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Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Since 2016.
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Joseph Franklin & Ben Carey ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’
Cassette, Digital
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
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
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
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...