Braden Schlager

𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙈𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝟵𝟬𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙗 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚.

'On The Moon' collects the only four released works of Braden Schlager, a synth enthusiast who first cut his teeth with the inner city post-punk crowd before honing his craft as a resident live act at Commerce Club.

Lifted from Braden's debut EP of the same name, 'On The Moon' awakens with two epiphanies of 'Morning'. The vocal led Du Heaume Mix beaches itself, fulfilling a fantasy of Nu Groove commissioning a house track from Klaus Schulze alter ego Richard Wahnfried, while a darker instrumental version gives the shufflers a second wind.

An early attempt at techno, 'Rummage' intercepts as a panicked twilight zone interlude, leaving no trace on the balearic peak 'King Of Comedy', Braden's lone submission to the 1991 Monash University sci-fi theatre play Cyberbia.

Now sounding more relevant than ever, 'On the Moon' celebrates an unsung Australian pioneer and gives relief to those desperately digging for these two impossible to find original pressings.