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

Nailed Down - Violent Distortion (1995)
>Perth Crust / Thrashcore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb5IsVFhj8Y

Various Artists - Noise Not Money (2023)
>Perth Compilation
https://televisedsuicide.bandcamp.com/album/ts50-noise-not-money-7

bumping

2nd bump

> I post in first /aug/ thread
>>127347120 #
> I go to bed (so do all the other aussies)
> wake up, thread slid by kpop again
> scroll through catalog
> new /aug/ thread already posted
> mfw

Staying at Home - These Moments Minutes (2002)

> aussie take on midwest emo

https://youtu.be/h7dspoSIii4?feature=shared

Dumpster - See Through Me (1998)

Brisbane christian indie rock band in the same vein as other aussie bands like Sandpit, Purplene, 2 Litre Dolby etc

Unironically drop "Christ is King" in the second track

https://youtu.be/UC7lemEh99c?feature=shared

>>127353988
haha me too

Looking for a song, kinda psych pop guitars. Had chord progression IV, iii I think, and karate and the big dog thing from Neverending story in the video

>>127354805
Had a female vocalist

>>127353137
Very heavy. Perth sounds great atm. I had no idea. Have any of these bands ever made it over to the east coast?

>>127354800
Were you the Zond-poster?

I asked yesterday in the other thread if there were any Severed Heads fans floating around here and didn't get a bite. Pretty surprising tbqhwy. Thought /mu/ would be all over this band. Industrial/synth/experimental/dance/etc music from the 1970s onwards. Big back catalog, I just realised a lot of it is on a bandcamp Tom made now. I have the VOD boxset (picrel) which their earlier and weirder stuff.

https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/music

>>127354805
>>127354828
I fed your description into chatgpt and it found nothing other than the same description/request from an older reddit post. Is this some sort of meme/ARG?

>Iron ghost (QLD Black metal)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16AqPPlD9NU&pp=ygUUSXJvbmdob3N0IGZ1bGwgYWxidW0%3D

>Hagborn (QLD)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=165M7aK66Ds&pp=ygUHSGFnYm9ybtIHCQmtCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

>Kitchens Floor (QLD)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCllzdi04o&pp=ygUUS2l0Y2hlbnMgZmxvb3IgYWxidW3SBwkJrQkBhyohjO8%3D

is there any good tekkerz coming up in sydney soon? I dont use social media

>>127355026
I haven't looked into it

>>127356228
Highly recommended band

>>127356603
Yeah, I used to hang out with Matt and Julia when I was living in Queensland. Julia has long since left the band but Matt is still making music for Kitchens Floor. Also, I am pretty sure that Lou Reed promoted them on a playlist at some point.

sharehouse rock with drug addicts who can't sing is not my cup of tea

>>127355161
Nah that's me

Here's Canine, the other best active band in Sydney at the moment. Stonery sludgy d-beat-laden powerviolence type deal. Super tight band, I try and catch every time they play live

https://caninepunx.bandcamp.com/album/in-dog-years-youre-dead
https://caninepunx.bandcamp.com/track/burnt-out

>>127349319
I'm not super tapped in because there's not a whole heap that's super worth seeing, but I know Prop gallery/records in Ashfield does shows though they're not usually that interesting. Lord Gladstone Hotel in chippendale has a gig/gallery space that takes anyone, and again its not that interesting. There's also Lazy Thinking record shop/cafe that does a lot of gigs in Dulwich Hill which also takes fkn anyone and again its pretty mediocre.

Sydney zoomer scene is very DJ/electronic/doof focused at the moment so rock/pop/folk/experimental stuff is really dry and suffering at the moment. Lot of posturing/image first and music second. Most bands just play the newtown/marrickville beer-sponsored pubs/venue circuit and its just boring alt/indie. At least there's sydneymusic.net now which is a godsend despite the dearth of good live music

>>127353137
Heavy shit man thanks

Where are we all from guys? Sydney here

>>127357370
Hunter/Newcastle region. Poltergeist 9000 are a good current band from here (from tassie originally)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kMdLgeJl1KTSb1IINu-eqgMAHF50P9BrI&feature=shared

whoever posted >>127349600
thanks

wish the major news publications would post gig lists again

>>127356228
>>127356717
Kitchen's Floor was always Matt's band. I saw it really early on when it was just him before Julia even joined. Glen added a lot when he was in the band though. Glen is a genius. His band, Per Purpose is one of my favourite things to ever come out of Australia

Per Purpose - Implicating More Than One

> post-punk/angular indie rock/australiana

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lllJtqi_-IPeMKhe8nd0WX9EyLay-6C54&feature=shared

>>127357343
Have you been around long enough to remember Sound & Fury Records? Was on Bourke St around 2004-2007ish if memory serves correctly. Carried very weird stock & had a space that held some very cool shows for a while. Also ran a label briefly that released stuff like Castings, Yellow Swans, and the vinyl version of the Alps of New South Wales LP in OP pic

>>127357343
>>127359047

Speaking of Castings, their Yvonne Ruve space held a ton of good shows - as did other spaces in Hibernian House - over most of the first decade of the millenium

Castings - Punk Rock is Bunk Squawk (2007)

Track "I'm in my War Face"

>ambient/experimental/electronic/industrial/improv/etc

https://youtu.be/h28PLh6WDGI?feature=shared

>>127359047
>>127359070
I'm an '05 Zoomer so that's wayyy before my time. These days I find repressed is best for the experimental stuff, also this newer one in Glebe/Forest Lodge up from the Officeworks 19th Nervous Breakdown has good stuff, lots of Dead C.

What was the deal with Hibernian house? I know it was a big deal at a certain point but I never hear of anything going on there, did anything happen that changed it?

Castings are good, speaking of Australian stuff in that genre, how much do you know about Brassskulls? I've only managed to find a tiny amount on soulseek but it's pretty interesting

Sydney/NSW seems to have had a pretty interesting experimental/unconventional music scene that I completely missed. Any more good artists I should check out and where to find the music (cause even slsk can be pretty bare)

>>127359216
I moved years ago, I don't know what happened to Hibernian House. Maybe another anon will drop by and fill us in? Frequency Labs was the other space I went to a bunch.

I saw Brassskulls at least once, Newcastle kid I think, I don't know what happened to him.

I'll and dig up more nsw experimental stuff from around then, I have a big box of cdrs and tapes but I don't know what has active links, I'll do some digging, might not be tomorrow and the thread will probably be archived overnight again but we'll see

>>127359380
Oh wow I've had a few beers this arvo there's more typos in there than I'm usually comfortable with in a post but I think you get the gist

>>127359216
>>127359380

Seaworthy - Serrata (2006)

Real pretty droney stuff, had a bit of appeal to the post-rock fans. This album was on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. I remember a very nice show he played at Sound & Fury

https://youtu.be/h28PLh6WDGI?feature=shared

>>127359216
>>127359380
>>127359385
Pretty boring at the pub rn (but at least the beers are cheap on a Monday) so I'm scrolling youtube for stuff for you

Haven't listened to this yet - newish (2023), but it's Matthew P Hopkins, he played in Naked on the Vague, Vincent over the Sink, Half High, The Bowles, which were all good to wach at the time, and his solo stuff was usually good too, probably worth heading out if you see him on a bill

Too loud at the pub to listen (spiderbait on the speakers) so I'm going to check this one out tomorrow and leave it here

M.P. Hopkins - Misting (2023)

https://youtu.be/KeDX_Tlp75A?feature=shared

>>127359216
>>127359380

Cock Safari / Prehistoric Fuckin Moron - split (2010)

Two dudes (noise, or whatever) who played on a lot of the same bills as Castings

https://youtu.be/kvHVrkSGl-s?feature=shared

>>127359544
>>127359418
>>127359405
Cheers mate, I'll give it all a listen when I get home. Tbqh I never realised that Australia (or rather Sydney/NSW) had much of a scene for this sort of thing until I really started digging last year, I think it's all dead now and all the "experimental" music is just boring Necks imitators.

I went to visit some friends in Melbourne and they took me to some weeknight shows which had some pretty decent Zoomer drone/noise/shoegaze/improv acts. Maybe the go is to move there?

Regardless hopefully the pendulum for Australian youth musically moves away from doof doof and back to rock/pop/folk based forms so we can see more experimentation in that field

>>127359593
No worries mate, I'll post some more stuff too

Don't move to Melbourne. City of bootlickers and pretentious wankers. Never forget what they tolerated from Dan Andrews during covid

The Necks were(/are?) awesome though, no one can imitate them

The Necks - Aquatic (1994) for any unfamiliar spectators:

https://youtu.be/YS2LyM5iJQY?feature=shared

>>127359405
Seaworthy's great. I recently picked up 1897 on cd.
>>127359544
I went to a noise show here in melb a few years ago with Cock Safari on the bill. I left before they came on but as I was waiting for the tram I could hear them start from outside the bar since it was so loud lmao.

Idk if it really counts as underground if he plays internationally at art/music festivals etc but Marco Fusinato is one of my aussie """experimental""" heroes. Caught him live almost a year ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen, picrel. He played something like a six-hour set five days in a row of nothing but guitar noise.

>>127357343
No problem

>>127359673
If you know Marco you assumedly know Oren

We really do/did/etc have a world standard experimental scene here. I forget time to time. Australia is a big deal. We really do shit on the seppos when you look at our population size and the quality of shit that comes out of here

Some overseas anons would know Oren at least through Sunn O)))

Oren Ambarchi – Quixotism (2014)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lMt5TFBMOzZX5sbxcjC5Dy1Tbb1ZqmJbI&feature=shared

What’s the Aus jazz scene like? Any reccs?

>>127356887
If you're talking about Kitchen's Floor I' pretty sure they were just wino's not drug addicts

& I wouldn't take Matt's voice any other way, don't care if he "couldn't sing", fuck, the cunt could play guitar & write a song

>>127359828

See

>>127359624

The fuckin' Necks

Definitely a jazz band while also an "experimental" band

Not sure what the wider "jazz scene" is like though I know jazz nights happen at pubs

I have a few aussie jazz records from the 50's/60's that are great for their time tho

>>127359828

Found a copy of this at the op shop for a dollar. Originally on Columbia, got a recent reissue on a German label

The 3-Out - Move! (1960)

https://youtu.be/n0womU_VxCs?feature=shared

>>127359216
>>127359593
Not sure if you're aware of Justice Yeldham (Lucas Abela)

Was trying to find good footage to share and ended up watching this thing that was on telly about him. Hilarious. Apparently he did some songs with Death Grips lmao

Dude plays a piece of glass and cuts his face up. It's brutal the first time you see it if you don't know it's coming

Reasonably good musically if you like noise shit. Dude has been around and playing so long people in the scene called him grandpa back in early 00s

https://youtu.be/Of6_VNd96Jk?feature=shared

>>127358407
fuck the major news publications. but ok

>>127360483
if they helped audiences find new bands i don't see anything bad about them posting gig lists

>>127360483
if they helped audiences find new bands i don't see anything bad about them posting gig lists. i The Age used to have a giglist section for anybody

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>>127360197
fuck death grips

i wish i had the time to listen to all the music in these threads it sounds fun

>>127355445
None of you know Severed Heads? Really??

Bumping

>>127355445 (You)
>>127364648 (You)

Well you all need to start listening to Severed Heads then

Severed Heads - Clean (1981)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5SMXYhIcZ5JQN5pjo4sRwgxQE0wYFgwX&feature=shared

>>127359405
Fkn good shit man cheers, gotta love Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. I think Campbell Kneale just paints cats these days.

Burgan Triangle tapes is a good Aussie label for experimental/unconvential type stuff these days but I have no idea which acts are Aussie and which aren't. These are good releases though

https://burgantriangletapes.bandcamp.com/album/scorched-bogon-welcome-intrusion-terminal-extrusion
https://burgantriangletapes.bandcamp.com/album/club-sound-witches-breathing-underwater

Primitive calculators anyone?
https://primitivecalculators.bandcamp.com/album/primitive-calculators

Maybe we can collect some gig guides for a potential sticky format? There's sydneymusic.net, emus.space, and the people's republic mailing list for sydney

>>127367262
I have an og copy of the Pumping Ugly Muscle 7". Great track. I have the Chapter CD too, there's a bit of filler on it tbqh. I saw the reunion shows which were ok, 5-6/10. One was them opening for Lightning Bolt. I'm perplexed by the decision to release the split 7" with Slug Guts. Terrible band

>>127367221
Birchville Cat Motel > Our Love Will Destroy the World

>>127359887
Ay thanks for this I didn’t know we had much jazz history as a nation but this is exactly what I was looking for