Hi,
I'm helping out on Obscure.co.nz, trying to line up a fairly definitive list of dance-related electronic music released by New Zealanders. In particular I'm keen to make sure older releases are captured somewhere on the internet.
To keep the scope manageable I'm focusing on CDs (not CDRs) and vinyl. I know there've been all kinds of weird and wonderful self-released tapes over the years, but it's just too much to keep track of.
There are two specific things I'd like some help with:
1. Tinnitus (Michael Hodgson & Angus McNaughton, from memory?) released a CD compilation of their earlier tapes. Anyone have it? Looking for title, label, year of release.
2. A label from down south released a comp called 'Off The Beat'n Track'. Maybe two, even? Details of label and year(s) of release would be great.
thanks in advance!
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Scratch question 1, I just remembered ...
Scratch question 1, I just remembered it was in the Wellington public library. Yay for online catalogues. :)
'Futures Past', released on Flying Nun, 1992.
did you get "jam this Record" by Jam ...
did you get "jam this Record" by Jam this Record...NZs first house record on Propeller (1987 I think)
also don't forget Body Electric
Was thinking about Body Electric, but ...
Was thinking about Body Electric, but hadn't heard of Jam This Record. Thanks!
it was 'on the beat 'n' track' // ...
it was 'on the beat 'n' track' // was masterminded and released by Andrew Penman (salmonella dub), the first one was released in 1996. and i think the 2nd one - a year or two later.
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Ah, bingo! Had a memory there was ...
Ah, bingo! Had a memory there was Salmonella Dub involvement, and I see now it was released on Curious.
Thanks a lot!
The Projector Mix - 1992 <DEEP GROOVES> ...
The Projector Mix - 1992
Had ....Mike Hogdson (sp??) John Pain etc
What's your list look like so far?
In addition to what's already on ...
In addition to what's already on Obscure and the stuff mentioned in this thread:
50Hz - Cyclehum (self released, 1997)
All The Pretty Things - All The Pretty Things (Involve, 2000)
Aspen - Album (Elephant Electronic, 1998)
Aspen - Are You That Retail Snob? (Involve, 1999)
Aspen - Music From Passing Cars (Involve, 2001)
Aspen - Sugar And Spice EP (Emanate, 2001)
Audiosauce - Diversecity (Capitalrecordings, 2002)
Avotor - Looming (Syncline, 1999)
Avotor - Illlooming EP (Syncline, 2001)
Baitercell - Prototype EP (Kog, 1998)
Bulletproof - Bombjack / The Birds (Subtronix, 2001)
Bulletproof - Communion / Hexagon (Subtronix, 2001)
Bulletproof - Poker / Sign Of The Times (Subtronix, 2002)
Chumbwa - Sonnets To Orpheus (Kog, 1999)
Clone - Mist (Nurture Recordings, 1998)
Concord Dawn - Concord Dawn (Kog, 2000)
Concord Dawn - Killsaw / Haemorhage (Low Profile, 2000)
Concord Dawn - The Fallen (Low Profile, 2000)
Concord Dawn - Disturbance (Kog, 2001)
Concord Dawn - Succubus (Low Profile, 2001)
Concord Dawn - Bitch Killer / The Drill (Low Profile, 2002)
Concord Dawn - Morning Light / Check This Sound (Timeless Recordings, 2002)
Concord Dawn - Chameleon / Shinkansen (Low Profile, 2003)
Concord Dawn - Slinky / Junglist (Heavy Rotation, 2003)
Concord Dawn - Uprising (Low Profile, 2003)
Cuffy & Leon D - The Slyboom EP (Reliable, 2002)
Cuffy & Leon D - 19c Trumpet (Red Melon, 2003)
Datsun Stereo - Datsun Stereo EP (Capitalrecordings, 2002)
Denver McCarthy - Rise & Shine (Statra Recordings, 1999)
Denver McCarthy - Roughage (Statra Recordings, 2000)
DJ Mosus & Kiljoy - I Like It Rough / Game Over (Subtronix, 2003)
Dub Asylum - Dub Never Sleeps EP (Loopy Fruit, 1999)
Dub Connection - Dub Connection EP (Capitalrecordings, 2003)
Epsilon Blue - Waterland (Kog, 1998)
Epsilon Blue - We Have A Responsibility To Our Shareholders (Kog, 2002)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Live at the Matterhorn (self released, 2001)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Hope / Bluey (Kartel, 2003)
House of Downtown - Have You Got It EP (South Exit, 1999)
Jet Jaguar - Jet Jaguar (Involve, 2000)
Jet Jaguar - Think About It Later EP (Capitalrecordings, 2003)
Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie - Midnight Marauders (Best Seven, 2002)
Mandrake - Shake Your Space Traveller (Involve, 2000)
Mechanism - Morning Star (Pulse, 1996)
Micronism - Steps to Recovery EP (Nurture Recordings, 1999)
Movement Is A Gift - Gift 1 (Nurture Recordings, 2002)
Nemesis Dub Systems - A Multitrack Situation (Deepgrooves, 1992)
Pacific Heights - The Pacific Heights EP (Reserve Recordings, 2002)
Pacific Heights - Frozen Fears (Reserve Recordings, 2003)
Patio - Parallel Play (Involve, 2000)
Peak:Shift - Imitate Your Environment EP (Nurture Recordings, 1997)
Peak:Shift - Now Come On Into The World EP (Nurture Recordings, 1999)
Peak:shift - One Road In, One Road Out EP (Nurture Recordings, 2001)
Peak:Shift - Bury / Disinter (Nurture Recordings, 2002)
Phase Five - Spacebar EP (Round Trip Mars, 1999)
Phase Five - Spacebar (Round Trip Mars, 2000)
Phelps & Munro - Slowpoke (Round Trip Mars, 2003)
Pitch Black - Dub Obscura EP (Syncline, 1999)
Pitch Black - Futureproof (Syncline, 1999)
Pitch Black - Electronomicon (Syncline, 2000)
Pitch Black - Electric Earth And Other Elements (Syncline, 2001)
Pitch Black - Electric Earth EP (Syncline, 2001)
Pitch Black - Flex EP (self released, 2003)
Projector Mix - Projector Mix (Deepgrooves, 1991)
Rotor+ - Aileron (RTCNZ, 2000)
Salmonella Dub - Salmonella Dub (Curious Recordings, 1994)
Salmonella Dub - Dubtomfoolery (Curious Recordings, 1995)
Salmonella Dub - THC Winter EP (Curious Recordings, 1996)
Salmonella Dub - Calming of the Drunken Monkey (Curious Recordings, 1997)
Salmonella Dub - Drifting (Virgin Records, 1999)
Salmonella Dub - For the Love Of It (Virgin Records, 1999)
Salmonella Dub - Johnny (Virgin Records, 1999)
Salmonella Dub - Killervision (Virgin Records, 1999)
Salmonella Dub - Colonial Dubs EP (Virgin Records, 2000)
Salmonella Dub - Inside the Dub Plates (Virgin Records, 2001)
Salmonella Dub - Inside the Dub Plates EP (Virgin Records, 2001)
Salmonella Dub - Bromley East Roller Remixes (Salmonella Dub, 2002)
Salmonella Dub - Outside the Dub Plates (Virgin Records, 2002)
Salmonella Dub - Outside the Dub Plates EP (Virgin Records, 2002)
Salmonella Dub - One Drop East EP (Curious Recordings, 2003)
Sel Shaw - My (South Exit, 2003)
SGNY - SGNY Vol 1 (South Exit, 2001)
Shapeshifter - DNA (Curious Recordings, 2001)
Shapeshifter - Real Time (Low Profile, 2001)
Signer - Giving It Up To Feel Effected (Kog / Involve, 2000)
Signer - Untitled vinyl 01 (Involve, 2001)
Signer - Lowlight Dreams (Carpark / Involve, 2002)
Signer - Untitled vinyl 02 (Involve, 2002)
SJD - Lost Soul Music (Round Trip Mars, 2001)
Sola Rosa - Starter for 4 EP (self released, 1999)
Sola Rosa - Entrance to Skyway EP (self released, 2000)
Sola Rosa - Solarized (Festival Mushroom Recordings, 2001)
Sola Rosa - Haunted Out-Takes (Festival Mushroom Recordings, 2003)
Sola Rosa - Ready Now EP (Festival Mushroom Recordings, 2003)
Son.Sine - Upekah (Nurture Recordings, 2000)
Subware - My Affection (Reliable, 2001)
Subware - Disco Hoopla (Reliable, 2002)
Subware - Subware (Reliable, 2002)
The Nomad - Movement (Swarm, 1997)
The Nomad - Second Selection (Swarm, 1999)
The Nomad - Concentrated EP (Swarm, 2000)
The Nomad - Level Three (Swarm, 2001)
The Nomad - Step 4th (Swarm, 2003)
Various - Harmonic 695 (Pulse, 1995)
Various - Transmit (Kog, 1998)
Various - Algorhythm (Reliable, 1999)
Various - Sideways (Round Trip Mars, 1999)
Various - Sideways EP (Round Trip Mars, 1999)
Various - Textyles (Kog, 1999)
Various - Algorhythm 2 (Reliable, 2000)
Various - Dub Combinations I (Syncline, 2000)
Various - Dub Combinations II (Syncline, 2001)
Various - Styles Upon Styles: Part 1 (Sugar Licks, 2001)
Various - Welcome to... (Huh!, 2001)
Various - Dub Combinations III (Syncline, 2002)
Various - Metrobeatz (Reserve Recordings, 2002)
Various - Sideways Too (Round Trip Mars, 2002)
Various - Styles Upon Styles: Part 2 (Sugar Licks, 2002)
Various - Ultrasound Vol 1 (Sugar Licks, 2003)
A friend filled me in on various things related to Fable/Deep Needs from Christchurch as well.
Plus I should look into the ...
Plus I should look into the discographies of Nathan Haines and Mark De Clive-Lowe...
And I think SJD's self-released first ...
And I think SJD's self-released first album (normally referred to as '3') is a "proper" CD, not a CDR. Will have to put that in there.
Unitone Hifi Jedeye Bluey & those ...
Unitone Hifi
Jedeye
Bluey & those Goldern Bay guys.
Jedeye - Reflector International ...
Jedeye - Reflector
International Observer - seen
Kolab - 1
Awesome, ta. Unitone Hifi's where it ...
Awesome, ta. Unitone Hifi's where it all started actually. Saw none of their releases were on Obscure, and put them up. Then I went all obsessive on it and made a spreadsheet. :)
So they're in, but haven't got the other stuff. Was Jedeye also something like ICU?
Left off International Observer thinking Tom Bailey's not a Kiwi, but hell, it's all part of the Kiwi history and he lives here, so whatever... it's not like I'm checking everyone's visas. ;)
add confucius album. dont forget dnd ...
add confucius album. dont forget dnd electronica e.g. alpharythm, laughing gas, dead sea [who play often overseas sometimes with aphex twin]. there are many great denver mcarthy releases from late or mid 90s. dnd is puttin gout a southern electronica release very soon. whole lot of stuff released on nuture label under the bro flower. anyhow.. good luck. this got me thinking. good on you.
Thanks mercury_up, but I'm a bit ...
Thanks mercury_up, but I'm a bit confused. By dnd do you just mean Dunedin or is it a label?
Think I've got every Nurture release in there, and their South Exit sublabel. Great sounds, I reckon.
If anyone ever wants to add stuff themselves, there is a form to do so on Obscure.
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I guess it comes down to how we define ...
I guess it comes down to how we define electronic these days.
Others I thought of (sorry I 've forgotten the names of these albums, the year & label )
Rockwood - trippers guide to house
Rhian Sheehan
Paradigm
Dejusa
// I guess it comes down to how we ...
// I guess it comes down to how we define electronic these days.
Yeah, fully. The scope could be massive... Obscure's by-line is "Dance music in New Zealand", so I'm trying to focus on those releases that are at least influenced by "dance music" or released by Kiwis on labels that I consider part of New Zealand's dance scene.
But it's always going to be a matter of opinion what should and shouldn't go in.
There is also some interesting stuff ...
There is also some interesting stuff coming out of the Cyberculture crew in Ak.
Antix - Lull July 2003
Various - Subduction March 2003
Various - One point perspective Feb 2002
Nathan Haines NZ stuff is listed on ...
Nathan Haines NZ stuff is listed on www.huhrecords.com
plus there was the double DeepGrooves ...
plus there was the double DeepGrooves 10" 1991
Sound Foundation/ Jules Issa/ Riot Riddum Sound System/ DLT Meets Projector / Strawpeople/ Rhythm & Business/ Nemesis Dub / Love & Bass
Yeah, was trying to remember some of ...
Yeah, was trying to remember some of that stuff!
What about Trevor Reekie's efforts, stuff like Cosa Nostra? Dunno how well it fits the bill...
Cosa Nostra might not but Car Crash Set ...
Cosa Nostra might not but Car Crash Set does and maybe Danse Macabre
Freebass "Live at Cause Celebre"?
Lava Lava?
Lava Lava! *slaps forehead* I am ...
Lava Lava! *slaps forehead* I am dumb.
I'm holding back on the 80s stuff simply cos I don't know much about it.
But wait there is more....the monkey ...
But wait there is more....the monkey crew
Hummel/andycummins - Mediochre
Onelung - Nu scientist & another from a few years back.
Schlafwandler - sleepy time??
& what about Cloudboy?
Hey, thanks very much for everyone who ...
Hey, thanks very much for everyone who chipped in ideas and comments. I've uploaded all I care to right now, but will be trying to keep things as up to date as I can as we go.
One thing I would love is to get some more Dunedin stuff up there, cos I'm sure there've been releases from there which I've totally missed. I do remember Laughing Gas and an album called 'N2O', but don't have any details and can't find anything online. If I were in the right country I might have some more options to chase up. :)
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