In 2007, Shame File Music released the landmark compilation CD Artefacts of Australian experimental music: 1930-1973, to critical acclaim. Praised variously as one of the first serious investigations into the sparse recorded history of experimental sound practice in Australia, and its historical importance is as palpable as the often exciting and exhilaratingly experimental sounds it contains, the compilation and its extensive liner notes opened Australia’s (and the world’s) ears to a vibrant history that most previously thought had never existed. Now that story continues, with the release of Artefacts of Australian experimental music:volume II 1974-1983 double CD. Volume II documents the explosion of Australian experimental music practice from the mid 1970s; from the use of synthesisers and computers, through to the radical fringes of post-punk, and to the beginnings of industrial and dark wave. This double CD set complete with 16 page booklet features one of Warren Burt’s first compositions completed in Australia, the Loop Orchestra’s first performance, South Australian industrial noise/punk cabaret, Melbourne post-punk minimalism, mid-1970s Brisbane Dadaist noise/audio collage, early Sydney aleatoric electronica, and much more.
Tracklist
1-1 ?Warren Burt Nighthawk, Part 3 Bittern (Excerpt) 5:20
1-2 ?Ron Nagorcka Atom Bomb (Excerpt) 4:30
1-3 ?The Loop Orchestra First Recording, Live To Air, The Percussion Section Of The Orchestra (Excerpt) 6:06
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1-4 ?Forced Audience Forced Audience Excerpts 5:47
1-5 ?Ros Bandt Variations II (II ? Flute And Synthesiser) (Excerpt) 5:45
1-6 ?Carl Vine Block (Excerpt) 3:47
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1-7 ?Paul Turner Panels V 4:15
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1-8 ?Tristram Cary Soft Walls (Excerpt) 4:15
1-9 ?Asher Bilu and Duncan McGuire AMAZE (Excerpt) 5:11
1-10 ?Browning Mummery Do The Eyes Of The Dead Retain Pictures 6:02
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1-11 ?Severed Heads Dance 4:23
1-12 ?Ian Hartley Train Je Taime 3:54
1-13 ?Kurt Volentine Vortex Street 6:04
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2-1 ?Essendon Airport Do The Flower Pot 6:17
2-2 ?→ ↑ → Nice Noise Theme 3:27
2-3 ?The Primitive Calculators* I Can't Stop It 2:23
2-4 ?Purple Vulture Shit Do A Shit 2:05
2-5 ?Voigt/465* F1 7:03
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2-6 ?Signals Illuminator And Icebreaker (Excerpt) 5:26
2-7 ?Ad Hoc Blue From Beyond The Sea (Excerpt) 6:26
2-8 ?Rik Rue / Jon Rose / Peter Kelly Eating Cabbage 2:00
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2-9 ?Jon Rose / Tony Hobbs In Memorian Tony Hobbs 5:37
2-10 ?A+D (T)D+T 2:42
2-11 ?Justinstinkt Drainpipe 3:17
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2-12 ?Arthur Cantrill The Second Journey (To Uluru) (Excerpt) 8:17
2-13 ?Les Gilbert The Genoa River, Wangerabell (Excerpt) 5:41
2-14 ?IDA* MeMoMu 2:57
2-15 ?Sarah Hopkins Double Whirly Duo 3:42
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Credits
Compiled By ? Clinton Green
Mastered By ? Greg Wadley
