Body Promise returns to the tape format with a 12 chapter missive from the Australian underground. 
With this stellar survey of corporeally-minded music, they compile some of the most interesting mutations of modern dance music. Smooth Sensation marks the third and final installment in the Body Promise compilation series. 

As the reels begin to spin, Fia Fiell (One Third of Jaala) builds to a textured wash of sound that eases the listener into the varied and exhilarating world this tape compiles. The leisurely, dubbed-out atmosphere of Low Flung and Freda & Jackson's contributions preface the bass-heavy boisterousness that both HED Ardennes (Fishing, Body Promise) and Letabruthaknow (aka Setwun) favour. Fishing's The Ghan opts for a hypnotic approach that slowly binds the listener in its spell until they realize it's time to flip over the tape. 

Waterhouse collates broken filaments of sound into a fissured mirror,  reflecting odd visions and ghostly presences. Lou Karsh's electro transmission has a spacey, introspective edge that it shares with the dissociative acid Andy Garvey has programmed for her return to the label. Both Lucy Cliche and DJ Yoni (Holy Balm) have been working at the nexus of DIY production and unruly electronics for aeons, each contributing demented dancefloor directives that are shot through with personality. We close with Emily Glass’ alien oddity, a pendulum that swings from shuddering intensity to eerie ambience until the tape stops spinning.

Smooth Sensation

Number #109 coming from someone very special, someone who has done so much for the local scene and someone I can safely say has remained a big inspiration to me since my late teenage years. Harold ! @djharoldd

Harold is known locally and abroad for his incredible array of outputs. From DJ'ing (and being widely recognised in Melbourne as being one of the best). to running the ever incredible @steeplejackrec, and running some of the most iconic local events (Pleasure Planet...!). 

I have a very distinct memory of feeling truely inspired & deciding to move to Melbourne whilst dancing to Harrison's closing set at the first party I ever went to in Melbourne back in 2014 - Pleasure Planet's third birthday at Lounge. Harrison is a guiding force in the scene and is incredibly supportive of those around him.. but most of all.. he's a mastermind Dj. Enjoy this wild mix in Harrison's signature style <3 Glitchy.. deep IDM outer-worldly heaven. 

Thank you again for the mix Harrison! 

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Animix One Hundred & Nine: Harold

Hyped to welcome in the second addition for the year from general merchant parent https://soundcloud.com/paramatiq .

Showcasing a variety of sounds inside, DJ Paramat moves effortlessly from blissed out dub to high energy floor movers.

Rest the mind with open ears

TMS - #45 - DJ Paramat

Welcome https://soundcloud.com/loiflan to the BSRMIX!

Dominating the Oz scene with his abstract spin on techno and its offshoots, LOIF is definitely one of the heads to keep an eye out for. With releases on Ute, Aminote Editions, Pure Space, Companion and many more, he’s already carved out a distinct sound of his own that’s penetrating ears around the globe. Be sure to keep an eye out for his upcoming Animalia release and any live/dj sets you can catch…he’s headed to the euro zone this year too. Enjoy this one and half hour genreless session for a snapshot of LOIF’s twisted mind.

Artwork by @wowhaus._

www.buttersessions.com

BSRMIX #136 - LOIF

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (18.02.2023)

Artist: @upsammy

upsammy @ Radio TNP 18.02.2023

MIST006 - Various Artists - My Own Mirror To Stay
Release Date: March 6, 2023 (12" & Digital)
Buy: https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-mirror-to-stay

A1 Lukas Urban - A Glass of Empty Rooms
A2 Soreab - The Boy And The Beast
A3 Sanguine - Fake Leaves
B1 McGregor - Clean Lines
B2 ENA - Arkadia Blue
B3 Will Alfred - Pattern Static

With its first label compilation, "My Own Mirror To Stay," Sure Thing invites six new voices into the fold. Each provides an acutely personal reflection of the dance floor suspended in a singular crystalline moment, from wide-eyed to weightless, together seeking new horizons inward and out.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab
Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso
Additional design by Nathaniel Young

MIST006 - V/A - My Own Mirror To Stay

101*3: The clouds drift by gently and there's a smell in the air reminiscent of apollo fruits. I lay down in the grass and for a brief moment everything is at peace.

Twelves @ various record shops, digi @ Bandcamp.

Mammo - Variable / Plate (NDJ003)

From the forest floor to the dance floor and back again

cover art by Isabel von der Ahe

releases 5/17/23

sagesounds.bandcamp.com

Sage 3 - Orchid Dance

Pleasure to be able to welcome someone of true passion for the scene https://soundcloud.com/djgiulia. 

With an exacting ear for balance and intricate rhythms, giulia showcases taste and style in abundance inside.

😴 Rest the mind with open ears 👂

TMS - #47 - giulia

Excelsior Ruth @ forecast, 29.04.23

TANGERINE 11.7.23

Ｂａｄ Ｔｉｐｓ🔸https://linktr.ee/badtips
𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


⏬𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 & 𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐒⏬

https://bodypromise.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-sensation


Check Low Flung
https://www.facebook.com/lowflungmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/lowflung
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4469793-Low-Flung

Check Body Promise
https://www.facebook.com/bodypromise/
https://soundcloud.com/bodypromise

Low Flung - Pay It Forward [Body Promise]

@fredaandjackson

Taken from Smooth Sensation out Friday 15th March 2019

Freda & Jackson is the uncategorizable joint project of two musical omnivores - blending house, jazz, downtempo, broken beat and a few secret herbs & spices into a unique mode of self expression that transcends any genre boundaries. Their contribution “Flux” is a scattershot sample collage of diced breaks, booming voices and spiralling echoes that drift outward and coalesce together into a hallucinatory miasma as they’re dubbed in and out of the mix.

Freda And Jackson - Flux

@letabruthaknow

Letabruthaknow is another moniker of the multi-talented composer and bandleader Setwun. With this pseudonym, they seems intent on burning the signifiers of the UK’s soundsystem continuum down to a few red-hot embers. On “DANCEFLOORPULLINUP”, sirens wail and disincorporated MCs cut over the massive bassline and breakbeats, conjuring up the sweaty exhilaration of a rammed dance even on a quiet commute. In its element, unleashing this would be utter MURDERATION!

Letabruthaknow - DANCEFLOORPULLINUP

@the-ghan-10408199

The Ghan’s “Close Your Eyes” would be just as compelling without the direct instruction. As murky chords arc over a pumping beat and the alien intonation of a warbling voice, all tied together by the computer incantation to close your eyes.

The Ghan - Close Your Eyes

@hed-ardennes

Hed Ardennes happens to be one-half of Body Promise, the lovely people who put this compilation together (They’re not the ones writing this, lest you accuse them of massive egotism). Before you write “Acid Funk”’s inclusion as mere nepotism, your well-hewn cynicism will be torn to shreds by this RIPPER. The rippling bassline is underpinned by taught, sinewy drum programming, particularly the steely slice of a incredibly sharp hi-hat, that balances out the shuddering low end to make for a lithe dancefloor killer.

HED Ardennes - Acid Funk

@fiafiell

Fia Fiell is the moniker of Carolyn Schofield, who channels her virtuosic skill as a pianist and refined understanding of timbre into visceral electronic music that evades the posthumous toe-tag of “ambient”, creating broad and shifting soundscapes that retract and expand, from tender melodies to dense walls of sound.  "Ladder" opens proceedings: the watery figures dance like sunbeams reflected by the sea, the parts forming together like shimmering threads intertwined into a gorgeous filigree.

Fia Fiell - Ladder

Label curated by @djscorpion3000

BP005 Roy Batty Jr - city livin' means pillow crying', June 2, 2023
BP004 - Command D - Clone Dialogue, March 18, 2022
BPVA003 - Smooth Sensation, March 15 2019
BPVA002 - Fantastic Effects, November 24 2017
BPVA001 - Harmony From A Dominant Hue, October 28 2016

Contact:
amelia@bodypromise.club

The Ghan - Close Your Eyes

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