The Omega Point, Jobfit, Loose-y Crunché + | NWAP121

07/24/21 • 59 min

The New Weird Australia radio-not-radio show returns in its original form, for the first time since 2012, with sixty minutes of new mutant music from the upside down, presented by Stu Buchanan.

In this first episode of the rebooted show, we hear the new single from agitprop synth-punk duo Laughing Gear; plus two cuts from a new compilation from Oxtail Recordings from Loose-y Crunché and OVRSCN; experimental jungle meets dark and delirious storytelling courtesy of Jobfit; and Altered States Tapes gives us something old and something new with releases from Carnage and Low Flung.

We also listen to a wild brand of apocalyptic art-music from Melbourne’s Omega Point; beautiful broken piano and dismembered electronics from London based ex-pat Laila Sakini; a cut from the new album from violinist and vocalist Happy Axe; and we take a journey into alt-pysch and freak-disco on the debut release from Glass Beams.

Featured in this episode

Laughing Gear - New Estate (from Freak Lemons)
Loose-y Crunché - It's Got a Groove (Industrial Murk) (from Undercurrents)
OVRSCN - Chromium (from Undercurrents)
jobfit - Strike Pneumatic Tension (from Longer Form Cat Calls)
Carnage - Lung Cancer (from Untitled)
Low Flung - Stub (from Reflections From The Campsie Centre For Electronic Music Research)
The Omega Point - High Rise (from High Rise)
Laila Sakini - Into The Traffic (from Into the Traffic, Under the Moonlight (Vinyl Edition))
Happy Axe - The One That Remembers (from Maybe It'll Be Beautiful)
Glass Beams - Mirage (from Mirage EP)

Published on 24 July 2021

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The New Weird Australia radio-not-radio show returns in its original form, for the first time since 2012, with sixty minutes of new mutant music from the upside down, presented by Stu Buchanan.

Featured in this episode

Laughing Gear - New Estate (from Freak Lemons)
Loose-y Crunché - It's Got a Groove (Industrial Murk) (from Undercurrents)
OVRSCN - Chromium (from Undercurrents)
jobfit - Strike Pneumatic Tension (from Longer Form Cat Calls)
Carnage - Lung Cancer (from Untitled)
Low Flung - Stub (from Reflections From The Campsie Centre For Electronic Music Research)
The Omega Point - High Rise (from High Rise)
Laila Sakini - Into The Traffic (from Into the Traffic, Under the Moonlight (Vinyl Edition))
Happy Axe - The One That Remembers (from Maybe It'll Be Beautiful)
Glass Beams - Mirage (from Mirage EP)

Published on 24 July 2021

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Bridget Chappell / Hextape | NWAP120

Stu Buchanan talks with artist Bridget Chappell - raver, musician, writer and organiser - who makes frenetic and febrile electronic music as Hextape, and has been organising parties in drains, observatories, and other fascinating locations for many years. In 2020, they released their debut album under their own name titled Undertow, which blends sonified data from the City of Melbourne’s Open Data Platform with Melbourne's public sound sculpture, the Federation Bells.

Brought up in Canberra, now resident in Melbourne; Bridget has a diverse practice that also encompasses writing, teaching and curating, as well as sound art for installations and performances; most recently for their first solo exhibition No Comment, which investigated the science of phase cancellation and its potential role as an act of sonic resistance.

Music featured in this episode:

Hextape - I Just Wanna Race (Friendships Remix)
Hextape - Yubaba
Hextape - 200 Fast 200 Furious (Corin Remix)
Hextape - Revenge (Gabber Modus Operandi Remix)
Bridget Chappell - Elizabeth Street
Mark Temple - The Sound of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Bridget Chappell - Freshwater Falls

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Michelle Nguyen, Snawklor, Megan Alice Clune + | NWAP122

In this episode, NWAP 122, we listen to ritual electronics from Melbourne artist Sandpit Alias; as well as new solo work from PVT’s Richard Pike. Sydney saxophonist Jorja Chalmers unites with David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley on her new album; and we hear new work recorded in Korea from interdisciplinary artist Melanie Eden.

We also check out the new release from Little Songs Of The Mutilated collective, featuring Nat Grant and Michelle Nguyen; as well as the first album from visual-art duo Snawklor in over a decade; and a piece taken from the new retrospective collection by Adelaide’s Panoptique Electrical. And to round out the episode, a preview of the new album from Megan Alice Clune on Room 40 and the latest ‘decolonial ambient’ work from Amby Downs.

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