Australian music devotees András and Instant Peterson spotlight overlooked avant-pop and electronic works from 80s and 90s antipodean artists and outsiders. The pair mined archives, bookstores, private collections and convenience stores, tracing a minor history passed through friends, radio station 3RRR’s library and often the artists themselves.
Renowned mixed media artist Maria Kozic opens with the downbeat Trust Me, built with Philip Brophy who reappears via →↑→, contributing a score piece from his divisive film Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat. Other interlinked figures include David Chesworth’s Whadya Want?, Philip Jackson’s The Couch (revived from Fast Forward’s cassette fanzine) and Poets of the Machine’s Grace Jones-inspired techno-wave. Foot and Mouth’s morbid electronics preface their rise as punk heroes God, while Mumbo Jumbo’s ‘Wind It Up’ enjoys its dancefloor revival.
The set’s breadth extends to Sydney dub outfit The Igniters, Mix’s playful synth-funk, and Cameron Allan with Graham Bidstrup’s soundtrack to the petrol-charged ozploitation film that lends the compilation its name
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