Brisbane
Today’s offering comes courtesy of Fatshaudi and Luca Rain, a partnership formed around this two-track release Dance All Day / Make Believe. It’s not really an a-side/b-side type affair since both tracks are equally beautiful in their varying intensities but Dance All Day seems like the focus track, so that’s where I’d direct you first off. You can have them both embedded her though, I’m santa today and you are my devoted acolytes, receiving each of my presents as if a sacred . I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t really understand how Christmas works, but I think I’m close.
I feel like this is the sort of record that’d make fans out of some of my favourites like Lonelyspeck or Cookii. I wonder if some of Lonelyspeck’s production palette has bled through the pages into Dance All Day because some of those floating synth textures are making me hideously nostalgic for their unparalleled Lave EP. I suspect Fatshaudi and Luca Rain worked together across this dewdrop production whereas the vocals might be… Luca Rain? I went on google and gave them my search data, just so you wouldn’t have to, and still I found virtually nothing about the artists so I went direct to the source to ask for them for some key Fatshaudi and Luca Rain facts. Luca Rain told me that her favourite colour is blue (at the moment). Fatshaudi passed on that she is a piano teacher and that she and Luca Rain are best friends. You can never count on it, but I do think there’s a good chance I’m gonna get a Walkley for this investigative journalism.
Forced into some deeper sleuthing, I can tell you that they’re seemingly from Meanjin / Brisbane and that Rachael (Fatshaudi) also presents a show called Full of Air on 4zzz that focuses on a gamut of electronic sounds and the artists who make them outside the dominant male paradigm.
Here’s a bonus cut from a [probably] Fatshaudi side project called SFT-CR. The same deft production touch applied but applied with the weight of a jackhammer here.
Might just write some bad words about this new single from jamesjamesjames, Sydney DJ/producer to the stars and generally glamorous house wizard. They’ve recently put forth a salty split release with Brisbane king Skin on Skin, wherein they’ve each dropped an original and a remix of each other’s original. I want you to please hear that of jamesjamesjames, called J’adore, an appellation very much in line with jjj’s glam-affluent energy. They say their music is “best played loud when you’re on the plastic surgery table having your second nose job, on your way to a Paris Hilton meet & greet, or at a 5am kick ons”. We simply must respect the specificity.
And despite some of the lo-fi-lite leanings froom this record and their history of making house with a little grain to it (see previous masterstroke ‘dickalicious cumdown beat‘) this new one has me feeling expensive. One time I went and saw 12 minutes of a David Guetta set at an arena and for my efforts got myself one of those wristbands that lights up when our Lord and God David willed it. This one has me feeling like I did for those twelve minutes, at the mercy of a micro-LED handcuff, tethered to his Parisian hits. Full of life and cash. Somehow, jamesjamesjames knows how to make you feel these chords above every jittering beat, like a clubbier Tourist, Tycho or Bonobo. Good gear. Fun fact, the songs title ‘J’adore’ directly translates from French to English as ‘Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior on Bluray’ (incidentally David Guetta’s favourite film and format).
Woorabinda, in Central Queensland, has a population of 851 and right now I can tell you for a science fact that one of those 851 locals is a certified star. Miiesha is a name that’s gonna ring out in a big way over these next few years and you’ll remember the starting point as this, a song called ‘Black Supremacy’. She wields that voice like a serrated edge, cutting cleanly with stand alone lyrics pregnant with experience and suffering. Tell me you hear “Survival ain’t that beautiful” and don’t immediately feel it in your gut. It hits me with a mixture of shock, shame, sadness and genuine joy at hearing THIS sound rise from the hurt. Hit play and feel this one for a minute but remember the name.
It’s only up on triple j Unearthed for the moment but expect it on yr streamables real soon.
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