Out April 21, pre-order it here: https://psysection.bandcamp.com/album/psy1-the-very-first-real-magic

@psy_section proudly presents: 'The Very First Real Magic'.

The first release of @escapeartistaus’s new imprint is a various artists affair brought together by the power of friendship. After years of being sent amazing music by new and old friends from near and afar, the time has come to share this joy with the rest of the world. As a label, it will seek to shine a light on psychedelic music of all designs and the first release will focus on the dance variety. It is the label’s hope that the love and friendship that brought this project together will shine through in the music.

Side A opens with @crisypeee’s ‘Lemon’, a mid-tempo breakbeat roller that epitomises the ideal qualities of a track found in an opening set. Playful acid notes and indecipherable spoken work glisten against a backdrop of thumping kicks and warm sub bass.

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Premiere: cris. p 'Lemon'

Anonymous producer Alphonse returns to Klasse Wrecks for his third release on the label and brings with him a concoction of familiar sounds and flavours. If anything is certain about Alphonse by now it is that nothing is certain and everything is to be expected. The 'Beechwood DNA' EP sounds like a grip of the producer's influences and inspirations funneled through his sample heavy approach to production, taking wild turns unannounced. Acid licks and unruly breakbeats are definitely nothing new but the producers considered summation of each track is truly original and surprising. The EP rounds off with the title track 'Beechwood', a painfully beautiful ode that captures a nostalgic mood and shows off the producers well-informed ear for a catchy sample.

WRECKS033 - Alphonse 'Beechwood' EP

After a 2 year hiatus, Silver Dollar Club returns to round out a trilogy of EPs with a sparkling slab of weirdo tearjerkers and club-ready cuts from Bristol's own Remotif. 

With a healthy lineup of releases on Coymix, Air Miles, and his own  label Familiar Strangers, it's been a busy year for Joe Reddick and for good reason: Prolific and versatile, he combines a classic club sensibility with an exploratory approach to space and texture that results in a sound all his own.

Slap Bass, wet arps, emotional breaks & driving percussion all come together to make a record that we're very proud to be able to put our name on.

This will be the last in a series of three records from Silver Dollar Club; so play it in your sets, play it in the car, play it in the bath, whatever you do, just play it!

A Passionate Evening in the Igloo Tragique

Remotif - A Passionate Evening in the Igloo Tragique (SDC003)

‘Changes’ is the second EP from Sydney producer Morgan Huggins, a very spiritual sequel to 2021’s ‘Anzac Bridge Filter’. Co-head of local community, event, radio show & label Lovejoy, Morgan’s production is an extension of the moments he experiences both within music & in his life apart from it.

Morgan created ‘Changes’ in a period of great flux in his life. Moving between cities he’s called home for the majority of his life, out of homes that had great impact on him, and preparing to leave it all behind in pursuit of a journey across Australia, ‘Changes’ embodies a nervous excitement that we all feel in the most momentous occasions of our lives.

“Ode to Glebe is a farewell letter to a very special suburb where a few of my most formative years were spent. Upon realizing that it was time for me to leave, I got extremely nostalgic and everything I felt while living in that rambling old terrace with its astro-turf rooftop started bubbling out of me. The joy, the growth... even those sad moments have a bitter sweetness when you look back at them.

This song is almost like a collage of all the things I learnt while I was there, the many styles of music I absorbed in my room prone to shaking whenever a truck drove past - as my tastes spread out to trance and breakbeat.

It's a dedication to the best house parties I have ever experienced and the smorgasbord of roommates who revolved through that house's never-locked doors.

I guess you could say it's also a bit of a farewell to youth - or at least a part of it.”

“September has always been a special month to me, when good things seem to happen and life starts moving again. This song was a reminder to myself that life can be good, that things can go well.”

PREMIERE : Morgan Huggins - September

The computer screen stared back at her; as blank as it was when she started a few days ago. Inspiration just wasn't coming at the moment, her head was empty of thoughts, she couldn't even muster up a sentence. Each morning, in her sleep deprived state, she'd give herself a mental pep talk - today was going to be the day it would flow... But they didn't seem to work and now she'd got herself in too deep; it had become a task in itself to unglue her eyes from the screen. She had to prize herself away, at least just for a moment, perhaps then the answers she was searching for would finally become clear.

For Those That Knoe's mission has been the same for its near decade-long operation. Dedicated to shining a light on obscure and under-the-radar artists of recent past, the Boe Recordings sub-label has helped to revive music that hasn't gotten its due recognition first time round. For their next release, rather than looking to the past, they hone in on a contemporary artist who has been bubbling below the surface in his home of Slovenia.

Vid Papez, AKA Vid Vai, joins the label for his debut LP Laminar Flow: a collection of tracks that tip the hat to early 90s IDM, UK bleep and breakbeat. His classically trained background - he plays violin, lute and guitar - comes through in each track's composition. They're precise, intricate and flow like water.

PREMIERE: Vid Vai - Incubation Theory [For Those That Knoe]

Nothing Good

Paistalai - Sky Is The Limit

Never Forget

SOEX001

https://soundcloud.com/jjonjjones

a1. Warrandyte Bridge Reno (5:19)
a2. Yarra (5:00)
b. Gungurru (9:04)

Distributed by Lobster Theremin
Release Date is 14th August 2020

Warrandyte Bridge Reno

Jon Jones - Warrandyte Bridge Reno EP (Snippets)

Dutch 303 aficionado @bohm lets his arsenal of bleeps and breaks loose for the next Gestalt Recs EP, which was made in collaboration with @echocentricrecords and in parallel to ECR005.

Buy: https://bit.ly/3TG70Bn

Böhm - Gravitational Force (GST19)

Following up his debut release on SOEX (@southernexposurerecords), Whitvoir welcomes local Warrandyte producer @jjonjjones to the label launch with ‘Airflow.’ 

A four track expedition through the environments that we call home in Australia, native birds and wildlife simulate a listening experience similar to that of a day spent in God’s country. Organic, ‘Outback Trance’ produced to suit all listening environments around the globe.

Mystic jungle is a percussive journey that transports you straight to the bush, suiting barefoot groovers warming up for the day. Dubbed out 80s synths paired with organic percussions bring a tribal feel grabbing attention with spaced out native bird calls. Mystic Jungle’s solid groove and big chuggy bass lines are guaranteed to have you in an ‘Australiana’ dream trance like state.

Transupial brings an airy tribal groove, choppy and boppy with a wubby 303 that keeps the track moving along. Pitched kalimbas bring a quirky flavour which gets deep and dystopian as the track progresses. ‘Totally Wild.’

The title track ‘Airflow’ is a captivating atmospheric journey through space, delicate deep and dubby suited for dancefloors around the globe. Rolling breaks, natural percussion paired with a chuggy 303 bass line and pan flute from an 80s Roland Synth capture a new flavour of
Australian dance music.

Phantom spirit picks up the pace encouraging the ones and twos, washy hats, rolling kicks and 80s toms sprinkled throughout bring character to Jone’s production. Trancey synth lines with airy vocals bring the spirit of the phantom to life, paired with a wavy 303 line keeping the track ever evolving. One to keep your ear out for at festivals around the world over the coming
seasons.

Pre-order link ----> https://jonjonesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/airflow

Whitvoir 2020
Mastered by Lopazz
Distribution through One Eye Witness

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WV001 | Jon Jones - Airflow EP (Previews)

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