
Andras Fox 's mini-LP Daydreaming has arrived at the perfect time; while Melbourne is dangling on the brink of a fiercely cold winter, here we can dive into the audible summer of some old vinyl crackle and hiss spread throughout this warm, sample-laden record. Released through prolific local label and sound collective //THIS THING// , producer Andras Fox (aka Andy Wilson ) has supplied us with a brief introduction to his burgeoning talent. Daydreaming stands unique against most other sample based tracks around today, evident in the quirky and unusual selection of sounds [...]

Melbourne-based label and sound collective //THIS THING// has developed a quick word-of-mouth cult following since its recent inception. Comprising of several local DJs/electronic acts, the group have put on stellar live sets across Melbourne (including a seminal collaborative show at Golden Plains) in the past year. The Phoenix Public House opened its doors to celebrate the debut release of not only one, but four of the acts involved in the collective; Max Crumbs , Wooshie , Andras Fox and Galapagoose . Warm-up came from RRR presenter Simon Winkler, churning out the [...]

'This Thing' launched a bunch of artist releases at the Phoenix Public House to a pumped up crowd of excited punters. A night of cool beats by a diverse group of producers floggin their wares and ripping up the house with five live sets. I caught four and they were very good. Naps - http://whothehell.net/zVU Crumbs - http://whothehell.net/X8l [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Andras Fox - 'That's All' - mp3 Andras Fox is one half of Fox + Sui, who I'll be talking more about real soon but this real sweet sound is from Andras' soon to be released FREE mini-LP 'Daydreaming'. You can buy a limited edition hard copy on his bandcamp and it'll be launched at the Phoenix Public Bar on Sat May 5th along with other very talented folks as part of This Thing's artist launch bonanza. Details for this [...]

2010 Red Bull Music Academy participant , Andras Fox , hails from Melbourne and has a mini LP entitled, Daydreaming , coming out on This Thing in the coming month. The two track dance trigger falls back on its sharp funkadelic portal to create a feel-good vibe for the millions. 'That's All', takes on a garage disco haze that will make the body sway and make the head bop like it's 1975. The second track, 'ABCs', is a fine down-tempo daydreamer, plain and simple. The two short and sweet tracks will be [...]

Fox + Sui - Petite Mort Fox + Sui is a collaboration between Melbourne beatmaker Andras Fox and Sydney musician Sui Zhen . They meet at the Red Bull Music Academy in London 2010, and decided to embark on a music project together. Fox + Sui will release their debut EP sometime in 2012 on Two Bright Lakes .

Henri Rousseau never went to the Jungle. He spent all his days in Paris and surrounds, meticulously painting images of nature that were anything but 'natural'. He copied his designs from botanical gardens, zoo pamphlets, and children's books, depicting animals that would never be seen in the same environment. Once he even painted a hand of bananas growing upside down. His paintings are naive, flat and disjointed. This playlist is a musical equivalent to Rousseau paintings - "Jungle" music made by westerners. Electronic emulation of african sounds, drum machines instead of djembé. Starts off mellow before moving into more disjointed territory. [...]

an·droid /ˈanˌdroid/ - LYFSTYL's 8tracks Android App Mixtape adj. Possession of human features. n. An automation that is created from biological materials and resembles a humanoid. In October I was asked by the guys over at 8tracks to build them a mix-tape so they could launch it along side their brand new Android App which is officially out TODAY . So everyone if you have a Android Smart phone make sure you download this [...]

1. Gary Wilson - I wanna take you on a sea cruise (This Is Why I Wear My Wedding Gown 73, 1983) 2. Solid Space - The Guests (Space Museum - Cassette - 1982) 3. Asmus Tietchens - Trümmerköpfe (Biotop, 1981) 4. Deerhoof - Almost Everyone, Almost Always (Deerhoof vs. Evil, 2010) 5. Jeff Phelps - On [...]

It is no secret that I am a huge fan of the chillwave scene. While some might say there is way too much chillwave out these days. I honestly cannot get enough of it. Here is are a few songs according to itunes I have played the most this week. Enjoy Galapagoose - milkwood (w panorama) Machu Picchu – Reading drunk [...]

"27th day. Have rested and am moving south. All is well. Kerans." So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn sun. J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World ( 1962). 1. Mandre - Isle de Joie - Mandre4 (1982) 2. Marcos Valle [...]

"When the Compact Disc first emerged in the 1980s, it participated in the undermining of one of our most long-held assumptions. With the C.D., the whole distinction between Side A and Side B of the old vinyl record was collapsed. With the C.D., all the tracks are on the one side." - Gyorgy Scrinis, from the essay "CDs & Other Things". 1. Kraan - Young King's Song (Flyday, 1978) 2. D.R. Hooker - Weather Girl (The Truth, 1972) 3. Marcos Valle - Voo Cego (Vento Sul, 1972) 4. Kraan [...]

Beast that you are, 3 arms that you have to hold me, 4 hands to touch me with, One eye to gaze upon me, One leg, A probosis on your lower abdomen, No head as such, And a tuft of coarse hair on your chest, You are perfect, My Darling. - David Shrigley , The Book of Shrigley The hole you have in your heart is no hole at all, it is an endless galaxy of vitamins and boxes. I [...]

A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability. We are constantly re-imagining its reality: to distinguish all these images would be to describe the soul of the house; it would mean developing a veritable psychology of the house... They give us back areas of being, houses in which the human being's certainty of being is concentrated, and we have the impression that, by living in such images as these, in images that are as stabilizing as these are, we could start a new life, a life that would be our own, that would [...]

. " Tierra Azul " 01. Cannonball Adderley - Country Preacher Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years (1991) 02. Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005) 03. Sade - By Your Side (Neptunes remix) By Your Side (2001) 04. Vibrasphere - Tierra Azul Selected Downbeats Vol. 2 (Cloud 99 Music, 2009) 05. Daedelus [...]

"Definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'." Pierre Boulez ( Sonate, que me veux-tu? , 1960) 1. Monarch All Star Jazz feat. 'The King ' - Lover Come Back to Me (Monarch 103) 2. The Majestic Arrows - I'll never cry for another boy (rehearsal) [...]

-Hear is not the right word. I became a telephone. Edith was the electrical conversation that went through me. -Well, what was it, what was it? -Machinery. -Machinery? -Ordinary eternal machinery. -And? -Ordinary eternal machinery. -Is that all you are going to say? -Ordinary eternal machinery like the grinding of the stars. -That's better. -That was a distortion of the truth which, I see, suits you very well. I distorted the truth to make it easier for you. The truth is: ordinary eternal machinery. -Leonard Cohen. [...]

"Matter thus offers an infinitely porous, spongy, or cavernous texture without emptiness, caverns endlessly contained contained in other caverns: no matter how small, each body contains a world of pierced with irregular passages, surrounded and penetrated by an increasingly vaporous fluid, the totality of the universe resembling a pond of matter in which there exist different flows and waves." Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, (English translation) 1993 1. Make me Stronger - Bei Bei & Shawn Lee feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow (Floating points remix) (Ubiquity, 2009) 2. Fallin' Down - Julian [...]

.... She dives into the lake and comes up with her head covered in muck and great kelpy strands of green pond slime - and beaming in a way that practically radiates out over the face of the lake and the desert. She has surfaced euphoric - 'Ooooooh! It sparkles!' -Pulling her long strands of slime-slithering hair outward with her hands and grokking and freaking over it - 'Ooooooh! It sparkles!' -The beads of water on her slime strands are like diamonds to her, and everybody feels her feeling at once, even Sandy - 'Ooooooh! [...]

"Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term was coined around the time of an incident in a Prague Castle in the year of 1618. The word comes from the Latin de (from; out of) and fenestra (window or opening). Although defenestrations can be fatal due to the height of the window through which a person is thrown, or lacerations from broken glass, the act of defenestration need not carry the intent or result of death." - wiki Mulatu Astatke & [...]