The first Aussie Underground General: a thread for the posting and discussion of Australian underground music past and present.

I made this thread last week about the aus underground scene in the 90s/00s and it was pretty well received:

https://boards.4chan.org/mu/thread/127293015#bottom

It was suggested in >>127346667 that we keep doing this and make it into a general of sorts. I have a lot more from the 90s/00s I can keep posting, as well as earlier and later stuff too. It would be cool if any aussie posters here shilled their current projects or their friends too.

What else would you want to see in an aussie general thread? Should we have any rules?

>>127347120 (OP)
Pic in OP is Alps - Alps of New South Wales (2006) again for anyone who might recognise the last thread in the catalog. Album on yt here: https://youtu.be/4EJkNrfq4eA?feature=shared

Does anyone have a copy of Alps of New South Whales (2009) or know where to find it online to dl/stream?

>>127347120 (OP)
Most popular post in last thread was the Sandpit album. Here is the full single Greater Expectations (1998) with B-sides. Jangely/angular/mathy indie guitar pop band, kind of like Polvo I guess

https://youtu.be/ShDT5JuhEIM?feature=shared

>>127347120 (OP)
Now we're not limited to 90s/00s I'll post some older stuff too. The first track "Help" is the pinnacle of aussie underground pop music. Jangely guitar track that would have fit in with the stuff that came out of Flying Nun in NZ not long after

The Apartments - Return of the Hypnotist (1979) https://youtu.be/-_oVMxDi2VU?feature=shared

Does /mu/ know the Severed Heads?

Dead Eyes Opened (1984) - https://youtu.be/Orr2ZqtijCQ?feature=shared

Bump

Off Minor / St Albans Kids - split 7" (2004)

Off Minor were a seppo band (ex Saetia) that made the effort to tour aus when few other emoviolence bands did. They released this split with St Albans Kids, the older band of Love Like... Electrocution singer Tom that was active in 2001-2002. Probably first Orchid-style band from Australia

https://youtu.be/r3d1HG7f310?feature=shared

>>127347540
Great band live and EP holds up musically but I find it lyrically to be very cringe, especially the repurposed Henry Miller "This is not a band" rant

St Albans Kids - Tales Of Late Night Excursions Into Urban Wastelands (A Political Economy Of Noise) - 2002

https://youtu.be/bCJInUPaCSE?feature=shared

I am once again recommending Talkshow Boy. Last thread I posted WAIPMOT, my favourite TB album, but his most popular album, Testosterone, is also really good. Bitpop, Electropop, check it out!!

https://talkshowboy.bandcamp.com/album/testosterone

2nd bump

>>127347120 (OP)
yay this thread is back

how do you disover aussie underground music nowadays? do you just search around on youtube or you have other methods?

Sydney checking in, I'll post some stuff

>>127348126
Zond - Zond (2010). Melbourne shoegaze/noise rock/heavy psychedelic. The songwriting and some of the riffs kind of leave a lot to be desired but the sound makes up for it. Last gig posted on FB was 2017 so I'm assuming they're defunct at this point.

Choam is the best track off their s/t
Good audio: https://youtu.be/99Qta0MisCs
Cool video: https://youtu.be/5hXbkIjRJd8

>>127348157
Aktion Unit, Melbourne psych-drone-noise-rock type deal. They drone really well but it kinda falls apart when they get drums or vocals on imo, but they still have lots of good stuff. I think one of the guys played/plays with the Garbage and the Flowers as well

Solid albums these two. Its around six bucks for all their stuff on bandcamp as well
https://aktionunit.bandcamp.com/album/responsibility
https://aktionunit.bandcamp.com/album/teardrops-2009-tour-ep

>>127348157 (You)
Aktion Unit, Melbourne psych-drone-noise-rock type deal. They drone really well but it kinda falls apart when they get drums or vocals on imo, but they still have lots of good stuff. I think one of the guys played/plays with the Garbage and the Flowers as well

Solid albums these two. Its around six bucks for all their stuff on bandcamp as well
https://aktionunit.bandcamp.com/album/responsibility
https://aktionunit.bandcamp.com/album/teardrops-2009-tour-ep

>>127348196
Speaking of the Garbage and the Flowers, I know they were posted in the last thread but this live version of Carousel is so good it deserves to be specifically highlighted. Amazing drone-pop.

https://youtu.be/_y6iYCYzRWM?si=JjyR-QJqRGEd69PT

>>127348157
Great album. There's also a split 12" Zond did with Hi God People that is very good but seemingly unavailable online. I was just looking for it and found a ton of Hi God People footage (but no recordings) which is all very absurd performance art costumed nonsense. Very strange and funny band. Here they are opening for Sonic Youth https://youtu.be/gwW8BJst7h8?feature=shared

>>127348228
For an actually properly active band here's Grinding Eyes from Sydney, gazey psych rock. Probably my favourite live band in Syd, they play louder than anyone else does at the moment. I try and catch every show. They released an album earlier this year its its breddy gud, they did the show for the promo tour at the fucking Trocadero Room which is the worst imaginable venue for their sound but whatever.

My favourite track of theirs: https://youtu.be/Xin-oM5oX2U
From the new record: https://youtu.be/QXbqaljUDMU

>>127348258
I've spent entire days trying to find that split to absolutely no avail. The best is this seller from sweden which has previews but not full tracks https://www.borft.com/product/split-lp/

>>127348277
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. NSW free-folk band very much in line with what was going on in the US at the time. They had a record on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon which is cool

>>127348277
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. NSW free-folk band very much in line with what was going on in the US at the time. They had a record on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon which is cool https://youtu.be/GVzAZkYiP6w

>>127348258
Do you know how active of a band they are? I like some of their recordings and I wouldn't mind seeing them live

Also probably the last from me on this run, I gotta do some other stuff. I might come back later

Death Sentence - Ryan - Thanks For The Support (1985)
>Melbourne proto-grind in the vein of Deep Wound, Siege, Neon Christ and Youth Korps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhI_mCNL1FQ

>>127348277
I bought the 12" when it came out. No idea how to rip and upload it myself sorry

>>127348332
BotOS stuff was amazing. Were they the same dudes who did XWAVE?

No idea if Hi God People still play. Thry would be pretty old now I guess

Kultral Kompost - Demo 1991
>UK '82 in Adelaide '91

https://lastchancetodance-lee.blogspot.com/2012/02/kultural-kompost-demo-1991.html

One of the bands I mentioned my father being in during the last thread. More for OP since it was brought up before. The box links are still up but I can't download it on my end.

>>127348101
Back in the day, used to be street press, zines, forums, word of mouth, other shows, record stores (Rocking Horse, Repressed, Missing Link) radio stations (4ZZZ, 2ser, FBi, RRR). All of that is still around except street press and zines. Not sure where to look online anymore. Hoping some zoomers post sone current stuff in here worth checking out

>>127349174
I like what my friend is doing atm https://youtu.be/99CeneeScqo . For us zooms its basically 100% instagram/word of mouth at this point but the scene in sydney is really really grim

>>127349174
FBi is basically unlistenable now. Just doof doof crap and fag rap and hyperpop for the most part. 2ser is still good at least

I reckon this thread would benefit from being expanded into an ausnz general for the next edition. Bigger pool means a better chance of staying alive plus they're our bros

>>127349247
I haven't been out in Sydney in years. What venues are still hosting gigs? Any new ones? Any gallery/warehouse spaces/etc or record stores doing any shows these days at all?

to understand old cunts who wear DBs, you must understasnd lobby lloyd and coloured balls

>>127349174
giglist.com.au seems like a decent substitute for some of the street press.. i used to read x-press in perth but it's dead now..

https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/magoos/

>>127349689
it's osamabinladencore btw

>>127347164
its on soulseek, if you can't see it then add it to your wishlist and you'll be notified whenever someone who has it comes online

>>127349269
Not all doof doof is bad

>>127348423
Cheers. More grindcore pls