Australian Post-Punk (Updates)

slugs reissue is hard to find but you might be lucky. see the page on my website for emails to the guy that released it.

Ah, let me clarify -- *I* would love to review this stuff for the AMG. I just need a supplier, as it were. ;-)

Ned, you are shameless! ;)

Think capitalization.

I actually remember seeing your site before Phil, long ago. Meant to come back to it but just never did.

http://www.chaptermusic.com.au/artists.asp?id=42

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.

Definitely going to buy the new Lets Go Naked cd, just never heard of any of the Australian online stores they are using and the only copy on Amazon is a used copy. Any good online independent Australian stores? I looked at 78 Records and they don't have it.

off the hip might stock it but i wouldn't hold my breath. a lot of the better stores are extremely reluctant to stock cds. i ordered mine from jb hi fi

Yeah their web page scared me off as soon as it loaded.

Woohoo! Got a link order it? It's hard to google "Let's Go Naked" and get any meaningful results.

this is where i got mine

Listening to the new Let's Go Naked (I notice they added the apostrophe this time) and it's lovely, indeed! So warm and comforting, it's hard not to draw the Go-Betweens comparison but there it is. Pity it'll be heard by so few people.

i like it, while they obviously sounds older and a bit less sparky than the 80s stuff the tunes are still good, definitely not a disappointment

Work proceeds on the Sunday Painters reissue mentioned above. But today (or already yesterday if you're in Australia, or even the UK) marks the thirty-year anniversary of one of their high points: the Sedition Festival, a three-day showcase of 22 bands, as well as assorted video artists, at the Trade Union Club. $10 for the lot….Other bands included the Scientists, Wet Taxi, Celibate Rifles. The Same, and Severed Heads.

The Painters played the opening night. Three and a half songs have survived from their set; two of which made it onto the Sedition—Go Broke cassette. This one, “In My Dreams,” did not, though it’s a monster, reworked into drum-machine form from its origins as a practice-room kraut jam outtake that made up the b-side of the band’s second single (Painting By Numbers, 1980, 250 copies). Like X covering PIL, with a New Order keyboard flourish.

Please feel free to share, to download, to play.

https://soundcloud.com/michael-train/in-my-dreams

Thought I'd try it as a video (well, at least a photo montage):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NTISSJPyLw

Any updates on this stuff? Any new compilations worth looking into?

i'm not aware of any new various artists comps of this stuff at all, even a couple that were mooted a few years back didn't appear

in some ways the m squared comps were the final word, though the well is far from dry

for specific artists, recent comps of informatics and ash wednesday are worth picking up

I'm also not aware of any recent Australian punk or post-punk comps. Saw the Informatics and Ash Wednesday, but didn't jump.

Sunday Painters plans continue. Hoping for three LPs this year: a compilation of the singles called In My Dreams, then the first album, Something To Do, and second album Fourth Annual Report. Each with a download of a live cassette or radio performance.

Should have the first of our Sunday Painters reissues out in the wild by early 2015. It'll be a collection of the band's three diy singles, each released in a run of either 250 or 500 copies on their own Terminal Records. To be titled In My Dreams. Includes a digital download of all tracks, plus 9 more from a live cassette (only a couple copies for that) from 1982 in Melbourne at the Venetian Room. Amazing Eno and Rema Rema covers.

There should be some Australian distribution. Check this page for developments on that, plus info on full reissues of the Painters' two albums, also next year.

http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com/product/sunday-painters-in-my-dreams-lp-pre-order

So we now have hard copies of the Sunday Painters singles collection. Should start to show up in stores soon. Very exciting. There'll also be digital downloads from all the usual places. For those of you in Australia, your best bets will be R.I.P. Society/Repressed Records in Sydney, or Music Farmer's in Wollongong, though there may well be some other spots, too. By May we're hoping to get the band's two albums out.

i noticed that r.i.p. soc did some FB posts about it, what was their involvement in the reissue?

They have a great relationship with Whats Your Rupture in New York going back to Royal Headache. This singles comp, and the two reissue albums to follow, are co-releases by WYR and the Painters' own Terminal Records. R.I.P. will be selling copies and doing some distro in Australia, which is really helpful. They weren't involved in putting any of the reissues together, though.

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.