Something is amiss.
We have turned our backs on our natural sense awareness. We are in the age of metaverse, unexplained sightings, viruses, reality bending, hyperstition and a global network, for better or worse. Our rational world is yet to provide all the answers and it seems there is a spell, or a curse stopping our ‘best minds’ from coming close to getting a grasp on it.
What do you know? What do you know for sure?
It's our pleasure to release ‘Know Your Mountain’, the latest EP from Booshank, one Melbourne’s more unique producers of mutant and liquid metal techno.
I first heard the music of Booshank (Paul Graham) on his 2013 10” on cult label UNTHANK Records a sub label of Firecracker Records out of Edinburgh, UK.
With each release his music has evolved and morphed into a unique and meticulous blend of electronic sounds rooted in deep hypnotic techno. This is music which evolves so fast and is hard to define within a framework when it seems to come from the outside.
You wouldn’t know he has a studio of hardware synths and an ever growing, seemingly sentient modular rig as his deeply rooted electronic sounds are highly organic, constantly flowing or modulating and seems to come from a wide ranging set of influences outside of the trends or norms of modern club music.
I’m not sure I would define Know Your Mountain as ‘club music’ so to say, it's certainly my kind of club music but it is also very much suited to home listening, The tracks on this release melt down and reform into new giants on a proper rig, they become Sacred Monuments, or Mountains, which the sight of alone may recall the memories of previous pilgrims to infiltrate your mind.
The tracks are subtle but they make use of the full frequency spectrum which brings a comfortable hazy flow yet underlying power to the music.
This EP could only be the work of a producer with a singular vision rooted in experimentation as a sort of self expression and I believe Booshank has wholly unique music to offer the world.
Know Your Mountain expands on Booshank’s work on his own "Couch Acid Recordings" imprint and his 12” on Butter Sessions 2019 12” "Operating With A Blown Mind" but with this new EP. Booshank guides you through panoramas of ethereal organic technology, before you know it the cloud has dispersed and you are being led through a molecular crypt in total immersion.
It is a fine and delicate practice when you stray from functional music but these aural gems show a producer who has gone off the deep end in pursuit of his own musical vocabulary. The augmented percussion, precarious pads and glowing synths dance on the edge of collapsing, and they often do, before long they reform into new chemical compounds of this mad scientist creation.
You may want to start low and take it slow or else risk falling under the dream-like spell’s which are invoked throughout this EP. In my opinion, when confronted with a craft capable of this mystical candor, the only way out is through..
- Repeat Concrete - March 2023
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You can purchase a pro printed, limited edition A3 Print of the artwork which is based off of a collage pieced together by Melbourne based artist Dashiell Howe.
His design work can be seen across many businesses throughout Melbourne and his collages have been a big inspiration for us since day one.
Hindustani music and glitchy ambient co-mingle on the San Francisco-based, New Delhi-raised composer’s lush new album. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 4, 2019
