Room40, like a room you return to in dreams, it just is.

“Room40, a beacon of sound…ringing out from the deepest south. Also home to our sibling labels Someone Good and A Guide To Saints.”  (Lawrence English)

Room40 doesn’t shout. It hums, crackles, expands slowly in the chest like breath held just a little too long. Founded by Lawrence English in Brisbane in the early 2000s, the label has never really been about a scene—more a constellation of artists and listeners bound by a shared curiosity toward sound as a place, a feeling, a politics of presence.

There’s a warmth in its catalogue, even when it drifts toward the glacial or abstract—something like the warmth of tape hiss, or distant thunder. And there’s always an invitation: to slow down, to listen better.

Room40 isn’t trying to define anything. Like a room you return to in dreams, it just is. Open, flickering, and full of quiet life.

This is a selection of 25 personal favorites from the catalog, some old, some recent. In some cases, I had to choose the freely available digital track from a specific release—but that doesn’t really matter. As the saying goes, there are no fillers on Room40 anyway; every microtrack is part of a larger sonic puzzle.

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