The Artisans - Don't Have To Choose

 Something a bit different today. An Indie pop gem from an underground powerhouse in Australia.

Greasy Pop Records was started in Adelaide by Perth Native Doug Thomas. Throughout the 1980s they put out a bunch of sought after and slept on rock, punk and pop records from a bubbling South Australian scene.

This record, the only release by The Artisans, came in 1990, when the label was starting to move into punk and garage rock. Don't Have To Choose is full of naivety, hope and youthfulness. While the band members must have got older, this serves as a snapshot of their forays into indie music experimentalism.

The catalogue of Greasy Pop Records, similarly, provides a relevant window into the South Australian underground in the 1980s. While you might think it would be all Cold Chisel or The Angels, there were passionate alternative artists making genuinely interesting music.

Check the record out on Discogs here.

I came across this from my volunteering at PBS in the Music Department, cataloguing the extensive vinyl collection. There will be more to come on the Empty Archive, but for a teaser of what's to come, you can listen to my fill for Radio City using some of those bits here.

Radio City on PBS

Back on PBS today with a cover for Crispi's legendary show, Radio City!

I played a bunch of Australian stuff that I have dug our through my volunteering in the PBS Music Department. 

Lots of old 80s pop and funky stuff that maybe you haven't heard anywhere else, plus a few you might have heard on Empty Archive already!

Click the pick:

Artist	Song
The New Don Burrows Quintet	Takeda
Arena	The Long One
Bachelors From Prague	Great (Extended Remix)
Simone Dee & The Desires	Come On Boys
Mix	Do You Do It?
I'm Talking	Someday (Extended Mix)
Dennis Garcia	Door To Dimension Four
The Igniters	More Flaming Dub
Deckchairs Overboard	Mixed Low
XL Capris	Tokyo
Andrew Duffield	What It Is
The Reels	Return
Johnny Batchelor	Be Strong
Claire	Room In My Heart
Dropbears	Shall We Go (Extended)
Dark Tan	Kiss You All Over
Mars Needs Women	Hello, I Love You
Duffo	Take A Walk On The Wild Side
Le Club Foote	Outa My Hands
Game	Shouldn't Have Done It
The Czars	Five Nuns In A Scrum
THe Thought Criminals	Problems By Numbers
The Garden Path	Strangers
July 14th	All Because Of You
The Letterstick Band	Gonna Rain Again

Full Bag on Skylab Radio

Another episode of Full Bag with Empty DJ is up on the web for replay now.

Ended up mostly playing some electronic stuff, starting out downtempo and moving into some big time house belters!

Lots of stuff from my channel got a run. Tracklist below. Hope you enjoy!

Artist	Song
The Blue Hour	The More Things Change
Seb Fontaine & The G	Dubbin On The Moon
Wicked Beat Sound System	I Don't Wanna Know (Sheriff Lindo Mix)
Brush	Superglossy
Doctor Uggs	Angel Dust
Victoria Wilson-James	Through (The Drop Deep Dub)
Zan	Nobody Else (Ambient Mix)
Vincent Stone	Girls (Trouble In Alexandria Mix)
Moisture Rich Foundation	Moods (McCalls 'N' All Mix)
Floatin Fusion	Floatin Fusion
Basil Hardhaus 2	Make Me Dance (Hard For The D.J.)
Child Of Slan	Always Say Evey (Balo's Dub)
D'Pac with Terrence FM	Everybody
Nathan G	The End Of The Beginning
Takesu	Az One
S-Witch	Sensual Motion (The Sensual Re-Mix)
Smoove Society	Baby (LP Version)
Jimi Polo	Express Yourself (Underground Mix)
Sweet Paulino	Sweet Like Honey
909	Got To Have It (Trans-Mix)
DJ Popup	Love Potential
Soundlab	Normalise This
Love From San Francisco	Final Fantasy

Robinson, Wall Project - Deep Down (Mid Day Dub Mix)

Long resident in my bag finally sees the light of YT today.

I think I maybe first heard Finn play this on his incredible Sunday Club show on NTS. I started listening to the digitally available Sole Music versions, but they've got nothing on the old Simplex cuts. I got to pick up a copy in Shepparton and been running it regularly ever since.

Simplex had prolific output in the mid 90s, a bunch of stuff that went under the radar. By the end of the decade they had put hits from the likes of Blaze out, before they faded into obscurity.

All the Deep Down cuts are bouncy, hypnotic garage house. The Mid Day side is more stripped back than the full on Deep Down mixes. In the Dub, the vocals are echoed out to perfection. Sometimes you get just a vocal stab, or a long crescendo, but more often than not it's that haunting mantra, deep down. 

It's a banger that hangs around in my head and is never far from being on my turntable. Hope you're into it too.

Check out the record on Discogs here

Smoove Society - Dance Floor (Full Lenght)

More house stuff up here on the channel now!

This one comes via Swedish label BTB Records. Sublabel of SweMix records which was a powerhouse in Swedish releases of the late 80s and early 90s. 

Urban Dance Sound Vol.1 is a compilation of a bunch of producers that also appeared on other BTB and SweMix releases. Some have already appeared on YouTube  including the other Smoove Society track on the record. 

I can't manage to dig up anything on Smoove Society. Can't even track down a name. All I know is the two tracks on this record are bangers. 

Dance Floor (Full Lenght) is energetic and fun. There's elements of UK rave classics, a driving bassline, chaotic percussion and a vocal sample that's both haunting and inviting.

It's a real under the radar European house gem, complete with a playful typo.

Check out the record on Discogs here.

Big week in the studio!

 Had a mega week covering three shows on PBS this week!

First up, incredible honour to cover Mike Gurrieri's Mystic Brew. Brought some old street soul bits and went into soulful house! Click the photo to listen.

Then had the chance to cover Pony's Chronicle's of Kick Ons. Four hours of all sorts! Jazz, New Wave, wonky Disco and finishing with some nice new age morning business. Hit the pic!

Brought it home Friday night stepping in for Jonny Alexander on Audio Vitamins. Just packed a bag of house records and turned it up!

 

Hopefully back on soon! 

Angel's House's Angel's House EP

Back into some house music on the channel now, with some UK sleepers from the Eukahouse label.

Known in my head for releasing lots of work by Nils Hess and Nathan Coles under their 'Get Fucked' alias, Eukahouse was seminal in shaping the tasteful tech house of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

This particular release seems to have slipped through the cracks as opposed to many of the other well revered, often highly priced, Eukahouse records. 

Maybe that's because there's not a lot of information about Angel's House. No other releases, no other credits, just this incredible record. 

Can it be a one hit wonder if the whole EP is awesome? Angel's House (Deep Mix) has already been up on YouTube for a while, but for some reason the b-side has gone unheard... until now.

The Ground really is a beautiful tune. A bubbling bassline underscores stripped-back acoustic piano, and you can really hear the Detroit influence in the glimmering and chaotic drum programming. 

Similarly, all amazing elements of a deep house classic come together for Santonio (Shame Myself Mix). More driving, the strings that ripple across the high end are sure to force hands into the air. Organic bongo percussion rolls are although worthy of note.

I really find it hard to believe that this gem slipped through the cracks given the amount of attention that Eukahouse has got over the last few decades. But as usual, I'm selfishly glad that it did, because I get to share it with you instead!

Check out the record on Discogs here.