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

Recording of Verdun Music-route walked/performed by Georges Papavasiliou on Friday, October 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM. Sunny. About 15 degrees Celsius. See "Verdun Music-route" playlist description for more information.

Verdun Music-route - Georges Papavasiliou, Oct. 18, 2013

The opening track from our debut "Centre Yourself" EP. 

Glorious Day

The Australia-based label Hidden Shoal celebrates its 10th year of existence with the new compilation album "Eat Your Friends", comprising remixes and covers of Hidden Shoal artists, by Hidden Shoal artists. The album not only showcases the wealth of original music released through the label, but also the creative ingenuity and deft musical touch of the remixers and cover artists. 

From searing solar-flared adaptations to delicately reconstructed covers, deep space jam reworkings, and shimmering ambient tapestries, "Eat Your Friends" re-imagines the Hidden Shoal discography in new and beautiful ways, playing to all the strengths of the roster’s dizzying array of talent.

Includes remixes and covers by:
Antonymes, Arc Lab, Glanko, Wayne Harriss, Liminal Drifter, Makee, Chloe March, Markus Mehr, Erik Nilsson, REW<<, Slow Dancing Society, Tin Manzano, Willem Gator, and Zealous Chang 

of music by:
Arc Lab, Brother Earth, Cheekbone, City of Satellites, Medard Fischer, Gilded, Glanko & Daniel Bailey, Kryshe, Memorybell, Erik Nilsson, perth, Slow Dancing Society, Tangled Star, Umpire, and Zealous Chang.

Visit www.hiddenshoal.com to listen and learn more.

Credits:

Eternal love and thanks to all the artists involved in this release, and to all Hidden Shoal artists, past and present. It has been an honour to support you all these last 10 years. Here’s to the next 10!

All original songs taken from the Hidden Shoal catalogue, and remixed or covered by Hidden Shoal artists. Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio: forensicaudio.com.au

To learn more about Hidden Shoal, its artists and releases, visit hiddenshoal.com

All Hidden Shoal music is available for licensing across film, tv, web, games, compilations and more. Email Cam Merton at Hidden Shoal or check out our website for more details: cam@hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Eat Your Friends

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City of Satellites - You'll Feel Better Tomorrow (Tin Manzano remix)

Kryshe - Lullaby (Liminal Drifter remix)

Erik Nilsson's sublime remix of 'Troubled Mystic' is the opening track from The Night Train Vacancies, the new album featuring remixes of tracks by Perth-based ambient electronica artist Liminal Drifter. The album will see release on the 28th of August 2017.

Liminal Drifter: www.hiddenshoal.com/project/liminal-drifter/
Erik Nilsson: http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson/
Contact cam@hiddenshoal.com for all media and licensing enquiries.

Album Text
On Night Train Vacancies, Liminal Drifter takes his ideas of shifting identities, travel and states of consciousness to the logical extreme. While most of debut album Troubled Mystic (Hidden Shoal, 2015) was written while travelling and visiting new places, The Night Train Vacancies sees Liminal Drifter’s music taking new journeys of its own. By throwing the original tracks out into the world, to be reinterpreted by artists such as Erik Nilsson, Matt McLean (of Lilt), Lvmark, p_Frisk and Robwun, Simon Order has invested his musical flights of fancy with fresh wings. 

Labelmate Erik Nilsson’s reworking of ‘Trouble Mystic’ is an exercise in both restraint and expansion, reining in the original’s downtempo beats and horns, pairing Chloe March’s voice with nylon-string guitar and shimmering synth. Matt McLean, working under the moniker of Feeding | Ear, morphs the ambient electronica of ‘Adventure Beyond the Body’ into a spectral, tension-and-release banger. p-Frisk’s sublime mashup seamlessly interweaves three originals from Troubled Mystic into an eerie shuffle, populated by ghostly hooks, while Order’s own remix of labelmate Kryshe’s ‘Lullaby’ renders the original in a palette that sits beautifully with the other tracks. In fact, if there’s a distinguishing feature of this collection, it’s how well the tracks flow together, despite the variety of remixers involved and their diverse approaches to the source material.

Troubled Mystic, released by Hidden Shoal in 2015, is his debut solo album, featuring collaborations with English dream-pop artist Chloe March. Drawing on the seminal Warp releases of the ’90s, including Black Dog, Plaid and early Autechre, as well as more contemporary peers, Liminal Drifter evokes a spectrum of emotions across beautifully detailed electronic tapestries. Moving from downtempo dream-pop to shimmering, spacey electronica, this suite of songs works as if by osmosis, gently irradiating your subconscious.

Liminal Drifter is Dr. Simon Order. Under the ’90s moniker of dUB Rumble, Order worked with UK bands Galahad, The Bird Tribe and The Producers, and gained experience in TV, film and radio sound. Order landed in Western Australia in 2005 and went on sonic hiatus until 2013, when he emerged from the wilderness to resume working on tracks as Liminal Drifter. Order is also an academic at Perth’s Murdoch University, where he researches radio and music technology, including radio production, community media, user-interface usability, and the use of music technology in teaching and learning.

The Night Train Vacancies

Liminal Drifter - Troubled Mystic (Erik Nilsson remix)

'Beach Fair' is the single taken from The Dreams, the third album by Perth-based electronica artist Liminal Drifter (aka Dr Simon Order). The full album will see release on the 12th of June through Hidden Shoal. More on Liminal Drifter here - http://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 -http://www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing/

The Dreams

Liminal Drifter - Beach Fair

Encapsulating infinite energy in vehement progressive rock, Perth five-piece Yalla Yalla return with their stunning sophomore EP, Tides.  Perfectly controlled, the first single Not Ordinary juxtaposes the technical with the uncomplicated – melding effortless emotion with sheer cognitive power and complexity.  Crescendoing in a tempest of soloing guitars and soaring vocals, it is as definitive a song of Yalla Yalla as any.
Recorded and mixed by Troy Nababan, Tides is divided by interludes that sculpt and guide an overall narrative – cutting out a path like a river flowing to the ocean.  The band's fans have patiently waited for new music since 2015's Centre Yourself, and they will not be disappointed.

Not Ordinary

We’re excited to present the first cut from "Cupid’s Empty House (The Remixes)", the new remix EP by US-based dreampop artist REW<<. Liminal Drifter's brilliant re-working of the original is now available ahead of the EP release on the 26th of October 2018. 

Read and listen all things REW<< here - http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rew/
 
“Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs is a fantastically varied, moving, and imaginative opus, and it deserves to be celebrated.” – The Big Takeover

Cupid’s Empty House (The Remixes) features reworkings by Markus Mehr, Liminal Drifter, Ethan Kavanagh, Twilla and Rachel Harrup, plus the sublime original, taken from REW<<’s 2015 album Olive Skinned, Silver Tongued Sirens Sing Swan Songs. There’s plenty to work with in the original’s delicate music box melodies and swooning synth strings, which evoke The Flaming Lips’ masterpiece The Soft Bulletin.

Hidden Shoal labelmates Markus Mehr and Liminal Drifter reimagine the original as a celestial exhalation and a burbling submarine delight, respectively. Ethan Kavanaugh sends snatches of voice snaking around glimmers of synth and drums, while Twilla juxtaposes pitch-shifted voice and thick bass against a stumbling drum loop. Finally, Rachel Harrup skilfully emphasises the delicious syncopation of the original.

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Cupid's Empty House (The Remixes)

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REW<< - Cupid's Empty House (feat. Liminal Drifter)

'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/

Stranger Things

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Ambient electronica from Fremantle, Western Australia. 