Soundcheck 21/9 :: Lurch & Chief + Slum Sociable + OutsideIn Festival + more…

If a blown mind is what you’re after, this week has some absolutely mind-blowing gigs on offer.

FBi Click Residency: Cosmo’s Midnight, Basenji, UNDR ctrl + Heavenly

Wednesday arvos have been handed over to some of the best local DJ crews and party-starters! The FBi Click residency starts this week with Cosmo’s Midnight and Basenji (and lots of their mates) in charge of your ears.

News :: Secret Garden Festival Second and Final Lineup Announcement

Sydney’s best kept secret has really pulled out the big guns with this bad boy. After an already stellar lineup, Secret Garden has released its second and final instalment of acts joining the bill…

Listen :: Basenji – ‘Dawn’

Basenji’s ‘Dawn’ sounds like a marching band encouraging an army of pixies to tumble down a huge crystalline mountain, their bodies clinking and plonking their way over the uneven surface in joyful mayhem. Download it for free here.

Basenji on The Mixing Bowl

Basenji rocked up to the FBi studios straight from an extremely premature Halloween party and didn’t even think to put a shirt on. As you can see, I loved it. We talked some interesting stuff though: Daft Punk, dolphins, and the shitty Bruce Willis movie Hudson Hawk.

Watch: Rainbow Chan live on Local Fidelity

Skinny-dipping with octopi, field recordings in Iceland and a hot-tub full of ice-cream. Rainbow Chan chats to Lee Tran Lam about fishy film-clips, visiting Iceland and why she supports FBi…

Fade Up :: Cosmo’s Midnight

Fade Up gives the finger to short attention spans and scoops the urgency out of music discovery. Go on a first date with up-and-comers Cosmo’s Midnight, soundtracked by a mixtape they curated just for you.

Sunset Review :: Giraffage – ‘Needs’

Alessandro Dallarmi discusses how the Internet Age makes it possible for music to seemingly come from an STI-ridden pocket of outer space while remaining eerily familiar.