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[: ARTIST..... :] Matter
[: TITLE...... :] Banksia
[: GENRE...... :] House
[: RIP DATE... :] 2022-01-13
[: LABEL...... :] Meanwhile
[: CAT NR..... :] MW025
[: TRACKS..... :] 3
[: SIZE....... :] 56m
[: QUALITY.... :] 320kbps 44.1kHz
[: CODEC...... :] MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
[: ENCODER.... :] LAME
[: URL........ :] https://www.deezer.com/album/284313882

[ ::.. Tracklist ..:: ]
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01. Banksia (Original Mix) ....................... 06:53 
02. Burnout (Original Mix) ....................... 08:52 
03. Magic Rooms (Original Mix) ................... 08:40 

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After an incredible year from which Meanwhile continued to 
release a panoply of stellar music, GMJ and Matter's imprint 
begins 2022 in scintillating fashion. Now, with a quarter 
century of releases under its belt, Matter returns to the label 
with his second original EP in the shape of the 3-track, Banksia.

After an incredible 2021, culminating with the November release 
of his debut Starchild album on Meanwhile Horizons, numerous 
collaborations with production partner in crime, GMJ, and over 1 
million Spotify streams, the Melbourne based DJ and producer 
begins the year with a musical vignette of the highest quality.

Opening proceedings, the title track is a glorious piece of 
trademark progressive house from the Matter production studio. 
As mesmerising as it is powerful, an immaculately syncopated 
percussive and melodic groove combine in joyous harmony as a 
repeated motif waxes and wanes with filtered ease, backed by 
thumping beat and rumbling bassline. Huge white-noise swells 
herald new sonic phases as Banksia builds to a powerful 
crescendo post-breakdown in a spine-tingling second half.

Continuing the deep rolling groove of its predecessor, a seismic 
kick and head-shaking bass pattern form the foundations for 
Burnout. A trademark swathe of filtered synth motifs soon come 
to the fore amongst waves of gently pulsing white-noise risers, 
before an Underworld-esque breakdown of bassline prowess and 
hands-in-the-air synths explode into a third movement. 
Containing all the characteristics for a club-friendly stormer, 
Burnout is sure to fill festival floors over the antipodean 
summer.

The third track sees Magic Rooms complete the triptych with its 
shimmering arp and swung hi-hats. Working together in perfect 
synchronicity, a bassline sequence adds subtle urgency and 
low-end power before an evolving suite of synth elements 
combines in a magical symphony of sound that rises and falls in 
counterpoint glory. A characteristic bevy of reverb-soaked 
white-noise effects add to the sonic dynamism as the track opens 
up post-breakdown into a stunning arrangement of production 
know-how and sonic mastery.

A career that continues to blossom with each successive release, 
Banksia finds Matter coming into bloom once again with an 
iridescent pattern of musical verve.

Directed by GMJ and Matter
Mastered by Cid Inc.
Design by Matter
Text by James Warren

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