Open Records is proud to present Archangel, the stunning new track from Australian maestro Tonelab.

Tonelab is a solo project from Melbourne producer, composer, engineer and musician Philip Rex. Best known in electronic music circles for his work with Ian Chaplin in acts like Decoy, Rex'N'Chappo and IMPS (alongside Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson from Minilogue), Phil is also one of Australia's leading double bass players and recipient of a prestigious ARIA Award (Australia's version of the Grammy) for Best Jazz Album.

Since kicking off his solo project, Tonelab continues to excite dancefloors across the world with his trademark deep and driving fusion of progressive techno and house with releases on Traum, Wulfpack, Shadow Wulf, Evil Flow and more. Brimming with emotion, Archangel's beautiful harmonies, rising melodies and funky bass is the perfect example of the groovier side of his dynamic sound.

Returning to Open for the first time since 2017, New Zealand innovators Out Of Sorts are first up on remix duties. Delivering a slow-burning masterpiece reminiscent of their classic project Antix but dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era, this incredible rework will surely please fans of the Strom brothers young and old.

Closing the release out are Open Records label boss and AandR Jesse Kuch and Boy With Boat with another collaboration under their Boy With Kuch alias. Underpinned by a driving bassline, rolling snare fills and powerful leads, the Metatron Remix is another notch on the belt for two of Australia's most exciting new producers. Enjoy!

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Archangel

PREMIERE: Tonelab - Archangel (Out Of Sorts Remix) [Open Records]

Starting as a guitarist in high school, I fell in love with electronic music at 16 and began attending raves. This passion continued into college, where I discovered DJing. Along with college friends and San Diego community members, I co-founded the Afternoon Umbrella Friends, a collective that allowed me to explore different styles and find my artistic identity.

Playing at Umbrella Weekend is a highlight of my career, and I look forward to delivering uniquely crafted sets in that space. Now primarily focused on music production, I DJ only a few times a year while building my studio and honing my skills. Currently, I am working on releasing my first EPs to share my sound more widely.

My musical journey began with the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd, the soulful melodies of the Black Pumas, and hip hop beats. These early influences laid the groundwork for my evolving sound. In the electronic realm, the dark bass music of the Deep Dark and Dangerous label and Digital Vagabond shaped my approach to depth and bass. Live electronic artists like Pretty Lights, Griz, Gramatik, Glitch Mob, and Four Tet inspired me to blend live instrumentation with electronic elements. Techno from Berlin, Australia, and Mexico added a dirty, psychedelic edge to my music.


Musical Style:
My house and techno style is a dynamic blend of driving, dark, and psychedelic elements. It pulses with relentless energy, keeping the dance floor moving while creating immersive soundscapes. Progressive elements ensure each track is a journey, evolving and transforming as it unfolds. By bending styles and genres, I push the boundaries of house and techno, integrating diverse influences to create a unique sonic experience that challenges expectations and invites exploration.

Heka is the sonic manifestation of ancient mysticism in the realm of tribal psy. 
The project weaves a rhythmic tapestry, blending pulsating beats with ethereal melodies, creating an auditory ritual.

Released on;
@universaltribe-records
@zenon-records
@densenebularecords
@visionary-shamanic
@tranquilsounds
@quantum-forest
@hommega-official

Contact: hekamuziki@gmail.com

Lofty, piercingly deep synth and electronic sounds and matching accompanying moments for those deep or deep house sounds harshly nestling within me while exploring and mentally capturing this world, exercising or expressing myself, a merging of circumstances I have a dogged affinity for. The depths of the emotions rolling in my sombre heart escape to the outside world only out of this spooky, floaty medium, the outputs of synthesisers... I guess my SoundCloud is to simply make a note of as well as share music I love, music I find wonderful and music important to me, my memories in a city environment and my approaches to life at the times or during the phases when I would listen on repeat to certain songs... And I wish I had never deleted my old or original SoundCloud, which was richer with playlists and songs I didn't make a note of and have now forgotten and ran from spring 2014 to early 2018. I mainly am into deep house and melodic ambient and minimal or melodic techno music, or music with associated sounds provoking the thought of a heavy journey unique to yourself or the progress of groundbreaking work or merely a speedy late night stride or ramble in solitude, but I like to classify or refer to my taste in music as me simply loving deep, wistful, melodic percussive sounds without any genre titles acknowledged. I would like to think I have a reasonable eye (or ear) for picking out/noticing when I hear what I’m aiming for, memory-inducing, beautiful or more endearing music very much in the specific realm of the shade of deep house and melodic IDM I am most into as the auditory material from which a range of heartfelt visualisations, feelings and reminiscences spring in me. As we all may do over time, I would think I sort of have developed an individual, intricate sense for music which evokes a sense of there being something deeply felt, sombreness, seriousness, complexity or overwhelmment. I’ve looked out for beautiful deep-sounding music since I began to listen to deep house in 2010 through 'pirate' UK radio stations back then like Unknown FM, Passion FM, Select FM and Point Blank FM. I have a real enthusiasm in me for such music, along with any clear mergers between it and classical musical instruments, and especially an enthusiasm in the ideas I get within myself and in the back of my mind of relating the sounds I am hearing and used to in the deep house music genre to sceneries or landscapes or visual moments around me in life. For instance, I relate and associate music with viewpoints, memorably distinct lines of sight I randomly come across, specific locations with a bubble of buildings of a certain form of architecture to them, and varying urban or less urban places within the city and countryside settings I've hugely explored the wide-ranging sights and suburbs of, and landscapes beyond. In honesty, I'd only love to better capture the basic concept I'm getting at by recreating exactly it in audiovisual ways... The deeper, the ever darker, and unwaveringly starker.

Also on: @soundsdeepening

Open Records is a techno, house and electronica imprint based out of the sunny state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in the lush tropical paradise of Cairns in 2007 and now managed out of the bustling metropolis of Brisbane, Open has grown into a respected and prolific label with more than 70 releases from artists in all corners of the globe.

The Open sound is just that. Over the years we have released everything from deep, organic, progressive and tech house, to staunch minimal, hypnotic tribal, driving techno and abstract electronica. What has remained constant is our desire to represent the intelligent, groovy, dancefloor-oriented sound of the Australian festival and party culture, with a little help from our friends around the world, too.

Along the way we've managed to top the Beatport charts, featured in the playlists of some of the world's biggest DJs and radio shows and helped launch the career of some of Australia's most talented artists. Not bad for a crazy idea hatched in a small city in regional Australia! Big respect to everyone who has supported us on our journey, we wouldn't be where we are today without you.

Producer & DJ from Kenya

Ndimuu - Meaning lime in Kiswahili 

An acidic taste of psychedelic music from the region 

A project by Liam Brunner 

Co founder of Grow With The Flow East Africa 

A regenerative events, arts and permaculture collective based in Kenya

Big Fat Nothing Wrapped Into Big Fat Everything

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