Producer/engineer Arrom returns with a new direction on her new single Can’t Ask This, the lead track from her upcoming LP, Selene.

Her new techno direction arose out of a liberating change to her creative workflow - as she explains: “I usually write lyrics and melody first, however that didn’t happen in Can’t Ask This. I had just started a new session in Logic and was directionlessly playing around with the Alchemy sample manipulation synth. That’s how I came up with the industrial soundscape that sits behind the beats… I went into the track knowing I wanted to make it pretty huge. I didn’t necessarily have any other concept in mind other that ‘make a track that you want to bop to.’”

The freedom of this approach allowed Arrom to draw on a wide and diverse range of creative wellsprings to achieve her aim for the track. While her previous work (including debut full-length, Take My Lymphs, and follow-up minimalist EP, But Still We) hark back to the art-pop tradition carrying from the likes of Bjork through to FKA Twigs, Can’t Ask This sees Arrom embracing the influence of other musical heroes such as Burial and Andy Stott, but also from her peers. She notes:

“The final beat elements were realised together with a couple of friends of mine in a modular jam session. We were just playing around with different ideas and I ended up piecing together that main driving beat from a few different and unrelated beat trials.”

The result is a sparkling techno cut, alive with mystery and energy, and potent in its showcase of Arrom's sound design.

Arrom - Can't Ask This

Aphir is Melbourne producer Becki Whitton, who follows her debut 2015 full-length 'Holodreem' with the new album 'Twin Earth', due on Provenance in early 2017. 

'No Muse', the first single from the album, is out now through iTunes, Bandcamp & Spotify.

'No Muse' - PR008, Digital Release, 4 November 2016.
Written, produced and mixed by Becki Whitton

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No Muse

APHIR 'No Muse' (PR008)

'Deeper In' is taken from Aphir's forthcoming album 'Twin Earth', released through Provenance in March 2017.

Written, produced and mixed by Becki Whitton
Artwork by Goodie https://www.facebook.com/GoodieArt
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Twin Earth

Deeper In

APHIR 'Deeper In' from 'Twin Earth' (PR009)

Arnhem Land musician and producer Kris Keogh continues his unique exploration of hyper-glitched classical work with 'Processed Harp Works Volume 2', released on 7 April 2017 on Provenance. Influenced as much by Debussy as Atari Teenage Riot, the album is a series of ten micro-sculpted sound worlds, made entirely by Kris playing harp through ‘Processed’, a self-made Reaktor ensemble.

‘Processed Harp Works Volume 2’ (PR010)
Released through all digital retailers, April 7 2017

  Label-exclusive download includes software used to the album, designed by Kris Keogh (Requires a full version of Native Instruments Reaktor to run), and a bonus download of 'Processed Harp Works, Volume 1’ album, originally released on New Weird Australia in 2011.

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KRIS KEOGH 'Just Before Forever' from 'Processed Harp Works Volume 2' (PR010)

‘Know Myself’ is the first release from the upcoming self-titled EP by KAIAR, released by Provenance on 11 August 2017.

KAIAR is a Canberra-born; Melbourne-based emerging dream pop producer that lived for seventeen of her life in a cult that believes all world governments are under Satan’s control and condemns oral sex. 

This true story, the antithesis of a stable adolescence, shaped KAIAR’s sound – an alloy of sweet and sincere vocals and lyrics, wrought by extraordinary self-production. 

KAIAR’s layered vocals and melodies explore the depths of her upbringing and transition into adult life, just breaking through the surface when her peers had already reached shore.  

“Know Myself touches on the push and pull of relationships with in my family,” says KAIAR. “Leaving the cult I was raised in and still being tied by unrequited love to my (still practising) family members who brought me to that place allows complex emotions to flourish. Simply: there is love, but there is also resentment.

“This song is probably my favourite on the record, because it explores both sides of the coin. The narrative can be read from both of the character's perspective and the line "I know this much about you 'cos I know myself" plunges the two edged sword inwards and flips the narrative, reinforcing this idea that ultimately nobody comes out unscathed.”

KAIA

Know Myself

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KAIAR 'Know Myself' from 'KAIAR' (PR006)

Aphir closely follows the release of her 2017 album ‘Twin Earth’ with a new, non-album cut, ‘Can’t Comfort’ backed by remixes from Provenance label mates, KAIA and Arrom.

On ‘Can’t Comfort’ Aphir notes: “I feel that a lot of people, young women especially, are taught that sometimes you have to exhaust yourself looking after other people before you're allowed to look after your own needs, and this song is a rejection of that”.

‘Can’t Comfort’ is available via Bandcamp, iTunes & Spotify.

Can't Comfort

APHIR 'Can't Comfort' (PR011)

'Split Caress' is the debut track from Melbourne songwriter and producer Arrom, taken from her forthcoming album 'Take My Lymphs'.

As Arrom, Melissa Vallence combines poetic dream-pop with ethereal vocals and dark, organic electronics. Although she has performed as a choral singer throughout her life, she only began producing and writing her own work three years ago. 'Take My Lymphs' follows a run of inaugural live shows throughout 2017, and a collaboration with Melbourne producer Hypersleep on the track 'Charcoal'.

 'Take My Lymphs' is available on digital and limited-run vinyl on 27 October 2017. 

Pre-order now at http://www.provenance.bandcamp.com

Take My Lymphs

ARROM 'Split Caress' from 'Take My Lymphs' (PR012)

Released on Cassette & Digital 28/06/19
Pre-order at https://provenance.bandcamp.com

Ahm creates evocative dance-floor oriented music, combining rich textural elements with intricate rhythmic interplay that draws from industrial techno, experimental electronic music and drum & bass. ‘Why I Let You’ is Ahm’s second solo release after many years of working with a range of Melbourne acts including Huntly, Gregor, Lalić and Arrom.

‘Why I Let You’ is the closing chapter of Ahm’s explorations of caring for someone who hurts you, and recognising how this shapes one’s identity and self-worth. The songs serve as a personal and therapeutic means of examining the dynamics of such a relationship and embody a practice of self-prioritisation.

Why I Let You

Am I Better Off

AHM 'Am I Better Off' from 'Why I Let You' (PR018)

‘Your Heroine’ was originally written as a potential candidate for Aphir’s 2015 debut album ‘Holodreem’, but she decided that it needed something more - something that she wasn’t quite ready to give.

The track was instead gifted to one of her favourite artists, Tim Pearce, who recorded it as ‘Katie’ for his band The Wrst. What started life as a experimental choral piece was reinvented in Pearce’s hands as a Drones-inspired garage rock jam. Flash forward four years, and Aphir returned the favour by recording Tim’s song ‘Diving Bell’ with a video by long-term collaborator and film-maker Simone Thompson. 

Reminded of her previous collaboration with Tim, and of the song that got away, Aphir reopened the door on ‘Your Heroine’ and, drawing on more advanced production and mixing skills, found a new lease of life for the song. 

“Your Heroine is about the bottom-of-the-barrel exhausted feeling when you care deeply about someone and they don’t feel the same way about you,” she says.

‘Your Heroine’ comes as a double-headed single, coupled with Aphir’s version of ‘Diving Bell’.

https://aphir.bandcamp.com/album/your-heroine

APHIR ‘Your Heroine’ (PR021)

Grown from a mutual love of electronics, experimentation and off-kilter beats - and clinched over a few bottles of red - Arrom x KAIAR is a collaborative project from Melbourne producers Melissa Vallence and Karla Gilbard.

'Fallen Out Of Favour' is taken from the album 'Truce'.
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Truce

ARROM x KAIAR 'Fallen Out Of Favour' from 'Truce' (PR023)

In Autumn is the new collaborative release between Arnhem Land musician and producer Kris Keogh, and Joshua Stefane (Endurance), originally from Ontario, Canada, now based in Nara, Japan. Across four works, Kris Keogh & Endurance marry modular synthesis with Reaktor audio processing to deliver an album of quiet,otherworldly calm – the perfect salve for our disconcerting times.

In Autumn [PR024]

In Autumn

KRIS KEOGH & ENDURANCE 'In Autumn' from 'In Autumn' (PR024)

Pre-Order: https://scatteredorder.bandcamp.com/album/everything-happened-in-the-beginning

Over the last four decades, Scattered Order have continually defied the expectations of their peers and fans, with an increasingly prolific and eclectic series of releases; reminding us that longevity and innovation can go hand-in-hand.

The band were a key force in the development of the post-punk and industrial scenes in Australia in the early 80s, from their own innovative take on the ground-breaking music being made in Europe and the U.S., to the formation of a like-minded community in their renowned M Squared record label (home to Systematics, The Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Ya Ya Choral and many more influential bands from the period).

Now in their 40th year, Scattered Order has mutated once again, continuing to confound with their take on post / industrial music. Recorded in their home studio over a weekend in June 2019, 'Everything Happened In The Beginning' combines the spontaneity of live performance and in-the-moment composition, with a new poise in production. The spoken and direct vocal style characteristic of some of their earliest material also makes a welcome reappearance.

Above all, this is an album brimming with ideas about how to shift sound forward, something that has been their urgent intention since day one.

Everything Happened In The Beginning

And Then There is Revision

SCATTERED ORDER 'And Then There Is Revision' from 'Everything Happened In The Beginning' (PR026)

Give You One is the first single from @aphir’s upcoming third LP, Republic of Paradise, released on 25 September 2020.  Pre-order at https://aphir.bandcamp.com/album/republic-of-paradise

Give You One

APHIR 'Give You One (feat. Sandy Hsu)' from 'Republic Of Paradise' (PR028)

"Ambient Music is like Punk Rock. Make it short, make it fast, and don't think too much. Music For Friends was made over three nights of lockdown. My four track Tascam tape deck is like an old friend, a trusty collaborator and an unreliable narrator. It was a pleasure to return to the Lortica project with it." - Lortica

https://lortica.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-friends

Music For Friends

LORTICA 'Music For Friends' from 'Music For Friends' (PR029)

Electronic producer Arrom returns with a glitched-out synthwave reflection on interior life in Melbourne, living through a strict lockdown that last 100 days with movement restricted to 2 hours per day in a 5km radius. The single is a prelude to a new album due in 2021.

“Play the game, build the sun, chase what you’ve made of it, rewind, and repeat ad infinitum.”

ARROM 'Rewind Repeat' (PR030)

Know What It's Like by Lack The Low is a dark and impassioned reflection on increasingly fractured times, released at a time when the very fabric of democracy feels under threat - an idea that seemed impossible only a few years ago.

Told through Lack The Low's characteristic combination of intense vocals and heavily processed instrumentation, Know What It's Like acknowledges that the pandemic has often served to heighten rather than heal division; as we lose touch with one another on both a micro and macro scale.

Lack The Low is the project of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Kat Hunter. Know What It's Like was produced by Kat in her home studio and follows her 2018 debut One Eye Closed (described as "a cosmic event of a record" by Sputnik Music).

Never taking any one route for granted, Lack The Low paves a path between pop immediacy and the ambiguousness of the avant-garde. The resulting world is one in which ear worm hooks coexist with odd time signatures and complex chord progressions - a volatile mix of pop, math rock, post-classical and noise, delivered with unfettered honesty.

As evidenced on Know What It's Like, Hunter takes an uncompromising approach to achieving her vision, staying at the helm of the writing, performing, sound design and recording processes, and performing most of the instruments herself.

Know What It's Like

LACK THE LOW 'Know What It's Like' (PR031)

Catalogue.
PR031 LACK THE LOW Know What It's Like
PR030 ARROM Rewind Repeat
PR029 LORTICA Music For Friends
PR028 APHIR Republic Of Paradise
PR027 APHIR A Ritual To Banish Fear
PR026 SCATTERED ORDER Everything Happened In The Beginning
PR025 MORGAN HEENAN In The Wake Of Mountains
PR024 KRIS KEOGH & ENDURANCE In Autumn
PR023 ARROM x KAIAR Truce
PR022 VARIOUS Marks Of Provenance II
PR021 APHIR Your Heroine
PR020 SEBASTIAN FIELD Picture Stone Remixes
PR019 SEBASTIAN FIELD Picture Stone
PR018 AHM Why I Let You
PR017 ARROM But Still We
PR016 SHOEB AHMAD Quiver Versions
PR015 ARROM Take My Lymphs Remixes
PR014 VARIOUS Marks Of Provenance II
PR013 MEDICINE VOICE Prelude
PR012 ARROM Take My Lymphs
PR011 APHIR Can't Comfort
PR010 KRIS KEOGH Processed Harp Works Vol 2
PR009 APHIR Twin Earth
PR008 APHIR No Muse
PR007 LOVELY HEAD Always
PR006 KAIAR KAIAR
PR005 LORTICA Phellemens
PR004 SPARTAK I Fought The Style
PR003 VARIOUS Marks Of Provenance I
PR002 PANEYE Desertism
PR001 MEDICINE VOICE I And Thou

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