DECISIONS celebrates 5 years of operation with 15 tracks of carefully orchestrated chaos by family, friends and new faces.

Preorder here: https://decisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/consequences

Adelaide based Emily Glass, a long-time friend of DECISIONS, establishes the mood with ‘Scribble Machine’, a carnivalesque assemblage of bells and mechanised percussion (Emily also contributed to the compilation’s artwork). Shanghai’s Laughing Ears follows with ’Among The Ashes’, a deftly meted downtempo excursion in her inimitable crepuscular style, giving way to the unhinged polyrhythmic wiggle of Air Max ’97’s ‘Triple Pendulum’. Amsterdam based newcomer Bby Eco pops the lid off an off-world bee hive on ‘Innerlife’, whipping buzzy samples into an urgent lurch. Yre Den returns to DECISIONS with the compilation’s most effervescent number, squishing together bird song, humanoid vocals and synth tones gleaned from an uncanny valley on ‘Bird Spiral’. Bristol’s Ido Plumes picks up the exuberance Yre Den puts down on the epic ‘Walking With The Tasman Abel’, building a uniquely frenetic groove at 171bpm (fun fact: neither Air Max ’97 nor Ido Plumes know how his track was submitted — it simply materialised as the project took shape — quantum entanglement?). On ‘Aurora Torus’ Isomov (somehow) effortlessly meshes a shoe-gazy vocal line with an impossibly plucked harp and what sounds like a melodica over a Y2K Neuro DNB rhythm. Milan based label alumn Oroboro cleaves the compilation in two with ‘Absolute Schism’, a brutal EDM abstraction of charred synthesis and chunky percussion. Sydney’s Hence Therefore contemplates historical agency with the rudely swung screamer ’Path Dependents’, fresh off an outing on BBC Radio 1 in Object Blue’s Essential Mix. Melbourne based maestro CORIN, another long-time friend of the label, shares a lushly textured slice of broken EBM in ’Stealth’, followed by the rolling peak-time paranoia of Atro’s ‘Hafta’ — one of the compilation’s most forthright club weapons. DJ Plead’s ‘STP’ is a hot scoop, gracing Consequences with its fragrantly seasoned percussive presence after countless appearances in your favourite DJs’ setlists. Berlin based newcomer COLLO further elevates the room temperature with the driving polyrhythms and entrancing synths of ‘Bantu Nilote’; the track title nodding to his combined Bantu and Nilotic family background. A blunted SCAM instrumental supports Sevy’s vividly detailed flows on ‘Neighbour Mr Tumnus’, revisiting the fruitful collaborative relationship we first encountered on the ‘Vibrio’ EP. Frankfurt based artist Avbvrn (whose debut full-length album just came out on PH17) closes the compilation with ‘Foment (Recursive)’, in which deep and reflective ambience is scoured by a grinding beat echoing some of his 90s hip hop influences.

Consequences finds kindred spirits in artists unapologetically journeying their own spirals, resulting in a lively multitude of rhythm, sound design and song shapes defying genre and tempo. The compilation seeks to round off a difficult and disruptive year on a generative, community-oriented note.

Cover artwork by Oliver van der Lugt and Emily Glass.

All label-side profits will be donated to Pay The Rent, a grass roots restitutional initiative by and for First Nations people in Australia, where DECISIONS was founded. More information on Pay The Rent can be found here: paytherent.net.au/

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DECISIONS - Consequences

DECISIONS celebrates 5 years of operation with 15 tracks of carefully orchestrated chaos by family, friends and new faces.

@bbyeco is the producer and DJ moniker of Netherlands based Joris Benjamins. Often conveying thematic and textural elements of the natural world, Bby Eco has the environment on the brain, tasking himself with synthesising a soundtrack for planet Earth.

Consequences finds kindred spirits in artists unapologetically journeying their own spirals, resulting in a lively multitude of rhythm, sound design and song shapes defying genre and tempo. The compilation seeks to round off a difficult and disruptive year on a generative, community-oriented note.

Cover artwork by Oliver van der Lugt and Emily Glass.

All label-side profits will be donated to Pay The Rent, a grass roots restitutional initiative by and for First Nations people in Australia, where DECISIONS was founded. More information on Pay The Rent can be found here: paytherent.net.au/

Consequences

Bby Eco - Innerlife

DECISIONS celebrates 5 years of operation with 15 tracks of carefully orchestrated chaos by family, friends and new faces.

Corin Ileto [CORIN] is a Filipina-Australian producer, composer and performer working in the field of performance art, sound design, theatre and club spaces. In her compositions, traditional forms merge with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Drawing from a background in classical piano, her live performances encompass technical configurations executed with equal parts emotion and cold precision.
Her debut album ‘Manifest’ (Bedouin Records, 2019) was inspired by the synthetic sounds and theoretical notions found in modern iterations of the club, re-framed to fit within a hyper-real zone that encompasses late romantic opera and orchestral music.
She is a member of Club Ate, a Sydney based collective celebrating contemporary voices in the queer Asia-Pacific community.

CORIN's compilation contribution 'Stealth' is a lushly textured slice of broken EBM.

Consequences finds kindred spirits in artists unapologetically journeying their own spirals, resulting in a lively multitude of rhythm, sound design and song shapes defying genre and tempo. The compilation seeks to round off a difficult and disruptive year on a generative, community-oriented note.

Cover artwork by Oliver van der Lugt and Emily Glass. Mastered by Oliver van der Lugt.

All label-side profits will be donated to Pay The Rent, a grass roots restitutional initiative by and for First Nations people in Australia, where DECISIONS was founded. More information on Pay The Rent can be found here: paytherent.net.au

CORIN - Stealth

Emily Glass - Scribble Machine

Air Max '97 - Triple Pendulum

Laughing Ears - Among The Ashes

Yre Den - Bird Spiral

Isomov - Aurora Torus

Ido Plumes - Walking With The Tasman Abel

Oroboro - Absolute Schism

Atro - Hafta

Hence Therefore - Path Dependents

DJ Plead - STP

SCAM & Sevy - Neighbour Mr Tumnus

COLLO - Bantu Nilote

Avbvrn - Foment (Recursive)

Music to move people. Run by @airmax97 since 2015.

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