Live Sets

On the very first Festival day of Horst Arts & Music Festival 2022, Australian duo Sleep D galvanized the Hovering Caress Amère stage with a mind-altering live set. Surrouned by a flock of devoted early ravers, the Butter Sessions founders made it crystal clear why they are at the very front of the progressive house and techno revival. Fast-paced rhythms, refind drum programming and alleviating melodies, all tied together with profound technical finesse.

Sleep D (live) at Horst Arts & Music Festival 2022

Sugar Mountain, we’re back! We’re back to one of our most iconic stages, nestled within the industrial, waterside surrounds of Williamstown on Yalukit-willam land in Naarm. Joined by: Folamour, RONA., Logic 1000 b2b DJ Plead b2b Big Ever, Sleep D, Tarzsa and Adriana.

Sleep D | Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2024

A recording from our Live show at Golden Plains Festival 2015 in Victoria. Enjoy!

Sleep D LIVE @ Golden Plains 2015

Recorded live on the 4th of April, 2015 in country Victoria, Aus.

Sleep D Live At Inner Varnika 2015

Our next record, out mid May on Melbourne label https://soundcloud.com/analogueattic

40ish minutes recorded live under the gumtrees at Melbourne's iconic Fairfield Amphitheatre.

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Live At Fairfeild Amphitheatre - Sleep D - [AAR005] - Preview

Last year we were asked to perform a live score to David Lynch's 1977 film 'Eraserhead' at Cult Cinema in Brunswick, Melbourne - it was an amazing and new experience for us that we are happy to present to you now in long play cassette formate. 8 tracks cut directly from the live session housed in a clam shell cassette wallet. Noisey, dark and nerve racking. Thanks to Hayden from Hear My Eyes for organizing the event and Cooper from Altered States Tapes for putting it out.

Cassette available here: https://tinyurl.com/y7dlet2t
Digital available here: https://tinyurl.com/y7vcb8xe

Tracklist:
A1. Metal Tooth
A2. It's OK
A3. Regular Chicken
A4. Head Flip
B1. Cradle
B2. Lady In The Radiator
B3. Hot Tub
B4. Look At My Knees

Words from AST:

AST093: SLEEP D - ERASED C24   

Here is a special, standalone release preceding the next upcoming batch courtesy of Frankston’s favourite sons, Sleep D. Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos have been busy carving out their own sound and, in turn, an entire scene essentially via their Butter Sessions label, parties and live / DJ sets in Melbourne.   

Erased is a soundtrack the duo were commissioned to play live accompanying David Lynch’s Eraserhead for the Cult Cinema pop-up series, Hear My Eyes last year. Listening to their soundtrack, even divorced from the film’s surreal visuals, successfully channels the same kind of unsettling dread and dark irreverence that has made Eraserhead such an enduring production.    

While most would be more acclimatised to Kikos and Syawish’s floor-ready 4/4 productions and drifting ambient collabs with Albrecht La’Brooy, Erased sees them utilising their technical versatility to create a much more unsettling atmosphere. There are rhythmic moments, but this is otherwise a largely different Sleep D to the one you think you know. Obviously, it is fitting that these be committed to tape for Altered States.

Sleep D - ERASED (Eraserhead live score snippets)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/get-familiar/get-familiar-sleep-d-albrecht-labrooy

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Download: Sleep D & Albrecht La'Brooy's Get Familiar Mix, August, 2018

Our closing set 3-6 AM at 2019 Hopkins Creek in rural Victoria.

Sleep D (DJ/Live) at Hopkins Creek 2019

The Melbourne duo behind Butter Sessions composed 60 minutes of top-shelf trippy techno and house in a masterful live set at Pitch Music & Arts 2020.

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RA Live - 06.03.20 - Sleep D, Pitch Music & Arts, Australia

Live techno and house from Melbourne.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=745

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RA.745 Sleep D

Butter Sessions Records - Incienso - Kalahari Oyster Cult -  Planet Euphorique - Analogue Attic Recordings

Europe/UK booking: Jo@klsbookings.com
North / South America: s@icartists.net
Australia Booking: James@watartists.com

Sonic explorers, label heads, pillars of the Melbourne/Naarm underground, Sleep D explore the rave unconscious - driving rhythms, hypnotic bass, worlds of echo and the hazy bliss of the morning after. Childhood friends with Iraqi and Maltese lineage, the duo and their legacy building Butter Sessions label have ushered in a new era, sensibility and productivity to the city that raised them.

A defiantly DIY two-man assembly line, Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos have issued a steady stream of diverse records on their own imprint, as well as on like-minded international outposts Incienso, Planet Euphorique and Cocktail d'Amore. Releasing ‘Rebel Force’ in 2019 and ‘Electronic Arts’ in 2023, their albums bind a singular take on mutated house, bush doof, dub techno and downtempo, while their composition and production capacity has also been augmented via 2021’s chamber orchestra collaboration ‘Flashed Glass’ and the rescored film soundtracks for ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’.

With long-standing DJ residencies and an ever evolving live show fit for both clubs and vast paddocks, the dexterous duo’s alchemy has energised hordes across the US, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.