REFRACTIONS available via Exist. Recordings: https://fanlink.to/CloseCounters_RefractionsEP

Bass: Paul Bender

Artwork: Piewack x Jack O'Sullivan

FILMCLIP

TIP OF MY TONGUE FT. Laneous

Hip Hop/Grime/Garage/House 
only just getting started, get at us!
Instagram: @Undertheinfluencemate
YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCahfSSm9P_Sh3Rk4Jmb5E-A
Send beats to: undertheinfluencemate@gmail.com
all appreciated!

Sina has always been a music lover and she bought her first record when she was eleven!
She got her passion for vinyl from her parents and she was enthusiastic about her parents' record collection.
In the 90s they heard a good mix of “Boris Dlugosch” on the radio!It impressed her very much,she wanted to do that too!The love for Housemusic was born.
Buying records, going to clubs and collecting tapes back then are very popular!
She worked in a record store and music distribution in Hamburg and played in some clubs.
At that time she had a residence in the “Purgatory”, a small house club in Hamburg - her living room!
Through personal events in their life she had to take a different path also professionally.
The love for music has remained until today!
After a long break, she's doing it again Music for yourself and for people who love hearing their music, it's always driven by a passion for listening and sharing music with others!

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.