Oxtail Recordings

16/11/2025

Live on Ambient Zone RTRFM tonight digging into the Oxtail archives!

7 PM Sunday Perth
9 PM Sunday Sydney
8 AM Monday NYC

Kael is very excited to have Mike Nigro in the studio tonight sharing a retrospective of his favourite tracks from the vast Oxtail Recordings archive, plus a selection from the newest release on the label by Subespai! Mike has come over from Eora to have some musical adventures in Walyalup and Boorloo, including a packed live show at Signals Sound Laboratory last night and an upcoming performance at The Bird with the NoizeMaschin!! crew this Tuesday. Tune in to RTRFM 92.1 at 7pm tonight for great music and informative chat about all things Oxtail!

12/11/2025

Announcing Subespai - Saints 🌹
Available December 5

After living for many years in Australia, Subespai’s Mauri Edo returned home to Spain in 2022. Much changed for him in the interim - time ticks on, as it always does, and reverse culture shock can be both a blessing and a curse. Back in Spain, he returned to music-making after a long hiatus, and in tandem with his new perspective on an old place, he began exploring field recordings of local festivities in his new home in Alaior, Menorca.

Each longform track on Saints is built around a recording of a traditional tune associated with the festivals of St. Lawrence and St. Anthony. These recordings serve as a pretext to weave layered soundscapes - where drones and field recordings intermingle - to evoke emotional resonance and drift through memory and place. The tracks capture a snapshot of Edo’s personal state of mind during their creation: themes of loneliness and isolation, seasonality, and a renewed connection with the art world all echo through this work, alongside his ongoing reflections on existence, society, and the self.

Composed and performed by Mauri Edo 2024/2025
Recorded at Es Molí Studios (Menorca, Spain)
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03/10/2025

Oxtail Recordings beach trip incoming!
Oct 19 at Frank’s Wild Years 🌊

Join us for an afternoon of sun-soaked and salt-sprayed ambience at the legendary with Oxtail head Mike Nigro and Jordan Ireland.

Mike Nigro is an electronic musician and label operator currently based on Gadigal land. His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary electronic underground. His latest releases Leaving/Returning and Low Light both feature his signature blend of rippling arpeggios, cloud-soft chords, and self-schooled sound design with a tonal sensibility indebted to the 70s kosmische canon.

Jordan Ireland is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer residing on Dharawal land in the Illawarra. He leads the experimental chamber pop collective Purple Orchestra as well as the heart to heart bedroom project, Stolen Violin and is a former member of far north Queensland folk collective The Middle East. He makes empathetic music across a diverse range of genres and mediums. His latest record, Spirit Walking, is a collection of instrumental piano motifs.

3 PM // $15
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18/01/2025

Coming up quick: Oxtail worldwide fam descends on Brooklyn for one night only, Wednesday Feb. 5 at Hart Bar 🔊✨

Ariadne Randall performs her first US solo show since relocating from NYC to Vienna in 2020. Her latest album “Her Water Dream / Image of a Blue Thumbs​-​Up” on Oxtail Recordings explores the tension inherent in being the q***r child of “a traveling apocalyptic evangelist and a Gospel singer who roamed America’s Bible Belt” via improvisations on modular synthesizer, laptop, and voice, and received praise from SPIN, Struma+Iodine, and Metal Magazine.

With support from:

Crystal Peñalosa (NYC)
Matthew D. Gantt (Troy, NY)
Mike Nigro (Sydney, AU)
Visuals by JES

12/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 Family Portrait:

Low Flung - Full Stop 🌱
Rhucle - Place 🏙️
Ariadne Randall - Her Water Dream/Image of a Blue Thumbs-Up 👾
Mike Nigro - Leaving/Returning 🔁
MF Clarke - Arrays 🌐
10 Years of Oxtail Recordings Mixed by Gentleforce 🌅

I say it every year but 2024 might’ve been the best one yet. Constantly blown away by all of the friendship and support from fam, friends, artists, and other labels - thank you!

Today’s the last day to grab all these and more for 50% off on Bandcamp. Start your year off right with a fresh grip of new zones 🔊

07/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: 10 Years of Oxtail Recordings Mixed by Gentleforce 🌅

Our 70th release is an exclusive mixtape from Gentleforce, one of Sydney’s finest selectors, diving deep into the Oxtail catalog. A beautiful trip through sound and memory, celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Cassettes Dubbed, designed, stamped and packed by hand at Oxtail HQ, just like the old days.

07/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: MF Clarke - Arrays 🌐

Melissa F. Clarke (MF Clarke)’s debut sound publication Arrays combines work spanning many facets of her experimental sonic lexicon and generative trajectory: geophysical data sets, resonant glass instrumentation, field recordings and moret. A listening journey through different threads, components, data sets, sounds and spaces, Arrays brings listeners into what Clarke describes as “a walk thru spaces of data + life.”

Visuals from derived from the same data sets accompanied “confluence (intro)” and “citites 4”, and the album was featured by The Wire and A Closer Listen.

06/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: Mike Nigro - Leaving/Returning 🔁

Oxtail label head Mike Nigro’s Leaving/Returning is a soundtrack to going somewhere but being nowhere: continuous music inspired by the frictionless spaces of airport lounges, hotel lobbies and public transit.

Composed on airplanes, in airports, and at home in between flights during a period of extensive international travel, it’s the sound of staring out the window, having your mind in two places at once, never knowing if you’re coming or going. It’s circular, repetitive, chiastic music that expresses the longing to return when you can never go home, in both form and feeling.

In keeping with the restless and in-transit theme, Nigro toured Australia, US, UK, and Europe to promote the release and celebrate 10 years of Oxtail.

05/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: Ariadne Randall - Her Water Dream/Image of a Blue Thumbs-Up

Arguably the most ambitious Oxtail release to date, Ariadne Randall’s double EP is immense and immersive debut. The music explores the tension inherent in being the q***r child of “a traveling apocalyptic evangelist and a Gospel singer who roamed America’s Bible Belt” via improvisations on modular synthesizer, laptop, and voice, while the cassette includes a massive 9- panel fold-out j-card with extensive technical notes, conceptual background, and lyrics.

Featured in SPIN, Struma+Iodine, Metal Magazine, and 15 Questions, Her Water Dream/Image of a Blue Thumbs-Up introduced the world to one of the most ambitious new voices in contemporary electronic music.

05/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: Rhucle - Place 🏙️

Rhucle’s fifth album for Oxtail is as thoughtful and meditative as ever, a high water mark in his nearly 10 year relationship with the label. Place is yet another masterful entry into his catalog, which sees him continuing to distill his already minimalist palette of field recordings, piano, and synthesizer into a singular, refined sound. All roads lead to here; this must be the place.

Kind words from Longform Editions’ First Impressions and Jeff Conklin’s Ambient Audiophile.

04/01/2025

Oxtail 2024 In Review: Low Flung - Full Stop 🌱

On the swan song for his Low Flung project, gave in completely to his love of texture and detail, zoning in/out so deeply on the fraying edges of sound.

With praise from Longform Editions’ First Impressions, an FBI Radio feature on Unfurl, a video premiere on Foxy Digitalis, and a special release gig, Full Stop was a high point to start the year on.

02/01/2025

happy new year from us to you - help us close the chapter on our first decade and clear the decks for the next. everything on bandcamp is 50% off with code OXTAIL2025 until 12 jan ☁️