Dreamtiming (I)

The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike Remix) (YSI) (ZShare)

Bloggers go apeshit for the Australian tunes at the moment, no? I don't have all my facts straight (and I am sure some would argue), but it would seem that this probably thanks in a large part to Modular's well-deserved international influence. And yes the Cut Copy album is fantastic, but to be honest I prefer the new Presets. The first single didn't grab me at the outset, but the video kept me coming back for more and I certainly could appreciate the darker sound and aesthetic. So when this Lifelike (composer of my favourite dance track of last year, the truly sublime "So Electric") remix showed up in all the regular places recently you can imagine my pleasure. Yes, the track has been posted anywhere and everywhere but I really can't get enough of it.

The new album by the The Presets, Apocalypso, is released next month. Please preorder from Insound.

But this wasn't meant to be a post about new Australian music, seeing as you can get that pretty much everywhere else on the internet. Basically I'm going to post up a bunch of Australian New Wave and whatnot over the next little while.



Flash & The Pan - Midnight Man (YSI) (ZShare)

Love love love this tune by Flash & The Pan. One of their mid-period singles, "Midnight Man" is certainly not their best known track (probably 1983's "Waiting For A Train"), but in my mind it has aged the best. I could go on about The Easybeats and why you should really make the effort to track down stuff by Vanda and Young, but I'll stick with the familiar. Basically George Young was brother to Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC and was the producer of High Voltage. Yup.

Well that was pretty shoddy.