Milk! Records / Remote Control Records present Hachiku Remixed, a double single that finds Hachiku reinterpreted by a pair of beloved Australian musicians: Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett) and Georgia Maq (Camp Cope). Mozgawa takes ‘Bridging Visa B‘ – Ostendorf’s lyrical tale of submitting your romantic relationship to the scrutiny of immigration officials – to the dancefloor, stripping the sparkling original back to a flickering lost highway of Blue Monday drum machines, squelchy synths, and ersatz bird calls: “My Hachiku remix for ‘Bridging Visa...
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Hachiku are excited to finally announce a tour of Victoria and New South Wales to celebrate the release of their acclaimed debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep. The tour includes Melbourne album launches as part of the Brunswick Music Festival (the first of which is already sold out) as well as reaching many regional areas – tickets are available now here. To celebrate the tour announcement, Hachiku have released a...
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Hachiku release their highly anticipated debut LP I’ll Probably Be Asleep on Milk! Records and share a new video for ‘Dreams of Galapagos‘ directed by Chloe Holliday. When a close friend took an in-advance listen to Hachiku’s debut album, I’ll Probably Be Asleep, she had one question for bandleader Anika Ostendorf: “‘why are you so angry?’” It’s not the first reaction that most people would have to the Melbourne-based outfit, whose dream-pop...
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Following last month’s announcement of Hachiku’s forthcoming debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep, Anika Ostendorf returns with its second single ‘Bridging Visa B’. Premiered by Visions, it’s a tale of being left in bureaucratic limbo. On the surface, the track exudes breezy delight with Hachiku’s trademark production of elastic guitars, Casio drum beats and gentle vocals but beneath lies a concern that the validity of your romantic relationship—not to mention...
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Hachiku has announced her debut album and released the title track ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep.’ ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep’ is a dream-pop jam on yearning for other experiences & feelings with growling guitars, vigorous drum-machines, topped with gentle, omniscient vocals. Of the track, Anika Ostendorf says, “In essence, it is like an escapist’s testament about the wish to gain sovereignty over your thoughts. Freud’s id vs superego. The thought of...
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Jen Cloher releases a new remix and video of her much-loved track ‘Sensory Memory’, from her 2017 self-titled album that won her Double J Australian Artist of the Year, out now on Milk! Records. The track has been remixed by good pal Anika Ostendorf aka Hachiku and is accompanied by an animated clip directed by Celeste Mountjoy aka Filthy Ratbag. Cloher says of the song and remix, “Sensory Memory was a...
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Hachiku aka German-Australian bedroom producer Anika Ostendorf compiles her recent series of ‘isolation covers’ with the release of the 99 Dreams EP, featuring a new cover of The Cranberries classic ‘Dreams‘, out now on Milk! Records. Ostendorf decided to use her recent free time to work on her Ableton skills, “Besides gardening, doing 4 years of tax returns, Skyping friends I didn’t even remember by name and fermenting, I’ve been trying...
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In the past couple of years, Hachiku bandleader Anika Ostendorf found herself dealing with darker themes; a 25-year-old’s quarter-life crisis around growing up, changing views and feeling mounting frustrations. The Melbourne-based band, known for their self-produced dream-pop jams release a new single & video, ‘Shark Attack,’ a study of loss and grieving, following a grim diagnosis of Ostendorf’s family dog Lexus. Ostendorf says of ‘Shark Attack’: “If you’re like my friend Tushara you might think this song...
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Due to overwhelming demand, the The Breeders Melbourne show on Sunday 9th December has been upgraded from the Corner Hotel to The Forum. Tickets to this upgraded show are now on sale, full details and ticket links below. The Breeders will also welcome Melbourne’s Hachiku to support them on their Perth, Canberra, Brisbane & Melbourne headline tour dates. Hachiku is the brainchild of 23 year old German songwriter and producer...
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Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna...
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Hachiku have today shared a new song ‘Murray’s Lullaby’, and announced a show in celebration of its launch on the 2nd of March at the John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne. See below! Hachiku is the brainchild of 23 year old German songwriter and producer Anika Ostendorf, who records her home-made dream pop from whichever bedroom she is currently inhabiting. Since the release of Hachiku’s self-titled debut EP in 2017, Ostendorf found a home...
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