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Terrain by Operation Midnight Now Available

Terrain is Jonathan Wolfe’s debut EP under the moniker Operation Midnight. The Melbourne-based electronica producer has experimented with electronic music for many years, incorporating it into other projects. In 2020, Wolfe spent his creative time writing and recording tracks as a way to escape the doldrums of a long pandemic lockdown in Melbourne. Over the following two years the project gradually evolved into improvised synth patterns, electro-house beats, analog arpeggios and classic wave-synth leads.

What has subsequently followed is Terrain; an EP full of retro ambient chillwave, driving chiptune and dreamy nostalgic synths, committed to tape in early 2022 after Wolfe purchased a Moog Subharmonicon and began feverishly sketching out spontaneous polyrhythms and grainy synth sounds. The result is a hybrid of retro inspired electronic music with emotional resonance – a colourfully saturated and welcoming analogue oddity that has since been described as a “retro-future daydream”.

Operation Midnight’s EP Terrain is available now through Wildlore on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp.

Terrain EP, by Operation Midnight

5 track album

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Any word on the release date for 2 Bears? We are looking forward to the album...

Hello, yes it was unfortunate for the long delay. Complications arose, but the piano is being re-recorded in the next week or so and then it just needs to be mastered, so early in the new year for digital, following will be vinyl. 

Best,

Jona

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2 Bears is still on its way!

There has been a further delay on the release of 2 Bears. However, Byron and Conolly are finalizing distribution and final track listing etc. Now expected to be released early 2019.

Recorded by Neil Thomason and mixed and co-produced by J. Byron. 2 Bears is a strange and wondrous journey from suburban sprawl and back into the deep woods, as man questions the nature of his inner animal.

The album was successfully crowd funded with Pozible, however the initial release will be digital with a further delay on the vinyl pressing.

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Jona Byron / The Backbone of Night (single)

Jona Byron / The Backbone of Night (Single)

 The Backbone of Night is a collection of tracks taken from recordings made between 2005 - 2010. What makes this particular collection of songs special is that they were created during a time of great turmoil, and each song echoes the heartbreak, loss and confusion that Jona was experiencing during this time. It is an album predominately about the night, and the nocturnal happenings in the hours when no one is awake but two lovers who should not be drawn together but are.

The Backbone of Night is a dark and brooding record that sparkles like a diamond in a coal mine. It might not be a record you will dance to, but it will certainly stick with your soul. Have a listen to a preview below of Hearing is Believing.