BART B MORE

Killing It

Dutch DJ and producer Bart van der Meer, aka Bart B More, is bringing his crowd pleasing blend of house and electro to town tonight. He chats with JOSHUA HAYES about what’s keeping him busy off the road.

CAMO & KROOKED

Crossing The Line

Austrian drum’n’bass duo Camo & Krooked have been signed to Tony Coleman’s legendary UK label Hospital Records for just over a year now. In that short amount of time, they’ve toured Europe and the UK, released their sophomore record Cross The Line which took out the Best EP/Album at the 2011 Drum & Bass Arena Awards, and were donned Best Producer at the awards as well. ANNABEL MACLEAN chats with Reinhard Rietsch (Camo) ahead of the duo’s upcoming Australian tour.

CHILDISH GAMBINO

Camp
Island

Donald Glover’s day job is as an actor and comedian, starring in US sitcom Community and working as a staff writer for cult comedy series 30 Rock. By night he’s both the rapper Childish Gambino and, as it seems from this album, a part-time Kanye West impersonator.

However, a fascinating public persona is not synonymous with fascinating musical output, and while Glover’s attention-seeking behaviour may be grotesquely compelling, the 20-something rapper himself is not. He fancies himself a tortured artist, but his mixture of ego and self-loathing could not be more cliché. He thinks he’s an aesthete, but his taste (college girls, white society, getting crunk) is tired.

AMY WINEHOUSE

Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Island / Universal

Last year, 2011, at the age of 27, Amy Winehouse  famously died from ‘acute alcohol poisoning’. It was the terrible loss of a supremely talented singer, one whose life will be remembered for music, fame, drugs, booze, love, loss, drugs, booze, rehab and a retro style. Sadly, the world would never see another of her beehive hairstyles, or Amy strolling belligerently, fag in hand, from court to waiting taxi. We would expect and have though, soon enough, to find a new Amy Winehouse record on the (hypothetical) shelves.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Nordic Nasty

Directed by David Fincher
Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard

We’re up to the third iteration now of the Millennium Trilogy, counting the Swedish films and the wildly popular novels by the late Stieg Larsson on which they were based, and by now pretty much everyone is at least passingly familiar with the story of investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist

LAIDBACK LUKE

Mix Mash Mater

Part Dutch, part Phillipino but wholly legendary, Laidback Luke isn’t complaining. Life is good for the DJ and producer despite the fact he admits he isn’t particularly relaxed right now. Rather, he is a serious workaholic and if he isn’t asleep or on a plane, he’s probably behind a mixer somewhere in the world. RK talks to Luke, aka Lucas van Scheppingen, about life’s ups and downs and his return to Australia for his annual pilgrimage.

KOHL AND HUMMINGBIRD

Cross Culture

Dawn Jackson will perform Hummingbird/Kohl at the Midland Junction Arts Centre, from Thursday, January 19, until Sunday, January 22. Tickets are available at kulcha.com.au, or by phoning (08) 9336 4544.

A WAAPA trained dancer who has performed with the WA Ballet and the Kalika Dance Company, as well as training in Indian dance during a residency with Dr Ileana Citaristi, Dawn Jackson is back in WA to perform her new piece Hummingbird, and her WA Dance Awards nominated solo piece Kohl.