Recently I joined Fenella Kernebone for episode 4 of her new podcast series 'trackwork,' a short-form interview programme dedicated to dissecting one song. The artist breaks the track down to the core stems and discusses the techniques, ideas and stories behind the piece.   Edit: trackwork's archive is unfortunately not available at the moment but Fenella notes here that it will be back.   The show has a straightforward premise yet it achieves remarkably more insight than attempts to discuss a track when you've only got the final, full mix on hand. Even just bouncing the stems out encouraged me to investigate the long-forgotten

  Last week, Blowing Up The Workshop published my entry in their ongoing podcast series. BUTW is an interesting mix series, in that the parties involved are frequently affiliated with 'electronic dance music' in some respect, yet it usually sees the artists put together sets that are more eclectic than a typical club-oriented mix session, with particular focus given to thematic structure and mood. The best known volume is undoubtedly Galcher Lustwerk's 100% GALCHER entry from 2 years ago, which served as a primer for myself - and likely many others - on his work. The quality in the BUTW podcast series

Header image - Detail from Patric's solo performance during Paint en Pointe V - Paper (Photo by Julian Kuo)     When I first started speaking with James and Matt at Where to Now? about doing the compilation of my Paint en Pointe dance pieces, the idea of including remixes was something I was immediately drawn to. It seemed logical that the first recorded release of "Eugene Ward, composer" should offer some kind of link to the world of Dro Carey, which has been my main musical outlet for a good few years. The stems of the Paint en Pointe compositions seemed to

  Earlier this month Melbourne record label Butter Sessions released a collaborative EP from myself, under the Tuff Sherm alias, with Patch Free, a friend of mine that I've been making house and techno tracks with. The support for the "Party Scraps" EP - which includes a rare remix from the likes of Frak and also marks the debut of Patch's electronic music - has been great and I think the vinyl is now sold out at the distributor level.   I'm also pleased to announce the above video clip for the title track, which was created by Seattle-based artist Christian Petersen.   I first

  Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs imprint/entity/SoundCloud account put out an amazing free compilation last week titled #000000 (the hex value for the colour black). As the colour scheme suggests, this was a darker outing than the previous Secret Songs releases. Ryan invited me to contribute to the collection and the above Dro Carey track, Rollcage, was the tune that ended up on the release. This track was basically an attempt at combining a grime track with a breakbeat groove, and obviously taking some inspirational cues from classic Youngstar and Funkystepz tracks for the jumpy melody. A roll cage is a protective

  Thump has just premiered a video clip for one of the tracks from my latest EP, "Club Injury Handbook," released this month on Greco-Roman. The video for "Monomiles" comes from Aidan Keogh, who has previously created clips for Polographia, Fishing and Alison Wonderland.   The track is a collaboration with two MCs from Sydney's Lion Mountain Studio, a community project based in Marrickville. Lion Mountain uses some of Radio Skid Row's facilities, and is supported by the Metro Migrant Resource Centre, Marrickville Youth Resource Centre and MusicNSW. While it was initiated by Sydney's Sierra Leonean community, the Studio works with people from

  I contributed a mix to The Fader magazine's Fall 2014 series and spoke to them about some of my current projects. This marks the return of the Dro Carey project after some time spent focusing on Tuff Sherm and various other bits of music and video work. Also included in the interview is the announcement of a new Dro Carey EP, coming soon from London/Berlin outfit Greco Roman. Check out the Fader feature here.

  Just over a week ago Software released a new mixtape spearheaded by my long-time collaborator Napolian. This follows his amazing LP this year which I was fortunate enough to contribute to musically. Road To Incursio is available as a free download or in a very limited physical cassette edition.   Though this mixtape is mixed and sequenced by Ian, it is really about the group effort here, and introduces a production team - The Renaissance - that I am very excited to be a part of. A couple of collabs completed prior to the formation of that team are included here as

  This remix for DFA came up at a good time as I'd been doing a number of Tuff Sherm productions around this slower sort of tempo, more influenced by Krautrock, motorik or weird disco than traditional house or techno tracks.   The original single is the opening track from the album Years Not Living, released last year. Larry Gus had a really interesting approach to developing the record, which was influenced by the writer Georges Perec. As detailed in this Dummy Mag feature, he collected all of the samples and various song elements into a large library and then used an algorithmic