My Guest Mixes - Lush Minimal 4 the Dancefloor:

In the dancefloor sweet spot with no plans to leave.

Mixed on turntables.

November 2013

Katharine - Baby Monster - Motion:Theory:Music

Fresh minimal inspiration for your vibration appreciation.

It was very cool to have this mix featured by XLR8R - !

Three pieces on this mix are being released on Motion:Theory:Music in 2022/23

*Motion:Theory:Music EP01 Holographic:Maps 
with Jules David, Timmus & Vincent Casanova available through Bandcamp.

Art by Eli Abrahams 11.

*The Helix Hangout is a place where we perpetually appreciate music with our friends, especially considering those who've left us early, and we hope are waiting for us, to continue carrying on....as we always would, to the music we love.


Dedicated to our dancefloor brothers Daniel Webber, Matt Best & Sean Tripp.

*Mixed on a rundown cdjay and turntable while mothering 2 gorgeous boys.

https://xlr8r.com/features/music-submissions-roundup-april-2/

Katharine - Helix Hangout - feat. by XLR8R - Motion:Theory:Music Podcast

My mindful mix took place when my mind was full
or was it empty...

I'm calling it astral house. 

Mixed on turntables.

January 2014


 

 

Join the Motion:Theory:Music page on Facebook for details of our next PARTY :)

This music is meant for the dancefloor - whether that's your living room or a forest floor.

Katharine - My MindFuL miX - Motion:Theory:Music

Welcome to our spontaneous curation, a  back to back vinyl mix session. This is the result of years immersed in each other's sound. 
Twas an evening of showing off our fresh finds to one another....some time ago.. but timeless music...
Now we have our music label Motion:Theory:Music, putting local artists like Jules David on the international stage, with remixes by Vincent Casanova.  After years of residencies and passionate mix curation, now we can support our artist friends through our label too!  Known for our podcasts in many countries: 'This is How We Do It' the original name for this mix, has a couple of thousand plays and much love.  
Best friends always.
*The sound is modern house with minimal elements.

Find the original upload of 'This is How We Do It' on our Motion:Theory:Music SC wall here, where you can also follow Ben Abrahams & leave words of how our music effects you!
 
https://soundcloud.com/motiontheorymusic

Katharine & Ben Abrahams Motion:Theory:Music - This is How We Do It - Repost

Motion:Theory:Music

This was a huge Aussie bush doof - in a geometric dome with dj booth on an old organ. The sun wa ssetting after a day of trance and techno.
It was actually freezing cold winter - and my hands could barely move to mix... but it was an amazing experience - full dancefloor.

Mixed on turntables by Katharine.

Experience hypnotic astral house with lush interludes for soul empowerment.



My closing set at A Collective Future bush party: 'A Forgotten Kingdom'. We all got down together for that hillside sunset.

July 2014 - 3 degrees 

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https://www.facebook.com/katharine.motiontheory

Katharine - A Collective Future Closing Set - EleMental - Motion:Theory:Music

Playing at the Comfort Zone festival at Comfort Creek was fantastic.  There was an amazingly loved up relaxed crowd, & the the sun had just come out for the first time in 3 days.

The set time was 1-2:30 so I made sure I set a vibe for the afternoon and evening with a concoction of twisted disco, euphoria & minimal lusciousness.   Playing on the third day of a festival is a lot of fun...

Thankyou Comfort Zone crew for appreciating my take on minimal & modern house.

Quite a few people have asked me for this set, & several of the tracks sparked attention, so here you are! I didn't have a recorder, so from my pre & post-set scribbles I mixed it again jumping around at home with my children.  It was a fun experience to relive (understatement.)

Katharine - Motion:Theory:Music at Comfort Creek - 2023

Dimensions*

Experience Astral House...
I thank the INSPIRING artists:  Doubting Thomas, Archie Hamilton, Brian Mayhall, David Last, Alicia Hush, Jules David and Matthew Redden. 

Mixed on turntables.

Katharine: Motion:Theory:Music
 

 

See:With:Your:Ears

Blurring the line between house and techno.

November 2014

Katharine - *DiMEnSiOnS - Motion:Theory:Music - a deep lush vibe...

This session was retrospective at the time that I mixed it, a living room session from 2014 - of music we used to play on the Australian East Coast in the 2000s. 

Here's the story:

I was at home one afternoon 2014. I'd had my first baby, and while I'd been mixing some very fresh minimal using Traktor timecode vinyl, I had not mixed from my record bags for a few years. It felt really good to flip through our favourite records once again. This is a collection of just a few of our most special tracks from our early Motion:Theory:Music years - primarily at our 8 year Saturday night residency at Elsewhere on the Gold Coast from the early 2000s, a night which we started as the club opened - created by the incredible Simmy and Benny.  

The club won 'Best Music for a Club in Australia' at the Sydney Bar Music Awards during our time there when Ben was Musical Director, alongside residents Giv & Audun. We were told our deep underground vibes could not work on the coast, but we remained true to the sound and never played 'down' to the audience, instead bringing an integrity to their flashing dancefloor.

I speak of Ben Abrahams, my musical partner, and father of our 2 boys.  He is one of Australia's early East Coast djs, & is much respected among djs & punters; he coined the phrase 'blurring the line between house & techno'.  Around 2000, he became resident of the infamous outdoor party Earthcore, bringing clubby sounds to the forest ravers, primarily used to trance music.  He had a Saturday night and Sunday night residency at Onesixone that went off' all in the days before social media.  

Most of these tracks we have danced to SOOO many times from 1998 through to 2009, so they effect my body memory intensely. Such memories of epic nights dancing for hours and hours and hours with all my friends; we had such authentic connections, so regularly, and then our intimate group moved onto our house to continue djing all of Sunday. I feel so lucky to have experienced that time. The bongos, the dubby basslines, the clubby vibes, the few super scratchy records, all make me get tingly and emotional.  I used to call the tracks I was drawn to play 'sideways house'.   

Ben played 5 hour vinyl sets every Saturday night for this extended period, and his mastery is well known.  Some of these are Ben's records, but became the basis for my set: stored in my record box. Ben is so clever at combining the best of the old with the new, & our appreciation of music is at the core of our connection, as it is with all our friends, old & new.  

For Ben's mixes, which are all incredible, listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/motiontheorymusic

Matt Best our best mate who is no longer on this plane, was doing lighting for us in this photo and stands to my right.  

You will enjoy music by Grant Dell, Jay Tripwire and Brett Johnson: West Coast house music ftw.

Let me know how it makes you feel.

Starts with: 'Switched on' - Drop Music - a track Ben was renound for dropping.

Katharine - Vinyl Session - Elsewhere / early 2000s  - mixed in 2014

Opening a party& setting the vibe is always an honour.  I was rather glad to bring minimal house to this crew!  I started with our friend Timmus' amazing new piece which felt just perfect, then moved through an hour of fresh new dancefloor minimal with a couple of West Coast classics which I ripped from special 16 year old records. 
This is a short fast mix for me, not as deep or heavy as I usually go....picture the Paladium - a huge club in Melbourne - first set before about 12 hrs of friends!



Even if the dancefloor was just starting, I was playing most deliberately for the MelBURNers as they did their last minute setup, & those keenly arriving on time.  

The stage setup was tremendous & the lighting spectacular!!

Katharine - Opening Set for the Melburners - SHIPWRECKED - 2024

*aFFiNiTy by Katharine

2 hours to tune yourself by.

Mixed on turntables.

January 2015.

Minimal space techno, deep-tech, astral house; many names for lush music.

Gazing at this Huichol folk art will recharge you.
I thank the artist who is 'unknown'.

 SEE:WITH:YOUR:EARS
January 2015

Katharine - aFFiNiTy - Motion:Theory:Music

Lysergic minimal.  Originally posted about 9 years ago.

Twas for the incredible Microtechno Podcast series which is no longer available, hence me uploading it again...

I have been waiting to put this up as it had a special vibration for me...

All the mixes on this series had about 10,000 plays and hundred of hearts. 
It was one of my earliest recorded minimal mixes.

It's digital mixed on timecode vinyl.

Katharine - Microtechno Podcast - 2016

This was a spontaneous mixup of music I'd collected to create the VIBE I had in mind....it's a lush psychedelic minimal house set which started Saturday morning's fun.   Picture a delicious Australian bush setting - hills, trees, blue skies & a primed super kooky crowd...

For the Psychedelic Bush Disco party in Poowong, Australia.

It Appears To Be Saturday - Psychedelic Bush Disco - Katharine - Australia

Here we bring you the 7th version of Radio Mesa, thoughtfully curated and mixed by none other than Katharine Abrahams. Katharine is a staple dj in the Melbourne dance community. She and her husband Ben Abrahams run Motion Theory Music and have been throwing parties and dropping beats for as long as they can remember. Katharine's style is funky, minimal, and driving, with a friendly dose of psychedelia. We have been loving listening to her mixes this year and we were just thrilled that she was ready and willing to put one together for us!!! Enjoy!

p.s. the intro features Katharine and Ben's son Eli - "When Motion Theory Music from Melbourne meets Mesa Recordings, you get 'Perceiver'. By Katharine, my mom"

Radio Sculpture by Cannupa Hanska

Track Listing:
1. Abundance by Brian Mayhall remixed by Doubtingthomas on Mesa Recordings
2. Emerald Wind by Vincent Casanove on Archipel
3. El Ser O El No Ser by Rainer remixed by Pier Bucci : Vinyl Club
4.. Rewind the Fantasy, the Wind Vocal Version, by Deep Mariano &
Yoshitaca : Drumma Records
4. Spanish Chicken by Anthony Collins : Vinyl Club
5. Heightspaces by David Last remixed by Jason Short : Mesa Recordings
6. Could You by Lorenzo Chiabotti : Vinyl Club
7. Xylophonic by Public Address remixed by Sonartek : Mesa Recordings
8. Cingulate Shuffle by Alicia Hush : HushLamb
9. Perception Deflection by Timmus remixed by Jules David : Unreleased
10. My Place by Mattia D'Amato remixed by Andreas Bergmann : Body Parts
11. Interview P1. by Matt John : Cocoon
12. Penetrate by Vincent Casanova : Archipel
13. Demand the Impossible by Shibby Sheitgeist : Coal
14. Cut by Borodin : What Now Becomes
15. Parp by Public Address remix by Feathericci : Mesa Recordings
16. Shtang by Betagamma : Minim.all
17. Fahreneit by Vendi : What Now Becomes
18. Bourre by Jules David : Konsep Records
19. Munted by Eric Johnston : Archipel
20. How the West Was Won by Mi : Mesa Recordings

Radio Mesa 07 - Katharine Abrahams "Perceiver"

'My Bonfire is a Hologram.'

I tripped over and this came out....

Vibration appreciation : spontaneous curation.

*mixed on turntables

September 2015

Katharine - My Bonfire is a HoLoGr@M - Motion:Theory:Music

Eli's Nordic Notion: GALAXY

*Enquire Within -


Spontaneous curation :) 
*Featuring pieces from my favourite producers - Vincent Casanova, Mod2, Timestalkerz, Vlad Soro and Jules David - among other remarkables

January 2017

Katharine - Enquire Within - Motion:Theory:Music

Vibe:Rate*

Deep, soul-stirring dancefloor astral*house.
Motion:Theory 

*A spontaneous curation by Katharine  

January 2017

Motion:Theory:Music

Art by Esmarie Danger Duffin

MotionTheoryMusic

Katharine - Vibe:Rate - Motion:Theory:Music

This is one of my favourite mixes.   
The music is over 6 years old (now 9) & came together in an unplanned session that long ago.

If you like the way it makes you think & feel, the depths it hints at, the warmth it generates, then do enjoy my other sets from over the years too.... *vibration:appreciation*

Mixed on turntables with timecode vinyl.  

I originally made it for the Romanian Podcast Series ART E.  The series was curated by Sabina Muller who had gathered a great collection of artists. 

It had lots of hearts which made me feel pretty loved up x

Art E - Romanian Podcast - Katharine 2016 - quiet re:post - a subtle, compelling minimal groove..

Created for the podcast series & label Inregistrari Interplanetare of Carlos Posada.


This mix was only recently made public on Soundcloud: January 2018.
*Originally uploaded to Mixcloud where the rest of Posada's guest mixes reside.

https://www.mixcloud.com/InregistrarInterplanetare/inregistrari-interplanetare-podcast-katharine-au-014/

September 2017

Katharine *INREGISTRARE INTERPLANETARE - repost from 2018 - DEEP & FIREY

Maybe my favourite creation: made while very pregnant.
Mixed on turntables.







A repost from Brazilian Minicastarte podcast series : all hearts over there *

Katharine Motion:Theory Astral:House Podcast

Katharine Motion:Theory - Minicastarte Brazil (repost) Astral:House Podcast

Deep Seahorse Podcast presents: Katharine Motion:Theory

Spontaneous curations filled with sublime sounds, hypnotic grooves, lush astral house & minimal funk *Vibration appreciation*

Motion:Theory are Katharine and Ben Abrahams:

Perpetually Promoting Perception Expansion along Australia's East Coast since 1998 with parties in the Byron Bay Hills and Melbourne, 7 years of Saturday nights at the infamous Elsewhere Bar, Surfers Paradise, with some of the world's best underground djs, and many psychedelic house parties. They are married, have children, friends, animals and lots of records. Their parties have always drawn those who crave it deep, and like to emerge in the early hours enhanced and inspired. Their sound blurs the line between house and techno; slightly sideways & always psychedelic; it's liquid dub for the dance floor. Ben and Katharine play at parties, for collectives and renowned club nights between Byron and Melbourne, while lovingly affiliated with the Killing Time Bar. Be enhanced by their spontaneous mutual vibration appreciation.

"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.

soundcloud.co/motiontheorymusic
www.facebook.com/MotionTheoryMusic/?fref=ts
https://soundcloud.com/katharine-motiontheory

[Tracklist not available]

DeepSeahorsePodcast

Katharine Motion:Theory - Deep Seahorse Podcast #106

"We are creative creatures, and all motion towards creation is healing. I ponder how miraculously things come together as we work with energy, whether it be finding music while raising children (and ourselves!), mixing it altogether without too much over-thinking and then giving it to others with the intent to bring joy and forge new connections, or engaging in another of the infinite possibilities life presents us." - @katharine-motiontheory

Read more @ feeder.ro/2019/09/13/sound-katharine

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feeder sound 230 mixed by Katharine [Motion:Theory]

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deep dive my guest mixes: 
lysergic minimal concoctions 
much vinyl

Resident at Fiftyfive: 5 hrs of deep vinyl
& Killing Time Bar Melbourne
Next gigs:   Avant 14/8 Section 8 * Killing Time 15/8 - Timeless * WAVES - Solace Bar  5/9 * Sydney - .Sense - 20/9

Recent Aust support for Silat Beksi, Herck, KNDO, Vincent Casanova & 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
 
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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.

Katharine Motion:Theory

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