Dec 1, 2014 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News
On Umpire’s ‘Spotlights’, it’s all about the slow-burn, the withholding – and the showstopping vocal from Geoff Symons. Minus the full band behind him, Symons and his downtuned SG create a heartbreaking little universe that speaks volumes. (Fun...
Nov 24, 2014 | Features & Articles, Mixtapes
In this, the very first installment of our MixTape series we have the inimitable German experimentalist Markus Mehr serve us up a glowing slab of 60’s and 70’s pop entitled Kitsch Before Glitch. Even better, Markus has a second installment coming which...
Nov 20, 2014 | Features & Articles, Interviews
Hidden Shoal’s Matthew Tomich spoke with Markus Mehr about his new album Binary Rooms, phonography and the art of sound. Under his solo moniker, Markus Mehr has made a career out of patterns. Before the release of his fifth record Binary Rooms last month, his...
Nov 14, 2014 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News
Elisa Luu’s achingly beautiful electronica is a humbling reminder that music made using computers can be just as emotive, if not more so, than music made using more ‘conventional’ instruments. On ‘Slow Bass Flute’ from her majestic debut...
Nov 7, 2014 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News
This is a track from an album with nothing but great tracks, but in some ways it’s one of the more immediately unassuming little numbers. As with so many great songs, it expands over multiple listens, and in this case becomes an incredibly affecting and moving...
Nov 6, 2014 | Features & Articles, Three Questions
Al Smith (aka DrAlienSmith) plays an important role in the Perth music community. Over the last 15 years he’s worked with more than 300 bands at his Bergerk! Studios, including pivotal Perth outfits such as The Devil Rides Out, Drowning Horse, Abbe May, Eleventh...
