Original air date ~ 23rd February 2023.

We chat to LA-based psych-folk kahuna King Tuff about his personal new album, the sincere "Smalltown Stardust".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-23rd-feb-2023/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 23rd February was as follows ...

IGUANA DEATH CULT "Sensory Overload" (Innovative Leisure)
AVEY TARE "Invisible Darlings" (Domino)
SCREAMING FEMALES "Mourning Dove" (Don Giovanni)
THE JUAN MACLEAN "Low Trance State" (Playground)
TANUKICHAN "Take Care" (Company/Carpark)
YO LA TENGO "Until It Happens" (Matador/Remote Control)
KING TUFF "The Bandits Of Blue Sky" (Sub Pop)
@ "Cut From Toxic Cloth" (Carpark)
DEATH & VANILLA "Out For Magic" (Fire)
CLOSE COUNTERS featuring IZY "Only One" (Holy Sound)
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA "Nadja" (Jagjaguwar)
CONSTANT SMILES "Gold Like Water" (Sacred Bones)
audiobooks featuring ONEDA "Burnt Pictures" (Heavenly/[PIAS])
THUS LOVE "Centerfield" (Captured Tracks/Remote Control)
ETERNAL DUST "Spiritual Healers, Defence Lawyers" (Lulu's Sonic Disc Club)
BABAGANOUJ "Stay Up For Me" (Coolin' By Sound)
MARCUS INDEX "Aeon" (www.ffm.bio/0kbzowp)
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL "Caution To The Wind" (Buzzin' Fly/Virgin)
LAEL NEALE "I Am The River" (Sub Pop)
AVEY TARE "Lips At Night" (Domino)
RVG "Nothing Really Changes" (Ivy League)

"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

King Tuff ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

'Boundary Rider', out now on Ninja Tune: https://tycho.lnk.to/boundaryriderSo

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Boundary Rider

Pre-order: https://fauxpoly.lnk.to/Daybreak

Bristol-based producer, vocalist, and DJ @@itsroseholland (aka Dutchie) joins the @fauxpoly label family with 'Clouded', a unique take on  bass music that’s embodied on her new 'Daybreak' EP. 

Holland’s production blends heavy-hitting lows with rich, layered vocals infused with field recordings. The result is a genre-blurring, emotionally resonant style that’s distinctly her own.

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Premiere: Rose Holland 'Clouded'

Pre-order: https://suckerpunchrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/suckerpunch005

Suckerpunch Recordings returns with its fourth main series release of 2025, this time bringing together the talents of two of dance musics most exciting young contenders.

@papanugs & @lukealessiofficial link up on 'SUCKERPUNCH005', a joint four-track EP that bounces through house, garage, and electro influences.

Premiere: Papa Nugs 'Sounds The Same'

“Krok” means “step” in Belarusian - and for Alex Chumak and his band this word comes with a lot of meaning. It’s the title and theme that run throughout СОЮЗ (SOYUZ)'s fourth album, reflecting the journeys the band has navigated in recent years, having moved to Warsaw due to political unrest in their homeland of Belarus and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Embracing the uncertainty became both the inspiration and main lyrical theme for Alex Chumak, SOYUZ’ composer and arranger, who also decided to go a step further and change the language in which he writes songs from Russian, which is used as lingua franca in many post-Soviet countries, to his native Belarusian. The result is nine songs about dreams and outer space, ordinary miracles, things very close and very distant at the same time. 

In early 2022, Chumak and original members, Mikita Arlou and Anton Nemahai, joined tens of thousands of Belarusians seeking safety abroad. Resettling in Warsaw, the band released Force of the Wind in October 2022, garnering widespread acclaim, a string of major European gigs, and led to Polish musicians Albert Karch and Igor Wiśniewski joining the band.

Deeper and more melancholic than previous works, KROK is quintessentially SOYUZ, laced with hope, dreams and a celebration of life. Given the difficulties with finding rehearsal and recording spaces in Warsaw and the departure of the drummer Anton Nemahai from the band, Chumak explored alternative options. He reached out to friend and fellow musical collaborator, Sessa, about the possibility of recording the new album in his recently finished studio in São Paulo, with Sessa and Biel Basile coming onboard as recording engineers.

At the tail end of 2024, Chumak and SOYUZ’ new drummer, Albert Karch, made the trip to São Paulo to record the first sessions for KROK. Laid down directly to tape, these sessions featured prominent Brazilian musicians Sessa, Biel Basile, and Marcelo Cabral, with a guest vocal feature by Tim Bernardes recorded at a later date. The final touches were then added back in Europe. Lush string and woodwind arrangements written by Chumak and Karch were recorded at the Polish Radio studio in Warsaw, and Rhodes parts were added by Chumak at Sven Wunder’s studio in Stockholm.

Though primarily recorded in Brazil, KROK is not a Brazilian or MPB album. It blends the band’s Eastern European roots with jazz, folk and global influences. The genre of the music is hardly identifiable: there are folk ballads and jazz-driven pop compositions covered in lush and often dissonant string and woodwind arrangements where each note is placed with care and meaning behind it.

The title track was the first song Chumak wrote in Belarusian as an adult, making for a fitting opener and one of the band’s finest tracks. Darker than most of SOYUZ’ songs, the tensions lift and lighten as the track progresses. The cinematic library jazz of 'Voo Livre', with ghostly vocals sung by Ciça Góes and Ina, feels like a modern twist on the Italian library composer Alessandro Alessandroni through its sublime choir and woodwind orchestration. Elsewhere, the heartfelt 'Lingua Do Mundo', composed, written, and sung by Chumak and the incredible Tim Bernardes, features one of the standout string arrangements from Chumak and Karch. 'Cichi Karahod' is an instant SOYUZ classic, almost Pat Metheny-esque as it opens, with the acoustic guitar and bass riff transitioning into jazzy AOR / pop-folk territory. The record closes with 'Smak žyćcia', a gentle, dreamy spoken-word poetry piece in Japanese by singer-songwriter Manami Kakudo. 

Despite immense challenges, SOYUZ have delivered a career-defining album in KROK.


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Hardware sounds from the Copenhagen talent: a deep and groovy mix of house, garage and jungle bits recorded live at Trans Metro Express 2025

Strøm Mixx 047 - Talons (live at Trans Metro Express 2025)

Pre-order: https://rglmusic.bandcamp.com/album/touzan

Tokyo-based producer @rgl96 makes his LP debut with 'Touzan', an album that expands on the soulful, groove-rich sound introduced on his inaugural EPs for @breakerbreakerrecordings.

Named after the Kawagoe Tōzan fabric woven by Iguchi’s mother and featured on the artwork, the record blends together house, hip hop and jazz-tinged textures into RGL’s most distinctive statement yet - a deeply crafted vision of modern Japanese house music.

Premiere: RGL 'Around Here'

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

King Tuff ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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