Original air date ~ 1st May 2025.

We speak to New Orleans post-punk crew The Convenience about their curveball second album, the limber "Like Cartoon Vampires".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-1st-may-2025/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 1st May was as follows ...

JAWDROPPED "Another Day" (Fire Talk)
SUNFLOWER BEAN "Look What You've Done To Me" (Lucky Number)
VIAGRA BOYS "You N33d Me" (Shrimptech)
RIVAL CONSOLES "Known Shape" (Erased Tapes)
THE BETHS "Metal" (Anti-)
TUNDE ADEBIMPE "The Most" (Sub Pop)
THE CONVENIENCE "2022" (Winspear)
THE MOONLANDINGZ "The Insects Have Been Shat On" (Transgressive)
SONS OF RAPHAEL "Nights Are For Love" (Alberts & Gothmaan)
ANIKA "Honey" (Sacred Bones)
CAR SEAT HEADREST "The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)" (Matador/Remote Control)
LE PAIN "Running Of The Bulls" (Slouch)
KASSIE KRUT "Hooh Beat" [PANDA BEAR Remix] (Fire Talk)
THESE NEW PURITANS "A Season In Hell" (Domino)
CALIFORNIA GIRLS "Hard Core" (Blue Void)
CIVIC "The Hogg" (ATO)
COOL SOUNDS "Party Punisher" (Blossom Rot)
HEMI HEMINGWAY "(To Be) Without You" (PNKSLM)
SUNFLOWER BEAN "Please Rewind" (Lucky Number)
SNAIL MAIL and THIS IS LORELEI "Two Legs" (Double Double Whammy)

"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

The Convenience ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

Pre-order: https://orcd.co/reachouttome

@hardtimesrecordsuk welcomes Leeds legend Paul Woolford - AKA @specialrequest - to reimagine one of house music’s most cherished anthems, Karen Pollard’s ‘Reach Out To Me'.

“‘Reach Out To Me’ has always been one of my favourite US garage records, so when the opportunity to rework it came up one hazy summer evening last year, I knew it had to be done,” he explains.

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Premiere: Karen Pollard 'Reach Out To Me' (Special Request Remix)

Pre-order: https://standard-deviation.bandcamp.com/album/transitioning-practice

@standard-deviation presents a four-track EP by @nastyavogan and @phasefatale that serves as a vessel for tracing displacement, memory, and the liminality of return.

Nastya's 'Limerence Practice Mantra' explores Lacanian limerence—consciously falling for something not fully known, and filling absences with personal projections as a way to discover what lies within oneself.

Premiere: Nastya Vogan 'Limerence Practice Mantra'

Putting a fresh spin on two tracks from New Regency Orchestra’s standout debut album, Momoko Gill and Samtheman, step up to the plate on remix duties. Two exciting and innovative names rising out of London’s next generation of artists they’ve reimagined NRO’s Afro-Cuban jazz vibrancy in their own personal and distinctive way. Blurring the lines between remix and new production, Momoko turns ‘Para Los Papines’ into a meditative, transportive, percussive cut laced with her ethereal vocals, as Sam flips ‘Sambaroco’ into an Afro house styled groover with Caique and P Wavey on the mic.

London-based drummer/producer/songwriter and vocalist, Momoko Gill, provides the first of the remixes. With an explorative ear and a rejection for imitation, her unique style has seen her collaborating with artists including Matthew Herbert, Coby Sey, Tirzah and Alabaster DePlume. Nourished by elements of NRO’s take on David Amram’s ‘Para Los Papines’, Momoko’s clever sampling of the bass, percussion and horns melds this track into a new dimension. Drawing from a Buddhist myth, her lyrics and intimate voice provide a celestial, mythological touch to the remix.

Talking on the remix Momoko says: “I wanted to make something that feels more like a recontextualization of the original and a continuation of the conversation. Unlike the original which sounds looser and starts with the more jazzy orchestration, NRO’s version kicks straight into the vamp and has a more linear structure, where the orchestrated bits serve as a release of tension as well as a destination. I enhanced that by making a new line through sampling the double bass which, in retrospect, sounds almost like a line you’d hear in grime and used vocal sampling to drive the groove.”

Next up, Samtheman, co-founder of the label/collective Brighter Days Family, takes on ‘Sambaroco’. Sam’s genre-bending productions are both inspired by, and experimenting with, sounds from around the globe. Reworking the groove into an Afro house rhythm, Sam invites two emerging young artists with ties to Brighter Days Family, Caique and P Wavey, to take to the mic and add a new, vocal-led flavour to the remix. 

Sam mentions, “Together in the studio, we listened to the original version by Tito Puente, Caique came up with a phrase inspired by the name of the tune. “Ela me faz samba roco, Ela me faz samba loco…” Then the rest of the vocal parts started flowing. Continuing to use the name of the original for inspiration, P Wavey begins his verse with, “Sambaroco-ni, now everybody just follow me…” In my mind, the original is a salsa song that is about carnival, or a salsa interpretation of carnival, in particular Brazilian carnival hence the title of the song.”

More than just reworks, these tracks are conversations, between continents, cultures, and genres, through the forward-thinking lens of two of London’s rising stars.


New Regency Orchestra - Sambaroco (Samtheman Afro Mix Ft. Caique & P Wavey)

It’s almost obligatory to release a folk song on May Day, but here we are on May 2nd still bringing in the May! Enjoy Quinie’s evocative new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’ out now. It’s a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Zoge5FKvJz0

“Ye micht o thought the sallow buckthorn, Ne’er a hairst could hain”
("You might have thought the buckthorn would be so pale, that no harvest could hold it.”)


‘Sallow Buckthorn’ is featured on Quinie’s forthcoming album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ out on Upset The Rhythm on May 23rd. 

Available to pre-order on LP with a risograph lyric print + magical book: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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Quinie - 'Sallow Buckthorn'

Pre-order Cola Boyy's final studio album "Quit to Play Chess": found.ee/ColaBoyy_QTPC
Available on May 23
Follow us for more updates about the release: instagram.com/RecordMakers

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 ❤️♾️

Written and composed by Cola Boyy
Guitar and synth by Cola Boyy
Produced by Jared Solomon
Mixed by Daniel Schlett
Mastered by Alex DeTurk


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Cola Boyy - Crushin'

Original air date ~ 8th May 2025.

We talk to Nashville's dream-pop strummer Soccer Mommy who plays City Recital Hall for Vivid LIVE next month in support of her most recent album, the enchanting "Evergreen".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-8th-may-2025/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 8th May was as follows ...

RINGLETS "Street Massage" (Flying Nun)
CAR SEAT HEADREST "True/False Lover" (Matador/Remote Control)
INDIGO DE SOUZA "Heartthrob" (Loma Vista)
DEATH IN VEGAS "Your Love" (Drone)
JENNY HVAL "I don't know what free is" (4AD/Remote Control)
SUNFLOWER BEAN "I Knew Love" (Lucky Number)
SOCCER MOMMY "Driver" [stripped] (Loma Vista)
SEXTILE featuring JEHNNY BETH "Push Ups" (Sacred Bones)
REAL ESTATE "Pink Sky" (Domino)
PRESS CLUB "I Am Everything" (www.pressclubmusic.com)
HEARTWORMS "Extraordinary Wings" [LAURIE VINCENT Remix] (Speedy Wunderground/[PIAS])
REGULAR SPREAD "Worth The Bet" (Private Chocolate)
SAINT ETIENNE "Alone Together" [PETE WIGGS Remix] (Heavenly/[PIAS])
WESTSIDE COWBOY "Shells" (Nice Swan)
ARMLOCK "Strobe" (www.armlock.bandcamp.com)
LOOSE TOOTH "Walk Away" (Blossom Rot)
THE HALVES "Your Love" (Impressed)
JEANINES "On and On" (Slumberland)
CAR SEAT HEADREST "Lady Gay Approximately" (Matador/Remote Control)
STEREOLAB "Melodie Is A Wound" (Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp)

"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

Soccer Mommy ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

@satellitenavigation
@thebigoilrecordingcompany

SATNAV - the experimental electronic project of Sebastian Zieler (co-founder of The Big Oil Recording Company) - releases his debut concept album, every•thing•a•part, on June 13. A meditation on climate grief, the album imagines distant-future AI lamenting the loss of Earth’s living world. The first single, r u alpha waving at me??, drops May 8, but premieres on katharsis today, May 5th.

With detailed sound design, pop-inspired harmony and high-contrast sonic imagery, the album is a series of lamentations and love songs for nature. First single r u alpha waving at me?? is a lullaby for extinct species, whispered in binary. Its eclecticism moves from a dungeon synth-inspired intro to shifting avant-garde electronics - a fitting introduction to the album’s play with form and colour, described by SATNAV as “painting with an imaginary palette.”



premiere: SATNAV - r u  alpha waving at me?? [label: The Big Oil Recording Company]

064 - Ivan Smagghe - fabric podcast

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

Soccer Mommy ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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