By Jacob Nazroo
Welcome to Beats by Beat, our mix series for electronic music lovers. Head here if you missed the previous Beats by Beat mix by good-time deliverer Papi Chulo.
Consulate’s story is, in some respects, a familiar representation of Australia’s musical ecosystem: a migrant from WA, he’s been in Melbourne for nearly two years now, making music, studying sound engineering and dabbling in a few other interests and practices. But his music is by no means familiar.
Featured on Perth’s 2011 Boiler Room bill (as Emerald Cabal) – and again on its 2013 bill – his skills as a producer of twisted techno, jungle and, more recently, bass-centric genres, have been known across Australia for the last decade by those with their ears to the underground.