… looking at the New Wave
(Antipodean post-punk 1978-1983)
This is a mad, irreverent road-trip of a mix, veering all over the map from post-punk to punk-funk, industrial to electronica, avant-garde to indie-pop, with a couple of pit-stops along the way (in Grafton.. or was that Rangoon?) It hopefully imparts the excitement of the times, when it seemed, after punk, popular music was expanding and exploring, getting out of the suburbs, past the signposts, beyond the bitumen…
Credits
https://www.discogs.com/Essendon-Airport-Palimpsest/master/434597 (Science Of Sound)
https://www.discogs.com/Xero-Lust-In-The-Dust/release/971477 (Crazy Eddie)
https://www.discogs.com/Pel-Mel-No-Word-From-China/master/138494
https://www.discogs.com/SPK-Auto-Da-F%C3%A9/master/17032 (Metal Field)
https://www.discogs.com/Models-ALPHABRAVOCHARLIEDELTAECHOFOXTROTGOLF/master/248400 (Hans/Happy Birthday IBM)
https://www.discogs.com/Seven-Ballerinas-Sometimes-I-Feel/release/3599718
https://www.discogs.com/The-Boys-Next-Door-Door-Door/master/38657 (Roman Roman)
https://www.discogs.com/Xero-Lust-In-The-Dust/release/971477 (Every Kiddy Gets A Prize)
https://www.discogs.com/Microfilm-Centrefold/master/945458
https://www.discogs.com/Tactics-Glebe/master/1204986 (Domino Theory)
https://www.discogs.com/Meo-245-Rites-Of-Passage/master/1475299 (Sin City)
https://www.discogs.com/Voigt465-State-A-Secret-West/release/2351738
https://www.discogs.com/Anne-Cessna-Essendon-Airport-Talking-To-Cleopatra/release/2354971
https://www.discogs.com/Pel-Mel-Head-Above-Water/release/721777
https://www.discogs.com/Karen-Marks-Cold-Caf%C3%A9-/release/3591067
https://www.discogs.com/Ash-Wednesday-Love-By-Numbers/release/1057458
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cant-Stop-It-II-Australian-Post-Punk-1979-84/release/1209492 (Use No Hooks – Do The Job)
https://www.discogs.com/Blam-Blam-Blam-There-Is-No-Depression-In-New-Zealand/master/1329591
https://www.discogs.com/The-Clean-Boodle-Boodle-Boodle/master/391447 (Point That Thing Somewhere Else)
https://www.discogs.com/Danse-Macabre-Between-The-Lines/master/241309 (Conditioner)
https://www.discogs.com/SPK-Auto-Da-F%C3%A9/master/17032 (Retard/Kontact)
https://www.discogs.com/Scattered-Order-Prat-Culture/master/407725 (Swiss Like Knives And Forks)
https://www.discogs.com/Voigt465-Slights-Unspoken/master/547716 (A Welcome Mystery)
https://www.discogs.com/Asphixiation-LAcrostique-DAmour-The-Crush/master/598924
https://www.discogs.com/Blam-Blam-Blam-Dont-Fight-It-Marsha-Its-Bigger-Than-Both-Of-Us-Dr-Who-Cachunga-Cachunga/master/718400 (Don’t Fight It Marsha…)
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cant-Stop-It-II-Australian-Post-Punk-1979-84/release/1209492 (Nuvo Bloc- Never Mind)
https://www.discogs.com/Tactics-Glebe/master/1204986 (The Difficult Dream Of Roger Forestt)