Announcing ONT005: 'Subterranean'. On the heels of 'Buried Songs', comes the new Ontic single + video, where after hours bio-hacking meets political intrigue. Backed by the body-edged synth pop of 'Deeper Night'.

Subterranean

Dancing on the street 
Blood around your feet 
What's it gonna be 
Go there with me 

Into a deeper night 

Cutting through the beat 
Talking in your sleep 
See the one you hear 
A million miles clear 

Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life

Dancing on the street 
Blood around your feet 
What's it gonna be 
Go there with me

Cutting through the beat 
Talking in your sleep 
See the one you hear 
A million miles clear

All the noise comes to rest with you
All the noise comes to rest with you

Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life 
Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life 
Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life

Deeper Night

I'm a masochist machine
I'm a cold vein cellophane
I'm a body horror mannequin remain

I'm the candidate on stage
I'm the chamber hung and caged
I'm your new pitched platform on video replay

Cut you cannot know my name
Fear you cannot frame
Rush you cannot know the reward
Crushed you dare not talk

So fall unknown
Immersed in city chrome
Come alive, come first, let it shine

Go long, in between
Make it pure, true and strong
Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived
And I’m watching

You’re the new ascendancy
You’re the long lost stow away
You’re a public choir on monochrome relay

Push this blushing thriller applause
Touch your slow pulse calls
Slake this subterranean thirst
Break these plastic words

And fall unknown
Immersed in midnight thrown
Come alive, come first, here to shine

Go long in between
Make it pure true and strong
Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived

And they’ll bring all the noise
In thrall to their bones
For a kiss with a laugh, a new ally

And bolder you’re nearer 
Sheer in the mirror
With heel to your holster, one for the pollster
You cut in and weave in so breathe in if it wins you time
And play your surest line

And i’m watching
Keep on watching

Ontic, a project by Australian songwriter and producer Andrew Dun, combines elements from the machine driven post punk electronica of the 80s and 90s, bringing these into a contemporary context. Ontic blends heavy electronic beats with a brooding yet subtle lyricism that explores physical ambiguity and psychological uncertainty. Ontic's output puts the body first, where a deep, hook-laden electronic funk typically underpins musical journeys that are at once both urgent and oblique.

Ontic's first releases came in 2018, with a stretch of singles spanning dark synth pop (Citizen), atmospheric industrial techno (Captive), neo-body music (Sign) and epic electronica 'Subterranean'. Ontic's debut album, The Movement Of Light, followed in 2019. The eight track LP introduced several new tracks, including the widescreen electronica of 'Headline' and the shadowy urban synthpop of 'Siren Fields'.

The driving industrial funk of 'Night Train' followed in 2021.

2022 will see the release of Ontic's new single, 'Reflex'. The single is a glistening yet hypnotic exploration of post-wave electro pop, and is accompanied by the ominous industrial cyber-pop of b-side 'In The Moment'.

Subterranean

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