On Bridges Radio 28.7.15

Welcome to Wyall Style mixtape #1.

We've put together a little mix of our some of the artists in and around our collective. From lo-fi and shimmering pop, to crunchy beats and tape machine choons, here's a bunch of tracks to sink your teeth into.

welcome 2 wyall mixtape #1

JNBO aka Henry Jenkins, Deep soul bassist and 45 funk champion by night, reveals himself as maker of digi-trash-ghettodelic beats and stupid no-budget photoshop artwork by day. The Dark Horse of Far West Brunswick brings that vintage/filter/tape sound he's known for but now it's torn apart and reconstituted in Ableton in a collage of twisted samples, space echo and synthesizers. Analog engineering meets laptop experimentation.

Known for playing bass in bands The Cactus Channel, Frida and Karate Boogaloo and as a sessional player for artists like Mojo Juju and Emma Donovan, Henry is now making all kinds music in his Wyall Style studio, where he not only records quality deep funk bands on a reel to reel tape recorder, but geeks out on sub-basement-choirboy-electronica in the duo Loafer and bent remixes and freaky beats as JNBO. 

His first release as JNBO on HopeStreet Recordings is a remix of The Bombay Royale’s The River, from the soundtrack of UbiSoft Games’ Far Cry 4, one of the biggest video games of 2014.


FREE DOWNLOAD

The River (JNBO Remix)

Go Round

Buy Digital -- http://smarturl.it/fridaslowly
Buy 7" Vinyl -- http://smarturl.it/3nznc8

There is something to be said for the things in life that happen slowly. It’s why we have slow cookers, why we can take videos in slow motion on our phones; we crave the indulgence of spending time, of allowing ourselves to consume, and be consumed by, something that demands to be felt in different ways, over and over. 

Allow yourself, then, to understand the name of Frida’s new release as an instruction on how it is to be experienced. Lower yourself into Slowly, and B side, I Want It All, as you would lower yourself into a steamy bath. The guitar jangles on like bathroom lights through the mist, phantom voices echo over each other, and indeterminate time passes as you blissfully sink deeper and deeper down into this dewy, delectable pop. 

Because yeah, it is pop music, even if it tastes a little funky. Turn it over in your mouth a couple more times, chew slowly and savour. 

Since forming in 2013, Frida, as a live band, have cut their teeth on festival slots in Singapore, hotel rooms in India, and a regular diet of gigs up and down Brunswick Street.  Only in a live context is the music to be consumed suddenly; as indulgent as it is, there is no better way to absorb the dense, intense six-piece sound than all at once.

The Slowly/I Want It All single is a thrilling tease - a little something to signify a new chapter, and to hint at what is to come. Recorded by members Lewis Coleman and Henry Jenkins, at DIY paradise and Frida home base Wyall Style studios, this release reflects a mature, considered brand of absurd pop music. You’re gonna love it. 

Slowly / I Want It All is the debut release from Wyall Style Records, an imprint label from Australia’s HopeStreet Recordings. Release available worldwide on vinyl 7” and digital from September 18th. Visit http://www.wyallstyle.com/slowly for more details.

Frida - I Want It All

Moving forward from previous projects Five Mile Town and solo acts, Plastic is a newly formed alternative five piece of Melbourne locals and Kiwi ex-pats. Plastic are equally at home in the musical streams of alternative acts Wilco and Pavement, as they are in the realms of classic songwriters such as Neil Young and Neil Finn.
 
Plastic's debut single 'So Numb' is outlined heavily with large guitars and dynamic synth arrangements, coupled together with poignant and introspective lyrics.
 
'So Numb' is lifted from the EP 'Nightmares' due for release late August.


So Numb

Written by Elkkle & Woodes
Produced by www.soundcloud.com/elkkle 
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Mixed and Mastered by @simonlamsound


https://www.facebook.com/woodesmusic
https://www.facebook.com/elkklemusic

~Lyrics


If you squint your eyes 
You could be fooled it's the moon 
There’s a spark on a lamppost 
Casting’ shadows on you

& I’m tired love / I'm tired of love now 

Unfavored row, 
You haven't got the best seat 
I see you through screens, 
Am i being discrete? 

/ I’m tired love / I'm tired now 

Face made of pixels 
600 a spec 
I tried to delete you 
But I can't forget 

/ I’m tired love / I'm tired now 
Riding home now, racing home now...  
 
No arms on the bars
Wobbling and weaving 
Gliding, hitting rocks 
While they all sleep

Birds erupting from their house 
Feathers in the street lights 
Watch them weave in and out 
Eatin' creatures that live in the night 


Weaving like paper planes 
Fold me up and fly away 


Free Download

Woodes x Elkkle - Creatures

Clams 7" (2015)
https://moontown.bandcamp.com/album/clams-7

S/T Cassette (2014)
http://moontown.bandcamp.com/album/thhomas


Go Round

Thhomas