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Japanese Wallpaper

Japanese Wallpaper

Gabriel Strum, known professionally as Japanese Wallpaper, is an Australian indie pop singer-songwriter and producer. He released his debut single "Breathe In" featuring Wafia on 10 October 2013. The song featured in Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here. Strum has had three songs feature in the Triple J Hottest 100: "Between Friends" featuring Jesse Davidson at No. 97 (2014), "Forces" featuring Airling at No. 69 (2015) and "In Motion" featuring Allday at No. 44 (2017). He released his debut album Glow on 18 October 2019.

Albums

2015 Japanese Wallpaper
2019 Glow
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Features / Music
Fractures - Won't Win (Japanese Wallpaper Remix) *Premiere*
A couple of the country's most exciting young producers combine.. It's no secret we're big fans of too-young-to-be-this-good Japanese Wallpaper, having featured his tracks Waves feat. Papa Knight and Breathe In feat. Wafia on this blog, and several times on our old website (RIP). So when the opportunity arose to premiere a remix he's done for another of Australia's incredibly bright young things in Fractures, the answer was obviously a huge yes. No slouch himself, Fractures has been killing it ever since his debut single Twisted turned Australia's ears towards his dark, soulful and alluring sounds, garnering praise from the likes of Gotye and Chet Faker. Following a nasty neck injury during 2013, Fractures AKA Mark Zito has bounced back with another typically beautiful single in Won't Win. It sees him joining the Splendour In The Grass line-up, supporting Wild Beats and embarking on a series of EP launch shows (some of which JW supports), before hitting up BIGSOUND later in the year. C
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Japanese Wallpaper - Waves feat. Pepa Knight
The kid with the midas touch strikes again.. We'll always have time for Melbourne young gun Japanese Wallpaper, who has been consistently impressing us since day dot (when he was like 12 or something), and his latest release is no different. Waves dabbles in downtempo electronica like only JW knows how, and this time he's got the added bonus of Jinja Safari's Pepa Knight providing drifting, dreamy vocals. Take a listen below, and if you're in Melbourne on Sunday 18 May, you can catch Japanese Wallpaper launching the single at the Grace Darling, supported by Rat & Co and Lanks (details HERE).
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Luke Howard - Night, Cloud
Super chilled, super beautiful new music outta Melbourne.. Luke Howard is a composer/pianist from Melbourne who last year released his first solo album, Sun, Cloud. Filled with beautiful compositions of the ivory-key kind, he's following it up with a remix EP called Night, Cloud. Today he's released the Kyson remix of his track August, which preceeds a massive pack featuring re-works from Tim Shiel, Brambles, Jimmy Saunders, Paul Evans, Mike Katz, Elisabeth Carlsson and personal fave of ours, Japanese Wallpaper. Take a listen to August (Kyson Remix) below, and head along to Luke's BANDCAMP to pre-order the release, which is due April 17 for a measly $5.