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Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio archives and irrationally abandoned studio sessions, as Steele Bonus sequences a 10-track compendium of drone pop, psyche-electronics and agitated tape cut-ups.

From the Sydney cassette network, The Horse He's Sick returns with an industrial car crash, alongside Wrong Kind of Stone Age’s pagan cacophony and primal riddims. M Squared dynamo Patrick Gibson appears in both Height/Dismay and Mr Knott, his respective studio-as-an-instrument collaborations with Dru Jones (Scattered Order) and ex-Slugfucker Gordon Renouf - the former’s worn out apparition hails from an instantly deleted 1981 7”, while Mr Knott entrust one of the compilation’s five previously unreleased tracks.

Matt Mawson represents Brisbane music media-printed matter collective ZIP, as Adelaide’s Three D Radio grants access to their vaults of live-to-air recordings and aspiring demo submissions, rescuing the slap-happy punk-funk of The Frenzied Bricks and Jandy Rainbow’s prodigious beginnings in Les Trois Etrangers and Aeroplane Footsteps. Synchronously in Melbourne, Ash Wednesday (Karen Marks, The Metronomes) leads Modern Jazz’ improvised proto-techno and EBM pioneers Shanghai Au Go-Go home record their sardonic synth-wave.

A cherry-picked cast of unusual suspects, Oz Echoes’ unfamed artist and non-band narratives are detailed by track-by-track liner notes with rarely published archival visions and artwork from Video Synth, prompting further rabbit hole ventures into this golden era of creative risk-taking and instant action.

Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989

A5 Aeroplane Footsteps - Arabia 3:13 (ES018)

The Bridge

Perpetual

red velve7

A Gathering of Outernational Rhythms, Drones & Folk Tales compiled by soFa

Elsewhere VXIII

Vica Pacheco – El Fuego

Tomorrow's Just Another Day +3

Are You Receiving Me? (Single Version) (2022 Yoshinori Sunahara Remastering)

Mindgames

Candlelight

Null-A

想起

¡Ay!

Atemporal

Music by ALEK FIN
Label: Mystery Circles
Mastered by Elysian Masters
Artwork: Wilmer Murillo

Unlearning LP

Buy Limited Cassette

Glimmer

Whale

So Obscene

Would You

Sent From My Telephone

Battling Dust

Kaart 4

Before The Dawn Heals Us Remixes & B-Sides

Don't Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher remix)

The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter

Ruth

This Is It!

Fingernail Poem

Mummer Love

Bad Blood

The Interview

Marc Bolan Interview

Sentimientos

Again

Out October 30th via Noumenal Loom!

Written & Recorded by Sam Wenc in Massachusetts 2019

Sam Wenc - Pedal Steel Guitar, 6 & 12 String Guitar, Fiddle, Synthesizer and Field Recordings

Ximena Bedoya - Vocals on "Anna's Balm for the World"

Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Layout & Illustration by Mac Pogue (macpogue.com)

Cut Into Your Own Dimension

Post Moves - Anna's Balm For The World

improvised experimental music mixes
featuring ephemeral & found-sound sources

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Binocular Rivalry