Against The Tide: Cool tunes for your ears

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

Beach House | Ten Mile Stereo | Teen Dream
Mylo | Valley of the Dolls | Destroy Rock & Roll
The Radio Dept | Never Follow Suit | Clinging to a Scheme

Blood Orange | Forget It | Coastal Grooves
Nurses | Caterpillar Playground | Apples Acre
Savoir Adore | Dreamers | Dreamers 7”

Telepathe | Can’t Stand It | Dance Mother
Love Connection | You Don’t Need Muscles to Get Love | Euphoria
Active Child | Hanging On | You Are All I See

Au Revoir Simone | Shadows (Jens Lekman remix) | Night Light
Com Truise | She Melts | Galactic Melt
Zola Jesus | Vessel | Conatus

Maria Minerva | Pirate’s Tale | Cabaret Cixous
Four Tet | Locked | FabricLive 59
Gauntlet Hair | Top Bunk | Gauntlet Hair

Jamie XX | Far Nearer | Far Nearer
Avery Tare | Lucky 1 | Down There
Korallreven | As Young As Yesterday (Panda Bear Remix)

Bear In Heaven | Sinful Nature | I Love You, It’s Cool
Toro Y Moi | Talamak | Causers of This
Dream Kit | Eleven Twelve | Future Tense
BALAM ACAB | Just Stay

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

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 

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Sebastien Tellier | Cochon Ville | My God Is Blue
Chromatics | Kill For Love | Kill For Love

Max Crumbs | Sunbath | Maidenhair
Chet Faker | I’m Into You | Thinking In Textures
Hammocks and Honey | Undone | Spellbinder

Catcall | Swimming Pool | The Warmest Place
Twin Sister | Space Babe | In Heaven
SBTRKT | Hold On |

Cornelius | Brazil | Point
Minks | Little Fawn | Araby
Yann Tiersen | Vanishing Point | Skylines

Twin Shadow | Tyrant Destroyer | Forget
Doldrums | Egypt | Egypt
Battles | White Electric (Shabazz Palaces Remix) | Dross Glop

Shabazz Palaces | Swerve, The Reeping of All That is Worthwhile Noir Not Withstanding | Black Up
Flying Lotus | ….and The World Laughs With You (feat Thom Yorke)
Poor Spirits | !N3V3R SL33P! | What?

Lykke Li | Sadness Is A Blessing (Gold Panda Remix) |
BOSCO | Kids | Pacer EP
When Saints Go Machine | Kelly | Konkylie

Mux Mool | Palace Chalice | Planet High School
fthrsn | Nothings The Matter | Nothings The Matter/Colors
Good Sport | Pushover | And Now We Are Talking EP

Junior Boys | Parallel Lines | Begone Dull Care
Salvador Jolly | NITESHIFT | BOWLCUT NECKBEARD
Diamond Messages | Liquid Summer | Smoke and Mirrors EP

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

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) |

Animal Collective | Summertime Clothes | Merriweather Post Pavillion
Little Dragon | Summertearz | Ritual Union
Future Islands | Inch Of Dust | In Evening Air

JJ Brine | Monarch Butterfly | President Of Mozambique
Cookies | Crybaby (A) | Crybaby
Machinedrum and Faulty DL | Give In 2 | Give In 2

Love Connection | Sex In The Cinema | Euphoria
Grimes | Oblivion | Visions
Air France | It Feels Good To Be Around You
elite gymnastics | h e r e i n h e a v e n 4 & 5 | Ruin 3

M83 | Kim and Jessie | Saturdays = Youth
Junior Boys | So This Is Goodbye | So This Is Goodbye
Gonjasufi | Candylane (Bibio Remix) | The Caliph’s Tea Party

Grizzly Bear | While You Wait For The Others | Veckatimest
Glasser | Home | Ring
Hot Chip | Ready For The Floor | Made In The Dark
Sebastien Tellier | Roche | Sexuality

Mount Kimbie | Mayor | Crooks & Lovers
Lemonade | Neptune | Diver
GRANT | Kerosene

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

Jamie XX | Touch Me |

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. 

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Active Child | High Priestess (CFCF Remix) |
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (feat David Lynch) | Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It) | Dark Night of The Soul

Chairlift | Amanaemonisia | Something
Charli xcx | Nuclear Seasons |
Boy Friend | Egyptian Wrinkle (The Whendays Remix)

Javelin | C Town | No Mas
Familijen | Man Ser Det Fran Manen | Manskligheten
Braids | Native Speaker | Native Speaker

Darren Sylvester | Twenty Three | Darren Sylvester
Brothertiger | Feel | Vision Tunnels
Clive Tanaka Y su orquesta | I Want You (So Bad) | Jet Set Siempre
Flaming Lips | Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Grimes | My Sister Says The Saddest Things | Halfaxa
Mount Kimbie | Ode to Bear | Crooks & Lovers
Four Tet | Angel Echoes | There Is Love In You
Gold Panda | After We Talked | Lucky Shiner

Broadcast | Colour Me In | Ha Ha Sound
Dirty Projectors | Thirsty and Miserable | Rise Above
Beach House | Gila | Devotion
Isle Adore | Keep A Lid On

Maria Minerva | Ruff Trade | Cabaret Cixous
Chad Valley | Fast Challenges | Equatorial Ultravox
Mark Barrage | Chthonic Glass | Rubicon Drive EP

Bogdan Irkuk | The Thracian Plain | The Thracian EP

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)

Neon Indian | Hex Girlfriend (Twin Shadow Remix)
Bear In Heaven | Sinful Nature | I Love You, It’s Cool
Poor Spirits | !N3V3R SL33P! | What?

Tanlines | All of Me | Mixed Emotions
SUPER88 | stone cold | salad days
Grimes | Skin | Visions

Sufjan Stevens | Too Much | The Age of Adz
World Tour | Believe | Believe
Lemonade | Neptune | Diver

Cornelius | Another View Point | Point
A Lull | Some Love (Brothertiger Remix) | Some Love
BALAM ACAB | Just Stay | Unreleased

Animal Collective | Why Would I Want Sky | Fall Be Kind
Radiohead | Nude (Chet Faker Edit)
CSLSX | Violent Sea (feat. I Break Horses) |
Kasper Bjorke | Lose Yourself to Jenny | Fool

Beach House | Myth | Bloom
St Vincent | Now Now |
The Radio Dept | This Time Around | Clinging To A Scheme

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

Sebastien Tellier | Cochon Ville | Skyline

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

Megastick Fanfare | Teething | Grit Aglow
Qua | Luckybuster | Painting Monsters on Clouds
Tiger Choir | Ephemeral City | Unicycles

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

Lost Animal | Buai Raskol | Ex Tropical
Sparkle Motion | My Friend (Magic Silver White Remix) | Sparkle Motion
Geoffrey O’Connor | So Sorry | Vanity Is Forever
FISHING | White Sheet Beach |

Guerre | Care 4 Me (The Townhouses Remix) | Darker My Love Remixes
Absolute Boys | Haze |
Clue to Kalo | Empty Save The Oxygen | Come Here When You Sleepwalk

The Boat People | Stereo Pair | Soporific
Hammocks and Honey | Simple Things | Spellbinder
Richard In Your Mind | I Will | My Volcano

Seekae | 3 | +DOME

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

Nite Jewel | One Second of Love | One Second of Love
Neon Indian | Psychic Chasms | Psychic Chasms
SBTRKT | Wildfire | SBTRKT

Brothertiger | Wind at My Back |
College | A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) | Drive Soundtrack
Boy Friend | Egyptian Wrinkle (The Whendays remix) | Egyptian Wrinkle

RxGibbs | Silver (The Whendays remix) | Futures EP
Kid A | BB Bleu | BB Bleu
Gracie X Steffaloo | Quilts |

Absolute Boys | Haze |
Broadcast | Black Cat | Tender Buttons
CSLSX | Violent Sea (feat. I Break Horses) | CSLSX
Deerhunter | Octet | Cryptograms

Dirty Projectors | No Intention | Bitte Orca
Ratatat | Loud Pipes | Classics
CANT | Too Late, Too Far | Dreams Come True
INQUIET | Fresh Flesh | Fifty Gallon Drum of Fresh Cuts

Preludes | The Well | The Swan EP
d’Eon | Transparency (How To Dress Well Remix) | Transparency
fthrsn | Nothing’s The Matter | Nothing’s The Matter// Colour

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

John Talabot | Naomi |

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

Grimes | Genesis (Ryan Hemsworth Remix) |
bittertv | moonlightritual | loveritual EP
Blondes | Lover |

The Plastics Revolution | Elefantes |
DUDES | Somethin’ 2 Say | Narcissists Anonymous
Little Dragon | Thunder Love | Machine Dreams
Aleks and The Ramps | Here Comes Your Ghost | FACTS

Javelin | Off My Mind | No Mas
Architecture In Helsinki | W.O.W | Moment Bends
Blood Orange | Light House (New Villager Cover) |
Jessica Says | Collarbones | Queen of The Night EP

POLICA | Form | Give You The Ghost
Work Drugs | Rad Racer | Work Drugs
Holy Ghost! Feat Nancy Whang and Juan Maclean | I Wanted to Tell Her |
I Break Horses | Load Your Eyes (Star Slinger Remix) | Hearts

Loose Lips | Happily Doomed (Brothertiger Remix)
James Blake | Pan | Order/Pan
Jogging House | Let Go | Relations
Grimes | Oblivion | Visions

No Gold | Good & Bad
GRMLN | Summer Nights | First Phase
The Weeknd | Montreal | Echoes of Silence
Hazy Mountains | All Gone Away | Gold

Zwicker | Oddity (John Talabot Misterioso Remix)

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

Destroyer | Kaputt | Kaputt
St Vincent | Cruel | Strange Mercy
The Antlers | Parentheses (PVT Remix) | Together EP

I Can Chase Dragons! | Republique | Expansion
Jogging House | Darling | Relations
Jamie XX | Far Nearer
Snowmine | Curfews (Twin Sister remix) |

Twin Sister | Meet The Frownies (Snowmine remix)
The Weeknd | Glass Table Girls | House of Balloons
HEALTH | Before Tigers (Gold Panda Remix) | Disco:2
bittertv | firstloveritual | loveritual EP

The XX | VCR (Matthew Dear remix)
Holy Ghost! | Wait & See (Flight Facilities remix) | Wait & See
Erothug | The Girl Is Mine | Touching
John Talabot | Matilda’s Dream

Teengirl Fantasy | Cheaters (John Talabot Remix) |
Abstract Cannon | All These Years feat RLMDL | Sequences/Melting Sitcoms
WhoMadeWho | Below The Cherry Moon | Brighter
jj | Things Will Never Be The Same Again | jj no. 2

Blood Orange | The Complete Knock | Coastal Grooves
oOooO | No Way Back | Our Loving Is Killing Us
Latency Phase | Mystery Vibe |

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

3 weeks later… 

Oh dear, oh dear.  I haven’t updated this blog for a very long time.  Far too long. My apologies. It’s been so long that I don’t really remember how I was feeling/what I was doing in regards to this show.  So here it is presented without comment. 

You can listen back to my show from 3 weeks ago HERE.   Oh dear. 

Playlist for Saturday 11th of February

The Radio Dept | Against The Tide | Lesser Matters
Holy Ghost! | Some Children | Holy Ghost!

The Go! Team | Ladyflash | Thunder Lightning Strike
Niki & The Dove | The Fox | The Fox
Javelin | Vibrationz | No Mas

Mux Mool | Palace Chalice | Planet High School
Hammocks & Honey | Toolz (Faux Pas remix) | Spellbinder
When Saints Go Machine | Kelly | Konkylie

Teen Daze | Brooklyn Sunburn | All of Us, Together
Little Dragon | Summertearz | Ritual Union
Matthew Dear | I Can’t Feel | Black City
John Maus | Streetlight | We Must Become The Pitless Censors of Ourselves

Miniature Tigers | Goldskull | F O R T R E S S
Aleks & The Ramps | Crocodile | Facts
Frankie Rose | Know Me| Interstellar
The Big Pink | Give It Up | Future This

Jonti | Flesh of Morning | Sine & Moon
Fishing | Watersport |
Diskjokke | Panutup | Sagara

Gauntlet Hair | Top Bunk | Gauntlet Hair
Neon Indian | Fallout | Era Extrana
Grimes | Crystal Ball | Darkbloom
Charli xcx | Nuclear Seasons | Nuclear Seasons

Gold Panda | An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds |
Air France | Windmill Wedding | No Way Down
James Blake | Enough Thunder | Enough Thunder
How To Dress Well | Ready For The World

The Knife | Silent Shout | Silent Shout