Was für eine wunderschöne musikalische Reise 🙂‍↔️

thats a lot of tracks, man i need more time to listen to music.

The story of this mix—and the music within—goes back to 2017 and the Origins of Entropy festival, deep in the Australian doof bush. Sunday’s daytime curation included on the lineup music of a kind I had never heard before—what one dirty hippy described to us as Intelligent Dance Music. (Wanky name, I think everyone agrees.)

At the time, I was a filthy bush psytrance fiend and wasn’t that impressed by the bizarre, many-tempoed, hard-to-follow, and intricate music. Little did I know it planted a seed that would come to blossom in time.

Fast forward to April 2025. I’ve been around the block when it comes to music genres—living in Germany has certainly been a big part of that. If it’s good, I probably have a playlist somewhere on my hard drive of ripped YouTube mp3s for that after-hour timeslot when melodic house makes a surprise reappearance, to (hopefully) everyone’s delight. My core love, however, is still psychedelic music that transports us somewhere else or pulls us to dance. But having played and record-dove for close to ten years within such styles, naturally my taste and interests have evolved.

This set is the culmination of those changing tastes. Having stumbled across the legendary Max Cooper on my aural travels earlier this year—and even catching one of his spectacular audio/visual shows in Frankfurt—I started looking for more of this emotional, deep, strange music that had started evoking so much in me. The record diving took me back to long-dead Facebook pages—namely, the event page for the 2017 Origins of Entropy all those years ago. One comment of thanks stayed with me: “Special mention to Rob Clouth for opening up that absolute wormhole on Sunday!” I had a name—and as they do, names lead on to magical places and beyond.

It’s taken me almost a year to collect (all this music is bought—support your artists, people!), arrange, and finally mix this set. I have never undertaken anything in my time as a DJ that has proved so challenging. Normally I just jump on the decks, play a favourite opener, and let the mood and energy of the crowd drive my setlists. Not this time.

Pretty much every track needed its place—cue points for smooth mixes, energy maintenance, and a plan to adjust BPMs and keys to fit them together. Along the way, I discovered an unknown tendency I have toward perfectionism (just in a few aspects of my life). Hence the set’s title: perfection is unobtainable. Eventually one must move on and let the art be as it is—a true reflection of life.

To record it, despite tens of hours failing at home, I naturally needed performance pressure to finally play and complete the mix. The set was recorded at Hamburn 2025 in the Aereal Tipi on a custom sound system built by one of the hosts, with live inkblot projections and several cubic meters of soft toys as witnesses. I can’t express my gratitude enough for the opportunity to play on that system, to my hosts Spidey and Timo and the listeners who stayed from start to finish.

I feel blessed to live on this planet and submerge myself in the transitory wonder of it all. I hope the music captures that feeling for you as it has for me.

Enjoy <3

Tim

Ode to the Unobtainable by Tim aus Tralien

Driftwood Project comprises the various musical, artistic and social creations of our global community! For info on upcoming gigs, videos of performances or to get in touch, head over to Instagram 🙏🏼🌿https://www.instagram.com/tim.aus.tralien?igsh=YmtqYTNid3Y2eGF0

Founded by Tim Menuridae, the project aims to join like minded artists and people together to evoke meaningful and sustainable change in our consciousness thus world. 

If you would like to build and share with us, please contact lyrebird.music.aus@gmail.com. We are currently based in Cologne, Germany, and Sydney, Australia with a network across Europe, Australia, and various other parts of our beautiful world.

Projects: 

Lyre Bird / Tim aus Tralien (Driftwood, 1Kollektiv) - Aussie Bush Music Project
https://soundcloud.com/kingkookaburra
(Manager for GoaProductions) 

Driftwood - World vibes, acoustic and mixed genre music. Taking a journey into human and natural world intellect, played from the heart

Shade Mermelade (Driftwood, Zerzura) - Ethnic. Oriental. World. Downtempo. 
Hailing from the half moon shores of Zerzura and Australia, Shade Marmelade is the Aperol kiss of the Oasis, like a cool wind on a summer night. Bringing you the sounds of the desert.

Gigs: (Under names Lyrebird, tim.aus.tralien. Driftwood, Shade Meremlade)

Upcoming: Kolbhalle Karneval 2024(1Kollektiv X Kölbhalle Artists Community)

Played:
Mushu Burn 2023 New Years <3
Shroom Burn 2023
Dutch Decomp Afters 2023
Kölbhalle 11.11.23 Karneval der Kollektive
Boarderlands 2023(Mumima Stage, Abandoned Gallery, Hilltop, Bears Den, 
Berlin Burn Night (2021, 2022)
Frankfurt Decom 2022
Lemuria Halloween 2022
GoaProductions Spirit Extravaganza, Cologne (Sept, 2022)
GoaProductions European Tour 2022 (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Germany)
Flying Pig Downtown (first event post-covid!) Amsterdam
Purity Rave Feburary 2022 (Essen, DE) 
Kolb Halle Karneval 11.11.21 (that was a fun one, thanks guys)
Kiez Burn 2019, 2021
Wandel Festival 2020, 2021
Kolibri Fesival 2019 (Cologne, DE)
Failed Teleport Experiment (DE) (2020, 2022) 
Innumerable Raves somewhere in the bushes
Countless afterhours :´)

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