Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Strangefuzzykandi

Plenty going on in the Sydney scene over the next couple of weeks with festivals, new club nights and overseas visitors on the way.

Saturday nights at the Terrace, Home Nightclub comes 'Strangeways', a club night that will push the boundaries playing what promoter Andy Rigby calls 'eclectro', a healthy mix of electro-house, tech, breaks, progressive, techno and electro with smatterings of drum and bass, hip hop and dancehall. The mantra 'as long as its rocking. reiterated by Mr Rigby should be exciting to lovers of electronic music that is left-of-centre. Strangeways kicks off March 4.

Fuzzy 360 converges on the Hordern Pavillion + The Dome on the 15th April which is Easter Saturday. The line-up features Felix Da Housecat, Tom Novy, Audio Bullys, Ajax and Kid Kenobi.Tix are $65 early bird and $75 for the final release.

Tank will launch its new saturday club night on the 18th March, but before then it will celebrate its 5th birthday with the Hed Kandi crew helping Tank with the celebrations. Entry is $25, not a bad price for a Hed Kandi night.



The official whiteboydancefloor 'Whats Hot and Whats not' guide for this week

If you want to be cool, and dont want to run the risk of looking like a square, then check out whats hot and not so you wont get caught out by your much cooler friends.

Whats Hot :

Sunset Rubdown - Keep an eye out for the album later in the year from Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug. A little more restrained than Krug's other project yet no less engaging.

The new Prince single - How good is the guy, 'Black Sweat' makes Prince sound as vital and hot as ever.

The Knife's new LP 'Silent Shout'- A definite contender for Album of the year already. It's the sound of computers turning on their masters and dancing on the corpses.

Tiga - Finally he drops the album Sexor, and now he is the coolest kid in school. He shows why electro-pop is so damn sexy.

Whats Not :

Arctic Monkeys - it was cool to like them for about 5 minutes last year, now you'll just look a bit silly when you utter 'Have you heard this new rad band called...'

Mylo mash-ups - Drop the pressure was awesome, i get it. That was 2 years ago, it's time to move on.

Plus : Sydney and surrounding area venues charging a high cover charge for poor line ups, hard-asses with popped collared Industrie polo's, suburban clubs with unnecessary dress codes .

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