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Three composers of the Italian label INRI - Gian Marco Castro, Matthew S and Pietro Roffi joined their talent and creativity to compose a track, to give an important message: music never stops. Daydream, combines different worlds and atmospheres but related to each other, it was spontaneously composed by three artists: the pianist Gian Marco Castro, the producer Matthew S and the accordionist Pietro Roffi. From their home while self-isolating because of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the three composers combined their backgrounds and experience to make a track which part of the profit will be given to charity. The artists’ talent and expertise united to into a track that crosses Italy: Daydream (will be released on March 27th for INRI Classic) it came to life through some dreamy and melancholy atmospheres, carved into the piano, accordion and synth’s melody. A mirror in our present but with a look for hope in the future, a belief that music might be a further cure for the tough times. “The Daydream we’re living right now, a sad dream we want to wake up from but we end up in it every moment. But from the other side it is dreaming for hope, a bright dream we would like to be in.” The single’s cover has a minimal impact: it represents the little and helpless man in his solitude and immersed in the chaos of the universe. A charming black and white video, directed by Luca Kudu Anello, shows the artists’s creative process, framments of the artists’s everyday life during the lockdown: creating a contrast of the inside and outside of their home, framed by the unaware progress of nature.

Daydream: the Quarantine’s Soundtrack

“This was one of the last things I worked on before the world became a very different place. It’s out today and for me carries happy memories of listening to Celeste’s beautiful voice in my headphones in a makeshift studio on my honeymoon. I hope some of the joy of that time lives on. It was an honor work with Celeste and it’s my honor to be able to share it now.” -The Black Madonna

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“The Chats don’t so slow songs. They don’t do sad songs. The Chats do good times and this debut is set to inspire plenty.” - NME ★★★★ “Across 14 tracks, and at just over 28minutes, the Queensland trio get straight to the point – with raw, no holds barred, Aussie punk rock.” – triple J, Feature Album "The Chats crank out 28 minutes of no-holds-barred blistering pub rock here." - The Age EG, Album of The Week “A relentless volley of riotous thrills and beer-splattered spills. - Q ★★★★ “An irresistibly raucous entrée to their word”- MOJO ★★★★ The Chats have released their debut album High Risk Behaviour, available now on Bargain Bin Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia. Stream/Buy High Risk Behaviour here An album that’s over in 28 blistering, funny, sweaty, unforgettable minutes, with half of its 14 songs failing to reach the two-minute mark. Some might call the Queensland trio lazy. Singer-bassist Eamon Sandwith sees it differently. “I don’t want to make the songs boring, so I just keep them short and sweet,” shrugs the man whose mullet became an international talking point following the success of 2017 viral hit “Smoko”. “We try not to think about it or complicate it too much. You don’t want to force it or the song’s going to turn out crap.” The band have also revealed a new animated lyric video for their latest single Drunk N Disorderly, view below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtuS4JwMRE&feature=youtu.be The Chats have the cops to thank for the title of their debut album, High Risk Behaviour. If they didn’t keep hassling drummer Matt Boggis about skating in places he shouldn’t – and giving him tickets listing that as the offence – who knows what idiotic title the self-proclaimed “dropkick drongos from the Sunshine Coast of Australia” would have come up with. And yet it’s the perfect name for an album that does not fuck around. An album that sounds like Aussie greats the Cosmic Psychos downing beers with The Saints before doing shots with the Buzzcocks and then spewing it all up behind the kebab van. An album that’s over in 28 blistering, funny, sweaty, unforgettable minutes, with half of its 14 songs failing to reach the two-minute mark. Some might call the Queensland trio lazy. Singer-bassist Eamon Sandwith sees it differently. “I don’t want to make the songs boring, so I just keep them short and sweet,” shrugs the man whose mullet became an international talking point following the success of 2017 viral hit “Smoko”. “We try not to think about it or complicate it too much. You don’t want to force it or the song’s going to turn out crap.” Since forming in their mate’s bong shed in 2016 while still at high school, that attitude has taken The Chats – completed by guitarist Josh Price, who once wrote a song called How Many Do You Do? in which he boasted of doing 52 “dingers” in a night – from the sleepy coastal village of Coolum (located roughly two hours north of Brisbane) to venues around the world. Their fanbase includes Dave Grohl, who loved the video for Smoko so much he showed it to Josh Homme, who then asked the trio to support Queens of the Stone Age on their 2018 Australian tour. Iggy Pop is also a card-carrying member of The Chats’ fanclub, requesting that they support him in Australia in early 2019 and peppering them with questions like, “What’s a smoko?” and “What’s a dart?” The rest of 2019 was spent taking the world by storm armed with nothing more than guitars, drums, shorts, shirts and thongs (or, if it was a formal occasion, sandals and socks). Shows across Australia and the UK were sold out, and they performed their first gigs in America (the LA show was attended by Homme, Grohl and Arctic Monkeys’ frontman Alex Turner). The band capped off the year with a return visit to Britain, selling out venues such as London’s 2,300-capacity 02 Forum. Suffice it to say, life has changed a fair bit for The Chats over the past two years. “Well, I don’t have to work at the supermarket anymore,” says Sandwith. That he does not. In fact Sandwith and his mates have been too busy touring, writing songs and, when their gigs took them to Victoria, dropping into engineer Billy Gardner’s studio in the coastal city of Geelong for a day of recording. That they chose this piecemeal approach explains why the album took 18 months to finish – a luxury considering 2017 EP Get This In Ya took four hours to record one hungover afternoon. “If we’d just done a week and slogged it out we could have had an album before now but we just kept going in there and making newer and better songs so it’s hard to put a stop on it,” says Sandwith. The sessions were fast. “Some of the songs were first-take and we were like, ‘That’s good, whatever’,” says Sandwith. “We’re really not perfectionists.” Remarkably, they still found time to experiment with exotic instruments such as... a tambourine. The end product is an album that buzzes like an out-of-control chainsaw, propelled by Sandwith’s spoken-spit-sung vocals, their three-chords-is-one-too-many approach, and an exacting combination of youth, vigour and drunkenness. But don’t mistake simple for stupid – if it was easy to make songs this short, this catchy and this downright brilliant, everyone would be doing it. “I think they’re good songs,” says Sandwith. “And at the end of the day, if I like it then fuck it, who cares if other people do?” Despite being the subject of a record label bidding war, The Chats are releasing High Risk Behaviour on their own label, Bargain Bin Records. It’s indicative of a band that have embraced DIY culture since day one, to the point where Sandwith used to spend his days at the post office sending out merch orders. “We thought, if we just do it ourselves we don’t have to worry about getting swindled,” says Sandwith. “We’ve always done it our way.” Their determination to do things “our way” extends to their music, which is why High Risk Behaviour delivers everything you’ve come to love from The Chats – only more of it – and confirms their status as Queensland’s greatest ever export (apart from Bundy Rum). “I just want people to have a good time,” says Sandwith of the album. “I want them to dance around and have a beer and enjoy it. We don’t make songs for people to look at in a fucking emotional or intellectual way. We just make songs for people to jump around and have fun to.” ACCESS FULL ALBUM BIO HERE Follow The Chats: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | WEB Follow Bargain Bin Records: INSTAGRAM | WEB

The Chats Release Debut Album ‘High Risk Behaviour’ Out Now

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“He has become quite a force in electronic and rap scenes. Continually pushing boundaries of sound design on electronic experimentation." – Pilerats “Moonbase’s heavy production is laced with swirling, arpeggiated synth lines and gloppy 808 beats, reminiscent of the Neptunes early 2000s takeover.” – Pitchfork "One of the best base producers around." – Purple Sneakers The Australian authority on booming, dark bass Moonbase, returns today with both barrels blazing giving us his first music of 2020, releasing two new singles: 'Big Bags' (ft. QUE & Reese LaFlare) and 'Spins' (ft Ghostie). Keeping true to form Moonbase has once again commanded some big talent for ‘BIG BAGS’ this time recruiting vocals from Que & Reese LaFlare - the infamous Atlanta rappers whom Moonbase has always been a big fan of. The vocal style brings a gravel like texture and southern swagger to the track, while adding a new dimension to the Sydney producer's signature baselines and atmospheric approach. Part two of the release sees Moonbase flex his international cred once again on 'SPINS,' as he features yet another collaboration - this time up to bat is celebrated Baltimore rapper, Ghostie. Moonbase become aware of Ghostie more recently and reached out via Instagram. The result SPINS, it is short, sweet and packs a big old punch. The 'BIG BAGS' / 'SPINS' combo A-side is the first taste of Moonbase since he extended his repertoire to the world of Grime throughout 2019 with the EP's EP’s Heathen & Avalanche. For this release Moonbase says "as a challenge to myself, I wrote Spins and Big Bags using a pretty restricted palette - drawing inspiration from producers such as Brodinski and Kenny Beats." These new tracks find the producer once again changing lanes, whilst still supremely driving his own race - the only way Moonbase knows how. Having overcome profound setbacks with his health in the last few years, Moonbase has officially been back in full force for a minute now and the muscles he is flexing on his new music are unlike anything he has shown to the world so far. Considering 2020 is a year that is going to be laced with so much uncertainty and stress, it is comforting to know an artist like Moonbase, who has legit been through more than most of us could imagine, can still be out here pumping the pedal and producing great art, helping the rest of us navigate our way through the darkness. Moonbase’s New Double A-Side BIG BAGS x SPINS IS Out Now Via Dew Process / TRENCH Records / Universal Music Australia Follow Moonbase: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

MOONBASE UNLEASHES DOUBLE A-SIDE ‘BIG BAGS’ (ft. QUE & Reese LaFlare) & ‘SPINS’ (ft. Ghostie) OUT NOW VIA TRENCH RECORDS / DEW PROCESS

BODY CORP RELEASES SOFT EXPRESSION EP - OUT TODAY + ENTHRALLING NEW SINGLE 'NEGATIVE REACTION'

BODY CORP RELEASES SOFT EXPRESSION EP – OUT TODAY + ENTHRALLING NEW SINGLE ‘NEGATIVE REACTION’

SOPHIYA PUTS EVERYONE ON NOTICE WITH NEW SINGLE, ‘ROSIE’

SOPHIYA PUTS EVERYONE ON NOTICE WITH NEW SINGLE, ‘ROSIE’

BASIA BULAT New album Are You In Love? out today

BASIA BULAT New album Are You In Love? out today

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FAKE NAMES ANNOUNCE SELF-TITLED DEBUT OUT MAY 8 ON EPITAPH RECORDS

KYMIE SHARES HOT NEW TRACK + VIDEO 'DROP IT DOWN'

KYMIE SHARES HOT NEW TRACK + VIDEO ‘DROP IT DOWN’

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‘Wondering’, is the woozy second single from Thea Gustafsson’s project, Becky and the Birds. Released today via 4AD / Remote Control and alongside visuals directed by Danica Arias Kleinknecht, ‘Wondering’ is a poetic lament charting a deeply sorrowful period for the Swedish pop producer and songwriter following the death of a beloved relative. Gustafsson explains, "I wrote this song after I lost my grandmother, which was the first time that I experienced the death of a loved one. My grandmother was my best friend and such a light in my life, so losing her was really, really difficult for me. I didn’t know how to deal with the complete emptiness and confusion that I felt. That’s when I wrote this song, I just felt like I had to find different ways of coping, and thinking about the good times and the beautiful memories instead of what could’ve been. That’s why I’m hoping that this song will reach anyone who’s experienced loss of a loved one. We’ve gotta come together and focus on the good and the beautiful marks that they’ve left in our lives and hearts, cause they will never be taken from us." Born in the mid-nineties, Thea Gustafsson was raised in Örebro, a small city in the middle of Sweden. Her musician father immersed her in music from infancy, playing jazz and soul records at home. Gustafsson’s musical education become more formalised when she picked up the violin at age 7, leading her to perform in orchestras and master classical arrangement and composition. A move to Stockholm in 2014 to attend Musikmakarna – a renowned music school in Sweden’s capital – exposed her to pop music for the very first time, coming face-to-face with music epitomised and made famous by the likes of Max Martin and Aviicii (she spent an eye-opening year as an intern with the latter during her second year of study). Armed with skills in pop songcraft and production, Becky and the Birds came to life in reaction to frustrating and fruitless encounters with producers and songwriters in what remains an overwhelmingly male-dominated music industry. As with previous single ‘Do U Miss Me’, Gustafsson wrote and produced ‘Wondering’ which is available today via all digital platforms. Becky and the Birds - 'Wondering' is out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. www.beckyandthebirds.com www.4ad.com www.remotecontrolrecords.com.au

BECKY AND THE BIRDS Releases new single & video ‘Wondering’

BEDROOM HYPE MACHINE LONELY GOD RELEASES 'MARLBORO NIGHTS'

BEDROOM HYPE MACHINE LONELY GOD RELEASES ‘MARLBORO NIGHTS’

What is your name and role within Supernova? Emiliano is a Dj, producer and A&R, Giacomo is a Dj, Musician and producer. Where are you currently based and what is the music scene like there? We live in Florence, we have our studios and our families here in Italy. Music scene here is pretty hot, we love to play in Italy! How did you first start playing music? We both starts at 15 years old playing vinyls, drum machines and samplers at some hot parties in our cities at the end of 80s. What's been happening recently? We had a great end of 2019 / beginning of 2020 djing between Europe, Usa and Asia and releasing music on Defected, Downtown Underground and 8Bit. What influenced the sound and songwriting for your new EP? We love to mix House and Techno sometimes and we are always influenced by the old school scenes creating a new Supernova sound. That’s what we like mostly. How did you go about writing the music? Sometimes we start from a groove that we like, sometimes we work around an acappella or a sample and sometimes we have an idea in mind, like a direction or a mod we want to go. Where and when did you record/produce and who with? How did you approach the recording/production process? What programs/equipment did you use? We produced this in our recording studio in Florence. We brought here the vocalist Fay aka Medusa from London and we did a couple of days of recording vocal sessions. We recorded the vocals on some reference beats, not the track as it’s now. After a few days we did start working on this raw house beat with a techno feeling and we created the string pattern with an old school feeling. We were loving how the track was building up but we felt it was missing something. We went through the vocals recorded with Fay and felt that that the spoken one was perfect for the track. We re arranged the vocal over the track and at the end we were very happy. We produced on Ableton Live as daw, Kontakt to write the strings pattern and OB-6 for synths. What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation on the EP? Any upcoming gigs/tours? We wanted to create a raw beat with a techno attitude but keeping the house feeling and merge them with a classical string pattern. Unfortunately in this moment after the COVID-19 crisis all the gigs we had planned have been cancelled.. If so, where are you headed and when? What can we expect from your live show? We hope to reschedule soon gigs we had planned in London, Italy and South America for Aprile and May. Our live shows are always a surprise, we love to drive around the music and to see what the crowd need from us. It’s like a mix between a dj set and a live set. Who are you listening to at the moment? Funk, Jazz and Trap music. What do you like to do away from music? Reading, sports and to stay with our families. What's planned for 2020? We will be really focus on new Supernova music this year, we are preparing a lot of stuff for some hot labels we love and of course for Lapsus Music, Downtown Underground and Blackboard which are our labels. We are also planning to release a new album on 2020 or maybe 2021, will see. Favourite food and place to hangout? We love to have special dinner with our crew, it’s a perfect place to hangout before the party. We love our Tuscan traditional food and to try food from other countries when we travel. Purchase: https://8bit.lnk.to/MyVision Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/supernovaitaly/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supernovaitaly/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/supernova

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Muzz is the new project of Paul Banks (singer of Interpol), Josh Kaufman (esteemed producer/multi-instrumentalist and one third of Bonny Light Horseman), and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band). Today, the trio release their first official single, the loungey and romantic ‘Broken Tambourine’, via Matador / Remote Control. Watch the accompanying visual below. ‘Broken Tambourine’ begins with sparse, floating piano by Kaufman, before surging with Banks’ rumbling vocals, Barrick’s low percussion, and a lilting clarinet, while an open door during recording brings in the surrounding nature sounds of the studio in Woodstock and augments the song’s spacious atmosphere. Written, arranged and performed by all three, it perfectly encompasses the collaborative essence of Muzz, a group with recordings dating back to 2015, but, cosmically speaking, with seeds planted long ago. So how did we get here? Why, casually, of course. Banks and Kaufman have been friends since their formative teen years, having attended high school together overseas before separately moving to New York City for further study. There, they independently crossed paths with Barrick while running in similar music circles. Some years on, they each remained in touch: Barrick drummed in Banks’ project with The RZA, Banks + Steelz, and on some of Kaufman’s production sessions; Kaufman helped on Banks’s early Julian Plenti solo endeavor; various demos were collaborated on; a studio in Philadelphia was co- bought; “what if”-s and “we should”-s were tossed about. When the opportunity to make music as a trio presented itself, the gentlemen pounced. While ‘Broken Tambourine’ is the band’s first official song for Matador, earlier this month Muzz dropped ‘Bad Feeling’ anonymously via Soundcloud. Stereogum recognized it as “a surprisingly loose and low-key indie track that piles on layers of beauty as it goes”. It chimes and slinks with a touch of panache as Barrick’s kick drum pushes the tune along and Kaufman’s Farfisa fills the space. Together, these two initial numbers from Muzz offer an early glimpse into the band’s dark and expansive sound, and genuine artistic chemistry.

MUZZ (Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman and Matt Barrick) Release new single ‘Broken Tambourine’

MUSTAFA Shares debut single 'Stay Alive' Out now via Regent Park Songs

MUSTAFA Shares debut single ‘Stay Alive’ Out now via Regent Park Songs

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