Rough Edges - a Bridge compilation

December 20, 2010 at 12:21 PM • 1 comments

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Arguably the best part of presenting the Bridge is the delight at listening to a cracking Sydney demo. They might not be produced to the 9s, mastered or even finished in some cases, but this rawness and honesty just can't be replicated by a million dollar mixing desk. So here's our first in what we hope to be a yearly compilation. They might have rough edges, but these twelve tracks have got golden gooey centres.

'Download Them All' option coming soon.


ROUGH EDGES 2010 - Curated by The Bridge on FBi
(cover photo by Aobh O'Brien-Moody)
Bridgemary Kiss - Circus

Oh, and got some recorded tunes you wanna send our way? Fling your plastic to The Music Director, FBi 94.5FM, PO Box 1962, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012. Make sure you include a biography and contact details, including an email address on each copy you send FBi. Send a good few copies yo!

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Anthony Jenkins

April 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM • 0 comments

It's probably true to say that music as an artform has been evolving ever since the first tribesmen and women cast sticks upon fallen logs. It's evolution in the truest sense of the word: new music builds up upon the old, keeping its best elements and refining it's worst. But as time goes on, the refinements become more and more subtle as we reach ever closer towards the limits of the artform.

What's all this pseudo-darwinist shit?? Well I still reserve a special place for tunes that bowl me over with their originality. Their disregard for the enticing shoulders of previous artists is hugely commendable. This nugget comes care of Sydney mostly-solo artist Anthony Jenkins. Sure, sampling's not new, but the unabashed naffness is certainly refreshing. It's part TV theme song, part toy-keyboard demo-button - and is set to raise eyebrows once it hits the Sydney music community at large. I called Anthony up to do the guest programming duties, and he delievered a super-eclectic set (check it below).

mp3: Anthony Jenkins - Banzai Fogey

   TRACKLIST 5/4/2010
Banzai Fogey - Anthony Jenkins
Friday on My Mind - Easybeats
Midnight Man - Flash and the Pan
Get Your Dick Out - Pam and Sarafini
Robot Disco Rock - Bagraiders
Clamp Moistener - Anthony Jenkins
Caviar - Fart Galaxy
Figs and Mangoes - Anthony Jenkins
Da Speech - James Morisson and Simon Stockhausen
Australiana - Austen Tayshus
Sex Right Now - Steve Corbet
You Need A Friend - Sunny Boys

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Guest Programmers: Big Smoky

March 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM • 0 comments

So Sydney fourpiece Big Smoky are joining me on the Bridge tonight, and thusfar people's reactions have pretty much been "Oh hey! That's that Yukio band" or "Cool, I really love that Yukio song" or "Yukio yeah?".

Just thought i'd draw people's attention to their debut EP from last year (Belly Moan). In particular the sweetest of ditties tucked away in the back. It's called Little William, check it. ---JZ

mp3: Big Smoky - Little William


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Guest Program 15/03/10
Yukio - Big Smoky
Sunny In Splodges - Kyu
Brain Tooth - Megastick Fanfare
The Coldest Heart - Belles Will Ring
The Last Night Of Not Knowing You - Darren Hanlon
Pace Ourselves - Cuthbert And The Nightwalkers
Gold Canary - Cloud Control
Hey Sister Keep It Goin On - Sister Jane
Top Of The World - Winter People
Julia (LIVE!) - Big Smoky
M-O-O-N - Ghoul
Wool - Seekae

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Canvas Kites: super supports

February 22, 2010 at 7:42 PM • 0 comments

21/02/10 @ Oxford Art Factory w/ Bachelorette & The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
With the Mercy Arms moving from 'hiatus' to 'official break up'  to 'management denial' and back to 'official breakup' (if their R.I.P myspace headline is to be believed)... it's relieving to know that the creative juices of lead man Thom Moore haven't been stifled by the turbulence. His subsequent musical project Canvas Kites is a little more uptempo and joyful than the Arms, but that's not to say that there's any loss in musical impact. They're just about to make the pilgrimage to London (as many have before them), but thankfully threw down some last-minute local shows before packing up their Rickenbackers.

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5 questions with... King Willy The Master-er

January 14, 2010 at 11:45 PM • 3 comments

Audio Mastering: requires keen ears and a steering wheel. Obviously.

Try as scientists might, there have been three phenomena that have consistently evaded their explanation and understanding throughout the history of time: Gravity, Curling and Audio Mastering. With the plethora of mastered and unmastered demos we receive here at the Bridge (send us yours??), I figured it might be high-time to do some investigation into the third of these three mysteries. Asking musicians was no help. Responses genereally centred around vague comments like "it adds an extra sheen". So I thought i'd get the word straight from the horse's mouth. The horse here is William Bowden a.k.a King Willy a.k.a Willy The Masterer. Aside from his numerous nicknames, he's a man with a lengthy history in the music industry and is hugely respected by musicians and audio boffins alike. I managed to sneak into his self-designed mastering suite (fashioned into the back shed of his residence in Stanmore) and threw a few questions at him in his lunch break.

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