Rupert - So High

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Dear god, the moon was so large. Round and yellowing, sitting smugly just beyond the tops of buildings. We'd never seen the moon so close before. He was tired of being lonely, hanging back way, way up in the sky and so here he was. He wanted us to marvel in him and we did. Underneath his heavy fullness we lounged around the verandah showering in cheap champagne like unruly teenagers. Records played. We drank the wine we did not spill. Finally, we fell into mountains of pillows and cushions as the moon retreated upwards, watching us as we marvelled in each other.

There is not much information kicking around out there about this producer, except that he is from Sydney. There is a beautiful optimism that patters away in this track underneath the fast, unruly hi-hats. Download Rupert's two-track EP So High / Jam Thing at his Bandcamp and follow him on Soundcloud.

.Rupert - So High

Roppongi Sky - VEJ

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Colliding / revolving / evolving. There is a numbness in their legs, creeping up, eating at kneecaps pulling at tendons. They sit in the corner on a pot plant / a pot / a plant - not too sure anymore. Blues and reds and greens are dominant, the sky is white - white-hot / midnight. Like a midnight sun, she imagines. Other people, they dance inside, in fast forward, still not being able to keep up. Their minds run a million miles an hour and she looks at him for an hour which is actually a second and look, it's still midnight.

My oh my, what a fantastic release from Gold Coast residing Roppongi Sky. To tell you the truth, I'd never heard of the guy until I got a wonderful email from the wonderful label that is Ender. You might remember Ender due to a post I did a while ago on their fantastic label children Chupi and Total Stranger. Queensland, at it again. Download the two-track EP here.

.Roppongi Sky - VEJ

mgkrp - Long Farewells

Photo: mäkelä

When it rains it pours.
The storm beats itself against your walls before the calm. Clothes still hold the heat close to your body, they are stuck. Panting in the humidity, preceding the precipitation. Get out there and dance, fool! Get out there, and soak it all up.

"Die Einsamkeit ist wie ein Regen" - Rainer Maria Rilke

This beautiful explosion of sound has been ricocheting around my harddrive for a good couple o' months now, but its gentle curation of melody has definitely settled into a comfortable space in my heart. Mgkrp is a solo-producer out of Melbourne, who experiments with both the standard short, sharp beat-tape forms to more extended, ambient stuff like Long Farewells. You can grab it on tape too, if that's your thing.

.mgkrp - Long Farewells

Sequence

Sydney, this Saturday will see myself and The Finer Things put on a little shindig to celebrate the wonderful array of electronic musicians from our locale (Guerre, Nakagin, Gardland etc) and a little further afield (think Lindsay Tuc, Kane Ikin and Wooshie). It's just $15 on the door at The Old Fitz in Woolloomooloo and is a massive ten hours of left-field electronica. This week also sees the third birthday of East to West (!) so come grab a beer and have a dance.

All information can be found here.

Vacant Lake - Malevolent

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Kaleidoscopic
Straight reflected line is frail
Only in the dark.

This is the first EP from Sydney-born, now Berlin residing Vacant Lake. The untitled EP is filled with swirling field recordings from Berlin, Bangladesh and Sydney. Vacant Lake is the new project of Beres Jackson aka Karoshi.

.Vacant Lake - Malevolent