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6th October, 2015 |
WE STOPPED THE BOATS :: Last Hire A Boat for a long, long time - we contemplate our modest musical achievements... |
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22nd September, 2015 |
TITLE WAVE :: penultimate Hire A Boat ever, features recently acquired Lobsterman release of same name + channeling the Noah's Ark vibes of ironically named No Zu, and then some other stuff to fill time <3 |
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25th August, 2015 |
WARM JUNK :: Reconnaisance tour of France's Hot Casa record label is arrested by Togolese voodoo funk composer Peter Solo and his band, Vaudou Game... |
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11th August, 2015 |
A Gail about the forward hatch :: Gail Priest's readers digest of community radio mixtape and Gayle of Chapter Music's Guy Blackman, and Scott Guy and Bad Guys and Andras & Oscar who are also on Chapter Music... |
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2nd June, 2015 |
LIVIDxSYSney :: independently organised partner event, FERRY BOAT FRIED, lit up like a TEDXmas tree in the shitty of broken Dreems. "You gotta love this city, for its body and not its brain..." |
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19th May, 2015 |
We're all in the same boat... |
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5th May, 2015 |
SHIP OF THESEUS :: Dread Pirate Roberts trials an understudy... |
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21st April, 2015 |
DON'T FUKUSHIMA WITH JOHN HARRISON'S CLOCK :: overclocking the chronometer - young producers who are better musicians than you'll ever be... |
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7th April, 2015 |
HIRE A SHOW :: We literally pay our way into Scuba & Alva Noto chic... |
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10th March, 2015 |
SWIM FREEDMAN IN THE ROUGE RIVER :: Today I swam with (near) Tim Freedman. There was no aphrodisiac quite like it. |
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24th February, 2015 |
Drooby Pirate Radio: F* the police, with a preponderance of censored tracks, wow Fine Music |
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10th February, 2015 |
THE NELLIE :: Awesome Tapes From Africa remixes... |
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27th January, 2015 |
FIREWORKS BARGE :: In the dim, post coital afterglow of the Blottest 100, Marky Vaw and/or Booby baby aka b00bjob hosted a hip hop show... |
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13th January, 2015 |
ARMADness :: 90s alternative Spanish pop beautiful can't pronounce |
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30th December, 2014 |
BREst OF :: annual Bleepers Best of 2014 |
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16th December, 2014 |
DROOBY A'DOOBY :: Hijacker centres us in a punkish adventure; pack your tools |
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2nd December, 2014 |
PADDLEBOAT or "Have some water, Nathan!" :: Derry's The Cyclist was only 18 when he released his first album! It's been a privilege to track his progress and watch him grow. Join us on a journey inside him and to the centre of his large body of work... |
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18th November, 2014 |
COASTGUARD :: "We've had reports that some of these beats are being 'dropped' overboard." |
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4th November, 2014 |
BOVRIL BOAT :: Packin sludge with Disgusting People, 1st hr guest programmed by Patrick Delohery. Eat it. |
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7th October, 2014 |
OODLES OF MOODLES !! Copper-capped chroming with local Vancouver business, Mood Hut... |
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23rd September, 2014 |
ON-WATER MATTERS :: Obviously, Leigh, we can't reveal anything which might compromise the operational integrity of our integral operations... |
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9th September, 2014 |
GET OUT :: settle down, calm your farm, take your bearings |
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26th August, 2014 |
WATER RUTS :: Lift our gaze for virgin horizons, bootstrap ourselves out of a month of coasting, fishing out our sodden enthusiasm for delicacy from the depths... |
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29th July, 2014 |
CHEUNG CHAU ARE YOU? :: Sympathetic locals take us under their wing and for a feather soft landing in an unlikely plume of Hong Kong's underground expression... #hkmu |
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15th July, 2014 |
STAR FERRY :: Cable car it to Kowloon and sample the wares of Hong Kong's cooler-than-thou underground dance music scene... |
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1st July, 2014! |
TAX COMMISSIONER CHRIS JORDAN wants to fight! Don't get stung! Be sure to submit your tax return for the fiscal year 2007-08 by October 31st. |
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17th June, 2014 |
BOLLYNGIR :: "When party gets over, after party begins with Bhoothnath..." |
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3rd June, 2014 |
SEA BED, crawling the :: can we find MH370 |
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6th May, 2014 |
HALF MAST || Predictably, Federal Gov't's Audit Commission has recommended cuts to community radio funding... |
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22nd April, 2014 |
Neu E II || The present moment is less fragile when it repeats itself incessantly... |
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8th April, 2014 |
MISSING NO. |
Lv. 100 |
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25th March, 2014 |
TRAWL STORIES || the L.I.E.S. I've told... |
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11th March, 2014 |
SCRUB MY DECK || a radio programme featuring Wyatt Moss-Wellington, his reflections & his selections... |
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11th February, 2014 |
TOPMAST TICKLING WHIMSY :: The heavy hearted yet light spirited resignation between self-pity and great beauty. |
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28th January, 2014 |
STEPPE :: Polvo has released an album, it is called Siberia. I love Siberia. Facts. |
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14th January, 2014 |
ESTUARIAL CARE || perch yourself amongst healthful pastures as the cleansing waves renew |
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31st December, 2013 |
DRUNK AS A || boat & runs sails into the new millennium of 2014 |
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2nd December, 2013 |
who nose |
don't pique too early |
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3rd December, 2013 |
FIRST THIRST, second burst |
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19th November, 2013 |
SONAR SEA, SO NAUSEA || scaling the turf in between minimal house and oppressive noise experiments. fully sea sick. |
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5th November, 2013 |
EX SEXTANT :: celestial navigation leads a return to calmer waters |
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22nd October, 2013 |
WE WERE SWALLOWED BY THE SEA :: the drone of La Ñina draws us under, occasionally |
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24th September, 2013 |
QATAR 2022 || Gulf Futurism, 2worlds1cup & the Generalissimo of Cellectro... |
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10th September, 2013 |
TONY A BOAT :: The Mad Country needs a little adversity from time to time and so do I. It's years since the Trot on my shoulder was so riled up. De-consolidate your presses on HIRE A BOAT... |
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27th August, 2013 |
SAAFIN WITH UR HAX ON || Moroccan Islamic Hacktivists and the looming smell of death. A cruise positively teeming with r00t. |
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13th August, 2013 |
Drove Ms Levy || I'll help her with her homework and she can help me with my homework Hi Genji |
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30th July, 2013 |
A pain in the punt || Better get tested because this boat's been oscillating wildly |
complications - be patient |
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16th July, 2013 |
THE BOAT THAT DOCKED :: A little Psy-Trance, curated by Ella, and thereafter the cynical Mark Pritchard who gracelessly teases DJs of low stature by not releasing his records for up to a year after the release date, so we put him back to back w Kitty pryde hahahahahaha |
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2nd July, 2013 |
Psy-wave || Gingerly dips its little toe into psy-trance and then spooks; retreats towards a bit of filthy, weirdo minimal... |
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18th June, 2013 |
AND THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS || middle-of-the-harbour jazz groove dub chillout lounge resolves into something more substantial |
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4th June, 2013 |
SubBoatPartei :: "The [APRA] won't let me be; they try to shut me down MTV [Fine Music 102.5], but it feels so empty without [SBP]..." |
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21st May, 2013 |
man / board :: a fitz-files special; blood sports, crowdsourced jokes, fast and loose how you like it |
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7th May, 2013 |
some jiggly |
be patient |
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23rd April, 2013 |
A man from Iran, gets his Hans on a Nordic hustler and his crock of L.I.E.S... It's a mandate: it must be PERSIAN LUV |
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9th April, 2013 |
STORM IN A WELL, WELL, WELL || Kitty in the well, Big Russ and the A.S.S, post prog living under a post rock and the same but "with more intensity" |
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26th March, 2013 |
FISHOUSE :: Perv-eyors of Russian Micro-house, SCSI-9 preside over a very long set, and a few brofish angling from the 4 steppes... |
be patient |
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12th March, 2013 |
HULL NO! :: mr. kurtz saw the darkness inside himself and died. sometimes, slow down and take care |
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26th February, 2013 |
GENJI BIDET :: it's someone's special day |
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12th February, 2013 |
SOLOMUN RAYS :: "when he glows he shines all perfect, it takes two to fuck that out of you" |
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29th January, 2013 |
CRUISEABOUT }} nu-disco receives a 'serious' treatment; the likes of todd terje, todd terje, and maybe others. Great! |
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22nd January, 2013 |
THE BOAT THAT CLOCKED || Joint three hour extravaganza with Genji Sato-Fraser: a showdown between our sentimentality towards our own, naive "comfort-music", and sober criticisms of one other's tastes. |
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15th January, 2013 |
Raven circles the crows nest :: new musics composed by Peter Hollo (Raven) and Marcus Whale (Scissor Lock), plus some other things and "serial killer house music" |
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18th December, 2012 |
WHAT YEAR }] the future sounds strangely like the 1990s. this may mean the mayans were right, &c., &c. last boat to the end of the world may be a blimp |
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4th December, 2012 |
PATTERN SURFER :: fuck Mayans... the Hawaiian theoretical physics department warned us something was up |
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20th November, 2012 |
NARCOSUB :: what REALLY happens when you mix substances underwater??7 |
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6th November, 2012 |
HERD IMMUNITY || now you can gett immune to new trends on hire a boat |
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23rd October, 2012 |
THE PAN-AFRICAN SHIPPING CORPORATION is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Pan-African Freight Organisation GmbH |
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9th October, 2012 |
ACID BATH || crackly, compressed and (i caught you a delicious) bass-y |
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25th September, 2012 |
a new DOMAIN for Boating :: vanity bites at http://hireabo.at/ |
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11th September, 2012 |
Have you forgotten to make LOVE (to SMILE) :: boat takes it easy as it comes x o |
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28th August, 2012 |
Have you forgotten to make WAR |
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14th August, 2012 |
BOAT TO THE FUTURE || The future can be daunting without your friends. Torn Hawk, Com Truise, philistine fox trots from the 1920s, Poland's Myslovitz and other things where you can see their natural relevance to one another. |
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31st July, 2012 |
WET WILLIES !! It's a mix up! |
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17th July, 2012 |
HIJACK (fail) || One might say we've been hijacked by many parties' tastes and influences, including Hungary's Fancy Pants'. |
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3rd July, 2012 |
LOBSTER OPENS HIS TRAP, GETS HIS ROCKS OFF :: the rhetoric of failure; it's the (Post-)Lobsterman special we had to have. |
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19th June, 2012 |
PLUCK OFF, MUM || Emu Parade is a fundraiser compilation, showcasing the recent efforts of settled-down 80s pop-rockers and their curious guests, as diverse as The Verlaines, Ashtray Boy, Beaches, The Ancients and Art Rush (?). |
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5th June, 2012 |
NOAH'S ARQ; 2x2=5 || It's APRA reporting week, so in the name of nepotism and purity, we'll take a leaf "off of" the earliest known biological survey. It's a family affair, where 2 is greater than 1. |
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22nd May, 2012 |
BLOW SOME BUBBLE, TOIL & TROUBLE :: WITCH HAUS SPEZIALE WITH LE AEUROVISIONS LATER ON |
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8th May, 2012 |
Ausl梨꼗disch, galley dreams || Outlandish wax bout issues for young Muslims + 3MIX, the Muslim boy band, and then we dissolve into a watery dream pop rinse |
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24th April, 2012 |
HIGH SLEAZE, LOW SIEZE :: World's End Girlfriend, Chapelier Fou, Low Sea, far more.. Don't forget to speak with your eyes, feel with your lips, smile with your teeth, and twitter.com/hireaboat is the best way to get in touch should you feel so inclined... |
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10th April, 2012 |
OIL SPILL || Greasy Italo-disco, a beach house in Pearl Bay, and a second hr mutiny - hijacked by Genji Sato-Fraser. |
mmmmm |
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27th March, 2012 |
FLOWS BOAT WAYS || It's healthy to acknowledge that even the Queen Mary accepts a tugjob from time to time. No boat is an island... We'll bust out the "Balkanbass", sample the excellent "music of Wales", and see what happens from there. |
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13th March, 2012 |
NOTHING GETS MADE BY || Round the world tour bonanza extravaganza on the Boat, ably seconded by Mr. Angus Kretchmer. Sexy K-poppers, Brown Eyed Girls, Ghana's 'musical assassin', Ata Kak, and everything in between; Korean sleaze, Russian microhouse, next level beats of Die Antwoord... |
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28th February, 2012 |
A Surge of Santorum and the Suckatorium Moratorium || flimsy mdf partition separates two boats, one is powered by electricity and the other by hot air. fire in a sex shop, the deepest voice in the whole world, and we rub on a bit about the good work of Amnesty. Heh heh heh |
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14th February, 2012 |
THE TAMBO SUBMARINE || Torn against a rocky crag, windless in the tropics, everybody is to the rescue, kicking now to keep shipwreck afloat... nearly afloat, but towards the finish line for sure. Love is in the air, this Hire A Boat. |
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31st January, 2012 |
YOU-BOAT :: being special in a generation where everybody is special: slunk in self-aware torment, in conflict between putting down juvenile anxieties and being able to acknowledge them; not just ½-arsed, thought it would be appropriate to describe the whole girls party drugs party depression drugs branding self affirmation girls party cycle, so I decided to enlist the help of Lone, among others. |
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17th January, 2012 |
THE PONTOON EFFECT :: Nashville punk/retro classic rock outfit, Blooddrunk Shenanigans, due on their coming tour to preside from a cage over a bare knuckle fight on a warship in international waters. Somethin boringg from Victor Oatmeal's fb feed, Beef Jerk, Phil Collins blaming someone for his wife's tragic canoeing death, the beautiful Evangelia Tsamoglu, who deserves a SMAC, Revenge of the Nerds, Polvo, and then some..... |
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3rd January, 2012 |
TITANIC IS GOING DOWN ON YOU BABY :: third class sinking boat blings out Bleep's Top 100 of 11 |
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20th December, 2011 |
Last weekend, I went SAAFINGU || UP TO THE GUNNELS! It's Krismas again and so Zeitgeist grappling hooks are out, surfing the web for some unusual grooves. Tim & Eric-influenced "dubstep" + ytps, brief KIM JONG IL tribute, Hood's 'Painting the Town Dead' and an anticipatory smattering of Bleep's Best 100 Tracks Of 2011 compilation! WHAT DO YOU GET FOR THE PERSON WHO HAS EVERYTHING? You HIRE A BOAT! Obviously. |
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6th December, 2011 |
TACKLED ON THE FLY || Improvised radio, in memory of radio and improvised music innovator, John Blades. Real (thoughtful) avant-garde mixed-fidelity shit on 2MBS with Angus Cornwell and Genji Sato-Fraser. |
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22nd November, 2011 |
IN DER WEIßENSEE :: Wolfgang Voigt, a man by many monikers makes minimal music that ain't like music (and produces excellent television series about unlikely love in the GDR) |
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8th November, 2011 |
DESERT ISLAND || there's no commotion in the ocean all you gonna eat here is TOPICAL, TROPICAL FRUITS but there's one tree and in its shade you lose your mind; first airing of Snowale's 'tropical folk' demo, Abe Vigoda, Fighting League, Gilberto Gil MP, Danger Beach, Assassins 88, some other calypso rubbish + a smattering of Sam Moreton's project, Gondolin, and an excerpt from the enchanting 'Ghost' set by Pilooski for Le Musicassette. |
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25th October, 2011 |
BARQUE BYTE DEBACLE || Jean Michelle Jarre, Eno/Byrne; forbears of the blip n bop n spectacle what we now know as 'music'... and tonight's AMRAP community service special: Kubist Gong Band (Perth), described as "Experimental, tropical, trance..." |
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11th October, 2011 |
MY LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S KEEPER || What could possibly bring together Phil Collins and electronic music veterans Sub Bass Snarl? |
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27th September, 2011 |
THE BOAT YOUR BOAT WLD SOUND LIKE || Attention: I have discovered Polvo c. 1993. Though I feel less original than I did before, I will now at least die happy, validated. Also, Idyll Swords, Libraness, Ceephax, Charanjit Singh, Mahmoud Awad's "post music"... |
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13th September, 2011 |
NOTIONS BOUT THE MOTIONS OF THE OCEANS || In the time of Galileo, asserting that the moon affected the tides was thought to be a reversion to archaic mysticism. New Balam Acab, but first off the quay is Moonchild! Also it's the 13th, so the moon would have it that waters may be choppy, production-wise. |
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30th August, 2011 |
THUGGISH TUGGISH BOATS || Thug boat drags us into the harbour of hard bones. Bear with it - together, we may be in danger of learning something. Later, minimal/tech treats come from Boris Brejcha. |
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16th August, 2011 |
The SS || Identity, adventure, propaganda and dance music (and Goebbels) |
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2nd August, 2011 |
SAIL AWAY || As my heart runs once more, the Boat broaches the untold happiness of something to believe in. Dappled Cities, Metric, Erykah Badu, Bowie, more... |
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19th July, 2011 |
THE HEAD || Whatcha call a portaloo on a boat for hire? Berlin's Deepchild's Chocolate nu-dubs, Bugsy Beats, and then some. |
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5th July, 2011 |
LIVE EXPORT EGO-NAUTS :: The rise of the Ewe (eew, me?), Lostbeat sampler, a homage to two Finnish babes caught in the eye of the Tiger, Godswounds' EP & other things, too |
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21st June, 2011 |
QUOYLE'S WAR // Shipping News' recent LP, One Less Heartless to Fear, and a bit of a KY math rock retrospective |
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7th June, 2011 |
THE FBI WILL NEVER BUILD A BETTER BOAT // My boat dominates the feds for all real x || Bud Petal's new single, Gold Panda, Polyfox, Venetian Snares, Holy Other, Jamie XX and other places where a fast boat beats small pond legends well out of the water. |
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24th May, 2011 |
OCEAN TRENCH (LOOKS LIKE A VAG) : The Uv Race's new LP, 'Homo', is played in full and in order, along with the rest of their pitiful discography. |
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10th May, 2011 |
MUZAK & MELODRAMA :: Sebastien Tellier is versatile and perceptive. Or is he just a cunt in a dicksuit? Find out on HIRE A BOAT. Plus, the Cannanes' 85-86 7", No-one. |
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12th April, 2011 |
WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR: Hotflush compilation, Cyclo (collab. Ikeda & Carsten Nicolai), Great Apes and Russian house producer, Nina Kravitz |
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29th March, 2011 |
SEA SICK: the hypemachine and its so vulnerable but sooo empowered female vocalists; femininity in alternative music. |
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15th March, 2011 |
PITCHIN A HOUSE: Oscar Henderson & Angus Cornwell glide through the studies of pitch-interested producers of house, pos/ut rock, more... |
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1st March, 2011 |
KELEIDOBOAT: Boat guest programmed by eccentric folk musician, Bud Petal. |
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Formerly RRivkin's super yacht, Hire A Boat offers unmatched comfort and power for traversing the badlands of the audible spectrum, as well as a melancholic disposition and a handy claw. Whether you're hiding out in international waters or dry-docked at the bottom of the harbour, Hire A Boat prevails over the breaks, thundering and enlightening. But make no mistake - Hire A Boat is not a showboat.
More accessible than you think, Hire A Boat offers offerings to cater to any lack of taste, no matter how dire, and themed tours run fortnightly over any number of levels. And with a vessel of so many decks (stories tall!), the annals and the canals of our fortnights aural territory - be it a dark rainforest deep in the yellow continent, or the gaudy, bauble-tripping houses that line the bay at Christmas time - shall never again feel safe from badly camouflaged voyeurs, circumspectaerbating in the periscopery. Book now.