FAT PLANET is the online home of a weekly radio show broadcast in Sydney, Australia on FBi 95.4. The site features legal mp3 downloads from artists featured on the show and a few more besides. The aim is to represent international music in its entirety – forget about traditional ideas of world music , FAT PLANET covers hip hop from Bazil, breakcore from Egypt, psych-rock from Japan, drum’n’bass from India and so on.

THIS WEEK’s FAT PLANET DOWNLOAD:
NETTLE gutted (mehmet irdel remix) [SPAIN]

NETTLE is, to all intents and purposes, tigerbeat recording artist DJ RUPTURE (also part of the project is graphic artist DD). whilst rupture’s releases usually stride top quality breakcore, nettle sees him on a different trip, taking in north african / middle eastern influences, beautifully exemplified by this mp3 remixed by mehmet irdel. it’s broken and disjointed, starting with a couple of minutes of hand claps and percussion, bringing a downbeat halfway through, before drifting off into some beautiful glitch at the end. much like egyptian-born mutamassik, if anyone degrades ‘world music’, play them this and watch their reaction.

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Pitchfork just gave their debut full-length a 9.7 out of 10. Listen for yourself with some mp3 and WMA files available at their official site.

The Arcade Fire mp3 and audio files

You can also get an Arcade Fire mp3 here: Neighborhood #3 Power Out

The Black Keys have a fantastic new album, Rubber Factory, that’s drawing raves from Tehran to Tokyo to Telluride to Toulouse.

Check out mp3s from Rubber factory here.

Christain Fennesz’s Venice is one of the best electronic releases of the year and will almost surely make the usounds top 20 of 2004 list. The first track off the record has been made available by Fennesz’s label, Touch. Download, enjoy, purchase.

Rivers and Sand mp3

From our friends at Southern Records, the new one from Fly Pan Am, which they describe as “Monolithic slab of trouble-dub, mind-meld noise incantation ala Boredoms, with stranger rhythmic exerc ises. Feat. electronic efforts from Tim Hecker +Alex St Onge”. If that sounds like something you might enjoy, trust us, you will…

Pas a Pas step until mp3 from Southern Records

There’s a new Two Lone Swordsmen album, which is cause for rejoicing from the high heavens. From beyond the stars and beneath the earth come the sounds of TLS… enjoy this mp3 from our good friends at Warp Records…

Two Lone Swordsmen mp3

The great piano player and composer Thelonious Sphere Monk was anointed by some critics as the “High Priest of Bebop,” several of his compositions (“52nd Street Theme,” “Round Midnight,” “Epistrophy” [co-written with Kenny Clarke and originally titled “Fly Right” and then “Iambic Pentameter”], “I Mean You”) were favorites among his contemporaries.
-from Monk Zone

Epistrophy mp3

Don’t Blame me mp3

Nice Work if You Can Get It mp3