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Hugh B - Ordinary Badman 150 12” Vinyl LPs + digital All tracks written, produced and mixed by Hugh B. Recorded in the Gonsch on unceded Gundungurra land. Thanks to: Program Records for pressing Kaloe for graphic designing Joseph Buchan for mastering Rene Vaile for taking the photo on the back cover

Before we drop the ‘Ordinary Badman’ LP later this month, we’d like to highlight some of our favourite Hugh B tracks to date. Hugh founded Outer Time Inner Space (OTIS) records, a brick and mortar shop in Chippendale, NSW in 2015. The store became a local hangout instantly and had a short and sweet run. By 2017, OTIS had shifted into label mode, becoming a home for Hugh and a growing circle of peers and collaborators. Enjoy the selections below. If you like what you hear, there’s plenty more to dig through on the OTIS Bandcamp page — and apparently a bit more on the way, too. Hugh B & Setwun - Yeah Definitely OTIS, 2020 Hugh B - Low Pressure System OTIS, 2018 Hugh B - Transition State (with Jon Watts) OTIS, 2021 Hugh B - Things Can Only Get Worse Not Not Fun, 2023 Hugh B - Another View (Second Evolution) OTIS 2017 Tunnel Dancers - Patterns & Systems Mad Habitat, 2024 Hugh B - Soul Running Repeat Concrete, 2020 Hugh B - Data Freak Repeat Concrete, 2019 The Modern Pop Ensemble - Molly OTIS, 2025

Next Best Effort release ‘Ordinary Badman’ by Hugh B is around the corner 👀 Hugh sent me this album before my bike ride to school one morning and it was love at first listening. Very glad to have been able to work with Hugh on a release after being a longtime fan and friend. Make sure you check out his impressive back catalogue and OTIS records if you’re still uninitiated. More info soon but for now you can hear two songs on bandcamp, cop a test pressing or preorder the album in digi or vinyl formats. It’ll be out around the end of the month Much love to Hugh for all the great tunes and conversations over the years ❤️

A Deep Dance with: 𝑀𝒾𝓈𝒸𝓂𝑒𝑔 𝐸𝒶𝓇𝓁 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝓎 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃 Celebrating 10 years of Moonshoe Moonshoe dipping down to Naarm with the assist from long term comrade Best Effort to celebrate 10 years of the label in the Attic Take your feet up the steps for a night of deep electronics on a hi-fi soundsystem from three trusted selectors. The Attic / 0 Langridge Street / Collingwood 3066 10pm - 4am All dancers are respectfully asked to minimise the use of mobile telephones and loud conversations while they are on the dancefloor. Presale tix $20 thru humanitix Free entry for mob

We are celebrating the release of Yunzero’s Edits Vol. 1 by screening his last release ‘Donkey Laundromat’ which was created as a soundtrack to a video + meme compilation. The 40 minute internet video compilation, released on Other Joe’s @jpeg_artefacts spans dub, bass boosted ASMR, neo-psychedelia and more. Tender, Brunswick Friday 21st Nov 6pm Free entry Enter via lane next to 38 Hope St $8 Keeper Pilsners and cheap records, tapes and merch from 6-7pm

Yunzero has been drip feeding from his personal collection of edits over the last few years. Breaking from the usual DJ tool mold, ‘Edits’ evokes the spirit of J Dilla’s through short-form reworks that completely reimagine their source material with surreal confidence and skill.  Yunzero is a longtime fixture of the local underground. He plays bass in the warped pop group Cloud Ice 9, and is part of dummy tree, an improvisational supergroup known for their shape-shifting live sets. Across all his projects, there’s a throughline of playful unpredictability and deep sonic curiosity. Yunzero’s past releases on West Mineral Ltd, Lillerne Tapes and .jpeg Artefacts have placed him in the company of some of experimental music’s most forward-thinking artists. ‘Edits’ is a wild detour, but not unexpected.  Edition of 150 Hand stamped 12” records pressed at Program, Thornbury. Digitals through Bandcamp or Nina.  Produced by Jim Sellars Art by Kaloe Mastered by Joseph Buchan  Thanks to Yeat, Lana Del Rey, Ice Spice, Cardi B, Ying Yang Twins, Joeyy

The last entry into the Interior Music series was in October 2022 - 3 whole years ago. Two new long form pieces by Ex Ponto and Ben Bondy are now on Bandcamp and streaming services. Interior Music 013 Ex Ponto Ivan Masic is a Melbourne-based artist working at the intersection of sound design, projection, and the moving image under the alias Ex Ponto. His practice explores the insoluble intimacy between music, light and place through immersive, site-responsive works. His work spans soundtracks for documentaries, installation design, and live performance, as well as co-directing Little Projector Company — delivering cinematic, site-based art experiences. Interior Music 014  Ben Bondy  Ben Bondy is a Berlin‐based producer whose ambient work draws from a background steeped in field recordings, vaporous textures, dub techno undertones. Bondy has become a central figure in contemporary ambient and experimental electronics, with acclaimed releases on influential imprints such as West Mineral Ltd., Good Morning Tapes, Quiet Time Tapes, and Experiences Ltd. His discography spans immersive solo works like Glans Intercum and Camo, as well as collaborative projects with peers including uon, Pontiac Streator, Huerco S., Exael, and Special Guest DJ.  Interior Music is an ongoing series which collects long form compositions intended for sleep, meditation, relaxation and enjoyment. All releases in the series will be ‘pay what you like’. All supporter payments for this music (minus bandcamp/paypal fees) will be donated to charity. For the moment, that charity is the Dhadjowa Foundation. Artists are paid through streaming royalties and a label advance.

my new record Flawless is out everywhere today 🌠 on best effort thanks if you’ve been listening - it makes me feel like the guy in the drawing. lonely n looking up at the sky, but connected w you in a way that scientists and nerds can’t explain… scroll for some snippets and other lore track 5 prod w @ronan__fox track 6 feat @c_par_kin mixed by @ex.wiish art by @netlzks pic slide 1 @thomasjpg pic last slide @n.timson released by @besteff0rt

“A tropical fish yearns for snow”, @other__joe tells me. Wanting what you can’t imagine. Wanting the very thing that would make your life inhospitable.” As the release of Joe’s latest album ‘Flawless’, released by @besteff0rt , draws nearer, his close friend @emilefrankel provides a perspective on the artist that few outside of his world would ever know. “If, like Plain Jane, Other Joe implies a placeholder for a common body, what kind of sentiment (offered with self-awareness) is expressed in a name that evokes not just an allness but a nothingness too?” Read the full feature via our linkinbio. 📸 @thomasjpg 📝 @emilefrankel

…and they’re calling it earth flawless mv edited by @yunzer.o album out next month via best effort xx

NEW joe 🌠 imagine for a sec.. a world where other joe is flawless. the sky would be blue, the sun would be hot, cicadas would sing together on warm nights. water would be wet. and also other things maybe. my new record is called “Flawless” and it’s out next month. bit of a pt 2 to my record “Jealousy Tulip”. ups to Nik and Best Effort for putting it out again. the title track is out today via @madjestickasual , 🔗 in my bio. the clang of a netless rim… 12” coming next month mixed by @ex.wiish art by @netlzks

Greetings, This account has been dormant for over a year. Running a label can sometimes take up a bit of time + effort, two things which have been handed over to other projects in the past year. In April 2024 my partner Steph and I signed the lease to a place on Sydney Road, Brunswick which is now called Tender. @tender_place_ Tender is an architecturally designed (by Steph), acoustically treated space offering yoga classes, a listening room, live music, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings and whatever else people want to do there. Send us an email if you’d like to do something with us! So far we have hosted about 20 deep listening sessions, Chee Shimizu, Tunnel Dancers, Special Guest DJ & Ben Bondy with many more music makers/players to come thru over the next few months. Stop by and listen to some music sometime. It sounds really really great in there. News on the next Best Effort release arriving imminently… many thanks, many blessings Nik