Cover design by Daniel Baragwanath Earlier this month, Orphan Records released a various artists compilation titled Or.VA1 for Mental Health Awareness Day on October 10. I took part with a new track from my Tuff Sherm project called 'Ska Console' (coming

More news on the return of Tuff Sherm – last seen on the Squire's Skull 12" for Normals Welcome in 2017 – coming up soon. In the meantime I wanted to provide some links (some with wav-quality options) to a

This is the second of two posts about my involvement with the Sydney Opera House 'Remix The House' project, spanning 2015-17.   In 2017, Club Weld held a residency at the music studios at the Opera House. This tied in once again to

  This is the first of two posts about my involvement with the Sydney Opera House 'Remix The House' project, spanning 2015-17.   Remix The House first came about as a sound project that tied into Vivid Sydney in 2014, with George Nicholas

    Above you can hear my most recent Dro Carey single 'Atmosphere' and its remix, courtesy of Strict Face, both released last year.   Atmosphere first came about during a session here in Sydney with Kwame and Raj Mahal. Going away from that

Header image: Linda Luke - Sediment of the Inland Sea - still from video documentation by Vsevolod Vlaskine 2017   Last year I was involved in sound design for PLATFORM 2017, a set of performances curated by Tess de Quincey and Linda Luke that

  Near the end of January Soothsayer released this track from my Dro Carey project, a dance/R&B song created in collaboration with artists Taliwhoah and Genesis Owusu. I'm pleased to say it's been getting a great amount of support from Triple

  DDD, a Paris record store and label, recently released a reissue of a 1984 album by the experimental ensemble Un Drame Musical Instantané. As you can see from the artwork scan, it comes packaged with a nude, transparent 12" featuring some

    Last year I collaborated with dancer and performance artist Verity Mackey on a project called 'Lacuna,' which was performed over 2 nights at Interlude Gallery in Glebe, Sydney. We were fortunate enough to have the first night's show shot by

Header image - Good Manners Melbourne Music Week Closing Party at the Victoria State Library (Photo - Finding Figaro)     Edit: Looks like the Brunswick Sound mix series has moved or been removed - so please enjoy the other two mixes in

  ALTER is a short dance video I created with Patric Kuo for the 2016 In Motion Festival at AirSpace Projects Sydney. The video was developed over about 12 months.   The process behind ALTER begins with an animated sequence I made while

Edit/update December 2017: Despite my praise about the platform, the third week's mix from the residency has been removed from Mixcloud! I've sent an email to their support team to try and find out why - will report back if

  You can grab Elevate (Feat. Cadell & Chocolate) as a free download here   Following the release of the 'Dark Zoo' EP earlier this year on Soothsayer, which touched mainly on house and UK Garage modes, I wanted to do something that

  This is a free download track that I released late last year. 2015 was a productive year for the Tuff Sherm project, however, the majority of tracks that came out under the TS banner that year were collaborations with Patch

  This is the second video taken from the Dern Work EP that I released in collaboration with Patch Free earlier this year (Zone 3 was the first track to get a video). This is probably my personal favourite track from

  Alba are a Sydney-based production duo made up of Sam Weston and Thomas McAlister. Tom also produces music solo under the alias Cop Envy, while Sam too has solo material forthcoming (no alias, I believe it will be under his

This week Verity Mackey will perform a new solo dance work called Lacuna at Interlude Gallery in Sydney. I have composed the score for this performance - an extended electronic piece that is dominantly concerned with sound design and the conjuring of

  'Odd Dweller' is an older Tuff Sherm track produced in the earliest days of the project. It sat around unreleased for a while, up until its inclusion on the bonus Vault Raider download that came with the Shrapnel Maestro vinyl

  Here's a clip I recently completed for Sydney-based label Cult Trip for their new release by Elite Athlete. I enjoyed working on this video because the sounds in the track were overtly dark and dramatic and this encouraged me to

  Lullabies For Insomniacs was a radio show on Melbourne's PBS 106.7 FM. It remains an ongoing mix series and website run by the show's host Izabel Caligiore. Izabel invited me to contribute a mix for the series so I decided

  Last week Fact Magazine premiered a video I made for one of my own songs, a collaboration with Patch Free called 'Zone 3.' This appears ahead of a full EP on Unknown To The Unknown affiliate Hot Haus Recs out

  I recently completed this video for Sydney duo Polographia, which premiered as a Facebook-embedded promotional clip. The video is for their new single Rhythm with vocalist Jordan Padilla, out on Sweat It Out! Music.   It was a good experience to work

Recently I joined Fenella Kernebone for episode 4 of her new podcast series 'trackwork,' a short-form interview programme dedicated to dissecting one song. The artist breaks the track down to the core stems and discusses the techniques, ideas and stories

  Last week, Blowing Up The Workshop published my entry in their ongoing podcast series. BUTW is an interesting mix series, in that the parties involved are frequently affiliated with 'electronic dance music' in some respect, yet it usually sees the artists

  Here's a recent video that I created for Grey People, for a track called 'Too Much Relevance.' It's from a split 12" with DJ Spider called 'Service Elevator,' which will be out soon on Public System Recordings. It will be

  The album release of the Paint en Pointe dance compositions - out via Where to Now? - comes with some bonus tracks on the digital version - including remixes from Murlo and Cliques. I decided to put together a clip

  With the conclusion of the Paint en Pointe series and the release of the album, I thought it might be a good time to go back and take a look at my first collaboration with Patric Kuo, oingoboingo from 2013.

Header image - Detail from Patric's solo performance during Paint en Pointe V - Paper (Photo by Julian Kuo)     When I first started speaking with James and Matt at Where to Now? about doing the compilation of my Paint en Pointe

  Berceuse Heroique has a new EP on the way from Beneath. This tune, "50/50," is the opening track on the record. I've been a fan of Beneath's productions for a good while now and I was naturally very keen to

  Last year I worked with choreographer Patric Kuo on a 5-month series of contemporary dance performances at Spot81 gallery in Sydney. "Paint en Pointe" saw us create dance works that related to the ongoing exhibitions each month. There were a range of

  Earlier this month Melbourne record label Butter Sessions released a collaborative EP from myself, under the Tuff Sherm alias, with Patch Free, a friend of mine that I've been making house and techno tracks with. The support for the "Party

https://vimeo.com/109208370   Software have just announced the new EP, Childhood Swing, from production duo Tairiq & Garfield. This is the first single, titled HOOD LOW. The work of the twins was previously highlighted in Napolian's Road to Incursio mixtape, with that mixtape

  London label Where To Now? has been a favourite of mine for a while now, putting out exceptional releases from artists like Beatrice Dillon, NPLGNN and Wanda Group. And always with excellent art direction (whether they're vinyl sleeves or cassette

  Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs imprint/entity/SoundCloud account put out an amazing free compilation last week titled #000000 (the hex value for the colour black). As the colour scheme suggests, this was a darker outing than the previous Secret Songs releases. Ryan

Mortal Proxy: Gazeless. Illustrated by Ciona, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Deron Bennett (who also designed the series logo) and written by Eugene Ward. This marks the first of some free short comics published exclusively to this blog! There will be

  Thump has just premiered a video clip for one of the tracks from my latest EP, "Club Injury Handbook," released this month on Greco-Roman. The video for "Monomiles" comes from Aidan Keogh, who has previously created clips for Polographia, Fishing

Ritual is a collaborative project from Tom Smith (AKA Thomas William) and Hamish Dixon (1/2 of Cliques, and AKA 48/4).   This is one of the first completed tracks from the project. It's great to get something so rhythmically intense to work

  This was something quick that I completed over the weekend. I felt a bit of an urge to keep up my work on screen music and sound design. This video was created by opening a very large image in a

  This is a new personal work and the full title is actually "a7ab0c43c548aa19146b3b52bdf77f61" - which is the MD5 code generated for the word 'White.' Possible subsequent videos in the series will be titled with similar MD5 hashes, corresponding to 'Link'

  When I was in London in October last year I met up with Sam Purcell. Sam is head of the Blank Mind record label, where, alongside 12"s from DJ Clent and Alan Johnson, he has released his own music as

  I contributed a mix to The Fader magazine's Fall 2014 series and spoke to them about some of my current projects. This marks the return of the Dro Carey project after some time spent focusing on Tuff Sherm and various

  Today Reckno announced a new limited cassette release comprising two projects of mine - Tuff Sherm and PMM. The 'Gracefully Force Consensus' C60 takes the form of a 'split' artist release between the projects, though instead of the typical 'one

  Just over a week ago Software released a new mixtape spearheaded by my long-time collaborator Napolian. This follows his amazing LP this year which I was fortunate enough to contribute to musically. Road To Incursio is available as a free

  Today Noisey premiered the new video that I created for Melbourne duo GL, for their track Take Me Back. This video clip marks the first time I've extensively used Motion for a music video, as opposed to just using keyframes

  Here is a personal video that I created and scored some time ago that I only recently got around to uploading. The music is performed by a string sextet (two violins, two violas, two cellos) and was originally written as

  I'm very happy to announce that ImPulsTanz, the International Dance Festival based in Vienna, has used my Dro Carey track 'Libera Me' in their official trailer for the 2014 festival. The festival will run from July 17 - August 17

  This remix for DFA came up at a good time as I'd been doing a number of Tuff Sherm productions around this slower sort of tempo, more influenced by Krautrock, motorik or weird disco than traditional house or techno tracks.   The

I spoke to Mark Smith of Gardland recently about some of the specific techniques I use in electronic music production. Even though I don't currently use the Ableton Live software in this process, the Liveschool was kind enough to host the