Australian Post-Punk (Updates)

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.