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The Ripe team tracks down the best new music floating around the interwebs and blogs it for you in one place. Listen and share the musical love.
DIIV – Dust
If you don’t know who DIIV are by now, redeem yourself before they hit Australia for the 2014 Big Day Out festival. The audio recording isn’t perfect from the 5th anniversary of Captured Tracks
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MILWAUKEE BANKS – Pluto Bounce
Before the combination of the words “Australian” and “hip-hop” force you to close this page out of an understandable habit, you should know that this track doesn’t sound Australian, at all. I know Tony
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Anna Lunoe – Breathe
Australia’s dance music queen, Anna Lunoe is continuing to fly the flag overseas with the release of her new single ‘Breathe’ on Ultra Music/Fools Gold Records. Now based in L.A, Lunoe has had a
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HALL & OATES – I Can’t Go For That (Starsmith Rework)
To be honest, I really only know two things about Hall & Oates. The first is that one of them sported a killer moustache, and the other is that middle aged people seem to
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ACTIVE CHILD – Subtle (Feat. Mikky Ekko)
Active Child released their first album, ‘You Are All I See’, in 2011. But the artist first caught my attention when he covered American spiritual ‘His Eye Is On The Sparrow‘ earlier this year (stream
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CUT COPY – Free Your Mind
Unless you live near Moora, two hours north of Perth, there’s a good chance that you haven’t heard ‘Free Your Mind’, the latest single from Cut Copy’s upcoming fourth album of the same title.
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TORO Y MOI – Campo
It hasn’t taken Toro Y Moi (AKA Chazwick Bradley Bundick) very long to release new material since his 3rd studio album and exclusive 7″ Anything In Return. The exclusive 7″ became available on their up-coming North American tour includes the
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LORDE – Hold My Liquor (Kanye West Cover)
Kanye West‘s ‘Hold My Liquor‘, which appeared on the highly anticipated ‘Yeezus‘ LP this year (featuring Chief Keef and Justin Vernon) is a heavy hip-hop track. It’s filled with industrial sounds and deep bass lines, making it
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JUST FRIENDS – Avalanche (Shlohmo Remix)
Earlier in April this year, on record store day, Just Friends (a collaboration between Nicolas Jaar and Sasha Speilberg) released a vinyl-only track ‘Avalanche’ on 12″. Nicolas Jaar, along with his record label Other People, granted Los Angeles beatsmith Shlohmo the honour of remixing
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ARCADE FIRE – Reflektor (Feat. David Bowie & James Murphy)
It has been 3 yeas since Canadian 9-piece Arcade Fire have released any substantial material following their 2010 full length album ‘The Suburbs’. With the earlier announcement and international hype around the October 29th release of their
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MIAMI HORROR – Real Slow
Miami Horror have escaped Australia this year in order to record their second full length LP (yet to be named), the follow up to their well received debut ’Illumination’. Touring while recording in North America, the
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THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS – State Of Unrest
The John Steel Singers have just released their new single ’State Of Unrest’, which is the first taste of their forthcoming album. The song leans towards more of a slightly psychedelic indie rock direction than the guitar
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TOP 20 TRACKS FOR THIS WEEK
20 of our favourite new tracks, coming at you right on cue to kick-star the week. The local music scene continues to bloom with Eliza Hull, Brightly, Jordan Rakei, All The Colours and Axolotl releasing killer new
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SIR SLY – Gold (Gold Fields Remix)
Another remix today, and this time it’s from Ballarat’s own Gold Fields. After recently taking on Empire of the Sun (stream below) and Chela, they have tackled Sir Sly‘s Gold with some pretty rad results. The
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KISHI BASHI – Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!
The day that Kishi Bashi releases new music is always a top day, and yesterday was one of them. For those who haven’t heard of Kishi Bashi, his actual name is K Ishibashi, he’s a Japanese
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BRIGHTLY – World War
Whimsical folk-inspired electro pop defines Melbourne band Brightly‘s debut album Beginnings & Endings, released earlier this year. Now, only a few months later, the busy bunch is getting reading to release their new EP, The Greylings. Dumping the synths,
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ALT-J (∆) – Breezeblocks (RZA Remix)
In a dramatic twist, Wu-Tang Clans‘s RZA has decided to remix alt-J‘s highly successful single ‘Breezeblocks‘. What we have here is something difficult to wrap your head around. It almost sounds like an incomplete sample before
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ELIZA HULL – Christopher
‘Christopher‘ is the new single off Eliza Hull‘s forthcoming sophomore EP The Ghosts You Never Catch. Hailing from Melbourne, Hull experiments with atmospheric tones, pitching romantic and dreamy ballads. Produced by Hayden Calnin, ‘Christopher’ develops
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PREMIERE: Cosmos Midnight – The Dofflin (Wave Racer Remix)
Over the past three months Australia’s electronic music scene has been swept in to a lustrous love-affair with Sydney brothers Cosmos Midnight and their close musical mate Wave Racer. Both acts have been touring hard, releasing a
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SLEIGH BELLS – Bitter Rivals
American noise pop duo Sleigh Bells are back with a new track called ‘Bitter Rivals‘. Sleigh Bells have their formula down-pat. Vocals that are run through a distorted megaphone, simple fuzzy guitar chords and
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