A spontaneous curation by Melbourne's own @katharine-motiontheory :

"It seems more so than ever that these days when I open my email to catch-up it is filled with musings from friends devoted to the future thinking movement. We live in an age now that many of us read about as children, we absorbed science fiction and fantasy novels in our youth. With artificial intelligence now a real thing, with talks recently that it has already become self aware. We like AI, seem to be forever longing to better understand the world we are growing up in. Some of us discovered music and never let go, always yearning to feel the next release on our ears from our favourite artists and bands. @katharine-motiontheory is one of those DJ’s who is always seeking, and we are lucky to have her. Who better to write the code required to appease the darkest of electronic souls. If machines could listen to the music they created it might feel something like this. A perfectly asymmetrical compartmentalisation of sounds circuit bent through quartz locked hearts."

- Jimi Polar

Dart Echo Mix #023 - Katharine

Sheep covered with Wolf skin
"Master and Apprentice"

deep dive my guest mixes: 
lysergic minimal concoctions 
contemporary house 
much vinyl

Resident at Fiftyfive: 5 hrs of deep vinyl
& Killing Time Bar Melbourne - TIMELESS

Recent Aust support for Silat Beksi, Herck, KNDO, Vincent Casanova, Harry McCanna & Gene on Earth :)

*spontaneous curations*
v i b r a t i o n : a p p r e c i a t i o n
4 d a n c i n g or m u s i n g
l u s h : m i n i m a l  

* Host of Selekt Sessions: freshly launched minimal series with Rupert  :Wall of Brooklyn - first guests - Last Pines, Valeria Croft, Fedo & MTPS!

*Co-owner of modern electronic music label & party series @motiontheorymusic with Ben Abrahams.

EP:01 Holographic Release - Jules David & Timmus, Vincent Casanova
EP:02 soon: Jules David & Ben Abrahams remixed by Herck & Jay Tripwire

*Vadim Svoboda of Makesense about my Rupert Wall mix:  "GREAT MIX Katharine, I have nothing to say but: tight, personal, varied but very homogenous... top notch."  

*Feeder Sound Romania: “her recordings are intense and with a sophisticated perspective on sounds and rhythms." 

Those who crave nourishing sonic sessions have followed Katharine’s journey along the Australian East Coast alongside her musical partner Ben Abrahams for over two decades as they’ve influenced the scene with their exciting taste & consistent delivery of stimulating underground house & techno, in clubs & outdoors. Known for 'that sound', they uncompromisingly brought West Coast house to the Australian underground scene.

Together they created ‘Strange Brew’, an all ages acid-house vinyl party at the Billinudgel Pub, Byron Bay, & for their first gatherings there, the infamous 'Shed' was built;  revelling in the Outback for sunset was deliciously surreal, dancing to stripped back house grooves amongst the gum trees. 

They ran eight extremely memorable years of Saturday nights at Elsewhere Bar on the Gold Coast. Katharine played psychedelic house before Ben's killer 5 hour sets, then both joined together for the heaving sweaty early morning hours.  Elsewhere won Best Music for a Club in Australia at the Sydney Bar Music Awards at that time. All vinyl back then.

Katharine had the first of her two children before returning to Melbourne and putting on high-vibe parties at the infamous Killing Time Bar & My Aeon,  always with a tight crew of Australia’s best underground djs.  

Katharine made mixes for Art-E Romania and the Microtechno Podcast series 10 years ago, having long been recognised for her way with intricate sounds, particularly with Romanian collectives and lovers of micro-house &  minimal.  She appreciates music which alludes to the transcendent - both gently & powerfully.  As an undeniably charged up being she just keeps on lovingly creating fresh soundtracks for her friends’ lives. Last year she made 21 mixes for amazing collectives around the world, including Half is Enough Romania's Strangers in the Night: each session is an experience. 

Her unique way elevates and deeply satisfies at both sunset & sunrise, and she has played magical closing sets out in the forest, most recently for the Comfort Zone crew on their final day on the main stage by the creek. 

Find her playing at Killing Time Bar & Fiftyfive Bar: where she seamlessly mixes fresh minimal with the best of early 2000s West Coast house, she's at Motion:Theory parties & playing for local crews, but experience her anytime through the Motion:Theory mix series and the sessions she makes for collectives who appreciate her taste and storytelling ability: 
it’s LUSH MINIMAL for the dancefloor.

Recent gigs:
Launch of online Script Club :) 
18/11 KT for Wax on Wax off with Lucca Tan
24/11 Supporting Silat Beksi at Killing Time
1/12 Comfort Creek Boutique Festival
8/12 Waxflower Bar 3hr vinyl set
22/12 Killing Time for Subterrania & Over
15/3 Section 8 4 Minima - 2hr set
24/3 Cable - Fitzroy Beer Garden
27/3 FiftyFive Bar - 4 hrs of vinyl
27/4 M:T:M & Subterranian at KT
29/4 - 3hr vinyl set Breakfast Club
4/4 - 2hrs at Danceflora, Howler
15/5 The Music Room - 2hrs 4 Skylab
8/6 Opening Main Stage - Melburn Shipwrecked
9/6 2 hrs vinyl at Momentum - Killing Time M:T:M
26th July for OVER at KT - closing
9th Aug: My Aeon - M:T:M
17th Aug: Republica.Economic - vinyl
23rd Aug: Spincycle wth Bex - vinyl
24th Aug: Rumbler Bar - all night with Blana - vinyl
20th Sept: Motion:Theory:Music - Killing Time
5th Oct - vinyl set - Gene on Earth for SASH
13th Oct - QuietTime cassette launch - Bump Into
2nd Nov Hope St Radio Nov 2nd  
8th Nov Revolver Nov  
21st Nov FIftyFive Bar 
Black Cat Fitzroy Dec 13th 8pm-1am
Earwig @ Rumbler Bar 6-9 Dec 22nd
Vincent Casanova - B.C. Dec 24th
Black Cat 5hr vinyl set Jan 10th
Timmus Soundscape - ambient Jan 12th
Hosting Herck - Killing Time - 15th Feb
Over - Killing Time - 16th Feb
Avant 14/8 Section 8
Killing Time 15/8 - Timeless 
WAVES - Solace Bar  5/9 Harry Mc Canna 
SENSE Sydney - 20/9 at Kalyx
The RooftopBar- 28/9
 
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"The researcher Majix says our brains are so sensitive, that they are like liquid crystal in response to the magnetic component of the earth. We are sensitive to earth’s magnetic changes, changes in the ionospheric cavity and resonate those frequencies ourselves. We are incredibly complex entities, beyond the layperson‘s comprehension. Our brains are indeed a type of bio-cosmic transducer." Nicholas Jones.

*Established the first Trip Hop section at HMV Brisbane Mall back in 1995 :) 

*Follow Motion:Theory:Music on Soundcloud as well: these mixes of Ben's are essential for any true appreciator of the profound dance floor experience :- 

 http://soundcloud.com/motiontheorymusic

www.facebook.com/MotionTheoryMusic 

*For more details of the crew's history influencing Australia's East Coast scene, see the 'About' section on our Motion:Theory:Music fb page.

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Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Dart Echo continues to explore sounds emerging from circuitry, orchestrated in pure or hybrid forms by genius, and always affecting people, whether alone or with others, viscerally, cerebrally or both. Recalling analogue sound’s definition, our releases are infinitely variable in nature.