We’ve got one last banger before the rekkid drops this Friday. In case you still haven’t been acquainted yet, the cowboy futurist of Oz, Cong Josie, is back to make darn sure you know his name and his game with ‘Cong the Singer’ the final single from his eponymous album Cong! It’s 4 minutes of Cong madness and malarky after which we think you’ll count yourself a co-conspirator, partner in crime or just need a cold shower. 

This thrusting synth-punk stomper is a timely manifesto announcing the imminent release of his debut LP, Cong!  Crooning, yelping and cooly fantasising in spoken word, Cong serves up his most blistering joy-ride yet. Imagery is invoked of a speeding Eastern Freeway drive in a crowded clown-car/Ford Laser with Giorgio Moroder in the back seat squeezed in with a strong-man chanting choir and a lush disco chanteuse whose voice floats crystal clear with hope. Cong is at the wheel of course, all hopped up on 7/11 one dollar coffees singing Roy Orbison too fast at 78rpm while Johnny Cayn is the front passenger playing a hillbilly slide guitar with complete abandon - wind flowing through his curly locks.

The origin story told in ‘Cong The Singer’ of Cong coming good as a gun-for-hire singer who becomes infamous at the parma-night mega pubs of the suburban sprawl doing a sort of Elvis-does-pub-rock karaoke show may have only a thin veneer of irony about it though. Cong’s daylighting alter-ego Nic Oogjes (NO ZU) grew up driving daily on the freeway mentioned, and it could be said that his own insecurities as a singer, and that of perpetually feeling like an outsider who (fruitlessly) seeks acceptance via creative output, of which will never actually align with broad definitions of 'good' in the ‘burbs, could be fuelling this trip. This is just a theory though. For now, let’s just thrust along to Cong, the “stiletto singer, moonlighting in the dead of night”.

GENRE : No Wave, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synthwave, 
RIYL: Alan Vega, The Cramps, Chrome, The Birthday Party 

‘Cong the Singer’ single releases October 15th on all digital platforms. Cong!  the debut LP is out October 22nd 2021. On digital CD and ultra-limited hot pink vinyl through It Records
Contact: Kate Reid itrekkids@gmail.com

Pre-order now at itrecordsmelb@bandcamp.com

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Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 34 was transmitted November 2022 and is a selection of ambient and drone music...

Elitepop #34

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10/31/22022

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In the first days of the past year 2021, Grecco Romank, a band based in Auckland (New Zealand), released Red Tower, an album that showed the perverse style of this new project composed of Damian Golfinopoulos, Billie Fee and Mikey Sperring. Grecco Romank's deep and mournful sound has from the outset been well received by alternative radio stations and also on some of the stages in their area. Listening to the quality and originality of this first release, we can imagine their staging, with an energy that emerges from the gut and abysmal vocals that blend perfectly with Fee's angelic locution.

Almost two years after the release of Red Tower, Grecco Romank resumes his activity again with Shred Tower, the long-awaited sequel to his first album, although this time it is totally reinterpreted by different authors, a remix album that excavates Red Tower’s eerie brutalism through mutually assured construction.

Shred Tower features tracks from twelve electronic trailblazers from Aotearoa New Zealand, London and Berlin. The result is a haunting and savage album that spans EBM, industrial, techno and experimental and the connective tissue between.

Release date: December 17th, 2022.

Shred Tower

Premiere: Grecco Romank - Taking The Auspices (Eeling Remix)

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Written, performed & mixed by I Tpame I Tvrame
Mastered by Friedemann Kootz

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