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Welcome to Psy-Harmonics
Australia's pioneering independent electronic label and online shop
Home to Hesius Dome, Snog, Black Lung, Shaolin Wooden Men, White Noise Carousel, Rip Van Hippy, Ollie Olsen, Joujouka and many more great artists from Australia and beyond who continue to develop and explore the vast territories of our sonic landscape.
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Psy-Harmonics Online Shop
Stocking all available titles in the Psy-Harmonics, Cyan Music & Sub catalogue plus supporting many local Australian independent labels and artists. Importing exclusive and hard to find titles from Japan and around the World.
All prices are listed in Australian Dollars and include FREE postage Worldwide.
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NEW RELEASES
Benza - If CD [Sub]
A man of many guises, Ben Rynderman has led a chameleonic existence in Australia's music industry for many years.
Most, however, will know him as Benza - producer, remixer, DJ and proud Australian export to the international Psychedelic Trance community for over 10 years. Having toured extensively through Europe, Japan, the US, South America, Russia and Israel, Ben has truly established himself as a force in the world's electronic scene.
With if (SUB, 2009), Ben has shown again that he won't be constrained by the parameters of style or genre. Tracks have slowed down, resembling more a psychedelic work in Tech-House than the Housey Psy-Trance of his previous 3 albums. Elements are stripped back, allowing sonic textures room to breathe without the incessant layering of melody. Psychedelic elements are pushed forward as the hero of a soundscape rather than providing decoration for 'hands in the air' moments. Case in point - Jacob, an otherwise ambient chapter of this ambitious album, features a blistering verse from Australian Hip Hop icon Bias B. There is risk here, handled with class.
The album oozes sophistication, yet remains entirely humble - inviting a listener to step beyond their preconceived sonic notions in to an experience. It really begs the question, if..
Packaged in a recycled cardboard 6 panel gatefold sleeve.
Tracklisting:
1. Core Beliefs
2. Versatile Storage Solutions
3. Something Blue
4. Outsourcery
5. Archivo Corrupto
6. Jacob ft. Bias B
7. Suite For Sharni
8. Barefoot
9. Punchy
10. Jacob at 124
Order Now for $22.95 includes free postage (click the Paypal button)
Black Lung - Full Spectrum Dominance CD
March 2008, in one of the most unusual events in contemporary music history, notable electronic/alternative musician David Thrussell is commissioned by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- a funding body of the U.S Government and the Pentagon) to produce a recording that reflects the ideals and reality of Vision 2020, a futuristic military strategy program that first saw the light of day in May of 2000.
"The design was twofold," Says DARPA media liaison Thomas Steel, "to deliver to the men and women working in some of the Pentagon's most challenging fields an inspiring soundtrack to their daily working lives, but also to present to the general public information and a view hitherto unconsidered of some of the lesser known branches of our military."
Working with a sizeable budget and unprecedented access to defense installations and personnel, Thrussell took over a year to complete the project and wove many field recordings as well as the sounds of sensitive hardware and technology into the final product. One of the greatest thrills for me," says Thrussell, "was setting up a full P.A. inside one of the ICBM silos at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California to run and record the final mix on the title track Full Spectrum Dominance -- room ambience and all!" Incorporated also are actual recordings of top secret military activities in the upper ionosphere generated from the HAARP base in Gakona, Alaska, "If I told you what they were up to there, not only would you not believe me, but I'd still have to shoot you!," chimes in Thrussell with a wry smile.
Asked if he sees any conflict between his latest project and his past stance as a sometimes critic of government and military activities Thrussell is quick to retort, "No, not at all. I see my role first as a musical journalist -- to present the information -- there's plenty of time for editorialising later. And....," he continues enthusiastically, "I've even invented my own sub-genre to describe the album's unique, crunchy, downbeat sound -- Grave-step....." He smiles another beatific smile without the faintest trace of irony.
The project, comprised as it is of both motivational tunes and immersive soundscapes, has already been deemed a success by the personnel at Vandenberg, if play counts on iPods and over the base address system are anything to go by. The DARPA Arts Liaison Fund is proud to present the new Black Lung album Full Spectrum Dominance. Available to the general public June 2009.
Track Listing
1. Imperial March
2. Hostmen Of Tyne
3. Full Spectrum Dominance
4. Territorial Imperative
5. Regulator Plot
6. Great Unconscious
7. Wonderful Wizard Of Ounce
8. World Without Us
9. Feminine Void
10. Neuroses Of Nostalgia
Various - CONSUME Psy-Harmonics Vol.6 2CD
Celebrating Over 15 years, Australia's longest running independent electronic label, Psy-Harmonics, releases it's long awaited and highly anticipated sixth compilation 'Consume' featuring a vast severing of cross genre splitting electronica and beyond, spread out across two discs from a selection of artists who represent the sound and artistic vision of what Psy-Harmonics has to offer. A complete smorgasbord of electronic sounds is represented by artists such as Shaolin Wooden Men, Mimesis, Ad Astra, Black Cab, Snog, Black Lung, Antediuvian Rocking Horse, Ai Yamamoto, White Noise Carousel, Pompo's Paw, Zen Paradox, Data Corrupt, Hesius Dome Hideyo Blackmoon, The Mutagen Server (Ollie Olsen & Steve Law), Rip Van Hippy & Rie Lambdoll, Boy is Fiction uvAntam.com (Japan) and a new track 'Chela' from pioneering 60's electronic band 'Silver Apples'. Then there are the remixes; Japanese psychedelic jam band Dachambo is remixed into a frenzy of avant-polyrhythmic house beats courtesy of EYE (Boredoms) & Sinkichi, Ollie Olsen adds his electronic genius to the furious nu metal thrasher 'Meat Blaster' by James Hogg, Melbourne electro cabaret act 'The Tenth Stage' get the danceflooor treatment from German techno legend Lukas Greenberg (Plastic City), and UK electro break artist, SIR REAL remixes and reconstructs Black Lung & Snog.
Rip Van Hippy & Rie Lambdoll - Searching For Love (Digital Release Only)
Rip Van Hippy teams up with Rie Lambdoll from Osaka, Japan for a Digital only album release.
" i first met rie lambdoll in japan,on sado island at the rolling thunder party in 2003,the party was forced inside the hotel by a full howling typhoon,rie invited me to have an acoustic jam with the band freeman that she was playing with in those days,it was a great jam,and for the last piece of the evening she sang the billie holiday tune "dont explain" i was blown away by her singing and melodica playing,and while chatting later i asked her to send me some vocals so i could make a few tracks,sometime later the first load of songs arrived,once again i was blown away,this time by her original lyrics,so as time allowed i got busy in my studio,i asked for more tracks so we could have a complete album,and eventually "searching for love" was completed.although rie's focus is on the experimental side of music with her osaka based bands teresa11 and crossbred,her musicality is undeniable and her songwriting and programming skills are considerable,so enjoy our collaboration" ...................rip van hippy
Snog - City EP/CD
o what is it with these SNOG guys? Just when we have them all figured out as agit-prop electro propagandists they go and drop a brand new CD-EP the title track of which (City) is an electro "power ballad". And a strangely affecting and even touching electro "power ballad" at that. Don't they know that electronic bands are meant to just make the same record and over and over again? Sheeesh. This could really upset the apple cart.
And what's with those new collaborations with those denizens of the dubstep deep Monster Zoku Onsomb? Are they weird but kinda catchy or what? And Thrussell (if it really is Thrussell?) now he sounds a bit like a mutant Berlin cabaret singer from the 1920s over an elastic mashed-up beat. This really is too much.
And then they bring out the remixes, The Calculator's svelte dancefloor killer,Curse Ov Dialect's straight-up insanity and to top it off right near the end of the record there is some guy sounds like he is singing songs around a camp fire to a bunch of Girl Guides. ....What the freak is going on here?
Now Available online
Snog - The Last Days Of Rome (Album ) CD : Exclusive Packaging + Bonus Tracks
As should be obvious to any erudite observer there are no parallels here with the contemporary world stage at all. And so it is that Snog turn their back on their most recent outings of barbed satirical electro-punk and instead offer a new brand new album of historical narratives and charming tone poems set in palatable electro-pop surroundings, The Last Days Of Rome.
Exclusive Australian Pressing includes 4 exclusive bonus tracks, exclusive cover art, and deluxe digipak packaging with 12 page booklet
Snog - The Last Days Of Rome EP CD
Just when you thought contemporary music had nothing new and exciting to offer here come SNOG to save the day!!!
'The Last Days of Rome' is the new SNOG single (and the first single from the forthcoming album of the same name). Is it Leonard Cohen (with its perversely apocalyptic lyric and delivery) or is it Public Enemy (with its slinkey hip-hop beat and grinding guitar motif)?
Well, what it really is, is something completely new! Sliding between genres like they slip between hot-tubs. 'The Last Days of Rome' is dark, powerful and totally catchy, a sleek meaningful beast. Produced by The Calculators (The Faint, Adalita and many others) and featuring the sweet voice of Mr. Royce Doherty, the collapse of civilization has never been this groovey before!
Adding to the celebratory atmosphere is an extrordinary downtempo remix by UK Electro legend Sir Real and three brand new tracks which will not appear on the forthcoming album.
'The Sickness' is a collaboration with Berlin ambient beatmeister Hecq, 'The Prisoner' a collaboration with deviant dubstepper The Nam Shub of Enki and the authentic bluegrass number(!) The Day the Towers Fell was written for Grand Ol Opry star Porter Wagoner.
Closing out the single is a most surprising acoustic version of The Last Days of Rome.
Party like it's 699A.D!!!
mimesis -art imitating life CD
Mimesis is a new recording project featuring the poetic words and voice of one of Australia's most prominent singer/song writers, Steve Kilbey (The Church) and the stunning complex ambient music of Melbourne based producer Simon Polinski (Hesius Dome/Ornament) along with Colin Berwick (Big Country), David Abiuso (My Friend the Chocolate Cake/Victorian State Orchestra) and guest musicians, Geoffrey Hales (Rip Van Hippy), Ollie Olsen & John Kilbey.
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