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Elusive Melbourne-based artist Maliblue releases Trykt - a ‘yoga house’ styled collage of samples, found sounds and percussive overdubs. The single is the first taste from a stunningly exploratory upcoming album Hex - a record symbolising “movement and achieving zen through accepting ongoing chaos”. Influenced by accelerationist pop, disco and lo-fi house, the record symbolises a dramatic tonal, personal and artistic shift for Maliblue, having previously released cassettes with iconic vaporwave labels Adhesive Sounds and Illuminated Paths. A gorgeous mix of tender samples, minimal instrumentation and numeric/thematic obsessions (each track is a duration of several minutes + “33 seconds”), the album marks Maliblue’s first release on Melbourne label, Healthy Tapes. As fitting in IKEA as it is in a club, Hex recalls the nostalgic melancholy of Moby, the steady purposefulness of Khruangbin, and everything in between. Hex will be released digitally and on limited ivory cassette through