Call of the Whipbird

SUBSET (aka Karl Muller) is a New Zealand-born musician/producer/photographer, who has been based in Australia for 20 years. Working out of Brisbane, his deep dubtronic stylings hark back to his Kiwi origins, and despite lacking any vocals or horn section, are reminiscent of Aotearoa dubmasters like Fat Freddy's Drop, Trinity Roots and Pitch Black.

Utilising MIDI-transformed guitar and synth riffs, along with ricocheting reverb and filtered delays, SUBSET's sonic landscapes gently unfold in a fusion of state-of-the-art technology and heady dreamlike ambience.

This extended five-track EP opens with ‘Whipbird Dub’ which features a recording of the distinctive call of the illusive Australian Eastern whipbird, sampled in the Queensland bush. ‘Journey to Tayrona’ is a rather psychedelic guitar and bass-heavy excursion that transforms into the spacey beat-laden ‘Aximal’, before the slow reggae lope of ‘Off the Deep End’ segues into echoing electronic modulations on the closing track, ‘Step Function’.

All up, Call of the Whipbird presents a uniquely Aussie-Kiwi take on Pacific dub, a relaxing Oceanic fusion of both atmosphere and space.