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Imperative Residence is proud to announce it's first ever release! After a long wait, Ohana's second album 'Dead Beat' is available nationally as of today.

A reaction to what the band saw as weaknesses in their debut, Dead Beat sees a sharp pull of focus on to concise, restrained composition. No longer interested in playing to acute shifts in dynamics, the quartet recognised that rather than limitless vehicles, their songs are geometric spaces with defined dimensions- all too easily filled up by the first strike of a traditional rock instrument. Space is the elusive factor, and the tension arising from creating it with items designed to remove it defines a band making crucial, independent Australian music.

Dead Beat was recorded at Head Gap in Melbourne by Neil Thomason (My Disco, Further, Love of Diagrams) and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac) in mid-2008.

Ohana will be touring in October:

Friday, October 3: Music Farmers, Wollongong (AA)
Saturday, October 4: Spectrum, Sydney
Friday, October 10: Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
Saturday, October 11: Arts Alive, Launceston (AA)
Friday, October 17: Croatian Club, Newcastle
Saturday, October 18: Rosie's, Brisbane
Thursday, October 23: Hyde Park Hotel, Perth
Friday, October 24: Shape, Perth
Saturday, October 25: Jade Monkey, Adelaide
Thursday, October 30: Gangbusters, Canberra
Friday, October 31: The Birmingham, Melbourne

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This is the temporary home of Imperative Residence, an Australian record label whose first release will be the second album from Ohana.

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