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Download & Stream: http://kud.li/research07 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Official stream from Research Records. Distributed by Kudos Records. More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Album: Selected Rhythms [ALBUM] Track: 4 of 8 Title: Mellow Fellows Artist: Elite Beat Label: Research Records Cat#: RESEARCH07 Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital Digital Release: 8th November 2019 Physical Release: 8th November 2019 About This Release: Elite Beat is a musical collective from Portland, Oregon with a history spanning back to 2006. ‘Selected Rhythms’ captures the finest moments from all three of their ultra limited cassette series ‘Casual Rhythms’. Packed full of DIY dub mixing, cosmic orchestration and raw, percussion driven polyrhythms, the recordings have been remastered and put to vinyl for the first time with sections from Casual Rhythms Vol. 1 being re-shaped into previously unavailable single tracks. Recording plays a big role in the Elite Beat creative process. The studio as an instrument. Much of the Elite Beat music is mixed in an all-hands-on-deck dub style approach - live with an analog mixer and loads of FX being thrown and dubbed in real time. The sound is genre-less rhythm music with an emphasis on live playing, free form expression and technique that borrows from soundsystem culture. Inspiration can be heard from all parts of time and place. Some Ethio Jazz, Black Ark psychedelia, Exotica, Malian blues, even Haight-Ashbury in the summer of love. Each member an accomplished musician in their own right, Elite Beat thrive on collaboration. 2018 saw the release of their astral-Saharan jams with celebrated Taureg guitarist Mdou Moctar. The players get together every Wednesday evening, sometimes to chat, sometimes to play. The ‘record’ button gets pressed when they find what they are searching for. For this crew it’s all about ‘Casual Rhythms / Harmonious Lifestyles’ - if things don’t fall under that mantra, then it’s got to go. ‘Less is more’ for Elite Beat and their cosmic sounds.
Download & Stream: http://kud.li/research07 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Official stream from Research Records. Distributed by Kudos Records. More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Album: Selected Rhythms [ALBUM] Track: 4 of 8 Title: Mellow Fellows Artist: Elite Beat Label: Research Records Cat#: RESEARCH07 Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital Digital Release: 8th November 2019 Physical Release: 8th November 2019 About This Release: Elite Beat is a musical collective from Portland, Oregon with a history spanning back to 2006. ‘Selected Rhythms’ captures the finest moments from all three of their ultra limited cassette series ‘Casual Rhythms’. Packed full of DIY dub mixing, cosmic orchestration and raw, percussion driven polyrhythms, the recordings have been remastered and put to vinyl for the first time with sections from Casual Rhythms Vol. 1 being re-shaped into previously unavailable single tracks. Recording plays a big role in the Elite Beat creative process. The studio as an instrument. Much of the Elite Beat music is mixed in an all-hands-on-deck dub style approach - live with an analog mixer and loads of FX being thrown and dubbed in real time. The sound is genre-less rhythm music with an emphasis on live playing, free form expression and technique that borrows from soundsystem culture. Inspiration can be heard from all parts of time and place. Some Ethio Jazz, Black Ark psychedelia, Exotica, Malian blues, even Haight-Ashbury in the summer of love. Each member an accomplished musician in their own right, Elite Beat thrive on collaboration. 2018 saw the release of their astral-Saharan jams with celebrated Taureg guitarist Mdou Moctar. The players get together every Wednesday evening, sometimes to chat, sometimes to play. The ‘record’ button gets pressed when they find what they are searching for. For this crew it’s all about ‘Casual Rhythms / Harmonious Lifestyles’ - if things don’t fall under that mantra, then it’s got to go. ‘Less is more’ for Elite Beat and their cosmic sounds.
![Khaled Kurbeh - wan-Najmi [Audio]
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Album: Ithā Sajā [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 9
Title: wan-Najmi
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH015
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 4th September 2026
Physical Release: 4th September 2026
About This Release:
Ithā Sajā is an ode to dusk, dawn and what’s in between.
Or, Ithā Sajā is a collection of piano recordings I made in my Berlin studio between:
– dusk and dawn
– Hinterhof sununu chatter
– construction site clamour
– upstairs scuffles
– U-Bahn rumbles
– Kreuzberg and Tempelhof
– 2021 and 2022.
wal-Leil [by the night] is inspired by conversations with my friends Hend Alkahwaji and Wejdan Nassif during theatre rehearsals.
wal-Leili [by the night II] is an imagined conversation with my friend Raman Khalaf. An homage to the jurjina rhythm found in folk music of northern Iraq and Mesopotamia.
In wan-Najmi [by the star], one phrase repeats over and over with subtle changes – inspired by a procrastinating artist (quietly) dancing before a (nearly) stretched, (almost) blank canvas, dreaming up a (new but familiar) pattern.
In Ithā Hawā [to fall / to fall in love], a flâneur takes an early evening stroll along the Landwehr canal in Kreuzberg.
Tadāris [terrains] is an ongoing series of acoustic études – played with mallets, objects and fingers inside and outside the piano.
In Ithā Sajā [if it settles / when it darkens], my left hand keeps a steady rhythm while the right one wanders in search of a nocturnal motif. My eyes peek out the window. It’s the first attempts of dawn.
Marking Khaled Kurbeh’s second release with Research Records, Ithā Sajā is a collection of nine piano pieces. The gatefold vinyl features cover art and a booklet of drawings by Ida Lawrence – nine repetitions of Khaled’s upright piano, taking shape or disintegrating as one turns the page. Thank you to Alessandra Peach and Maryos Syawish from Research Records, and to everyone listening. Khaled Kurbeh - wan-Najmi [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nwg_0b8TW8s/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - T3 [Audio]
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Album: Pressure Acts [EP]
Track: 6 of 6
Title: T3
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP09
Formats: 12 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 29th October 2021
Physical Release: 29th October 2021
About This Release:
Big Yawn make experimental electronic music by fusing a wash of sweeping synthesizers, heavily refracted vocal sampling, motorik style percussion and disorientating dub FX.
Their latest studio release Pressure Acts creates a space where breaks compete with live drums compete with drones. Relentless pummelling bass lines and kinetic dub FX come standard.
Big Yawns energetic and unrelenting live performances create a definitive impression on this release. The sonic textures in the record are lush, stoned, frenetic and fun. The music is sinister yet also tongue-in-cheek — Phil Collins and Slipknot may have even been sampled.
The first single Ragazzo is ideal for joy rides in HSVs and/or flaunting at the local disco parlor - a dank blend of YMO style pop hooks, driving bass, delicate synths, and a robotic pulse. Big Yawn - T3 [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Od-6oqpGZ_s/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - Body Double (Jay Glass Dubs Refix) [Audio]
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Album: No! Remixes [EP]
Track: 2 of 5
Title: Body Double (Jay Glass Dubs Refix)
Artist: Big Yawn
Remixers: Jay Glass Dubs
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP05
Formats: 12 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 5th March 2021
Physical Release: 5th March 2021
About This Release:
Electronic four-piece Big Yawn invites five revered artists to reconstruct their debut album No!, originally released in March 2020 through Research Records.
The remixes convey a unique combination of darker textures and brooding sounds, clearly indebted to their source material.
The release features interpretations from Sleep D, Jay Glass Dubs, Maria Moles, Bullant and Raymond Scottwalker.
Rhythm merchants Sleep D (Butter Sessions) up the tempo and weave their signature expansive production in their fearless take on Reflex.
Prolific producer Jay Glass Dubs (Bokeh Versions) flavours the Body Double refix with looping clattering drums and glitchy murk, creating a compelling arrangement.
Like a drift into a warm gorge, percussionist Maria Moles (Nice Music) inserts gentle sustained synth work into Doodle Damage.
Bullant (Flightless Records) pulls the listener out abruptly with a rework of Skinrat, a house-streaked churner.
Raymond Scottwalker (Fallopian Tunes) wraps up the record with another rework of Reflex, creating a mind-bending, aggressive industrial rejig.
Big Yawns remix EP is a dynamic pairing to No!, entrusting an exceptional group of musicians to adhere to the spirit of the record, yet take it in a totally re-imagined direction Big Yawn - Body Double (Jay Glass Dubs Refix) [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P4x2-cI_IY4/mqdefault.jpg)
![E. Bobby G. - Disco Shift [Audio]
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Album: Bobby Business [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 10
Title: Disco Shift
Artist: E. Bobby G.
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH16
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 29th November 2024
Physical Release: 29th November 2024
About This Release:
Research Records teams up with organist and synthesist E. Bobby G. to release his sophomore album, Bobby Business. Once again, the album is primarily centered around the 1982 Kawai DX900, but it masterfully explores more genres than his debut, Giving You M.O.R.E.
Bobby Business was recorded in 2022 after E. Bobby G. received an eviction notice from his beloved sharehouse of 12 years. After moving out, he stored the organ at his workplace, Bakehouse Studios, where his boss let him use the space overnight to record until the early hours. The remainder of the album was recorded in his old studio space, NGBE.
The first track, Ha-Ha, is as meditative as it is glittery, with floating sustained chords. Big Boy and Disco Shift bring back a slightly more polished E. Bobby G. sound—lo-fi library music with bright tones that will appeal to fans of proto-electronic icons like Brian Bennett. Tracks like Lucky Strike and Tropical Dino Ride are video game music dreams, featuring West Coast lead lines and strutting percussion. The second half of the album explores spaced-out 90s downtempo and dub elements, with a distinctive refinement that hides the fact it was created primarily using the Kawai DX900.
Bobby Business closes with Lillian, a sonic dedication to the artists Grandmother, with a more traditional song structure that hints at what Bobby has planned next. E. Bobby G. - Disco Shift [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PxFE6w0XdSg/mqdefault.jpg)
![E. Bobby G. - Suzys Return [Audio]
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Album: Bobby Business [ALBUM]
Track: 9 of 10
Title: Suzys Return
Artist: E. Bobby G.
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH16
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 29th November 2024
Physical Release: 29th November 2024
About This Release:
Research Records teams up with organist and synthesist E. Bobby G. to release his sophomore album, Bobby Business. Once again, the album is primarily centered around the 1982 Kawai DX900, but it masterfully explores more genres than his debut, Giving You M.O.R.E.
Bobby Business was recorded in 2022 after E. Bobby G. received an eviction notice from his beloved sharehouse of 12 years. After moving out, he stored the organ at his workplace, Bakehouse Studios, where his boss let him use the space overnight to record until the early hours. The remainder of the album was recorded in his old studio space, NGBE.
The first track, Ha-Ha, is as meditative as it is glittery, with floating sustained chords. Big Boy and Disco Shift bring back a slightly more polished E. Bobby G. sound—lo-fi library music with bright tones that will appeal to fans of proto-electronic icons like Brian Bennett. Tracks like Lucky Strike and Tropical Dino Ride are video game music dreams, featuring West Coast lead lines and strutting percussion. The second half of the album explores spaced-out 90s downtempo and dub elements, with a distinctive refinement that hides the fact it was created primarily using the Kawai DX900.
Bobby Business closes with Lillian, a sonic dedication to the artists Grandmother, with a more traditional song structure that hints at what Bobby has planned next. E. Bobby G. - Suzys Return [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q8PZRuDOnUs/mqdefault.jpg)
![Doroth - Picture [Audio]
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#ResearchRecords #RockPop #Pop
Album: Take It Easier [SINGLE]
Track: 2 of 2
Title: Picture
Artist: Doroth
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP10
Formats: 7 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 25th March 2022
Physical Release: 25th March 2022
About This Release:
Doroth follow on from a 2019 self-released digi EP with this fresh 7 for Research. The duo of Loretta Wilde and Maria Moles from Melbourne have established a song writing craft thats equal parts This Heat and Throwing Muses; all disjointed rhythms and dry vocal delivery that seems to come with an intentional feeling of malaise. Where their self-titled EP allowed for the sprawling Still House Plants-esque sound of On The Lamb, both Take It Easier and Picture condense the live sound into two sub 4 minute slices of indie pop / art rock goodness. Weve got no clue what photograph Wilde is singing about but the combination of bass and drums bouncing off one another underneath her prolonged strainings will be sure to stick in your brain. Doroth - Picture [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QD0IggpYNv8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - Surf Dive n Ski [Audio]
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Album: Pressure Acts [EP]
Track: 2 of 6
Title: Surf Dive n Ski
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP09
Formats: 12 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 29th October 2021
Physical Release: 29th October 2021
About This Release:
Big Yawn make experimental electronic music by fusing a wash of sweeping synthesizers, heavily refracted vocal sampling, motorik style percussion and disorientating dub FX.
Their latest studio release Pressure Acts creates a space where breaks compete with live drums compete with drones. Relentless pummelling bass lines and kinetic dub FX come standard.
Big Yawns energetic and unrelenting live performances create a definitive impression on this release. The sonic textures in the record are lush, stoned, frenetic and fun. The music is sinister yet also tongue-in-cheek — Phil Collins and Slipknot may have even been sampled.
The first single Ragazzo is ideal for joy rides in HSVs and/or flaunting at the local disco parlor - a dank blend of YMO style pop hooks, driving bass, delicate synths, and a robotic pulse. Big Yawn - Surf Dive n Ski [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QNSBD359X08/mqdefault.jpg)
![Mouche - Swamp Thing [Audio]
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Album: Lake Songs [ALBUM]
Track: 4 of 10
Title: Swamp Thing
Artist: Mouche
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH011
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 26th May 2023
Physical Release: 26th May 2023
About This Release:
Mouche (real name Tim Karmouche) returns to Australian label Research Records with another full-length of imaginary soundtracks, instrumentals and sun-kissed digital jazz. Active on the Melbourne scene in projects such as Crepes/The Murlocs/Swazi Gold/Dreamin Wild, Tims first album Live From The Bubble arrived back in 2020 as an ode to his aptly named studio space - The Bubble.
Lake Songs builds on those same atmospheres, showcasing the inward-looking craft of his one-man band. Cicada field recordings and light keys open proceedings, reflecting the warmer side of 80s new age, though before long were introduced to a variety of stylistic shifts incorporating elements of cosmic funk, lounge and library-style compositions. There are traces of Steve Hiett, Max Groove or even the recently re-discovered Ronald Langestraat, though the strength of Mouches talent for harmony shines through on its own level.
Shifting between moods yet reflecting an overarching sense of positivity, listening through the ten tracks gives off a real sense of place, though time is somewhat irrelevant. The warm climate and sandy beaches of Australia seem eternally embodied in Juice or Crystal Water. Perhaps where Live From The Bubble was dedicated to the very studio that birthed it, Lake Songs is dedicated to the vast land that surrounds it. Mouche - Swamp Thing [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qlb7Nz0iyI8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Dreamin Wild - Pass the Time [Audio] (8 of 8)
Download & Stream: http://kud.li/research05 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Official stream from Research Records. Distributed by Kudos Records. More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Album: Heaven in Thirty-Eleven [ALBUM] Track: 8 of 8 Title: Pass the Time Artist: Dreamin Wild Label: Research Records Cat#: RESEARCH05 Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital Digital Release: 30th August 2019 Physical Release: 30th August 2019 About This Release: Dreamin Wilds second album Heaven in Thirty Eleven owes a lot to Footscray. The inner-western suburb of Melbourne features not only in the album title (its postcode is 3011) but goes deeper to form a central part of the records narrative and reflection. For all six members - Chris Jennings (Swazi Gold, Sagamore, Sledgehammer), Sam Cooper (Crepes, Swazi Gold, Sagamore, Sledgehammer), Tim Karmouche (Crepes, Swazi Gold, The Murlocs), Sarah Quirk, Monty Hartnett (Sleep Decade, Miris, Sagamore) and James Guida (Laguna, Environments) - Footscray buoyed periods of music exploration and discovery. After more than six year of writing, rehearsing and recording in the suburb, theres no doubt that Footscray is home for the band. Jennings adds that the album is, a bit of a recap of the last three years for Dreamin Wild, drawing attention to the change and growth many of the eight songs have undergone since creation. I Dont Disagree is an album highlight; an almost seven-minute track that struts along calmly, taking life as it is. Quirks soulful refrain soars atop Jennings laconic vocals, carrying the song to its end. Dynon Life is another album gem, reminiscent of summer in the city, and happy seeking excess. Heaven in Thirty Eleven is an ode to a Melbourne suburb brimming with culture and stories, made by artists who are proud to call it home. Dreamin Wild - Pass the Time [Audio] (8 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qp2mWu2s-Gk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - Offshore Diamond [Audio]
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Album: South Preston Garage [EP]
Track: 4 of 6
Title: Offshore Diamond
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RRC02
Formats: Cassette/Digital
Digital Release: 4th September 2020
Physical Release: 4th September 2020
About This Release:
Research Records presents Melbourne electronic quartet Big Yawns second contribution to the label, South Preston Garage. A title to honour the bands beloved bandroom, S.P.G compiles demos extracted from the studio for a digital release with a limited run of cassettes. Big Yawn reflects that completing the EP presented the challenge of creatively engineering the lo-fi recordings in a way that offered thrilling and creative insight for us and perhaps some replay value for the listener.
S.P.G embodies Big Yawns trademark pastiche, fusing together rich percussion and sweeping synthesizers that are recontextualised through an extensive shed jam. The band characterises the first two tracks British Teeth and Burno as Big Yawn flavoured DnB, with refracted drum phrasing and unrelenting delays. Cascading acid-tinged bass rules in the quivering 4 Dads; a venture into the bands stockier temperament. The panoramic Burton Bell delivers raw and biting percussion, while remaining faithful to electronics with its layered sampling. The release then disperses into seaside rapture with its farewell Bad Boy. On Bad Boy, the band comment that the track is perhaps our most melodic number to date, with heavily looping synths evoking a Hiroshi Sato/city-pop feel.
What is perhaps most unique about Big Yawn is that they present familiar electronic sounds amplified as a live band. A timely release; S.P.G translates the satisfaction of hearing a live band in a period when all we really want is to go to a gig. Big Yawn - Offshore Diamond [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RGxIjIJuzik/mqdefault.jpg)
