Cousin
Interview (2025)
What was your childhood environment like?My dad lived in the inner city and my mum about an hour away in the suburbs surrounded by a lot of bushland and beach. My brothers and I would bounce back and forth from these places. I live in the city now, though my mum is still up there, and I often find the need to head up or into some sort of nature.
How did growing up in Sydney, Australia influence your musicality and sensibilities?I think the environments mentioned play a part in this. The meeting point of nature and technology has always been of interest to me.
What was the main motivation behind starting your own label, Moonshoe Records?I connected with a few friends that also happened to be oddballs making electronic music in their bedrooms, Freda & Oedura, who are both still great friends and collaborators. We were all quite young and were surrounded by a scene of bands. I created Moonshoe to try to present the stuff that we were doing—at the time we didn’t really know of many people doing anything similar around where we lived.