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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

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Turn up that radio! VSA Radio is back with a new chapter, this time featuring another local rising star: For episode 18 we have Téa (she/her) curating 1,5 hour of extra groovy and trippy old school house. Say hello to Téa:

"I haven’t been playing music for very long, and I’m still learning how to curate a mixtape as I don’t think it’s the easiest thing to do. But I had a lot of fun making this, and it’s made out of all my fave tracks at the moment! 

This mix is a spacey trip through different styles of groovy house-music and features an interview with an alien and a black boa. 

Stay till the end for some Britney too!

xx"

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VSA Radio 18: Téa

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

Without tactics

@NickoShuo / @Damnepha / @CetinaOfficial

Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/label/mincode-music/61520
YouTube -https://youtu.be/ADpw3ruJdKU

Spain's Mincode Music, owned by Nicolas Cetina, continues its regular release schedule following appearances by Alberto Tolo, Drucal, and Sinistermind.

Nicko Shuo is sharp making a name for himself by including top labels like Nina Kraviz's Trip / ТРИП, Pfirter's MindTrip, Arnaud Le Texier's Children of Tomorrow, Vegim's TMMR, and Paula Cazenave's Combine Audio in his extensive back catalogue.

Combining with Nicko Shuo is Damne, who has impressed with music on Slam's Soma, Pfirter's MindTrip, Arnaud Le Texier's Children of Tomorrow, and Planet Rhythm.

For this DT:Premiere we selected "Chasing the Sun" with dark and driving sound. Building the mood with a frantic, string riff, the huge fluttering bassline and pulsing modular tones are an all-out intense and devastating trip.

LABEL: Mincode Music

CAT#: MIN081
ARTIST: Nicko Shuo
TITLE: Film Camera

FORMAT: Digital

RELEASED: 25 November 2025

01. Film Camera
02. Tangible Distance
03. Dubious Happiness
04. Chasing the Sun

Buy @ Beatport

DT:Premiere | Nicko Shuo & Damne - Chasing the Sun [Mincode Music]

"Strange Moments" suggests those moments of contemplation are strange, perhaps of questioning or searching for answers. The man's loneliness and apparent lack of sense of existence. It's as if in those moments, time stops and only the silence of the universe and the internal search exist.


"Strange Moments" sugiere que esos instantes de contemplación son momentos extraños, tal vez de cuestionamiento o búsqueda de respuestas. La soledad del hombre y su aparente sin sentido de existencia. Es como si en esos momentos, el tiempo se detuviera y solo existiera el silencio del universo y la búsqueda interna.


Strange moments

Very excited to share my latest mix for the one and only Feel My Bicep. Expect trademark FADE sounds from some of my favourite producers. 

Read the full post: bit.ly/FADE_FMB

Thanks again to @feelmybicep for asking me to do this 💖

FEEL MY BICEP MIXTAPE 121 | FADE

Read our interview with @cromby and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/CromPod

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Groove Podcast 242 - Cromby

Currently Melbourne based, Val York relocated from Sydney a month before the first lockdown and we are stoked to share her captivating Fair Shake mix. Val is a BAG resident and co-founder of ēteru podcast and It seems fitting for this to arrive soon after confirmation of Melbourne’s lockdown extending. Her mix is a spectre of sound, a lateral incision of electronic music from this southern land, musing on the state in which we at present reside. 

We are forbidden by law to meet and dance. We are confined; dictated to stay in one known place as a uniform deed. As you roll on in this motion, confront yourself to stop to listen. Close your eyes, consider your current state of being, your existence as you pose it to yourself. A familiar space cannot be unfamiliar. To know is to numb, we must accept to distract. 

“I walk around the earth in circles,
I arrive back at the start, I start again from where I finished, 
I end again where I started. 
I walk around my earth in circles.”

Track List: 

1. The Flimsy - Integers - (ENDE Records / 2016) 
2. ŁoŁ - Mum Jokes (hurt the child) - (Khao Records / 2019)
3. Bleeding Kumari - Still Life With Idiot and Crystal Ball - (Self-Released / 2020)
4. Netic - Soil -(wif / 2012)
5. Ian Andrews - Departure - (Fallt / 2002)
6. D.O.O.M - Ka (Original Mix) - (Android Muziq / 2013)
7. Simon Mann - Lakes Edge - (Hypnotic Room / 2018)
8. CLUB SOUND WITCHES - BDTD 227 Track 1 - (Self-Released / 2016)
9. The Flimsy - omnisssant - (ENDE Records / 2016) 
10. Twotone - HUMANIKIN - (Self-Released - 2002) 
11. Ian Andrews - Recursive Toupee - (Fallt / 2002)
12. lefthandsoundsystem - long (Original Mix) - (Hypnotic Room / 2017)
13. Anklepants - Baby clone Two (the date with bait) - (Qwerty Records / 2019)
14. Protyv - Mystical - (Nerang Recordings / 2016)
15. 0F.digital - plains_monolith  - (Self-Released / 2017)

Fair Shake 006 - Val York

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Rainbow Serpent dedication mix! As one of the most magical doofs of the year is forced into an unfortunate consecutive hiatus; we felt it was only right to pay homage to this Australian institution by inviting a local psyhead into the series. We are absolutely ecstatic to welcome host of tuna fat podcast and higher recordings honcho Skwid for our 10th Fair Shake mix. 
 
On what would have been a special Mad Monday, Skwid showcases the higher recordings suite and helps us fantasise about being back barefoot in the dust.

Psytrance is an often overlooked subculture of dance music, however it is undoubtedly a significant aspect of Australian electronic music culture. If you haven’t helped yourself to a melt at the Main Stage under the Tesla Coil then it’s something that needs to be on that bucket list! 

As always, All tracks in the Fair Shake mix series have an Australian connection - celebrate what we create. 

1. Wild – The Sphere – [Higher Recordings / 2020]
2. Lumen – Caimen – [Higher Recordings / 2017]
3. Kromagon – Heavin Lohic (Zone Tempest Remix) – [Higher Recordings /2020]
4. Skwid - Untitled - [Unreleased]
5. Zone Tempest – Ancient Origins (Skwid Remix) – [Higher Recordings / 2019]
6. Skwid – Earthsong (Prisma Remix) – [Higher Recordings / 2020]
7. Zone Tempest – Technologies – [Higher Recordings / 2020]
8. Wild – Mental Physics – [Unknown]
9. Particle – Open Your 3rd _____ - [Higher Recordings / 2020]
10. Zazen – 8 Million Bit - [Higher Recordings  2020]
11. Imperfect Circle – Seven Eight - [Higher Recordings / 2017]
12. Skwid & San and Tac – Oleti Champignon Poulet – [Higher Recordings / 2019]
13. Particle – Granule – [Higher Recordings/ 2020]

Fair Shake 010 - Skwid

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Fair Shake 010 - Skwid

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