By Wagons Released March 2003
First and foremost, above any considerations of seriousness or parody, Wagons are a songwriting project. Henry Wagons’ skill with words and melody is a thing to behold on tracks like Send A Message and the album’s title track. He creates an archetypical, and of course parodic, country universe but within that explores personal ideas of [...]
A collection of gold nuggets from the Chapter archives, including tracks from long out of print cassettes and vinyl singles, plus exclusive tracks from a number of Chapter’s 2002 roster, such as Minimum Chips, Wagons, Sleepy Township and Tren Brothers. Imncludes a quicktime video for Jeremy Dower’s song Windy Ponies.
Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial compiles Essendon Airport’s first single from 1979, recorded on Wurlitzer piano, electric guitar and drum machine, their 1980 single with Anne Cessna, their contribution to the compilation New Music 1979-80 released on Innocent Records in 1983, and six previously unreleased live recordings from Essendon Airport’s first performance in 1979.
An essential collection of Minimum Chips’ early singles, compilation tracks and unreleased material, all recorded from 1994-1998 in Brisbane. With a sixteen page full colour booklet crammed with Minimum Chips photos, flyers, t-shirt designs and record cover designs, Portfolio is a beautiful document of an extraordinarily talented but slightly underachieving band.
By Jeremy Dower Released February 2002
Seven tracks of gentle, multi-layered faux-jazz electronica, featuring the pulsating shoulda-been a club hit Kermit Green. 12″ EP SOLD OUT – DIGITAL SALES ONLY!
By Jeremy Dower Released February 2002
Seven tracks of gentle, multi-layered faux-jazz electronica, featuring the pulsating shoulda-been a club hit Kermit Green. CD SOLD OUT – DIGITAL SALES ONLY!
By Letreset Released February 2002
Snowy Room was recorded by Nicole, Julian and Robin Schmidt, in a working process similar to the cut and paste of the Beach Boys Smile . Nicole and Julian recorded many small segments of music, with no idea how they were going to be eventually pieced together.
More than a year later, Robin handed them Snowy [...]
A host of revelatory treasures from Australia’s incredibly fertile post-punk era, with many tracks previously unreleased. Includes tracks by seminal late 70s/early 80s bands Primitive Calculators, Essendon Airport, Voigt/465, Slugfuckers and 16 more, plus a twelve page booklet, photos and detailed liner notes.
By Tracey Read Released September 2001
A richer, deeper, broader effort than Tracey’s first single (CH20), Everything Is Real is a eight tracks of dreamy, languorous pop. CD SOLD OUT, but available digitally via iTunes!
Two parts of the same extended improvised song recorded live for VPRO Radio in Amsterdam. COMPLETELY SOLD OUT
