On Sunday I made my way down to the Netaudio event at the Roundhouse, a yearly event, conference, broadcast and live music convention for which my commissioned piece, a This Music Wins special outlining my thoughts on the stylistic future of experimental music on the internet, went out at 4.30pm via Roundhouse Radio and Resonance 104.4 FM London. You can listen again to the piece below, grab a zip file of all the compositions, or download them individually via tracklisting. Though trains prevented me from catching the headlining ‘Nurse With Wound’ at KOKO that evening, I did manage to catch an interesting set from abrasively captioned ‘Cuntbucket’ - who played a seemingly improvised and jazz-infused noise piece for around 40 minutes up in the open space. Check them out here.

Listen to / download the broadcast (MP3)

1. Mount Kimbie - Maybes (MP3)

2. Dorian Concept - Forced Laughter Might Save Your Life (MP3)

3. Is And Of The - Sleepless Dream (MP3)

4. Kuhrye-oo - Soul Handsome (MP3)

5. Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo (MP3)

6. Joasihno - Von (MP3)

7. Fishing - White Sheet Beach (MP3)

8. Matthew Dear - Slowdance (How To Dress Well Seance) (MP3)

9. Ricky Eat Acid - Anxieties ft. Rachel Levy (MP3)

10. WU LYF - Concrete Gold (MP3)

11. StaG - Tired (MP3)

12. Woodsman - Chants (MP3)

13. Twin Sister - Milk & Honey (MP3)

14. Tamaryn - Sandstone (MP3)

15. Young Prisms - Breathless (MP3)

16. Carnivals - Leeda (MP3)

17. Gold Panda - Quitters Raga (MP3)

18. Mutual Benefit - Piano Experiments In An Abandoned Hospital (MP3)

The 11th This Music Wins radio show on Resonance FM this week deals with a predominantly electronic line-up, though with a few exceptions. Taragana Pyjarama’s song Ocean is the first of the subtle electronic builders, tracks from Fishing, Braids and Purity Ring later on adding a slightly more direct layering to this aesthetic. The Weeknd provide a dark and smoky soul track, with an added hint of dubstep which manages to colour rather than dehumanize what could turn out to be a future trend setter, particularly in the wake of James Blake and Jamie Woon success.

[LISTEN TO RESONANCE FM @ 6.30]

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW]

1. Taragana Pyjarama - Ocean (MP3) 6.24

2. Fishing - White Sheet Beach (MP3)

3. Dead Gaze - Fishing With Robert (MP3)

4. The Weeknd - What You Need (MP3)

5. Braids - Lemonade (MP3)

6. Purity Ring - Loftcries (MP3)

“Fishing In The Colo Wilderness” isn’t so much an album as it is a collection of samples, snippets and tracks from the Fishing older material archives; the two man band themselves even bracketing a disclaimer of ‘(Hard Drive Clear Out)’ as if to distance themselves from such accountabilities as this one. The Sydney duo have been riding off the success of their two song LP “OOOO” and accompanying downloadable EP since its release at the start of February, their achievements culminating in a whole host of blog attention as we move in to the depths of Spring. In the middle of it all, they’ve put together a few great remixes, including one of Cloud Control (who have very recently relocated to the UK on a permanent basis) as well as Alpine, Jonathon Boulet and Guerre.

You’d be forgiven for assuming an element of lazy afternoon serenity from a band with such a name. Similarly, in line with the huge amount of land/sound-scape inducing hazy pop acts which are making it big in recent months, Fishing have adopted, courageously, a far more directly gratifying line. With as many similarities to Com Truise as to Baths as to Ratatat, Fishing’s ‘Wilderness’ is bouncy and disconnected synth-pop produced very professionally indeed. For the most part the music glistens with very distinct and full layerings, underpinned by a kind of watery Caribou-esque wobble which really grabs the frequencies at the high end of one’s listening. The central chunk of Fishing’s music has a distinct 8-bit quality, but not used in that clichéd computer game sense. Instead, the tracks steal your attention and hold it tight, constantly evolving, unfolding and unwinding before your ears (so to speak).

Remarkably strong for a ‘clear out’, it is extremely difficult indeed to criticise these Fishing songs for anything other than their expected lack of coherence in the face of being lumped together and given away. My only criticism is thus intercepted and turned in on itself. On an individual level the songs are consistently cheerful and positively measured, but with one exception - ‘White Sheet Beach’, a gorgeously eery underwater type revelation of a track, which breaks up the mood and style of the release with its jagged chasms of synth and ruptured mapping and sequencing. Its a song which could quite easily front an ad campaign, close a film or change a life with its carefully dealt beat, filmic quality and steady rhythmic evolution. Without doubt the highlight of Fishing’s music to date, even if it feels a little out of place. For fans of Ratatat, Toro Y Moi and Com Truise.

Fishing - White Sheet Beach (MP3)*

Fishing - Shield Street (MP3)

Cloud Control - This Is What Yo Mama Said (Fishing Remix) (MP3)

Full link to “Fishing In The Colo Wilderness” (Facebook/Mediafire)