Singapore-based producer and DJ Bongomann returns with Wake Up / Kick On: a two-track extended release born from a time of hibernation, exploration and introspection for electronic music across the region.
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Five Years: Botanic Records
Botanic Records are proud to present a new compilation marking five years of the label; with 100% of proceeds donated equally to Tenaganita and Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), doing important work for vulnerable communities in our home bases of Malaysia and Singapore.
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BOT008: Walled Garden Vol. 03
The third in our Walled Garden compilation series is out now; six new cuts from a selection of regional producers quietly flourishing between the cracks of an increasingly complex online musical landscape.
Featuring a diverse spectrum of styles and artists from Malaysia, Singapore and The Philippines; Walled Garden Vol. 03 blazes a trail from the DIY jungle studios of Seremban to the backstreet warehouses of Geylang, via the emergent electronic music classrooms of downtown Makati and beyond.
Available now as a name-your-price download (via Bandcamp) and on major streaming platforms. It's also on TikTok, because... why not?
BOT007: wanhanzan - Liminal Being EP
Out today! Singapore/Malaysia-based Botanic Records is proud to announce our third (and final) release for 2018 and the debut EP Liminal Being from Brooklyn-based Malaysian producer wanhanzan.
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Tapes! Stores! Distro!
We've been busy. Our whole catalogue to date is now available on limited-run cassette tape both online here and in quality record stores worldwide. Interested to become a stockist? Get in touch!
Malaysia
TRANSITmart, 22, JLN SS 15/8B, SS15 Subang Jaya, Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
White Label Records, 28 Ann Siang Rd, #01-01, Singapore 069708
Philippines
United Cassettes, Spindle Community Store @ Amorsolo Street, Legazpi Village, Makati, Kalakhang Maynila
United Kingdom
Lobster Records, 5 Sidworth Street, London E8 3SD
Germany
Austria
Minerva Records, Schallmooser Hauptstraße 6, 5020 Salzburg
Online/Worldwide Shipping:
Right here through us (free shipping within Singapore and Malaysia!).
BOT006: Walled Garden Vol. 02
We're proud to announce our second release for 2018 and the second in our Walled Garden compilation series; six new cuts from a dynamic selection of regional producers quietly flourishing between the cracks of an increasingly complex online musical landscape.
A shade under 30 minutes, the release features artists from Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines and Indonesia, covering a diverse musical spectrum traversing hazy house, tropical electronica, classical piano through to esoteric ambient.
Walled Garden Vol. 02 will be out May 1st as a free download through Bandcamp, for streaming via the usual suspects and on limited-run cassette tape. Don't sleep.
BOT005: Rao - Let Love Kill EP
Botanic Records' presents a new EP from experimental Malaysian drummer Rao. Fully-formed but deliberately unpolished, the release presents itself as a meditation of found sounds, ambient samples and enthralling DIY sonic landscapes.
Read MoreBotanic Radio Features, August '17
It's been a busy few weeks with the release of our first compilation in late July and a flurry of activity, emails and late nights in its wake.
In radioland, co-founder Tim dropped into the excellent Wavelength on BFM 89.9 Kuala Lumpur to chat with Othniel Ting about life, the label and the what's next. Further abroad, he contributed a rare guest mix for Mexican radioshow and website MITAMINE LAB on Ibero 90.9: a meditative half-hour of strictly regional (SEA/North Asian) sounds.
Listen back to both features below:
Wavelength, BFM 89.9 Kuala Lumpur (Interview)
Mitamine Lab, Ibero 90.9 Mexico City (Guest Mix)
BOT004: Walled Garden Vol. 01
We're very proud to share with you our fourth release, Walled Garden Vol. 01; the first in a series of free compilations showcasing a breadth of new music from across Southeast Asia
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From the new compilation Walled Garden Vol. 01, releasing next Tuesday 18th July 2017.
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BOTANIC are proud to announce our fourth release and first for 2017: a new seven-track compilation for release this July.
Read MoreNow Available: Orang Cassettes
22/12/16, Kuala Lumpur
You asked, we listened. A small run of Orang's critically acclaimed debut EP Everyone are now available on cassette: remastered for the format and professionally printed by one of the last-remaining tape manufacturers in Southeast Asia.
Carefully sourced with custom on-tape lettering and Botanic J-Card.
Limited units are available for Pre-Order via our Bandcamp page. Includes free shipping within Singapore and Malaysia.
Praise for Orang:
“Orang’s spectacular freshman document is at once deeply personal and deftly philosophical.”
“One of this year’s essential Malaysian indie records... something that might happen if you found yourself in between two stages, with The Avalanches occupying one of them and Animal Collective playing on the second one.”
BOT003: similarobjects- Etheric
11/12/2016, Singapore/Manila
We're delighted to share with you our third release and our first from the Philippines: a two-track release entitled 'Etheric' from Manila-based similarobjects, introducing aquatic new depths and euphoric highs to the hard-working producer's prolific resume.
The EP is available to stream below or as a name-your-price download from our Soundcloud and Bandcamp accounts.
“The level of imagination here, the places to which similarobjects promises to take us, are bold and bright, sunk below the sea and somewhere in our thoughts.”