Nice Music Label
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Since 2016.
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Joseph Franklin & Ben Carey ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’
Cassette, Digital Download, no Spotify
NM064, released 15th October 2025
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Bassist and composer Joseph Franklin returns to NM for a wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’ revises motifs and prompts from Franklin’s solo bass and extended technique LP for NM in 2024 with spectacular license, captured in stunning high resolution audio. Read more...
Simon J Karis ‘Smashed Platitudes Avillion, Abbotsford, Adelaide/Heaps Of Sorrow’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM063, released 25th September 2025
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A drastic left turn from NM label head Simon J Karis, following some notable 2024 output. The manic jubilance of both last year’s ‘THRASH’ (his collaborative effort with UK experimental/club royalty Actress) and his hugely evocative, slightly foolish solo full length ‘So Little Sorrow’ (accompanied by a book of 50 watercolour paintings by legendary ambient musician and visual artist Andrew Chalk) commanded new ears and scratched heads further across the globe than Karis had enjoyed prior. Read more...
Aarti Jadu ‘op.1 ādam’
Digital only
NM074S, released 16th September 2025
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Naarm/Melbourne-based composer, vocalist and multimedia artist officially joins NM with a new single, 'op.1 ādam' - streaming everywhere from mid-September.
Flittering open with its arpeggiated petals and subsuming sub bass tones, ‘op.1 ādam’ immediately breathes through Jadu’s layered autotune vocal gliding across the stereo field. As the bass then relents in waves, a constant arp progresses with tactile kineticism into playful squelching, while obtusely room mic’d flute and clarinet snake into focus. Read more...
Tina Stefanou ‘You Can’t See Speed’
LP/8pp Booklet, Digital Download, no streaming
NM066, released 10th July 2025
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You Can’t See Speed is a limited-edition vinyl accompanying the artist’s major solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Attending to the interconnected and multisensory experience of film beyond vision, You Can’t See Speed features vocal resonances and spoken descriptions written and recorded in collaboration with participants from Stefanou’s film works, alongside music composed by the artist. A cacophony of lived experience, oral storytelling, and vocality. Read more...
Celeste De Clario Davis ‘Resurrecting Light’ Book
NM067B, released 11th December 2024
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Through 70 pages of black-and-white photographs Naarm/Melbourne photographer presents a poetic interplay of abstracted archival material and original imagery, offering a nuanced exploration of overlooked compositions within photographic archives. Read more...
Simon J Karis ‘So Little Sorrow’
(with illustrations by Andrew Chalk)
CD + Book, Digital Download
NM059, released 15th November 2024
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An epic rollercoaster of high resolution noise and emotional heft, accompanied by a book of watercolour paintings by legendary ambient musician Andrew Chalk...
Impermanent Geophonic Dreamer ‘Érodé/Tunnahan’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM057, 10th October 2024
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Astonishing field recording and collage of Victoria’s most unhospitable coastline from southern France’s Guillaume Malaret, head of Le Cabanon Records...
HHOST ‘Ladder To Wave’
CD, Digital Download
NM053, 26th Septmeber 2024
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Completely bonkers two-step noise burst breakdown in high resolution audio from anonymous Australian producer...
Rita Revell ‘Folded Volume 33’
CD, Digital Download
NM055, release 31st July 2024
A moving diaristic electronic collage from mercurial Naarm/Melbourne producer following a series of self-releases...
Actress, Simon J Karis ‘THRASH’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM058, 25th July 2024
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Legendary UK producer teams up with NM label head for a rambunctious electro workout, meeting at the pair’s nexus of noise logic and club-adjacent form...
Absurd Cosmos Late Nite ‘Where The Streets Are Safe For The Little Guy’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM054, released 18th July 2024
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Mark Groves returns to NM with an often hilarious collection of codeined diatribes on modern cuisine and pointless cultural conjecture...
Alastair Galbraith ‘Lagash’
LP, Digital Download
NM060, released 23rd May 2024
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NZ tape music idol and outsider songwriter presents a four track full length release on NM, with guests Chris Heazelwood (King Loser) and Jackson Harry (The Aesthetics)...
Bad Ambulance ‘Intel 95’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM051, released 22nd May 2024
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7 tracks of variegated juke complexities and dismantled electro/breaks concepts from Naarm/Melbourne producer Jack Palmer...
J. Campbell ‘Erosion Of Memory’
LP, Digital Download
NM061, released 17th April 2024
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Jason Campbell’s (aka Collector) profound innervision - a dramatic sandstorm through near-beatless landscapes, mapping intrinsic understandings of family, familiarity and firmament...
Joseph Franklin ‘a thousand tiny mutinies’
LP, Digital Download
NM049, released 5th March 2024
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Solo electric bass voyages in unhinged polyrhythmic expression and textural investigation...
LOU ‘Soundtrack’
LP, Digital Download
NM052, released 20th February 2024
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Sarah Hardiman (ex-Deaf Wish, Moon Rituals, Brick Head) takes huge leaps onward from the eternal glimpses of reduced rock washout on their debut, with a plaintive, intricate set of arrangements and unexpected instrumentation...
Match Fixer ‘Hits For The Bin’
CD, Digital Download
NM043, released 9th November 2024
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Andrew Cowie (of Angel Eyes, Glass) populates the glowing expanse of his sound world with restrained beat structures, cloaked in his signature drift and squelch...