M5// FBi Radio

(Mixed live with ❤️ on FBi radio, 22.09.24)

M5 is a specialist DJ show focused on songs, rather than tracks. Emotional, dreamy melodies, deep riffs and post punk sounds - music from the drive home with mum & dad, bedroom listening and big changes. Tracks we didn't think would make it onto our USB's. 

Episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-22nd-september-2024
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lillygrainger/

Send music submissions/interview requests/ say hi at lilly.g@fbiradio.com

Header image by: Annabelle Silk

M5 // Episode 1 (FBi 94.5)

Killian and DJ Mistry mixed live on FBi Radio 29.09.24.

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-29th-september-2024

Dj Mistry is an Indian born Sydney local, who’s dj sets traverse across a range electronic music with an aim to spark intrigue, wonder and escapism on the dancefloor through untamed synths and varying rhythms. 

With an affinity to no genre in particular, Dj Mistry gravitates towards music that is deep, abrasive and cathartic, reflecting the absurdity of the world and the spirit of the individuals and the community who strive to maintain sanity within it.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrmistryy?igsh=MTEzc2U2dmwyNGh4NA==

Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/w8bsRte5L9ZvwiNN7

M5 // DJ Mistry (FBi 94.5)

Killian and D-Grade mixed live on FBi Radio 06.10.24

Full episode + tracklist: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-6th-october-2024

D-Grade is a DJ and organiser based on Gadigal land, in Sydney Australia. They present ‘serious’ music with cheek, quirk and unpredictability and love to playfully toy at the margins between ‘mind’ and ‘body’ music. D-Grade enjoys frenetic, bossy and beautiful sounds. They’re partial to a good baseline, gritty drums, a gloomy vocal or gaudy guitar riffs. They sometimes appear as Wings of D’sire with good-friend-and-close-collaborator Wingnut, with whom they also put on intermittent, often-elusive boof functions.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dgradeknockoff 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dgradeknockoff 

Photo by: Otis Burian Hodge

M5 // D-Grade (FBi 94.5)

Just me this week. Mixed live on FBi radio 14.10.24 https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-13th-october-2024

M5 // Episode 4 (FBi 94.5)

Killian and Heaven Spot mixed live on FBi Radio 20.10.24

Full episode + tracklist: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-20th-october-2024

Heaven Spot is a DJ from Aotearoa based on Gadigal land. Weaving together a selection of bold and spacious sounds. Outside playing club focused energetic tracks that leave room for introspection, inside  layering textural pads playful synths and weighty baselines, Heaven spot’s mixes are an escape from the day to day a moment to pause and exhale.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_heaven.spot_/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/heaven_spot 

Photo by: Annabelle Silk

M5 // Heaven Spot (FBi 94.5)

Full episode + tracklist: www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episod…-20th-october-2024

Wingnut is the moniker of Gadigal-based DJ Liam Taylor. With a penchant for the nooks, crannies and margins of dance music, Wingnut splices screwball electronica, fleeting melodies and reckless drum programming with a dubwise sensibility. Piecing together a murky psychedelia for the body and mind. Alongside Sydney stalwart ‘D-Grade’, Wingnut is also one half of ‘boof’, a semi-frequent (i.e. when they feel like it) DIY party devoted to all things left-field. 

This mix is an ode to driving alone at night, weaving poetic melodies and bedroom glitch with a swaying psychedelia. A mix for after the party and being alone.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/wiiingnut

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skinny.tony/

M5 // Wingnut (FBi 94.5)

2 hours of soundtrack + score

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-3rd-november-2024

M5 // Scored (FBi 94.5)

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-17th-november-2024 

Darren Lesaguis is the guitarist of Sydney punk band Perfect Actress and vocalist of experimental ambient group Worlds Only. He grew up in Peakhurst where the M5 was his gateway to the city.

This mix includes tracks that he and his Perfect Actress bandmates listen to in the car to and from rehearsals, songs he and his bf listen to on the way to visit his parents, and tracks for when the radio cuts out in the tunnel.

M5 // Darren Lesaguis (FBi 94.5)

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-24th-november-2024

Dav is an artist and musician based in Eora. With Kata and Astrid, they make up String Club. String Club is a musical project that began in 2022 on the foundation of improvisational friendship - where loving meals and laughter fuel sonic iterations that flutter between ambient, post rock, alternative and folktronic registers.

M5 // Dav (FBi 94.5)

Full episode: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/m5/episodes/m5-7th-january-2025

704 began as fbi radio’s resident emo programme, now dipping into anything and everything adjacent, guided by more than sound. Hosted by Rhea, Pat and Finnlay, the show has highlighted artists including The Hellp, Chanel Beads, Quiet Light, EQ and local talents including Mona. 

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(704 W HIGH ST on FBi radio: https://www.fbi.radio/programs/704-w-high-st)

M5 // 704 W HIGH ST (FBi 94.5)

Yakup aka Jakob Mehmet is a local DJ based on Gadigal land/Sydney. He can attribute a lot of influences to classic genres like Funk, Disco, Hip hop and New wave. The slinky, swung out grooves of NY house or a poppy melody on a saw bass electro hook is enough to make him smile or wince his face. Leaning into nostalgia and with a fun-loving attitude Yakup can appreciate both the what-you-see-is-what-you-get and the alternative side of genres when approaching his selections - all in all, always a mixed bag. He also loves to collaboratively curate and organise a party called Bump! with his friends.

This mix is dedicated to Hande and her cherished musical influence.

M5 // Yakup (FBi 94.5)

The Land of Rah is an Eora-based collaborative world-building project run by Julian Hovenden. Through concept albums with paired artworks the lore of this fantasy world has been steadily growing and the branches of its history intertwining. Eclectic live shows, galleries & hyper-collaborative (20+ artist) studio albums; the open arms policy of this project since its inception in 2019 has led to a beautiful community forming.

This mix features tracks recorded live from Julian's collaborative 'Sleepyhead' show held in late Feb.

M5 // The Land of Rah (FBi 94.5)

Everyone’s favourite flightless bird — DJ Penguin — is an Eora-based (Bump!) organiser and DJ, with a mixed-bag-kinda-taste, and an aptitude for sharing it. Whilst known for his deep take on dance music, Penguin also has an affinity for the softer side of the sonic spectrum - a sucker for ambient, folk and trip hop. Ethereal melodies, reverb’d vocal hooks and warm guitar riffs perk his ears up, and hopefully yours too - eliciting a meditative, cathartic and dream-like trip. Dive in deep… take flight… (or don’t).

M5 // DJ Penguin (FBi 94.5)

Peter Hollo has presented Utility Fog on FBi Radio since the station's beginning in 2003. The scope of the show has of course changed over 2 decades, but much of its focus still applies: a fascination with music on the edge of different genres and histories; glitch, noise and experimentation; and of course a love of jungle, breakcore, bass music in general. In the current era, there's a plethora music from all parts of the globe that's resonating with and expanding on all these forms of musical expression.

As a cellist, composer & producer, since the 1990s Peter has performed and recorded with many bands and musicians in the Eora/Sydney music scene and more broadly Naarm/Melbourne and across the globe. His post-everything electro-acoustic improv band Tangents has a substantial discography with internationally-renowned US label Temporary Residence, Ltd., and his post-metal/doom/postrock ensemble Black Aleph will tour UK & Europe in 2025. Both groups were formed through connections made via Utility Fog.


M5 // Peter Hollo (FBi 94.5)

A sleepy mix from DJ and owner of Naarm label Geotherapy, Sleep Exchange

M5 // Sleep Exchange (FBi 94.5)

M5 // JS (FBi 94.5)

A mix from Eora based musician + friend Skeleten.

Skeleten - Mentalized Album Launch, Eora:

https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/skeleten-mentalized-album-launch-eora-sydney/178222

M5 // Skeleten (FBi 94.5)

Maxwell Byrne is a DJ, producer and co founder of label Sumolic. 

This mix is a collection of tracks inspiring his productions across Golden Vessel and 1tbsp. (Alongside tracks that we like to listen to together)

M5 // Maxwell Byrne (FBi 94.5)

M5 // Bindi Mutiara (FBi 94.5)

(Guest mix from 38:00)

A special scored episode with a guest mix from Eora based disciplinary artist, conservationist and musician Annabelle Silk. This mix includes a collection of opening and closing tracks + detailed description and synopsis pulled from some of her favourite films.

Enjoy!

M5 // Scored, Annabelle Silk (FBi 94.5FM, Full Episode)

Host M5, FBi radio: Sundays 11 - 1am

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