#14: Jonathan Zawada - Sound Effects
The latest Modcast, the fourteenth in the series, is the most original yet. Featuring the creative mind of Jonathan Zawada presenting a selection of tracks that have sound effects in them. A slick mix of songs, stitched together with a common theme. From steel pipes to cash registers to jungle sounds to frogs and more. Jonathan Zawada is one of Australia's premiere artistic talents and has had ties with Modular for a while now, co-ordinating artwork for a lot of artists on our label including The Bang Gang, The Bumblebeez, Muscles, The Presets and loads more. Most recently, he worked with Shane Sakkeus as Trust Fun on the video clip for the Lifelike remix of The Presets' Are You The One?
Ladyhawke Blogs
Pip has been touring all over the shop with people like Peaches, Soulwax and 2 Many DJs, as well as playing our very own Modular parties. She's started blogging over at her MySpace, but we've cut and pasted the first entry below, check back there regularly for updates.
Ladyhawke - "Back Of The Van"
Modular is beaming a rainbow-sized smile as we welcome Ladyhawke to the gang. Ladyhawke aka Pip Brown is the Kiwi born, Aussie bred, now residing in London artiste who stitches pure modern electro pop with the vintage day-glo disco elements of a bygone era. Ladyhawke's debut album will be released in September this year. Whilst "Back Of The Van" coupled with remixes by Fred Falke and Mock & Toof will be available early June.
Video: Robyn - "Cobrastyle" (Live on Letterman)
Robyn performed "Cobrastyle" on The Late Show with David Letterman on May 1, 2008.
#13: Gentlemen Drivers
Regulars at our Modular parties in France, Gentlemen Drivers kindly stitched up all a bunch of tres bien tracks for the latest Modcast. Whilst their sound has been described by some genre-casting aficionados as a midpoint between 80s and 90s club music, Gentlemen Drivers have remixed the ass off tracks like Homecoming by The Teenagers and DVNO by Justice. Word is that they got some of their own productions in the works too.
Video: Cut Copy - "Lights and Music" (Live On Rove)
Around 9:20pm last night, on Channel Ten's Rove Live, you would've been able to catch Cut Copy doing their "Lights and Music" thang to a rather familiar crowd, check out Cut Copy's #1 fans, Andee Van Damage and Busy T in the front row.
Gallery: Bumblebeez Exhibition, Goodhood, London
Ahead of the release their magnificent technicolour spew of a debut album Prince Umberto & The Sister Of Ill, The Bumblebeez presented an equally important siamese twin companion to the music, the visual side of the band, in an art show at Goodhood in Hoxton, London.
View the gallery on Flickr.
#12: Magic Happens
Guest mix by Sydney DJ Magic Happens."Like a fine wine, Magic Happens grew up on a vineyard. From a young age he learned the values of drawing a line in the sand without putting all your eggs in one basket. After initially falling in amongst a rag-tag bunch of misfits with nothing to lose and something to prove, a youthful Magic Happens would soon reach a point of inconsolable disillusion and eventually come to formulate his own system of beliefs and ideals, ultimately arriving at the notion of doing what's best for the party."
For this, his inaugural Modcast (we do have the hindsight in thinking that he'll be back), he serves up a treat titled "Look Deep Into the Parka Mix" that takes the best disco breaks from his box and runs them through the Magic Happens blender.
#11: Pandemonium Jones
We announced a while back we were doing weekly podcasts. We did one. That was about 7 years ago. Now we return to the modern age with this wonderful guest mix from Philly's finest, Pandemonium Jones. Get down wit it.
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25.03.10 - Delphic
Hi-Fi Bar, Brisbane
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The Prince Bandroom, Melbourne
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The Beach Road Hotel, Sydney
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Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
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Surfers Beer Garden, Gold Coast
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