Fellaheen Records was an independent Australian label that unfortunately closed after only five years. They released the first music by locals Gerling and Ben Lee, as well as albums from international acts like Pavement and the Beastie Boys often with bonus tracks exclusive to Australia.
Jack Berryman began releasing music online under the name jberr in 2021. Each of his releases so far are made up from synths, drum machines, and effects from his studio outside of Melbourne, Australia.
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Maria Moles is an Australia percussionist who released her latest album For Leolanda in early 2022. Her music has been released by labels Room40 and Nice Music, and is also available on Bandcamp.
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Parsley Sound are the duo Preston Mead and Dan Sargassa who released an early single on Warp Records as Slum, before signing to Mo’ Wax and releasing their debut album Parsley Sounds. Their album became one of the label’s final releases before it closed in 2003.
Now, in 2022 they have returned with a new album The Lockdown Locomotive by Shelton Street Orchestra, recorded through the 2020 lockdown.
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Rich Thair has been releasing music since the early 90s when he and Jeremy “Tuse” Tuson released two 12” singles with their group Sweatmouth. Those got the attention of James Lavelle as he was starting his record label Mo’ Wax in 1992, and a Sweatmouth 12” was planned as one of the first Mo’ Wax releases. It didn’t happen, Sweatmouth separated, and Rich has spent close to two decades as percussionist with Red Snapper.
Following the release of their eighth album Everybody Is Somebody, and a quick tour of Europe, Rich caught up with us for a chat about those Mo’ Wax recordings and Red Snapper.
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Since her work with Repercussions during the 1990s, Nicole Willis has released several solo albums and has collaborated across many genres with groups such as Leftfield, Death Hawks, and Umo Jazz Orchestra.
Born in New York, but now based in Helsinki, Finland, Nicole has recently taken the opportunity to return to university and is finding new focus behind the scenes of filmmaking.
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Garden Seat is an Australian record label run by Jaxon Bailey-Banks and Zeb Olsen who also host gigs in their event space Static Open in Footscray. The pair met while hosting shows on Castlemaine’s community radio station 94.9 MAINfm, and have combined Zeb’s archive of unreleased recordings with Jaxon’s ear for new local underground happenings into an eclectic and ever expanding collaborative enterprise.
We visited Static Open to hear what they’ve both been up to and get some music recommendations.
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This mysterious Australian label run by Christopher L Ghill and Joshua Petherick recently came onto my radar when I heard Urchyn’s ‘low lying plains’ LP. The mixture of lofi, ambient, and noise spread across that LP grabbed our attention and we contacted Christoper to find out more…
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The founder of Buh Records discusses Oksana Linde’s new album and his label which he runs in Peru.
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Buh Records have released the debut album from Oksana Linde, originally recorded between 1983–89. From her home in Venezuela, we exchanged emails earlier this year about the album and her career, which was unfortunately overshadowed by the ongoing war in Ukraine where her parents were born.
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