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Create a playlist of Australian songs, put it on the internet, and write about/depict ambiguous connections. Here goes.

1/10

B4 (The 3NDLES5 version)

Opening with over five minutes of heavy hitting, B4 is an electronic piece by Effective Power that features words by 3NDLES5. B4 to me possesses the same psychological qualities as #3 by Aphex Twin. A paralytic lying on your floor repeat listening kind of outcome, while your thoughts do circles. The reworked 3NDLES5 version just adds story telling, energy and closure.

http://www.cornerstories.au

2/10

Yes I Need My Generator


Okay so cheating a little with this one, a collaboration between Turnstile and Mall Grab. Not exactly 100% Aussie but like the Ford Falcon I'd make the case for it being true blue. Again on the longer side of time, an introspective listen perfect for a dance in the shower very late at night in complete darkness (with no regard for gas'n'water). Mall Grab, despite the innocent name is a massive hitter not only for his work, but his record label Steel City Dance Discs. 

http://www.cornerstories.au

3/10

Burning Inside

Energetic, all over the place, and yet carefully constructed. Sus1er tends to play with all the colours of the musical rainbow, which culminates in what I would describe as an unelectable track. You cannot choose when to listen to this song, it is one in a bag of spare IKEA screws. Eventually when it does get a go you will marvel at the fit.

http://www.cornerstories.au

4/10

Whole Scene


What originally started out as almost an ironic listen has turned into satisfying earful. At first glance it sounds almost like a piss take. But it really is a vignette covering the average nightclub goers, centered around the POV of DJ ANDREW. Listen once, and forever find yourself saying goodbye to the whole scene as you walk out to get in your Uber.
 
http://www.cornerstories.au
 

5/10

RIVER STYX

Rapper Scan00 collides with Sus1er resulting in a period piece from 2023 that sounds like it's putting everything between 2018 and then to rest. It gives the same degenerate feeling that the silence of Kings Cross offers, as you walk back to sleep on the floor of your mates backpacker accomo. 

http://www.cornerstories.au

6/10

TCG

 

When it comes to fast disappearing street lights & empty roads Crazymike & 3NDLES5 come to the party. 3NDLES5 -  Mitchell Tolman, is an observational story teller 4ever beyond his years. Shifting from Low Life to his own works, collaborating with the likes of Mall Grab, WRX and of course Crazymike. They give us sounds like TCG bent on pressing self awareness into music.

http://www.cornerstories.au

7/10

Dead Nightclub

Kirkis is very definitely out there when it comes to making music. That said journalist Dan Watt put it best; 'Dead Nightclub is Kirkis most conventional output to date, with his vocals in the spoken style of Sprechgesang that was made popular in the late 1970s by Gary Numan, Joy Division's Ian Curtis and Fred Schneider from the B52's.' It has the conversion from sound to feeling at an almost one2one.

http://www.cornerstories.au


8/10

SCREWDRIVA

Shady Nasty absolutely dumped the clutch on this one. Their music stands at the current forefront of Muzza culture. Where their predecessors built the likes of hectic VL Commodores and sick Stereosonic bodies, Shady Nasty chase aesthetics in their art. SCREWDRIVA isn't cut & polished it's graft n forged - it will motivate you as you rest your head against the vibrating glass window on the bus at the red light.

http://www.cornerstories.au

9/10

Trippers


Toyotomi Hideyoshi - now Manny Most High only dropped Trippers today but it will have you slouching in the whip. While the rap airs on the side of slightly simplistic the accompanying sounds will have you looking left & right regardless of if you are going to cross the road.

http://www.cornerstories.au

10/10

U Can Call


To wrap, it seemed easiest to tune with a smile. Which is the beauty of lil ket & Sidney Phillips who clang headz to give you the most morning-after song you've heard in a minute. A real lean back hands-on-head song, with a bridge to soften the transition from checking the damage to your bank account to the disbelief of what prices Petrolspy displays.

http://www.cornerstories.au

Adelaide based. No real consistency just yarns, plain and simple.

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