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Rotations: A Sunday crate-dive

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2026/01/11

Brendan and (Grandpa) André go crate-diving into a section of their super organised music collection. Old and just-released music on vinyl, digital and even cassette!Tracks played:Still Tea // Stellar MoonAll of My Thoughts // Spiritualized Mask // Sasha Millar Where Did Our Love Go? // The Supremes Sweaty // Soup on Tap Skindeep // The Stranglers Caller ID // Pippa Swanwick // Wild at HeartBirthday // The Sugarcubes Cherry // Signal Chain Alone // The Sprouts Insanely Jealous // The Soft Boys Like

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Rotations: with Leon Rosselson

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2026/01/04

Jacob Grech from 3CR’s A Friday Rave speaks with legendary political singer/songwriter Leon Rosselson.At 91 years of age, Leon has been writing songs about the state of our world for more than 70 years. Most recently performing a “Live From His Loungeroom” gig in September with long time collaborator Robb Johnston.Leon speaks about how it all started and reminisces about the background to a few tracks.Track Listing:Bringing the News From Nowhere, title track from his 1986 albumThe Battle Hymn of the

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the new voice of summer

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2025/12/07

Matt Munster of Planet X, officially named himself the new voice of summer, and this is his playlist.The Parable Of Glenn McGrath's Haircut / TISMChristmas with Satan / James ChanceBugs for Christmas / Deja VoodoPsychotic Reaction / The FadeawaysI walked with a Zombie (live) / Roky Erickson and the ExplosivesMy Confusion / The EliteWhen do I get to sing My Way / Redd KrossLove on the Terraces / Serious DrinkingReconnez Cherie / Wreckless EricNightmare/ Daddy Long LegsI like to Hurt People / Sam

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Cold winter in hell

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2025/11/30

Michele Vescio, 3CR volunteer and audio editor, presents a mix they put together over a decade ago for a now-defunct project called Cake Bar, something they and their friend Lennox O Diamonds created together. Cake Bar was a dessert-degustation and sound event that had a short run in Narrm back in 2012.The mix in this episode is a shorter, redux version of a much longer original. Even after all these years, it still feels like the kind of music Michele listens to now. Mullholland Drive/Love Theme /

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In Sickness and in Health

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2025/11/09

This week's theme for Rotations is "In Sickness and in Health", playing songs (and telling stories) related to illness, disease and addiction, as well as love, marriage and devotion. Presented by Celine and Brendan at 3CR.Tracks played:Magnolia Tree / Truckstop HoneymoonSick Day / The Old Married CoupleYu Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin / Gary DohPlastic / JoppyHospital / Eilish GilliganGet Better / Alt-JWalang Hanggang Paalam / Joey AyalaIf I had Stayed Married to Andy / Q.ECatch My Disease / Ben

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Blacken Open Air

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2025/11/02

Musician and founder of the Black Wreath record label, Pirate, lives in Alice Springs, Mparntwe.Pirate joined Marty (Wednesday Breakfast) in the studios of 3CR recently to discuss the Black Wreath's celebrated heavy metal festival Blacken Open Air, held at Ross River in September. In addition to this year's festival, Pirate also organised the successful Shadows of Uluru concert, featuring Sand Diego's Earthless, desert rock pioneers the Brant Bjork Trio, Pitjantjatjara musician Jeremy Whiskey, and

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Our Stories Our Flats vs Rotations

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2025/10/26

Ayan Shirwa, broadcaster and presenter, guest hosts this week's episode with a selection of her favourite tracks - lush vocals, laid-back grooves, and feel-good nostalgia from Mary J. Blige and Aaliyah to Jadakiss, Tracy Chapman, and Barkaa.Ayan is the writer and editor of Our Stories, Our Flats, a four-part podcast series about living and thriving in the Carlton Flats. Listen to the series via 3cr.org.au/ourstoriesourflats. Mary Jane (All Night Long) / Mary J BligeGet It Together / 702 Miss You /

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Bush Bands Bash 2025

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2025/10/19

In September, the 21st annual Bush Bands Bash concert was held in Alice Springs, Mparntwe.Marty (Wednesday breakfast) attended the concert, and associated four-day music workshop that runs each year in Ross River, prior to the concert. This episode of Rotations features interviews with members of Ilkari Maru, Fejo & the Cruizers, Garrangali Band and more. A crowd of about 2,000 people attended this year's concert, and were treated to a spectacular night of live music.Tracks played:Five Songlines

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Historical Songs of Struggle, Peoples' Rebellion &...

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2025/10/05

Today, Vittorio (Radio FILEF) and Karina (City Limits) take us on a by-no-means-exhaustive trip through history with songs of popular resistance throughout the world.When we use the terms struggle, rebellion, peoples resistance, we are not speaking about violence for the sake of itself, but of the fundamental aims of why we struggle: peace, joy, love & freedom... and we hope that this is reflected in the songs we share today.We'd like to extend a special thanks to our guests and other 3CR community

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A Contemplative Selection

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2025/09/07

A selection of mostly local contemporary composers, with introspective pieces infused with their respective worlds.Music played:Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) / Rose RieblNgarwul / AllaraAbandoned Places I. Pripyat, Ukraine / Celia CraigVoices from Gaza / Saied SilbakFar Winds and Following Seas / Imogen FerdinandoA medley from dormant, I lay. / Helen Svoboda

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From live to the lounge

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2025/08/17

This all vinyl playlist is dedicated to some of the incredible artists guest presenter Michaela Stubbs has had the privilege to see perform their music live in Naarm-Melbourne and whose creations they continue to enjoy on the record player at home. Paint me Still / Lady Lash / Spiritual Misfit (2022)Magma / Cold Hands Warm Hear / Luxury Bat (2023).Give Me Your Love / Lisa Salvo / I Could Have Been a Castle (2014) EastmintRed Sands / Ajak Kwai / Red Sands (2021). Music in ExileNgurrmarla (Love Song)

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Pop Will Eat Itself: Music from Intentionally...

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2025/08/10

Madison Moffat (Trans-creator Radio) has always loved a good fad, evidence that it was not only her with tendencies to dilate the diminutive. In this edition of Rotations, she shares some of examples of the 'follicle on a grand scale’, from 50’s dance crazes to the manic replication in 1990-2 of the same ‘beep’ sequence across multiple rave trax. Tango Tea / Studio G; Period Music - Victorian and Rural Dance LP [1976]Tea Dance Rag / Studio G; Period Music - Victorian and Rural Dance LP [1976]Mashed

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Celebrating hardcore punk and heavy metal

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2025/07/27

Rob (Monday Breakfast) and Marisa (Doin' Time) celebrating the diversity of the hardcore punk and heavy metal scenes in so-called Australia.Track list (Track / Artist / Album):Taste the Wound / Algor Mortis / Self TitledNothing Ever Changes / Backhand / ANGER SICKThe Wretched of the Earth/ Military Issue (live) / Persecutor / A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation For Palestinian LiberationBury Us / Outright / Bury UsThey Circle Below / Terminal Sleep / They Circle BelowElicit Fear / Terminal Sleep /

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home and away

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2025/07/20

this week @c_a_l_y_x slides into the chair to take you from narrm --> adelaide's unsound festival --> open ear festival on sherkin island, west cork, ireland --> emancipatory neuro-queer hip hop from estonia --> free palestine.Track list:-----------DuChamp / EpithalamionGolden Syrup / The Blue Dogaya / Heat DeathLos Thuthanaka / Caporal “Apnaqkaya Titi”RÓIS / CAOINEI Dreamed I Dream / F*gsMineral Stunting / Destiny Melts Like Ice Under a Warm SunSchool Tour / Melodica, Alpenhorn And VoicePLANTS &

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Record Store recs

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2025/07/13

Louisa shares a collection of tracks gifted over the years by record store staff and graveyard shift radio DJs, a tribute to a time when you could tour the city each week to each record store and staff would know your taste and recommend great new and old releases just for you. So this is a bit of a comfort nostalgia for a cold wintry Sunday.Shrine / The DambuildersFor Love / LushEverywhere I Go You're There / The MuffsSt Elmo's Fire (radio) / Uilab (Brian Eno cover)White Film / Tujiko

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Music from Electronic Sound magazine Issues 121 to 126

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2025/06/29

Presented by Joe, 3CR Music CoOrdinator, and eaturing tracks from Electronic Sound magazine 7 inch Bundles from Issues 121 to 126, and other electronic delights Playlist: The Art of This - “In a Moment (Introduction to a Song)”(a* Side); Silver vinyl Issue 122 [2025]Cluster - “15:43 (Bureau B Edit)” (A Side) (1971) Orange vinyl Issue 123 [2025]Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - “The Men Who Dance In Stag’s Heads (instrumental)” (B Side) Turquoise vinyl Issue 125 [2025]M Zalla - ‘Echos’; Piero Umiliani

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Clang Clang Clang, Bang Bang Bang; high percussion in...

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2025/06/22

Iggy Pop once described his initial musical ethos as chasing the sound of ‘Clang Clang Clang, Bang Bang Bang; loud and louder’. Simple, impressive percussive sounds that can be easily mastered. This is a collection of songs that come to the mind of Madison Moffat (Trans-creator Radio) when they ruminate on that ideal.Down on the Street / The Stooges; Fun House LP [1970]High Society (Calypso) / Louis Armstrong and His Band; High Society Motion Picture Soundtrack LP [1956]Beat Boy / Visage; Beat Boy

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Rotations Radiothon - Radio Songs!

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2025/06/15

The 2025 Radiothon show, presented by Meghan (Freedom of Species), with guests Joe (Music Matters and Music Sans Frontieres), Ash, Michele and Brendan.Please help support Rotations by donating online here, or calling the station during business hours on 03 9419 8377.Tracks played in this episode:Radio Gaga / QueenVideo Killed the Radio Star / The BugglesRadio / RammsteinThis is Radio Clash / The Clash

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Minidisco Volume 3!

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2025/06/14

Sam and Leanne are yet again raising funds for 3CR Community Radio and are brining you Minidisco Volume 3, an hour and a half dive into a forgotten audio recording format (Minidisc). The show will feature an eclectic selection of tracks from Sam's collection of over 700 minidiscs recorded over a 30 year period.This year, we’re celebrating everything 3CR stands for with our theme: Your Station, Your Voice. For 49 years, 3CR has been a dedicated, independent voice for the community—broadcasting the

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Some truth-telling and protest for the long weekend

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2025/06/08

In this long weekend, pre-Radiothon show, Brendan plays a selection of songs of truth-telling, protest and dreaming.Radiothon has officially kicked off for 2025! Please support the show by chipping in. No amount is too small or large!https://www.givenow.com.au/cr/rotationsTracks played:This Land / Charlie Needs BracesThe Great Australian Silence / The Beatnik PreachersSleep, Australia, Sleep / Emily Barker (Paul Kelly Cover)The New Code / IndigenoiseThe Revolution / Andy WhiteLive, Laugh, Decolonise

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