EMPYREAN by Hermetic

Hermetic returns with his new release Empyrean. A fresh dive into future bass and the melodic side of dubstep. Expansive synths, weighty drops, and soaring atmospheres define this EP, delivering both intensity and emotion. Crafted in Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Empyrean captures Hermetic’s evolving sound: immersive, powerful, and unmistakably his own.
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released September 12, 2025

Produced, Mastered & Artwork by Hermetic.
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Boundaries by Hermetic

Queensland-based electronic artist Hermetic returns with a powerful new release, Boundaries — a genre-defying exploration of texture, space, and emotion. Blending intricate electronica with ambient/idm sensibilities and rhythmic tension, Boundaries invites listeners into a world where sound both defines and dissolves the lines between inner and outer experience.

Each track pulses with Hermetic’s signature depth: layered synths, atmospheric sweeps, glitch-laced percussion, and a cinematic approach to structure.
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released August 1, 2025

Produced & Mastered by Hermetic.
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Catharsis by Hermetic

 

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DECODING MESSAGE -

The tide rises and falls

What goes up must come down

We strive for the peak experiences

But we cannot stay on the summit

We all must descend

Burn the dead wood

Purify the flesh to purify the soul

Cast off all that no longer serves you

So you may rise again

Catharsis


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774981: Unification with source is complete

774981: From the top of the mountain you can now see

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774981: From one trunk many branches

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774981: After a fall, return again, rejoice. Your actions are worthy of human character.

774981: Love that to which you go back, and don't return to Philosophy!


774981: Being not doing.


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A prayer of the people of Athens:

'Rain, beloved Zeus, rain on the cornfields and the plains of Attica.'

One ought to pray thus simply and freely, or not to pray at all.


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released August 30, 2024

Produced and Mastered by Hermetic.
Artwork by Hermetic
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Sideways Jonnie by Robodop Snei

Lean back, take a trip into the world of Sideways Jonnie. We all know what it’s like to be lost at some point in life. Sideways Jonnie takes you on a ride through the strife and the struggle and yet offers hope and reassurance. We’re all in this together and have more in common than we realise, particularly in lonely times.
Sideways Jonnie is a chilled out downbeat album that takes you on a deep journey before throwing you back into the world in a positive way. Full of psychedelic tones, textures and colours, the music lifts your mind into blissful spheres while your feet are planted on the ground. On this album, Robodop Snei blends acoustic guitar with modern electronic vibes, before taking it to a whole other level with his spaced-out lyrics and vocals. Take a trip with Sideways Jonnie.

Spotify - spoti.fi/3BAsSHv

Robodop Snei now out on Bandcamp

Slice presents: our 27th release Robodop Snei - Wide Zones 

Robodop Snei - Wide Zones
Sunny days long gone by were captured here and resonate throughout these songs, bringing back the glory of those magical golden sunlit afternoons and summer nights with fireflies, crickets and a beaming moon in the sky. Memories in music, for any other day, to find a peaceful mind - this music will take you there. - Danny.

Robodop Snei is psychedelic electronic music created with multiple analog synthesizers, vsts and other hardware - It's spaced out psychedelic synth pop!

Formed by Daniel Eschbach in the late 90's in Germany, Robodop Snei has been part of the Melbourne electronic underground music scene since 2005. Danny and ​Robodop

Snei have now become a fixture of Australia’s chill spaces with regular appearances at Maitreya and Rainbow Serpent Festivals as well as uncountable club gigs, warehouse and outdoor parties over the years. ​Robodop Snei will be playing at Rainbow Serpent Festival 2020.

Releases: 7 December, 2019 on Bandcamp.
General digital release: 18 January 2020 on all popular streaming sites and retail stores.

All songs written & produced by Daniel Eschbach.
Voice on Strange Offgoings & Keyboard on Sommerling: Luna Shiva. Mastered by Daniel Eschbach at the Robodop Snei Pyramid. Recorded between 2018-2019.
Artwork by Kylie Crombie..
Catalogue #: SLICE027

Throwback Thursday with The Scullamooks...

The ScullaMooks are a Melbourne based two-piece band producing on-the-fly, brain-melting psychedelia.
Their music is unique, rich and eclectic. The ScullaMooks fuse a traditional sequenced/pre-determined style with the natural spontaneity and energy of live improvisation. This marriage lends to a life and energy rarely, if ever, found in Electronic Dance Music with a set BPM. All samples, effects and bass are triggered or faded in ʻreal time ʼ. The drums, kick and keyboard are played live. Nothing is quantized or beat corrected. Nothing is over-dubbed. And above all this, everything is improvised. This is how the ScullaMooks get their unique sound. Real life breathed into the coldness of the digital medium.

From Jack Pilven...
"Things get trippy on here – real trippy. Snippets of LSD-inspired meanderings preface heaving slabs of electronica that bubble beneath the surface before disappearing into the abyss again. Otherworldly beeps, blips, and bursts of noise rain down and sizzle over throbbing bass grooves. Each track is accompanied by its BPM, with most whizzing by around the 130 to 140 mark. It’s all a little disorientating – but that’s the desired effect. The ScullaMooks want to warp your perception of reality without the use of mind-altering substances. Instead, they rely on improvisation, experimentation and mixing ideas together like watercolour to create mind-fucking soundscapes, from the eerie interstellar haze of Earthrise to the bongo-happy Mook Runs The Mushroom Down. Proceedings have an organic feel too with each track slowly contorting into the next."

Album Download & Physical Copies: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-mythology

Beat Review: https://www.beat.com.au/music/scullamooks-new-mythology 

Slice Crew Presents: GEOTECH #2

Slice Crew Presents: GEOTECH #2

Wimmy wham wham wozzle. It's time for another party. Geotech number # 2 is happining at Bar 303 with some wicked eclectic & original electronica from a massive lineup of local artists and producers from around Melbourne. There is going to be heaps of live electronica! Trickbox from (Culture Jam) with a bag full of cheeky tricks to get you moving, 3 piece 'Sikander' playing some Space Disco Psychedelica, LazyboyProactive with live drummer pumpin out future pop electric body music, the all analogue electro duo that is Disco Computer, Jimmi-Woods back and bangin out the tunes, Adsy mixing up a storm sure to make you boogey, Asymmetric showing us how it is done with A grade production, Arcane Trickster chillin the place out launching 'Far from Here", Stickleback that hep cat with the crisp beats launching his new album "Fireworks" and finally Sambot making the place shimmer with whacked out visuals.
Gonna be massive and wicked fun. Hope to see you there! ―Slurms MacKenzie.

Date: 1st of July, 2017.
Location: Bar 303, 303 High Street, Northcote.
Time: 7pm - 1am
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/slice-presents-geotech-2-feat-trickbox-more-tickets-34692387866
Door: $10
Full details and event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1003423079794179

Featuring:

TRICKBOX (Culture Jam)
LAZYBOYPROACTIVE (Slice)
ARCANE TRICKSTER (Tempest)
DISCO COMPUTER
FATE AEFFECT (Slice)
STICKLEBACK (Tempest)
ASYMMETRIC (Slice)
JIMMI-WOODS (Slice)
SIKANDER
ADSY

SAMBOT (Tanglewood) - Visuals

'In Space, In Time And In Life' Launch Party

>> ELECTRO - TECHNO - GLITCH - CYBERPUNK <<

Come down to Grumpy's Green 125 Smith Street, Fitzroy for the release party of Lazyboyproactive's second album 'In Space, In Time And In Life' from Slice Records! The night will feature quality beats from Melbourne local and international producers and sensory bending visuals! From 8pm 'til late

Facebook event details here: 

Featuring:
Lazyboyproactive (Slice Records)
[Live Electro, Techno]

The Databats - Toronto, Canada (Slice Records)
[Live Lofi electronica, Industrial, Glitch]

Fate Æffect (Slice Records)
[Techno, Electro]

INFECTIOUS UNEASE
[Underground Beats]

Asymmetric
[Techno, Prog]

Visuals by:
Ear Mind Eye

Lazyboyproactive
Lazyboyproactive is a live Electronica outlet for Melbourne singer, songwriter, and producer, Ank Juwaheer, AKA "Ankie."
Five years after the release of the Kaos Dream, LazyboyProactive has become a sensational live electronic music act, combining progressive, tech and pop sensibilities with live vocals, guitars, synths and stunning visuals.
The albums features songs like Undermental, Runaway and Supersonic that have a pop rock twist and Electro house tracks like Glitched Monkey and Take this greed that will make the punters dance. It also features chilled out tracks like Parallel earth, Obsession and Future Species.
Bandcamp: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/…/in-space-in-time-and-in…
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/in-space-in-time-an…/id1178816071
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Time-Life-Lazyboy…/…/B01MYPR4XI
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/55hBX2ms54oyUB9zDWMwkVWebsite: http://www.zizacreations.com/lazyboyproactive
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Lazyboyproactive1

The Databats - (Toronto, Canada)
The Databats are an electronic hive collective of noises and thoughts, self-identifying at whatever the midpoint between "band" and "computer virus" is. Across the world & internet, we provide a score for our digital existence. Current server housed in Toronto. The Databats are a computer contaminant, electro-industrial glitch band and art collective consisting of @Wrrrtika And @RasiqraRevulva.
SC: https://soundcloud.com/thedatabats
TB: http://thedatabats.tumblr.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/The.Databats/

Fate Æffect
Behind the veil, amidst clouds and voodoo trinkets, is Fate Æffect (aka Cristian). Inspired by the occult insight, mental illness, visions of dystopia, and his wife Alison as his muse, this industrial and dark electronica project has been producing multi-faceted esoteric sounds since 2003. His work is a vessel for musical experimentation and inspiration unrestricted by genre, flirting with a range of electronic styles from industrial, dark techno, weird bedroom beats and electronica, breakcore to noise/ambient. Often tongue in cheek and an a reason for venting, & alleviating boredom, Fate Æffect’s live setup and production techniques change constantly and aims to create feelings in gyrations of sensory awareness.

BC: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transmuted-volume-1 - https://fateaeffect.bandcamp.com/album/enzyminator
FB: https://www.facebook.com/fateaeffect/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/fateaeffect

Aysmmetric
Melbourne stalwart producer Luke Horsfall. One half of Stepping Inwards; a collaboration in the summertime of 2014 between James Woodcock (Jimmi-Woods) and Luke Horsfall (Dr Squiggle) that has now ended with the two artists focusing on their solo acts.
https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/stepping-inwards

INFECTIOUS UNEASE
Djing since 1989, has been hosting Infectious Unease Radio since 1992 and soon will being hosting a on line radio show on Planet Rave London. His DJing has ranged from specialist events starting at Asylum Nightclub, Blue Velvet (Aeon, Belfry, White Room, Revelations, and Enzyme nights), Pony (Dark Fall Ball), Dream (Demus night), Vedette, Cas Reitops (Dirty Secrets), Horse Bazaar (Dawn Industries Enzyme Night), Abode (Neo Etica) (Subterranean Zone), Mr Boogie Man Bar (Dawn Industries Enzyme Night), Bodega Bar (Subterranean Zone) The Sub Club (Subterranean Zone), Grumpys (Subterranean Zone), Randy Dragon (After Hours) Bar 303 (After Hours) Interzona (Beach on Brunswick). A member of the band Noir Corps. 2010 Released an eclectic and limited edition 4 disc 62 band compilation with his label Infectious Unease Productions and Dawn Industries. Formally a member Dawn Industries Music Collective, the label Dawn Industries, Enzyme (live music events). 2015 One of the founding Events Organiser of “Subterranean Zone” and “After Hours” and “Interzona”.. A self-published performance writer, who has released such books as 2011“Severed Eye”, 2005 “The Poet's Eye”, 2003 “The Deception Of Latex That Causes The Deepest Remark”, 1997 “The Cadaver Restaurant- A Menu Of Short Stories And Poems”, Works On Cd 2010 “ Noir Corps “le terreur”, 2003 “Reflective Return Spoken Word By Gordon Taylor Music By Ernie O”. Had made a guest appearance in the “Hellfire Nightclub Melbourne” documentary produced by Mark Bakaitis in 2010 discussing the music played over the years at this event. 2016 perform as Raven Corps Guard in the Film “Cult Girls" directed by Mark Bakaitis. DJ Infectious Unease loves to explore a plethora of sound and explode it out on the air waves and night clubs. He has no fear of delivering a sound of surprise. You just never know what he will seduce, tantalise and drive all your five senses with.
http://www.infectiousuneaseradio.com/
https://hearthis.at/djinfectiousunease
https://www.mixcloud.com/infectiousuneaseradio-djinfect
https://www.facebook.com/groups/infectiousuneaseradio1992

LazyboyProactive - 'In Space, In Time And In Life' [SLICE008]

Slice Records is very proud to announce its 8th release with an an epic conceptual album from Lazyboyproactive called 'In Space, In Time And In Life'.

Lazyboyproactive is a live Electronica outlet for Melbourne singer, songwriter, and producer, Ank Juwaheer, AKA "Ankie."

Five years after the release of the Kaos Dream, LazyboyProactive has become a sensational live electronic music act, combining progressive, tech and pop sensibilities with live vocals, guitars, synths and stunning visuals.

This album transports the listener into a sonic journey from start to finish. Composed like a symphony, in a 1-3-5 minor progression, all the tracks are linked through the chord progressions. With complex melodies and time signatures this musical masterpiece will impress the modern listener in this day and age. The album although very contemporary and innovative in its sound production is also kind of an old school seventies concept.

The albums features songs like Undermental, Runaway and Supersonic that have a pop rock twist and Electro house tracks like Glitched Monkey and Take this greed that will make the punters dance. It also features chilled out tracks like Parallel earth, Obsession and Future Species.

The eclectic combination of genres and styles makes the album take the listener through a journey In Space, In time and In life.

Download from Bandcamp: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/…/in-space-in-time-and-in…
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/in-space-in-time-an…/id1178816071
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Time-Life-Lazyboy…/…/B01MYPR4XI
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/55hBX2ms54oyUB9zDWMwkV

Slice releases Clouds Above Chaos “Cognitive Fault”

Clouds Above Chaos “Cognitive Fault” is Slice Records 7th release from (Tøn, Broken Window) & (Fate Æffect, Ear Mind Eye).
A journey into the ethereal and the esoteric, up to the interpretation of the listener. Experimental noise, occult industrial, visceral stuff, produced with and
Pay what you want download: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cognitive-fault

Limited edition physical copies of iderdown - astable thought now available at the store!

Limited Edition physical copies of Iderdown's "astable thought" on audio cd in jewel cases now available from the Slice Records store! We did these copies all in house and there is only 10 of them floating around!

Drop by and have a listen to this great sonic landscape of this ambient / experimental album. One you can kick back to and listen to all the way through - just like in the old days!

Get copies from bandcamp here: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Stepping Inwards - SLICE 004

Stepping Inwards was a collaboration in the summertime of 2014 between James Woodcock (Jimmi-Woods) and Luke Horsfall (Dr Squiggle) that has now ended with the two artists focusing on their solo acts. Even though now defunct , the projects sheer quality demands its release.

Stepping Inwards is a journey into the realm of psychedelic techno. From the humble confines of the bedroom studio Luke and James chanted an incantation of the hypnotic, anodised with a layer of brooding intensity. As your hips begin to shake, the music proceeds to cross the blood brain barrier. Each track becomes a neuro-tropical landscape, comprised of deep tech rhythms accompanied by powerful peaks and enchantingly elongated sounds. As the music progresses from track to track this album is bound to stimulate your cerebellum and make you crave the call of the dancefloor.
Download the album here, it's pay what you want!
https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/stepping-inwards

Stepping Inward’s sound captures elements of Techno, Psy and Prog, with their musical inspiration being drawn from artists such as Monolake, Son Kite, Kliment, Claude Von Stroke, Tetrameth, and Sensient, just to name a few.

Slice Comp # 2

Attention all artists who have played at a Slice Event!
We are releasing our second Slice compilation that will consist of two ‘sides,’ Omni Ear and Nexus. Omni Ear showcases the eclectic, freeform side of Slice’s artist base, covering experimental acts, beats and techno, whilst Nexus delivers progressive trance through to the kind of dark psychedelia that clears all but the hardiest of souls from the dancefloor.

Over the last three years we’ve had an opportunity to hold events of an amazingly diverse nature; we want our second comp to highlight exactly where we’ve come from. As a part of this history, we’d love to have you on board!

There will be physical release - A collector’s edition, including 2xCDs and a booklet containing memories from our events as well as artwork inspired by the music contained within. This album will be presented as a seamless release, with each track merging into the next to provide the listener

with a true journey missing from a lot of today’s albums. A digital download of both sides and a PDF with the booklet art will also be available as a bundle through Bandcamp webstore.

If you would like to submit a track for the compilation use the form here or send us an email!

Submission guidelines here.