Modular People

No Regular Play are classically trained childhood friends that produce elegant dance music, reaching the pinnacle with last year's album Endangered Species. Watchdogs of the infamous Marcy Hotel in Brooklyn and tight with the Wolf + Lamb collective, the duo also gave Villa's 'Mint' a classy future disco stroke for Club Mod #005.

They've turned in this week's super-smooth Modcast, ready to wind you up for the weekend. Playlist and interview after the jump.

Read More...

Softwar are a couple of club legends from Sydney, champions of the iconic SlowBlow residency at GoodGod for the past 4 years. They've just released 'Believe/One Day', their third EP and first for Club Mod. In celebration of this release and their imminent tour, here's a Modcast primed for late night shenanigans of the best variety.

Club Mod #007, Softwar's 'Believe/One Day' EP, is out now digitally via iTunes / Beatport. The physical version coming soon to the Mod Shop, pre-order it here.

The boys are traversing the southern hemisphere with dates downunder, China and Singapore in the coming couple months headlined by their EP launch party on Friday May 10 at the Spice Cellar, information here. All the details below as well as a chat & the tracklist.

Read More...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner pulls out all the stops for this week's Modcast. He comes to the decks with a panache that harks back to the ancient art of mixtape making; dropping bubblegum, reggae and 90's RnB rewinds amongst tributes to Australia's pale saint Rowland S Howard and writing combo Vanda and Young.

He's on tour around the UK, US and Europe in the coming months on the back of 'Mosquito', the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new album, out now and available here. Tour dates and tracklist below.

Read More...

Brain bug box musik! This freakout was formed by the manic mind of 'DJ PORK AKA DIJK VAN CHEESE' - the once in a lifetime DJ alias of Misha Hollenbach. A Renaissance man and great cook, Misha is one half of culture club Perks and Mini, Bamboo Musik and AWI4000, a quarter of the CHANGES and sometime 3rd Dee Wee. Mixed blood. Have a lick and go round the bend with "Italian late 90's trance, library, african, bees, WOO!, etc.....!!!".

Tracklist is unfortunately unavailable at this time. Cryptic clues will be revealed to followers of the perksandmini instagram tribe. We tried our best to have a sane chat with the man below.

Read More...

Glaswegian DJ duo Optimo held onto their Sunday residency longer than Seinfeld pirated the airwaves. In the 10+ years at Sub Club, they hosted the veritable cream of the crop, including our own Cut Copy, The Presets & The Rapture.

One half of the group, JD Twitch, brings us this weeks Modcast ahead of some killer parties in Sydney & Melbourne over the coming days. Tune in and get settled, we're gonna be all over this shuffleboard court. More info, tracklist and a chat below.

Fri Apr 19 - w/Boris, Roland Tings, Andee Frost, Otologic @ The Bottom End - Melbourne [TICKETS]
Sat Apr 20 - HAHA's 8th Birthday @ Goodgod - Sydney [TICKETS]
Win a double pass via the Club Mod on Facebook.

Read More...

Aussie producer Light Year is making 2013 his own. He kicked off the year with a killer techno-tinged bootleg of Tame Impala's 'Be Above It' before fuelling up the tour bus and setting off in support of The Presets on their Australian National Tour. To top it all off his latest release, 'Bliss EP', came out this week on This is Music. Have a taste of the title track here.

It's only April. Check out his Modcast and read up in our brief chat with the man below.

Read More...

Chris Baio drops a dose of bass for us in this week's Modcast. The electronic producer and Vampire Weekend anchor is hot off a separate Modular jaunt, where he remixed Young Dreams' 'Fog Of War' and commanded the dancefloor at our What We Do Is Secret party with Nick Zinner in January.

Distant relations to Hollywood royalty aside, he's amping up for Vampire Weekend's forthcoming album 'Modern Vampires of the City', out May 14. More info in our interview with the man of the week below.

Read More...

Fort Romeau hits up Modcast Central this week with a wildcard-laden cavalcade of house hits. Mike's been jetting the globe pumping his new EP 'sw9'. He's also fresh off his recent Burly Man remix of The Presets' 'Ghosts'

Grab your copy of the Modcast and keep reading as we talk life, music and deep house below.

Read More...

Hot on the heels of their debut album Between Places, Young Dreams are blazing their way across the world and into hearts all over. Check out this week's Modcast to hear the tracks fueling the brains behind their tunes.

The lads played six showcases throughout this year's SXSW and stirred up a lot of love for their live shows. Triple J's Zan Rowe called them "bloody wonderful", Fuse thought they were "perfect for afternoon listening" and KCRW said they "sound just like what Young Dreams should sound like ... think Beach Boys/Vampire Weekend/Fleet Foxes".

Read More...

Roman Wafers' rbt69 mix of emotions has been on constant rotation at Modular HQ over the last few months. We're now stretching back in satisfaction with his cool Modcast follow up, recorded in the peak of Melbourne's heat wave. Roman Wafers produces tracks as Bell Towers and is one half of club posse Bamboo Musik who were hand picked for our Vivid lineup.

Read More...