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Fair Shake - All Aussie mixes

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It’s that time again for a new mix, and for Fair Shake 012 we are so incredibly thrilled to welcome Sydney icon Kate Doherty. When we first listened back to this we were moved by the story this mix tells of hope and acceptance, sometimes beguiled by a false future, but often renewed through music and a sense of pride in Australia’s dance tapestry. It seems overwhelmingly fitting that those featured in this mix all come from Australian origins, as we experience the world alongside each other. As spring blooms, sit on the balcony, have a glass of wine in the sun and let Kate turn you into a believer that things are getting better. 

Face the unknown, a spiralling relinquish of power,
Acceptance of our miserly delegation in confinement. 
On our hands patiently, slowly cursing luck, 
we stand out the window and look upon the unflinching earth. 
Here it seems we stay, months weeks and cold hours drag us. 
But there is hope yet in our time, 
A glimmer of forthcoming encroaches, raises the spirit, 
raises a glass and toasts in a renewal of sunshine and bravery. 
Openings appear in the brooding air, prick and you shall pass.  
We are not born to die nor conceived to conceal
and we shall live again. 

Tracklist:

Nu Balance - JS [Aftrwrk Records / 2020]
The Slaughtering Eye - Ian Eccles-Smith [Efficient Space / 2018]
Exotic Dirt (Blend 43 Dub) - Low Flung [Butter Sessions / 2018]
Jungle in the City - Roza Ternezi [Planet Euphorique / 2020]
You Go Bah - Dazion [Animals Dancing / 2020]
Night Light - Greville [Mad Habitat Recordings / 2021]
Aquarium Trousers - Tapes [Research Records / 2021]
Sveg+Birds+Trees - Greville [Mad Habitat Recordings / 2019]
Adrifting Voyage (Daniela La Luz remix) - Trinity & Steve Tang [Nightime Drama / 2017]
Huh - DJ Heure [Love Above Records / 2020]
Engineered Ruins - Rings Around Saturn [Voyage Recordings / 2019]
Salvation - Monako [Pure Space / 2020]
Sticky Feet - Reptant [Die Orakel / 2021]
Dope Tool - Oliver Dollar [Refuge Recordings / 2021]
Void If Removed - Guy Contact [Butter Sessions / 2019]
Crew Cut - Sean Thomas [OTIS Recordings / 2018]
Breadcrumbs - Ewan Jansen [Butter Sessions / 2020]
Parachutes - Ben Fester [Paper Cuts / 2021]
A Flash Storm (And Then It Was Gone) - AK SPORTS [Gallery Recordings / 2021]
Sweetness and Light (for life remix) - Itch-E & Scratch-E [Motorik Recordings / 2017]

Artwork: @maggiedashrose (instragram)

Fair Shake 012 - Kate Doherty

From hiatus, Fair Shake has returned to tell the tale of a city’s spirit through the eyes of dear friend, Lazy Suzan. A saviour selector, she sways us with a sermon, lifts us up, beats our celestial heart. This mix is full of discrete grooves and complex rhythm, exploration of the aural and movement towards the light. So on this day of rest, Bless yourself and tune in.

Deity to the dancer,
Bodies in motion
Perscussive psalms, sound escapes
Deep in the recess of rhythm

Artwork by @maggiedashrose (insta)

Fair Shake 013 - Lazy Suzan

In a distant time, the earth revolves as it always did. In this age, bionics curate the masses, searching for stimulation is the motive of the heathens. In the recesses of Melbourne, everything has merged, synchronised and blended together. Hybrid is everything, technology, people, cultures and genres weld. Boroughs exist over and underground, scraping the sky as they drill deeper into the red rock. It is here, under the earth and towards the molten centre, that the psychedelic techno core of BDE’s Fair Shake mix spurns. Crowds form, jettison in from caverns, and writhe to the soundtrack of the times - join them. 

Thrills in nexus,
Get in line, 
Pills for breakfast,
Once upon a time

Artwork @maggierose (instagram)

Fair Shake 014 - BDE

We are stoked to welcome The Remedy Man to Fair Shake 15th edition for his true blue selection sizzle. This mix shares with us his slice of Straya, and takes us on a cruise through our blazoned bushland. One for the road, roll on by the big beat with a route running from the gong to the mountain, beach to fern, sand to snow. Come one come all for a trip down Remedy lane.

Hooly Dooly
What you call this then?
Snag in bread 
Yeah nah yeah

Artwork: Maggiedashrose (insta)

Fair Shake 015 - The Remedy Man

Gday! And welcome to the Fair Shake Express. 3rd Orbit and Softserve in the booth. Now, find space, alight the station, relinquish the body and let them pitch us through arcs of golden chaos.  

Conducting aural scores, they encourage movement instantly, we willing passengers impress without demur. It trains down errant tracks, bouncing along the sleepers, flashing glorious sounds and poking holes in rugged terrain. Powered by steam, it exhales, and shutters the limbs all four corners. 

3rd Orbit & Softserve host The Bleached Re-Cap on Area3000 Radio focusing on driving sounds from Naarm & surrounds, so we were super excited for them to join us and highlight artists and labels solely from the city they reside. So, Arrive in style, plug in and tap off, you’re warm now and right on time.  

Hitchhike on the fantastic
Synaptic elastic
Terrestrial Forms
Outback Galactic 

Artwork: @Maggiedashrose (insta)

Fair Shake 016 - 3rd Orbit & Softserve

Batsh*t

Internet Kids

am i real? am i here? am i listening?

Vegas Venetian

lyrics:


As the planet cracks it’s last smile
Think about me baby
It’ll be easier to find me in the next
As the runners run their last mile 
Will you be my lady?
Will you hold my hand and fade into the mist?
(How would you get out?)
That shit’s all my fault
Two bare feet on my walk
(How would you get out?)
Who burns the bridge must walk the coals
(How would you get out?)
We’re supposed to grow old
But I knew it’d go south
(How would you get out?)
You said I gave up don’t hear me now

My head, My body, My fault
This ain’t my body no more
Kept saying you were my all
(To) pretend it’s not on me
True to setter
Lift my head up
Tell your new man that your ex still better
Ahaahaa
Ahaahaa yeaheaa
My last letter
I got fed up
We’ll find our way back, when the earth gon shatter
Ahaahaa
Ahaahaa 

(How would you get out?)
As the planet cracks it’s last smile
Think about me baby
It’ll be easier to find me in the next
As the runners run their last mile 
Will you be my lady?
Will you hold my hand and fade into the mist?
(How would you get out?)
(How would you get out?)
(How would you get out?)
(How would you get out?)

My head, My body, My fault
This ain’t my body no more
Kept saying you were my all
(To) pretend it’s not on me

Mins- HWYGO

Grasp is taken from the SHUDDER ep. Out on 12" vinyl on Accidental Jnr. Friday 24th March.

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Peach - a ubiquitous variety of schnapps as well as one of our favourite DJ's of the year, steps into the FH control room for an hour(ish) of dancefloor mastery. With no productions (yet 👀) to speak of, Peach has forged a name through her DJing prowess via her Radar Radio show "Snacktime" and while more recently with appearances on the bill alongside the likes of DJ Fett Burger, Hidden Spheres and Jackmaster in December.

Her bow astrung with plenty of strings, the London based Canadian has it in her locker to deliver in a number of ways; whether it be stonking, ripping-rawness or silky-smooth pearliness - her mixes provide an ever encyclopedic voyage into dance music. Not wavering from this sentiment, her mix for FH lies on the more chilled side of her repertoire - awash with soft sonic waves licking the shore of the floor.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/ohpeach

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Fruit Merchant are back, bad and riper than ever, this time with label honcho Hidden Spheres taking the reigns behind the striped tarpaulin. Not balshily shouting discounted Pink Lady prices on the Chatsworth Road, but carefully crafting four smooth as ever cuts for the imprints forth release, fresh for your enjoyment.

'Twelve 4/4' is everything you associate with it's creators past creations. Considered and temperate yet punchy and deep; and as ever, infused with about as many jazzy nuances as Duke Ellington's trumpet oil (a lot, surely?). The record as a whole and 'Twelve 4/4' in isolation provides a little respite from what appears to be a fairly raw and club driven sonic landscape right now. Drift away into the hazy blue on your palm raft with this one - Mañana Mañana.

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PREMIERE: Hidden Spheres - Twelve 4/4 [Fruit Merchant]

Alessandro Alessandroni’s ‘Afro Discoteca’ is released on a blasting 12’’ containing 4 cosmic/disco tracks drawing influences from African music - never published before these incredibly powerful and evocative recordings were rescued from an old dusty tape found in the Maestro’s vaults.

The EP became an instant classic for diggers and worldwide tastemakers, bringing the name of Alessandroni to new audiences, far beyond the circle of film scores and library music aficionados .

March 2019: Four Flies asks to a rock band (CALIBRO 35) and three amongst the most brilliant and visionary Italian DJs and producers (Jolly Mare, L.U.C.A., pAd) to rework the original tracks, giving them new life for refined modern dancefloors.

The result is a stunning collection of electronic/cosmic/balearic reworks, which respects the spirit of Alessandroni’s compositions, projecting them into our present.

About Alessandro Alessandroni

Alessandro Alessandroni (Rome, Italy 03/18/1925 – Swakopmund, Namibia 03/26/2017) was one of the most important Italian musicians of the 20th century. A composer, arranger, singer and multi-instrumentalist whose impact on pop culture is immeasurable, from his unique guitar work and — perhaps most famously — his whistle for Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western soundtracks to the unforgettable vocal hook of Piero Umiliani's "Mah Nà Mah Nà”.

In a career that spans seven decades, Alessandroni scored almost a hundred movies and recorded countless production music albums, currently acclaimed by the most important musical experts around the world.

AFRO DISCOTECA reworked & reloved

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Alessandro Alessandroni  reworked "Afro Discoteca" (Jolly Mare Lifting)

A chaotic club mix from Cõvco and Lafawndah’s new project, FARA FARA.

i-DJ: fara fara

Just short of their milestone tenth release, Haŵs pulls up the inimitable DJ Chupacabra (and alias of Davide Piras) for his debut. ‘Yard Club’ takes the intimacy of hazy, expectant dancefloors and transfers it into four subtle shades that demonstrate the understated power of the warmup track – or the after-hours wind-down. 

It’s a neat pool of stripped-back UKG and house that brings up the same delicious sensations of a rollercoaster slowly approaching its descent or recovering from its fall. Where these tools get put into practice is totally up to imagination.

Artist: DJ Chupacabra
Label: @hawsmusic
Buy: hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/yard-club
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PREMIERE: DJ Chupacabra - Turbo [Haŵs]

As the cracks in the wall open up in Melbourne and we get the jumper cables out to reboot, Yi Lum opens us up to the  otherside with Fair Shake 008. She flies the flag for each of us, peeling us from our devices to guide us on how to engage again. Venturing out after endless months in these four walls she peeks through the keyhole, takes a step or two outside, checks the coast is clear then breaks out at pace to burn up the bitumen. This is a tough mix, built from steel, but the tough get going and there’s hope for the future. 

At this juncture, 
The sun does not bring respite. 
The dark that we once held is not what we are left. 
Until we beat again. 

1. Low Flung - Omnispore - [Paper-Cuts / 2020] 
2. Logic1000 - The River is Tight - [Sumac / 2018]
3. Pugilist - Psilocybin - [self-released / 2020]
4. Sleep D - Twin Turbo - [Incienso / 2019]
5. Dazion - Blood Moon - [Animals Dancing / 2020] 
6. Tornado Wallace - Atoms - [Optimo Music / 2020]
7. Jon Jones - Gungurru - [Southern Exposure Records / 2020] 
8. Iota - Noxi - [Pure Space / 2020]
9. DJ Life - Lightning Ridge - [Potatoheadz / 2020] 
10. Rudolf C - Geistly - [Salt Mines / 2019] 
11. Sam Brickel - Tone Control - [Steeplejack / 2020] 
12. OK EG - Cell - [Steeplejack / 2020] 
13. Sam Brickel - All I know - [Steeplejack / 2020] 
14. The Lord’s Garden - Compassion - [ACML / 1996]

Fair Shake 008 - Yi Lum

Tiger's Blood. Episode 24. Misha Geleyn

Thank You @juravlove for Support Renegade Radio Camp / St.Petersburg / Russia

Igor Zhuravlev aka Juravlove is a dj, producer, promoter and radio host based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Half of @poliritm.

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Renegade Radio Camp - JURAVLOVE - Mix 20-11-2020

We are very glad to share this treat from our dear friend Marko Friedl from the mighty Radio Esplendor crew with you.
While we patiently wait for the heavy curtains to reveal the dancefloors again, allow yourself to be soothed by this balming mix of kozmische nuggets for the hurting soul and the stiff old hip.
Legalize!

TASCAM DR-05

Marko Friedl - Legalize lambada podcast 9

I'll Come At Midnight (Я приду в полночь)

A - Pedestrian & Jasperdrum - Kalakuta

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Fair Shake 008 - Yi Lum

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