Welcome one and all to another week of music from your truly. It’s looking like this week’s post is gonna skew towards the electronic side of my musical tastings. I promise that’s it’s all gonna be accessible! Alternatively, I could mention my obsession over Radiohead’s back catalogue but you’ve all heard of them before anyway…

Ryskee – Leave Me Amor (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Ryskee have got your shoegazing needs covered

First cab off the ranks is Ryskee, a duo comprising of Frenchman Paul de Homem-Christo (aka Play Paul aka Guy-Man bro’s from Daft Punk) and Danish vocalist Leslie Ming.

I’m so confused by this track. The Beetroots are supposed to suck me in, chew and spit me out in a grind of chunky bass and ripping synths. They produce the stuff that gets you hot and sweaty on the d-floor. This track… Ummm… This track is nothing like that.  I’d expected to hear this on the soundtrack to a John Hughes 80s teen flick or heck even off an M83. It’s dreamy. It’s cheesy. It’s wispy. It’s shoegaze. It’s FUCKING FANTASTIC.

MSTRKRFT – Heartbreaker (Featuring John Legend)

MSTRKRFT - Look good in leather and hockey masks

I have to admit that the Fist Of God was a little bit of a letdown for me, it was kinda scattered all over the place. I do really dig the tracks “1000 Cigarettes”, “VuVuVu” and of course this one though so it’s not all doom and gloom. “Heartbreaker” stands out more me because it blends the catchy, uptempo feel that the music offers and gels together the lamenting croon of John Legend. What you get is an interesting mix of a track where you kinda want to jump around but figure it might be too painful to do so…. Awww!

Anyway, here’s the video to the track featuring hipsters/cool kids, a love story, disapproving father and a convenience store. Wooo!

Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones

"Aye! Check out my new mixing board!"

Yeah this track has been out a while but with “Chaka Demus” getting a bit of a flog on the radio of late I thought it’d be good to visit old faithful… Anyway, I just really dig the cocky vibe and bravado the track extrudes… It’s just damn cool. Video below for those interested and yes, the same vibe aurally is transferred visually:

“Sticks ‘N’ Stones” will appear on Jamie’s forthcoming album Kings and Queens which is due out in early September.

So that’s it, a very small post this week. As always, if you dig the artist/music the go buy it whether physical/digital and go see them live. Your conscience and the artists will love you more for it!

Finally! Here it is:

• Aeroplane
• Art vs Science
• The Aston Shuffle
• A-Trak
• AutoKratz
• Beni
• Bertie Blackman
• Busy P (DJ & host)
• Claude VonStroke
• The Cool Kids
• Crystal Castles
• Empire of the Sun
• Erol Alkan
• The Glimmers
• Junior Boys
• Kaskade
• La Roux
• Lady Sovereign
• Little Boots
• Metric
• Metronomy
• MSTRKRFT
• The Rapture
• Tiga
• Shazam

In case you haven’t heard, the tour dates are as follows:

Sat 26th September – Botanic Gardens & Riverstage, Brisbane
Sun 27th September – Wellington Square, Perth
Sat 3rd October – Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
Sun 4th October – Kippax Lake, Moore Park, Sydney
Mon 5th October – Botanic Park, Adelaide

Tickets on sale to Fuzzy Members on Thursday 18th June and the general public at midday on Thursday 25th June. Get on it!

The gang over at ITM recently spoke to Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys and he hinted that the Canadian duo could be playing at “some festival that travels around”.

“We leave in a couple of days to do a tour in Europe, and then supposedly to Australia in September. I think there’s some festival that travels around.” When asked if the word ‘Parklife’ rings a bell, Greenspan replied, “I think that sounds right!”

So add Junior Boys to the list of Erol Alkan, Claude VonStroke, Tiga, MSTRKRFT and Lady Sovereign of potential Parklife artists.

Earlier this month Lady Sovereign let slip with Dools on triple j that she’d be touring Oz promoting her album as a part of Parklife. This came as a shock since the dates for Parklife hadn’t been confirmed yet! So when is Parklife this year you may be asking? Thankfully they’ve just been announced on inthemix and they’re as follows:

• Saturday 26th September – Brisbane
• Sunday 27th September – Perth
• Saturday 3rd October – Melbourne
• Sunday 4th October – Sydney
• Monday 5th October – Adelaide

The other big international artist(s) that have been confirmed courtesy of inthemix is the Canadian duo MSTRKRFT. Last time the guys were out here it was with Justice and their tour of 2007. Maybe we’ll see another MSTRKRFT/Justice national tour? One can hope…

Anyway, read the Lady Sov leak on triple j HERE, and the MSTRKRFT news on inthemix HERE.