Australian Post-Punk (Updates)

http://www.spin.net.au/~mifilito/msquared.html

"Hindu Gods of Love" is great

Phil - thank you so much for making your personal compilations available. I downloaded the first one and it slots in great next to the proper comps from the last 5 years. I've just downloaded the latest (which probably put you over your daily transfer quota) and can't wait to give it a digital spin.

but there's sooo much great old music out there!

OMG!!! I KNOW! I just found those last night man! And I was like why the fuck didn't someone on ILM tell me there were finally two new Messthetics? Why the fuck? They're in the mail to me now. Although I really do hope he didn't duplicate too much the songs/bands of the past volumes.

all - any ideas on what other tracks i should make available? i was thinking about selections from the M2 cassette releases...

Top tier, almost every track is a winner:
Can't Stop It 1 & 2
Do The Pop (with more due this year!)
Born Out Of Time
Tales From The Australian Underground Vol. 1 & 2
Inner City Sound
Behind The Banana Curtain (mostly for the first disc)
No Night Sweats Vol. 1 & 2 - MP3 compilations from Phil's site

Second tier, lots of good stuff mixed with lesser material:
Alternative Animals
Missing Link Story
Murder Punk Vol. 1 & 2
Shakedown: Original Brisbane Punk (the Kicks stuff is KILLER)

Wot else?

oh yeah there's a double disc comp of stuff released on aberrant, not bad, definitely as good as anything on your second tier list.

i'd be curious to see what a second volume of do the pop would contain. i don't think the barrel has been scraped yet, although i feel the tracklist for Tales vol 2 could have been a tiny bit more interesting.

there's a huge amount of fantastic stuff on the phantom and waterfront labels (for starters) that is yet to see reissue.. there's still plenty of m squared stuff floating about in obscurity too..

have a look at http://blackeyerecords.blogspot.com/ - the black eye records jukebox. plenty of neat stuff there

Thanks for that MP3 blog reference, I'll check it out.

Also got an Essendon Airport CD the other day, can't remember the name. Some good 70s 80s Australian music is starting to get released.

By the way this Cybotron is not related to Juan Atkins.

the thug "fuck your dad" 7" is a great lace to start. i believe the thug stuff is on cd.

ben

Ben

ben

We won't talk of things like Fungus Brains and the Sick Things as they are also in that weird mid-80's zone that was post-punk AND hardcore. It all made sense when I got that weird 2nd Sick Things collection and they did an Exploited cover. Punks is Hippies.

NO is mid-80s ollie olsen thing IIRC?

tryace has a NO album i think?

http://siltblog.blogspot.com/

My mistake here -- the band was Tablewaiters and this lost album was called Gate. Here's all the notes I have:

Tablewaiters

Gate

1.Soil Abstraction

2. Access

3. Echoes

4. UltraViolet

5. Connect

6. Feeding Time

7. Return to Venus

8. Gate 3

9. Confrontation With A Mountain

10. Welcome Welcome

11. Soil Abstraction ( Take 1)

Anthony Ameneiro Keyboards

Graham Synold - Vocals

Ed Lee - Guitar and Sounds

Gye Bennetts - Drums

Ian Robertson - Bass

Recorded Albert Studios 1981

Taken from unmixed masters reels

Produced by Lobby Lloyd

Dedicated to Robert Nimod R.I.P.

Thanks to Robert Barnham Management, and Sunnyboys for the shout

Tablewaiters were a band from Sydney. They formed in 1981 and were quickly taken into Lobby Lloyds management group with the Sunnyboys, Machinations and Sardine v. This album was recorded when they had been together for 12 weeks and it was never released. They quickly matured and wrote a second album of material that was to be released on RCA.. There was one single "Scattered Visions" from those sessions.

It's extremely good, I have to say -- very much a product of its time and place but reworking 'the Factory sound' plus a lot of other stuff around that time -- early paranoid Specials, hints of New Pop, a touch of Devo, etc. -- into one place. I'd really like to find out more but damn if this stuff isn't right up my alley. Andy Kellman/Dr. C to thread! And Dan Selzer again obv.

So, last fall I saw a proposed tracklisting for two more 2-CD _Do The Pop_ sets with a goal release of this summer. Anyone have any updates?

i haven't seen those tracklists.. but vol 2 was meant to be out early this year, i can't find any more info on it..

Primitive Calculators And Friends 1979-82

is this OUT out? does it have any distro in the US at all? haven't seen it anywhere and i want it.

lolz I know I've met Wolvie a few times. Bro takes himself very seriously.

the Prims album has been out on Chapter Music for a couple of months now. see their website - they usually have good distro in Nth America.

Wicked good news from Shock. *3* double disc sets, woohoo! Leave no stone unturned, I say!

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DO THE POP! REDUX
Friday, 10 August 2007
Acclaimed collection of '70s/80s Australian Punk & Garage Rock to
return in new 3-part series, while classic '81 & '82 albums from the
great post-Radio Birdman/pre-Hoodoo Gurus band get the deluxe
treatment.

2002's acclaimed collection 'Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock
Sound 1976-67' returns in October on Savage Beat! Records though
Shock under the name 'DO THE POP! REDUX'. Like the original
collection - which received substantial acclaim internationally,
including a full page feature review in 'Mojo' and a rave review
from David Fricke in American Rolling Stone - the new set
differentiates itself from other Australian punk and post-punk
collections by following the unique high energy rock'n'roll sound
that spewed forth here in the late '70s and '80s, following the lead
of Radio Birdman and The Saints. The new project will be spread over
3 new double discs each released two/three months apart, and is set
to feature over 150 tracks, none of which appeared on the original
set in 2002 .

'DO THE POP! REDUX Part One' will kick off with the first ever CD
release of a rare track from Deniz Tek's pre-Radio Birdman outfit TV
JONES before showcasing THE SAINTS and BIRDMAN themselves (Birdman
are profiled with the album's title track as well as a rare live
track from one of their legendary Paddington Town Hall shows). Punk
era acolytes including THE PSYCHO SURGEONS, THE SURVIVORS, THE
VICTIMS, JOHNNY DOLE & THE SCABS and RAZAR follow, as do X, perhaps
the only Australian band of the original punk era whose reputation
rivals that of Birdman and the Saints in some quarters. Part One
then proceeds to revel in the rock'n'roll spirit that took hold in
Australia at the turn of the decade, at the very time the rest of
post-punk world was proclaiming rock dead. THE SCIENTISTS, THE FUN
THINGS, THE SUNNYBOYS, THE LIPSTICK KILLERS are amongst the bands of
this period, as are Birdman offshoots including THE HITMEN, THE
VISITORS and NEW RACE. Rare tracks from Brisbane's THE 31st (fronted
by Ron Peno) and Perth's ROCKETS will also be featured. Melbourne
fans will be happy to note that their hometown, which wasn't
represented on the original set because of its narrower focus, is
represented by a number of punk era bands, including BABEEZ, THE
CHOSEN FEW and even the legendary REALS, featuring Garry Gray, Chris
Walsh and Ollie Olsen, recordings of whom have never previously seen
the light of day.

Volumes 2 & 3 will follow, covering the multi-faceted garage rock
scene of the `80s as it explodes out of Sydney and takes hold around
the country, and ultimately around the world. Expect killer tracks
from a range of bands big and small - from THE HOODOO GURUS, GAS
BABIES and WET TAXIS to THE JOHNNYS, CELIBATE RIFLES and SPIKES -all
of whom drew heavily on the influence of 60's and 70's garage and
punk rock.

Simultaneous to the release of 'DO THE POP! REDUX Part One' will be
the release of deluxe double-disc reissues of the legendary first
two albums by THE HITMEN, comprising members of two recent ARIA Hall
of Fame inductees and soon to be touring partners, RADIO BIRDMAN and
THE HOODOO GURUS. Formed by Birdmen CHRIS MASUAK and WARWICK GILBERT
and Birdman MC JOHNNY KANNIS soon after Birdman's initial demise
in '78, the band featured future Gurus mainstays BRAD SHEPHERD and
MARK KINGSMILL by the time they came to record their two albums
in '81 and '82. Overshadowed for far too long, The Hitmen's music is
ripe for re-evaluation, and Savage Beat!/Shock's deluxe reissues
will provide just cause. Each album will come with a massive booklet
with lengthy notes and numerous images. More importantly, each will
be expanded to include about 45 tracks, with a bounty of previously
unheard demo and live material added to each set. Hitmen classics
like 'Didn't Tell The Man', 'Corridors Of Power', 'Rocket On The
Elevator Up' and '15 Hours' will be featured alongside long lost fan
favourites like 'Cold December' and 'Wings of Steel', as well as
incredible covers of the Sonics, MC5, Thirteenth Floor Elevators,
Blue Oyster Cult, Dictators and the Flamin' Groovies' great 'Shake
Some Action'. Fans of Birdman, the Gurus and high energy rock'n'roll
in general will find the wit and the power of The Hitmen an absolute
revelation, and Johnny Kannis and Chris Masuak are set to reconvene
the band towards the year's end in celebration.

`DO THE POP! REDUX PART ONE' AND THE HITMEN'S `THE HITMEN' AND `IT
IS WHAT IT IS' WILL BE RELEASED ON SAVAGE BEAT!/SHOCK IN OCTOBER.

The dude who compiled 'Do The Pop' is a tool.

The dude who compiled 'Do The Pop' is a tool.

Very insightful. Dave's always been friendly when I've dropped him an e-mail. And I dig _Do The Pop_. *shrug*

I do too.

So, R.I.P./Repressed should have them in a matter of days, if not already. And of course through the Whats Your Rupture site and finer stores....

While we're waiting, something to bang your head on the wall to....

From the On The Beach cassette. Live 2 February '83 at Melbourne's Marquee Room. The first, and best, Rema-Rema cover I know:

https://soundcloud.com/michael-train/rema-rema

You can stream the Sunday Painters singles here:

http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/stream-the-of-the-sunday-painters-early-80s-diy-punk

RIP astrid spielman from the particles. i hope one day their stuff all gets compiled!

Test pressings approved for the two Sunday Painters album reissues: Something To Do (1982)and 4th Annual Report (1985). Should be out late August and available equally in the US and Australia, with some to Japan, France, and the UK. Also out then will be a repress of the singles comp LP, In My Dreams that came out in January.

More as we get closer.

Cool -- hopefully I can do something proper with that at last!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mw6vj2f0we102a/SPLPS%20copy.JPG?dl=0

Whats Your Rupture and Terminal Records are thrilled to announce the reissue of two albums by The Sunday Painters—Something to Do (1982) and 4th Annual Report (1985).

The Sunday Painters were wide-ranging DIY art-punks. Operating out of Wollongong, Australia in the early 80s, they seemed to want to be every band from the Velvet Underground to King Crimson to the Sex Pistols to Throbbing Gristle. And they wrote catchy, often beautiful, songs, the greatest of which are also commentaries on the costs of containing such multitudes.

The Painters were formed in late 1978 by Peter Raengel and Peter MacKinnon. They released three singles on their own Terminal Records between 1979 and 1981 (collected in January, 2015 on the In My Dreams LP). Then, with a new bassist, Dennis Kennedy, they recorded their first album, Something To Do, which came out in 1982 as a run of 500 copies, also on Terminal. It’s as diverse a record as art-punk ever delivered, from the recessional dirge of its title track to the blitzkrieg minute of “Emotion Sickness” to “ECT,” the seven-part, industrial-punk-prog piece that closes the album.

Recording for 4th Annual Report began soon thereafter, and most of it would be finished by the end of 1983; however, the record did not come out until 1985, when a pair of songs were added. Out in a run of just 250 copies, it is the dense work of a band that had absorbed the full range of DIY and industrial sounds. At its heart is one of the great pop moments of Post Punk—“Love Factory,” which launches itself with a beat that would do the Ronettes proud, then throws a couple songs simultaneously beneath a proto-jungle skitter.

Included with each album are booklet inserts and download codes for all tracks, plus bonus live material.

For fans of the Homosexuals, Total Control, SPK, Swell Maps

http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com

Some sample audio:

"Something To Do"

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-something-to-do

And "Through a Shattered Lens"

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-shattered-lens

just noticed this compilation, yet to listen

S​.​I​.​N​.​G​.​E​.​D. Volume 2 - Synthwave Industrial Noise Gothic Electronic Darkwave - Dark Alternative Music Bands from Australia and New Zealand
https://blatantpropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/s-i-n-g-e-d-volume-2-synthwave-industrial-noise-gothic-electronic-darkwave-dark-alternative-music-bands-from-australia-and-new-zealand

This album is a snapshot of independent-undergound ANZ artists making noises in the couple of years leading up to mid-2015; sounds in the realms of Synth-Wave/Pop/Punk/Rock Industrial Noise Gothic Electronic Darkwave (aka. "S.I.N.G.E.D."*); underground artists residing in or from Australia & New Zealand (ANZ).

released 15 August 2015

any recommendations of the artists on this comp?

Sunday Painters records have been in Australian stores for the better part of a week, but today the two albums (and a repress of the singles comp LP) should be hitting US shelves.

thanks

This looks interesting. I haven't heard of a worthwhile Aussie comp in quite some time:

Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music Of The '70s & '80s, Volume 1
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/music/browse/alternative-electronic-pop-new-wave/closed-circuits-australian-alternative-electronic-music-of-the-70s-80s-volume-1/332448/

This is fun: http://ilikeyouroldstuff.com/blog/detroit-down-under

https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-this-thing-called-disco

“What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” is a landmark Australian post-punk artefact, originally released in 1981 as an LP with accompanying 12” single. One of the first records from the Australian underground to incor-porate disco elements into the reigning post-punk aesthetic, “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” sits alongside records by international counterparts Flying Lizards and Yellow Magic Orchestra in its combination of art school formalism and dancefloor hedonism.
Asphixiation was a one-off side project for Melbourne provocateur Philip Brophy, best known for his work with (pronounced with three clicks of the tongue), whose decade-long investigation into the aesthetics of punk, electronic and dance music began in the late 1970s.

https://guerssenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/slights-still-unspoken-selected-recordings-1978-1979

Egregiously off the topic of the threadbump, but does anyone know if Total Control are up to much? Was listening to them again yesterday - they get it so beautifully

just played a small run of australian dates - including one at the sydney opera house(!) - they ruled

new album soon apparently

So the "Closed Circuits" comp I mentioned above just came in. On first listen, it's fun and quite broad, ranging from straight synth-pop to experimental weirdness, but mostly in the middle. It's not as cool-weird as "Can't Stop It" or as fun-compelling as the "Tales From The Australian Underground". Overall I'm glad I picked it up. Note that there's 4 extra tracks on the LP version.

still really excited for the new total control record

just discovered their first album, and thus have just discovered 'carpet rash'. fucking hell

up there with 'private execution' in the seven-minute aussie postpunk of recent years stakes

um holy shit Total Control have an album out TOMORROW?

haha this is so wonderfully odd

i strongly recommend this to fans of australian post-punk in general and that total control EP specifically: https://exek.bandcamp.com/album/ahead-of-two-thoughts
it's a little more PIL/dub-influenced than total control but similarly weird/catchy

that's nice! thanks.

btw how is the total control ep that came out last year?

does anybody talk about eddy current suppression ring anymore? they rule(d) so much!

the total control EP is fantastic. it's not very "punk" for the most part but is great weirdo guitar pop.

I'd say it's really punk! But in a kind of wild 'we really, really don't give a shit what anyone thinks' way. Musically yeah it's kind of evasive electro/guitar pop in form, anarcho-punk in function

I like Eddy Current Suppression Ring (and Total Control) a lot but I don't think they're still going are they? Protomartyr kind of remind me of them (albeit not Australian of course)

http://fastnbulbous.com/between-the-cracks-aussie-garage-punk/

good bloggin'!

The death of Chris Bailey has me contemplating his legacy and the great Australian underground. There's been no interesting comps since "Closed Circuits" 5 years ago, perhaps there's some worthy Spotify playlists?

RIP astrid spielman from the particles. i hope one day their stuff all gets compiled!

― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 09:27 (eight years ago)

https://theparticles.bandcamp.com/album/1980s-bubblegum

Out tomorrow via - who else? - Chapter Music.

RIP Ollie Olsen

a suitably murky recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJDK6UVtC8

Whirlywirld - First Rehearsal 1978

love this remake of Win/Lose -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7k4tcoYYQ

wow that Whirlywirld video is quite a document