KCRW’s Global Beat is a sequence highlighting rising artists from around the globe. Our journey started in Australia with KCRW DJ Raul Campos in dialog with Australian music curator Andrew Khedoori. In this spherical of bonus episodes, our exploration continues with visitor curators, because of the help of the Australian Consulate in LA.
The second season of Global Beat is simply across the nook — keep tuned for the massive reveal of our subsequent sonic vacation spot. Till then, dig in, as a result of we’re rolling out some piping sizzling Aussie Appetizers.
Among our coolest discoveries from Global Beat’s first season is Perth, Australia’s force-to-watch Hector Morlet. The lo-fi pop and sepia-toned whimsy of his debut single “Picture Frame” was so instantly ear-catching that it went straight into heavy rotation and landed on our Best Songs of 2021.
Morlet took a break from bed room producing gems to function our tour information by means of the ultimate bonus episode of Global Beat: Australia. His selects keep near house with fellow Perth-based mysterio-synth-popper John Okay Angel and indie producer Broderick Madden-Scott, right here within the guise of his weirdo-pop-rock solo mission HAIRCARE. He sends us off in model through the organic, sultry house vibes of Melbourne’s Close Counters.
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“He’s a little bit of a thriller man, and I do just like the thriller,” says Morlet of Perth’s John Okay Angel, a kindred spirit in crafting slices of off-kilter, bubblegum synth-pop.
Like Morlet, Angel solely lately started releasing music, and his outputs have been making their method throughout the Perth scene.
“No one truly knew who he was for some time, but it surely seems he is a good friend of a good friend that I knew from childhood. Perth’s a bit like that … form of a small city,” Morlet says. “I simply love this music a lot. He’s received a humorous factor happening the place you simply do not know how the hell it got here up in Perth. It’s some form of spooky web factor, which is admittedly superior.”
“HAIRCARE is that this man Broderick [Madden-Scott]. Him and his band make all of it occur, but it surely’s primarily simply him in his studio,” Morlet says. “I observe HAIRCARE as a result of he’s this mainstay recording engineer right here in Perth, and he’s launched 5 or 6 of his personal songs now. I like the lyrics to ‘Choir Boy.’ They speak about rising up in Perth and studying to be an excellent man because it comes. I believe it is fairly relatable for most individuals.”
For his last choice, Morlet shuttles us out of Perth, and straight onto a prototypical Melbourne dance ground. This simmering house quantity strikes an ideal end-of-the-night word — the kind of monitor that’ll ship you house feeling nice, it doesn’t matter what’s come earlier than.
“Close Counters do rather well at mixing digital music with extra acoustic form of sounds. In this tune, I particularly love the acoustic piano that form of peaks in there,” Morlet says. “I’d love to listen to this sort of factor in Perth, however Perth is a little more of a blended bag … This form of file simply reeks of Melbourne. I think about myself out on a Melbourne dance ground listening to this, that is for certain.”
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