ROOM40 » DELIVERING SOUND PARCELS FROM THE ANTIPODES SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY...

NEWS

05.05.2008 - New Releases!

Folks... New discs are now available from us here at RM40 HQ.

Ueno - Sui-Gin: 12 String Acoustic Guitar & Moog Ring Modulator jams from Japanese guitarist Takashi Ueno - member of Tokyo's flourishing Tenniscoats.

Leighton Craig - 11 Easy Pieces: A warm collection of distorted hymnals for Casio Keyboard from Brisbane resident Leighton Craig (recently featured in the WIRE's Global Ear).

Also, for those of you who haven't seen em otherwise, we've released two digital only beauties into the world over the last few weeks: 'Radio Flirt' by Brandon Labelle and James Webb and Tomasz Bednarczyk's gorgeous 'Summer Feelings'.

25.04.2008 - Time:Date:Space Gallery Editions

As far as room40 editions go they're not more limited than this!

Lawrence English has published a highly limited edition of five works to accompany the recent Kim DeMuth sculpture exhibition Time:Date:Space held at the Jan Manton Gallery.The exhibition featured amazing lightbox sculptures exploring blank public thoroughfares and each of these editions features a commissioned sound work installed during the exhibition and a monochromatic polaroid image collected a points where the sounds were sourced.

Each one is signed and numbered and comes housed in a handsome tin box including an additional archival version of the audio work. There are just two of these available - please email lawrence@room40.org if you're interested in one. The price is $150aud including postage...

09.04.2008 - ROOM40 Radio

Hey Folks! The first episode of what will be an ongoing Radio series from us here at ROOM40 is now available. You can subscribe via our RSS feed using iTunes (go to 'Advanced' > 'Subscribe to Podcast...' and paste the RSS feed address in the box that comes up) or whatever other methods you are accustomed.

Also! Steinbrüchel's 'Opaque' is now TOTALLY SOLD OUT from us. But if you are quick you can probably pick up a copy from one of our retailing friends such as posteverything...

30.03.2008 - Cover Art By:

This nice new collection of contemporary sleeve art (edited by Adrian Shaughnessy - ex-Intro) is available now. Featues interviews and sleeve shots from the who's who of the contemporary micro-label massive! including Touch, 12k, Häpna, Kning Disk, Bjorn Copeland/Black Dice, Entracte and a stack of others including us here at ROOM40. Published by Laurence King.

25.03.2008 - Saya in London 13 April '08

For those of you in old blighty - Saya, Tenniscoats' vocalist / multi-instrumentalist and primary songwriter touches down in London for a rare solo spot to open Dalston's latest live performance space CAFE OTO with a set of inspired psychedelic avant-pop. Tickets are a mere £5 and available from wegottickets.

Tenniscoat's other half - Ueno - meanwhile gets ready for the release of his set of guitar/ring-mod jams on ROOM40 - the stellar Sui-Gin.

28.02.2008 - D-FUSE Video

The Quicktime/Apple website is hosting Latitude_Redux, a condensed extract from D-Fuse’s live sonic cinema performance with the split screen representing the 2 screens used in the live show. It is inspired by the notion of drifting through the land + soundscapes of China and uses fragments of conversations, lights, + architectural forms to trace the multitudes of paths, identities + influences which make up the rapidly changing urban environments of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing.

D-Fuse perform at the Sound Polaroids festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 28th March.

27.02.2008 - Cooper/Abrahams...

"The phrase 'Oceanic Feeling' belongs originally to Romain Rolland novelist and friend of Sigmund Freud. In a letter to Freud, which is quoted at the begining of 'Civilisation and It's Discontents' (1930), Rolland described a 'feeling', on which he believed all religious sentiment was founded: 'Its is a feeling which he would call a sensation of "eternity", a feeling of something limitless, unbounded - as it were "oceanic"...it is a feeling of an indissoluble bond, of being one with the external world"
Robyn McKenzie, Like Arts Magazine - summer/autumn 1997/8

"Here I am before the sea; it is true that it bears no message"
Roland Barthes, Mythologies

BUY DISC ($30 ppd) | READ MORE ABOUT 'OCEANIC FEELING - LIKE'

20.02.2008 - March issue of the WIRE

Check the latest WIRE for a great feature on things going down in our home town here. Check the WIRE website for their related MP3 special.

Also a top review of Tim Hecker's Norberg: "Hecker's strongest sounds shine amid the pollution outside - akin to the northern lights bleeding into streetlights"

10.02.2008 - Lullatone, Sound Polaroids + more

Stoked to announce a stack of shows coming up. check em out!

09.01.2008 - Discount Pre-orders

Well, the Xmas in October deal might be over, but we thought we'd keep things sweet in '08 by offering folks the chance to pre-order any upcoming ROOM40 titles for AUD$25. You can then sit back with a spare fiver, knowing that your purchase will be sent to you the day it hits our shelves here.

Looking like a good year ahead, too with forthcoming releases by erikm (February), Takashi Ueno (March) and Leighton Craig (March).

We've also got a digital only release coming in March from Tomasz Bednarczyk, a young artist from Poland - certainly one to look out for!