Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Design by Jack O'Sullivan
jack@saint.cc

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland for Suture Mastering.


SOULACOASTA is a 12-track whirlwind ride through Soul with no safety brakes. The project developed during Close Counters nine month Europe trip, in which they dug up a number of rare groove records whilst crate digging. The end result is a dance-floor worthy mixtape of organic house/boogie/disco and more.

Bass on TRAVEL TREATS performed by Madison Smith. Recorded at Shine Studios by JZ Centre Stage. 

Flute on THIRD GEAR performed by Finn Rees. recorded at Maribyrnong studios.

Saxophone on DISEMBARK performed by James Vincent. Recorded at Sit at Home studios.

Bandcamp

SOULACOASTA DELUXE

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland 

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood"

Design by Jack O'Sullivan

Soulacoasta 

Spotify

COMMON GROUND, PT 1

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland for Suture Mastering

VISIONS

SOULACOASTA

SKATE OR DIE

FIRE DANCE

REMAIN IN YOUR SEATS

FILMCLIP AT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1GZaPJkx8

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland for Suture Mastering

WATCH FILMCLIP

TRAVEL TREATS

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland for Suture Mastering

Flute by Finn Rees

THIRD GEAR

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Saxophone by @jimalxndr

DISEMBARK FT. JIM ALXNDR

PARALLELS

HAPPY SONG

MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2AmXKDbSPo

SOULACOASTA is the title track from our latest release: https://soundcloud.com/closecounters/sets/soulacoasta

Artwork by Aaron "Champ" Ashwood
Insta: @champ_ashwood

Mastered by Wayne Sunderland for Suture Mastering

MUSIC VIDEO

EMBARK

From the album SOULACOASTA by @closecounters

Stream/download the whole thing: fanlink.to/SOULACOASTA

PARALLELS (Tony Chocoloney Remix)

PARALLELS (Kayroy Remix)

Listen to this remix I made for Close Counters! It's part of their album 'Soulacoasta'

Hit me up for the Extended Mix! 

Cheers

Close Counters - Travel Treats (Mingo Remix)

Close Counters - COMMON GROUND, PT. 1 (Halvardan Remix)

Close Counters - VISIONS (Moses Carr Remix)

Close Counters - Third Gear (Olean Remix)

Naarm/Melbourne-based Close Counters’ diverse soundscape sits at the crossroads of house, neo-soul, broken beat and disco. Their 2023 Music Victoria Award-winning album, ‘SOULACOASTA II’ secured their spot as one of the top talents in their class, with the duo tirelessly sourcing niche samples from films and records on trips across the globe. The LP was touted by tastemakers Gilles Peterson, Folamour, Jamz Supernova and landed Album Features with Australian stations Double J, 3RRR, PBS and 2SER. Breakout singles from the pack were originally released by Melvo Baptiste’s The Remedy Project, an imprint of Defected Records.

Their collab 'Rollout' with Young Franco, Scrufizzer and Jay Prince, won over fans across the globe and was added to the Official Soundtrack for acclaimed video game FIFA 23, and have been synced for Apple’s recent iPhone campaign. In the past year the band have also performed for triple j, 3RRR, Defected Radio, FBi Radio, Soho Radio NYC, Baked, and interviewed on BBC Radio 1Xtra on tour recently, and when hotly tipped as their ‘After Dark Discovery’ and ‘EP of the Week’ (‘FLUX’, 2022).

The duo expands up to a 7-piece tour-de-force with live-mapped visuals, dancers and featured musicians and vocalists from their wider collective and they’ve continuously sold out their hometown Naarm/Melbourne dates, notching impressive shows at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, sold out dates at 170 Russell, Corner Hotel, The Night Cat, and packed-out rooms across Australia’s east coast. Support duties have flowed from Madlib, Sofi Tukker, Crazy P Soundsystem, Tall Black Guy, to local mates Confidence Man and The Jungle Giants, betwixt bucket-list festivals Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Let Them Eat Cake, Strawberry Fields, Meredith Music Festival, MONA FOMA, Party in the Paddock and showcasing at BIGSOUND, Electronic Music Conference and three sold-out Melbourne Music Week events.

The band recently finished their UK & EU summer ticking off Lost Village Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, Defected Malta and Cabaret Sauvage. In London, they sold Ronnie Scott's, did 180 tickets at Ninety One Living Room, packed out Hootananny Brixton and landed a sold out Jazz Café support for Somewhere Soul's showcase with Cotonete. The band have also played packed sets in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Monaco, Brighton and featured behind the decks at ADE, Defected Croatia, Reflektor in Belgium with A-Trak, and are returning for Brick Lane Jazz Festival in April 2025.