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A1	Romance	Play
A3	Running Late	Play
A3	Waiting…	Play
B1	What They Say	Play
B2	Slow Dope	Play
B3	After The Rain	Play
B4	Rhythm Ace	Play

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ANDRAS

Embassy Café is house music laid bare - rough, ready and romantic. It’s the early 90s house record Australia never had - an antipodean take on classic albums such as Dream 2 Science and Amnesia.

The album was recorded live with minimal overdubs, in a rundown warehouse art space in West Melbourne, in 2013. These raw cassette-tape demos capture the first moments of a collaborative friendship between Oscar Key Sung and Andras that continues to this day. In the spirit of outsider music production, Embassy Café is full of the kind of mistakes, noises and distortions that characterize early house records, as well as the broader DIY aesthetic of private press outsiders like Bob Chance and Gary Wilson.

“What I liked about those private press records was that they were aspirational,” says Andras. “There’s this spirit to the music - like being in a bad situation but still singing about diamonds
and gold and glitter. It’s about trying, and failing and trying again.”

With the simple joy of naive discovery, Embassy Café finds itself balancing precariously between the past and present - a product of the ‘90s produced in the ‘10s, now available in the ‘20s.