After owning the US College radio Chill charts last year (number 1 Chill record of the year!), Liminal Drifter is back with a stunning new single. ‘Child’s Play’ is a deceptively emotive slice of Chilltronica, drawing on some of the dub vibes of last year’s Connected, whilst wrapping the whole thing in a blanket of ethereal nostalgia. It’s hard not to be swept into its warmth and glow over the near 6 minute journey. ‘Child’s Play’ is the title track from Liminal Drifter’s forthcoming EP, due out later in the year

Child's Play

The first single from Connected, the fourth album by Perth-based ambient electronica artist Liminal Drifter. The album will see release on May 29th. More on Liminal Drifter here - www.hiddenshoal.com/project/liminal-drifter/

Following on from 2018’s wonderfully received The Dreams, Liminal Drifter delivers another suite of mesmeric electronica in his latest outing, Connected. Dripping with dub-inflected rhythms and intricate melodic tapestries, Connected is a collection of eight intangible travelscapes that touch on both the astral and the earthbound.

“a beautifully choreographed snapshot of the artist’s knack for the surreal, fluid mechanics of mid-90s electronic music shaped with current-era finesse” – Igloo Mag on The Dreams

The album’s buoyant and often uplifting electronica belies the conditions under which it was created. Born out of a period of personal trauma, Connected acts as a musical salve and a celebration of important moments. Opener ‘Choir on Mars’ is a playful invitation to enter Liminal Drifter’s bright musical space, its subtly phased electric piano playing against reverberant chords, crisp beats and breathy sampled voices. ‘Braxton’ brings to mind In Sides-era Orbital as it draws you inexorably into its centre. ‘Sheep Radio’ is a happy-to-be-sad slice of daydream-dub electronica, layered with intricate samples and an insistent yet delicate melodic progression. And closing track ‘Atlantean Shaman’ taps into a moody, reflective space, casting a majestic shadow across the preceding 40 minutes of music

Choir On Mars

Following on from recent single ‘Child’s Play’ and his amazing run in the U.S. college radio charts (#1 chill record of 2020!), Perth-based ambient electronica artist Liminal Drifter presents his new single, ‘Lured by the Lounge’. Blending the louche, sax-driven swagger of latter-day Roxy Music with the thick bass textures of The Orb, ‘Lured by the Lounge’ is a sophisticated, nocturnal slice of ‘90s-indebted electronica. The track is lifted from Liminal Drifter’s forthcoming EP, due out later in the year. 
 
“As the introspective electronica plays us out, it’s not hard to imagine a utopia being enveloped by the soothing and thoughtful sounds of Liminal Drifter.”  - Xpress Mag on Connected

Lured By The Lounge

Some insights on Lured by the Lounge from Liminal Drifter himself.

Lured By The Lounge - Mini podcast

The podcast is generated by Google's Notebook LM based on an article I wrote about liminal music production. The AI gave my paper a new leash of podcast life and will explain my music production workflow.

This article, titled "The liminal music studio: between the geographical and the virtual," by Simon Order, investigates how the act of music production is transforming in the digital age. It argues that the mobile music producer's creative process is not confined to a traditional studio, but exists in a liminal space between the physical environment and the virtual world. The author uses his own experience creating an album while traveling as a case study, employing evocative autoethnography, a method that combines personal experience and sociological analysis. The article examines various factors influencing mobile music creation, including connectivity, aesthetic control, soundscapes, and the impact of synaesthesia - the intermingling of the senses - on the creative process. Ultimately, Order emphasizes the role of mobility in expanding the possibilities for musical creativity and redefining the traditional studio as a physical space.

The Liminal Music Studio Between The Geographical And The Virtual Podcast

Radio Interview - Tickles Show with Gigi and Alice at Radio Fremantle about the making of Liminal Drifter's, "The Dreams" Album, released June 2018. Wonderful to have a chat with these beautiful people at Radio Fremantle. Transcribed here:
http://freopages.com/liminal-drifter-an-interview-with-dr-simon-order/

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What does it take to make great album art? Liminal Drifter’s “The Dreams” and “Night Train Vacancies” CD artist @stuartmedleyillustration speaks on how music inspires the final packaging. #hidden_shoal #art #music #electronica #WAMusic

What does it take to make great album art?

'Stranger Things' is taken from The Dreams, the third album by Perth-based electronica artist Liminal Drifter (aka Dr Simon Order). The full album saw release on the 12th of June 2018 through Hidden Shoal. More on Liminal Drifter here - www.hiddenshoal.com/project/liminal-drifter/

The Dreams
Following his acclaimed debut album, Troubled Mystic, and its remix companion, Night Train Vacancies, this new collection displays Simon Order’s ongoing mastery of melodic, transportive electronica. Befitting its title, The Dreams has a hypnotic feel, its pristine sonics rendered uncanny by subliminal details. Track titles such as ‘Beach Fair’, ‘Angels of the Sea’ and ‘Fish Don’t Have Arms or Legs’ offer suggestions of the aquatic vibe of the release, with sonar pings and synth pads washing in and out as samples of submerged voices nag at the subconscious. Whether it’s the driving bassline of ‘Stranger Things’, the dream-pop guitars and skanking piano on ‘Man is Part of Nature’, or the thick synth arpeggiation on the closing track ‘Time Lapse’, The Dreams takes great care to offer up waves of lush dreamtronica.

Liminal Drifter
Liminal Drifter is Dr. Simon Order. Under the ’90s moniker of dUB Rumble, Order worked as a producer and instrumentalist in the UK until 2005, when he landed in Western Australia and eventually resurrected his musical life as Liminal Drifter. His debut album, Troubled Mystic, was released on Hidden Shoal in 2015. The track ’Soothed By Summer’, taken from Troubled Mystic, landed in the top 10 of the SBS Chillest 100 in 2016 alongside artists such as Massive Attack, Moby, Air, Sebastien Tellier and Ella Fitzgerald. His remix album Night Train Vacancies debuted at number 14 in the NACC US college radio Electronic Chart and stayed in the charts for over 2 months, regularly landing in many stations’ top 10. In his other life, Order is an academic at Perth’s Murdoch University, where he teaches and researches radio and music technology.

This music is available for licensing across film, tv, web, games and beyond. Head to Hidden Shoal for more info -www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing/

The Dreams

Stranger Things

A shimmering, ambient and hopeful downtempo reworking of Kryshe's classic piano solo tune Lullaby, by dreamtronica specialist Liminal Drifter

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