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Album: Sauna Research [EP]
Track: 1 of 2
Title: Sauna Research
Artist: Tapes
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP06
Formats: 7" Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 16th April 2021
Physical Release: 23rd April 2021
About This Release:
Prolific digi-dub recording artist Jackson Bailey heads up the new year for Research, debuting with a two track 7" of slow and melodic synth cuts. At once playful and naïve yet masterfully constructed, the pieces unravel in unison to create the drowsy headspace associated with pitched down G-funk beats or vintage Italian library. Sharing a similarly visual immediacy to Amedeo Tomassi's compositions for Biologia Marina, both 'Sauna Research' and 'Aquarium Trousers' conjure up subaquatic atmospheres of macrophytes and crill, wetsuits and snorkels. Tropical flora and fauna float by in the distance. Fittingly soundtracking the Australian summer, the new release follows on from recent daydream-like stoned outings for EM and Good Morning Tapes.
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Album: Sauna Research [EP]
Track: 1 of 2
Title: Sauna Research
Artist: Tapes
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP06
Formats: 7" Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 16th April 2021
Physical Release: 23rd April 2021
About This Release:
Prolific digi-dub recording artist Jackson Bailey heads up the new year for Research, debuting with a two track 7" of slow and melodic synth cuts. At once playful and naïve yet masterfully constructed, the pieces unravel in unison to create the drowsy headspace associated with pitched down G-funk beats or vintage Italian library. Sharing a similarly visual immediacy to Amedeo Tomassi's compositions for Biologia Marina, both 'Sauna Research' and 'Aquarium Trousers' conjure up subaquatic atmospheres of macrophytes and crill, wetsuits and snorkels. Tropical flora and fauna float by in the distance. Fittingly soundtracking the Australian summer, the new release follows on from recent daydream-like stoned outings for EM and Good Morning Tapes.
![Tapes - Sauna Research [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XvjD7AoIJ3k/mqdefault.jpg "Tapes - Sauna Research [Audio]
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Album: Sauna Research [EP]
Track: 1 of 2
Title: Sauna Research
Artist: Tapes
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP06
Formats: 7 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 16th April 2021
Physical Release: 23rd April 2021
About This Release:
Prolific digi-dub recording artist Jackson Bailey heads up the new year for Research, debuting with a two track 7 of slow and melodic synth cuts. At once playful and naïve yet masterfully constructed, the pieces unravel in unison to create the drowsy headspace associated with pitched down G-funk beats or vintage Italian library. Sharing a similarly visual immediacy to Amedeo Tomassis compositions for Biologia Marina, both Sauna Research and Aquarium Trousers conjure up subaquatic atmospheres of macrophytes and crill, wetsuits and snorkels. Tropical flora and fauna float by in the distance. Fittingly soundtracking the Australian summer, the new release follows on from recent daydream-like stoned outings for EM and Good Morning Tapes.")
![Khaled Kurbeh - al-Ajrāf [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y-K5pl5oW0A/mqdefault.jpg "Khaled Kurbeh - al-Ajrāf [Audio]
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Album: Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [ALBUM]
Track: 4 of 10
Title: al-Ajrāf
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH014
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 18th July 2025
Physical Release: 18th July 2025
About This Release:
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23
a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).
Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his Research Records debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.
The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on June 27th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year.")
![Big Yawn - Attaboi [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y3Ds1jx49zU/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Attaboi [Audio]
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 1 of 13
Title: Attaboi
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.")
![Big Yawn - Body Double [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YDUWHMriTBo/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Body Double [Audio]
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 13 of 13
Title: Body Double
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.")
![Big Yawn - Burton Bell [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZF1TxUacEMY/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Burton Bell [Audio]
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Album: South Preston Garage [EP]
Track: 5 of 6
Title: Burton Bell
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.")
![Khaled Kurbeh - Nuzha I [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZLMh7ki4t9Y/mqdefault.jpg "Khaled Kurbeh - Nuzha I [Audio]
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Album: Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [ALBUM]
Track: 2 of 10
Title: Nuzha I
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH014
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 18th July 2025
Physical Release: 18th July 2025
About This Release:
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23
a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).
Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his Research Records debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.
The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on June 27th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year.")
![Big Yawn - Thomas [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZuxjKgSzmrI/mqdefault.jpg "Big Yawn - Thomas [Audio]
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 8 of 13
Title: Thomas
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.")
![Ex Ponto - Continental Drift [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a-2y7dIm0jE/mqdefault.jpg "Ex Ponto - Continental Drift [Audio]
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Album: Continental Drift [SINGLE]
Track: 1 of 1
Title: Continental Drift
Artist: Ex Ponto
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RRS01
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 29th May 2026
About This Release:
Continental Drift is the first single from Odlazak — the third full-length from Ex Ponto, the multidisciplinary project of Ivan Masic. Blending ambient, dub, kosmiche and post-punk influences, the track sets the tone for an album shaped by themes of departure, memory and return, weaving together electronic and organic textures with fragments of family history from former Yugoslavia. Equal parts cinematic and intimate, ‘Continental Drift’ drifts between the darker edges of dance music and deeply personal storytelling.")
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 13
Title: Skinrat
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.")
![Elite Beat - RLC (Ambient Mix) [Audio] (8 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/am8Isu5J2YQ/mqdefault.jpg "Elite Beat - RLC (Ambient Mix) [Audio] (8 of 8)
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: 8 of 8 Title: RLC (Ambient Mix) 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 - Sunūnū al-Manara [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRV_FRJ_iqE/mqdefault.jpg "Khaled Kurbeh - Sunūnū al-Manara [Audio]
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Album: Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [ALBUM]
Track: 5 of 10
Title: Sunūnū al-Manara
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH014
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 18th July 2025
Physical Release: 18th July 2025
About This Release:
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23
a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).
Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his Research Records debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.
The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on June 27th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year.")
![Glass Beams - Kong [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bWAjx0-vDek/mqdefault.jpg "Glass Beams - Kong [Audio]
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Album: Mirage [EP]
Track: 3 of 4
Title: Kong
Artist: Glass Beams
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP07
Formats: 12 Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 25th June 2021
Physical Release: 25th June 2021
About This Release:
Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.
The albums opener and title Mirage arrives with a coiling vocal mantra that conspires with a sliding bassline and transcendent synthwork, reminiscent of early 70s prog jams yet inverted and futuristic. Taurus is a brisk arrangement, steeped with spaghetti-western elements and space-jazz to pave the way for the agile Kong. Rife with psych-fusion guitar phrases and instrumentation, Kong unfolds like a forecast lysergic voyage. The finale Rattlesnake nudges the serpent with intergalactic scales and spellbinding riffs. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.")
