One A Day

What more is there to say about The Preatures? The Sydney quintet has been on our radar for over two years, releasing a steady stream of quality rock and roll that has only gotten better. Last week, the released their latest EP, Is This How You Feel?, featuring the critically acclaimed smash hit single of the same name. We thought it was high time we gave the rest of the world a proper primer on everyone’s favourite band, so we invited co-frontmen Gideon Bensen and Isabella Manfredi over to drink wine and discuss their writing and recording process, cameraphones at gigs and the fighting with your boyfriend over kitsch guitar parts.

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Related:

The Preatures – ‘Is This How You Feel?’

The Preatures – ‘Take A Card’

The Preatures – ‘Young’

The Preatures – ‘Waiting Here No More’

Yeezus is probably the biggest thing to happen on planet Seidler since David got his driver’s license, so we’re dedicating an entire podcast to it. You’ve read the articles, you’ve seen the contributor list, but you’ve never heard Kanye’s sixth LP discussed quite like this. From race to sex, Hudson Mohawke to Nina Simone, The College Dropout to 808s and Heartbreaks, this is the definitive Kanye West retrospective from the only website to have been founded on his philosophy of ‘always doing more awesome.’ Learn about Rick Rubin, discover the deep dark twisted late night fantasies of a former backpack rapper, question whether he’s overtaken his mentor Jay-Z or picked up the radical politics of Lupe Fiasco and settle in for the wildest most unpredictable ride hip-hop can offer. We’re excited. You’re excited. Let’s do this.

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Tracklist:

Kanye West – On Sight

Kanye West – Black Skinhead

Lupe Fiasco – All Black Everything

Kanye West – New Slaves

Kanye West – Love Lockdown

Kanye West – Paranoid

Kanye West – Blood On The Leaves

Nina Simone – Strange Fruit

TNGHT – R U Ready?

Kanye West – Runaway

Kanye West – Bound 2

Kanye West – All Falls Down

Jagwar Ma‘s stunning debut album, Howlin‘, has just dropped. We loved it so much we thought we’d corner the band and find out more about what we think will be one of the records of 2013. For our second exclusive artist-only podcast in collaboration with Future Classic, Jagwar writer/producer Jono Ma tells us all about marrying techno and Motown, why he’s jealous of Jamie xx’s stage set-up, how to make music for the iPod earbud generation and why being a ‘gear slut’ in the studio doesn’t always pay.

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Tracklist:

Jagwar Ma – The Throw

Jagwar Ma – Uncertainty

Jagwar Ma – Man I Need

Jagwar Ma – Let Her Go

Jagwar Ma – Exercise

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What is the right release model for music these days? Do leaks and advance streams ruin the fun? The second Seidler has disappeared, so Mark and Jonno stay up all night to get lucky and discuss the rise of Disclosure amid the furore surrounding Daft Punk’s latest record. We also take a look back at a Tensnake insta-classic, question whether Jamie Cullum has gone too far in appeasing mothers worldwide and backflip on our view on Justin Timberlake with his stunning ‘Blue Ocean Floor.’

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Tracklist:

Disclosure – Latch

Disclosure ft. Jessie Ware – Confess To Me

Tensnake – Coma Cat

Daft Punk ft. Todd Edwards – Fragments Of Time

Jamie Cullum – Everything You Didn’t Do

Jamie Cullum – Twentysomething

Justin Timberlake – Blue Ocean Floor

Jamie Cullum – Please Don’t Stop The Music

*This photo taken by David’s girlfriend, Lindsey. We have no idea where it is.

Adelaide’s Motez Obaidi first caught our attention with stunning remixes of Frank Ocean and Justin Timberlake, and soon followed it up with his own brilliant tracks that made us confident he was a sure bet. The Baghdad-born DJ is a house music devotee in a city renowned for hip-hop, championed by DJs across the country and indeed the world. He’s got a new EP on the way and has some great taste, so we thought we’d ask him to make us a mix of the music he likes to listen to at least once a day. It’s a juicy mesh of new and old, and exclusive to us. Plug it in, baby.

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Tracklist

Amerie – ‘Why Don’t We Fall in Love’ (Kaytranada Edit)

Flight Facilities – ‘Clair De Lune’ (Motez Remix)

The Manuel Portio – ‘Love Cuts Deep’

Gat Decor – ‘Passion’ (Fake Forward Edit)

KLP – Hands (Saari Remix)

Deep City Groove – Police Brutality (Dale Howard’s Brutal Mix)

Motez – ‘Find Me’ * Forthcoming on Say Wat Records *

Amtrac – Those Days (Viceroy Edit)

Kry Wolf – ‘Bluffin’

Nic Perry – ‘Girls Get Down’ (Cause & Affect Basement Remix)

Motez – ‘Find Me’ (Wongo Remix) * Forthcoming on Say Wat Records *

Bahamadia – ‘Uknowhowwedu’

More on Motez here.

How important are film soundtracks to our perception of music? Can made-for-movie tracks transcend the blockbuster from whence they came? On the eve of the release of Baz Luhrman’s ‘Great Gatsby’, we take a look back at arguably one of his best films, ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and discuss what effect the silver screen has on our ears and our heartstrings.

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We then hit a jugular with Des’ree’s ‘Kissing You’, while we check out new music from Rudimental collaborator John Newman, as well as a classic rap banger from Big Pun and new Swedish pop from NoNoNo.

Tracklist:

100$ Bill – Jay Z – Great Gatsby Soundtrack

Crazy In Love (Kid Koala Version) – Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orcehstra

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (It’s All We Got) – Fergie, Q-Tip, Goon Rock

Young Hearts Run Free – Kym Mazelle

Kissing You (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet) – Des’ree

Still Not A Player – Big Pun ft. Joe

Still Not A Player – Incubus

Pumping Blood – NONONO

Lovefool – The Cardigans

Flight Facilities are moving so fast at the moment that sometimes it’s hard to keep up with them. Today we premiere our first artist-only podcast on the boys, which we made for Sydney-based record label Future Classic.

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We recently sat down with Jimmy2Sox to discuss the ups and downs of being one of the most in-demand production pairs in Australia. He told us about finding new female voices in your junk mailbox, why a mixtape is the best kind of business card and discussed whether putting a gold record on your wall makes you a dick.

You’ll also hear their brand new single with Elizabeth Rose, an alternative edit of ‘Crave You’ and some of the highlights of their recent Decades mixes for triple j Mix-Ups. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Sydney’s favourite production duo in one bite-sized morsel.

Tracklist:

Flight Facilities ft. Giselle – ‘Crave You’ (Version 2)

Flight Facilities ft. Elizabeth Rose – ‘I Didn’t Believe’ (Extended Mix)

Flight Facilities ft. Christine Hoberg – ‘Clair De Lune’

Flight Facilities for ‘triple j Mix Up Exclusives’: 1982-1992 (snippet)

Cassius/Outkast – ‘Feeling For Rosa’ (1999)

Jamiroquai/Notorious BIG – ‘Notorious Insanity’ (1996)

Is social media strangling music? This week we look at Mariah Carey, Thicke and Busta Rhymes’ recent #hashtag tracks and see if there’s something too all that chatter or if it’s just a way to keep the kids interested. We time travel back to Jonno’s first ever online writing with Midnight Juggernauts, learn about Polish-American models with Robin Thicke, make fun of Mark’s parents’ obsession with Simply Red and discuss why everyone’s taking a punt on Chance the Rapper.

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Be sure to listen in for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Rudimental’s ‘Home’, thanks to Warner Music.

O: Mariah Carey ft. Miguel – #beautiful

J1: Midnight Juggernauts – Into The Galaxy

D1: Robin Thicke ft Pharrell – Blurred Lines

J2: Simply Red – Fairground

D2: Chance The Rapper – Cocoa Butter Kisses

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Other songs we mentioned

Miguel – Adorn

Diplo – Express Yourself

Katy Perry – California Gurls

Ke$ha – Tik Tok

Midnight Juggernauts – Shadows

Robin Thicke – When I Get You Alone

Daft Punk ft. Pharrell – Get Lucky

Simply Red – If You Don’t Know Me By Now

Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push

Kanye West Power

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In light of Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ record breaking runs on both sides of the Atlantic, we look at chart figures and wonder what they even mean in the 21st century. After that we enjoy some vintage Gorillaz, meet the newest XXL freshman, Logic, teach Mark about Bill Withers and reminisce over Nike ads with JXL’s famed remix of Elvis’ ‘Little Less Conversation.’

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O: Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – ‘We Found Love’ (Star Slinger Refix)

J1 Gorillaz – 5/4

D1 Logic – Nasty

J2 Bill Withers – Use Me Up

D2 Elvis vs JXL – Little Less Conversation

Outro: Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell – ‘Blurred Lines’

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Other songs/artists we mentioned:

Simply Red – ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’

Rihanna – ‘Umbrella’

Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’

PSY – ‘Gangnam Style’

Blur – ‘Song 2’

Gorillaz -‘Feel Good Inc’

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Staring down the barrel of podcast No. 5, we confirm Jonno’s Splendour predictions and discuss the festival’s relevance, as well as having an exclusive chat with Danny Rogers, co-founder of St. Jerome’s Laneway Festval and manager of Gotye and The Temper Trap. After that we go balls-deep on our Classixx premiere, review the second coming of Josef Salvat, get sexy with Cassie’s mixtape and hopefully talk about PSY for the last time ever.

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J1: Classixx ft. Nancy Whang – All You’re Waiting For

D1: Josef Salvat – Hustler

J2: Cassie ft Wiz Khalifa – Paradise

D2: Psy – Gentleman

Outro: Bill Withers – ‘Just The Two Of Us’

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Other songs/artists we mentioned:

Lana Del Rey – Video Games

Snoop Dogg ft. Wiz Khalifa – Young, Wild & Free

Ciara – Body Party

Mayer Hawthorne – The Walk

Rick Ross, generally.

LCD Soundsystem – Shut Up & Play The Hits [Film]

Carley Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

PSY – Gangnam Style

Will Smith – Just The 2 Of Us

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*Photo by Hobogestapo