THEMATICS - 90s ALTERNATIVE ROCK SPECIAL

PLAYLIST - 15th May 2010
Special guests: Luke and George from The Bernie Lomax 5

Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz
Soundgarden - Kickstand
Pangaea - Smile
Ash - Petrol
Shihad - My Mind’s Sedate
Ween - Mutilated Lips
Foo Fighters - Floaty
Magic Dirt - Rabbit with Fangs
Faith No More - King for a Day
Flaming Lips - She Don’t Use Jelly
The Prodigy - Fuel My Fire
You Am I - Soldiers
Corrosion of Conformity - King of the Rotten
Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
Frente - What’s Come Over Me
Stone Temple Pilots - Still Remains
Cub - New York City
Custard - Apartment
Supergrass - What Went Wrong (In Your Head)
Grinspoon - Freezer
Pearl Jam - Go
Nirvana - Oh The Guilt
Spiderbait - Monty
Guns N Roses - Locomotive
The Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Front End Loader - Pulse
Local H - Fritz’s Corner

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Next week - BAD RELIGION

THEMATICS - 21st CENTURY GRIND SPECIAL

PLAYLIST - 27th February 2010

Malefaction - Topic of the Day
Fuck the Facts - La Tete hors de L’eau
Catheter - Nothing
Cephalic Carnage - Kill for Weed
Pig Destroyer - Immune to Life
Pig Destroyer - Task Master
Pig Destroyer - Black Centipede
Pig Destroyer - Fuck You Up and Get High
Iron Lung - Liars
Magrudergrind - Elitist Have No Place in Hardcore
Shitstorm - Hide Behind the Screen
Insect Warfare - Internet Era Alienation
Insect Warfare - Evolved into Obliteration
Pretty Little Flower - Shrapnel Decimation
Phobia - Nihilistic Grindcore
Phobia - Eyes of a Citizen
Pathology - Creation of Mass Destruction
Foetopsy - Everything’s a Song Title
Foetopsy - Ear to Go
Mortician - Bloodsoaked Carnage
Brutal Truth - Sugardaddy
Total Fucking Destruction - Metal Emergency
Gridlink - Burning Tiamat
Discordance Axis - Compiling Autumn
East/West Blast Test - Wigwam
In the Shit - Hey Gurl, You Wanna Turn Up Dead in Dorchester Bay?
In the Shit - Die Alone or You’re a Pussy
In the Shit - Full Blown Piece of Shit
Agorpahobic Nosebleed - Honky Dong
Agorpahobic Nosebleed - Famous Last Words
Agorpahobic Nosebleed - Osaka Milk Bar
Agorpahobic Nosebleed - Drive By Blowjob on a Bicycle
Fuck…I’m Dead - Shotgun Facelift
Fuck…I’m Dead - Barefoot and Shitfaced
The Day Everything Became Nothing - 7 off “Brutal”
Blood Duster - We are the Word Police
The Kill - This One Hurts
The Kill - The Kill
The Kill - Tracksuit Pants are Thrash
Captain Cleanoff - Hardcore Fashion Parade
Agents of Abhorrence - Hungry Ghosts
Warsore - Choking on Stress
Hailstones Kill 200 - Stand in Line
Hailstones Kill 200 - Power of the Stranger
Hailstones Kill 200 - I’m Not Afraid
Hailstones Kill 200 - Needle or the Box
Hailstones Kill 200 - Everything For Nothing
Halo of Knives - All Too Human
Encryptor - The Cause in 200 Words or Less…
Sanity’s Dawn - Act Like Me or Die
Y - Bananas for the Punx
Napalm Death - A No-Sided Argument
Infected Disarray - To the Sorrow Filled Eyes and Pallid Bloated Corpulence of my Drowned Children
Inhume - Grind Culture
Cliteater - Obese Obsession
Rompeprop - Coughin Coffin
Jesus Crost - Zeitgeist
Jesus Crost - Verbanned
Jesus Crost - Milevski
Antigama - Imperfection
Dead Infection - No Smoking
Cause For Effect - Proto Calculator
Pigsty - Fly’s Last Minute
Attack of Rage - Grindpeace
Goresoerd - Circle of Masturbators
Agathocles - Pricks at Gigs
Embalming Theatre - Penis in the Toilet
Regurgitate - Cloudy Grayish Vomitus
Regurgitate - Fleshmangler
Sewn Shut - Charred Remains
Sewn Shut - Fall to Extinction
Birdflesh - Nightgrinder
Nasum - Slaves to the Grind
Splitter - Fladd Pa Sjalvkansta
Lock Up - The Jesus Virus
Afgrund - I Diket Jag Legat
Cripple Bastards - When Immunities Fall
Flesh Grinder - Aroma of an Open Gall-Bladder
Wormrot - Fuck…I’m Drunk
324 - Rebelgrind
Unholy Grave - Why Terror Again
Deathstorm - II

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THEMATICS - 2009 MUSIC SPECIAL

PLAYLIST - 26th December 2009

Alice in Chains - All Secrets Known
Propagandhi - Dear Coach’s Corner
Government Warning - Endless Slaughter
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Ex-Cop
Cattle Decapitation - A Body Farm
General Surgery - Unwitting Donor/Cadaver Exchange
Cannibal Corpse - Carnivorous Swarm
Marduk - Nowhere, No-One, Nothing
Dark Funeral - Declaration of Hate
Jodis - Secret House
Black Lung - The Neuroses of Nostalgia
Fuck Buttons - Rough Steez
Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
Witch Hats - Stomach in your Hair
End - My Hippy Sex Cult
The Artbreaker - For the Skinny Sister
ChopChop - Fin by Fin
Kodek - I Stole your Bag of Dried Menstrual Bubbles while you Enjoyed Double-Penetration by your Husband’s and Dog’s Penis, LOL
Mothball Z - New Blood Arrival
I:Gor - Gangbang (AK-Industry Fucked Up Remix)
Eye-D - Hell’s Basement
Tieum - Push up the Level
Realicide - Be a Vessel for Change
Realicide - Los Angeles
Terminal 11 - Remixofexillon
Venetian Snares - Kakarookee Hates Me
Somatic Responses - Radiation Rhythm

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THEMATICS - 90s POP PUNK SPECIAL

PLAYLIST - 17th October 2009

The Shirkers - Hey, Hey, it’s Saturday
Caustic Soda - Like a Day
Bodyjar - Do Not Do
Lawnsmell - Fight or Flight
Hard-Ons - Hate So Hard
Frenzal Rhomb - Disappointment
Lagwagon - Mr. Coffee
Bracket - Sour
No Use For A Name - Soulmate
Good Riddance - Stand
Snuff - Nick Northern
NOFX - Soul Doubt
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Painted Thin - Disposable Song
Bad Religion - Kerosene
Pennywise - Who’s to Blame
The Vandals - Let the Bad Times Roll
Guttermouth - Lucky the Donkey
Green Day - Brat
Screeching Weasel - Leather Jacket
Screeching Weasel - Rubber Room
Vindictives - Spring Valley Shopping Mall
The Queers - I Can’t Stop Farting
Parasites - Hang Up
The Mr. T Experience - The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be
The Groovie Ghoulies - She Gets All the Girls
The Lillingtons - I Need Some Brain Damage
88 Fingers Louie - Reparation
Tuesday - So Awake
The Broadways - The Kitchen Floor
The Lawrence Arms - Uptown Free Radio
Ten Foot Pole - Tunnel’s End
Satanic Surfers - Egocentric
No Fun At All - Believers
MxPx - Do your Feet Hurt
Rhythm Collision - Can’t Wait for Tomorrow
Jawbreaker - Wound
Face To Face - Handout
Fifteen - Evolve
Blink-182 - Sometimes
Buglite - Anymore
J Church - Colors Lie
Ramones - The Job that Ate my Brain
Hagfish - Happiness
Descendents - This Place
All - Long Distance

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THEMATICS - ARTISTS PLAYING SYDNEY MID-2009

A hastily put together show playing bands and acts in my city coming up. No audio for this one, but hope the new website layout is easier to browse.

PLAYLIST - 23rd May 2009

State Of Mind - Wake Up Call
Cooh - Alord
Current Value - Math
Mothball Z - God Mode
Rybacker - Destroy us all
The Amenta - Dirt
Backyard Mortuary - Macabre Butchery
Cannibal Corpse - Shatter Their Bones
Deicide - Day Of Darkness
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
Talons - This Could End Badly
NOFX - Blasphemy (The Victimless Crime)
Bad Religion - Doin’ Time
Flipper - Talks Cheap
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Relative Ways
Further - Punk Rock Vampires
Midget - Soap Suds
Front End Loader - Wake Up Call
Ladytron - High Rise
Battles - Atlas
Lee Perry and The Upsetters - Curley Dub
Kingtide - Peter Tosh is on Island Records
Goth-Trad - Genesis
Harmonic 313 - Quadrant 3
Rocks - Joyride

THEMATICS - 1990s SYDNEY PUNK SPECIAL

Guests: Jay Snapshot and Hooch.
PLAYLIST - 7th March 2009

Hate Is Enough - Saturday Night
Stanley Knife - Neddy Smith
Blitz Babiez - Find Tomorrow
Lawnsmell - I’m Gone
Gilgamesh - Heading Nowhere
Rocks - Joyride
Downtime - People like you
Midget - Go Outside (if you feel the need)
Terrible Virtue - Gnarly
This Thing - The Recluse
Celibate Rifles - Spirits
New Christs - We got this
Crazy Legs Vermin - 327 Wagon
Crane No. 6 - Cloth
Hardware - Weight On Me
Massappeal - The Drills Objective
Seconds Away - Eye of the Storm
Age Of Distrust - Manifest This
Drawback - Sick and Tired
Drawback - Submission Hold
Bleeding Face - Life
Bleeding Face - Mike
AVO - Erko Fight Night
AVO - You’re a Fuckin’ Prick
AVO - Problem Solved
AVO - No Doves
Stanley Knife - Ron Jeremy
The Blurters - Porn Star
Mindcrack - Empty Glass
Fly Cop - Desertification
Tutti Parze - TRG you are Scum

Part 1 - 1hr24mins

SUX - Wait
Crank - Vertigo
Toe To Toe - Slap of Reality
Ceasefire - Drug Hypocrisy
Hard Ons - Hate So Hard
The Shirkers - Growing Pains
Minute Minder - You Lose
Savage Cabbage - Tension
Subversion - Endless Bullshit
Noisam - Answering the Call
Noisam - Gas Attack
Redstain - Disorganization
Three Found Dead - Suicide
Three Found Dead - Instrumental/Tourist
Spastic Van - Hardcore Westie
Playground Of Hate - Planet Under Pressure
Persecution - Besieged
Bastardos - Statistic
Stalins Organ - ?
Groin - Who’s the Crook?
The Last Hemeroids - Don’t Waste my Time
The Bedlam Beggars - Ain’t Nowhere to go
World War XXIV - Clothes Line Thief
World War XXIV - Feel This
Kermit The Fascist - Holocaust
Iron Sausage - Grow Your Own
Iron Sausage - Worthless
Iron Sausage - Money Walks, Talks and Controls
Degrade - Horrific and Twisted
Bloodclot - ?
Choke Slam - Dance Floor Whores
Hellmenn - Deuce
Asteroid B6-12 - Murder City Revolution
Brother Brick - Hotshot
Front End Loader - Punk Rock Kevin
Frenzal Rhomb - Sick and Tired
Toe To Toe - Ordinary Madness
Hard Ons - Spew
Lawnsmell - Lose it all
AVO - Trough Boy
Rocks - Whatcha gonna do?
The Blurters - Get on Drugs

Part 1 - 1hr31mins

THEMATICS - 2008 MUSIC SPECIAL

A selection of tracks which stood out for me last year. No ranking business or listener voting corruption, just a bunch of music made last year which I thought were killers.

PLAYLIST - 17th January 2009

Brutal Knights - Date with us *not on audio recording
H2O - Fairweather Friend
Hot Girls - Kamikaze Pilots
Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud
Pivot - Nothing Hurts Machine
Meat Beat Manifesto - Lonely Soldier
The Bug - Too Much Pain
Pinch - Bootz
wAgAwAgA - Eerieish
J Bostron - Healing of the Nation
With Prison Cell Was Embraced - My Style From Pskov
Limewax - Casino

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Venetian Snares - Eurocore MVP
Supply Module - Deliberately Eliminating All Options
Cdatakill - Raining Glass (Abelcain Remix)
Epsilon - Buddha Fist
Abortifacient - Songahji Holocaust
Dalit - Final Attack Upon Fortress Chipmunk
H3r3tr3k - Insanity
SPL - Lost Frequency
Passenger Of Shit - Lick My Diaper
Captain Cleanoff - 3234
Six Feet Under - None Will Escape
Deicide - In the Eyes of God
The Amenta - Rape
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth

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THEMATICS - ARTISTS TOURING AUSTRALIA SPECIAL LATE 08/09

PLAYLIST - 11th October 2008

Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
Rival Schools - Everything has it’s Point
Face To Face - Walk the Walk
Less Than Jake - Dopeman
Nine Inch Nails - The Four of us are Dying
Alice In Chains - Sickman
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cinnamon Girl
The Prodigy - Skylined
Kraftwerk - It’s more Fun to Compute
The Orb - Katkills
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Tes La Rok - Ignition
Calyx and Teebee - The Divide
Concord Dawn - Horror Show
Ghost - Coffee Shop at the End of the Universe
Stivs - Respect Seen
Eddy Grant - War Party
Shaggy feat. Rik Rok and Tony Gold - Bonafide Girl
Stephen Marley - The Traffic Jam
Ice Cube - Get Money, Spend Money, No Money
Flying Lotus - Paper Crane Gang
The Cinematic Orchestra - Breathe
The Adrian Belew Power Trio - Big Electric Cat
Stray Cats - Runaway Boys
Conquest For Death - Circle Pits, not Prayer Circles
Lebenden Toten - Poison-Poison
Pig Destroyer - Lesser Animal

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