CLOSE COUNTERS Lovers Dance Academy OUT NOW!!
described by FRANK BOOKER as …..
“Close Counters “Lovers Dance Academy”.
It’s only January, and this album isn’t out until February, but I am gonna go on record and say it: If there is a better soulful dance album this year I’ll be amazed! Incredible album of boogie, soulful house and broken beat, full of amazing vocal performances. Take a bow @closecounters 👏
You need this! X ” Frank Booker
November – Live Instore @ Northside Records
This November we host 4 incredible INSTORES in a week – and also Chris’ birthday week!
7th Nov – @audreypowne 6pm
8th Nov – @misskaninna 5:30pm – sharp!!
14th Nov – @__ellathompson__ 6pm
15th Nov – @fultonstreetband 6pm
All local funky super heroes doing their thing to make you dance and share their latest projects with us all. Their records will be available to buy and maybe even get signed!!!
All INSTORES are wild live performances that are free and ALL AGES. Please join us at the exact start time as instores are rather quick, and funky. So funky in fact that at all instores there will be a prize for the best dancer… So much amazing talent is coming out of this town and I’m excited to share it with you guys.
All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
Record Store Day 2024
Come by next Saturday 20th April from 9-6pm to say hi! Come and buy some records! Stay for the bands. Dance to the DJs. Prizes all day long. It’ll be a party.
The incredible EMMA DONOVAN launches her new record TIL MY SONG IS DONE with a full band live performance at 3.33pm. We end the day with the mighty LORD KNOWS dropping their debut release on the day as a 7 piece dubbed out Neo soul trip!DJs playing all day featuring MZ RIZK and EMMA PEEL and Northside crew and more selectors added. All ages – all day.
There will be special RSD LP and 7” releases and of course LOADS of fresh second hand records put out on the day. Expect lots of RSD record packs of sweet surprises too!Soon to confirm more SPECIAL GUEST SIGNINGS stay tuned.This event will take place on the unceded lands of the Wurundrjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation.
INSTORE THIS FRIDAY with MILDLIFE
INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT
MILDLIFE
Live performance
Friday March 1st 6pm (THIS FRIDAY)
To celebrate the release day of the new and third studio album by local hero’s MILDLIFE we are having a party! Get down at 6 to witness the fitness. CHORUS is the dance of an expanding and contracting universe – its groove is forever and always, cyclical and evolving.
As usual all INSTORE GIGS are All ages, and Free and FUNKY! We want you to dance at them. In fact there’s always a prize for the best dancer.
After the gig head over to @runnerup.rooftop to keep the vibes alive and dig on DJs from Licorice Pie.
This event will be being held on unceded land, the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
The Seven Ups: Death of the Old Gods
The fourth studio album from Melbourne’s 7-piece heavy groove combo is an abstruse journey into the darker fringes of instrumental music, drifting from funk to spiritual jazz and through to psychedelic fuzz rock.
Inspired by the catastrophic year that was 2020, the bands recording sessions were rescheduled three times due to extended Melbourne lock downs, before finally being recorded in November 2020. The album’s title, The Old World, refers to life before the onset of the pandemic which shattered 21stcentury humanity’s sense of stability and invincibility. Arcing back to the simplicities and blissful ignorance that existed before the grim onset of empty supermarket shelves, deserted streets and a world locked down.
The album begins with psychedelic-soul lament, Death of the Old Gods, before rolling into apocalyptic-dancefloor-fillers Hold Fast to the Void and Abode of the Clouds, then momentarily mellowing out on laid-back number, Never Again. Side 2 opens with Harry Cooper pt II (a tribute to the bands sax player and a follow up to part I from their 2017 album Drinking Water) before launching into brutal and fiery, The Beast, then finally closing with the epic 12 minute spiritual-jazz title-track, The Old World. The astute listener may also hear sprinkled across the album hints of Afrobeat, Free-Jazz and Stoner-Doom (yep, Stoner-Doom), along with plenty of the bands new favourite instrument, the goat bell.
Released on local Melbourne label, Northside Records, the album will be available on limited edition night-sky marbled vinyl and features cover artwork by Australian artist, Daniel Hend.
The band are taking the new album on the road for a run of tour shows:
July 17 – Howler, Brunswick w/ Thando & Charlie Needs Braces
August 6 – Hotel Westwood, Footscray
August 13 – Republic Bar, Hobart w/ Jay Jarome Trio
August 20 – The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
On The Seven Ups previous releases
“I’ve been playing this little monster to death on my (BBC) 6 music show. It’s raw, it’s gritty, it’s tough as nails.” – Craig Charles, BBC Radio 2 & 6
“Makes us remember how much we can love instrumental music.” – Wax Poetics USA
“As tight as they need to be, and as loose as you want them to be.” – DJ Miss Goldie, PBS FM
“Hugggeeee big band sound – great work guys!! Mad Men fans rejoice” – Rosie Beaton, Triple J