Darvid Thor unveils new single “Anything”, the fourth cut from his debut mini-album I’m Never Really Here, out March 1. Driven by eerie synths, dark fuzzy bass and filtered drums that float with an uneasy intensity, Darvid’s lyrics muse on perspective and letting go.

Thor says of the track, “I wanted to consider positives and lessons learnt from a particular experience, instead of dwelling on how it was bringing me down. That was the best way to move forward”.

Recorded and performed alone by Darvid, “Anything” is the latest cut from his debut mini-album I’m Never Really Here, out March 1. At times anxious and quietly anguished, tender and candid, these are songs about a growing-up, a breakup, and everything in between. “Do It Again” & “Rest of Your Life” reveal a more straight-ahead dream-pop style, with “Get Out” showing a darker inner monologue;

A sweet melancholy of jangly guitars and warbled synthesizers that have afforded support from Beach Fossils, Danger Mouse, Double J, Triple J Unearthed and Indie Shuffle to name a few. You might also recognise him from alt-soul group The Cactus Channel. Live, Darvid expands his setup to a four-piece band including Lewis Coleman, Levi Heeringa & Hugh Rabinovici.

I'm Never Really Here

Anything

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The Putbacks - Melbourne’s heaviest funk rhythm section - bring you a twisted and electric collaboration with the legendary Bilal on their new single The Ways. A dark, dirty post-soul post-jazz mystery-cinema freakout dominated by screaming electric guitar and Bilal’s husky stream of consciousness lyrics. Produced by Paul Bender (Hiatus Kaiyote), The Ways is a hard-hitting, abstract journey into an alternate reality where The Meters specialised in Sci-Fi soundtrack art and Dick Dale played guitar on Madlib records. The Ways is the first single from The Putbacks’ self-titled debut LP coming November 9.

The Putbacks are a rhythm section. Drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and percussion. Stone cold pros, grizzled veterans of all the tours and all the studios. They take their cues from the great house bands of the 60s and 70s soul studios as film composers from David Axelrod and Lalo Schifrin to Adrian Younge and contemporary instrumental groups like BADBADNOTGOOD, Khruangbin and El Michels Affair. Known for their instrumental 7inch funk cuts and their collaboration with Emma Donovan, the forthcoming LP marks their first album as a quintet.

Bilal has been a household name amongst soul aficionados since he was an integral member of the Soulquarians collective – a movement that launched his career alongside those of Questlove, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo and whose influence is still strongly felt. Bilal is a mercurial and diverse artist, noted for his wide vocal range, his resistance to being typecast and his working across multiple genres, The Ways being a prime example. Bilal’s discography is studded with stellar collaborations including Kendrick Lamar, Common, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Guru, J Dilla, Robert Glasper and The Roots, amongst many others.

The Ways is out digitally everywhere on September 28 through HopeStreet Recordings. Pre-orders for The Putbacks on LP, CD and Digital are available now through https://hopest.re/ThePutbacksLP.

The Putbacks

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Lover Chanting

original demo i done did for the OOZ' sublunary theme, maybe drop some more demos and unreleased junk from the process, but this here to mark the year's public existence of das OOZ.  

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SUBLUNARY DEMO

Headie One - Back To Basics (feat. Skepta) - Floating Points Remix

Melbourne outfit @karate-boogaloo flip Mtume's 80s hit into a wonky, mellow synth jam. Out on @hopestreet-recordings.

Read More & Buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2019/08/21/premiere-karate-boogaloo-juicy-fruit/

Karate Boogaloo - Juicy Fruit (STW Premiere)

DJ and curatorial devotee Amir Abdullah (180-Proof) goes in on a 1.5hr mix representative of his deeply educated take on spiritual jazz.

Crown Ruler Mix # 13 - DJ Amir

Holding Me Down

DJ Possum with Volume 5 of Global Sounds and I'm not going to say much more than that, other than to say, read her account below of how this mix came to be and just listen, it's quite something.

"I just wanted to remember the day I decided to share this music, I wrote this and how I was feeling.

Other worlds, Other Sounds... it reminded me that music was always this to me: a traveling vehicle, escaping, dreaming, shifting my mood... meditating on these sounds it's a bittersweet feeling, like I thought I should make a fun mix, I thought, it should be a celebratory, joyful feeling and it's so hard to bring myself to be content with just that. It needs to be connecting me with the rest of the world and what we are going through, spiritually.

Not being from Australia and having family overseas didn't allow me to ignore the doors of apocalypses, so here you have something to look inwards."

Below you'll find a full-track list of all the tracks featured:

Hypochondria of The Heart-Les Halles- Transient 
Theme- Kelan Phil Cohran And Legacy -African Skies Jazz 
Om Mani Padme Hum- Constance Demby- I am the Center: Private Issue New Age in America, 1950-1990 Electronic 
Eternal Dawn- Voyage - Futur Secret Earth New Age
Chant- Jeff Majors -For Us All (Yoka Boka) Jazz 
White Nile- Kelan Phil Cohran And Legacy African- Skies Jazz 
Main Title- Vangelis- Blade Runner '82 Soundtrack 
Moments In Love- The Art of Noise- The Best Of The Art of Noise Classic Rock
Kalahari- Kelan Phil Cohran And Legacy African- Skies Jazz 
Living- Les Halles- Transient 
Na- Ken Ikeda + Chihei Hatakeyama- Moss Ambient/New Age/Cosmic 
Baby Daughter- Jeff Majors For Us All (Yoka Boka)- Jazz 
Transient- Les Halles- Transient 
One Million Years Ago- Broadcast & The Focus Group Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age Alternative 
The Word Love- Gigi Masin Talk to the Sea Ambient- Ambient Pop
Ay Çürüdü- Anadol Uzun- Havalar

OWOS "Global Sounds" Volume 5 by DJ Possum

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Cat: HS010
Release Date: 15 July 2013
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital
Label: HopeStreet Recordings

To celebrate their first Northern Hemisphere tour, a prize slot at Glastonbury festival and a year of good work, The Bombay Royale are releasing Phone Baje Na, a bass-heavy, head-nodding Bollywood hypno-hop remix EP. Another hit from the pen of Bengal via Richmond songsmith Shourov Bhattacharya and guitar wizard Tom Martin, Phone Baje Na is Bengali for “the phone doesn’t ring” and is a haunting tale of unrequited love. 

Available on 12” vinyl and digital formats, Phone Baje Na features three remixes in a range of flavors. From Pasobionic’s jilted post-Dilla bounce to Damn Moroda’s aggressive bassrave futurism to Monkeymarc’s arpeggiated boom bap beatdown, the tempo never gets above 100 bpm but the vibe gets progressively deeper and darker. Also included is the shimmering original mix and a previously unreleased Bollywood psych funk instrumental Sleeping Giant. 

The Bombay Royale’s debut, You Me Bullets Love, released in 2012, established the band’s credentials both as one of the most original festival acts around and as the world’s leading interpreters and of classic Indian filmi music of the 1960s and 70s. Seamlessly blending surf, spaghetti cinematica, disco and Indian psychedelia, The Bombay Royale is what would have happened to music had Amitabh Bachchan and Quentin Tarantino made movies together. The Phone Baje Na EP gives their music an unexpected futuristic twist.

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The Bombay Royale - Phone Baje Na (Monkeymarc Smokin' Remix)

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Hopestreet Recordings is an artist-run record label based in Brunswick since 2009. From the humblest of DIY beginnings, this community of musicians, producers and writers has carved out a global niche for their old-school inspired crusty analogue creations. Hopestreet represents the diversity, quality of musicianship and originality of Melbourne’s inner Northern music community, and keeps developing their distinct sound, production approach year to year, and audiences all over are responding.