Original air date ~ 2nd May 2024.

We gab to Brooklyn's groove-laden post-punkers Gustaf about their just-dropped second album, the on-point "Package, Pt. 2".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-2nd-may-2024/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 2nd May was as follows ...

CORRIDOR "Jump Cut" (Sub Pop)
FAT WHITE FAMILY "Work" (Domino)
PARSNIP "Monument" (Anti Fade)
BULLION featuring CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY "World_train" (Ghostly International)
IRON & WINE "Sweet Talk" (Sub Pop)
CLOUD NOTHINGS "Daggers Of Light" (Pure Noise)
GUSTAF "What Does It Mean" (Royal Mountain/[PIAS])
MUSEUM OF LOVE "After Us" (DFA)
CULTS "Crybaby" (Imperial)
EMMA DONOVAN "Liquid Gold" (Jindahood/Cooking Vinyl)
CORNELIUS "Sketch For Spring" (Warner)
ST. VINCENT "Big Time Nothing" (Total Pleasure/Virgin)
JUSTICE featuring CONNAN MOCKASIN "Explorer" (Ed Banger/Because Music)
BABEHOVEN "My Best Friend Needs" (Double Double Whammy)
RAINDOGS "Disintegrate" (www.raindogsrain.bandcamp.com)
BODYWIRE "Alive" (www.bodywire.bandcamp.com)
ROYSTON VASIE "Time Inside" (Brain Fade)
HOVVDY "Bad News" (Arts & Crafts/Cooking Vinyl)
LUNCHBOX "New Year" (Slumberland)
FAT WHITE FAMILY "John Lennon" (Domino)
JON HOPKINS "RITUAL (evocation)" (Domino)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://2ser.com/episode-archive-page/?show=static

Gustaf ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

maneka - "throwing ax"

A collision of rave outsiders: Morris’s unlikely pop mystique meets Gramrcy and Loveless on the FWD dancefloor… lnk.to/GJLPH149

In Berlin where the bassweight bubbles bright, Lived Gramrcy and John Loveless, deviant and polite, They stirred a pressure-cooker full of electroclash stew, With ISDN-line scramble and a hint of something new.

“Oh!” cried Tony Morris (former teacher, taxi man), “I’ll hypnotize with repetitions, catch me if you can! I’m Scotland’s most unlikely pop sensation, don’t you see? A cult figure cabaret, as deviant as can be!”

They mixed it up on Phantasy Sound with textural delight, The earworming anchor bobbed and bounced all through the night, From FWD-era gumption to the disco esoteric, They created ‘Lucid’ madness, quite atmospheric!

The festival-rupturing Highdive had ruptured long before, Now ‘Feel So’ tipped the scales toward the ecstatic dance floor, With post-punk percussion prancing, hi-NRG in tow, From Chicago down to Rimini, watch the bassline grow!

Said Peggy Gou and Daniel Avery, “What a splendid sound!” While 2ManyDJs spun it ’round and ’round and ’round, And Moschino’s models strutted to the supreme release, As rave outsiders intersected in their bubbling masterpiece!

So if you seek the throbbing beat of something deeply odd, Find Gramrcy and John Loveless – that peculiar duo’s squad With Tony Morris chanting in his late-sixties prime, Making lucid nonsense music, one earworm at a time!

Three years after their all conquering ‘Highdive’, Gramrcy and John Loveless return to Phantasy with ‘Lucid’, a pressure-cooker of FWD-era bassweight and electroclash scramble anchored by the hypnotic vocals of Tony Morris.

Listen below, pre order here: https://lnk.to/GJLPH149

PREMIERE: Gramrcy & John Loveless  - Lucid feat. Tony Morris [Phantasy Sound]

Original air date ~ 16th October 2025.

We talk to Welsh avant-pop crafter Cate Le Bon about her recent 2SER Feature Album, the mesmerising "Michelangelo Dying".

Stream the full program https://www.2ser.com/episodes/2025-10-16-20-00

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 16th October was as follows ...

WEIRD NIGHTMARE "Forever Elsewhere" (Sub Pop)
dust "Just Like Ice" (Virgin)
THE BESNARD LAKES "Chemin de la Baie" (Full Time Hobby)
HAAi "Comes Together" (Mute)
JAY SOM "D.H." (Lucky Number Music)
UPCHUCK "New Case" (Domino)
CATE LE BON "Love Unrehearsed" (Mexican Summer)
INSECURE MEN "Time Is A Healer" (Fat Possum)
THIS IS LORELEI "Name The Band" (Double Double Whammy)
DAPPLED CITIES "Aurora" (www.linktr.ee/dappledcities)
SNOOPER "Company Car" (Third Man)
JACK LADDER "Undignified" (Worse)
KELLY LEE OWENS "Ascend" (dh2)
WESTSIDE COWBOY "Don't Throw Rocks" (Universal)
screensaver "Context Is Everything" (Poison City)
SNARSKICIRCUSLINDYBAND featuring ROMY VAGER "When Did Our Friendship End" (Teardrop)
HIGHSCHOOL "Sony Ericsson" ([PIAS])
THE DEARS "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (Next Door)
dust "In Reverie" (Virgin)
WHITNEY "Damage" (AWAL)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://www.2ser.com/programs/static

Cate Le Bon ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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'Touch' is the opening track of Stresshead's debut EP 'Colour', a five-track journey through bubbling club cuts and euphoric, vocal-led house.

"I wanted to capture the feeling of an electric shock passing between two people as they embrace, ebbing and flowing," he says on 'Touch'. "I love the way this track begins, it really sets the scene for the rest of the EP."

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Premiere: Stresshead 'Touch'

Pre-order: https://lawrencehart.ffm.to/afaf

@lawrencehart enlists @giuliatess on their third collaboration, ‘LOSE CONTROL’, out via Domino's @double-six imprint - the second release from Hart's forthcoming 12-track mixtape 'ASKING FOR A FRIEND’.

‘LOSE CONTROL’ is a tumbling, joyfully unpredictable dancefloor cut featuring melodic
interludes amongst breakneck percussion and pitch-shifted vocals.

Premiere: Lawrence Hart 'LOSE CONTROL' (with Giulia Tess)

Pre-order: https://www.trekkie-trax.com/ep/fetus-dayzero-origin/

Japanese producers @fetus_music and @dayzero_jp bring their highly anticipated split EP 'Origin' to Tokyo-based label @trekkie-trax, merging their sonic journeys into a 5-track body of work.

'Time Machine' channels the bouncy grooves reminiscent of dembow and UK bass, with a three-dimensional low end that evokes the raw sonic energy cultivated in nightclubs - a track that captures the intimate euphoria of the dancefloor.

Premiere: Fetus & Dayzero 'Time Machine'

Motherland is the first single of Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) upcoming album "A Body Like a Home"

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Motherland

Pre-order: https://suchimusic.bandcamp.com/album/sub-cut

@suchisuchi debuts her new @ikke-sant imprint with 'Sub Cut', featuring three tracks of shimmering psychedelia in hybridised club fun.

The EP's ultimate track 'Propeller' digs deepest, its heightened tempo summoning celestial arpeggios while its charged low end pumps deep for an eyes-closed finale.

Premiere: SUCHI 'Propeller'

Watch the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMQo3zaxihs

High amongst the clouds at London’s highest viewing platform, Horizon 22, we enlisted one of the city’s best selectors – @ellaknight – to bring her signature catalogue of house, groove, and disco to the Mixmag Lab.

“My first Mixmag Lab, 800ft up in the sky,” she said. “I brought my love of soulful music with a mix of house, garage and disco, and it was a real moment to share that in such an iconic setting.”

Ella Knight | Mixmag Lab | Horizon 22 Takeover

Static is a weekly new music program on Sydney public radio station 2SER-FM, which debuted in 1992.
For over 30 years, hosts Berko and Mick have been at the forefront of championing new bands and music trends, with up-to-the-second fresh releases from around the world.
Each week's show blends everything from alternative pop to underground rock, eclectic electronica, post-everything and much more.
Every week Berko speaks in-depth to an artist on the show ... these are those interviews.
Stream full programs at www.2ser.com/static

Gustaf ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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