Man, it's already been a prolific few weeks with our label IF?, often in collaboration with Elektrax and Hypnotic Room in Sydney. So, thought I'd drop a bit of a collective propaganda bomb here to fill you in on the (mostly) Australian releases we've been handling, all if 'em available online as digital downloads - and some of 'em even FREE!! Plus some other labels and artists' stuff... FIRST UP: (and rather self-indulgently) Little Nobody "Game Over: Reset 140" (IF? Records) I put out the Game Over in March, and it was a slow, eclectic, at times dubby/electro reconsideration of beats and breaks, asymmetrical electronic rhythms and squelching, near-acid synths. Sydney's 3D World magazine called it "Head-bending stuff that's well worth investigating." Anyway, not too long ago (over a vast amount of drinks), one of my mates over here in Tokyo, Yusuke Abe, challenged me to reboot that EP - at 140bpm, with a more up-for-it (albeit open-minded!) techno/house club in mind. Yusuke had a vested interest, as he wanted to DJ a couple of the tracks out, but thus Reset 140 was born. The outcome is obviously faster-paced, now more tech than dub, and it's available from today through our label IF? as an exclusive digital download-only release online, via Addictech here: http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ Oh, and as always there is one hack videoclip up on YouTube here: JUICE AND JELLY (RESET 140 MIX) http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwsSmtF578 ===================== SECONDLY: 2008 isn’t exactly a year to be sneezed at, with a bunch of stuff emerging from locals and Aussie expats living abroad, and you can digital download the beasties from your own boudoir: SON OF ZEV – SUBMERGED EP (netlabel release) http://www.elektraxrecordings.com/elek015.html ZEN PARADOX – LIQUID SPHERES EP (netlabel release) http://www.hypnoticroom.com/HRoom014.html BLINKY – THERE’S A JESUS IN MY NECTARINE (netlabel release) http://www.beatgeekrecords.com VARIOUS – WE TOO ARE YOU (netlabel release, incl. Voiteck and Q-Kontrol) http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ D. BALDWIN – SUN OF THE MORNING (netlabel release) While Dale is from Canberra, two of the mixes here are down by Melbourne’s Bitchshift and Schlock Tactile. http://www.elektraxrecordings.com/elek014.html LITTLE NOBODY - REMEMBER RADIO EP (this one’s a FREEbie!) http://www.dead-channel.com/releases/channel013/ BITCHSHIFT - WICKED PITCH OF THE WEST released on Digiticedmusic. http://www.digiticedmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=26 TR-STORM - ON OUR (Z3) SELECTION https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/105457/on_our_z3_selection_ep LITTLE NOBODY - WOKLURK ORANGE http://www.hypnoticroom.com/HRoom016.html ...and that's about it fer now...