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

A2 The Frenzied Bricks - Vicious Circle 3:30 (ES018)

Breath, ground, center. An exploration of current inner energies, emotions and forces. A search for peace, calm, and the power of stillness. A proposition to live these intimate wanderings as a common, shared experience. To finally look inwards, together.
OhLandy, Berlin-based Musician and DJ, member of Bruits de la Passion and Sameheads.

Visual Credits: Maria Torres.

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Second episode of bi-monthly residency for Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE). Tunes inna rub-a-dub style!

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Rich with FM synthesis, infectious rhythms and evocative motifs, Rester Partir transports us to a fantasised Africa, found onstage at a Lausanne Theatre in 1985. Scoring a story about a 19th Century French missionary’s trip to Timbuktu, Swiss composer Louis Crelier created his own sonic landscape, capturing the exoticism and otherness of an imaginary Mali. Though the hypnotic rhythms and cascading mallets conjure images of the continent, the queasy keys, dubby idents and synthetic sonatas suggest something more interplanetary - picture James T. Kirk and Spock beaming down into the ochre dust of a ruined city. 

Aided and abetted by a selection of ambient interludes, jazzy diversions and polyrhythmic excerpts from Crelier’s film work, as well as the exceptionally Balearic Deep In The Dale from TV series Alpine Academy, the largely unreleased compositions on Rester Partir finally break the fourth wall to find the wider audience they deserve.

Limited to 300
Out December 4, 2020

Words by Patrick Ryder

Rester Partir

A3. Louis Crelier - Scorbut (CDR001)

Absolutely loving this baby right here. Trippy and oddball folk record and on top of that, ultra rare. 

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Juliette Marie ‎"Le Ruban Déchiré" - J.C.T. 7" - France, 1983 - SOLD

Advocating for a free and self-managed party culture, @abstrack-records's range covers dance music and all its subgenres, under the promise that dancing to good music heals all wounds.

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Mattias Looks Around #18 (13/02/21)

Unveiling love for hidden gems from Planet Earth and beyond. PM for more info!

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Juliette Marie ‎"Le Ruban Déchiré" - J.C.T. 7" - France, 1983 - SOLD

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