My Guest Mixes - Lush Minimal 4 the Dancefloor:

Live from the chocolate factory Vol 2

Step aboard the good ship Tremulant, voyage into the cosmos of sound, and dance on the edge of the known audio universe with Space Medicine. Did you know? With a regular dose of Space Medicine, you'll find yourself surrounded by stars and enveloped by vibrant soundscapes formulated to keep the interstellar traveler healthy in mind, body, and soul. More importantly, Space Medicine shields you from the harsh vacuum of silence, providing a safe environment in which you can encounter the most luscious sounds emanating from planet Earth.

At the center of monotropa.'s musical philosophy is the belief that feeling drives experience, influencing decisions and shaping our perception of the world. Through his music, he seeks to channel even those emotions elusive to him, using layered and transformative soundscapes to foster a shared connection among listeners. From an early age, music served as his primary mode of expression and enjoyment. As he matured, a profound connection to a sound-bound community ignited a passion that set him on a lifelong voyage of musical creation.

With this episode, we are celebrating monotropa.’s returns to the Tremulant label to once again explore deep sensations and cosmic vibrations through musical expression. The Distancia EP executes this through three textural tracks that combine elements of house, techno, and ambient atmosphere. Distancia features remixes from El Mundo of Quetame Records, Seattle house music veteran Wesley Holmes, and Slow Shadow, a nom-de-plume of Tremulant's Joe Bellingham.

Distancia will be released August 25th on Beatport followed by a world wide release on September 8th.

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Space Medicine Feat. monotropa.

A little something to ease your wait in line or accentuate your ride thru the desert... Something to take home with you or something to remind you of Home...


A Mellow Trip thru the Desert

T'was a pleasure as always to play the party of parties, Mesa Por Vida. This set was performed in the freshly dark and starry high-desert foothills of the Rocky Mountains amidst a bounty of fabulous performers and a flock of glimmering dance steps. Thank you Team Everything for another fantastic year!

This photo was taken at Mesa Por Vida 2018 by the great Beau Sniderman. With a little help from Photoshop, he turned the decks into a pulpit, turned the trees into a cathedral and turned the ravers into a congregation. A-Fucking-Men!
You can find more of his work here:
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Feathericci at Mesa Por Vida 2023

Playing in the centre of the Syncity dome at Underland Festival - boiler room style!

SynCity Friday night at Underland

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"

Recorded Live with Jo Tastula

Dance with me ~~~

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We've Been Inside For Too Long // Deep House Yoga @ Lightning in a Bottle

This is one of my favourite mixes.   
The music is over 6 years old & 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

The original mellow trip... Originally recorded for Art Basel back in the heyday of Life and Death... reposting here and making it downloadable so you can get your mellow on whenever and wherever you want. 

Turn on, tune in, chill out...  :)

Greg's Mellow Trip

Morning on the Mesa... a time of wonder, a time of delight...a time of boot stomping and champagne toasts in the sunlit dust.

Photo: Beau Sniderman - https://www.beausniderman.com/

Feathericci - Mesa Por Vida 2018

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

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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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A set mixed with love by @dersurhodes, spattered with harmonica and synthesizer.

This year has been a sobering ride; it started with so much joy and adventure and then suddenly turned scary, strange, and unknown. This set follows our collective journey: dark, light, hectic, still, expressive, and reflective. 
What seems to be the most evident to me is that we are all connected, and to think that the sickness our planet was experiencing wouldn't affect us is naive. This is a time for her to heal and for us to go inward. To stop doing so much, and instead to listen.

Illustrated by Dersu

Mother

RADIO MATTE FT. HUMANS - VOL. 23

Mesa Recordings is dedicated to releasing music hand-picked for its unique ability to bridge the gap between an intimate headphone listen and an ecstatic dancefloor experience. Originally born to house the cross-genre explorations of D Numbers, Mesa Recordings is now proud to host a diverse and powerful roster of sonic adventurers from around the globe.

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
*Just launched Selekt Sessions with Rupert Wall

9/5 Fifty Five - 4 hr vinyl set
15/5 The Music Room - 2hrs 4 Skylab
August: Rumbler Bar with Blana

Recent gigs:
Launch of 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 - Connect the Dots at Fitzroy Beer Garden
27/3 FiftyFive Bar - 4 hrs of vinyl
27/4 M:T:M & Subterranian at KT
29/4 - 2hr vinyl set Breakfast Club
4/4 - 2hrs at Danceflora, Howler

Fresh mixes out soon for Butter Session, Vadim Svoboda's Script.Clb, YARN Records, Gasoline Radio - Refugee Worldwide & Daisy Records

*Co-owner of modern electronic music label & party series @motiontheorymusic with Ben Abrahams & Jules David in Melbourne.
*Co-curator of Rupert Wall's Selekt Sound Series - Brooklyn
 
EP:01 Holographic Release - Jules David & Timmus remixed by 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." 

Sublime sounds and hypnotic grooves stimulate her being, compelling her to source and mix, creating a micro, minimal, soul-stirring experience she calls astral:house. 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, both in clubs & outdoors. 

Together they created ‘Strange Brew’, an all ages acid-house vinyl party at the Billinudgel Pub, Byron Bay, at which time 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 9 years ago, having long been recognised for her way with intricate sounds, particularly with lovers of micro-house & the Romanian influenced 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, at Motion:Theory parties & for local crews (Subterrania, Synergy, Cable, Over & Mood Pilot), 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. 

*Latest mixes are made from vinyl & waves for 333 Flow Sessions - Byron Bay, Abartik - Switzerland, Sono Unica - Sweden, A:ritmi:a - Colombia, E-Series - Sydney, Destruct - Germany, Deepthreem - UK, Rupert Wall's Select Series - Brooklyn, Feelin' Station - Tehran, Rhizome Records - Seattle, Koche Records - Spain, Strangers in the Night - Half is Enough - Romania,  Mood Pilot - Melbourne & Alterhour - London, Fratii.ro - Brazil, Abs_Track Label - Spain, Spclnch - Netherlands & next up Butter Sessions - Australia.

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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

Jules David:
https://soundcloud.com/halfisenough/introspections-with-jules-david

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.

Radio Mesa 07 - Katharine Abrahams "Perceiver"

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