NO HOLIDAY – WESTERNSYNTHETICS 
FREE DOWNLOAD TRACK & NEW EP 

No Holiday is released in celebration of Sydney Producer Westernsynthetics performing at the 2011 Outlook Festival. Available exclusively on Beatport and including a free download giveaway at www.westernsynthetics.net

No Holiday is the follow up EP to the acclaimed May Day Radio album. Recorded in late 2010 at a beach front cottage in the surreal surroundings of Kiama, Southern New South Wales, Australia, the EP contains two fresh cuts clearly displaying the signatory Westernsynthetics aesthetic.  KMADMG (Kiama Dreaming) is a pulsating techno slammer that tips its hat to the roots of dubstep. It contains the familiar yet unique Westernsynthetics stamp of production, with use of analogue FX and layered soundscapes over a huge kick drum. Extreme low sub bass frequencies here!  Title track No Holiday experiments with drone and melodic atmospheres to propel complex drum patterns and layered snares over the thick bass line. No Holiday dabbles with the old school rave genre while morphing through complex progressions and nuanced melodic phrasing.

WESTENRNSYNTHETICS

Westernsynthetics will be the first Australian to perform at Croatia’s Outlook Festival this September 2011. Quoted as “the best four days of bass music in Europe, if not the world” by Resident Advisor, Outlook is the largest dubstep & soundsystem culture festival in Europe. With a mammoth line up from the most cutting edge and vibrant electronic music scenes around today Westernsynthetics will be performing alongside the likes of Jamie XX, Benga, Skream, Digital Mystikz, Kode 9, Foreign Beggars and many more, with an expected audience of 10,000 people.

In early 2011 Westernsynthetics released his debut album May Day Radio. Sydney radio station FBI awarded it the highly coveted Sunset Album of the Week. This album also received excellent reviews with spins & rotation across Australian and international radio.  
In 2009 Westernsynthetics was nominated for ‘Best Instrumental Composition’ category in the Australian Songwriters Association Awards for his debut 12” LP Engine No. 999.

No Holiday, May Day Radio and Engine No. 999 are released on Sub Continental Dub and distributed internationally by renowned UK imprint Cargo Records.

No Holiday is exclusively available on Beatport 
Available all other digital retailers 1st July 2011

Released by: Sub Continental Dub 
Release/catalogue number: SUBDUB005 
Release date: Jun 1, 2011 

Westernsynthetics - New Fuse (AIFF) (FREE DOWNLOAD) (2006)

No Holiday is released in celebration of Sydney producer Westernsynthetics performing at the 2011 Outlook 
Festival, the first Australian to be on this Festival bill to date. 
 
No Holiday, the follow up EP to the acclaimed May Day Radio album, was recorded in late 2010 at a beach 
front cottage in the surreal surroundings of Kiama, Southern New South Wales, Australia. The EP contains two 
fresh cuts clearly displaying the signatory Westernsynthetics aesthetic. 
 
KMADMG (Kiama Dreaming) is a pulsating techno slammer that tips its hat to the roots of dubstep. It 
contains the familiar yet unique Westernsynthetics stamp of production, with use of analogue FX and layered 
soundscapes over a huge kick drum. Extreme low sub bass frequencies here! 
 
Title track No Holiday experiments with drone and melodic atmospheres to propel complex drum patterns 
and layered snares over the thick bass line. No Holiday dabbles with the old school rave genre while morphing 
through complex progressions and nuanced melodic phrasing. 
 
No Holiday is released on the Sub Continental Dub label & distributed by internationally renowned UK 
imprint Cargo Records. 
 
No Holiday is exclusively available on Beatport.com 17th June.  
Available all other digital retailers 1st July 2011. 
 
                           WESTERNSYNTHETICS | ‘NO HOLIDAY’ | OUT 17th JUNE 


Westernsynthetics - KMADMG (preview)

Westernsynthetics - No Holiday (preview)

NO HOLIDAY – WESTERNSYNTHETICS
FREE DOWNLOAD TRACK & NEW EP

This track was written by Westernsynthetics in 06...it is here free for you as part of the No Holiday EP :)
	
No Holiday is released in celebration of Sydney Producer Westernsynthetics performing at the 2011 Outlook Festival. Available exclusively on Beatport and including a free download giveaway at www.westernsynthetics.net  

No Holiday is the follow up EP to the acclaimed May Day Radio album. Recorded in late 2010 at a beach front cottage in the surreal surroundings of Kiama, Southern New South Wales, Australia, the EP contains two fresh cuts clearly displaying the signatory Westernsynthetics aesthetic.  KMADMG (Kiama Dreaming) is a pulsating techno slammer that tips its hat to the roots of dubstep. It contains the familiar yet unique Westernsynthetics stamp of production, with use of analogue FX and layered soundscapes over a huge kick drum. Extreme low sub bass frequencies here!  Title track No Holiday experiments with drone and melodic atmospheres to propel complex drum patterns and layered snares over the thick bass line. No Holiday dabbles with the old school rave genre while morphing through complex progressions and nuanced melodic phrasing.

WESTENRNSYNTHETICS

Westernsynthetics will be the first Australian to perform at Croatia’s Outlook Festival this September 2011. Quoted as “the best four days of bass music in Europe, if not the world” by Resident Advisor, Outlook is the largest dubstep & soundsystem culture festival in Europe. With a mammoth line up from the most cutting edge and vibrant electronic music scenes around today Westernsynthetics will be performing alongside the likes of Jamie XX, Benga, Skream, Digital Mystikz, Kode 9, Foreign Beggars and many more, with an expected audience of 10,000 people.

In early 2011 Westernsynthetics released his debut album May Day Radio. Sydney radio station FBI awarded it the highly coveted Sunset Album of the Week. This album also received excellent reviews with spins & rotation across Australian and international radio. 
In 2009 Westernsynthetics was nominated for ‘Best Instrumental Composition’ category in the Australian Songwriters Association Awards for his debut 12” LP Engine No. 999. 

No Holiday, May Day Radio and Engine No. 999 are released on Sub Continental Dub and distributed internationally by renowned UK imprint Cargo Records. 

No Holiday is exclusively available on Beatport
Available all other digital retailers 1st July 2011


Westernsynthetics - New Fuse [2006] (320mp3 FREE DOWNLOAD)

The Machine feat. Charles Smith taken from the fourth-coming Westernsynthetics album May Day Radio out September on Sub Continental Dub 
credits

Released 09 July 2010

Music & lyrics written by Rhyece O'Neill. Vocal arrangements by Charles Smith & Rhyece O'Neill. Produced & Engineered by Westernsynthetics. Mastered by Jack The Bear. 
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Westernsynthetics - The Machine (Radio)

"It's clear his sound is among the country's most original" - Cyclic Defrost Magazine

Introducing THE MACHINE feat Charles Smith, the lead single from the forthcoming Westernsynthetics album MAY DAY RADIO. May Day Radio is out September 2010 on Sub Continental Dub and distributed through Cargo Records (UK).

Fusing his unique blend of acid, dub, punk, techno & psychedelia with a revolutionary socialist outlook, Westernsynthetics (aka Rhyece O’Neill) uses a vast pallet of sounds, instrumentation & imagery in the construction of his music. 

The Machine skips along with deep bass aided by the soulful and scratchy vocals of Charles Smith. Written in the suburb of Newtown, Sydney, Australia in early 2009, 
O'Neill had finished the music and was trying to find a vocalist. One night Smith (O'Neill's housemate) was heard on the balcony humming a melody to the bassline. O'Neill then wrote the lyrics based around Smith's melody. The result is modern protest song in Dubstep aided by "The Machine" speech given by Mario Savio during the free speech movement at Berkley University in 1965.

Musically “The Machine” straddles the realms of deep minimalist Dubstep, Techno and Psychedelia. 
It features a heavy pulsating bassline layered with O’Neill’s guitars and Smith’s vocal preccussion. 
Many layers of atmospherics with AM radio glitches round up the piece as it moves from a dancefloor Dubstep vibe to heavy beatless drone with distant vocal improvisations from O’Neill at the climax.

A regular performer at Sydney's Void/Index and Melbourne’s Bass High Dubstep nights, Westernsynthetics has supported heavyweights Distance, Scuba, Caspa, Skream, Benga, Bassnectar, Cotti, Harmonic 313, Gravious, Tes La Rok, Kito, Spherix, Emalkay, Deadbeat among others. 
He is also a performer and curator of the Dubshack at the Peats Ridge Festival.

Westernsynthetics’ 2008 release “Engine No. 999” 12” received excellent reviews from around the world and was nominated in the best instrumental composition category in the 2009 Australian Songwriters Association awards. Remix credits include The Herd, Armen Firman and Deepchild.
For more information go to subcontinentaldub.com

09 Westernsynthetics - 80808

10 Westernsynthetics - 101010

RELEASE DATE: Boomkat Exclusive - 28th May 2012          http://boomkat.com/downloads/532555-anomie-forward-backward 
RELEASE DATE: All Digital Retailers - 4th June 2012 
FORMAT: Digital EP 
LABEL: Sub Continental Dub 
DISTRIBUTOR: Cargo Records, UK

‘ANOMIE’ ARRIVES AS THE NEXT-GEN OF AUSTRALIA’S UNDERGROUND BASS SCENE

This June Sofie Loizou, already a leader in Sydney’s underground arts and electronic scenes, will unveil her debut EP under the ‘Anomie’ alias on Australian imprint Sub Continental Dub.

Forward &gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;&lt;&lt; Backward will see Anomie bring a more bass-heavy, dancefloor-ready approach to the otherwise saturated Australian dubstep scene, bringing a volatile blend of electronica that shuns overblown noise and superficiality in favor of polished beats and political awareness.

From the 1st vocal samples that haunt the EP’s opening track Yesterday's promise of tomorrow, you’ll hear Anomie’s reluctance to believe the lies or swallow the propaganda, slogans or advertising we’re bombarded with everyday. It’s this approach, fusing thoughtfulness with abrasiveness, which defines Forward &gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;&lt;&lt; Backward. Steering it into some of the more abrasive places bass music dares to travel, while holding things together in the fashion of a mistress with an instinctual connection to her machines.

I saw Big Society burn on Al Jazeera contrasts horn samples and percussive breaks with a rising cavalcade of electronic noise. Odussomai on the other hand sees Anomie connect with the true spirit of dubstep, something remembered only by a small remaining group of pioneers.

Anomie taps into both the outer creative limits of what’s possible with bass music, as well as the explosive movement that’s happening across the world right now, to take the power back. The international bass scene is advised to keep its eyes peeled!

ABOUT ANOMIE

Anomie is the savage alter ego who’s emerged from the studio of Sofie Loizou; and she’s documenting the revolution, shaping sonic pathways pointing towards a new modality.

A Red Bull Music Academy participant, Sofie has performed alongside electronic maestros like Martyn, The Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus, Harmonic 313, Kode 9 and many more.

2012 will see Sofie stepping up into the international spotlight, including a performance at Croatia’s renowned Outlook Festival, one of Europe’s leading events for bass music and culture. This consolidates her appearance earlier in her career at the seminal Sonar Festival in Barcelona and Gogbot Festival in the Netherlands. Australian festival performances include St Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Peats Ridge Festival.

ABOUT SUB CONTINENTAL DUB

An AU electronic label specialising in quality bass music from the South Pacific. 
For information or to join the mailing list www.subcontinentaldub.com 
E: Kristy@subcontinentaldub.com M: +61 424 194 333

Anomie - Forward Backward (teaser)

“How many times will our generation witness not just the emergence of a song or a band, but a whole new genre, a crossover of styles that shatters the barriers of perceptions that lie between what we hear, think and feel?”
Claire Maddocks / Blogger / Reviewer

“It is with piqued curiosity that we await new material from the only label [SCD] currently pushing Australian Dubstep talent. Big up”
In The Mix

Sub Continental Dub is an Australian electronic label specialising in quality underground beats, established to help combat the void that has emerged in South Pacific bass music. Founded by music industry insider Kristy Brown along with Sydney producer Rhyece O’Neill AKA Westernsynthetics, the ethos of the label is simple - to showcase emerging and established experimental producers from the depths of the South Pacific, and to provide international opportunities and connections.

Sub Continental Dub is distributed internationally by renowned UK imprint Cargo Records.

For more information or to join the mailing list check out www.subcontinentaldub.com

SUB CONTINENTAL DUB CATALOGUE

- SUBDUB006 (2012)
Anomie - 'Forward Backward' EP

- SUBDUB005 (2011)
Westernsynthetics - 'No Holiday' EP

- SUBDUBAL004 (2010)
Westernsynthetics – ‘May Day Radio’ Album

- SUBDUB004 (2010)
Westernsynthetics – ‘The Machine’ Single

- SUBDUB003 (2009)
Deepchild – ‘Shameless In Seattle’ /‘Wannado’/‘Wannado – Gravious Remix’
/‘Shameless In Seattle – Westernsynthetics Remix’ 12"

- SUBDUB002 (2008)
Westernsynthetics – ‘Engine No 999’
/‘Contumacious In Kind’/‘80808’ 12"

- SUBDUB001 (2007)
Spherix – ‘Dub Chemistry’/‘Goblin’ 12"

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