Compilation NWA024

Compiled by ‘transient ambient’ group Worlds Only, featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities.

‘Community’ in experimental music is a nebulous thing. Online, it is sprawling and vaporous; on the ground, it can be covert and often short-lived. Tenuous though it may be, a strong and active community is critical for our sustained interest and sustained practice, and is often the balm we need to steady our anxious minds.

As we consider what community means in the common era, we turn to Worlds Only, an itinerant group of artists who celebrate collective creative action. Their presence may seem nascent, but their connections to New Weird Australia stretch back to our genesis, fifteen years ago. Their extended family, represented here, likewise features label community old and new.

This compilation, the 31st in our canon, represents longevity and resilience as much as variation and vigour – delivering the requisite yin/yang for a healthy community, one that exists today and persists tomorrow.

Tracklisting.

1. Tracy Chen – Something true (draft) 01:29
2. Aarti Jadu – ostuni 03:40
3. Makeda – Blue Eyes 04:50
4. CORIN – retorno 04:58
5. mara – Arthur 03:39
6. Worlds Only – Bingo 07:57
7. Match Fixer – Dozing in the cool air 04:24
8. lu9a – Ma Fi 06:24
9. Deep Phase 1 – The Abyss 05:05
10. Rory J S – 26 02:43
11. T. Morimoto – cold rock 04:36
12. Earth Coincidence Control Office – A Pit A Labyrinth 03:51
13. Flirting with Shadows – 我想你了 03:45
14. Del Lumanta – Guiding Spectres 08:29
15. akka – solemn debt 05:21
16. Blue Divers – Last Place 03:25
17. Oscar Key Sung – last day of june 03:02
18. Tzekin – Not An Angel 04:46
19. Wytchings – Crop Circles 03:52
20. AnSo – silent destruction 04:33
21. Ivan Vizintin – Don’t Play the Wordle 01:43
22. Source Decay – I Wish You Knew Me In December 04:45
23. Monica Brooks – Morph For Puddles 12:19
24. Tzekin & Ali – Dislocated Improv 08:32

Released June 14, 2024

Compiled by Worlds Only
Mastered by T. Morimoto
Artwork by Alexander Tanazefti

Worlds Only is:
Alister Hill
Darren Lesaguis
Jenny Trinh (Wytchings)
Justin Tam (Tzekin)
Reginald Harris
Thomas William Smith (T. Morimoto)

All proceeds from the release on all platforms will be donated to organisations delivering mutual aid on the ground in Palestine, and to recently settled Palestinian refugees.