To and Fro as you know it is over for 2008, finishing up with an obligatory best-of-2008 show. Thanks all for listening to our midnight rants and clashed-up sounds, whether its the nite owls of Melbourne tuning in on the wireless or the hip nerds of the rest of the world dialling it in online. Awesome. We’ve had a fun year - live sets from Aoi, Inquiet and Pikelet, interviews with Ratatat, Qua, Ross McLennan, The Emergency and many many more. We have a few more tricks up our sleeves for 2009 so make sure you come back and join us then.

But it’s not really over, is it. Dave and I are filling in for Transference over summer, so you can still catch us doing our thing every Tuesday afternoon between 4-7pm until January 13th.

And then - no shit - you can catch us on RRR’s Summer Breakfasters roster, where the two of us will be joined by Nikki for a week of bleary-eyed breakfast radio between Monday January 19 and Friday January 23, 6-9am.

1. Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)
2. Wax Stag - Short Road
3. Kanye West - Paranoid
4. Ratatat - Mirando
5. Bogdan Irkuk - Jewel of the Black Sea

6. Sparks - I’ve Never Been High
7. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Maailmanloppu
8. Gangpol und Mit - Pocket Knife
9. Eero Johannes - We Could Be Skweeeroes
10. Datassette - Minus Fourteen

11. Estelle - American Boy (live on Letterman)
12. Dark Meat - Success (Diplo remix)
13. Panther - Goblin City (Holy Ghost! remix)
14. Hot Chip - Hold On
15. Qua - Lapsang Souchang

16. Mux Mool - Night Court
17. Senor Coconut - Around the World
18. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
19. Deastro - Light Powered
20. D Gookin - Glad I Met You

21. Four Tet - Ribbons
22. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Zodiac Girls
23. Architecture in Helsinki - Beef in Box
24. Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
25. Holy Ghost! - Hold On

26. Daedelus - Make It So
27. Praveen & Benoit - Embers
28. Air France - June Evenings
29. Max Tundra - Orphaned
30. MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice remix)

31. Pivot - Didn’t I Furious
32. Sascha Funke - Mango
33. Moonbeam - Slow Heart
34. Esau Mwamwaya/The Very Best - Kamphopo
35. Erykah Badu - The Healer

36. Skeletons - Stepper aka Work
37. Stereolab - Diagonals (Aoi remix)
38. Tobacco - Dirt (feat Aesop Rock)
39. Rustie - Zig Zag
40. Seekae - Snax

41. Diplo - Brew Barrymore
42. Findlay Brown - Promised Land
43. Friend - Secret
44. Inquiet - High-P Low-D
45. Mahjongg - Problems

46. Nathan Hollywood - Mockingbird
47. Detektivbyran - Life/Universe
48. Kelpe - Shipwreck Glue
49. Larytta - Ya-Ya-Ya
50. Beck - Chemtrails

BEST OF 2008 SPECIAL:

Datassette - Minus Fourteen (Datassette, 2008)
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Maailmanloppu (Vainajan Muotokuva, 2008)
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Zodiac Girls (Zodiac Girls 12″, 2008)
Bogdan Irkuk - Jewel of the Black Sea (The Coastal EP, 2008)
Squarepusher - A Real Woman (Just a Souvenir, 2008)
Sparks - I’ve Never Been High (Exotic Creatures of the Deep, 2008)
Larytta - Ya-Ya-Ya (Difficult Fun, 2008)
Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed (12″, 2008)
Williams - Love on a Real Train (Love on a Real Train 12″, 2008)
Ross McLennan - Pete Best (Sympathy for the New World, 2008)
Dark Meat - Success (Diplo remix) (2008)
Daedelus - Make It So (Love to Make Music To, 2008)
Kelpe - Bread Machine Bred (Ex-Aquarium, 2008)
D Gookin - Glad I Met You (2008)
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Gardener (Shallow Grave, 2008)
Eero Johannes - We Could Be Skweeeroes (Eero Johannes, 2008)
Qua - Lapsang Souchong (Q&A, 2008)
Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix) (Wanderlust, 2008)
Ratatat - Mirando (Yacht remix) (2008)
Findlay Brown - Promised Land (All That I Have CDS, 2008)
Quiet Village - Gold Rush (Silent Movie, 2008)
Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get Easier (Keep It Slow, 2008)

Senor Coconut - Around the World (Around the World, 2008)
Blank - Shirt Off (2008)
Metronomy - A Thing for Me (A Thing for Me, 2008)
Comatone and Foley - Electric Sheep (Trigger Happy, 2008)
Seekae - Halley Wars (The Sound of Trees Falling on People, 2008)
D-Frost Beats - Big Bwoy (2008)
Rustee - Zig Zag (Zig Zag 12″, 2008)
Worship - Underwater (The Dome part I) (2008)
Praveen and Benoit - Embers (Songs Spun Similar, 2008)
Amadou and Mariam - Sabali (Welcome to Mali, 2008)
Canyons - Yesterday the Dog (The Lovemore EP, 2008)
The Rolling Stones - Too Much Blood (Arthur Baker mix) (1983)
CFCF - Arctic (Panesian Nights, 2008)
Kanye West - Paranoid (808s and Heartbreak, 2008)
Yo Majesty - Booty Klap (Futuristically Speaking… Never Be Afraid, 2008)
Memphis Bleek - Alright (Ratatat remix) (Ratatat Remixes Vol 2, 2007)
Gangpol und Mit - Pocket Knife (The Box, Peppermill 2008)
Scrambled Mache - Norm (The Box, Peppermill 2008)
Joakim - Lonely Hearts (Monsters and Silly Songs, 2007)
Jason Forrest - Telephone Box (The Box, Peppermill 2008)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, 1968)
Bruno Leys - Hallucinations (Wizzz! Volume 2, 2008)
Suzi Quatro - Primitive Love (Can the Can, 1977)
Betty Botox - Jive Baby on a Saturday Night (Mmm, Betty!, 2008)
Golden Bug - Bisco (Bad Robot, 2008)
Microfilm - Hospitalised for Exhaustion (The Slingshot Orchestra, 2008)

D Lissvik - Track 4 (7 Trx + Intermission, 2008)
Madlib - First Class (Dil Withers Suite, 2008)
Madlib - Lifetime (Dil Withers Suite, 2008)
Madlib - The Electric Zone (Dil Withers Suite, 2008)
Madlib - So Much (Dil Withers Suite, 2008)
Daedelus - For Withered Friends (Mumdance and High Rankin remix) (2008)
Rustie - Tempered (Play Doe/Tempered 12″, 2008)
Burial - Archangel (Boy 8-Bit remix) (2008)
Gold Panda - Back Home (2008)
Seekae - Yurai (The Sound of Trees Falling on People, 2008)
Bogdan Irkuk - Foreign Tongues (The Coastal EP, 2008)
Bogdan Irkuk - Caprice (The Coastal EP, 2008)
Jeff Pressing - Butterfly’s Dream (Austral Voices, 1990)
Max Richter - A Sudden Manhattan of the Mind (24 Postcards in Full Colour, 2008)
Gavouna - Three (Strings and Dum Machines, 2005)
Squarepusher - Duotone Moonbeam (Just a Souvenir, 2008)
Maserati - Inventions (Inventions for the New Season, 2008)
D Lissvik - Track 6 (7 Trx + Inventions, 2008)
Golden Bug - Disco Sensation (Hot Robot, 2008)
Scotty Coats and Wes the Mes - Double Fisted (Prins Thomas version) (2008)
The Fireman - Two Magpies (Electric Arguments, 2008)
Carolines - Think I’m Gonna Fall in Love Again (Carolines, 1978)
Diana Ross - My Old Piano
The Beach Boys - Darlin’ (Wild Honey, 1967)
Radiohead - Reckoner (Love Tongue Attack remix) (2008)
Ghoul - Fuck Math (A Mouthful of Gold, 2008)
Lorn - Tomorrow (2008)
Larytta - Is This Cheese? (Difficult Fun, 2008)
Prince Zimboo - Say Heh (2008)
Ryan Davis - Clouds Passing By (Motion, 2008)

We’ve been really lucky to have three very interesting - and completely different - guests join us in the last month, so if you haven’t tuned in to the show for a while now would be a good time to catch up:

To and Fro #71 - italo-disco etc with Morgan from The Emergency

To and Fro #70 - minimal techno and electronica with Peter Chambers aka PC from mnmlssg.blogspot.com

To and Fro #68 - 2 hours of cosmic kraut (and Carl Sagan readings) hosted by Shags Chamberlain and Evelyn Morris (both from Pikelet)

Visit the above links for playlists and mp3s, or subscribe to the podcast (which is now up to date) using iTunes or RSS.

To and Fro broadcasts on Melbourne’s RRR 102.7fm, Tuesday nights from midnight Melbourne time. Incidentally, check out the hot new RRR website. Now officially hitting the mad note.

Joining us this week was Morgan from Melbourne’s own icy-italo (and 20JFG-vetted) torchbearers The Emergency, who took time out from putting the finishing touches on The Emergency’s new record to spin a few tracks and enlighten us on a few things - like, exactly what is it like to headline an international music festival in Hanoi; just how did a random encounter in a bar lead to them sharing the stage with Glass Candy in Melbourne; and exactly what would it sound like if The Emergency decided to invent a blissed-out new-age alter-ego called Peace Out?

The Emergency: http://www.myspace.com/theemergency

Also tonight - a new remix appears from Swedish master of microtechno emo The Field; a slice of archived Hungarian fuzz-rock of Neoton, as brought to us via Andy Votel’s Finders Keepers; warped electronica of various forms from Hudson Mohawke, Arcadion and Kotchy; and more from that inspired debut EP from Sydney’s haunted and angular Ghoul - which is available for download at their myspace: myspace.com/ghoulsydney.

Lullabies in the Dark - Iridium (Iridium 12″, 2008)
The Emergency - Forever (12″, 2008)

Selections by Morgan from The Emergency:
The Emergency - Something to Tell You (12″, 2008)
Flesh vs Venom - General’s Club (2008)
World’s End Press - Devotion (2008)
Mirage - Lake of Dreams (After Dark, 2007)
Glass Candy - Covered in Bugs (2007)
Peace Out - Ocean’s Pulse (2008)
The Emergency - Stars Explode (2008)

Justus Kohncke - Soukhafte Fernwirkung (Safe and Sound, 2008)
Popnoname - Touch (The Field remix) (2008)
Ghoul - Xxplosiv (A Mouthful of Gold, 2008) - myspace.com/ghoulsydney
Ghoul - M-O-O-N (A Mouthful of Gold, 2008)
San Ul Lim - Red Balloon (Best Of, 2007)
Hudson Mohawke - Star Crackout (6×7, 2008)
Arcadion - Ghost Feeder (Ghost Feeder 12″, 2008)
Max Tundra - The Entertainment (Parallax Error Beheads You, 2008)
Kotchy - She Made It Fast (Coco Electrik remix) (She Made It Fast 12″, 2008)
JJ Cale - Travellin’ Light (Troubadour, 1973)
Findlay Brown - Losing the Will to Survive (Separated by the Sea, 2008)
Roy Orbison - In Dreams (In Dreams, 1963)
Neoton - Nora (Well Hung, 2008)
Caribou - Niobe (Andorra, 2007)

Download the show: To and Fro #71

Writer, blogger and music lover Peter Chambers took over the lion’s share of the show with some of his favourite tracks of the moment, including a healthy helping from Berlin’s Workshop label. It was ace to have someone as articulate and thoughtful as Peter on the show and we’ll no doubt have him back in some time for more insights and, well, deep mind-expanding techno. Don’t fear it.

Find more PC at his blog mnmlssg.blogspot.com, or over at Resident Advisor, or in his regular column for Inpress/Zebra “We Were Never Mnml”.

Rufus Wainwright - Tiergarten (Supermayer remix) (2006)
Ghoul - Swimming Pool (A Mouthful of Gold EP, 2008)

Selections by Peter Chambers:
Benjamin Brunn - Untitled (Workshop No 5, 2008)
Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Melons (Songs from the Beehive, 2008)
Even Tuell - Untitled (Workshop No 4, 2008)
Shackleton - Blood on My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos remix) (Skull Disco, 2008)
tobias. - I Can’t Fight the Feeling (I Can’t Fight the Feeling 12″, 2008)
Pawel - Salta (Jujuy/Salta 12″, 2007)
Christian Martin - Elephant Fight (2008)
Seb Steimel - IDDQD (Cheats EP, 2008)
Shed - ITHAW (Shedding the Past, 2008)
Shed - Estrange (Shedding the Past, 2008)
Kassem Mosse - Untitled (Workshop No 3, 2007)

Kelpe - Bread Machine Bred (Zombie Zombie remix) (Extraquarium, 2008)
Lone - Sharpest View of the Sun (Cluster Dreams EP, 2009)
The Brain Machine - Pulsations (The Brain Machine EP, 2008)
Plantains - I Feel Love (Colette No 8, 2007)

Download the show: To and Fro #70

Department of Eagles - Floating on the Lehigh (In Ear Park, 2008)
Mock and Toof - Underwater (demo version) (Underwater 12″ , 2008)
Plantains - I Feel Love (Colette No 8, 2007)
Oblio - Escape (Gomma Galactic No 2, 2008)
Brain Machine - Pulsations (Brain Machine, 2008)
Blank Dogs - Army Crash (Captured Tracks Vol One, 2008)
Squarepusher - The Coathanger (Just a Souvenir, 2008)
Larytta - Bauch Amp (Difficult Fun, 2008)
Javelin - Flutey Flakes (2008)
Daedelus - Assembly Lines (Love to Make Music To, 2008)
Koushik - Be With (Out My Window, 2008)
Lone - Atoll Mirrored (Lemurian, 2008)
Kuniyuki - Touch (A Mountain of One remix) (Remixed, 2008)
The Glimmers - Theme from Atlantis (Theme from Atlantis 12″, 2008)
Kotchy - Bruce Fleetwood (She Made It Easy 12″, 2008)
Jesus - L’Electrocute (Wizzz! Vol 2, 2008)
Omega Redstar - Egy Lany Nem Ment Haza (Well Hung, 2008)
Popolice - Middle Ground (Middle Ground EP, 2007)
The Fauves - Fight Me: I’m 40 (When Good Times Go Good, 2008)
Gyratory System - Party Unlimited (Utility System, 2008)
High Places - Vision’s the First… (High Places, 2008)
Glass Candy - Etheric Device (Beatbox, 2007)
Pedro - Hope Is a Happiness (You, Me and Everyone, 2007)
Eero Johannes - Katt Witt 700 Watts (Eero Johannes, 2008)
Scott Walker - The Old Man’s Back Again (Scott 4, 1969)

MP3: Part 1 | Part 2

Sorry for the lack of updates to the few hardy listeners that come here every week to download the podcast. Its been a weird time for the show - I think I calculated that Dave and I have only hosted one “To and Fro” together in the past two months. Dave was, of course, overseas for four shows - and then in the past three weeks, you may have heard either of us (or both of us) filling in for Clem on RRR’s Tuesday drive slot.

In the meantime, Dave’s been doing his darndest to drum up some blogtroversy - first by blowing that Qua review out of the water, and then by trying to inflame Scandinavian tensions.

Anyway. The podcast. Truth is - updating the podcast is a pain in the ass. So… how can I put this… you may want to start a petition.

In the meantime, we will at least get the mp3s for last night’s show online as soon as we can - because we are super excited that last night’s show was, in fact, hosted by Shags Chamberlain (Pikelet, The Smallgoods), accompanied by Pikelet herself, Evelyn Morris. Shags and Ev did real good; we’ll bring you the evidence real soon.