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You Are In The Embrace Of The History - Rafet
Research Records (c) August 30 2024
Composer and musician Daniel Rafet Grima, offers a thematic debut release via Research Records titled ‘You Are In the Embrace of the History’.
Writing by Chris Gaynor:
You Are In the Embrace of the History delivers longing with grace, a realisation of ancestral memory with the eloquence of an internal knowing. Finding home in the cradle of the poem, a universal affirmation lies deep within an irregular heartbeat.
The listener is offered an invitation to enter into the vista of expansive harmonic voicings, anticipating resolution. The work is edged by expressions of spiritual jazz and tempered by the scope of ambient musics.
Rafet’s offering has the humility to pose questions (the illumination and the ecstasy). In the Dead Sea, there are no fish.
Director: Daniel Grima
Director of Photography: Shaki Prasanna
Writing and Concept: Harrison Friend, Chris Gaynor, Daniel Grima
Editor: Harrison Friend
Colourist: Harrison Friend, Daniel Grima
Titles: Tulip Hazbar
Sound Design and Score: Daniel Grima
Mastering: Kuniyuki Takahashi
Beekeeper: Nic Dowse
Filmed on the sacred lands of the Djab Wurrung and Jardwadjali, the traditional owners of Gariwerd. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
RR012
You Are In The Embrace Of The History - Rafet
Research Records (c) August 30 2024
Composer and musician Daniel Rafet Grima, offers a thematic debut release via Research Records titled ‘You Are In the Embrace of the History’.
Writing by Chris Gaynor:
You Are In the Embrace of the History delivers longing with grace, a realisation of ancestral memory with the eloquence of an internal knowing. Finding home in the cradle of the poem, a universal affirmation lies deep within an irregular heartbeat.
The listener is offered an invitation to enter into the vista of expansive harmonic voicings, anticipating resolution. The work is edged by expressions of spiritual jazz and tempered by the scope of ambient musics.
Rafet’s offering has the humility to pose questions (the illumination and the ecstasy). In the Dead Sea, there are no fish.
Director: Daniel Grima
Director of Photography: Shaki Prasanna
Writing and Concept: Harrison Friend, Chris Gaynor, Daniel Grima
Editor: Harrison Friend
Colourist: Harrison Friend, Daniel Grima
Titles: Tulip Hazbar
Sound Design and Score: Daniel Grima
Mastering: Kuniyuki Takahashi
Beekeeper: Nic Dowse
Filmed on the sacred lands of the Djab Wurrung and Jardwadjali, the traditional owners of Gariwerd. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
![Dreamin Wild - Finger Through My Hair [Audio] (3 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RfQAHYmtl7M/mqdefault.jpg "Dreamin Wild - Finger Through My Hair [Audio] (3 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: 3 of 8 Title: Finger Through My Hair 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 - I Dont Disagree [Audio] (2 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RkaLfiy7D_s/mqdefault.jpg "Dreamin Wild - I Dont Disagree [Audio] (2 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: 2 of 8 Title: I Dont Disagree 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.")
![Big Yawn - Reflex (Raymond Scottwalker Remix) [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tg-tXMoX2D0/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Reflex (Raymond Scottwalker Remix) [Audio]
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Album: No! Remixes [EP]
Track: 5 of 5
Title: Reflex (Raymond Scottwalker Remix)
Artist: Big Yawn
Remixers: Raymond Scottwalker
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 - 80s Slam [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UOtQVQAottI/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - 80s Slam [Audio]
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Album: NGBE [ALBUM]
Track: 1 of 9
Title: 80s Slam
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH13
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 19th July 2024
Physical Release: 19th July 2024
About This Release:
Big Yawn - NGB
Research Records welcomes back Melbourne quartet Big Yawn for their fourth full-length offering, NGBE.
Big Yawns ability to blend complex rhythm sections with infectious basslines, deep synth work, and tongue-in-cheek sampling remains ever-present, and perhaps is the most advanced weve heard yet.
Sitting in a world of its own, the album—named after the groups beloved and lost warehouse space, National Gallery of Brunswick East (where most of the material was recorded)—features a wide array of soundscapes spanning mutated drum n bass, low-key grime, rap, and dub-wise antics, all laced with a heavy dose of FX.
Equal parts deep and menacing, the nine tracks encapsulate Big Yawns evolution in the studio and on stage, most notably through their collaboration 2Stroke with Melbourne-based future rap prodigy Teether and brought to life visually with album artwork by Julian Hocking.")
![Mouche - Lifeboat [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UYShFmekuBA/mqdefault.jpg "Mouche - Lifeboat [Audio]
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Album: Live From The Bubble [ALBUM]
Track: 1 of 10
Title: Lifeboat
Artist: Mouche
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RRC01
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 10th July 2020
About This Release:
Solo excursions from Tim Karmouche (The Murlocs/Crepes/Swazi Gold/Dreamin Wild) provide a joyous confluence of melody and rhythm, an instrumental ride through imaginary soundtracks and drifting liminal atmospheres.
Live From The Bubble strikes as a pure and earnest pursuit of experimentation in a fashion that seeks to evoke lifes simple pleasures. Crafted over many an hour spent in the mysterious studio space he nicknames the bubble, the various multi-tracks are looped and layered in a way that pays homage to old library funk and conjures up images of tight, seasoned session musicians in a pre-internet era. Like an old friend youve known for years, Mouches chords and harmonies communicate sentiments in a silent, knowing fashion.
A deliberate and necessary eschewing of words. The array of styles heard across the album hint to a fondness for exotica and surf rock, basking in a sepia-toned woozy nostalgia as opposed to wallowing in melancholy. Elements of Steve Hiett or G.S. Schray flicker in and out across the stereo field, particularly on the closing piece Thinking Straight, which despite its minor keys captures a mood of warmth and content, an end of summer lullaby to close proceedings. Karmouches own admission that the process of LFTB was centred around enjoyment comes as no surprise.")
![Big Yawn - Dry Airline [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W7j-XmAJ-mM/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Dry Airline [Audio]
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 6 of 13
Title: Dry Airline
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH08
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 6th March 2020
Physical Release: 6th March 2020
About This Release:
The various sides of Melbourne quartet Big Yawn fluctuate neatly across their debut full length No!. Subtle dub techno delays combine with live drums on Attaboi to formally introduce their clear affectation for the motorik sounds of 70s Deutschland. Previous single Skinrat curiously references off-rhythms and vocal cut ups a la late naughties UK bass music, while abstract jams such as For Whomst channel the adventurous live-and-direct sound of Golden Teacher and kindred experimentalist Inga Copeland.
Heavy low-end bass frequencies and twitches of dub fx permeate the LP, shades of post-punk and loopy minimal wave (Doodle Damage) contrasting with the more jagged dance orientated moments. In opting to close No! with their most expansive recording (Body Double), Big Yawn delve deeper into the tense and ritualistic atmospheres the prior tracks only hint at. The effect seems akin to a snapshot into their lengthy freestyle practice sessions; a process honed and refined here for the LP format. Until their next outing, the relentless groove of Anthem X will keep hips swaying during those sweaty early morning club hours.")
![E. Bobby G. - Errols Quest [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wg6LaucGqjg/mqdefault.jpg "E. Bobby G. - Errols Quest [Audio]
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#ResearchRecords #NewAge #NewAgeElectronic
Album: Bobby Business [ALBUM]
Track: 6 of 10
Title: Errols Quest
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.")
![Ex Ponto - Sonic Cycle [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Why9_0WFs9w/mqdefault.jpg "Ex Ponto - Sonic Cycle [Audio]
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Album: Odlazak [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 7
Title: Sonic Cycle
Artist: Ex Ponto
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH017
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 12th June 2026
Physical Release: 12th June 2026
About This Release:
Odlazak – the third full-length from multidisciplinary artist and musician Ivan Masic as Ex Ponto – takes its name from the Serbian word for departure. It’s a theme that reverberates throughout the release as the motifs of departure, arrival and the journey between the two are woven into an intimate personal narrative from 1980s Yugoslavia to contemporary suburban Coburg and back. Odzalak feels like a bookend to a decade of concerted, illuminating visits to the place of his birth and a countenance to the departure that long defined his youth.
Alongside Ex Ponto’s signature mix of electronic and organic textures, Masic has interspersed moments of exchange from his homeland. The haunting sound of the gusle — a traditional Serbian instrument played by his ancestors — opens the album, alongside 40-year-old VHS recordings of family members reflecting on life and death. The cover was designed by long-time friend Rick Milovanovic (TRiC), whilst photographs from Masic’s visits to Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina by his wife, photographer Sarah Pannell, are featured on the inner sleeve. The release was mastered and partially mixed by Belgrade-based Goran Simonoski (La Plant), a collaboration rooted in shared lineage and a mutual love of the darker edges of the sonic spectrum.
Taking cues from ambient to kosmiche, dub to post punk and everything in between, this is a sonic journey as much as it’s a personal one. Part Balkan Bladerunner soundtrack, part Vini Reilly in wonderland, Odzalak is Ex Ponto’s most pointed and heady release to date, equally at ease in the club and at home.")
![Big Yawn - Sharehouse Stovetop [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wkkqg8z2_Q4/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Sharehouse Stovetop [Audio]
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Album: Pressure Acts [EP]
Track: 1 of 6
Title: Sharehouse Stovetop
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.")
