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Aussie Producer Perto's Remix Of 'ZEZE' Is Fire

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Aussie Producer Perto's Remix Of 'ZEZE' Is Fire Site Factory admin Tue, 08/01/2019 - 15:12

Up-and-coming Sydney producer Perto is the bowl cut baby you need in your life, and when you hear his mixes you'll know why.

The 16-year-old trap/rap buzz act has just dropped a flip of Kodak Black, Offset and Travis Scott's ZEZE and it breathes explosive energy into the trop-rap song that has to be heard to be believed.

It's still got that super recognisable melody but the cut twists and turns into places you don't expect. This isn't the first flip Perto's taken on either - last year he took on Valentino Khan and Sean Paul's Gold and Lil Uzi Vert's Sauce It Up.

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Diggin’ In The Crates with Charli XCX Site Factory admin Mon, 25/05/2015 - 07:09

LUCKY US! - We got the opportunity to go record shopping with Charli XCX when she was in town for the recent Groovin’ The Moo festival dates and found out a few records that meant a little somethin’ to our fave pop mega-star/babe.

Don’t believe us? Well…

IN YOUR FACE SUCKERS :P

LUCKY YOU! - We’re not total jerks though, mainly because we’re giving you guys the chance to win all the records that Charli picked on the day, as in the exact same ones that she held and chatted about in the video below as well as a personally signed record tote bag. It’s super easy to enter, just head HERE and tell us in 25 words or less why you’re a SUCKER for Charli XCX!

BONUS CHARLI XCX BIZ:

Check out Charli jamming an impromptu version of Boom Clap with some guy called Nile Rodgers (!!!!) HERE

Get your ears around the super dope Doing It remix (as heard in the vid above) by Australia’s very own Carmada HERE

Charli XCX’s Sucker is available now where all killer pop records that’ll slap you in the face and steal your lunch money are sold | streamed.

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Parental Advisors - Fenella’s Story

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Parental Advisors - Fenella’s Story Site Factory admin Tue, 21/04/2015 - 06:04

I was about ten years old when I discovered that not every household played The Beatles and ABBA Gold on a regular basis. In fact, most families I knew didn’t.

I was shocked.

For a child who had grown up with wall-to-wall Beatles and Beach Boys, the idea that other kids were being introduced to Bon Jovi and Duran Duran just did not compute. Although both those groups were present in the family record collection, I don’t remember them being played until I was a little older. I can only guess that my parents waited until my music tastes had been sufficiently moulded and I was safe from musical acts which met with less approval (Mötley CrÜe and Foreigner, I’m looking at you). From an early age I would have music played to me and I’d be asked who I was listening to. If I heard male harmonies, I’d figure Beatles or Beach Boys would be a good guess (it was rarely Beach Boys - took me a ridiculously long time to learn the difference).

When I was in my second or third year of primary school my dad made me my first mixtape (ok, it was a CD, but close enough), which was full of songs I had been introduced to and loved over the past year. ‘Fenella’s Favourites’ would become an eagerly anticipated annual gift and makes it easy for me to track my music tastes over the years. The first CD was full of artists my parents played – The Monkees, The Beach Boys, Kasey Chambers, The Beatles, Felicity Urquhart and Tania Kernaghan. A LOT of Tania Kernaghan. Having met her at a young age, she was my first fangirl experience and I proudly collected her albums before reaching my teens and deciding I no longer liked country music (a lack of cool factor will do that to a girl).

Almost all my cds are at least eight years old. A true child of my generation, most of my music collection is now digital, so a cursory glance at the cd shelves in my room could give someone the wrong impression (the dozen or so Saddle Club albums were retired with Tania a fair few years ago but beloved Britney Spears, Hilary Duff and High School Musical soundtracks still give me away).

The music dynamics in my home have shifted slightly over the years but the basic rules of control have stayed largely the same. Although my music choices have increased their airplay as I developed my own musical tastes, the majority of the music played in the house has been chosen by my father and that has heavily influenced my musical tastes. If he likes it, it gets a lot of airtime, from countless Beatles albums (including the various remastered copies that have gradually been released) to Hot Since ’82 (‘Restless’ is a notable favourite).

At some point, my opinion of my parent’s music changed from wide-eyed fascination to a simmering tween contempt for anything endorsed by ‘old people’ (there are only so many times you can hear your father singing along to Nelly before you associate the music with age and irritation). Luckily for them, my mother’s tastes swung in to save the day. Early exposure to Fountains of Wayne had been accompanied by the suggestion “You don’t need to sing all the words, maybe say ‘I’ve gotta get my self together’ instead”. This had of course resulted in me gleefully singing the correct lyrics as loudly as I dared (The correct word was shit, in case you hadn’t guessed). Like many kids, I had started by listening to the fast, entertaining songs like Stacey’s Mom, Hey Julie and, of course, Bright Future In Sales. As I grew older, sadder tracks like Hackensack were played more as I began to fancy myself as a deep thinker. Denise was for when I realised that wasn’t the case.

This led me to The Beatles’ greatest rival for Favourite Parent-Endorsed Band: The Darkness. My mum decided to chuck me in at the deep end, showing me the video clips for One Way Ticket To Hell and I Believe In A Thing Called Love. It could have gone devastatingly wrong.

It didn’t.

Cut to today and I list The Darkness as one of my all-time favourite bands, beside fellow parent-endorsed (and personal favourite) Belle and Sebastian. Long car trips are no longer complete without my mother and I sitting in the front seat, head-banging and screeching along to I Believe In A Thing Called Love at the tops of our voices, road safety be damned.

My musical independence is still a new and slowly developing thing. I’ve never been much of a radio girl and I tend to come to things late in the game (I got Facebook at 15, at my mother’s suggestion. I think she was trying to get me more involved with other people. Oh, vain hope).

I like to think I’ve improved. 2015’s mix CD was full of names I never would have considered way back when, including The Cure, Led Zeppelin, Gorillaz, The Coral, Chet Faker, Bishop Allen and The Middle East.

Every now and again I’ll play some of the songs that I’ve recently come across. Only six months old! New stuff! A lack of siblings means that the only people in the house to introduce my music to are my parents. Hey, what goes around comes around. Mum’s response is usually a distracted smile and maybe “Yes, it was alright”. Dad’s response? “Yeah, that song’s been out for a while!”

Everyone’s a critic.

- Fenella H-Z

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Been There Done That

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Been There Done That Site Factory admin Thu, 09/04/2015 - 22:47

T BoneBurnette (launching a new project on the history of recording the southernblues with Mr Jack White) tells us:

“in 1926, the record industry fell off 80% in
one year because of the proliferation of radio in big cities. The middle-class
and wealthy people who were able to buy radios no longer wanted to buy records,
because they could get music for free – why buy a record?”

Sound
familiar?

Maybe
streaming won’t kill us, it will make us all stronger?

We are
not sure we can count on the old solution however;

“So the recording companies, having equipment
and nothing to do, decided to go down south, where people didn’t have
electricity, and therefore didn’t have radios.”

Is there a place streaming doesn’t work?!

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The Wombats Live And Cosy In Melbourne

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The Wombats Live And Cosy In Melbourne Site Factory admin Thu, 09/04/2015 - 03:05

Way back on 24 of February The Wombats came and performed for a
handful of very lucky fans at Shebeen in Melbourne. Luckily for those of you who might have missed out, our friends at Jack Daniels
captured the moment and recorded for you to watch now.

Check out Let’s Dance to Joy Division, Your Body is A weapon, and new single Give Me A
Try below.

Let’s Dance To Joy Division

Your Body Is A Weapon

Give Me A Try

This Friday their new album Glitterbug is out. If you haven’t heard it you can stream it now on iTunes First Play.

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Your Birthday Jam

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Your Birthday Jam Site Factory admin Fri, 27/02/2015 - 23:00

Have you ever wondered what the number one song on US radio was on the day you were born?

WELL WONDER NO MORE. The good folks at Playback FM have built a little time machine so you can travel back to the moment you popped out and relive what was ruling the airwaves on that exact day in America.

Click HERE to find out… Fingers crossed you get a classic!

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Can't Do Without Caribou

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Can't Do Without Caribou Site Factory admin Thu, 15/01/2015 - 00:01

Our Love for Caribou just keeps on keeping on…

As if serving up one of THE best albums of 2014 wasn’t enough, he’s now gone and flexed his fantastic musical taste by creating an all killer no filler mixtape of 1000 tunes for us all to enjoy.

There’s the rest of this week’s listening SORTED: https://goo.gl/4w62I3

SO. MANY. JAMS.

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Project Piracy

Site Factory admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:04:35 +0000

Project Piracy Site Factory admin Thu, 08/01/2015 - 06:04

That title would lead you to think something sinister is about to go down but NOPE, Piracy is just an amazing art project conceived by Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco.

Investing over 200 hours and 6500 compact discs the guys created portraits of deceased musicians: Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Freddie Mercury using nothing but each artists CDs…

Check out their handiwork below and head over to this website for the full deal.

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