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15 Years of Butter Sessions - Disc Two
Butter Sessions - Cat No: BSRXV02
- updated:2026-04-16
Butter Sessions, the label run by Sleep D at the forefront of the Melbourne underground, celebrates its 15th anniversary with the simultaneous release of a three-part 12-inch series featuring the DJs and artists connected to the label — a set that really conveys the strength of their community. This is Vol. 2!!! Recommended.
Track List
Melbourne / Naarm stronghold Butter Sessionsclock 15 years in the game with a trilogy of 12"s, sustaining their uncompromising streak of peak-form electronics. The family-style V/A binds friends, collaborators, former studio neighbours and DJ booth allies, capturing a label that exists as community as much as catalogue.
Disc Two lifts off with recurring contributor Rory McPike's first label outing as Rings Around Saturn, a blissed-out cosmic floater skimming the periphery. Booked in the early days of the label's formative Mania residency, Japanese don Gonno twists freestyle, techno and breaks into pure ecstasy, before the unerringly bold Jennifer Loveless spikes the punch with a hallucinatory mix of drums, disembodied voice and jazz club keys.
On the flip, Boorloo's Guy Contact rolls out Dance In The Grey, a shadowy prog churn pitched between new-romantic vocal sheen and EBM muscle, with Kate Miller completely rewiring the script on Sub Series E - a masterfully minimal, double-time meditation. suki presents his Sniper1 alias to close with a demonic body-jacking groove loaded for the system.
Whether taken alone or folded into the three-disc triptych, each instalment stands as a bag-ready constant, charged with Butter Sessions' curatorial finesse.
Disc Two lifts off with recurring contributor Rory McPike's first label outing as Rings Around Saturn, a blissed-out cosmic floater skimming the periphery. Booked in the early days of the label's formative Mania residency, Japanese don Gonno twists freestyle, techno and breaks into pure ecstasy, before the unerringly bold Jennifer Loveless spikes the punch with a hallucinatory mix of drums, disembodied voice and jazz club keys.
On the flip, Boorloo's Guy Contact rolls out Dance In The Grey, a shadowy prog churn pitched between new-romantic vocal sheen and EBM muscle, with Kate Miller completely rewiring the script on Sub Series E - a masterfully minimal, double-time meditation. suki presents his Sniper1 alias to close with a demonic body-jacking groove loaded for the system.
Whether taken alone or folded into the three-disc triptych, each instalment stands as a bag-ready constant, charged with Butter Sessions' curatorial finesse.
A1 "Rings Around Saturn - There Must Be Something We Can Talk About" (sample1) is the first release under the Rings Around Saturn alias from Rory McPike, one of the label's flagship artists: 123 BPM krautrock-tinged ambient electronics with a blissful, spacey floating quality. A2 "Prop-alttune7" (sample2), around 134 BPM, comes from Gonno, one of Tokyo's finest craftsmen and a friend of the label since its early days — a mysterious invitation into uncharted territory, with superb spatial design and placement. A3 "You Can Play It Wrong Twice" (sample3) by Jennifer Loveless runs at 126 BPM: leftfield, hallucinatory tech house with striking piano that somehow recalls Dinosaur L's "Go Bang!" — hypnotic stuff. Six tracks from six artists in total.
From the sleeve artwork and printing to the packaging, the care and love that went into this release make it a beautifully crafted piece of physical vinyl art. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)