collection one 

our first v/a ~ an immersive collection of weightless atmospherics and dub-tinged, transcendental breaks. sink a little deeper.

featuring @declan-mcnamara-1, @milliamusic,  @kita-music, @liatsesmelis, @user-554965987, @edavd, @user-345693499, Aera, Sprinks, @downstairs-j, @hame_dj, @roza-terenzi, @calesexton, @tangerine_tangerine & @loiflan


50% of profits from this release will go to supporting Blak Pearl Studio, a grassroots, creative drop-in studio for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in the City of Yarra. The remaining 50% will go directly to the artists.

Mastered by Phoebe Twigg (@ptwiggs)
Artwork courtesy of Fulli Andrinopoulos and Arts Project Australia 
Design by Milly Davison
Special thanks to @noffweezy

Released digitally 8th April 2022
https://companion.bandcamp.com/album/collection-one

www.artsproject.org.au
https://www.blakpearlstudio.com/

Companion operates on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri-Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to their continuing cultures and connection to Country, community and music; and to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

CMPN003 - V/A - Collection One [Snippets]

Though no longer based in Sydney’s Inner West, jobfit’s music continues to hold space for those who traverse its parks, pubs and parties. 

For their third release on Pure Space, jobfit share their new EP ‘time to make Daddy some money’. 

Full of swirling synths, deep bass and acidic tastes, this EP continues jobfit’s splicing together of poetry and dance music. Where crisp percussion arrests tension, immersive pads hold you in - releasing only to rebuild again and again.

This release/rebuild is the perfect support for the vocals. Written between Sydney’s two lockdowns, the EP is a woozy state of inertia. There are sneaks of escape - outta Sydney, on the street, in the studio. But there’s also a state of being trapped - in the kitchen, in the Poet, in the interior. Both inSide and inSelf. The vocalist always uneasy, knowing what could come. And then it does: ‘Collar Mourning’ rounds us out for another stretch between “four walls and 34 square metres / captures and holds”.

Yet there are always moments of respite, a settling into place, making peace, the “alla norma”. It’s dance music for those stuck at home! For driving! For traversing space and time, beer belly wriggling into jeans, lurching up Newtown’s drunken pipeline, reminiscing on times connecting, over there, or there, or there… “smiling, and knowing and turning still.”

@jobfit

Tracklist:
01. Sydney Re-Entry
02. BroomWasp
03. Pan Mug Break In
04. Collar Mourning

Format: Digital

Written and produced by jobfit on unceded Gadigal land
Mastered by Wayne Sutherland

Art by @pd_sky

10% of profits from all Pure Space releases is donated to Aboriginal Legal Service, Australia's first Aboriginal Legal Service est 1970 - if you have the means we encourage you to also donate directly alsnswact.org.au

PS011 - jobfit - time to make Daddy some money

With creative direction from Gillielove, new areas of sound design and levels of distortion are explored in a shared love for twisted dancehall.

Buy: https://commandd.bandcamp.com/track/ls

Production - Gillielove and Command D
Mixing - Command D
Mastering - Joe Buchanan
Artwork - Ellen Waring (@e11evation22)

Made on Gadigal land.

L's (with Gillielove)

@secondcousins

We are pleased to announce Cousin’s NAFF debut, Second Message.
Drawing inspiration from the rich sounds of neighboring bushland, the Australian artist and Moonshoe founder composes deeply vivid body music with an intricate approach to dubwise construction. We are grateful to share this music with you here

releases December 2, 2022

Writting and Production by Jackson Fester
Mixied by Jackson Fester
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Physical Distribution by One Eye Witness
NAFF 2022

Cousin - Second Message (Clips)

Pure Space returns with our final release of 2022, delivered by none other than Zara - a warm light shining from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).

Crafted in the midst of Australia’s last summer, these tracks capture the blissful and euphoric feeling of warm weather and the potential it brings…

Starting on an ambient note and progressing to drum & bass, the release seeks to take listeners on a transcendental journey to a freaky realm.

We start with Pirr, a track representative of dawn and the new beginnings it brings. It’s an eerie, yet anticipatory feeling lingers in the air as the rising sun diminishes the darkness and reveals the beauty of the landscape. Soft kicks coupled with bird song gently grasp the attention, effortlessly drawing you into the release.

Guitar and reverb drums define the second track, Idyll. Switching the mood to melancholia where the track meanders around floaty vocals creating a gentle fluidity throughout.

Entering the DnB realm, Quixotic combines driving hi-hats, wubs, bass to instigate movement. The floating female vocals carry you through the track guiding you on what feels like a utopian dream.

Synthesised drums are combined with heavy bass, arps and breaks to represent the peak of the journey. A chaotic, albeit warm track with and trippy moments in time.

As the sun sets once again, the arc of the journey ends on acid synths, arps, claps and hi hats on Elysium. Transporting the listener into a sleep, a moment of peace or back down to earth.

https://soundcloud.com/zaraolsen

Tracklist: 
01. Pirr
02. Idyll
03. Azure
04. Quixotic
05. Elysium

Format: Digital

Written and produced by Zara Olsen
Mixxed by LOIF & Zara
Mastered by Mark Klon
Art by niph / niph.ophelia

10% of profits from all Pure Space releases is donated to Aboriginal Legal Service, Australia's first Aboriginal Legal Service est 1970 - if you have the means we encourage you to also donate directly alsnswact.org.au

PS013 - Zara - Reverie

Who are the Chestnut People?
Exo Recordings International introduces the first collaborative project in its history. The Canadian producer Priori and German Exo Rec. founder Ludwig A.F. join forces to create a little slice of happiness that comes with the labels guarantee: works at the club, works at home!

Pre order has begun via: https://bit.ly/3l3E3Du it's a small run, so be quick!

XIN010 - “Chestnut People - Chestnut People“ (Previews)

Preview of the First track from the forthcoming release by Ad Zee

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Illustration by Blinkerfluid

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Mixed & Mastered by Safire

Far I Sound-AD ZEE Preview

Following multiple appearances on local Naarm label digital compilations, RBI lands on Butter Sessions with a full lengths worth of downtempo, ambient and full throttle, braindance-inspired dnb/jungle cuts. Whilst 'Proximity' and 'Return to Nature' presented RBI as one amongst many contemporary vanguards of the Australian electronic underground, her production style is allowed to shine in full effect on debut album Disseminate.

There is an undeniable influence of early breakbeat, 90s IDM and UK sound system pressure at play, though RBI's sound design is knowingly modern. Rarely dropping the tempo below 140 aside from brief, beatless interludes ('100o10o1hz' / 'Gossip'), the result is a fine balance of unrelenting rave music and thoughtful, introspective glitch. Penultimate jam 'Subterranean Dub' seems like a nod to the living-room techno of the Artificial Intelligence series, occasional soft breaks mixing with murky, aquatic ambience, whilst things close with an eerie avant-garde electroacoustic piece. 'Arrivée Les Nuages' strikes as a participation in the current re-evaluation of psytrance, though follows on from 'Vault Ultra' which clearly references the atmospheric breakdowns of golden era dubstep.
All in all, an impressive collection of dance productions which combines elements from scenes of the past 40 years.

NB: The tracks on Disseminate sit within a wider audio-visual context where they soundtrack various Naarm cityscapes rebuilt as immersive digital worlds: "I was lucky enough to collaborate with an incredibly talented friend and training architect Dom who came up with the idea of videos exploring digital spaces and worlds extracted from real locations. To create the work she filmed a number of locations near where we live, a warehouse party location, artist spaces, liminal spaces, objects..."

Artwork – Dom Tang
Mixing – Ruby Willis 
Mastering – Corey Kikos 
Album notes – Fergus Clark

Eavesdropping - RBI

The dreamy a1 from our newest release by @loiflan.

Out now.

LOIF - Plunge

Montreal’s sapphic mixxtress, the elusive mogul Maara (@maara), unveils her debut full length LP via Step Ball Chain (@stepballchain). A pairing written in the stars, with twelve dynamically diverse and emotive soundscapes of downtempo bliss, spine-chilling drum and bass and elevated electronica - timeless anthems for sonic indulgence and reflection. Take a deep dive into the sensually charged inner workings of the already prolific producer’s mind.

An effervescent atmosphere envelopes it’s way through the records entirety, whether it be gloriously lush pads, melancholic words and whispers from her own lips or subterrantian bass. Maara’s world of sound showcases the wild spectrum of emotion, the empathetic passion of joy in Awaken, Plum Plum and Sapphic Rehabilitation Centre alongside the darkness of Insidious Force or Rough ‘N’ Ready. But like most things, the purest beauty can be found within the grey areas, where majority of this records lies. A powerful ebb and flow between cloudy twilight and it’s recurring silver lining, Nothing...  more

Releases April 20, 2023

Written & Produced by Maaraluisa Dunbar
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Michael Mitsas & Vivien Hoffman

Vinyl Pre-order: tinyurl.com/mx3bj39v
BC Pre-order: https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-truth

pi pi pi premiere: Maara - Erotics Of Betrayal (Step Ball Chain)

M.Y.G.O.

Bookings and enquiries: charleyfester@hotmail.com

L's (with Gillielove)

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