Debut cassette from the solo project of Brisbane’s Katie Martin who plays in Stag, collaborates with Mel Simpson etc: fans of Mel’s cracked vision of avant girl pop will dig the hell out of this as it orbits a similarly wobbly universe, with amazing synth instrumentals that come across as dilated cartoon Joe Meek universes as filtered via the BDTD tape aesthetic and sad sound works that cross the Tolerance/Vanity sound with a bedroom Kraftwerk/Aphex Twin appeal. Great stuff. 

Great set of improvised/freak moves from this trio from Brisbane featuring Victor Meertens, Alexis Ensor and David Palliser: the group use brass, drums, keyboards, strings and vocals to explore total musical freedom, moving from horn/drum blats that come right out of the FMP song book through LAFMS-style vocal goof ascensions and weird obsessive small scale manipulation that would reconcile Prick Decay and the Music Improvisation Company. A refreshingly wide-ranging and defiantly ‘non-idiomatic’ take on free music. Each cassette has unique original artwork from Palliser. 

Full-length set from the Melbourne-based concern of Thomas Miller of Trichotillomania/Pathetic Human/Sexofago/Magic Crowbar Tapes et al: the A side features an extremely dilated improvisation that moves with very subtle guitar string work, distant arcing/eerie classical/choral/ghost drones and various non-identifiable low-scale activity, coming over like Biota stretched and screwed by Maurizio Bianchi at the Organum annual picnic. The flip presents a ‘big band’ working that has an A Band-plays-The Great Learning feel and some inexplicably affecting settings for minimal fog horn electronics. A really great weirdo side with a hard-to-finger appeal. 

Amazing archival uncovering of bedroom guitar jams from Rob Buick and Stefan Jordan recorded in Christchurch New Zealand during the glory years of 1992-93: this is fantastic; high energy jams that come over like the unreleased second instrumental Department Store Santas album or perhaps even a ginchier mid-period electric Jandek band or some kind of Simply Saucer/Go Team hybrid. Simply phenomenal and highly recommended.