Music

Martin Martini - Monkey & Sardine from Jim Batt on Vimeo.

En las noches de luna llena
Janaina tiene su encanto
y en la orilla se oyen tambores
tejidos de arrollito y flores

Soloina
princesa divina
Soloina
princesa divina
Janaina
princesa divina
Soloina
princesa divina

Lulacruza lives between Columbia and California, merging the luscious icaro inspired vocals of Alejandra Ortiz with the infectious percussions of Latin American rhythms. Their second album, Soloina is a visionary exploration into untamed landscapes. Hypnotic chants entwine through crackling layers of effervescent textures. Raw incantations, tribal drumming, and rainbow processing shower over electronic tropicalia.

Galactic Activation drips from the words of Even Dawn - conscious hip hop priestess from the Hunab Ku collective, nu-media lightworkers who create the online 2C Magazine.

Produced by Lulu Madill in the Astral Ave Studios of Buttons Touching post Rainbow Serpent Festival 2009.

For more information and music by Even Dawn, check out: http://www.myspace.com/evendawn

'Cloaked Guerilla' by Melbourne's hip hop consciousness assassin Pataphysics is a preview track from his upcoming full length album due out later this year.

The track explores the politics of resistance by Aboriginal Australia, delivered with Pataphysics brooding intellect. A call to arms for an indigenous uprising or a warning to mainstream Australia that history needs to be rethought - this track is part of the greater development of consciousness about this bitter history and the ghosts which still haunt our land. 

Bunkerfunk is our feature track from Artist of the Month Spoonbill. From his newly released third album Zoomorphic, the track is a finely sculpted taste of Spoonbill's airtight production with it's belly of a whale bass line crunching its way through the  stilted soul vocals that speak volumes without uttering a single intelligible word and gentle stab of synth, almost makes you want to wrap yourself up in the folds of it's lyricless glitch aesthetics.

Omega is the symbol of resistance in electronics, so it seems a fitting symbol for the electric age we live in. From evolutionary science to rhyming the zeitgeist, Hugo 1  has been spinning freestyles around Melbourne since arriving from the UK in 2007. At any concert you might hear his spitfire philosophies on anything from schrodinger's cat to deconstructions of conspiracy theory or cals to spiritual liberation. 

"Ego Eats Your Soul" is one of a series of pieces created by singer Matt Kelly and producer Lulu Madill of  Button Touching. Matt Kelly has become well known in Melbourne while playing with his band The Keepers, but in this piece he has experimented more with sparse arrangements with  hypnotic repetition of the vocals which move from mantra to chant to dark ballad, creating a somber meditation on the nature of ego lost in the human mind. Buttons Touching's gorgeous arrangements underscore the song creating a haunting and memorable collaboration between the two artists reminiscent of Thom Yorke's best creations.