Simon Caldwell Sunsets & RA Podcast

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Every Monday from 6-8pm well respected local DJ Simon Caldwell does the rounds on fbi radio here in Sydney. Presenting some of the freshest and most original material in dance and electronic music its considered to be one of the best radio shows of its type.

Also, it seems, Mr Caldwells reputation has been spreading further and wider recently mixing a RA podcast which you can stream below. Starting of slow and funky the mix progresses through house styles, then to more up beat tech and techno before capping off with the new-disco closer to the end. A great mix for any time of the day. accurately representing the many influences the man himself and this big city. Check out the interview with him on RA here

Simon Caldwell Sunsets 14th of December

Tracklisting:
Who You Are (Junior Boys Remix) - Zwicker
Voodoo Ray (Greg Wilson Edit) - A Guy Called Gerald
Forever In Their Debt - The Revenge
Death Panel My Ass Ms Palin - Deepchild
Raw Cuts #6 - Motor City Drum Ensemble
Deeper -Sasse
A Short History Of… - Missing Linkx
Let Yourself Go - Barrio Debajo
Passion - Markus Nikolai
Distant Places - Sobentein
Backroom - Deepchild
Compass - Marek Hemmann
Fantasie Maddchen (Mayer Mix) - Bodo Elsel
Summer Breeze - Sluts'n'Strings & 909
Metamat - Leon De Winter
Machismo - Let's Go Outside
Rectify - Moodyman

Simon Caldwell Sunsets 7th of December
(Just an excerpt from the show)


Simon Caldwell RA Podcast ep181

Tracklisting
Soul Center - What You're Doin - W.v. B.4
Luke Hess - Real To Real - FXHE Records
RNDM - Third Hand Smoke - Laid
Missing Linkx - A Short History Of... - Philpot
Moody feat. Jose James - Desire - Mahogani Music
Prins Thomas/Villalobos - Fizpatrick - Full Pupp
DJ Dove - Roots & Culture (Lakeof remix) - Below
Jonas Kopp - Tirados - Curle Recordings
Sascha Dive - Brother - Deep Vibes Recordings
Rui Da Silva & Craig Richards - Be There - Motivbank
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #3 - MCDE
Rhythm & Sound - Free For All - (Soundstream Remix) – Burial Mix
Slowhouse - Three - Slowhouse Recordings
Caucasian Boy - Northern Lights - Matrix Records
Snuff Crew - I Like It - Playhouse
Omar-S - Oasis 13 - FXHE Records
All - Alltag - Kompakt
Linkwood & House Of Traps - Barely Eagle - Firecracker Recordings
Tal M. Klein & Anthony Mansfield - Disco Villainy - Aniligital
AN-2 - From Now On - Theomatic
Tensnake - Holding Back (My Love) - Running Back

Simon Caldwell Sunsets ft. Kali 24-08

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In case you missed it, last Sunsets with Simon Caldwell featured Sydney Disco Sider Kali doing a live mix. New-disco-house-edits for your listening pleasure with Simon doing a mix of some epic deep techno closer to the end...

Stream/DL: Sunsets wtih Simon Caldwell 24th Aug 09

Kali myspace

Tracklisting:
Kalis Mix
What Is This? - TDM
Deputy Of Love - Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band Feat. Fonda Rae
Wax The Van (Yam Who? Remake) - Arthur Russell
No Static - Botti
Feeling U - Henrik Schwartz
Don't Go Loose It Baby - Hugh Masekela
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Wild, Wild Berry - Vulva String Quartet
Knoppedrehn - Montagskino
Encore - Noze
Liquid Mirror - John Tejada
La Yuca - Cesar Merveille & Pablo Cahn-Speyer
Third Hand Smoke - RNDM
Soulshine - Ekkohaus
Deep Structure - Deadbeat

Simon Caldwell Sunsets 03-08 & Seekae Interview

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As promised recorded Sunset sessions with Simon Caldwell, sorry for the average sound quality. Note to self, extend FM aerial before recording.

Simon Caldwell Sunsets 03-08 with Seekae interview at the end


Also cool little interview with rising Sydney electroncia kids, Seekae, on their new remix package.
Seekae Myspace

Tracklisting:
Feuervogel - Solomun & Stimming
Fo-Eva - Soultourist
Mr. Suitcase - Steve Bug
Momento (It's Hot) - Martin Eyerer
Sagittarius - Kikumoto Allstars
Mermaids - Fila Brazillia
Liquid Mirror - John Tejada
Paranoia - John Tejada
Timebomb VIP Remix - John Tejada
Throwback - John Tejada & Ariane Leviste
The End of It All - John Tejada
The Locus of Points - John Tejada
Make It Easy (John Tejada Remix) - Lusine
Crazy Place - Dave Aju
Sip 'n Dis' - Taron-Trekka
In The Dark - Out In The Sticks
Do It - Hot Bath Edits

Sunsets with Simon Caldwell

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Respected Sydney DJ Simon Caldwell takes the helms every Monday afternoon with Sunsets on fbi radio here in Sydney.

2 hours of new electronic/dance music ranging from the disco to the minimal to techno and of course the house! But if your like me and always manage to forget to tune in then don't despair! Stream it below. I'll try and record it each week and put it up on the blog.

InTheMix Feature here

Sunsets 6-8pm every Monday with Simon Caldwell on fbi radio



Simon Caldwell @ Sunsets fbi radio 27-07-09

Tracklisting:
Space Race - Popular People's Front
The Voice From Planet Love - Precious System
Wild Cats - Soultourist
Human - Mark E
In The End (I Want You To Cry) - Tensnake
In I Dimman - Eerick & Arvid
Panorama (Kalabrese Remix) - Tucillo
Never Knew - Alphatown
Seven Hours - Namito
Language of the Soul - Silicone Soul
Sunday Weekend - Ken Hayakawa
Zap - Andre Lodemann
Blaulicht - Taksi
Teen Angst (Luciano Remix) - M83
My Grandmotha (Farben Remix) - DJ Koze
Picnic - Red Rack'em
We Cookin' Now - Abacus
Air A Dime - Peret Mako
Evening Star (Pink Frost Remix) - Todd Sparrow

Richard Branson on the dial

Local radio station fbi radio (94.5) recently were asking their listeners to come up with creative ways of getting Richard Branson's attention in the (wild) hope of getting him to donate a million $$ to ensure the community radio stations longevity.

Well, it worked! At least it worked by getting his attention and he called fbi this morning and chatted live from his island on the Caribbean (as you do...) have a listen below:



Unfortunately Branson was unable to donate the full amount of money but has instead confirmed corporate sponsorship from Virgin and chucked in some great prizes to help boots local involvement and hopefully get more people listening and donating to fbi.

If anything this publicity stunt has shown the extremely creative individuals who listen to the radio station and news has spread far and wide.

At a recent Creative Sydney talks I attended, fbi's manager was up on stage giving insight into how to they get their funding and exactly where they get their funding from to keep the largest community-licesened (very different from comerical) radio station in Australia staying on air. It also has a coverage as wide as comercial stations. According to him roughly %60 of fbi's income is made up of corperate sponsership with another %30 from memphersip programs and donations. So its safe to presume that many of their past sponsors simply couldnt afford to keep it up this year.

Anyway if your in Sydney tune into 94.5 for and epic dose of good music with %50 comming from Australia, there some great techno/house shows with sunsets on Friday arvos as well as many others.

Tune in online here: www.fbiradio.com.au

Trus'Me fbi radio Mix

Trus'Me the man also known as David Wolstencroft plays Lost Baggage or as its coined for this edition Lost Disco at The Cross, tonight. With his album Working Nights gaining acclaim from all areas of the music business Trus'me has established himself as a future 'star' and one to keep an eye on.

Luckily the boys at Lost Baggage decided to bring him down under for this special party and if banging tribal techno or Prog house is not your thing then this is definitely a party to consider.

Trus'Me has also in a way put Manchester back-on-the-map in terms of being a city of many musical styles as his radio mix shows. Chilled, yet eclectic but always quality you can 'trust' it is a great mix!

DL Link:Trus'Me recorded live on fbi radio, Sydney

Myspace Hook-up

And the wonderful radio station that picked him up? No not one of the bigger radio stations, there far too busy playing the top American hits to bother with actually promoting/supporting the local party's, artists and scene on a regular basis, the one and only fbi Radio! Now fbi Radio have unfortunately found itself in a little bit of an financial situation what with the whole economical crisis and all. There ASK RICHARD campaign although intriguing and if it succeeds may be considered one of the best fund raising campaigns ever, it still may fail in the end to get them the cash that they need. For those of us outside Australia its basically a campaign in which anyone can submit there idea of getting Richard Branson's attention and having him donate the necessary 1 million dollars to secure the stations long term future.


However if you live in Australia and listen to fbi here in Sydney or online then you can help out by becoming an fbi supporter here! I will be doing a post up on all electronic programs on fbi soon and let me tell they are gold!