tracks

Body2body
Ui Ya Uia
Spirit Beat
Hi Gloss (Manicure)
Afterlife Lifestyle
Raw Vision
XXX (Outback Latex)
Zeus Zam

notes

Afterlife is the fittingly-named sequel to 2012’s Life, and sees the eight piece group venture into deeper, darker, more urgent territory. Chanted female vocals, pitched down male vocals, wild sax and horns coalesce into something uniquely antipodean, a bluestone back-alley hallucination that NO ZU call Heat Beat – a nocturnal sex dream bringing together no wave, funk, house, techno, and global percussion.

According to band leader Nicolaas Oogjes, Afterlife explores themes of human beauty, body movement, BDSM, belief systems, mortality, immortality, the fetishisation of Australian colonial invasion and destruction of land/cultures, all sung in dynamic dancefloor metaphors.

credits

Artwork By, Design, Layout – Jordan Dolheguy
Bass – Adrian Vecino
Composed By – Adrian Tregonning (tracks: A4), Nicolaas Oogjes (tracks: A1, A4, B3), No Zu (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B2, B4), Becky Sui Zhen, (tracks: A1)
Drums – Andrew Noble
Keyboards [Cs30], Mastered By, Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Nao Anzai
Percussion – Mitch McGregor
Photography By – Nadeemy Betros
Saxophone – Cayn Borthwick
Synth – Adrian Tregonning, Kieran O'Shea
Trumpet – Adam Friedman (5)
Vocals – Daphne Camf
Vocals, Percussion, Trumpet, Synthesizer, Other [Beats], Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Nicolaas Oogjes
Vocals, Synth – Becky Sui Zhen,

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