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Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

PRAISE FOR HAPTICS by THE CACTUS CHANNEL (debut 2012 album):

•	"Hot-to-trot... an embryonic version of the Meters or the Dap Kings" - THE AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
•	"Tightly raw soul, rambling deep-funk jams and organ-driven party mash-ups" - THE AGE
•	"Infectiously funky sounds... a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
•	"Old-fashioned, gritty soul music – by a bunch of white teenagers from Melbourne" - THE MONTHLY
•	"Album Of The Week" - RTR PERTH, PBS-FM, SYN-FM, 2SER + EASTSIDE RADIO, RTR PERTH

FREE Single Download

The Cactus Channel - Who Is Walt Druce?

Featuring Georgia Van Etten
Composed/Recorded/Mixed by Annika Schmarsel
Mastered by Ben Coe
Artwork by Piotr Ostrowski (Dimension Alley)

Special thanks to Luy Amiel, Ben Neoh and Dominik Schmarsel

Charlie

Melbourne local CC has been rocking her signature style of disco house on the airwaves, in the clubs and on the blogs, making her one of the foremost  tastemakers in the Australian dance music scene. We are grateful to have her include her tasteful rework of a classy 80s french tune.. 

Follow her at:
https://soundcloud.com/cc-disco
https://www.facebook.com/ccdiscomusic

Free Download

Tout Le Monde Samuse - CC Edit

Buy 7" Vinyl - http://hopest.re/ktdktd
Buy on iTunes - http://hopest.re/1JX8XAE
Buy on Bandcamp - http://hopest.re/1iNYE9o

The Cactus Channel and Chet Faker announce a 7inch two-track recording out September 18.

Funk/soul band, The Cactus Channel, have collaborated with ARIA Award winner Chet Faker for two tracks, ‘Kill the Doubt’ and ‘Sleeping Alone’ on a 7inch set for release via HopeStreet Recordings.

The recording, two years in the making, is a fine example of the depth of Melbourne’s music scene. It features Chet Faker’s seasoned songwriting with The Cactus Channel’s ear for musical instrumentation, resulting in a dose of classic soul and funk seen through a uniquely Melbourne perspective.

‘Kill The Doubt’ – The Cactus Channel feat. Chet Faker:
A side: Kill the Doubt
B side: Sleeping Alone

* Chet faker appears courtesy of Future Classic

Available 18 September via HopeStreet Recordings / Downtown Records at: 
http://hopest.re/ktdktd (7” Vinyl)
hopest.re/1JX8XAE (iTunes)

2015 HopeStreet Recordings for the World excluding North America 
2015 Downtown Records for North America 

www.hopestreetrecordings.com
www.downtownrecords.com

Buy Vinyl/Digital

The Cactus Channel feat. Chet Faker - Sleeping Alone

EWH team up with Kiwi songstress Kimbra for ‘Brother Sun’, available via Loop & Bastard Jazz. The single is taken from the forthcoming ‘Aeons EP’.

‘Brother Sun’ showcases the continued progression of Electric Wire Hustle, and their ever evolving sound, pushing the boundaries of electronic music into a psychedelic-soul realm.

Brother Sun

Northern Comfort - Child & SQL

Featuring Georgia Van Etten
Composed/Recorded/Mixed by Annika Schmarsel (Alice Ivy)
Mastered by Ben Coe
www.aliceivymusic.com

Alice Ivy:
www.facebook.com/aliceivytunes

Georgia Van Etten:
www.facebook.com/georgiaellenmusic/

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AUSTRALIAN TOUR
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//MELBOURNE\\
Thursday 18th February - The Workers Club
with supports North Elements // Lazer Baby (TAS)

//GEELONG\\
13th Feb - Kubu Studios
supports tba

//SYDNEY\\
5th Feb - World Bar
supports tba

//HOBART\\
27th Feb - Waratah Hotel
supports Lazer Baby + tba

//ADELAIDE\\
19th Feb - Rocket Bar & Rooftop
with Paces

Touch (ft. Georgia Van Etten)

Title: Mistress In Your Mind
Artist: Andy Hart
Cat.No. VYG06
Release date: June 13 2016
Preview Quality: 128kbps

Andy Hart - Sorayama's Fantasy - VYG06

Andy Hart - Vienen - VYG06

Andy Hart - Island In The Sky - VYG06

Das Dank

Melbourne nine-piece exploratory soul collective @thirtyseventy create an an aural bloom of Fender Rhodes, soft horns, fluttering melodies and counter-counter-harmonies. Out now via their Bandcamp.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/05/09/premiere-3070-collective-the-strut/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/3070collective-strut

Official Video

30/70 Collective - The Strut (STW Premiere)

The Fix

A HardYakka affirmation breaks in half under the weight of descending pianos and a gently whispered declaration of love.

03 Hard Working Man

Time Flies (feat. Cazeaux OSLO)

POOL

Everything comes in waves. Personal waves of good times, bad times, luck, love, fear, joy... in the physical world, water waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves, radio waves...Trends, eras, and dynasties also come in waves, just over a longer span of time.

Things come and go with crests and troughs, crests and troughs. Here's one more...

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/atish-waves-fb

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atish - [062] - august 2016 - waves

Kiwi-born brothers @chaos-in-the-cbd are back with more jazz-induced astral house explorations; warm, dark and deep. 

Off their forthcoming EP on @bradleyzero's Rhythm Section International imprint.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/09/08/chaos-in-the-cbd-invisible-spectrum
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/Chaos-in-the-CBD-IS

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Bradley Eade