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This week's episode is presented by guest host Joe Malignaggi, 3CR Music Coordinator, featuring tracks from artists appearing at WOMADelaide 2025, including an interview with Indy Laville of the band Saigon Soul Revival. Music featured in the interview with Indy Laville of Saigon Soul Revival:Hào Hoa (pompous) feat. Blacka / Họa Âm Xưa; Saigon Soul Revival [2019]*Duyên Phận Con Gái (A Girl's Destiny) / Mai Lệ Huyền; Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 [2010]*Nỗi Niềm Dương Thế (Feelings of the world) / Mối Lương Duyên (Destiny); Saigon Soul Revival [2024]*Nào Ta Cùng Hát (Let’s Sing Together) / Họa Âm Xưa; Saigon Soul Revival [2019]*Đám Cưới Nhà Em (Patchworks Remix) / Saigon Soul Revival [2024]*Có Mấy Ai Được Vui (Few People are Happy) / Mối Lương Duyên; Saigon Soul Revival [2024]*- - - sinisanparavac (dazzling beyond compare) / Sauljaljui; VAIVAIK尋走 [2024]*Cycles Of Growth (feat. esperanza spalding) / Shabaka; Possession [2024]Koju Minna / Duo Ruut; Kulla kerguseks [2021]*How Does It Feel / Ms Chipeta; Single [2024]Sghar El Balad / 47Soul; Single [2022]African Woman / Yemi Alade x Angelique; Rebel Queen [2024]No Love Dubplate / Queen Omega & Little Lion Sound; No Love Single [2023]Where We Come From / Protoje x Jahshii; The Jamaican Situation [2024] * Available at Bandcamp.com

This week's episode is presented by guest host Madison Moffat of Queering The Air.One aspect of popular music that has consistently grabbed Madison's attention since infanthood is ‘the chant’. In adjudicating which songs qualified for a show that focussed on chanting in popular music, it was difficult at times to decide whether a song featured a ‘chant’ or just one of those repetitive choruses that are so common in modern rock and pop.Madison feels the distinction (or, at least, the one that feels important for her) is of the vocals having reached or exceeded an arbitrary threshold of percussiveness. Old Alabama / BB & Group / Negro Prison Songs From The Mississippi State Penitentiary [1958]Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved, Pt. 1 / James Brown; Original Release: 1970 / The 50th Anniversary Collection [2003] 48 Crash / Suzi Quatro / Suzi Quatro [1973]So Tough / The Slits / Cut [1979]Chant (Live) / Public Image Limited / Paris au Printemps [1980]Kings of the Wild Frontier / Adam and the Ants/ Kings of the Wild Frontier [1980]Double Dutch / Malcolm McLaren / Duck Rock [1983]We Got Trouble / Age of Chance / One Thousand Years of Trouble [1987]Pirahna / I Spit On Your Gravy / Fruit Loop City [1987]The Game / Tackhead / The Game EP [1987O Fortuna / Apotheosis / O Fortuna EP [1991]Cassius 1999 / Cassius / 1999 [1999]Volksarmee / PATENBRIGADE: WOLFF / Ударник [2014]Monday / Clamm / Care [2022]

Presented by Joe, 3CR Music Co-ordinator.Featuring tracks from Electronic Sound Magazine 7 inch Bundles from Issues 115 - 120 and selections from FLEE project Extra Muros.The Space Lady - ‘Synthesize Me’; The Space Lady's Greatest Hits [2019]*White Noise - ‘Love Without Sound’ (A Side) milk white vinyl Issue 118 [2024]Air - ‘Sexy Boy (Etienne de Crécy & the Flower Pistols Remix)’ (A Side) Clear vinyl Issue 115 [2024]Jean-Michel Jarre - ‘Epica Oxygene (Live)’ (A Side) Green Vinyl Issue 120 [2024]Suzanne Ciani - ‘Ocean Jungle with Third Wave’; (A Side) Red vinyl Issue 117 [2024]Thomas Dolby - ‘Mulu the Rain Forest’ (B Side) Blue vinyl; Issue 116 [2024]Throbbing Gristle - ‘Wotwududo’ (A Side) Red vinyl; Issue 119 [2024]Jinku & Pier Alfeo - ‘Ambedo’; FLEE Project Extra Muros - Kenya [2020]*Haich Ber Na & Rlung - ‘Sequence 1009’ FLEE Project Extra Muros - Czech Republic [2023]*Jolly Mare & Eva Geist - ‘Presenze’; FLEE Project Extra Muros - Italy [2024]*Jaakko Eino Kalevi & Nabihah Iqbal - ‘NAB’; FLEE Project Extra Muros - Switzerland [2024]*Maria Spivak & Cosmic Neman - ‘Le Son des Flûtes (digital exclusive)’ FLEE Project Extra Muros - Switzerland [2024]**Available at Bandcamp.com

A collection of longer live sets recorded by local bands and released throughout the year, plus a few requests. Hosted by Brendan Bonsack.Music played in this episode: That Funny Feeling / Phoebe BridgersWhen Soft Voices Die (Live at The Evelyn) / Convenience StoreChristmas Song / Phoebe BridgersWords in the Dirt / Brittle SunLive from The Bergy Bandroom / Kelsey Jean & The Bad Health

Michele Vescio presents a mix by Brendon White, aka ADIDAC, an emerging DJ based in Narrm (melbourne). Their mix blends tech house and house with high-energy vibes that pulls you in—something ADIDAC loves both listening to and feeling on the dance floor.Follow ADIDAC’s work on Mixcloud at mixcloud.com/b_renny and on Instagram @call_tunt.Check out ADIDAC’s Radio Electronica Jena mix and his interview with host Nick Spurway on SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/radioelectronicajena. On and on (Original mix) / Nicolau Marinho, Felipe FellaAbout us (Original mix) / Nicolau Marinho, Felipe FellaDon’t go (Original mix) / Sante SansoneTurn me up (Original mix) / Joe VandittiNuthin’ on (Extended mix) / Chicks Luv Us, EdiPAfters (Extended mix) / DameloBreath (Original mix) / LondonGroundWhen I see you dance / Renan BoeingSay it (Original mix) / Kevin McKay, Mizbee, Fein CerraBrighter days (Marco Lys remix) / Cajmere feat. DajaeSussex (Original mix) / ReelowGet 2 know (Render remix) / FLETCH I Just (Original mix) / Roolèh Image courtesy of ADIDAC

A selection of (mostly) local tunes, spinning off in several stylistic directions. Woozy synths, idiosyncratic folk, fierce hip hop, and some clubby vibes for good measure. Featuring a very special bracket dedicated to very special local band, Ostraaly. A couple of explicit tracks in the mix. Hosted by Kim. Magic $ / The Person Red Dirt / Tongue Dissolver Recompose / Sylvia Blind Melon / Ostraaly Salty Dog Tears / Ostraaly Struggling / Ostraaly Haraka / Moktar, Saad El Soghayar  We Up / Barkaa Talking to Myself / Teether Intifada / Riad Awwad Palestinian Revolution / Riad Awwad I'm From Jerusalem / Riad Awwad

Amy from Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence and Local Food Connections brings you her favourite musical film, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), the intended verison. Iconic puppetry, atmospheric set design and fabulous music with an anticapitalist bent, this is your next classic movie to watch!Full Cast and CrewPrologue / Full Cast and chorusSkid Row / Full Cast and chorusGrow For Me / Rick Moranis and backup trio (Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, & Tisha CambellSomewhere That's Green / Ellen GreeneSome Fun Now / backup trioDentist / Steve Martin & backup trioFeed Me / Levi Stubbs Rick Moranis & backup trioSupper Time / Levi StubbsFinale / chorusMean Green Mother From Outer Space / Levi Stubbs Image credit: Len Radin

Your trans-sister Amy Aednat Ciara brings you TRANS-RE-SISTORS to your transistor radio! An essential mix of transgender and gender diverse music - local and international.By You / Oompa, featuring AnjimileWAIL of the BANSHEE / Backxwash featuring SurgeryHeadBlack Medusa / RacerageReflecting Light / Saint ErgoAny Other Way / Jackie ShaneClock / QueerbaitCurly Teeth / MicachuTurn Me Well / MicachuHip Horror / Methyl EthelTRANSylvvania / Kim PetrasClosure / Local SweetheartAdam & Steve / Dorian ElectraStrap On / Mood Killer featuring Pussy RiotHopelessness / ANOHNIFistful of Love / Antony [ANOHNI] and the Johnsons featuring Lou Reed

Karina Aedo-Aguilera (City Limits) brings a mate into the studio this episode. Listen to them ramble their way through a selection of protest and resistance songs in different languages.   La Casa Del Mouradia - Ouled Al Bahdja      (Arabic, Algeria) Liberté - Soolking Feat. Ouled Al Bahdja      (Arabic, Algeria) Shock - Ana Tijoux     (Spanish, Chile) Inn Ann - Daboor Feat. Shabjdeed     (Arabic, Palestine) 'O Nemico Mio - Napoli Centrale     (Napoletano, Italy) Witrapaiñ (Estamos de Pie) - Luanko Feat Portavoz     (Spanish & Mapudungun, Chile) F*ck Israel - Peste     (Italian, French & Arabic, Italy) Jenin - El Far3i     (Arabic, Palestine) Comrade's Call - Dead Prez [Language Warning]      (English, U.S.) F*ck a War - Geto Boys [Language Warning]     (English, U.S.)

Being the adventures of one Madison Moffat (Queering the Air), whose principal interests are (at least for the purposes of this show): designer savagery, dystopic romanticism, and extreme theatrical pretension. P.W.E.I. Vs. The Moral Majority / Dance Of The Mad Bastards / Pop Will Eat ItselfFrom the 1990 album Cure for Sanity; this original version features the dark lord responding to The Moral Majority Jerry Falwell Snr, summonsing us to ‘Get up…. and make it snappy!’ Streaming services have since bafflingly sanitised this opening to the album by removing that critical call to action. Bad Life / Public Image LimitedThe 1984 album This is What You Want, This is What You Get seemed to be an intentional self-parody of a band who had insisted “We are not a band, we are a company”. Plastic pop meets a remaining punk attitude; although John Lydon had long disavowed that previous musical moment. I consider this the most intentionally plastic and antagonistic track on the album. Do That Dance / Primitive CalculatorsJust before breaking up, this 246 Johnston Street, Fitzroy based band formed in 1978 and released this single in 1979. It remains for me a precursor to much of the distorted industrial stuff I hear around the traps today. Mines Full of Maggots / Alien Sex FiendFrom the 1985 album Maximum Security, the point to playing this track from my own adolescent point of view was to annoy my father as much as possible. Sheer agitated repetition, like a clock cycle on dexamphetamine. Rockit Miss USA (Deathwish IV Mix) / Sci-Fi Sex Stars (pseudonym for Sigue Sigue Sputnik).A limited edition 12” released by Rough Trade Records in 1986, seemingly because Sputnik’s contracted company EMI wouldn’t touch it. Possibly to ensure EMI’s refusal, the cover features three transgender women half-dressed in bondage gear brandishing whips. Rough Trade decided to cover their more ‘uprightly excited’ body parts with a sticker, that has become more translucent with each decade. Be Fast Be Clean Be Cheap / Age of ChanceCalling both their style of music and their 1986 mini-album Crush Collision; this track title refers to the Big Food ethos and how it had ostensibly become an industrial relations and socio-economic catchcry for the ‘me decade’. In their parlance, this track is driving with Sonic Force. Indeed. I Don’t Know What It Is / Pete ShelleyAlready brandishing substantial punk credentials as the frontman of the then disbanded Buzzcocks, Shelley’s 1982 solo album ‘Homosapien’ embraced the new wave synthpop sound while maintaining his declaratory vocal sensibility. I view this track as the album’s distillation of both. Mr DNA / Smart Patrol / DevoThrough the prism of those ‘best of 70s/80s’ compilation albums, Devo may appear about as punk as Shakin’ Stevens. But even their massive hit ‘Whip It’ suggests subversion beneath the novelty. Tracks such as this one from the 1979 album ‘Duty Now For the Future’ are a pulsating scepticism towards mainstream culture and it’s atomising qualities, sitting easily with the electropunk/cyberpunk ethos and sound. Get a Dog Up Ya / Mr FloppyOn the 1993 album The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Dickhead, Ascot Vale based Mr Floppy mixed ocker frenzy, Oi! and samples from 90s late night television content and advertisements. Their merch included t-shirts brandishing the title of this track, aptly chosen by wardrobe for Ben Mendelsohn’s catalysing character in the grim oz suburban film Idiot Box. Dictator / The ClashThe Clash imploded as a group, resulting in Joe Strummer going it alone with what appeared to be a collective of models with mohawks; releasing in 1985 the least popular album to bear the band’s name, Cut the Crap. History has been kinder to this album than critics of the time (or Strummer himself) were. The criticism centred around what I find most appealing about it, it’s cacophony. It was derided for the very same reliance on incessant synthetic percussion and sampling that would only a few years later be very trendy indeed. Seconds Too Late / Cabaret VoltaireThis is the otherwise difficult to find 1980 7” version, from the compilation “The Original Sound of Sheffield ’78 –’82. Later to be known for their Hi NRG and House/Techno recordings, this harks back to their early middling success as Dadaistic post-punks. A serene change of pace for this rather manic episode of Rotations, it none-the-less menaces throughout, with percussion occasionally resembling a metal works incident. Eight Fivers / Gilla BandWith tracks like this 2022 release, from the album Most Normal, electro-punk (loosely termed) remains in good hands. This Irish self-declared noise band claim imperviousness to any particular genre, but that has never stopped me from pigeonholing. The cynicism towards consumerism, abandonment of good taste, repetition, chanting, clash clash bang bang; all good things. Oceania ‘Tis for Thee / Nineteen-Eighty-Four Motion Picture Soundtrack [Extract]This episode ends as all would if the magnificent vision of George Orwell had been realised, striving in glory for our homeland Oceania and for the love of Big Brother. Please stand to attention.