With music by Aminé, Ohio Players, Alice Smith, Greenvision, Steve Spacek, Rimbaudian, Alton Miller, James Brown, Big Boi, Galaxians, Sandi & The Sunsetz and !!!.
Pre-Mo Song of the Week: BODY BEAT RITUAL - Mortal Sin
New Zealand based EBM auteur Body Beat Ritual makes his debut on Bergerac with an incendiary EP of full throttle intense dark wave bangers. Growing up in North West England immersed in hardcore punk and rave culture led to musical experiments and Body Beat Ritual is his unique splicing of both aesthetics.
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Artist Spotlight: Sex Judas feat. Ricky
We play four heaters from the new album 'Go Down Judas', released 18 May 2018 on Optimo Music. Playful, daft, sleazy boogie house and funk styles from Oslo via Glasgow. Norwegian producer Tore Gjedrem of Ost & Kjex fame, channels his love of comix, bohemia and fascination with human vice, the unspoken, the Red Light districts, the alleys of the mind into his alter ego.
Feature: Sound of Sydney Checking in with our man Carlos to hear what the vibe sounds like across the ditch this week...
Brawther - Spaceman Funk (Deep Club Mix)
John Spring - Drummachines (Mike Huckaby Remix)
Peggy Gou - Maktoop (Original Mix)
Apoena - Midnight
High Tide - Time Unlimited
First up on today’s Wire, Jemima speaks Dr Jarrod Gilbert about working with gangs to reduce crime. Neutral corner returns on Trump’s recent executive order to reverse the separation of children and their families at the border. Andrew Little joins Lachlan for their regular chat where they discuss rehabilitation in prison. Our Wire Worry week is sex work and Lachlan talks to Dame Catherine Healy from the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective about the Swedish model and why decriminalisation is much better. Finally This Day in History looks at the Freedom Summer murders in 1964.
In Hour 1 it's Route 8 who has been making a name for himself under a number of guises such as Q3A and DJ Ciderman for labels including Lobster Theremin, Nous, Fabrwechsel and Delsin for a number of years. The Hungarian producer has dipped his toes into a number of genres in this time touching on lo-fi through to electro, breakbeat, techno and anything in-between but always heavily leaning towards his love for house. He told us;
"The mix is basically a journey around the music I love. It includes records I bought during my travels and cheap forgotten gems from discogs. Few tracks I would definitely play for the dance floor these days, some tunes from my close friends and an acid one from me. I tried to put them together in order which kinda resemble a long night in the club. :)"
In Hour 2 it's Chevel following the release of his double EP entitled “In A Rush And Mercurial", which comes after his recent album “Always Yours” for Mumdance and Logos’ label Different Circles, The Italian electronic music producer released this project on his own imprint Enklav, reaffirming his own take on ambient, techno, experimental beats and rush-inducing synth lines. The Italian electronic music producer released this project on his own imprint Enklav reaffirming his own take on ambient, techno, experimental beats and rush-inducing synth lines. Composed and divided into two parts, “In A Rush” and “Mercurial” are a collection of 12 tracks entirely recorded or overdubbed during the artistic residency of four days at the Studio Venezia installation by Xavier Veilhan, which took place at the French Pavillon for the Venice Art Biennale in 2017.
First up on today's Wire we discuss the fallout from Jami-Lee Ross' secret recording of Simon Bridges, then Oscar unveils his new segment, Community Garden, this week speaking to Kieran from movespace. Andrew Little joins Lachlan for their regular chat, talking post prison support and the government’s response to an Israeli court ordering New Zealanders to pay a fine for encouraging Lorde to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv. Lachland also speaks with Ahi from gender minorities Aoteaora about the governemnet removing the cap on gender affirmation surgery, and finally, this day in history returns to look at the 2007 bombing in Karsaz, in Karachi Pakistan.
Ministry of Justice workers have begun taking industrial action in order to get the Ministry to meet their pay and condition demands. This includes the use of lightning strikes in efforts to get the Ministry to budge. Lachlan spoke with Tatiana Daniels from the PSA and Len Andersen from the Criminal bar Association about the strikes.
Laura O’Connell Rapira is the director of Action Station which is an independent, crowdfunded, community campaigning organisation. Recently, the organisation created a programme called Tauiwi Tautoko which gave non-Māori, or tauiwi, the opportunity to undergo training in order to be able to combat racism toward tangata Māori online. Lillian Hanly spoke with Laura about the programme, as well as Kate Collyns who was a volunteer on the programme.
Radio Adelaide’s, Samantha Smith catches us up on all the latest Australian news in Neighbourhood Watch. She tells Laura Kvigstad about the rhetoric around terrorism that has sparked in Australia following the arrest of three alleged terrorists and Prime Minister, Scott Morissons recent inflamatory remarks around the muslim community. Then they speak on migration in Australia and Morisson's recent emphasis on reducing permanent migration in order to combat congestion. Finally, they talk about an Australian convicted drug smuggler, who has served her sentence in Indonesia and the media coverage surround her return to Australia.
This week Laura Kvigstad found herself in a debate around condom use in porn. It is fairly rare that you see condoms being used in heterosexual porn and producer Jennifer Rose Tamati pointed out that it’s often used as a plot device in the way of being a barrier for 'good sex'.
Porn seems to have an effect on the way people have sex but our question today is 'how'?
A new charitable trust in New Zealand, The Light Project, was set up in order to help educate youth in navigating the world of porn. The Project Director for the organization, Nikki Denholm tells us all about the research around porn and the effect it has on young people watching it.
On Dear Science today we talk about the end of the Opportunity Rover on Mars, push ups and heart disease, and the best order to drink wine and beer together as well as a profile of the element Americium from the Periodic Table.
Fletcher Tabuteau is with us this week and Lillian Hanly spoke with him about the Digital Services Tax and the possible shift away from the use of 1080.
Finally, Lillian has something special in store for Wednesday listeners over the next month or so, and that is A Seven Part Chat with Rod Oram. This will be explained later in the show but basically there were some articles around the possibility of another global financial crisis and Lillian wanted to know more about that, and whether we should be keeping money out of the bank...
Heaps of great interaction from listeners today too with lots of good points about alcohol poisoning and tax and fairness.
The environment court has declined a permanent protection order for a centuries old kauri name Awhiawhi by locals and iwi. It’s the latest in a series of battles over the tree in attempts to stop it being felled for development that have included multiple occupations, judicial reviews, and petitions. Lachlan spoke with local resident and one of the campaigns leaders WInnie Charlesworth about the environment court’s decision.