSFM every Monday evening from 5-7pm Everybody like music.

www.pbsfm.org.au/againstthetide