A digital archive of selections from local and abroad DJs.



The aim of the High Ground mix series is to capture the individual styles and strengths that are unique to the selectors that it features.



Artwork by el.fx

• • • HG Mix Series • • •

Mixes

Autumn

Joining the WHiTMIX series this week is local Naarm producer @hexeditor 🦋✨

Recently debuting on @escapeartistaus new Label @PSY_SECTION , Brett fine tunes deep, rolling progressive sounds with hypnotic and psychedelic soundscapes 🧚‍♀️

WHiTMIX #11 | Hex Editor

EXAMINING THE GOD HEAD 
a monthly transmission attempting to dissect and decipher celestial codes to further understand our ancestry and future...

Following his illuminating debut on GODDEZZ with the BLUSH EP, Hex Editor dives deep into his influences with an expertly crafted mix, taking us through alternate timelines of future & past. Hex Editor has a unique ability to capture the exact feeling of purity & liteness we all require, and it is encapsulated in its fullest form here.

Elevate, resonate & perforate into paradise…

@hexeditor

EXAMINING THE GOD HEAD w/ Hex Editor

@hexeditor
With less than a handful of releases under his belt, it’s hard to wrap your head around just how refined Hex Editor’s sound is. Debuting with the captivating ‘Tuesday’ on local label Psy-Section, Hex Editor has crafted his own luxurious brand of transcendental progressive house and trance. Hex Editor’s tracks encapsulate a sense of the light at the end of the tunnel - they glow with luscious immersive pads, near-funky basslines, carefully placed gated vocals and drip with all the finishing touches that elevate a good song to being great. Depth is expertly contrast to vibrant, soaring melodies which create an overall euphoric and joyus energy. Today, Hex Editor celebrates the release of his EP ‘Blush’ on London's GODDEZZ label, a beautifully packaged CD release featuring remixes from SUMORAI, Sakura Tsuruta, SEO JOHN and Omformer as well as a track coming out on Barcelona’s Nebulae. Hex Editor joined me as the first post-pandemic restrictions, in-person Passing Notes guest to join me at the new studios on April 1st 2022.

Hex Editor - PN 159

• • • HG03 Razrbark • • •

We’re pleased to present 𝓗𝓖03 from the NYC based Razrbark. A dj with the mightest touch who’s selections would be right at home blasting out some stacked funktions in the bush. Razrbark explores a range of genres making for a soul mending aural escape, all perfectly emulated in this mix. She’s made appearances on NYC’s @thelotradio and Bristol’s finest, @noodsradio. We’re sure this will be the first of many appearances for her on our local airwaves & online platforms. Tune in for 75 minutes of spectacular selections.

@razrbark @razrbark @razrbark @razrbark
@razrbark @razrbark @razrbark @razrbark
@razrbark @razrbark @razrbark @razrbark

HG03 - Razrbark

Hex Editor is a producer and DJ from Naarm/Melbourne who draws on a wide variety of dance music influences from the past and present, unified by a common sentimentality. His his DJ sets and releases on Escape Artist’s ‘Psy-Section’ (Melbourne, Australia), ‘Goddezz’ (Bristol, UK) & ‘Nebulae Records’ (Barcelona, Spain) showcase prominent basslines, colourful synth-work and swung grooves, all underscored by a love of early 90s trance.

@hexeditor

======================================================

Upcoming Novel events:

smalltown with Âme b2b Dixon (4hrs) + Paramida
Saturday 28th May, 3PM - 11PM
Pica, 1 Woolboard Rd, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Support: Marli
www.facebook.com/events/3003461663301654/

smalltown with Oliver Huntemann + Oliver Schories
Sunday 12th June, 12PM - 10PM
Pica, 1 Woolboard Rd, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Support: Laura King, Jordan Brando, Aldonna, Fosters
www.facebook.com/events/3182659358681297/

React w/ Schacke
Saturday 25th June, 3PM - 9PM
Bourke Street Courtyard, 629 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3004
Support: NAK, Willem, Bella Claxton, Moopie, Kaytseng
www.facebook.com/events/1202115660324379

====================================================

Stay in touch:
www.facebook.com/weareNovel/

Follow Novelcast on Apple Podcasts:
apple.co/3iRvGEC

Novelcast 131: Hex Editor

Front Left w. Kilopatrah Jones & Hex Editor - 25 August 2022

DIMENZIONE DANZA on Radio80k w/ Fais Le Beau & Josh Bobzin

𝐻𝒢𝟢𝟦 - 𝐻𝑒𝓍 𝐸𝒹𝒾𝓉𝑜𝓇

It is with immense pride and joy that we’re able to host a near and dear, in @hexeditor, for HG04. 

While Brett is only a fresh face to the public eye, with his first EP “Blush” only being released 4 months ago on Goddezz, you can instantly tell the years of sculpting and perfecting that have gone on in the shadows. 

The @hexeditor sound is cultivated from influences like Dozzy and Abdulla Rashim, to the early Chicago sounds of Gemini, and of course the countless nights absorbing the menagerie of sounds that blasted out of the Mercat’s Function Ones. This mix is a perfect confluence of all of that, with every track so carefully selected that it seems like the only logical choice to the song that preceded it.

HG04 - Hex Editor

Fantastic Man has become one of the most exciting and revered producers on the circuit having released music on the likes of Mule, Love on the Rocks and Kitjen. He is also the founder of Superconscious Records alongside Griffin James.

As a DJ his musical taste is broad and wide ranging, drawing upon far reaching influences from the realm of House, Trance, Downtempo, Balearic and beyond. As such you never quite know what you are going to get but that's all part of the fun right?

Most recently he has been dabbling in a fast paced, new age approach to House and Trance - channeling the free spirited energy of the 90's and a sun kissed era for dance music.

Some might feel it to be nostalgic but he is very much at the forefront of a new wave of producers and DJ's looking to breathe life into and reinvigorate the sound.

This mixtape is one of the best we've heard in a while and is rightly suited to a Friday.

Fantastic Man: The Ransom Note Mix

As @sleepd, childhood friends Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos have greatly helped shape Melbourne's underground scene over the last decade. Between them, they have Iraqi and Maltese heritage and put out music on the likes of Incienso, Play On and Cocktail d'Amore Music as well as their own blog/party/label Butter Sessions. Like their expressive live show, it explores "the rave unconscious" so think everything from dreamy pads to driving rhythms, gritty electro to cosmic techno. 

This week's podcast is a superb showcase of their style: a mix that is constantly on the move, building momentum as rhythms go from elastic and bouncy to more driving and sleek. Percussion is perfectly sprinkled in to give extra texture, while nebulous synths add the colour as the pressure builds and builds. This is physical, psychedelic, emotional, trance-inducing electronic music that follows the familiar arc of a well-executed mix but in all new and unfamiliar ways.

Dekmantel Podcast 

Dekmantel Podcast 401 - Sleep D

Zombies In Miami... IsBurning #109

It's been a while since our last entry in the mix series, but we're back with a bang with this one from Berlin's DJ TEETH 💥

As head honcho of the Hypersoft party series, Santi has been responsible for bringing some of our favourite artists such as Bliss Inc, Jane Fitz, Carl H and Solar Suite together under one roof for his legendary extended monthly parties.

Not only that, his bouncy, dynamic sets have been making waves thanks to his innate sense of fun and deep collection. It's a pleasure to present this all-vinyl mix from him bridging the gap between a diverse smorgasbord of different psychedelic sounds. Thanks Santi!

Rotation 035: DJ TEETH

Events & DJ's out of Naarm.




High Ground operates on stolen land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we are on. We pay our respects to elders; past, present and emerging.
Always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.












@dj_elliot & @jpsebastian