lo-fi for life ya'll

rad in two weeks

2005-05-11T09:07:00.000-07:00

we just played these songs:

CARIBOU hello hammerheads
DJ TR!P what you do
COCOROSIE brazillian sun
HOTT DAMAGE frank
SPARROW HILL no is no answer
AKRON/FAMILY running, returning
HOTT DAMAGE celebrity birthdays!!
WHY? sanddollars
DD SOT stay up late
HOTT DAMAGE unimportant biurthday
FOG the rabbit
XIU XIU pox
HOTT DAMAGE wizz
KARL BLAU noah richard's sun
TERRAPIN heart of gold
THE RAINCOATS only loved at night
JOSIAH four leaf foundations
EL DAMAGE CALIENTE beso mi culo
COCO ROSIE k-hole
UNDERLAPPER 3 sides
HOTT DAMAGE try talkin over this
SIXTOO, SAGE FRANCIS, AZEEM and BUCK 65 the canada project
LEVINS VS JON haiku battle
HOTT DAMAGE fourtrack theme song
SUFJAN STEVENS c'mon! feel the illnois!

and the week before that we played these ones:

PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE electra
THEMSELVES poison pit
THEMSELVES poison pit (WHY? Remix)
SUFJAN STEVENS come on! feel the illnoise!
SMOOSH massive cure
HOME FOR THE DEF first name basis
AKRON FAMILY shoes
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE feat VASHTI BUNYAN it's you
HOT DAMAGE happy birthday craig david
EDAN feat MR LIF making planets
EDAN time outt (segue)
EDAN feat DAGHA rock and roll
THE RECTIFIERS levy
MY DISCO inhaler
LITTLE WINGS understand
THE JAMES SHINE one o'clock
ODD NOSDAM wig one
HOT DAMAGE feat MACK D spontaneous funk jam 2005
WHY? miss ohio's nameless (live)
WHY? some other song (live)
INFINTY POST- HOOPLA bush fire
HOT DAMAGE licks not sucks
THE MICROPHONES universe
THE MICROPHONES mt. eerie
THE MICROPHONES universe
JOHNNYAND THE VENESZUALAS haiku madness!!
RICH lazy hazy night
SUFJAN STEVENS john wayne gacy jr

hott damage are seriously the best friggin band in the universe right now.

last week

2005-05-02T01:52:00.000-07:00

THE RHOMBUS cassette
DODGY WORLD rose controls
FRANCIS PLAGNE untitled
ONEIDA spirits
WHY? miss ohio's nameless
PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE winter
SIXTOO & MATTH watchedusslowlydie
THE BOOKS an animated description of mr. Maps
BECAUSE OF GHOSTS hello darkness
LOW canada
MANITOBA ole
ODD NOSDAM feat JESSICA BAILLIF untitled three
MS JOHN SODA i & #8217 (SUBTLE adaptation)
PIVOT kirsten dunst
FRANCIS PLAGNE untitled
VETIVER belles
GRAVENHURST fog round the figurehead
THE MICROPHONES part I: the sun
THE MICROPHONES part II: solar system
UNDERLAPPER springtime
JEFFREY LEWIS the chelsea hotel
TOYDEATH feat FRANK BENNETT the girl

this week we've got some awesome potatoes for you. animal collective + vashti banyan, fog, a live why? set and the other side of mt eerie.

FBi Radio 94.5FM

2005-04-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

FBi Radio 94.5FM

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART moonlight on vermont
JENNIFER GENTLE universal daughter
I [LOVE] SPACE in limousine windows
THE RECTIFIERS this peace between us (3RD DEK's between these pieces remix)
MERLE MORRIS frost freeze
CITY CITY CITY grayscale
DOSH naoise
13 & GOD soft atlas
WHY? darla (live at anna's cabin)
NO THROUGH ROAD sucked in matt
CAN CAN HEADS starpowerless
ANTHONY ROCHESTER prism of playdough
THE SLY HATS your old house
THE JAMES SHINE a solo!
DEVENDRA BANHART nice people
MAHER SHAHAL HASH BAZ what's your business here, elijah?
ALASDAIR ROBERTS on the banks of red roses
LEVINS & THE JAMES SHINE kooky jam!
JEL long lost
PIVOT montecore
DEERHOOF live set: gore hut/the pickup/holy night fever/who nu/queen of the lake/god save the queen bee/ queen orca wicca wind
SAGE FRANCIS feat WIL OLDHAM sea lion
TIDES taudos liucos
CARIBOU lord leopard

ooooaaaer?

2005-04-13T09:03:00.000-07:00

tonight, these songs were played on fourtrack, the greatest radio show in the world.

SOLE feat WHY? city center
BARRAGE hour of pink dominoes
PATRICK WOLF tristan
TOYDEATH froggy
HOME IMPROVEMENT THEME
STYROFOAM feat VALERIE TREBELJAHR and ALIAS misguided
THE BOOKS take time
SEAWORTHY coming home
KIOSK ratt boy/breaking them in
METAL CHICKS electric mistress
LIMITED EXPRESS (HAS GONE?) tiger rock
MACROMANTICS apple crumble
13 & GOD if
CATNIP pink & blue & green
AKRON/FAMILY running, returning
THE DEVASTATIONS diamond ring
GERLING the last traveller
KID KOALA live set (incl scrathcratchratchatch)
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT association
BLASTCORP believe
BAMBI scribble
EXPATRIATE only wanna love ya
LINDA PERHACS paper mountain man
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE toby, take a bow

ps. the title refers to that noise tim allen makes in home improvement.

alpha step, omega step

2005-03-30T08:04:00.000-08:00

we played these songs not 2 minutes ago:

DANIEL JOHNSTON walking the cow
SOLEX mere imposters
OH! BELGIUM ra
A CERTAIN RATIO the fox
SEESAWTRACE triplet mix
RICH lazy hazy night
THE BLOW little sally tutorial
MIRAH cold cold water
ILL BRAVADOS hall of annexed records
MAN'SBESTFRIEND be happy
SOLE banks of marble
CURSE OV DIALECT multicultural markets
PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE inadequate response
NO THROUGH ROAD girls are the devil (out of my heart mix)
PATRICK WOLF the railway house
BARRAGE marceline
UNDERLAPPER little
BLACK DICE wastered
BLASTCORP thousand miles away
CAT POWER willie deadwilder
OKKERVIL RIVER for real
HOME FOR THE DEF ain't no god but me
ATMOSPHERE sep seven game show theme
GHOSTFACE feat JADAKISS run

pinch and a punch for the first day of the month!

Blastcorp Tour!!

2005-03-28T22:16:00.000-08:00

hey fellows,
my friend kris is coming to visit this week. he lives in darwin and calls himself 'Blastcorp'. he makes blippy indie music and he just got signed to a german label, city centre offices. last time he came to sydney, he played a show in an old church and it was amazing! so i've organized some more shows for him this week. come see kris rip your dang face up at:

Space 3 (Corner of Regent St and Cleveland St, Chippendale)
Blastcorp w/ Gold Mice + Oh! Belgium (Melb) + The Emergency (Melb) + Lakes (Melb)
Friday April 1st
6pm - 10pm
$5
ALL AGES

The Lansdowne (Corner of City Rd + Broadway)
Blastcorp w/ Dsico + DJ Broken Cowboy
Sunday April 3rd
6pm - 10pm
FREE
18+

so come along, it'd be really nice to see you there!!

ps. blastcorp really is amazing!! hit up http://www.blastcorp.com for proof!!

groovy man

2005-03-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

last night was a whole bunch of fun, we played these songs...

MIRAH nobody has to stay
SIXTOO grimey inks the moment
CLUE TO KALO this dies over distance
WHY? cold lunch
BLASTCORP broken heart
PAVEMENT you're killing me
THE SEX DOODLES fourtrack theme
RESTIFORM BODIES principles of easy listening (pt b)
BEATRIX feat THE VULK and RACELESS porcupine
THE SEX DOODLES behemoth
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI the cemetery
BL STRYKER uno
THE SEX DOODLES (there's a force) that's psychadelic
PEDESTRIAN feat DOSE ONE dead beats, generation of
THE GOLDEN AGE the desert song
THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL today I lost a tooth
CALVIN JOHNSON sorry entertainer
THE RHOMBUS reflections of a charboiled whiz-kid
THE SEX DOODLES groovy man
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS I can't stop it
MANITOBA crayon
BUCK 65 square four
CARIBOU barnowl
TRIOSK meets JAN JELINEK mis-leader
THE SEX DOODLES fourtrack end theme
THE MOLDY PEACHES jorge regula

a thousand thankyooz to our house band, the sex doodles, for hanging out in the studio and playing a bunch of their tunes. you can catch them this friday at the frequency lab.
after the show i slept at conrads place. now i am awake with only the clothes i wore yesterday, ninety minutes from home. i have go back to places i was yesterday. what if they notice i'm in the same rags?
golly.

twas a wednesday night

2005-03-17T19:23:00.000-08:00

and me and james played this nice selection.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE leaf house
DEVO gut feeling/(slap your mammy)
COCO ROSIE by your side
BLASTCORP and the birds are blue
DEVENDRA BANHART the charles c. leary
FOGthe girl from the gum commercial
5!NYTK digital love
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE it wasn't the same somehow
UNKLE HO eureka
SOLE cheap entertainment
ODD NOSDAM wig six
BIG JIM exodus
GAUCHE trapeze
ERNIE i don't want to live on the moon
GREENTHINK untitled
THE RUSSIAN BRIDES sheep/wolf/sheep
LIGHTNING BOLT dracula mountain
TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE break on through (to the other side)
OMID the kettle: moments l, ll & lll
BUCK 65 square three
PATRICK WOLF to the lighthouse
PASO BIONIC black ink concerto
LAURA hikikomori
SKIP JAMES devil got my woman
ADEM everything you need

i saw the fiery furnaces last night. wow, what a band.
that's pretty much it.
love levins.

oh, this happened...

2005-03-12T02:09:00.000-08:00

last wednesday night, we played these lovely fineries...

DEAD C truth
THE MOLDY PEACHES county fair
MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY hawaiian nights pt 1
WHY? maze/hahahaha/on my nineteenth
JOHN CHANTLER opposite ends of same
PLANKTON insomnia (GRIEVOUS remix)
PLANKTON tsunami
PLANKTON nubius insomniomniomnia remix
SIXTOO & MATTH webeganhearingthings
DJ SIGNIFY feat SIXTOO as SIX VICIOUS get paid
THE NEW POLLUTANTS the new pollutants theme
JEFF HANSON welcome here
TERRAPIN i didn't see you
JEFFREY LEWIS back when i was four
KIMYA DAWSON i will never forget
THE MOLDY PEACHES lucky number nine
HIT THE JACKPOT pictures on the wall
BUCK 65 square two
FRIDGE tone guitar + drum noise
PRETEEN BRAVES kill the cat
MY DISCO see life
PREFUSE 73 ft GHOSTFACE & EL P hide ya face (EL P remix)
BECK one foot in the grave
DJ SHADOW dark days

plus kimya dawson slagged off garage days and spoke in a sexy voice, and plankton were totally weird, man.
oh, also, we didn't play any of the songs we said we'd play.
what are you gonna do?
tune in next week is what.
xx

tonight! tonight! tonight!

2005-03-09T14:30:00.000-08:00

fourtrack is back on the air this evening from midnight, and if you tune in you'll hear melbourne's plankton, who are in town for the gauche launch at Candy's apartment on thursday, plus have a new album out soon. Also, a chat we had with kimya dawson of the moldy peaches. she released a solo rekkid late last year on k records which is bloody lovely, and she's a freaking lovely lady.

also we gots us some new releases by the grey daturas, mugison and 13 + God. and Square # 2 by buck 65.

tune in why not?
tonight from midnight on FBi 94.5.

what is music?

2005-03-09T14:00:00.000-08:00

i went to the what is music onathon last night at the metro. here's what i thought of some of the bands....

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Black Dice were good. A little inconsistant, but there were a lot of awesome moments. that intro beat with the guitar sounding almost spanish was terrific.

Dead C were the most consistant band of the night. Their drummer is tight and loose at the same time somehow. Looking forward to catching them tonight with a proper soundcheck.

Gang Gang Dance should've been incredible, but the sound sucked in that room and everyone was too jaded to get into it. I liked the more UK garage sounding parts of their set, with the booom! garage bass hit.

poor OOIOO. they were brilliant, and if i stayed for the entirity of their set, i'd probably say they were the best band on. why weren't they put on earlier? they had a trumpet!! sadly, i missed the end because a bus* had to be caught.

i think Growing did the droney ten minute guitar tones much more convincingly than Sunn O))). They shouldn't have been first on. Very Nice.

The Residents were on some mid 90's rave shit. i think you had to be over 30 to get it. Or on crack.

The Bumhead Orchestra were way more enjoyable than they should've been. an orchestra of scenesters playing instruments they didn't know how to play, conducted by Tex Perkins. it worked for some reason, and was a highlight.

Pan Sonic were okay, i wasn't really in the mood.

The thirty seconds i saw of chicks on speed should have been spent buying a slurpee. I want to like this band, because i like what they stand for, but i don't like that they suck. sorry.

and that's about it really, everything else was pretty forgettable. there were some good local dj's and laptoppers, and some awful ones. the von crapp family were pretty cool. it was a pretty badly organised festival, but they'll get it right next year.

*i left a gang gang dance 12" on this bus. so i walked from wahroonga station to the bus depot in mt colah to pick it up. that's a lot of walking at 3am.

actually, there was another highlight!!

this korean cafe beneath the metro called Cya!! man, it was the shit!! cheap, good food, complete with free korean side dishes, and while you eat, you listen to urban grooves!! i ate marinated squid whilst gin + juice played thru the stereo!!

double exclamation marks all round!!

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there are a few more what is music? gigs on this week, tonight at the gaelic club sees Dead C, Sunn O))) and others play, and tomorrow night at the Gaelic Club has Black Dice and more. And if my glowing residents review has you itching to see them, you might wanna be at the metro both this evening and tomorrow. chicks on speed join them. all the deets can be found heeeere.

black dice

2005-03-08T15:22:00.000-08:00

black dice are some nice folks,
hopefully we will have a split 12" they did with animal collective to play this week.
come see them tonight at what is music at the metro.

total scandal!

2005-03-02T06:38:00.000-08:00

on the 3rd of march 2004, between the hours of midnight and two am, the following songs were played on fourtrack by folks named andrew levins and james shine...

THE BEACH BOYS at my window
GREG DAVIS at my window
XIU XIU i luv the valley oh!
ROOMMATE tuesday
BUCK 65 centaur
MATT'S LITTLE BROTHER flowers
SUBTLE long voice (MIKE PATTON remix)
13 & GOD soft atlas
BECAUSE OF GHOSTS i always thought but never said
GANG GANG DANCE god's money III
GANG GANG DANCE god's money I
GANG GANG DANCE god's money II
UNDERLAPPER haphazard
NEW BUFFALO come back
NED COLLETTE turning turning
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI it's 5
PANTY LIONS butterdream
BUCK 65 square one
SADDLEBACK nearly new
NO THROUGH ROAD suicide is painless
KIMYA DAWSON fire

then one phillipe perez took over and played a whole bunch of good stuff. and midnight oil.

this right here is, well, a little dull...

2005-03-01T14:05:00.000-08:00

so buck 65 released a new album lately, entitled "this right here is buck 65". me and james are big fans of buck's past work, in particular 'square', 'vertex' and 'man overboard'. these unbelievably personal albums were recorded in his bedroom for the most part, using stripped back production and totally not standard hip hop breaks.
buck's latest record revisits his back catalogue, and in amongst new stuff, some older songs have been re-recorded with a band. and while the new stuff is pretty cool, the revisits kinda suck. okay, they really suck. here's a great review that kinda sums up what i think of the new record. i recommend you read this, it's very well written.
over the next few weeks we'll be playing a different section of buck's 2001 release, 'square'. the album is divided into 4 quarters, and we'll play each quarter in it's entirity as the weeks go by. it's a great record, trust us.

who's got the props?

2005-02-24T16:55:00.000-08:00

we spoke to kimya dawson last week, and afterwards she wrote this on her livejournal.

'in real life last night i did a phone interview for a radio staion in australia. and i kept forgetting it was for radio. i was talking really excited about certain things as if it was all going to be edited and printed and taken out of context. but really it is going to be me squealing "NUH UH! LOU BARLOW DID NOT SAY HE LIKES ME!!!" and "YEAH!!! OH MY GOD! YOU TOTALLY HAVE TO CON ANIMAL COLLECTIVE INTO HAVING ME OPEN FOR THEM IN AUSTRALIA!" you know, shit like that. funny in writing. a little dorky when it is actually me saying it. but speaking of old friends...me and dorky had the same wet nurse.'

kimya dawson is in one of the best antifolk bands ever, the moldy peaches. she released a solo rekkid last year on k records. also, she's awesome. you can hear her on fourtrack in a few weeks time.

babababa

2005-02-23T18:29:00.000-08:00

last night fourtrack was born.
we played a whole bunch of nice tunes and had a visit from a melburnian duo by the name of sly hats. i tell ya, the pair woulda charmed the pants of yer, even if you weren't wearing any!
here's what we played:

ANTICON we ain't fessin' (double quotes)
LITTLE WINGS uncle kyle says
PASO BIONIC rusty dawn reprise
DEERHOOF flower
COLDITZ GLIDER properties of light
THE RHOMBUS night
TERRAPIN it's nice up here on the roof
SLY HATS lips
SLY HATS your old house (live in the studio)
SLY HATS the good ship (live in the studio)
JENNIFER GENTLE universal daughter
TES say when
SLY HATS happy miserable freakin' birthday, stephanoo
PRETTY THINGS this balloon is burning
THE CANNANES vivienne
BEAT HAPPENING cry for a shadow
MERCI - S summer days
FOG pneumonia
BOOM BIP & DOSE ONE the birdcatchers return
REACHING QUIET 113th clean
BLASTCORP how was i to know you were everything
SARAH JANE WENTZKI inadequate response
RESTIFORM BODIES busy boner
MKB 4 yams short of a jam
DJ TR!P what you do
SITTING WITH MICE untitled
MT EERIE wooly mammoths absence
KIOSK sick of waiting (live at spectrum)
MICAH P HINSON dont you (part 1 & 2)

we had fun.
next week we'll be talking to new yorks Gang Gang Dance, who are coming to visit us for the What Is Music? festival. should be good, their album is bonkers.
happy thursday.

a new show!!

2005-02-22T17:08:00.000-08:00

hey folks
me (levins) and a buddy, one mr james shine, are about to embark on a weekly adventure. some would call it insanity, but we prefer to call it "fourtrack". it's a radio show. a weekly one that occurs for two hours. pretty snazzy, no?
we were asked to describe the sounds we will be playing, so we told them "two hours of experimental lo-fi, ma'am". i guess that's pretty open. the kinda shit you can hear will be everything from beat down folk to leftfield hip hop. also post punk, indie, noise and maybe a little glitchiness.
fourtack begins this wednesday the 23rd at midnight, and continues into thursday the 24th.
because it's the first show, we'll be playing our favourite songs to give you a fairly good idea of what we're into, and as the weeks progress there'll be interviews with some of our most envied musicians, including adem of fridge, kimya dawson of the moldy peaches, why?, sixtoo and lou barlow of sebadoh. some nice people may even come and guest program sometimes!
we think it will be pretty fun. tune in why not?

fourtrack
two hours of experimental lo-fi
wednesdays from midnight
on sydney's FBi 94.5fm

we also gots us a forum here.
plus a livejournal account, should you also have one and wish to add us to your list of friends.
go cheggidout.

love from us.

ps. we're listening to the mush ropeladder 12" as we type. it's plenty good. james got it for just five bucks! and i had to pay ten like a right sucker. aw.