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Friday 21st November, 2025
Surprise drop today, a brand new digital only 2-track release from Bad Ambulance, aka. Melbourne/Naarm-based experimental juke producer Jack Palmer.
Finally we’re treated to Palmer’s follow up to last year’s breakthrough EP on NM, ‘Intel 95’.
2 tracks of hallucinated juke, vocal automations and warped polyrhythms - ‘Possessor’ hisses and wriggles wildly into surprisingly hazy ecstasy, arpeggiating skyward, whilst retaining Melbourne/Naarm-based producer Jack Palmer’s trademark anxiety rhythms and minor key stress waves. Read more...
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Only available at Bandcamp, Nina Protocol and Souncloud.
Wednesday 19th November, 2025
NM label head Simon J Karis returns to plays live in Melbourne/Naarm 23rd November, 6th December and 19th January following his first national run in 2025.
photo credit: Mark Panizza
Simon J Karis plays 'Smashed Platitudes...' live in Melbourne/Naarm, following his national run in 2025.
Sunday 23rd November
at Suntop Plaza - 241 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East (enter via rear)
with Bad Ambulance, Adam Halliwell (Mildlife, Airpoets, Elations Recordings)
Saturday 6th December
at Bell City Takeaway - 221 High Street, Preston
with Who Cares?, Dylan Martorell (Hi God People, Snawklor), Despair (Harriet K Morgan, Military Position)
Monday 19th January
at The Old Bar - 74-76 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
with Bonnie Mercer
After a quick final visit to Adelaide/Kaurna in November to end Karis' first ever Australian tour also taking in Sydney/Eora, Hobart/Nipaluna and Brisbane/Meanjin, the NM label head returns home for one show a month for the next 3 months. Collected together, these shows are ostensibly a fractured launch for his recent release of material from a live performance protocol he's spent this year refining, entitled 'Smashed Platitudes'. Karis wields a rollercoaster of sound collage, spoken elements both live and recorded, heady pop music references, singing and his trademark synth drama.
LISTEN TO 'SMASHED PLATITUDES'
photo credit: Duncan Marshall
Wednesday 15th October, 2025
Out today, streaming everywhere but spotify - not your average live re-tread; Joseph Franklin & Ben Carey 'a thousand tiny mutinies live' NM064 cassette/digital.
Surrounded by an encircling audience, Franklin’s fragmented acoustic cycles issued from an array of instruments and sources were splayed across 4 channels at Brunswick’s Quadraphonic Club via Carey’s impressively restrained synthesis, software interaction and live engineering, mixed down to stereo for this release. The duo’s staggering meshes lurch from blistering to elongated and back again, often as tactile as they are psychically liquefied, both performances rippling at each other’s wide-eyed interpolations.
Frightening in its unpredictable objectives, this rare capture of a duo in such gleaming, inspired symbiosis does not strike so often. Read more...
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joseph franklin - contrabass guitar and artefacts
ben carey - max/msp and modular synthesiser
recorded live at the quadraphonic club, brunswick
recording engineer: loui froia
mixing and mastering: ben carey
art and layout: simon j karis
Thursday 25th September, 2025
Out now, NM’s mercurial label head Simon J Karis’ has released a new album of spoken/sung voice and blasted musique concrète - ‘Smashed Platitudes Avillion, Abbotsford, Adelaide/Heaps Of Sorrow’.
A new album from Simon J Karis of spoken and sung crypticisms and sentiments, collaged with overblown sounds from locales throughout the broken travelogues navigated in 2025.
This work might seem like quite a turn sonically to listeners perhaps more familiar with his dramatic synthesizer texture studies or indeed his crook fascination with techno rhythm diversions, reflected in last year's 'So Little Sorrow' and his collaboration with Actress (UK) 'THRASH' respectively. But also, he does whatever the hell he wants with every release really so yes, here's an album of Karis breaking things and talking and singing and travelling, pushed into the red.
(Cassette orders will begin shipping Tuesday 30th September, 2025)
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Tuesday 23rd September, 2025
Bassist/composer Joseph Franklin’s NM follow up, accompanied by synth/sound artist Ben Carey in a high resolution live exhange - released 15th October.
Damn, we are so back, here's another one for you.
Today we announce the return of bassist/composer Joseph Franklin to NM in this wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’ revises motifs and prompts from Franklin’s solo bass and extended technique LP for NM in 2024 with spectacular license, captured in stunning high resolution audio.
Listen to a 10 minute excerpt and preorder the limited edition cassette now, exclusively at Bandcamp until the full release on 15th October.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg, design/photography by SJK.
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