Words by Andrew Maclean Collections. Beatnik Collective, Melbourne’s compelling instrumental dance/jazz/house group, have just blessed us with their debut EP, Collections. Forming in 2018, the four-piece have become one of the city’s most exciting instrumental dance acts, and after the pandemic initially put recording on hold, Collections’ long-awaited arrival comes with plenty of excitement. Just ask bassist and band founder, Dan Rock. “Really stoked to get it out,” says Rock. “We had a date in March 2020, where we were doing our last recording session and then we went into lockdown and we had like half of it done and then had to pretty much wait all year until November to finish recording it.