Gate

'Golden'

Michael Morley's other noise outing, this time a collection of sorts from earlier lathes, cassettes etc.. featuring David Merrit, Julian Dashper and Robbie Yeats on certain tracks of glory. Enjoy the implanted solo from everyones favourite metal cumscum on the second last track 'Mett'.

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Trash

'Gritt and Butts'

The flow on band for a couple of the Alpaca Brothers members and also featuring the ever bashworthy Robbie Yeats. My first encounter to them came from the compilation 'Killing Capitalism with Kindness'. After I'd just about driven a certain housemate, several 4zzzfm listeners and a pair of lace speakers insane with Galbraiths pirate like classic 'Macquarie Island', I ventured forth onto other tracks and fell for Trash like a fuckturd to a leafblower. Also worth tracking down (it does appear now and then) is the 7" by Trash under the name Brown Velvet Couch.

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Jakob

'Dominion'

Hawkes Bay's finest postgay outfit, seriously impressive live if you ever have the chance. I've been known to waste half my phone credit calling their shows through live to people living 2000kms away...hi Graeme... This offering is one 29:15 track, not quite there usual epoch admittedly. Some limited run thing (mine is 316/1000, no doubt somebodies bed underspace is full) out through Midium records.

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1/3 Octave Band

"The System Likes You and Wants to be Your Friend"

I've been lucky enough to catch Bill and Jules play a couple of times when they have toured over here, always a fine outing. The subtle use of radio was my first real appreciation of what they were doing live and it flows through nicely into the recordings.

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Scorched Earth Policy

"Keep Away From the Wires"

Compilation of this early 80's NZ wonderfuck of a band, who's members would later go on to partake in such noted outings as Terminals and Renderers. 'Aarson' is one of those tracks (along with Nocturnal Projections 'My Neighbours') that was designed purely to be played at 4am after stumbling in from some shitty pub.

I also have this slight fantasy of meandering down the Mekong river listening to this album..

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Yo La Tengo

"Tom Courtenay"

Whilst I'm quite a fan of Yo La Tengo, this is mainly up here due to the cover of The Dead C.'s 'Bad Politics'. I've heard rumours of this also being on a few live bootlegs, if anyone has access be in touch. The cover itself is done in good form and justice. They're massive NZ underground fans and it shows at certain points.

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The Lost Domain

"Alain-fournier's Dream"

From 2001, picked this up after a set of theirs at Ric's cafe, the one long (45mins or so) track was a great representation of what they were up to round this period. Frank and Papa Lord God had a variety of tools which would appear in random whilst the constant John Henry Calvinist would chug along.

The cover comes from one of them at the time being a nurse or orderly if my drunken conversation recollections hold true.

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Waiting to be Old

1997 comp put together by some bunch out of Christchurch called Opprobrium, at the time these were all exclusive tracks. The Galbraith certainly re-appeared later on though.

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Rain

"Sediment"

Nz drone churn from the mid nineties. First release from the Metonymic label. Kim Peters, Danny Butt and Peter Stapleton in post Flies Inside the Sun movement music.

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Son of Dad

"Suck My Dick"

Finest cover art ever produced. Know nothing about them/it, comes with zero details apart from an email address that doesn't work.

Craptastic contact overload fuzzout noise.

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Cherry Cherry and the Export Data

"Crack Pipes and Shit"

Brisbane shitnoise scrape action party music. Still one the finest bands I have ever witnessed live, sadly no longer with us.

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