Nissan first entered the Micra in motorsports with the March Superturbo R. Introduced in 1987, this rare pre-facelift K10 weighed in at 740 kg (1630 lb) with half interior, roll cage and tool kit. 
It was built for the new sub-1600 cc Group A class, and shortly after in 1988 Nissan released the March Superturbo as a road car.
While the March was a favourite with the drivers in the Japanese Rally Championship, veteran Swedish rally driver Per Eklund finished the 1988 RAC Rally in 21st position and the 1989 Acropolis Rally Greece in 10th place.
Only a true rally car could produce rhythms as driving and powerful as this, though truly Micra has come a long way since 1989 because this is no tenth place track. You’re listening to a bonafide blue ribbon contender that’s in a weight class of its own. A first upload for a brand new act who’ve made a white hot bar of steel in the form of ‘Child Grows Old’
My friend Maxivel Quinn, well, he has a saying. He says to me “Tommy, here’s the truth. When we be poppin’, there is to be no shoppin’”. Max of course refers to the act of “editing” an “image” using the “popular” visual editing suite “Photoshop”. But will there be shoppin’ (when we be poppin’)? Truly there shall not. And to be darn and outright clear, we are decidedly poppin’. It’s all thanks to this clever little knee tweaker from Mr Midas dot Gold which immediately sends us into fits of spasmic, difficult to watch to flailing whenever it pierces the winds of our cubical. It’s a snorting sonic horse, cantering through our office space, excreting on absolutely everything. And we love that, we love the terrific and fragrant poop. So yeah we’ve been poppin’ a bit. Wanna fight about it? I doubt it. Because you know we’re well within our rights to pop. The constitution allows, nay demands it.
Losing ain’t no option.
Does Nick Acquroff have solid gold pipes? Does Liv Gavranich have solid gold pipes? Would solid gold pipes actually be of any auditory value? Wow, those are some good questions, maybe let’s write some of them down and come back to them later because right now it’s alistening time. Picture yourself two separate circles. Those two circles as the voices of Liv and Nick, the two souls who constitute the newly formed Cool Party. Now put those two circles directly over each other. Looks like one circle now, huh? That’s the ven diagram of their overlapping voices. And while that made a whole lot of sense in my head but literally none on paper, their voices entwined make sense in every which format (but particularly mp3). Liv has the hushed intimacy of a candlelit conversation while Nick’s is wrapped in bold warmth of your grandfather’s firmest hug.
And before you get at me for embedding the Unearthed player like I’m a 100% company man now, know that this song is only available on Unearthed so there were no two ways about it.
You’re out there looking for that elusive Trump impeachment but I’m here to tell ya that it’s Australian media who should be first in line for indictment. How you all slept on this for the past 9 days is beyond me but I’m doing the Lord’s work in correcting your malfeasance. ‘Dandelion’ feels like something that might have lived comfortably on East To West blog back in the day (RIP). It’s full of cleverly fabricated beats, tweets, twirls, beeps and whistles. Among those are a collection of traditional Chinese instruments and though I can’t tell you whether they’re simply sampled or made-to-measure, the effect is endearing and warm, feeling more earthed than synthetic. Go in-
There’s scant little online about jah LOON. The most I can share is that it’s a solo project spun out of Melbourne with a first single out through ‘Bony Baby Records’ (likely a self-run label). Here’s the Unearthed profie.
I believe it was Socrates who first coined the phrase “Flaunt it if ya got it” and there’s no a doubt in my mind that he’d appreciate it’s application in regards to this brand new Ojikae number. It’s the mantle under which Italian-Australian Matt Cicero operates and it’s one you’ll hear roll out the mouths of presenters and pundits across the tail end of 2017. The dude has pipes on pipes and ‘Existentiality’ toes the line of vocal showcasing without quite falling into the realm of cheesy balladry. It still feels raw as guts and even though its production is clever, paralleling the lyrical feeling well, it doesn’t feel spit-shined into oblivion. Got a hunch that this is one of those ‘debut singles’ that are actually not really the debut single but more of a relaunch but it’s effectively the same thing innit? Hell, what do I know? If you’re a fan of Timberlake or contemporary neo-soul types like JMSN you’re gonna vibe this. Lots of feelings and a trigger warning for anyone whose girl just left them. Apologies for lamely including two Socrates quotes in one post but as the great philosopher once said, “This thing bangs harder than a pneumatic hammer”.
It’s the first signing to the newly minted THANK GUARD label imprint, a brand name that found its feet putting on hip-hop nights in Melbourne.
Get him on triple j unearthed right here.
