'lastwave' is Edition No.14 (NWAED014) in the New Editions artist series, curated by New Weird Australia. 

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Ambient through the looking glass of Indigenous Futurisms… Kombumerri artist salllvage (Rowan Savage) mutates a palette made 100% from field recordings (plus mysterious vox) to construct a soft post-apocalypse. 

Eschewing the clubbier leanings of his recent work, lastwave is sonic mysticism in action – from gentle-yet-intense drones to fried, bassy skitterings and heavenly, sinister bells. Deep listening to Country is the doorway to a path guided by indistinct voices dredged from the depths of 1970s wyrdness, speaking of bodies, love, and death – and by the cries of animals and insects in warning or in recognition. 

Field recordings were gathered on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast, Australia) and Gadigal Country with permission (Sydney, Australia). 

Mastering by OVRSCN (Holosuite Mastering).

The Boilermaker's Dream

Pigface Arcana

Fronds Of Iron

Compiled by 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only, featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities.

Tzekin & Ali - Dislocated Improv

Monica Brooks - Morph For Puddles

Source Decay - I Wish You Knew Me In December

Ivan Vizintin - Don't Play The Wordle

Wytchings - Crop Circles

Tzekin - Not An Angel

Blue Divers - Last Place

Del Lumanta - Guiding Spectres

Flirting With Shadows - 我想你了

Earth Coincidence Control Office - A Pit A Labyrinth

T.Morimoto - Cold Rock

Rory JS - 26

Deep Phase 1 - The Abyss

lu9a - Ma Fi

Worlds Only - Bingo

mara - Arthur

CORIN - Retorno

Makeda - Blue Eyes

Aarti Jadu - ostuni

Tracy Chen -  Something True (draft)

Neither one genre nor another, New Weird Australia champions the artists who find refuge in the spaces between.  

Established in 2009, projects have included a long-running compilation series, podcasts and radio shows (FBi Radio, Resonance FM), live events and tours, and artist projects such as the Wood & Wire netlabel and New Editions limited-run series.

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