Local and/or General Triple R 102.7 fm Monday 22nd December 2003 ** Special: Best Releases of 2003 ** Function - padua heart nectar (Zillionair Retarded Speeds...) Love of Diagrams - spy kit (The Target Is You) Architecture in Helsinki - scissor paper rock (Fingers Crossed) Anthony Rochester - elephants (Music for Listening and Relaxation) Midstate Orange - summer in disguise (Summer In Disguise EP) Because of Ghosts - prun sunk (Make Amends With Your Adversary Before Dawn) Telemetry Orhcestra - under the knife (Children Stay Free) Clue to Kalo - we'll live free in nyc (Come Here When You Sleepwalk) Sleepy Jackson - this day (Lovers) The Smallgoods - bad case of the wilsons (Listen To The Radio) The Bites - my heart your heart (White Lines and Runways) The Bird Blobs - inbred disco (Stihl Life) Riff Random - see the light (Random Love EP) The Zebras - home and hosed (self titled) Treetops - everything is !!tonight!! (Lionheart EP) Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males - summer wino ** Dan Kelly interview ** Dan Kelly and the Bees of Naxos - ...african funk Laura Jean - the hunters ode (The Hunters Ode Ep) Sodastream - otherwise open (A Minor Revival) Ground Components - soul rebel (self titled EP) Warped - hell outa here (Quicker Ways to Blacker Eyes) Spod - fuck yeah!!! (Taste the Radness) Beatrix/Symbiotic - baby in the well (Ants Farm Aphids compilation) The Head - vibes @ 140bpm (Cubic Metres) Greyscale - pax americana (Cruel Machine) Special mention to new releases in 2003 from: Adam Cole, Bluebottle Kiss, Emily Ulman, Luckmiths, Music vs Physics, New Estate, Sir, Mia Dyson, The Specimens, The Sailors, Anthony Atkinson, Biftek, Gaslight Radio, Dirty Three, Sime Nugent, Lisa Miller, Screamfeeder, Remake Remodel, Night Terrors, The Rectifiers, Royalchord, The Mess Hall, Jodi Phillis and Crayon Fields. http://localgeneral.tripod.com