As we enter into the season of giving we here at Feral Media have a special gift for you.

Hinterlandt Presents: Through The Motions is our latest release and is available as free download from the Feral Bandcamp store.

Through The Motions is a curated compilation evolving around the Hinterlandt track Motion, taken from his album Migration Motion Movement released earlier this year.

A couple of months back Hinterlandt (aka German-born musician Jochen Gutsch) asked fellow Australian artists AFXJIM, Broken Chip, Godswounds, Lawrence English, Puzahki, Seaworthy, Simo Soo and Telafonica to create new pieces based on a handful of tiny sound snippets from the original track.
The resulting compilation is breathtaking and the inividual tracks are as diverse as the artists themselves.

So finish the year on a high-note and head here to grab your copy

Gentleforce (aka Eli Murray) has recently collaborated with fellow Sydney artist Westernsynthetics on the latter’s latest EP No Holiday.
Eli provided the wonderful cover art for the EP and has documented the process on his website. There you will also find an interview between Eli and Rhyece O’Neill (Westernsynthetics) on the EP and the subsequent artwork.

In addition to this Eli has remixed a track from Westernsynthetics album May Day Radio released last year on the Sub Continental Dub label. Check out the result below….

101010 (Gentleforce’s “Hidden Basement Tape” refix) by Gentleforce Mixtapes

Danny Jumpertz (Alpen) is Feral Media’s founder as well as a prolific producer (Underlapper, Minimum Chips, Barrage, The Emergency).

Lost Friends is Alpen‘s first release since 2008 and was the last project recorded at the original Sydney Feral Media warehouse prior to Danny’s move to New York City 12 months ago. Collaborators on the EP include Jon Tjhia (ii, Aleks and The Ramps), Matt Burgess (Wicked Miranda) & Greg Seiler (Comatone).

A long-awaited Alpen full length album, Inside The Sky is due in September 2011. Lost Friends is a free digital-only release & features 4 new tracks.

Download the EP now, and follow Feral Media on Facebook for more updates on the release of Inside The Sky. Listen to more music at Alpen’s Soundcloud page.

Feral Media artist Gentleforce (aka Eli Murray) has recently submitted some new music to the US based site You Are Listening To Los Angeles.
The site uses a radio feed from the Los Angeles Police Department and fuses it with ambient drones, noise and synth based music from various artists via the soundcloud platform. The result is an ever-evolving film score to what has been described as “the pulse of the city”.  The site has now been expanded to also include feeds from New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Montreal.

You can read an interview between Eli and site creator Eric Eberhardt on Eli’s blog

Drinking Dust is the first single from Underlapper’s forthcoming album Softly Harboured – their first since 2007′s acclaimed long player Red Spring.

Drinking Dust is now available as a free download from the Underlapper bandcamp page and features both a second cut from the album as well as remixes from fellow Feral artist Cleptoclectics and Brisbane indie-electro outfit Re:Enactment.

Download the free single now & follow Feral Media on Facebook for more updates on the release of Softly Harboured.

Seekae’s John Hassell released his debut solo album on Feral Media last year – ‘The Warmest Static’, released under the VORAD FILS name. This month sees the release of another solo album, dropped under an entirely different alias – PEON. Hassell has been recording and collaborating as PEON as part of Sydney’s ONEOFOUR COLLECTIVE – a group of local producers who come together regularly to share ideas, perform and release a series of exquisite mixtapes (download for free at oneofour.net).

PEON’s ‘Aston Dilla’ is a collection of 16 tracks that pushes Hassell’s sound in a clear trajectory towards a land inhabited by screwed hip hop vocals, crooked beats and sumptuous electronica. And both fans and haters of Beyonce and Christina Aguilera are sure to find common ground in PEON’s covers of ‘Say My Name’ and ‘Can’t Hold Us Down’.

And perhaps best of all, ‘Aston Dilla’ is available as a free download.

Underlapper and Gentleforce have gotten together to create a mixtape in the lead up to Underlapper’s new album Softly Harboured due for release early 2011. Here is what Greg Stone from Underlapper had to say about the mix:

This mix is somewhat of a taster for the forthcoming Underlapper album Softly Harboured which is set for release in the coming months. The idea of making an eclectic mix has always interested me and in fact the first two tracks were actually the starting point many years ago. A couple of months ago I finally decided to pursue the idea further and began to compile more tracks which not only fit together but also represented some of the artists and genres that have either directly or indirectly influenced me recently. In addition to this the mix also features a couple of tracks from the new Underlapper album as well as our contribution to the recent Strain of Origin release by Feral Media and loFly records. Once the tracks were compiled I approached a very close friend of the band Eli Murray (aka Gentleforce) who has a penchant for mixing a wide range of styles in his DJ sets and has always been a great source of inspiration over the years. I consider this mix to be the next instalment in what will hopefully be many more collaborations between Underlapper and Gentleforce.

Listen or download the mix below and stay tuned for more news on the release of Underlapper’s new album!

UnderForce Mixtape by underlapper
Tracklisting:

• Pulse All Over – Boom Bip / Motion Picture Soundtrack – Radiohead
• Hlibt – 48/4
• Sippy Cup – Shlohmo
• Between Teeth – Underlapper
• Introduction – Rothko / Rapping 4 Money – cLOUDDEAD
• Let It Go (FlyLo remix) – Reefer
• Rowboat – Fourcolor
• Surprisingly Concerned With One Another – Octavius
• Nordic Laurel – Baths
• Sunlight, Heaven – Julianna Barwick
• Elephant Shoe – Underlapper
• When We Were Young – W-H-I-T-E
• Breathing Rapture – Le Loup
• Springboarder – Parades
• Into The Light – Skyrider
• Asia (oOoOO remix) – Salem
• The Rattle (Underlapper remix) – aheadphonehome

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Restream – Eric Ambler (Alpen’s Amble With Eric) by feral-media

‘Softly Harboured’ sees UNDERLAPPER again delving into new musical territories, capturing the sound of the band’s live performances. The influences are still varied, yet the songs are more cohesive and show a progression from their previous work. Vocals and live drumming play a more integral part in the music and the sound is further expanded with cello contributions by Peter Hollo, and vocal contributions by members of Parades, Kaya and a return performance by Holly McKellar.

Parades – Hunters (Underlapper Remix) by feral-media

Catch up with UNDERLAPPER on Feral Media:
FM54 | Red Spring Remixes
FM36 | Red Spring
FM16 | What Came Forth From The Sea