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🧑 Joe Hardy (he/him) 📍 Eora

👇 writing and photography, mostly about music and culture

For work, I help teams be amazing. You can hire me.
I'm also the creator and co-founder of SydneyMusic.net

Interests: music, community, how people think, photography, social and environmental impact of tech

Perspex @ Studio 178 2/3/24

11 March 2024 @ 08:45
Perspex at Studio 178, 2/3/24 AE-1 / Fujifilm 400 and insane amounts of humidity

Maia Toakley @ Evening Records 4th Birthday 9/3/24

10 March 2024 @ 17:27
Maia Toakley, live at the Petersham Bowlo 9/3/24 AE-1 / Cinestill 800T

Congrats Evening Records! A packed PBC with delightful vibes. Really lovely occasion.


Leichhardt Sunset x Current Energies

10 March 2024 @ 17:03
Leichhardt Sunset x Current Energies AE-1 / Fujifilm 400 double exposure

Had a film mishap yesterday which resulted in this fun accident.

First exposure taken somewhere in a neighbourhood street in Leichhardt.

Second exposure is from the absolutely brilliant mini-festival Current Energies, an International Women's Day celebration curated by Mara Schwerdtfeger. Whole lineup was phenomenal. Go check out the artists: Joyce Hinterding, (can't find a link for Szem), Verna Bloom, Holly Conner / ilex, Del Lumanta, Jacqui O'Reilly. Shouts to the incredible Church St Studios for hosting.


Central Park

03 March 2024 @ 19:51
Central Park in Sydney AE-1 / Fujifilm 400

I absolutely made a hash of the angle I took this at, but I really enjoyed the colour and tone of this shot.


Lavurn - (self-titled)

01 March 2024 @ 15:17
Lavurn - (self-titled) album cover Copyright SUMAC

Believe it or not, it's Lavurn Lee's first ever record under his own name. He's previously released under heaps of aliases like the incredible Cassius Select, Guerre, FAKE, as well as a member of the gone-too-soon-but-fondly-remembered hero trio Black Vanilla (or later BV).

Lavurn hit Sydney's radar initially as Guerre (see: River Hymnal, or here's a clip from a 2011 show I put on in a coffee shop in Epping) - and then suddenly he discovered Maschine and tore off in the direction of Cassius Select's immediately club-focused sparse, clipped, dark beat chemistry (go digging, it's worth it)

This is an interesting new spin that alchemises a little of everything Lavurn's done to date, in a fractured, low-lit, contemplative mood. It draws a little of what you might hear from lo-fi experimental folk you'd find on blogs in around 2008, cloud rap, I hear resemblences to the likes of Timothy Duval or Nosaj Thing, or ambience-favouring R&B like Kelela.

I fucking love it, is what I'm saying.

Lavurn is out through the SUMAC record label that was founded by Jon Watts, DJ Plead and T.Morimoto - all of whom came up in the early 2010s Sydney electronic scene and continue to do incredible things wherever in the world they are.