03/07/2025
Happy release day, Adoni!! Please Feel Free To Panic b/w BBC Home Service is available NOW. Find it at Repressed Records, Beatdisc Records, Red Eye Records and on bandcamp, 7" vinyl and digital:
clubweldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/please-feel-free-to-panic-b-w-bbc-home-service
A DJ and synthpop musician from Glebe, Adoni's love of pop culture artefacts is ever present throughout his work. With his signature baritone voice, he delivers post-war newsreels, cartoon villain monologues, and radio broadcasts alike, juxtaposed and collaged over ominous electronic pop production.
Adoni's debut solo single, Please Feel Free To Panic (as well as B-side, BBC Home Service) are out July 4. Both tracks were produced by June Jones. The new tracks follow on from The Music Never Stops, Adoni's contribution to Club Weld's 2023 compilation, Picture Of Everything.
Outside of his solo releases and live performances, you can catch Adoni's resonant voice and curatorial vision monthly on 2SER's The Soundpit.
A note from June:
"I first met Adoni in 2022 when I was visiting ACE as a guest artist for Club Weld's Exchange program. Despite his reserved presence â I think he was a little more shy back then than he is now â it was evident that he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his time at the studio. Then, when I moved up to Sydney in 2023, I began working with him in these sessions, which invariably started with us recording and listening back to whichever quotes and soliloquies were speaking to him that week. For the rest of the session, we would jam to Square Rooms by Al Corley, or a Kraftwerk track, or the eight minute-long Dario G vs The Dream Academy - Sunchyme in a Northern Town (Extended CubCut), which only someone as charming as Adoni could convince me to do weeks on end.
After a year of playing music together in these sessions, I felt that I'd developed a good sense of Adoni's aesthetic palette â dark, electronic, but still pop. Luckily, my adolescence was spent spelunking the many subgenres born out of 80s post-punk and new wave, and I finished high school with an obsession with the rapper MF Doom, whose appreciation for cartoon supervillainy is rivalled only by Adoni. So naturally, I tapped into some of those sounds as influences for BBC Home Service, the first track we made together. With approval from Adoni, the track was finished, and then I got to see it really come to life in his performance at the Australian Museum for Night Owls. Our collaboration expanded with Please Feel Free to Panic, when Adoni brought a retro gadget into the studio (it reminded me of the Yak Bak I had as a kid), which had these preset sound effect samples that you could trigger with little buttons. We recorded all of them into a mic and sprinkled them throughout the track, creating some of my favourite moments in the song. We're working on some new stuff at the moment, but for now I'm really excited for these songs of his to come out into the world for people to enjoy.â
Record cover by Lizzie Nagy, Adoni photo by Lyndal Irons.
