Original air date ~ 17th July 2025.

We speak to Adelaide's potent post-punkers Placement who played King Street Crawl last weekend in support of their just-dropped debut album, the incendiary "Insect".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-17th-jul-2025/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 17th July was as follows ...

AUTOCAMPER "Foxes" (Safe Suburban Home/Slumberland)
WET LEG "liquidize" (Domino)
BIG THIEF "All Night All Day" (4AD/Remote Control)
BARRY CAN'T SWIM "Like It's Part Of The Dance" (Ninja Tune)
MJ LENDERMAN "Just Be Simple" (Run For Cover/Civilians)
RIVAL CONSOLES "Soft Gradient Beckons" (Erased Tapes)
PLACEMENT "Sought Out The Night" (Clarity)
JAY SOM featuring JIM ADKINS "Float" (Lucky Number Music)
BEEN STELLAR "Adored" (Dirty Hit)
SOLO CAREER "Beta" (Dinosaur City)
AUNT KATRINA "Just A Game" (Crafted Sounds)
GINA BIRCH "Nothing Will Ever Change That" (Third Man)
GUEDRA GUEDRA "Paradigm" (Smugglers Way/Domino)
HAND HABITS "Jasmine Blossoms" (Fat Possum)
SNARSKICIRCUSLINDYBAND featuring LILI ALASKA "You're So Adorable" (Teardrop)
CONVENIENCE STORE "I Wanna Be Your Dancer" (Community Music)
MR. INDUSTRY "Birdie" (Community Music)
JONATHAN RICHMAN "Night Fever" (Blue Arrow)
GWENNO "73" (Heavenly/[PIAS])
WET LEG "11:21" (Domino)
MODESELEKTOR "MEGA MEGA MEGA" (!K7)

"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

Placement ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

Christian Kjellvander - Reasonable Love

Lande Hekt - Lucky Now (Album Preview)

Abacus

Original air date ~ 30th October 2025.

We speak to speak to Sydney's sardonic croon-pop giant Jack Ladder about his new Los Angeles-made record, the smouldering "Separation Rock".

Stream the full program https://www.2ser.com/episodes/2025-10-30-20-00

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 30th October was as follows ...

GOOD FLYING BIRDS "I Will Find" (Carpark)
SOULWAX "Idiots In Love" (DEEWEE/Because Music)
ELIAS RØNNENFELT "Mona Lisa" (Escho)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "Lifeworld" (Warp)
LADYTRON "I See Red" (Nettwerk)
bar italia "omni shambles" (Matador/Remote Control)
JACK LADDER "Radiation" (Worse)
LIVING HOUR "Big Shadow" (Beloved/Remote Control)
TORTOISE "A Title Comes" (International Anthem)
ANTIBALAS "Oasis" (Daptone)
TAME IMPALA "See You On Monday (You're Lost)" (Columbia)
JUST MUSTARD "That I Might Not See" (Partisan/Mushroom)
MERMAID CHUNKY "céilí" [JUSTIN STRAUSS en LA PISCINA Remix] (DFA)
runo plum "Pond" (Winspear)
THE GNOMES "Flippin' Stomp" (Dog Meat)
DICK DUDLEY "Bees" (www.dickdudley.bandcamp.com)
PARTY DOZEN "Mad Rooter" (Grupo)
SEAN SOLOMON "Shooting Star" (Anti-)
SORRY "Today Might Be The Hit" (Domino)
SOULWAX "The False Economy" (DEEWEE/Because Music)
SHARP PINS "Queen Of Globes and Mirrors" (Perennial)

"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

Jack Ladder ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

WE COULD BE BEAUTIFUL - die neue Single der österreichischen Kultband Naked Lunch ist ein einzig schöner Gedanke; ist nichts weniger als die Behauptung einer Utopie, nach der wir im Moment verlangen. Das Lied scheint alle Zeit der Welt zu haben und trägt mit stoischer Gelassenheit eine großartige Gesangsmelodie bis zur Mitte des Songs. Dann ein kurzes Innehalten, eh das Lied Tempo aufnimmt und sich in einem mehrminütigen eruptiven und euphorischen Finale wiederfindet. Kann sein, dass man nach dieser musikalischen Tour de Force und unglaublichen 6:10 min. erstmal nicht empfänglich ist für weitere Musik. Aber es soll uns nichts Schlimmeres passieren. 
„We could be beautiful … we could shine a light and then move on“
So und nicht anders geht Utopie.

Naked Lunch - We Could Be Beautiful

Live recorded Dj -Set at KOMPAKT TOTAL 25 event at FI, Cologne - DE

JOYCE MUNIZ_KOMPAKT TOTAL25 @FI - Cologne

Hailing from Ghent, Belgium, Asa Moto is the dynamic electronic music duo of Oliver “Oli” Geerts and Gilles Noë—a pairing forged in 2012 that has since become one of the most inventive forces on the continent’s club circuit.

Signed to Soulwax’s DEEWEE label, they blend analog synths, voice, funk and uncanny grooves into a sound both club-potent and artistically bold. Through acclaimed EPs like Martino and an ever-evolving live show, they invite you to dance differently—together.

November see's the pair return to the imprint with a new EP called 'Music For Disc Jockeys Pt.1'.

This mix is a tour de force if you will, they cram 82 tracks into one hour and somehow manage to make that make sense. We have no idea how they've managed it but somehow in a precariously bonkers fashion... it works.

Asa Moto: The Ransom Note Mix

Pre-order: https://colaren.bandcamp.com/album/mekong-ballad 

@humanpitch welcomes @cola-ren to the label with 'Mekong Ballad', the Guangzhou-based artist’s first record to feature her own vocals.

Across six ambient compositions, fragments of memory surface: a fallen fruit, a whispering current, the haze of moonlight over an estuary - both a meditation on water and a journey into states of weightlessness and belonging.

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Premiere: COLA REN 'Be Water'

Sage (Preview)

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

Placement ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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