Whoops should have jumped a little earlier on this one! Phoenix fans would have swooped Devendra Banharts remix off the bands blog yesterday.

A eerily peaceful strummed version of Phoenixs ‘Rome’…. beautiful in all parts.

Phoenix – Rome (Neighbours Devendra Banhart Remix) ysi

Bonus > Phoenix – Fences (Friendly Fires Remix) ysi

Thanks La Friendly

Ubbs

Now im not going to geographically break down the world nor go into specifics JUST how good sydney is compared to the other states in this hot and dusty country (Australia people). You would assume where the melting pot of that community resides is going to be a whole lot of heat… and there is.

What I was suprised to find was the talent nestled away in a place called Adelaide, roughly 1374km from Sydney and a hell of a lot more from the biggest cities in the world but what it lacks in size makes up in banging tunes slash and/or parties.

While Sydney battles it out with up to 10+ crews, Hey Now, Romulus and Remus, Troublemakers, Hump Day Project, 10:87, Crumbs in the Cupboard, Three Fingers, The Gameboys etc the Adelaide boys are content with just two major players, Def Starr and Loot & Plunder.

L & P already have a program on the radio with Nova (Adl – 91.9) so it was time to really give Def Starr a closer inspection. They resident at the local Onelove and run a Thursday night under the guise of 8 Bit Kidz, playing PG wuss-dance that actually turns into a softcore-porno-super-rave and if that wasn’t enough they produce not only under Def Starr but a soon to be birthed alias ‘Pretty Girls’.

What was handed over was a single Phoenix/Grum concution and not just one mega mix but a quickie they sweated over for Nova (all highly recommened by yours truely).

Another honerable mention is Chris Spiers who resides at both Onelove/8 Bit Kidz with Def Starr who sent through this Busy P edit of a crusty classic ‘Protect and Entertain’

.. grab them all, sit back and enjoy.

Busy P – Protect and Entertain (Chris Spiers Edit)

Phoenix – Rome (Def Starr Runaway to Rome Bootleg)

Def Starr – We Came We Saw Mixtape 53.19 (Tracklisting in comments)

Def Starr – 10 minutes of madness 10.00 (Tracklisting in comments)

Ubbs

So it seems some of you may have noticed things have changed around here (..barely ha) and I thought it would be worth filling you in on exactly why and what its going to do for you the readers and just as importantly the artists.

Foremost we will still run the blog as normal, posting up tunes here, there and everywhere wont change as its worked from day one and will until our last. We are still working out what goes where much like moving house and fine tuning bits and peices.

The main reasons for change were to give more focus on particular elements, be it a compilation, album, ep, mixtape etc etc the old format meant the second we dropped another post ontop it would be gone and forgotten. From my personal blogging experience I dont visit a huge number of blogs as often as I’d like and that could mean missing something super important or a track by my favorite artist.

From what we’ve discussed so far there will be 4 posts in the top feature, 3-6 under that and the rest below.  I’ve also created a ‘Last 15 Posts’ bar on the right to make it even simpler!

Try keep in mind we are doing this to give you guys a bit more bite whilst supporting the artists we love as well as Australian/local events. The bigger and better we get the more trust from artists and labels and tracks we can offer up. We do appreciate feedback so if you have something to say email me at ubbs@stoneyroads.com and dave as well dave@stoneyroads.com

Just remember we will always be serving up the best of the best!

Phoenix – Rome (Lanny Merge Remix)

Alex Metric – Head Straight Thanks Radar Maker

Depeche Mode – Peace (Herves Warehouse Frequencies Remix)

Much luff from Stoney Roads