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Releases

The label’s inaugural release unites contributions of 4 artists, with a common ground of techy, playfully modern-sounding tracks with a serious edge and a decent amount of bleeps.  The A-Side opens with a springy, chirpy, minimal tech groover by Berlin-based Rudolf C. It has a light, yet discernible shuffle that drives the track towards a smooth and sunny vibe. Tristan Arp from Mexico is draggin us into water with his captivating aquatic breakbeat groover. At times meditative, at times hectic, it keeps the mind busy with bubbles and waves.
On the flipside, things move forward at a higher pace. 
De Lichting co-founder and Amsterdam-based queniv is teleporting us into a darker environment with a minimal-ish, electro-ish tech nightmare with a merciless groove and little relief.
O-Wells, Die Orakel regular, rounds off the EP with an euphoric, light and choppy, garage-ish track with a restrained, suspenseful energy that only gets unleashed towards the end.

SUZIVA1 (Rudolf C, Tristan Arp, queniv, O-Wells) (SUZI01)

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]

Tangerine releases her debut EP titled First Breath, a medley of trance, psy, IDM, drum and bass and experimental electronic music.

Support: https://tangerineproductions.bandcamp.com/album/first-breath 

Production by Clementine Girard-Foley
Mixing by Declan Vadasz 
Mastering by Joseph Buchan 
Art by Weishan Yang re-interpreted and designed by Ferg Davidson
Vocals in CDM by Stella Schiftan

First Breath (previews)

The Melbourne-based self-taught producer, live act and DJ @tangerine_tangerine releases her debut EP, titled First Breath. She unites two divergent approaches: her productions are just as chaotic as delicate, embracing the beauty of contradiction.

Find our full read here: www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-tangerine-first-breath

First Breath will be out on October 18th 2022. Order a copy via https://tangerineproductions.bandcamp.com.

Premiere: Tangerine - First Breath

BC: https://steeplejackrecc.bandcamp.com/album/have-you-heard-of-radiohead

Faultlines - Have You Heard of Radiohead?

Music From:

AQP soundcloud.com/auquaplush
Tangerine soundcloud.com/tangerine_tangerine
LOIF soundcloud.com/loiflan
Tackle soundcloud.com/tackle803
Glome soundcloud.com/pseudoglome
Barking soundcloud.com/barkingmusic
The Mythic Dawn soundcloud.com/user-826629965-550806120
Nerve soundcloud.com/nervenerve
DBR soundcloud.com/breezydbr
R. Rebeiro soundcloud.com/rrebeiro
Cutting Room soundcloud.com/cuttingroomusic
HAM soundcloud.com/ham-laosethakul
night magnet soundcloud.com/paradisvortex
Match Fixer soundcloud.com/dialangeleyes

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In sonic memory, 
Ham forever.

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Mastered by Borg Queen at Syntonix 
Artwork by Eek 

FLTLNS001

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Steeplejack operates on Stolen land.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land.
We pay our respects to their elders past, present, and future.
Sovereignty was never ceded

Faultlines - Have You Heard of Radiohead? Sampler

Three years in the making, Livity Sound alumni Azu Tiwaline and Forest Drive West combine their distinct but compatible styles into an EP of advanced, reduced soundsystem immersion. 

The idea for the collaboration took shape not long after Tiwaline’s first Livity release, the Magnetic Service EP, and the pair took time to settle on a sound set which now shapes out Fluids In Motion. Drawing on a cohesive palette, the tracks they pieced together in a remote exchange between Tunisia and the UK explored a variety of tempos and rhythms ranging from pure ambience through to spring-loaded 4/4, with a focus on minimalism and dub-spirited spatial sound design. 

The end result naturally evolves from each artist’s existing work, matching subtlety and space with intricate detail to present a complete, considered release that runs as deep as an album over the course of four tracks.

Azu Tiwaline & Forest Drive West - 'Fluids In Motion I'

Uplifting bells intertwine with a warm groove in Tangerine’s inspiring closer. Unfolding over a blissful 7 minutes her world building textures awaken the senses connecting the mind, body and soul. Radiating comfort and a subtle sense of euphoria, The Shape of Leaves is one for after hours bliss.

BUY: https://kinesisrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-shape-of-leaves-2

Written and Produced by Clementine Girard-Foley @tangerine_tangerine
Mixed by Eugene Pascale
Artwork & Design by Siri Farup (Aarhus, Denmark)
Mastered by Corey Kikos (Naarm (Melbourne), Australia)

Tangerine - The Shape of Leaves [KINES01]

Peace of Dream - Past
1. Past (Present Mix) [4.53]
2. Past (Stoned Roses Mix) [4.46]
3. Past (Maara Remix) [5.16]

https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/past

A gorgeous unearthing from two top end friends rooted in collaboration and experimentation comes Pod; Peace of Dream. The duo present the shimmering single “Past” for a special digital Step Ball Chain release; two alternative versions for your pleasure, both downtempo dreamscapes recorded on Larrakia Country. Prominent underground Australian artists in their own right, Hamish Rahn and Emma Stevenson delve into exquisite pop with emotive and raw beauty, a lucid state of mind. A bonus blissed out drum and bass rendition of Past rounds out the release from none other than SBC alumni Maara.

On and on the loop remains,
I sit back and watch the day.
Up and down we oscillate,
Who is here with me today?

I see no one around to hold responsible, what am I sorry for?
I see you now abound, it isn't logical, when I write you a song I'm found.

Past is not the past.
credits
released December 23, 2024

Music by Peace of Dream
Additional guitar - Luke Coleman
Mixed & Mastered by Cameron Parkin
Artwork by Gabriel Cole

Peace Of Dream - Past (DIGISTEP2)

we’re back in new york this week with the dynamic artist no sir who has contributed an all production mix for the 212th edition of the 909 podcast. recycling old projects and combining them with unreleased and forthcoming bits, no sir has created a deeply immersive environment within the mix that showcases their range as a producer, weaving through ambient, aquatic dub, tripped-out vocals and bass-heavy rhythms. it’s low end therapy. 

based in brooklyn, no sir made their production debut in 2021 and has since gone onto releases on internationally renowned imprints such as 3024, w133, faux poly, early reflex and woozy. a rising artist within new york city’s nightlife scene, no sir is a resident of the much-loved party series the level party alongside the likes of andrew devlin, nigelthreetimes, yibing, alien d and kfeelz.

certainly one to watch, we catch up with no sir about their early relationship with music, approach to production, digging deeper into their creative process and the story behind their most recent ep on early reflex with more music on the way very soon! 

interview here:

@no-sir

Untitled 909 Podcast 212: No Sir

Milan-based Piezo (@piezopz) sits at the heart of the current club sounds. He has long had an obsession with sound system music and that defines what he does today: mutant and beguiling club tracks with meticulous sound design and thrilling energy, heavy low ends and a real dose of UK influence from d&b to garage, grime and techno. He kicked off the year by dropping his genre-busting Ecstatic Nostalgia EP on our Dekmantel-UFO sub-label and now returns with a podcast that is just as fresh.

It's a futuristic mix of bleeping machines and lurching rhythms with bright synth designs and deep space ambience. Over the course of 90 minutes, the pace picks up and you're whisked along a variety of rhythms from broken to dubby, head spinning to minimal. It feels utterly spontaneous but is also a fully coherent mix from this restless innovator. 

Dekmantel Mix 483 - Piezo

BUY > https://inverted-audio.store/products/cv313-plays-mike-huckaby-our-life-with-the-wave-ep

cv313 revisits Mike Huckaby's 'Our Life With The Wave' EP as Echospace Detroit releases a heartfelt 4-track tribute 12" honouring the late, great producer. The release features deep dub reworks from San Francisco's Federsen and Echospace co-founder Stephen Hitchell, appearing under his aliases cv313 and Intrusion. Pressed on coloured vinyl, absolutely essential!!

Our Life With The Wave [Original mix]

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-d-towards-my-mind

London-based experimental vanguard SORN gear up to drop their fifth artefact ‘Rephlex’, a shape-shifting suite of tracks from the Samara-based alchemist d. towärds...For our premiere, we zoom in on ‘my mind’ - a woozy descent into percussive mirage and psychoacoustic trickery. The track opens with slippery, delay-drenched drums that slither like AI serpents in a low-gravity ritual. Hiss-stained textures ripple in the periphery, while submerged low-end pressure keeps things anchored to the earth’s core, or at least somewhere beneath it. As the piece evolves, it mutates into a chrome-dipped hybrid of electro and ancient drone, suggesting the breath of unseen biomechanical fauna roaming deep, moss-cloaked networks. Listening feels like stumbling across a buried satellite still transmitting emotional code, flickering with the echoes of something once human.

@d-towards

d. towärds - my mind [SORN]

Haunted

On the cliffs of Uluwatu, when the ocean devours the sun, the seven masks awaken.
Eyes swell red, jaws stretch wide, and teeth gleam like knives.
The stone trembles under their laughter,
and the night opens with a mouth full of drums.

Before gods, before men,
storms carved the first dance:
thunder cracking skulls of clouds,
waves tearing cliffs like flesh from bone,
winds shrieking as if torn from hollow throats.
The masks are fragments of this first hunger,
faces of a rhythm that devours silence.

When dancers put them on, the masks feed.
Flesh becomes rhythm,
breath becomes fire,
and the world shakes with a frenzy of jaws.

The Ritual of Polyrhythm is not a song — it is a feast.
Teeth bite into stone, flames lick the wind,
and every step drives deeper into the marrow of the night.
The cliffs themselves bleed sound until the horizon splits open.


The Seven Masks and Their Dances

1. Mask of Stone Breath

The earth exhales through basalt teeth.
Its rhythm grinds slow and merciless, a jaw of rock crushing time.

2. Mask of Ember Laughter

Flames split into a grin of sparks.
Its rhythm leaps jagged and sharp, fire biting the night in radiant joy.

3. Mask of Ocean Eyes

The tide opens as a mouth that swallows endlessly.
Its rhythm drags all steps into the black water, drowning them in memory.

4. Mask of Hollow Flame

Ash swirls in its throat, a furnace without warmth.
Its rhythm is a hollow blaze, breath echoing in chambers of fire
where sound stretches like teeth across the void.

5. Mask of Thunder Echo

The skull of the sky splits wide.
Its rhythm is a roar of jaws above the earth,
a storm chewing silence into splinters.

6. Mask of Shifting Steps

The ground cracks beneath its feet.
Its rhythm twists and breaks, pulling dancers into chasms that never end.

7. Mask of Air and Dream

The final mouth opens into dawn.
Its rhythm devours form into shadow, shadow into smoke,
until only breath drifts across the horizon, carrying the hunger of night into day.


Closing

At sunrise the masks return to stone,
but their teeth remain restless.
They gnash in thunder, grind in the tide,
and bite within the dreams of all who have seen them.

Mask of Shifting Steps

communication

Sometimes dance, sometimes ambient - I also score for film/moving image!

Live act, producer and DJ
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I live, work, and make music on the un-ceded lands and waters of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. 

Australia's institutional and legal foundations were founded on the myth that nobody inhabited this continent when the first fleet of boats coming from England arrived. Speaking for settlers like myself, the least we can do is redistribute our privilege (whatever forms it might take) earned off the back of a history and ongoing practice of dispossession, erasure and violence perpetuated against First Nations peoples.   

Making music against this backdrop will always feel fraught to me until we achieve real justice and honour the many Indigenous legal orders, polities, knowledges and traditions that are already in existence in this place but have been denied by the State of their rightful, sovereign legitimacy.  

If you have read this far down, I encourage you to: 
                           --> https://paytherent.net.au
                           --> read up on the treaty process happening right now in          so-called Victoria https://www.firstpeoplesvic.org/treaty/
                         --> Always was, Always will be. Free Palestine.

CMPN003 - V/A - Collection One [Snippets]

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