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“Children” leads off Chastity’s debut album, Death Lust, with a guitar tone that swims through concrete walls like liquefied stone. This is the kind of monotonic and massive riff that commands a legion to the front of the stage, raging in slow motion, as Williams coos over the beautiful bombast.” – NPR
Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) has released the politically charged video for “Children,” taken from the upcoming album Death Lust, to be released Friday, July 13th via Captured Tracks.
NPR premiered the powerful video for the song, saying “‘Children’ channels the outrage of a community into a beautifully shot video that spotlights both the vulnerability and the solidarity of youth.” The video is centered around an incident and events that followed in Williams home town of Whitby. An off-duty police officer named Michael Theriualt and his brother allegedly beat a young black man, Dafonte Miller, with a steel pipe while he was walking near his home which left the victim blind in one eye.
Speaking on the origin of and inspiration for the Justin Singer-directed clip, Williams (who wrote, cast and produced the video) reveals that “This is a close up on the practice of institutional racism that’s revealed itself in my hometown by members of the police. John, Christian and Michael Theriault, Toronto and Durham police are a threat to public safety. Black Lives Matter. How much do black lives matter to police?“
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Title: Worry ft. Victoria Zaro
Label: Physical Presents
Release date: 20 April 2018
A master at creating dreamy and meaningful dance music, Felix Cartal has done it again with his new track “Worry,” featuring Victoria Zaro. “It’s a slow day, running in place, trying to stay sane…” begin the lyrics, a phrase that continues on to the triumphant resolution “don’t let my worry’s weight hold me down“. Seemingly radiating summer vibes, “Worry” is the perfect vacation song or every day pick me up this season; empowering listeners as Felix says to “Embrace your worries as a sign that you care deeply about what you’re doing and move forward.” “Worry” is the track is the latest off of Felix‘s upcoming album, “Next Season,” and is out on Physical Presents. With his preceding hit “Faces,” the album is highly anticipated, so stay tuned for its release May 4th.
With his uniquely melancholic, yet dance-floor friendly sound, Felix Cartal has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in modern dance music. 2017 proved to be a monumental year for the songwriter and producer, who was included in Billboard‘s “13 Dance Artists Who Dominated 2017” feature and whose Spotify channel has amassed over 100 million streams. Felix‘s appeal lies in his ability to convey complex emotions through his music, like the hopeful angst of “Get What You Give,” leaving listeners with a positive emotional catharsis. To this effect, “Get What You Give” has soared to the #1 spot on Sirius XM Chill and rapidly climbed the US and international charts, becoming a Certified Gold record in Canada and named one of Billboard‘s “50 Best Dance/Electronic Songs of 2017.” The track recently earned nominations at the prestigious Canadian Juno Awards, for Dance Recording of the Year as well as Producer of the Year. Already in 2018, Felix has released 3 singles and an official remix for Wafia, all of which have topped the Hype Machine charts. With such immense recent successes, we can’t wait to see what’s next for Felix Cartal. Catch him live during his new residency at the famed Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas this spring and summer!
Jaala has today released her new record Joonya Spirit via Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records. Catch her celebrate the album release tomorrow as she plays a whopping four in-stores for Record Store Day in Melbourne. Full details below.
Through your ears, deep in your mind, down in your heart, in a way you never knew you wanted, Jaalawill caress you and Jaala will entice you. Like the roots of a tree Jaala is ever growing, pruned only by themselves and never by the expectations of the public.
Since the release of Hard Hold they have transformed into a completely new animal, stylistically and literally. The addition of Carolyn Schofield (synth) of Fia Fiell has moved the band towards a more haunting, dreamy experimental pop movement as opposed to the guitar shredding melt your face prog rock vibes of yesteryear.
Vocalist/guitarist Cosima pay and drummer/genius Maria Moles stand firm with their intricately woven telepathy. The ornate and ever flowing creativity is still ubiquitous, only it feels different now, rather than falling down a beautiful waterfall into a pit of demons that become your mates it’s more like your feet have been confiscated at the same time as you’ve been given the ability to fly.
Keep your ears peeled for news on when their new album Joonya Spirit is taken live across Australia.
Purchase / Stream Joonya Spirit: https://jaala.lnk.to/
JAALA’S MELBOURNE RECORD STORE DAY TOUR
1.30pm – Greville Records
152 Greville St, Prahran
3.30pm – poison city records
400 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
4.30pm – Northside Records
236 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
6.00pm – Record Paradise
15 Union St, Brunswick
Jaala – Joonya Spirit is out now via Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records.
French artist Brawther and his upcoming tour in Australia which also coincides with the release of his debut LP ‘Transient States’ at the end of this month.
April 27 – Revolver – Melbourne
April 28 – Sly Fox – Sydney
April 29 – Greenwood Hotel – Sydney
You may be more familiar Brawther’s dancefloor-focused collaborations with Tristan Da Cunha as Dungeon Meat. Outside of this, Brawther has built up a certified reputation via My Love is Underground, Secretsundaze, Cabinet, and his A&R skills for Chez Damier’s Courtesy of Balance Recordings.
‘Transient States’ is his first studio full length, and marks a decade of him making music. It ranges from house to dub, broken beat and downtempo, showcasing a concoction of deeply rooted works that journey through his influences. It’s a true labour of love, and marks the next stage in his ever evolving journey.
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“An intense performance that channelled parts of Tracy Chapman, Newton Faulkner and Benjamin Clementine.” – Secret Sessions
Listen To ‘Sunkissed’ here:
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Jay life has been far from ordinary. Not many people can say they spent 7 hours playing the guitar every day for an entire summer, but this is exactly what Jay did. Growing up in the cultural hub of South East London provided him with the inspiration he needed to kick-start his music career.
Jay left home at 17. Now 19, he lives on his own in Shoreditch. He was recently chosen as the face of Gibson Guitars latest campaign promoting busking in partnership with the Mayor of London.
But its live performance that really sees Jay come into his own. Monthly Airbnb events hosted by Jay have been selling out (he was the first ever artist to host and perform at ‘experiences’ for Airbnb travellers). Catch him live at the next event on April 26th, or at Pizza Express Soho on April 29th.
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Saturday 2nd June – Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Melbourne
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Sunday 3rd June – The Nolan Gallery @ MONA, Hobart
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Nines – Crop Circle is out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control.
Body Type are extremely proud to announce their signing to Inertia Music and Partisan Records.
Partisan founder Tim Putnam and managing director Zena White say of the signing, “We’re so excited to be working with Body Type and we can’t wait to bring their music to fans worldwide. We’re equally thrilled to be partnering with our Australian cousins Inertia Label Group for the first time globally.”
Gab Ryan and Meg Williams, co-directors of Inertia Label Group add, “From Body Type’s first ever gig we’ve seen the band go from strength to strength and are extremely thrilled to be working with them, this is a band that dreams are made of. We are just as excited to be working in tandem world wide with our partners Partisan Records, who are in our humble opinion, one of the great indie record labels of our time.”
Lead vocalist and guitarist Sophie McComish shares, ”The people Body Type work with are like our family, and we are so happy for Inertia and Partisan to become a part of that. Gab (Inertia Music co-director) came to our last rehearsal before our very first gig for moral support, and Meg (Inertia Music co-director) still has a setlist from our second ever show so they have been with us from the start really. Partisan is an incredibly progressive label that has built some world-class artists from the ground up and Inertia looks after a stack of our favourite bands ever, so we are very excited to all join forces.”
To celebrate, Body Type today also share their new single and accompanying video for ‘Arrow‘ which premiered on Noisey overnight and announce a special one-off show at Waywards in Sydney tonight. Returning with their take on scuzz rock, ‘Arrow’ (recorded and mixed by Antonia Gauci and mastered by Jess Cooper) immerses the listener with dreamy distorted guitars, infectious basslines and angsty vocal lines to deliver their self-described “pop-rock tantrum.”
Vocalist and bassist, Georgia Wilkinson-Derums says of the track, “Arrow is about the prick of love. It’s about being stung and the pleasure and pain that accompany being struck by cupids arrow. For me the song has always carried the power of female physicality in performance, it’s where I see Body Type get a little more aggressive, a little more dramatic. Wherever it begins and ends we hope it gets the heart pumping and blood running. Keep it loud. BODY TYPE.”
Filmed in Sydney and directed by Madeleine Purdy, the video begins with two ballerinas with bows and arrows in tension between them, paying homage to the performance work, Rest Energy (1980) by Marina Abramović & Ulay. Reminiscent of cinematic dreamscapes, the four girls playfully appear, fading in and out of a sunset-coloured clouds floating above a sea of confused onlookers. Taking the role of cupid, Georgia, Annabel, Cecil and Sophie aim arrows at their spectators and play authors to their own fate, in a clever subversion of power dynamics in representations of love and romance.
Fans of Body Type can also catch them on the road in support of Alex Cameron with Roy on Horn across their national headline tour this month. The tour will be stopping off in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth at The Foundry, Manning Bar, Croxton Bandroom and Amplifier. Tickets are on sale now, see all details below.
BODY TYPE TOUR DATES
Tue 24 April – Cobra Club @ Waywards, Sydney – w/ Bored Shorts
Thurs 26 April – The Foundry, Brisbane – Supporting Alex Cameron (SOLD OUT)
Sun 29 April – Manning Bar, Sydney – Supporting Alex Cameron
Wed 2 May – Amplifier, Perth – Supporting Alex Cameron
Thurs 3 May – Croxton Bandroom, Melbourne – Supporting Alex Cameron
‘Arrow’ is out now, buy/stream it here.
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Signalling the beginning of something big, today SKEGSS have unleashed their brand new track Up In The Clouds, ahead of their Groovin’ The Moo dates which kick off this Friday in Wayville, SA.
Up In The Clouds is the first proper taste of new material since SKEGSS’ April 2017 EP Holiday Food and is supported by a new video for the song which you can view here.
The band says:
“The song’s about being unsure but realising it’s OK to have uncertainty and it’s regular. Some things will always be left uncertain. As soon as we figured that out we made a song about it.”
Taking the song out nationally, Up In The Clouds will further the bands live reputation, of which they have made a name for themselves; with energetic live performances garnering praise from The Music for their “infectious” on-stage chemistry and Moshcam who asserted they “seem to have some sort of hypnotic effect over their fans.”
“It’s been about a year since we have gotten to do a major city tour with new music so we are looking forward to getting on the road for The Up In The Clouds Tour”,says Benny Reed.
SKEGSS are Ben Reed (vocals, guitar), Toby Cregan (bass, vocals) and Jonny Lani (drums), three prolific performers who have charmed listeners with their warm Garage-Punk sound, selling out shows all across the country. The band has just wrapped a sold out No Future regional tour which saw them sell-out across the country. During the summer of 2018, the band reissued their Holiday Food EP on ultra-limited blue vinyl, for a handful of indie stores only and featured a brand new, vinyl-only track. Just like their previous tour dates, this EP sold out immediately. Capping off summer 2018 was of course the inclusion of Got On My Skateboard at #39 on triple j’s Hottest 100.
With an album set to be released this year through Ratbag Records, a UK tour which includes appearances at The Great Escape and Dot to Dot festivals, a single tour in June and an upcoming Splendour in the Grass set – this is just the beginning of a very crazy year for SKEGSS.
UP IN THE CLOUDS TOUR DATES – SINGLE TOUR
SAT 09 JUN – THE CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE U18
SAT 09 JUN – THE CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE 18+
SUN 10 JUN – THE FACTORY, SYDNEY AA
FRI 15 JUN – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE AA
FRI 22 JUN – THE ROSEMOUNT, PERTH U18
FRI 22 JUN – THE ROSEMOUNT, PERTH 18+
SAT 23 JUN – FOWLERS, ADELAIDE AA
Tickets on sale NOW from https://www.skegss.com/
SKEGSS ALSO APPEARING:
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – WAYVILLE, SA – 27TH APRIL
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – MAITLAND, NSW – 28TH APRIL
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – CANBERRA, ACT – 29TH APRIL
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – BENDIGO, VIC – 5TH MAY
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – TOWNSVILLE, QLD – 6TH MAY
GROOVIN’ THE MOO – BUNBURY, WA – 12TH MAY
THE GREAT ESCAPE – BRIGHTON, UK – 19TH MAY
GOLD SOUNDS – LEEDS, UK – 20TH MAY
BROADCAST – GLASGOW, UK – 21ST MAY
MAY MOTH CLUB – LONDON, UK – 24TH MAY – SOLD OUT
DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL – MANCHESTER, UK – 25TH MAY
DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL – BRISTOL, UK – 26TH MAY
DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL – NOTTINGHAM, UK – 27TH MAY
SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS FESTIVAL – BYRON BAY, NSW – 22ND JULY
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The first Lovebirds release appeared on Trax of Interest in 2000. Back then it was only a side project for releasing deeper stuff than what he was doing under his main project. In 2006, having built up a repertoire of unsigned material, he sent a CD to John Buckby, label owner of Winding Road Records and a mutual friend of Vincenzo.
The Lovebirds sound is like a blast from the past with house steroids packing serious production muscle. Listening to Lovebirds is like taking trip back to the 70s and 80s – but riding in a gleaming futuristic spaceship.
The first Lovebirds single on Winding Road was the “Modern Stalking” EP, which came out in 2007. The EP contained tracks of mid-tempo house, each coming from a different musical angle and giving the world a taste of what he was capable of. It was received by the deep house and neo-disco community with open arms. Top-flight DJ’s such as Prins Thomas, Ashley Beedle and Jimpster went wild for it. Bill Brewster made the EP the “Single Of The Month” in iDJ magazine.
Since then he was responsible for a huge number of club hits including deep house masterpieces like “M.U.S.I.C.” (on Vincenzos and his very own imprint TEARDROP), the modern deep house classic “In The Shadows” (on Winding Road) or dancefloor bomb “The Rat” (on Freerange) peaking in the modern deep house masterpiece “Want You In My Soul”. More than 4.000.000 views on You Tube, best selling single on traxsource.com in 2011. …this track was and actually still is everywhere.
A few years on, Sebastian had achieved all he wanted to with Kneedeep, and was ready to move into more deeper, melancholy musical avenues. And so Lovebirds was born, which is now his main project. His production experience means that he is able to finish well-rounded tracks off in a matter of days, constantly building a repertoire of classy dance floor and mellow sounds all destined to wow the world.
The process is well on its way already. Having releases on labels like Freerange, Defected and Lazy Days and most of all his own Teardrop Recordings, working with artists like Ben Westbeech, Lisa Shaw and most recently 90s UK acid jazz icon Galliano and playing worldwide gigs every weekend – Lovebirds combination of grown-up house music with a touch of funk, soul and disco is welcome change in these times of sterile formula artists.
Currently he is working on a follow up EP with his partner Stee Downes and a whole underground pop/electronica/indie album under the name of Minako & The Lovebirds. Both due to be released in 2016. These two collaborations will also be available as a combined Lovebirds Collective live show from Summer 2016 on!
Incl. Ada, Frivolous, Kalipo Remixes and Piotr Bejnar Rework
A1 Piotr Bejnar – Bagieta ( Ada Remix)
A2 Piotr Bejnar – Jellyfish Rework
B1 Piotr Bejnar – Pachniesz Owocami (Frivolous Remix)
B2 Piotr Bejnar – Jellyfish (Kalipo Remix)
12 months after the debut album of Piotr Bejnar was released, we achieved gathering 4 remixes from this album. Piotr turned to the artists he most admired and who stated for him as great authorities. The record starts with a beautiful remix of the song “Bagieta” made by Ada from Pampa records. Second song on is a dance version of the “Jellyfish” made by Piotr Bejnar himself. The third artist on the record is Piotr’s idol from many years – Frivolous. To this one Piotr stood up to since childhood as a long- term fan of Frivolous, buying his albums and tracking his path. And now as for the crowning of the record – stands an artist closely related to Otake records – Kalipo with a total hit remix of “Jellyfish”
Release date: May 7th 2018
Format: vinyl & digital
Label: Otake Records