indie only magenta vinyl version - A heavy new compilation from Brownswood shines a light on the independent underground in Melbourne, where a close-knit collection of artists have taken cues from soul, jazz and club culture to carve out a fresh Melbournian sound. Featuring nine different groups, many of them sharing members and studios, the record surveys the musical contours of this bubbling scene, nodding to house, broken beat, samba, p-funk and soul.
Recorded over a week at The Grove, a fabled house- cum-studio in the North Melbourne suburb of Coburg, it’s home to the record’s engineer, Nick Herrera, and two members of Hiatus Kaiyote, the city’s breakout gangster-soul dons with whom many of the record’s personnel have collaborated. Silentjay was musical director, the Rhythm Section-af liated multi- instrumentalist and producer (who’s played with Joey Bada$$ and Flying Lotus) marshalling together the album’s different players, many of them part of in uential collectives 30/70 and Mandarin Dreams.
Nurtured in the city’s collaborative, close-knit con nes, the scene has been bubbling up under the radar of Australian music institutions, in the garages and makeshift studios of Melbourne’s suburban sprawl. Sunny Side Up is a colourful portrait of the scene’s potential, exploring the story behind this flourishing period and shining light on some of its most compelling figures.
| A1 | –Phil Stroud | Banksia | 6:30 |
| A2 | –Dufresne (2) | Pick Up / Galaxy | 6:27 |
| B1 | –Kuzich | There Is No Time | 6:26 |
| B2 | –Audrey Powne | Bleeding Hearts | 6:28 |
| C1 | –Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange | Powers To (The People) | 6:02 |
| C2 | –Laneous | Nice To See You | 3:39 |
| C3 | –Silentjay | Eternal / Internal Peace | 8:52 |
| D1 | –Horatio Luna | The Wake-Up | 7:33 |
| D2 | –Allysha Joy | Orbit | 6:58 |
