Conrad Standish

KAKUHAN’s cellist extraordinaire Yuki Nakagawa @yuki.n.o.nakagawa takes over this month :) Yuki and I have worked together a while now- he collaborated with CS + Kreme both live and on record and we continue to work together in the Sara Udon project alongside @po00oq 🛠️. I believe there’s a solo record out soon too. Big love and thanks to Yuki for taking over and be sure to check th latest KAKUHAN record if u somehow missed it! 9pm Melb / 12pm London / 7pm Tokyo Image is of Yuki’s broken homemade cello bow

First one for the year, quite a weird one. Bit of unreleased stuff. 11pm Melb time, noon in London. Image of @thomasjeppe1789 Urban Scarecrow. Love to everyone 🫶. Tony Oxley - Brushes Hans Reichel - Upper Larum Warren Burt - 9 Note MOS with Very Narrow Intervals & Bouncy Notes James Opstad - Eluvium Yuji Takahashi + Masahiko Togashi - Wandering Fire Simon Knighton - Sound Sculpture no. 4, pt.1 ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny - Sunrise or Sunset in Texas James Rushford & Conrad Standish - Untitled Proc Fiskal - She’s Veiled Yapping Portal - Orphaned Automation Complete! Carbonated Parroting Theory Simon Knighton - Natural Environments no. 2 Hans Reichel - Could Be Nice Too Still House Plants - Panels Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti - Superimposed A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE - FOOTBALL PRAGMATISM

List of records I loved this year for mighty @boomkatonline crew, big love to them as always and to all the artists and labels.

SARA UDON’s II = II out today on @ourmodernlove - an improv session between CS + Kreme and KAKUHAN captured in Osaka late last year. Boomkat words below ❤️ Recorded in Osaka almost exactly a year ago (11th Nov, 2024), II = II is the first and likely only collaborative album between CS + Kreme and KAKUHAN, a stunning flex of asymmetric and atmospheric world-building, mastered by Rashad Becker for added shine, and highly recommended if you’re anywhere on the line from Autechre to Beatrice Dillon, Mark Fell to HTRK. Playing to the quartet’s respective strengths, II = II finds balance between KAKUHAN’s percussive tekkerz and CS + Kreme’s emotional heft, with Conrad Standish providing drum programming and bass, Sam Karmel on electronics, Koshiro Hino on sampler, and Yuki Nakagawa on Cello. The sound they make together is beautiful but full of swagger - as if SND’s MAX MSP-ed and Razor-ed electronics were blunted at the edges, very gradually melted to vapour. It’s music that’s hyper-specific, in a vein that will be familiar to anyone who copped KAKUHAN’s astonishing debut album ‘Metal Zone’ in 2022, and yet somehow super loose with it, unravelling through four long tracks that each progress and expand the same essential register. Shot from the hip but with ample tricks in the pocket, enhanced by that distinctive room-recorded je ne sais quoi and Noh-style percussive theatrics, it’s the most human sounding electroacoustic music imaginable; tough, rolling, complex, full of space and resonance - and if it really is to be the last word from CS+Kreme (they recently announced the band was no more) - what a way to go out

Last @nts_radio for the year! feat new Mark Fell, @c_a_r_r_i_e_r_ @rashad__becker @joannemaryrobertson @jimwhitedrums @the_hangar_1979 @readinggroup_company @sdem.znr and more 11pm Melb time ❤️❤️❤️ 📸 @lousehome

Back on @nts_radio with the recent favourites including *but not limited to* @po00oq + @yuki.n.o.nakagawa , @glumlukid , @m_r_mortazavi , @tlftrio , @whocares.bandily and lots more, well - some more. 9pm Melb time, may u enjoy it. *conservation worker-coded tile this month, keep fighting the good fight against that artichoke thistle ok???? and the serrated tussock too!! 💦 peace

20 YEARS today with my forever girl @jonninestandish lord knows the things we’ve seen and done lol Thanks for making it all so easy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The Sky Was A Mouth Again - Various Artists (DOW009) Following the powerful statement of 2024’s Hunger Is Violence compilation in aid of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Diet of Worms returns with a new international release in solidarity with the people of Palestine. This time, the project reaches beyond Ireland’s borders, bringing together an eclectic group of international artists to reinterpret one of music’s most mythic and enigmatic songs: Louie Louie. Titled The Sky Was a Mouth Again, the compilation is a bold reimagining of Richard Berry’s 1955 garage anthem - a song that has echoed through decades of protest, censorship, and counterculture. Across continents and genres, artists have responded to the track with interpretations that are urgent, fractured, defiant, and deeply moving. The project features contributions from a deeply eclectic and experimental cast: Alex Macfarlane Amber Meulenijzer Burger Service Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) Conrad Standish (CS + Kreme) & Valentina Magaletti (Vanishing Twin, Moin) Elias Rønnenfelt (Iceage) ELLLL Garbaggio (Nic Offer (!!!) and Sadie Laska (Growing)) Guests I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos - Gang Gang Dance) and Sadie Laska - Growing) Junior Brother Lea Bertucci Leda (Sofie Herner - Enhet för fri musik, Neutral) Maarja Nuut White Magic (Mira Billotte & Tim Horner) Nonpareils (Aaron Hemphill - ex-Liars & Angelika Kaswalder) Rich(ard) Dawson The Shifters @the_shifters_101 Wild Billy Childish & CTMF These are artists who blur borders: between genres, nations, sound and meaning. Their versions of Louie Louie are deeply personal and politically resonant - unraveling the song’s iconic riff into haunting drones, percussive mantras, distorted noise, spectral melodies, and everything in between. Available on limited-edition cassette and digital download via Diet of Worms Bandcamp on July 21st 2025, the compilation features striking cover art by Irish artist Cian Walker @_cian_walker_ All net proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) @medicalaidpal @unrwa

CS show @nts_radio 23.00 melb, 14.00 london photo- @lousehome 🫶

Omniversal Hum Presents CS + Kreme and Jules Reidy. A night of adventurous music for discerning and dedicated ears. CS + Kreme, the Naarm based but internationally renowned duo, perform a rare hometown show off the back of their brilliant, ecstatically spectral and rhythmically angular album ‘The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise’, released on The Trilogy Tapes. Collagic and at times absurd in their detailed sound design and compositional approach, the duo evokes emotive excursions that are remarkably succinct for exploratory modern music of this kind. Jules Reidy’s sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. Berlin based, Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Explorations of microtonal mysticism and alternate tunings drawn from transcendental folk and minimalism color Reidy’s playful experiments with smudged pop melodics and sampling. Reidy’s forthcoming album ‘GHOST/SPIRIT’ will be released on Thrill Jockey in 2025. Tix in bio ❤️

Japan dump Nov 24 ❤️

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