100% Magazine #1350

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DECEMBER

LET THEM EAT CAKE: KERRI CHANDLER [USA], THE GASLAMP KILLER [USA] + MORE Tuesday January 1, Werribee Park SUMMERDAYZE: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS [UK], M.I.A [UK], MARK RONSON [UK] + MORE Tuesday January 1, Sidney Myer Music Bowl MARCELLUS PITTMAN [USA], PSYCHEMAGIK [UK] Tuesday January 1, The Bridge KRAFTY KUTS [UK], A-SKILLZ [UK], CAMO & KROOKED [UK] + MORE Tuesday January 1, Brown Alley ASTRIX [ISR], ANGY KORE [ITA], MIN & MAL [ITA] Tuesday January 1, Royal Melbourne Hotel SBTRKT [UK] Wednesday January 2, Billboard RUSTIE [UK], ROSKA [UK], XXXY [UK] Friday January 4, Brown Alley HOT CHIP [UK] Wednesday January 9, The Palace DE LA SOUL [USA] Thursday January 3, The Espy CRYSTAL CASTLES [CAN] Tuesday January 22, Billboard THE BLOODY BEETROOTS [ITA] Thursday January 24, The Palace SOUL CLAP [USA] Friday January 25, The Liberty Social RAINBOW SERPENT: GUY J [ISR], CHRISTIAN SMITH [SWE], PETER VAN HOESEN [BEL] Friday January 25 - Monday January 28, Lexton BIG DAY OUT: THE BLOODY BEETROOTS [ITA], KASKADE [USA], CRYSTAL CASTLES [CAN] + MORE Saturday January 26, Flemington Racecourse JESSIE WARE [UK] Wednesday January 30, Prince Bandroom

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PAUL KALKBRENNER [GER] Friday December 14, Billboard XKORE [UK], TERRAVITA [USA], Friday December 14, Royal Melbourne Hotel CATZ ‘N DOGZ [POL] Friday December 14, New Guernica KENDRICK LAMAR [USA] Friday December 21, The Palace TERRENCE PARKER [USA] Friday December 21, New Guernica DJ HELL [GER] Saturday December 22, The Bottom End LUKE SLATER [UK] Friday December 28, Brown Alley FALLS FESTIVAL: SBTRKT [UK], COOLIO [USA] + MORE Saturday December 28 – Tuesday January 1, Lorne TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS [UK] Saturday December 29, Corner Hotel

JANUARY

ONTOUR

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA [SWE] Friday February 1, Sidney Myer Music Bowl ABOVE & BEYOND [UK] Saturday February 2, Hisense Arena EL-P [USA] Wednesday February 6, Corner Hotel BICEP [UK] Sunday February 10, Revolver Upstairs MACKLEMORE [USA], RYAN LEWIS [USA] Saturday February 16, The Corner Hotel DIXON [GER], HUXLEY [UK] Friday February 22, Prince Bandroom MOODYMANN [USA] Friday March 8, Prince Bandroom GOLDEN PLAINS: MOODYMANN [USA], JULIO BASHMORE [UK] + MORE Saturday March 9 - Monday March 11, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: THE PRODIGY [UK], DIZZEE RASCAL [UK], BOYS NOIZE [GER] + MORE Sunday March 10, Flemington Racecourse

REAL TALK

The lowlight of the weekend was undoubtedly asking a female at her very first ever Meredith about her thoughts on MMF and having her think I was referring to male-male-female threesomes.

Tyson Wray

Third Chapter: Apocalypse at Chasers

On Friday December 21, apparently the world is going to end. So let’s send it off, one last time? Get ready for The Third Chapter – Summer Shake-Up. They have hand-picked a stella lineup of some of Australia’s best DJs who will be banging out party hip hop tunes until they progress onto disco funk mash-ups to keep the party rocking till all hours of the morning. The lineup includes DJ Flagrant, Matik, Second Hand, Yasumo, J Heasy and more, as well as a special guest appearance by Mr Big from Dwarfmyparty.com. Come kick it with the man himself and get your photos taken. Pre-sale tickets are $20 through Greentix and $25 tickets on the door will be available. Please note all pre-sale purchased tickets receive a free drink on entry. Third Chapter – Summer Shake-Up Party is going down on Friday December 21 at Chasers Nightclub, 386 Chapel Street, South Yarra.

DJ Hell: Hell Yes

DJ Hell is a name synonymous with house and techno of all shapes and colours. En route to Australia, Hell is set to wash over this country with his signature experimental style with grace that has made him a long-standing figure in the electronic dance music community. Not your typical purist when it comes to house music, Hell has worked with P. Diddy, Grace Jones and Bryan Ferry to name but a few. Leave your expectations behind at The Bottom End on Saturday December 22.

Legend of modern day techno, Luke Slater aka Planetary Assault Systems has been reinvigorating the scene with a resurgence of purist techno values.

With a highly critically praised album in tow and having played the world’s most acclaimed stages including Berghain, Tomorrowland, Social Club and Melt! Slater is bringing his exquisite electronica to Melbourne. Redefine your thoughts on techno at Brown Alley on Friday December 28.

Fatty Fatty: Get In The Mercat Belly

Dublin-bred, Melbourne-based disco and house label Fatty Fatty Phonographics returns to The Mercat Basement on Thursday December 20, and this time they’re bringing a special guest in the form of Sydney based disco don Superbreak. A regular at the top of the Juno Download Disco Charts, he’ll be bringing his sweet blend of funk, disco, boogie and house to the sleazy basement along with Fatty residents Pablo, Clarkey and DJ Tremendous. The label has created a stir with ‘The Rejigs’ series by Pablo and Shoey, which deliver edits of disco, funk, hip hop and protohouse classics for the discerning dancefloor. Fans so far include Crazy P man Hot Toddy, Rub’N’Tug, Bicep, Leftside Wobble and Get Down Edits. This month they will be launching their ‘Downtownsounds Classics’ series, which will catalogue big tunes from the long running Dublin clubnight. They’ve also got a 12incher from Chicago’s DJ Rahaan on the way in the New Year, as well as classics from the likes of Terrence Parker, Ashley Beedle, Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano and avant-garde disco auteur Arthur Russell. Fatty Fatty at The Mercat, Thursday December 20.

Smalltown: Dixon & Huxley

Dixon has been working away since the early ‘90s to carve out a niche for house music in the predominantly techno dominated Berlin and has now cemented himself as as one of the most celebrated taste maker labels and acts in the world. Huxley is a house purist’s dream, with impeccable flair and onpoint DJ sets that span house, garage, techno and beyond. Check them out at The Prince on Friday February 22.

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Flying Lotus: Let Them Eat A Live 3D AV SHOW

Let Them Eat Cake have announced that Flying Lotus will be bringing his new live audio-visual show to Australia with an exclusive Melbourne performance at Let Them Eat Cake Festival on New Year’s Day at Werribee Park. Called “Layer 3”, the description itself is fucking mind-blowing: a three-dimensional projection that syncs with the music. Red Bull Music Academy, in conjunction with visual artists Strangeloop and Timeboy, have devised a method of transporting FlyLo into outer dimensions using two transparent scrims and interactive front and rear projectors, conjuring nothing short of the acid-fried Space Odyssey Stargate scene. Let Them Eat Cake is on New Year’s Day at Werribee Park – a cornucopia of the world’s finest DJs and live performers, art installations, food fit for a queen, and a royally decadent atmosphere.

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Spectrasoul: Life And Soil

Finally releasing their anticipated debut album so aptly named Delay No More, Spectrasoul are taking their show on the road. Receiving acclaim from the likes of Maya Jane Coles, Spectrasoul’s musical production is a far cry from the homogenised sounds we have come to expect from drum and bass. The Brown Alley garden bar will open its doors at 6pm for early beats and gourmet BBQ on Sunday December 23.

Espionage: Rustie, Roska, Ghost Mutt, Doc Daneeka, xxxy

This year, Rustie broke through with his album, Glass Swords, leaving a trail of impressed taste makers and new found fans alike. Coming together with Roska (whose sounds are coloured with the broken beat scene of the early 2000s), along with Welsh house producer Doc Daneeka, Ghost Mutt’s mashup of hip hop beats mixed with dubstep, glitches and purple flares and xxxy’s feel-good story of his never ending battle to seek the fruits of his labour through his love for electronic music – this is a platter of unmissable sorts. Head down to Brown Alley Friday January 4.

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up?

After waking in the plane, the memories started coming back. LA, tequila, beach party. I asked where I was. The man said Mexico.

Describe yourself using the title of a song.

Mr Happy – DJ Hazard What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child?

That the day has 24 hours, and the night has 12. I was running on a 36-hour clock! Although, not much has really changed.

The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Realising that I’d accidentally bought a ticket to one of my own gigs, and then trying to return it.

What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat?

Anything involving four or more members and choreographed dancing.

What’s the most played record in your bag?

Spring Back - Villem.

What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die?

“What’s seven times six? Also, what’s the deal with that bus driving towards me?”

If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead?

Animation for 3D movies and games etc. I want to retire as a boat builder in Spain though.

When and where is your next gig?

Tribe 2013 at Brown Alley, New Year’s Day, Tuesday January 1.

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DISCLOSURE “We’re not setting out to make house music just for the club. It’s more about the chords, melodies and vocals.”

SUMMADAYZE: SIBLIN’ SPINNIN’ The turnaround to success when you’re Disclosure is short. Less than a few weeks after uploading their first tracks to MySpace, brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence (aged just 18 and 21 respectively) found themselves featured on prominent music blogs and soon approached by vying managers. 2012 has been especially favourable for this sibling powerhouse who were nominated for the Best New Artist MTV Award with hit track Latch reaching number 11 on the UK charts. Having racked up hundreds of thousands of Soundcloud plays with their remixes for Jessie Ware and Emeli Sande, the boys are currently working towards a much-anticipated debut album. Blending deep house bass lines, Dilla-esque snares and melodic two-step top lines, Disclosure have proven themselves as producers with a sonic maturity beyond their years. Due to hit Australian shores for a festival circuit, 100% speaks with Guy about Disclosure’s influences, groupies and the perks of working with family.

The Lawrence brothers started playing music as children, Guy on the drums and Howard on the bass and piano. “We were listening to music as kids and were learning how to play,” Guy explains. “We knew nothing about producing back then... I was in a band and wanted to start producing. Howard started messing around on laptops and was making beats.

[Music is] all I ever wanted to do.” While it takes some musicians years to be discovered, Disclosure found the process to be much shorter thanks to the advent of the internet age and a progressive yet soulful sound. “Howard was making beats and because I already knew how to mix sound and use Logic, I ended up mixing them,” Guy begins. “We put them on MySpace and within a week, we were on this cool blog. It was watched by a lot of managers so within a few weeks we had management.”

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The duo’s pieces of post-dubstep admiration have blossomed into increasingly solid soul-laden tracks.

Drawing from ‘90s garage tropes and vintage house, their vocal and melodically driven gems have been a defining sound of 2012. “At the start, we were influenced by what was happening in the UK scene,” Guy says. “I had just started to go clubbing and I was watching the early beginnings of dubstep... I never wanted to make very aggressive beats and I went to more house sets...Now, three years later, I would say I am definitely influenced by Detroit techno and Chicago house. Once we got into the UK scene, we kind of wanted to know who were influencing the people we liked. We didn’t know the history of house music. We were buying as many records as we could and were learning. As we progress we are influenced by older and older things.”

Listing their influences, Guy explains they look to forward thinking and original artists including Burial, Joy Orbison and J Dilla. “I think when we heard Joy Orbinson’s Hyph Mngo in 2009, we were pretty captivated,” Guy explains. “It was 140 BPM, which is the same speed as dubstep, but it was the first track that had chords and melodies as well as being bassy.

We thought, ‘People can make music out of it?’ He just happened to be the first guy we heard. But J Dilla – he’s our man. I don’t think you can call yourself a producer if you aren’t influenced by him.”

The fact that the duo are brothers sweetens the Disclosure deal. It is something that isn’t seen too often, especially in the electronic scene, but it has its perks according to Guy. “We are totally honest with each other,” he says. “There isn’t too much bickering and we are very chilled. We’re more like friends to be honest. We are pretty laid back plus we know what we’re both thinking which helps.” On their creative process, Guy says, “I always do the COVER STORY

mix and production, but the creative process is quite shared. I probably do a bit more programming in terms of how the song is shaped, but Howard has a big part in writing. I hate it. But I love writing chords and melodies.”

The Face EP is the most recent offering from brother’s Guy and Howard Lawrence who have already been playlisted by Radio 1, received enthusiastic co-signs from Pitchfork, FACT, Fader and The Guardian, toured the UK and Europe and supported SBTRKT on his UK tour. With its addictive sunshine sound, their latest EP compounds Disclosure’s growing reputation as the UK’s most exciting and uplifting new producers. Despite its up-tempo BPM, it’s a sound that Disclosure insist owes as much to ‘90s hip hop as it does to Detroit House and UK Garage. “We’re working around house tempos”, Guy explains, “but we’re not setting out to make house music just for the club. It’s more about the chords, melodies and vocals. We want a warm sound; a jazzy sound.” When asked if much has changed since The Face, Guy says not much. “We’re still on a similar vibe,” he explains.

“The upcoming album still consists of instrumental tunes. Songs like What’s In Your Head, Boiling and Control are good previews for the album.”

This “preview” has racked the boys up some pretty solid recognition, including a nomination for the MTV Best New Artist award. “It was pretty mad,” Guy laughs. “We only heard about it on the day. It was great to be recognised and MTV have provided good support for us.” Other highlights of 2012 include body-writhing/sexy-time inducing song Latch reaching number 11 on UK charts. “It was unexpected,” Guy says. “We have also had a few amazing shows too. We played in a club called Space in Ibiza. Also in America, we played a club in LA on Halloween. That was one to remember.”

Like most performers, Disclosure have an embarrassing tale to share. “We were playing in a town with Annie Mac, a radio DJ,” Guy begins. “It was the last show and she had these flashing cubes that were four foot high on the ground in front of the stage and I just thought they were speakers.

When we play Latch I normally go and stand on the speakers, but I got onto one of these cubes and fell into the box. It was made of thin plastic and I was still standing out while the song was on. Everyone was asking ‘Oh my God, is he alright?’ But I just held the microphone up and when it was done I pulled myself out.” On the topic of crowds, and more specifically groupies, Guy laughs, “Recently, there have been a lot of girls at the shows. With Latch, the front row becomes full of girls. I don’t know what it is, but when that song comes on, yeah, they all flood toward the front of the stage.”

Playing Summadayze in Melbourne, Guy says this is their first trip to Australia. “We are really looking forward to the weather,” he says. “It’s zero degrees here right now, so the Australian summer will be great. We are also looking forward to the crowd.

It seems Australians are quite a receptive fan base, which is great.” Their favourite things about festivals? “I love the crowds, the drinking and the partying,” Guy says. “Normal festival things. Though not camping. I hate camping.”

Tamara Vogl Disclosure [UK] will be performing at Summadayze on New Year’s Day, Tuesday January 1, alongside Kimbra [AUS], M.I.A. [UK], Araabmuzik [USA] and more at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

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WEDNESDAY12TH MIDNIGHT SOUL ENSEMBLE Whether it’s a DJ on the one’s and two’s side by side with a drummer hitting the skins while jammin’ away into the night, or soul singers gracing our humble stage performing Erykah Badu tribute songs over wonky future beats, or hip hop DJs cuttin’ up Serato records, we got the midweek party. You know you wanna. Free entry.

Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

LAUNDRY WEDNESDAYS Deep, dark, minimal dubstep and drum and bass.

Laundry Bar, 50 Johnston Street, Fitzroy

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DJ Grandmaster Vicious spins Fitzroy’s finest mix of ‘80s and ‘90s pop, rock, new wave, hip hop, disco classics and cheese to please plus dance floor anthems from then to now.

One Twenty Bar, 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

GET LIT Get Lit every Friday night with Mugen & D’fro slicin’ n dicin’ over jiggy beats and underground anthems.

Bounce to the ounce, and get yer “drank” on! And kids remember one thang, in the wise words of Lady: this pussy be yankin! YOLO. Free entry. From 10pm.

Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne CQ Fridays

FIRST FLOOR FRIDAYS A journey of international music from all over the world; past, present and future rhythms incorporating afro, soul, funk, world and deep house elements!

First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

FREEDOM PASS

Tigerfunk brings with him his full band of travelling gypsies, hipsters and middle class executives, all of whom are prepared to deliver the most excitement you can have this side of the weekend.

Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

Friday’s at Freedom with 2 premier clubs, 5 huge rooms, 10+ local and international DJs blending their unique sets across countless styles of tunes – vocal house, smooth R&B, electro and commercial top 40. Throw in a few sexy podium dancers, a world-class lights show and drink specials, the Freedom Pass is your personal ticket to a night you won’t soon forget!

Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

FREE RANGE FUNK

FRIDAY NIGHT LOFT PARTY

Funk up your Thursday nights with Free Range Funk at the Windsor favourite Lucky Coq. Grab a couch early and enjoy one (or more) of their famous $4 pizzas from 7-11pm. Meanwhile DJs Who, Agent 86, Lewis CanCut and special guests tempt you into the night with their eclectic bag of treats. Setting the mood early is delightful jazz, deep soul, and funk. Later it’s fruity disco, choice house, and hipster dance drops. Free entry every Thursday.

Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

Kitty Schmidt couldn’t find quality dance music in Fitzroy so she’s decided to open up her bedroom doors. Living above Melbourne’s stalwart lesbian/gay Libation Bar, she’s now throwing a monthly party in her boudoir. Come into her renovated upstairs loft, cocktail bar, dance floor and smoking terrace. With quirky house, deep disco and erotic electronica being spun by Marvin Roland, Mr. Pyz and Kitty Schmidt DJs. Libation, 302 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

BIMBO THURSDAYS

FUN HOUSE Celebrate Thursday night at Co. with club classics and dance floor anthems.

Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

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Saturdays at Lucky Coq tick all the boxes so start your night early and stay til close! Famous $4 pizzas from 7-9pm (that’s dinner sorted) then from 9pm spread over two levels with DJs playing hip hop, funk, disco, house and electro. Rotating guests on both levels keep the tunes fresh. Free entry.

Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

SATURDAY15TH EDEN SATURDAYS Smashing it every week at Melbourne’s hottest looking venue! Top 40 dance, house and R&B 9-3am, then electro from 3am - 5am. DJ Ontime, DJ Ryza, Scotty Erdos and Azza M. $15/$20, free entry after 4am.

Eden, 163 Russell St, Melbourne

LOUNGE-CLUB Dazzling disco lights? Check. Big dance floor? Check.

Stage to dance on? Check. Music all night long? Check.

We got Melbourne’s finest purveyors of music. You’ll get funk, boogie, disco, house, Latin, afro, techno and much more. Lounge-Club happens every weekend from 10PM and it’s free entry.

Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS It’s house, electro, dub, anthems, disco and funk with guest DJs Genetix, B-Two and Oohee rocking til the break of day. Doors open 10pm with $5 basics til midnight!

First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

HOT STEP Google Hot Step and you’ll get a bunch of Vietnamese game reviews and Balkanese dances on YouTube. But that’s nothing like what you can expect to find within the confines of Bimbo on a Saturday night. Developing thick and heavy but altogether groovy, enjoy an eclectic mix of fairy floss funk, doom disco and monk movement minimal every week. Free.

Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

PANORAMA Start your weekend on a good note with Panorama Fridays at Lucky Coq. DJs Matt Rad, Mr George, Tom Meagher and Phato A Mano transform the upstairs area into one hell of a house party with Hip Hop, Funk, R&B, Disco and House. Meanwhile, downstairs gives you a secluded wind down atmosphere with cult films as background visuals and quality cocktails to sip on. Let the new coqtail list wash away a crappy week!

Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

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SOUND EMPIRE Co. At Crown’s Saturday night party Sound Empire this week features mega sounds from resident DJs Tate Strauss, Miss Sarah, Nova, Johnny M, Matty G, Dean T, Joe Sofo, Marcus Knight, Dinesh, Chris Ostrom, B-Boogie and Sarah Roberts.

Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

SUNDAY16TH SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE The perfect Sunday soundtrack with DJs Askew, Peter Baker, Booshank, Paz, Miss Butt, Junji, Disco Harry and guests. They will be laying down disco, afro beat and deep house til 3am. For lovers of good music - South Side Hustle.

Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

MONDAY17TH IBIMBO Have you always wanted to be a DJ but been cruelly cursed with tone deafness and a general inability to version excursion? Well Bimbo Deluxe saves the day once again.. All you need is an iPhone and you’re set. Just download the free ‘remote’ application from the app store, log into the Bimbo DJ wireless network and you choose which song plays next.

Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

TUESDAY18TH BIMBO TUESDAYS Bimbo Tuesday’s have long been the discerning DJs midweek breath of fresh air. An opportunity to indulge in, and to each parade their individual takes on music. A night where by the weird and wonderful is not frowned upon but rather celebrated. Resident selectors Matt Radovich, Andras Fox and Henry Who draw from a colorful array of sounds that warm your midweek blues. From 8pm, free.

Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

COSMIC PIZZA NHJ and friends host every Tuesday night upstairs at Lucky Coq. Playing uneasy listening, freaked out bass jams, romantic comedy disco, tropi-jazz, soundtracks and shit you won’t hear on the other nights.

Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

TERRAVITA AESTHETIC: HIGH ENERGY Matt Simmers has been charged with the duty of undertaking this discussion in the absence of his partners-in-crime Chris Barlow and Jon Spero who are visiting family in Boston. Only recently returning from the City of Angels himself, Matt is currently mastering a track for a free giveaway on their new website, which will appear any day now. “And we have all just got back from the Firepower Records tour with Datsik,” he says. “So I’m slowly adjusting back to reality!”

Indeed, the lads – at least Matt and Jon – met back in 2000 while they were partying. He recounts the story.

“We were both listening to drum and bass in a poorly lit back room of an underground rave venue. Chris and I met in a similarly lit back room while we were also both DJs. We started to really become close and when we decided to take over and reopen a local drum and bass vinyl store in Boston – that’s when Terravita was formed.”

Production wise, the lads have approached their obligations using various methods. In more recent times though, they have standardised their procedure – and that has culminated in their more recent output, much of which has garnered the respect of their national and international compatriots.

“I write and engineer a track to a point that we can play it; then the three of us play it in our set and listen to it, only going back to figure out how we can make it more awesome!” Matt explains. “Jon will write lyrics and perform them for the final version. Chris works a lot

on finding the tracks a label. Once we all approve the track, I’ll do a final mix-down and master it.”

Of course the finished product is almost always laced with a rough edge that maintains fluidity and groove that makes it perfect for the dance-floor. “The most exciting thing planned in the near future is our LP on Dim Mak Records that will be out in the next few months. Also we have a lot of collaborations that we’re working on with other artist friends of ours. We have a whole bunch of free music that we’re giving away on our website too – check them out at terravitabass.com.”

On stage, the lads are generally predisposed to playing their own music – as well as a lot of mash ups they’ve made. “The other music we play is from our friends in the industry as well as any tunes we are really feeling. To be honest, I think part of our whole act is that we’re a bit cheeky at times,” chimes Matt. “We really like to have fun with each other and the crowd when we play. We want to be like party demons that make you have so much fun that it hurts a little!”

And with their heads screwed on the right way, they take all their success in their stride. “It’s always a great feeling to have other artists and mentors respect what you’re doing,” professes Matt with pride. “What we’ve also found is that a lot of these other artists are as like-minded as us and we often end up becoming real life friends with one another. I think we still have a long road ahead of us with music. But we take it with a grain of salt. I don’t think we’re the

best at being artists in a particular scene. Some artists embrace the whole genre thing and make it their own – some will even create a movement behind it. To me, that’s an invitation to be lazy with your creative process because you’ve basically wrapped yourself in a bubble of conceptualism with a bunch of other people that will tell you for better or worse that you’re keeping it real. The concept of a scene makes that happen. It takes the emphasis off of how interesting the music actually is and places it on how true you are staying to the scene, not to yourself.

“I’m not sure if it’s because we all have strong personalities or if it’s because we’re just weird and never fit in! Sure, we were all attracted to drum and bass because it was so different. It has a hip hop influence with MCs and its beat structuring is much more

experimenting with different rhythms and sounds as well as branching off into other bass music genres a bit more. I really feel like I don’t want to release anything until I’m 100 per cent happy with it, so I’m kind of taking my time with it.”

Ever the perfectionist, the lad is doing what he loves and is enjoying sharing the spoils. “I really love what I do and I love showing off what I do to my friends, because being a producer and DJ is an awesome way to live. I have plans in the future for side projects as well as branching off into the business side of music, doing things like managing and agency work, along with making xKore as big as could possibly be, in a natural way. I really do hope to be involved in the music industry as long as possible!”

Naturally too, he admits he appreciates music from all genres and not just necessarily dubstep or drum and bass. “I’ve not always been one to stick to a single genre and I really don’t feel any pressure to,” he chimes. “I started out in house and trance some years ago because it was basically all I knew and because it was what I was into at the time. Since then, my tastes have changed; dubstep started to become a thing and so I decided to try it out. Dubstep turned out pretty well for me, although I’m always moving around the bass music genres at the moment, doing electro, moombahcore, drumstep, drum and bass and other types of music. I honestly make whatever I want on

days and if it’s of substantial quality I will release it. I feel no pressure if it’s dubstep of not.”

In turn, Cavender admits that musically he really likes to go all over the place. As far as he is concerned a good set consists of tunes people recognise, new tunes that people will recognise in the future – and then a few massive tracks from smaller artists as well as the odd curveball track that will make everyone shout. “I like to move around all genres in my sets,” he admits. ”There has been a lot of trap being added to my set recently with its rise in popularity and I feel as if trap is a good way to break up and turn around the set for a short while, as well as getting the girls involved in some dirty dancing! I also like to show support to other up and coming artists in the scene for the same reason I felt good about being supported by other bigger artists. It’s a

like rock music – that’s the music we grew up with. Our aesthetic is a high-energy concert atmosphere, which lends itself to certain types of drum and bass as well.”

Regardless, the crew is heading back to Australia for their second visit and are looking forward to bringing their high energy mix of drum and bass, hip hop and rock music, to their fans – old and new.

“Our music revolves around high energy bass music fundamentals.

Expect to hear a lot of new tunes from our upcoming LP as well!”

RK Terravita [USA] plays Riot at RMH The Venue on Friday December 14 alongside Xkore [UK], F3tch [AUS] and more.

XKORE RIOTOUS: DIRTY VIBES Matt Cavender claims he’s been ultra busy lately, just coming off the Firepower Tour with Datsik, Terravita and Getter. And he explains that in the little spare time he has had left, he’s been finishing up a batch of remixes for Metrik, Modestep, Skism and Engine Earz Ft. Foreign Beggars. “I’ve also been slowly writing through my next EP due out sometime in the near future via Inspected Records,” he says. Musically, the man is all about big and heavy beats, something he describes with passion.

“The main thing I strive for in my music is a strong beat that people can dance to in a club – along with a dirty vibe so that people can feel that they can rage out to it when they listen! I have my own ways of writing, my own process and ideas that come up along the way, and I feel this reflects uniquely in the way my tracks turn out. I’m inspired by the usual head honchos in the scene such as Knife Party, Noisia, Sub Focus and such, although I try and listen to and vibe off of music that is outside of the electronic dance music spectrum and is totally different – such as Yoko Kanno and Harry Gregson Williams.”

Studio wise, the lad has, as he said, just finished a swag of remixes for the colleagues he mentioned earlier – and his main focus right now is his next EP. “For that next one, my main aim is to differentiate my music from everybody else. I’ve been

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good feeling to make a difference for someone I think.”

Finally, Matt is excited about the chance to get back to Australia again and can’t wait to experience the people again, while taking in the sights and tearing things up at the odd event.

“This is my second trip to Australia, the first one being in February 2012. This time I’m hitting up Perth, Melbourne and Sydney and chilling in Adelaide for a bit. Being the second time over, what makes it awesome is seeing all the people I met the first time and going for round two on the partying and chilling!”

RK Xkore [UK] plays Riot at RMH The Venue on Friday December 14 alongside Terravita [USA], F3tch [AUS] and more.

CATZ ‘N DOGZ PAW: TO THE FLOOR “Do you want to make us scared?” Grzegorz Demiañczuk laughs. “I just woke up!” Wojciech Tarañczuk groans. The pair are clearly not enthused about the perils of the Australian bush that I feel it’s my Australian duty to inform them of.

Within a week or two, Polish electronic music duo Catz ‘n Dogz (we can call them Greg and Voitek) will be boarding a plane from Europe, and heading Down Under for the first time to play the Subsonic Music Festival, a few hours north of Sydney in the Barrington Tops National Park.

From Szczecin, a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland (inadvertent dog reference, right there), the pair began in 2003, putting on parties and hosting down-tempo electronica radio shows. As so often happens, it wasn’t long until the two friends found themselves making music. Their studio life began under the moniker 3 Channels, but after a bunch of releases on heavyweight labels like Trapez and Damien Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels, the pair shied away from the name after becoming increasingly pigeonholed as “minimal house”. A call from Dirtybird/Mothership label head honcho Claude VonStroke saw Grzegorz and Wojciech embrace their new identity as Catz ‘n Dogz and the pair explored a more eclectic sound palette, from deeper, late-night fodder, to quirky electronica, to big-room energetic housers, and released their first two albums on Mothership.

The pair have always kept their production work pretty exclusive, only releasing music on three labels: Dirtybird/ Mothership, Get Physical Music, and their own Pet Recordings label. “Somehow it works – it’s kind of enough,” Voitek explains. “If we were with someone else, it’d be too much. With Pets, we can do whatever we want. Get Physical is where our agency is; Phillip from M.A.N.D.Y. [Get Physical label boss] is our really good friend. The Dirtybird guys?

It’s always a good output for us. It’s different – a more crazy sound. If we were just signed to just Get Physical or just Dirtybird, it’d be too boring for us.”

Catz ‘n Dogz’ latest project for Get Physical Music was the September release of Volume 12, their mix for the storied Body Language compilation series. Joining the likes of DJ Hell, Modeselektor and Matthew Dear, who’ve each mixed a volume, Catz ’n Dogz were thrilled to be a part of it – more so considering this was their first ever commercial mix release. As to why it had taken this long to release their first mix, the guys seemed slightly bemused. “I don’t know.

We didn’t get an offer before!” Greg laughs. “Of course it was always our dream, so we’re really happy that it finally happened… We really wanted to do it special so it [took] a lot of time.” For Body Language Vol. 12, Greg and Voitek called in some favours; littered throughout the mix are exclusive tracks and remixes from friends like Squarehead and Trikk. “Right now, everybody’s doing mixes,” says Voitek.

“With Soundcloud and all that, it makes sense to sell [the mix CD]. Later, people can actually get those tracks from other places. If your tracks aren’t exclusive to the mix, people won’t want to listen.”

The experience of putting together their first mix CD wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. “Everything took a while,” Voitek groans, when asked about the process. Many an hour was spent searching for music rights holders who had long since disappeared. “We got refused [on the licensing of music] because some of the labels were completely out of business,” Greg said, clearly nonplussed. Even when the pair had managed to contact the rights holders of some of the more obscure music they wanted for the mix, the master tapes were often long gone. “We had to buy it on Discogs and rip it at home,” laughs Greg. “[But] in the digital world, it makes it special. Before, when you’d go to the shop to find a record, if you didn’t buy it you couldn’t play it, because it was limited to a few hundred copies.”

“This year is the busiest year we’ve ever had.”

In a year of firsts for Catz ‘n Dogs, they will also finally get down to Australia for a string of DJ gigs in December.

Meant to visit our shores a couple of times previously, the scheduling finally came together. “We’re excited,” Greg says. “We have a lot of friends there. We’ve heard the parties are good, and of course the weather will be awesome. Here [in Europe] it’s going to be winter.” The sun is clearly a major drawcard, because Voitek chimes in about it too: “We’re really excited for the weather.

Here [in Berlin] it’s been foggy for five days. There’s no sun. I feel like I never wake up.” With the days growing colder over in Europe, it’s no wonder Voitek feels a little beaten. The wear-and-tear of the touring DJ life has most definitely reared its head. “This year is the busiest year we’ve ever had,” says Voitek, and Greg continues: “[This summer], we played three times in Ibiza. We played Space, DC-10 and Zoo Project. We played a lot of summer openers in Germany and also the US tour was amazing. We had a lot of gigs.”

But it’s not just the DJing that has kept them busy. This summer, the production duo finally decided it was time to live in the same city again. For the last couple of years, Voitek called Berlin home while Greg continued to live in Poland. While the suitcase life of a touring DJ made the separation a little easier, now that they’re back within close proximity, it’s time to get back to what they love the most: making music, and putting on parties. Their Vitamin/Pets Recordings label party at the famed Berlin club Watergate has proved a monthly success, recently playing host to the likes of Ellen Allien and 2012 posterboy Eats Everything. And now the Catz ‘n Dogz are reunited, they can get started on that third album that they owe VonStroke. Probably. “We were supposed to do it for May 2012 but I guess we’re going to do it for the year after,” Voitek shrugs.

The pair are grateful that, when they make it down to Subsonic Music Festival, they’ll be playing alongside two of their Dirtybird label mates: Worthy and Christian Martin.

“When you travel with friends, you hang out, go play your gig, and then make fun of everything. When you go alone, it’s like going to work.” As for whether that makes for more drunken tour shenanigans, Greg plays his cards close to his chest. “It depends on the jetlag. I don’t know. I’ve heard some strange stories about the jetlag from Europe to Australia. We’ll see how it affects us…”

Rick Warner Catz ‘N Dogz [POL] play New Guernica on Friday December 14. Body Language Vol. 12 is out now.

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HELLFIRE CLUB’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY SLAPPY ANNIVERSARY: CARESS THAT WHIP In 1992, Richard Masters was a young independent filmmaker with an interest in the more eclectic and extreme aspects of human behaviour. Masters had travelled to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, where he’d visited a couple of clubs on Santa Monica Boulevard that specialised in sado-masochistic activity.

“I was impressed by these places,” Masters recalls. “You see people being whipped, dressing, all sorts of interesting activities. It was a whole new scene that I was exposed to.”

Back in Melbourne, Masters decided to approach the owner of a club on Queensberry Street on the edge of the Melbourne CBD, with an idea for an S&M themed club. “A friend of mine was having a birthday, and I spoke to the owner about having an S&M night. And that’s how the Hellfire Club started.”

Named after the original Hellfire Club in England operated by Sir Francis Dashwood – the site of which Masters had previously visited during a trip to England – Melbourne’s Hellfire Club provided a public venue for sadistic, masochistic and other fetish activities, backed by a soundtrack of equally enticing and exotic music spun by a rotating band of DJs. “I was a bit of a fan of those old gentleman’s clubs,” Masters says. “I’d studied them previously, and I was a fan of the Marquis de Sade [from whom the term ‘sadist’ is derived]. Before I came along, most of those clubs were gay, but the Hellfire Club had a much broader appeal.”

While Masters – now the director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival – proudly proclaims his ability to

secure a shock horror headline on the front page of the Herald Sun, the Hellfire Club’s initial splash of publicity was almost accidental. “We had Kate Ceberano come along to the club to see Ollie Olsen, who was DJing that night, and there was also a writer from the Truth there that night. And the next day there was this big headline on the front page of the Truth about Kate Ceberano visiting the Hellfire Club. And the club was packed the next week!” Masters laughs.

The initial Truth story sparked a flurry of media activity, including articles in the Herald Sun and The Age, and even a spot on Steve Vizard’s late-night television show. Despite the rampant media attention, there was little attempt to cajole the fledging club into submission. In fact, Masters says the attitude of the local police authorities was very positive. “The police loved the Hellfire Club!” Masters says. “They loved to have the club on their beat, so to speak. Police understand dominance and submission!” The most significant negative reaction only came when Masters chose a particularly provocative theme for one of the Hellfire evenings. “We did a few theme nights, including a Russian night, and theme based around JG Ballard’s novel, Crash,” Masters says. “When we had a Nazi theme, the Jewish council became very upset.”

The emergence of the Hellfire Club coincided with a wave of popular and media interest in sexuality, including the traditionally marginalised aspects of sexuality. “You had

the real zeitgeist at the time with the Madonna coffee table book, and Tottie Goldsmith’s television show,” Masters says.

While it’s often assumed that S&M activities are the province of the upper-middle and professional classes – an assessment that’s consistent with the clientele who attended Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club – Masters says the Melbourne Hellfire Club was patronised by a broad demographic. “It was pretty classless – we had the rich, the middle class and the working class,” Masters says. “When we did events in 2011 and 2012, I was really surprised how much Generation Y was into it.”

The stories of activities and events within the Hellfire Club would make 50 Shades of Grey seem like an Enid Blyton novel. “There was Mr Trough, who’d lie down in a urinal and have people urinate on him,” Masters recalls with a laugh, “or Mr Nude, who’d just wander around nude. We always encouraged diversity, and for people to explore sexuality in an interesting way.”

Twenty years after the Hellfire Club first appeared, and ten years after Masters closed the Hellfire Club and moved his attention back to independent filmmaking (augmented with a return to tertiary study) and attitudes to sexuality remain subject to conflicting social and political forces. While the internet has provided access to a wide range of sexual, especially

pornographic images, public controversies such as that surrounding Bill Henson’s photographic exhibition a couple of years ago suggest that liberal attitudes are not quite as common as a mature society might like to think. “Australian laws on pornography are bizarre,” Masters says. “Just about everything is on the internet, including portrayals of sexuality that’s very violent and nasty. Yet books on consensual S&M are banned.”

This week Masters will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Hellfire Club with a special event at the LuWOW venue on Johnston Street, Fitzroy. “We’ll have a lot of older Hellfire people coming out of the woodwork, as well as younger people as well,” Masters says. As always, there will be dressing up, fetishes and plenty of consensual sadomasochistic activity. “We’ve got a Spanking Santa, who’s going to give plenty of discipline,” Masters promises. While Masters says Hellfire is “about a bit of slap and tickle and a bit of fun”, it’s also a credible alternative to the cheap erotica of 50 Shades of Grey. “If you like 50 Shades of Grey, come along and see the real thing,” Masters says.

Hellfire Club’s 20th Anniversary is on at LuWOW this Sunday December 16.

PAUL KALKBRENNER G’TAG: BERLIN BEATS Berlin’s Paul Kalkbrenner has been in the electronic music game since the late ‘90s, but his sixth album, out this month, is called Guten Tag. It’s a curious title for an established artist – Kalkbrenner has headlined festivals around the globe, and even starred in a cult movie, Berlin Calling, and would seem to need no introduction – so I ask why he chose to use it. It turns out that, for native German speakers, the phrase can convey a lot more than just ‘good day’. “When you say that phrase, you can do a lot of funny things with it,” Kalkbrenner explains. “You can turn it into something that means ‘now it’s your turn’, or ‘what do you have to say?’ It can also be ‘that’s me’. When I was looking for a title, I wanted something that could be spoken out without problems all around the world, something that could be understood.”

This new album is Kalkbrenner’s second release on his own label, after many years on the iconic BPitch control imprint. I ask how he’s finding the freedom, and he tells me that everything is a lot easier. “Right now, I don’t have to negotiate with anyone,” he says. “I can do things my way – I can decide how

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things should look, how they should sound, how much they should cost and when they should be available. That brings way fewer problems than before.” BPitch control, founded by the legendary Ellen Allien, has launched the career of techno artists from Modeselektor to Apparat, and I’m curious to know if things between Kalkbrenner and the label are still friendly. “I was with them for a number of years, but I grew out of it and wanted to go out on my own,” he says. “They very happily accepted that. There is no bad blood between us at all, and it’s always good to see them.”

Kalkbrenner is a long-time resident of Berlin, and still lives and works there. Unlike many of the city’s artist residents, however, he is not overly sentimental about the place he calls home. “The city certainly inspires me,” he says, “but I would like to think that my inspiration is not just limited to the city, however. I think I could be inspired by any place I was living.” With that in mind, however, Kalkbrenner has no plans to leave Berlin any time soon.

“I do love it here,” he says. “It’s something I can’t verbalise, but when you walk through the city in autumn, when it’s foggy and

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the street lights are coming on, there’s a certain something in the air that I find very inspiring. I have a studio a little bit outside the Berlin city centre. I like to go there in the late afternoon to the early evening to work, and there’s really nothing like it.”

Guten Tag is a stark and beautiful album – like all of Kalkbrenner’s work, it does a lot with a little, and finds tiny moments of euphoria amid the samples and loops. The album is composed entirely of instrumentals, and I ask Kalkbrener why he doesn’t feel the need to collaborate with any vocalists. “I have quite a few things to say, about my life and about the state of the world,” he explains, “but I’d rather say those things with the music, rather than on top of the music in words. The composition is my way of expressing myself, I suppose.” When listening to the album, it’s clear that you’re hearing a master craftsman at work. “When I made this album, I knew exactly

what I wanted to do,” he explains. “The only problem I have is knowing when a track is ready. You can spend an infinite amount of time playing with it, tweaking it. You have to know when it’s finished, and that’s something you learn over time.”

Kalkbrenner is due to return to Australia soon for another round of shows, and I ask him what exactly we can expect. “Since the last time I came to Australia, the visuals and the crew have changed a bit, but from where I’m standing, the show is still fundamentally the same,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to coming to Australia again,” he continues. “People will get to hear some of my new tracks, and also, it’s been so fucking cold in Germany lately, I can’t wait to escape!”

Paul Kalkbrenner [GER] plays at Billboard The Venue on Friday December 14.

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Kick start your weekend with Melbourne’s newest Thursday night! Motown Thursdays caters to all true music lovers. Join us on an eclectic musical journey of soul, funk and disco through to early R&B. A live Soul Band features some of Melbourne’s most talented musicians; Carmen Hendricks, Laurent Soupe, Duncan Kinell and Aaron Mendoza just to name a few. DJs keep the records spinning into the early hours; residents are Reg-e, Lee Davies, Kalepe, Dinesh, Suga, Rubz and Alwin Rafferty. Join us around a big, shiny disco ball or two, for free entry, soulful tunes, drink specials all night and a dance floor full of friends!

Fashion Lounge, 121 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

This is it. Faktory Fridays are open for business at Melbourne’s home of R&B, Khokolat Bar. Where else?

Damion De Silva, Ken Walker, Durmy, K Dee, Simon Sez, Yaths and Jacqui Dusk spinning all night long.

Khokolat Bar, Basement, 43 Hardware La, Melbourne

RHYTHM-AL-ISM Start the weekend early with Fusion’s Resident DJs. Music for your funkin’ soul. Special guests every week!

Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

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LIKE FRIDAYS Like Fridays at La Di Da serves up R&B and electro house across two rooms giving you a fun filled end to your week. DJs Dinesh, Dir-X, Sef, NYD, Shaun D, Shaggz, Broz and more.

La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

LIGHT We celebrate everything that has made Light at Red Love, kicking off with our after work drinks session from 4pm. Our DJ lineup includes each and every one of the Daddy Mack’s who have helped lead Light into our 5th running year of old school R&B. Harvey Yeah, Ripz, TMC and Stel Kar locking down that Old School Flava with guest appearances by G.A.K. & The Seminar of Funk and Nick K. It’s all happening this Friday as we celebrate 5 years of doing our do and bringing that Red Love!

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THE LOOSE GOOSE The Loose Goose is focused on providing a wonderful array of cocktails and offers a great CBD location to lounge and relax in while overlooking busy Flinders Lane. A small plates menu is available to graze on whilst trying our delicious cocktails from the classics to contemporary, beer on tap and a wide range of beers, wines and spirits. Every Friday evening DJ Jumps of The Cat Empire will take to the decks at the bar spinning his rare afro Latin funk vinyl collected from around the world from 6.30pm until late.

Papa Goose Cocktail Bar, 91-93 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

SWEET NOTHING FRIDAYS DJ Marcus Knight and DJ Xander James spin hip hop, R&B and house tunes all night from 8pm. Free entry and early drink specials.

Temperance Hotel, 426 Chapel St, South Yarra

THE NICE UP Tom Showtime presents The Nice Up. All flavours of hip hop, ghetto funk and reggae niceness provided. Sailor Jerry nice up the cocktails, Dos Blockos nice up the $5 beers. Fridays done proper.

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All new experience, same great location with a fresh koat of Khokolat. Restless Entertainment reloads your favourite Saturday night party. Damion De Silva, K Dee, Jay Sin and weekly guests playing R&B & ol’ skool sounds strictly for the urban elite.

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Red Love, Level 1, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

SHAKA SATURDAY The newest R&B Superclub Shaka Saturdays grand opening is set to hit Melbourne over two massive weeks.

The northern suburbs’ newest, freshest club playing all of your favourite R&B, hip hop, old skool and reggae. Shaka Saturdays is showcasing Australias newest and favourite R&B DJs, including DJ C-RAM bringing video mixing to Melbourne and special guest hip hop band Yellow Cake. Set at one of the most amazing venues Melbourne has to offer with two levels, good music, great ‘Shaka’ atmosphere and cheap drinks, we are hoping to pack it out and create a night for people to remember.

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Highlander 11a Highlander Lane, Melb, 9620 2227

Revolt Elizabeth St, Kensington, 03 9376 2115

Hoo Haa 105 Chapel St, Windsor, 9529 6900

Revolver Upstairs 229 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5985

Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 2329

Rochester Castle Hotel 202 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9415 7555

Iddy Biddy 47 Blessington St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Rooftop Cider Bar, Cnr Swanston & Flinders St, Melbourne, 9650 3884

Jett Black 177 Greville St, Prahran

Room 680 Level 1, 680 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9818 0680

John Curtin Hotel 29 Lygon St, Melb, 9663 6350

Roxanne Parlour Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melb

Khokolat Bar 43 Hardware Lane, Melbourne, 039642 1142

Royal Derby 446 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 2321

La Di Da 577 Lt Bourke St, Melb, 9670 7680

Roal Melbourne Hotel 629 Bourke St, 9629 2400

Labour In Vain 197A Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 5955

Ruby’s Lounge 1648 Burwood Hwy, Belgrave, 9754 7445

Lomond Hotel 225 Nicholson St, East Brunswick

Saint Hotel 54 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9593 8333

Longroom 162 Collins St, Melbourne, 9663 9226

Sandbelt Live Cnr South & Bignell Rd, Moorabbin, 9555 6899

Loop 23 Meyers Pl, Melb, 9654 0500

Scarlett Lounge 174 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 0230

Lounge 243 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 2916

Seven Nightclub 52 Albert Rd, South Melb, 9690 7877

The Lounge Pit 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 9415 6142

Spensers Live 419 Spencer St, West Melb, 03 9329 8821

Love Machine Cnr Lt Chapel & Malvern Rd, Prahran, 9533 8837

Spot 133 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9388 0222

29th Apartment 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9078 8922

Cornish Arms 163 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Lucky Coq 179 Chapel St, Windsor, 9525 1288

Standard Hotel 293 Fitzroy St, Fitzroy, 9419 4793

303 303 High Street, Northcote

CQ 113 Queen St, Melb, 8601 2738

The LuWOW 62-70 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 5447

Star Bar 160 Clarendon St, South Melb, 9810 0054

Abode 374 St.Kilda Rd, St.Kilda

Croft Institute 21 Croft Alley, Melb, 9671 4399

Mercat Cross Lvl 1, 456 Queen St, Melb, 9348 9998

Station 59 59 Church St, Richmond, 9427 8797

Albert Park Hotel Cnr Montague & Dundas Pl, Albert Park, 9690 5459

Cruzao Arepa Bar 365 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 7871

Mink 2 Acland St, St Kilda, 9536 1199

Stolberg Beer Café 197 Plenty Rd, Preston, 9495 1444

Alia Lvl 1, 83-87 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9486 0999

Cushion 99 Fitzroy St, St.Kilda, 9534 7575

Miss Libertine 34 Franklin St, Melb, 9663 6855

Sub Lounge & Restaurant 168 Elizabeth St Melb, 0411 800 198

Alumbra Shed 9, Central Pier, 161 Harbour Espl, Docklands, 8623 9666

Damask 1/347 Burnswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 4578

Misty 3-5 Hosier Ln, Melb, 9663 9202

Sugar Bar (Hotel Urban) 35 Fitztroy St, St Kilda, 8530 8888

Back Bar 67 Green St, Windsor, 9529 7899

The Drunken Poet 65 Peel Street, West Melbourne, 9348 9797

Mockingbird Bar 129 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 0000

Temperance Hotel 426 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9827 7401

Bar Open 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 9601

Der Raum 438 Church St, Richmond, 9428 0055

Musicland 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 9359 0006

Thornbury Theatre 859 High St, Thornbury, 9484 9813

Baroq House 9-13 Drewery Ln, Melb, 8080 5680

Ding Dong Lounge Lvl 1, 18 Market Ln, Melb, 9662 1020

Neverland 32-48 Johnson St, South Melb, 9646 5544

Tiki Lounge 327 Swan St, Richmond, 9428 4336

Bendigo Hotel 125 Johnston St, Collingwood 9417 3415

Dizzy’s Jazz Club 381 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 1233

New Guernica Lvl 2, Hub Arcade, 318-322 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 4464

Toff In Town Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 8770

Bertha Brown 562 Flinders Street, 9629 1207

Double Happiness 21 Liverpool St, Melb, 9650 4488

Night Cat 141 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 0090

Tony Starr’s Kitten Club 267 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 2448

Big Mouth 168 Acland St, St.Kilda, 9534 4611

E:55 55 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9620 3899

Night Cat 279 Flinders Ln, Melb, 9654 0444

The Tote Hotel 67 Johnson St, Collingwood, 9419 5320

Billboard 170 Russell St, Melb, 9639 4000

East Brunswick Club 280 Lygon St, East Brunswick, 9388 2777

Noise Bar 291 Albert St, Brunswick, 9380 1493

Town Hall Hotel 33 Errol St, North Melbourne, 9328 1983

Bimbo Deluxe 376 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 8600

Edinburgh Castle 681 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Northcote Social Club 301 High St, Northcote, 9489 3917

Trak Lounge 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, 9826 9000

Birmingham Hotel Cnr Smith & Johnston St, Fitzroy

Electric Ladyland Lvl 1, 265 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5757

Old Bar 74 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 4155

Tramp 20 King St, Melb

Black Cat 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6230

Elwood Lounge 49-51 Glenhuntly Rd, Elwood, 9525 6788

One Twenty Bar 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

Transport Hotel Federation Square, Melb, 9654 8808

Blue Bar 330 Chapel St, Prahran, 9529 6499

Empress 714 Nicholson St, Nth Fitzroy, 9489 8605

Onesixone 161 High St, Prahran, 9533 8433

Trunk 275 Exhibition St, Melbourne, 9663 7994

Blue Tile Lounge 95 Smith St, Fitzroy

Espy 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda, 9534 0211

Order Of Melbourne level 2, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 6707

Tyranny Of Distance 147 Union St, Windsor, 9525 1005

Boutique 134 Greville St, Prahran, 9525 2322

Eurotrash 18 Corrs Ln, Melb, 9654 4411

Palace Hotel 893 Burke Rd, Camberwell

Two of Hearts 149 Commercial Road, Prahran

Brown Alley King Street, Melb,9670 8599

Eve 334 City Rd, Southbank, 9696 7388

Palace Theatre 20-30 Bourke St, Melb, 9650 0180

Union Hotel Brunswick 109 Union St, Brunswick, 9388 2235

Brunswick Hotel 140 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9387 6637

Evelyn 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 5500

Palais 111 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs, 5348 4849

Veludo 175 Acland St, St Kilda, 9534 4456

Builders Arms 211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

Ferntree Gully Hotel 1130 Burwood Hwy, Ferntree Gully, 9758 6544

Palais Theatre Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 9525 3240

Victoria Hotel 380 Victoria St, Brunswick, 9388 0830

Cabinet Bar 11 Rainbow Alley, Melbourne, 9654 0915

Festival Hall 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 9329 9699

Papa Goose 91 Flinders Ln, Melbourne, 9663 2800

Wah Wah Lounge Lvl 1, 185 Lonsdale St, Melb

Caravan Music Club 95 Drummond St, Oakleigh

First Floor 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6380

Penny Black 420 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 8667

Wesley Anne 250 High St, Northcote, 9482 1333

Caseys Nightclub 660A Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9810 0030

Forum Theatre 154 Flinders St, Melb, 9299 9800

Pier Live Hotel 508 Nepean Hwy, Frankston, 9783 9800

Westernport Hotel 161 Marine Pde, San Remo, 5678 5205

Caz Reitops Dirty Secrets 80 Smith St, Collingwood, 9415 8876

The Fox Hotel 351 Wellington Street, Collingwood, 9416 4957

Pony 68-70 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9662 1026

Willow Bar 222 High Street, Northcote, 9481 1222

CBD Club 12-14 McKillop St, Melb, 9670 3638

Fusion Lvl 3, Crown Complex, Southbank, 9292 5750

Portland Hotel Cnr Lt Collins & Russell St, Melb, 9810 0064

Windsor Castle 89 Albert St, Windsor, 9525 0239

Chaise Lounge Basement, 105 Queen St, Melb, 9670 6120

The Gallery Room 1/510 Flinders St, Melbourne, 9629 1350

The Prague Hotel, 911 High St, Northcote, 9495 0000

Workers Club 51 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 8889

Chandelier Room 91 Cochranes Rd, Moorabbin, 9532 2288

Gem Bar & Dining 289 Wellingston St, Collingwood, 9419 5170

Pretty Please 61c Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Workshop Lvl 1, 413 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9326 4365

Chelsea Heights Hotel Cnr Springvale & Wells Rd,

George Basement, 127 Fitzroy St, 9534 8822

Prince Bandroom 29 Fitztory St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

Yah Yah’s 99 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9419 4920

Chelsea Heights, 9773 4453

Gertrude’s Brown Couch 30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, 9417 6420

Prince Of Wales 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

The Vine 59 Wellington St, Collingwood, 9417 2434

Cherry Bar AC/DC Ln, Melb, 9639 8122

Grace Darling Hotel 114 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 0055

Public Bar 238 Victoria St, North Melb, 9329 6522

Chi Lounge 195 Lt Bourke St, Melbourne, 9662 2688

Grandview Hotel Cnr Heidelberg Rd & Station St, Fairfield, 9489 8061

Railway Hotel 280 Ferrars St, South Melb, 9690 5092

Co. Lvl 3, Crown Complex, 9292 5750

Great Britain Hotel 447 Church St, Richmond, 9429 5066

Red Bennies 371 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9826 2689

Colonial Hotel (Brown Alley) Cnr King & Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 8599

Grind N Groove 274 Maroondah Hwy, Healesville

Red Love Lvl 1, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 3722

Commercial Club Hotel 344 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, 9419 1522

Grumpy’s Green 125 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 1944

Retreat Hotel 226 Nicholson St, Abbotsford, 9417 2693

Cookie Lvl 1, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 7660

Gypsy Bar 334 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 0548

The Retreat Hotel 280 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 4090

Corner Hotel 57 Swan St, Richmond, 9427 9198

HiFi 125 Swanston St, Melb, 1300 843 4434

The Reverence Hotel 28 Napier St, Footscray, 03 9687 2111

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