Louis McCoy is a master craftsman in every sense of the word. A legend of a human behind much loved local underground institutions the likes of Inner Varnika and For Home Use Only, and an expert on the tools be it in the kitchen or on a building site, Louis first and foremost is a passionate music obsessor with a savant like ear for records that cut deep. 

Sometimes found under the cheekier guise of hndsm, Louis seriously knows whats up when it comes to 90s music from the UK, and focusses his attention here on the massively influential sound of trip hop that he grew up nodding his head to as a teen. Treating us to near-on three hours of raw and dusty underground classics from the roots of the 90s Bristol trip hop movement, we find ourselves deep beneath the murky waters of the reggae and the shoegaze infused, to moments of heavy, emotion packed atmospheric soul and a healthy dose of the all out experimental. One for the OG chillout heads, this really is a trip like no other!

Interview here: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/louis-mccoy

@louis_mccoy
@for_home_use_only

https://innervarnika.com

www.melbournedeepcast.net

Interview

MDC.264 Louis McCoy

Recorded from 1-3pm at Inner Varnika on Saturday 16th April 2022, on Djargurdwurrung land.

Photo by @thomasjpg

Inner Varnika 2022

Recorded from 1-3pm at the final (!?) Inner Varnika on Suit Sunday the 9th April 2023, on Djargurdwurrung land.

Big gratitude to the homies @midnighttenderness for all the help with ripping records and @grevillegreville for hot edits!

Photo by @charliehawks

Inner Varnika 2023

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

Sleep D Live At Inner Varnika 2015

Trushmix 88! Back in the house, this time with special aussie mate guest Bwise, straight outta Melbourne! Bwise one of the main players behind Australia's number one underground festival Inner Varnika. Making sure vibes are 100% every year in the rural area of Victoria.

Bwise made a stylish street soul mix for this summer edition of trush. Sexy, smooth and  with that 90's feel. A relaxing atmospheric mix for them summer evenings and nights.

Enjoy mates:)


Trushmix.com

Trushmix 88: Bwise

spent more time organising the festival than organising my set. 

just some shit on the fly to amp that saturday vibe.

Inner Varnika 2018

Inner Varnika '18

Live recording from Friday night, Inner Varnika, 2018.

*beware some turntable related audio issues*

Heaney @ Inner Varnika '18

https://soundcloud.com/ramzihouti
Next up, a special transmission from the inscrutable musical alien RAMZi! Fostering her goal of inter-species harmony with a stopover down under, this is an hour-long recording of her live set from Inner Varnika. Dense and psychedelic, it’s a great example of how she translates the hazy atmospheres, pan-global rhythmic propulsion and alien voices of her solo records into a captivating live performance. It may be hard to recreate the delirious, sweat-dripping somnambulism of IV but her music loses none of its voodoo energy no matter what setting you’re in.

Check the previews to RAMZi's latest release, Phobiza vol.3 'Amor Fati' forthcoming through her own label, FATi Records. A handfull of tunes from this recording will be available on the release.

~~~~>    https://soundcloud.com/ramzihouti/fat01-ramzi-phobiza-vol3-amor-fati-fati-records

Moonshoe Selects 0002 - RAMZi - Live from Inner Varnika '18

Bwise outta Adelaide, and the Inner Varnika crew from down under is back on Trushmix! After his last very well received street soul mix, He follows up with a over three hour live recorded set! A tour to detour in the landscape of house and beyond, disco, street soul and some old hip hop mix of house.
Never predictable and always fun! A pure pleasure of a mix! enjoy this for real!

Peace and respect Bwise!

Trushmix129 - Bwise

"I think, fairly obviously, when you try to think about musical influence, you try to throw your mind back to the earliest music you can remember listening to - and for me, I grew up listening to a lot of blues and jazz at home - records played firstly by my Dad and then later my older brother. Whilst I wasn’t conscious of it for a long time in my teenage years, that influence has definitely resonated in small ways in the way I appreciate music - and the way I DJ - today: from jazz, a willingness to abandon or challenge convention; and a love of the grit of the blues."

We catch up with @milluu, Melbourne DJ and selector of all things eclectic; think left-field electronics, ambient, psychedelia, kraut and beyond. With regular slots on Triple R and Skylab Radio, and having played the likes of Inner Varnika, Golden Plains, Strawberry Fields, Hopkins Creek and Club D’erange, she has quickly become renowned for her unique sound and ability to work any dance floor with her deep cache of esoteric gems.

Read the full interview here >>> https://www.hueandsaturation.net/blog/2019/2/1/mill%C3%B9 <<<

H&S Mix 014: Millú

DJ
citipower music & vessel records
contact me: info@vesselrecords.net






things:

future:
Nov 15 - Ticcle Hobart w/ Mitsuki (Mole Music)

past

Rochford invites Marcellus Pittman, Bar Rochford, Canberra - April 6
Reasons Warehouse party, Melbourne - April 20
Breakfast Club, Melbourne (after horus) - April 21
Goblin, Auckland, NZ - April 26th
Rabbithole, Taipei, Taiwan - May 24th
Bar Inc, Osaka - June 4th 
Antonio, Hyogo, Japan - June 7th
Ticcle Hobart (Off-Dark Mofo show) - June 15th
Tender, Melbourne - Vessel Records Listening Session, July 11th
SubClub, Melbourne - Vessel Label Party, July 12th spincycle pres sammy dee (perlon) dec 7
Lifeworld pres giegling (DJ Dustin + Lamour) dec 15
21 September - citipower invites vessel records, sub club
19 June - Globus, Berlin
18 march - Hopkins Creek, Victoria 
tba - citipower all night long @ sideway, Canberra
tba - citipower all night long @ Colour, Melbourne
Nov 16 - Shizuoka, Japan
Nov 23 - Deeperama w/ Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles, Mitsuki. Noon, Osaka 
Nov 29 - story not story, SHeLTeR, Hachioji, Tokyo
Nov 30 - SPOTSEEK @ Sound Bar Mui, Chiba
Dec 21 - High Altar, Hobart
Jan 1 - BLLNBSMNT
Jan 18 (Day) - Bunker Pres. Nonclub @ tba
Jan 18 (Night) - Whole Part 6 w/ Molly (giegling) @ Radar 
Jan 25 - Lucid @ Colour, Melbourne
Feb 7 - Bunker & stranger present Paula Temple
March 6 - DJ Sprinkles
March 7 - Pitch Festivalarch 24 - Melquíades EP Launch
March 30 - Inner varnika Festival, Victoria
April 20 - citipower invites Eli Verveine, Melbourne
April 27 - Dr.Morse
May 5 - Plastic Dreams
June 1 - Syrup, Boney
June 2 - Therapy, Loop Bar
June 9 - w/Moomin, Boney
July 7 - Mui, Chiba, Japan
July 14 - DNA, Kyoto, Japan
July 15 - Compufunk, Osaka, Japan
July 21 - citipower all night long @ Lounge
Aug 4 - Music For Breakfast, Herbert Cafe, Northcote
Aug 4 - Boney, Melbourne
Aug 10 - Variations, a group show of painting and sculpture, Collins Place Gallery
Sept 8 - Yours&Mine w/ Simon Caldwell
Sept 14 - Butter Sessions w/ Haruka (Japan) - Hugs & Kisses
Sept 16 - Autosea Open air
Oct 26 - Play On Series 5
Oct 27 - Bunker w/ Adriana Lopez
Nov 23 - citipower w/ Mitsuki (Mole Music, Osaka)
Nov 30 - Private party (BLLN) w/ Mitsuki (Mole Music, Osaka)
Dec 1 - Hopkins Creek Festival (chill out set)
Dec 29 - Brisbane
Feb 2 - Nude w Norachi at Boney, Melbourne
Feb 15 - citipower invites Wada Yosuke @ Lounge, Melbourne
March 9 - Pitch Music & Arts Festival
March 29 - Bunker presents The End - Lounge, Melbourne
April 6 - bleus - but not the kind that's blue (II) @ bar fred, melbourne
April 27 - Subscape: b2b with Norachi for a long time at Boney, Melbourne
May 11 - citipower invites Portable (Live), Boney Melbourne

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.

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Quality underground mixes from Norway and the world. Est 2011

Louis McCoy, aka hndsm, possesses an audio résumé and reputation as a selector and curator that certainly does precede him. A founding member of the Inner Varnika Music festival and organiser of the now defunct yet legendary Out of Focus parties along with his present day involvement with the burgeoning Common Ground platform and newly established mix series, For Home Use Only, Louis over the many years of playing and holding events has etched out his own audio space in the collective memory of Melbourne’s dance community, quickly becoming a principle mainstay and purveyor of fine bounce espousing the principles of groove and flavour.

Unearthed from Melbourne’s inner Western suburbs, Lou from a early age developed an unhealthy penchant and love for electronic dance and rhythm which naturally escalated within him a strong desire to contribute and imbue Melbourne’s underground community with his own distinct, creative and broad perspective on what it requires to incite a dance floor.

A serial party starter and highly skilled technician behind the turntables, and as a result of being exposed to such wide array of electronic signatures, Louis has developed that highly sought after skill of being able to furnish any context with the appropriate vibe in order to create the required experience.

Under his many guises, aliases and incarnations ranging from Neptunes Trident, Lou-is to hndsm, Louis cut his swathe since the beginning of the decade, honing his craft in venues all over Melbourne. From warming up and opening proceedings for international luminaries along with playing local and inter-state festivals, most notably Rainbow Serpent, where he has come to own his market stage slot over the past 4 years, Louis in the process has deliberately developed his own and distinct approach to deejaying underpinned by his extraordinarily wide palate.

A true eclectic and tireless digger, Louis has that rare ability to weave and grind between hip hop, house, drum’n’bass and all things obscure whilst never losing the flow and keeping the narrative intact. A title not bestowed among many, yet fittingly here, Louis McCoy is a “dancers” Deejay.

I respectfully acknowledge the original custodians of the land on which we work, predominantly that of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and that sovereignty has never been ceded. we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Cousin Bookings
EU/UK - tal@klsbookings.com
Other - moonshoerecords@gmail.com

https://secondcousin.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/secondcousins

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