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MONKEY 131EP
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Mahne Frame brings his pan-pacific rave pop back home with a divergent-sounding EP on a new label with Berlin's Monkeytown Records. The Australian musician and producer had spent the last four years developing his kitchen-sink electropunk aesthetic with his own 21 N FUN entity for ideas in Japan, where lyrics of disaffection were dragged through grainy bedroom productions echoing his big beat and post-industrial influences. In finally returning to his tiny hometown of Katoomba -- nestled in the scenic Blue Mountains, and located a hundred kilometres inland of Sydney, Australia -- Frame's latest release, I Gave My Legs To A Snake, loosens its grip on its resentments and eases back into the comforts of wide-open space and geographical isolation. Far from following the globalized trends of the underground, Frame's is simply a response to his environment -- trading the noise and compact mobility of his scooter in a densely-populated Japanese metropolis for the unbothered acoustic explorations of a guitar in the seclusion of the Australian bush. Perhaps, solitude is one of the more constant and adaptable states that ultimately allows Frame a form of connection through art, whether produced from a cramped apartment in pandemic-stricken Tokyo or the vast bushland of Australia's majestic Blue Mountains.
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