DUEL NATIVE Unleashes Raw, Live-Born Energy on New EP and Single

Released globally on Friday, 14 November 2025, Duel Native’s latest EP gathers four live recordings tracked in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, an intimate snapshot of an artist who thrives in the volatile space between performance and ritual.

The project arrived on the heels of Duel Native’s work scoring and performing in the critically acclaimed theatre production MEMBER (Melbourne Fringe and San Francisco International Arts Festival). That same dramatic tension, sharpened on stage, found a new pulse throughout the EP. Stephen Choi, aka Duel Native, and his rotating lineups carried the raw electricity of live performance straight into the studio, refusing to sand down the edges.

Blending elements of chamber-psych, folk-rock, and choral dream-pop, the recordings pushed against the sterile, data-driven sound dominating much of today’s music landscape. Instead, Choi leaned fully into intuition and imperfection.

“For me, this EP is about returning to human intuition. AI stands for ‘Always Imperfect.’ It’s about having fun making ‘mistakes’, and feeling that kind of messy ‘alive-ness’ that we’ve all subconsciously been missing,” he said at the time of release.

Following the EP’s online debut, Duel Native brought the project to the stage in Adelaide and Sydney, extending its live-first philosophy back into the rooms it came from.

The release continues to build on Choi’s earlier achievements with the London-based indie band Greyhound Green, which earned mainstream radio play, MTV Europe coverage, and support slots for Alabama 3, Tjinder Singh (Cornershop), and The Libertines.

In the lead-up to the EP, Duel Native also released the single ‘Biophilicall (Live)’, which landed on all streaming platforms on 27 July. Based on Kaurna Country (Adelaide), the Half-Trinidadian, Half-Hong Kongese multi-instrumentalist and producer returned with a track shaped entirely by presence and instinct.

Recorded in a single take at Melbourne’s Aviary Studios, ‘Biophilicall (Live)’ played out like a sonic ritual, a call-and-response moment with the Earth, wrapped in layered harmonies, ambient textures, and an unfiltered emotional current. The recording featured gang vocals from a makeshift choir of friends who learned the song less than an hour before the take, giving the performance a sense of immediacy that felt both intimate and monumental.

One room. One take. A choir stitched together by breath and intuition. In a landscape increasingly powered by algorithms, Duel Native’s latest releases stand as reminders of what happens when music refuses perfection and chooses to stay human.