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Oceans are a five piece shoegaze band based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. With inspirations varying from Joy Division and Slowdive to Boards of Canada and Tycho, the heart of Oceans’ sound is a dedication to experimentation and timbre, creating vast sonic landscapes inspired by ambient, new wave and 90’s shoegaze. Across Oceans’ breakthrough EP’s Come So Far, Live at Dangertone Studios and collaborative effort with UK’s self-titled Wilt, they’ve landed support from Spotify’s Just Chill and Night Shift editorial playlists, features from Beat Magazine, Backseat Mafia and Trouble Juice, and shows alongside the likes of Grazer and Allysha Joy.

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Indie/alt/pop-rock band from Adelaide South Australia, bringing uplifting vibes to the table, want upbeat tracks with angsty as lyrics? We got them. Check out our absolute joyfest while you're being undercutted with saddening lyrics. Check out Oceans

Sydney born producer Oceans is a man from the lower north shore who is enticed by the idea of sound creation for the sole purpose of relaxation. Moved deeply by the underground minimal and ambient scene, Oceans is keen to captivate individuals on a more personal level through new soundscapes and atmospheres. In just under a year of producing, Oceans has featured on Triplej Unearthed with his song “U.” as well as his debut EP “Until Dusk” getting airtime on various radio stations around Australia and in just under two years, Oceans has been on the line up for Rabbits Eat Lettuce 2015, Psyfari 2015 and Subsonic Festival 2015. Oceans' releases can be found and downloaded here: http://oceans-music.bandcamp.com/

“…a personal investigation of possibilities of sound, electricity, and amplification. Leaning into the territory of noise, it can be harsh, but also joyful and is often both, aiming for a painful bliss that exhilarates and chastises in equal measure. Oceans describes, more than anything else, the fascination of one human being with sound’s broadest possibilities. It is experimentation; a situation is created and then followed through, guided by logic but also by sensual pleasure: there is no doubt rich personal satisfaction is accessed through these experiments, a satisfaction acquired in no other way than through this pure investigation and indulgence. It may begin as a question that demands research, but it ends wet and human. What may you expect? Method. Investigation. Strict control. Tension and release. It may hurt slightly, but generally it is pain that truly teaches most completely. Noise, repetition, the layering of textures and volume that reaches for physical sensation,