Midnite Spares / Various: Midnite Spares / Various
Midnite Spares / Various: Midnite Spares / Various
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Midnite Spares / Various
Label: Efficient Space
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4260038315040
Genre: Electronic
On Midnite Spares, Australian music devotees András Fox and Instant Peterson hold a candle to overlooked avant-pop and electronic works by antipodean artists and outsiders working through the '80s and '90s. Through co-presenting their weekly radio show "Strange Holiday", the duo slowly upturned their locale for inspiration - archives, country bookstores, private collections and convenience stores - searching for a place to anchor their own identities in the oceans of the island continent. The ten tracks here acknowledge a minor history, passed on via a network of friends, friends of friends, the libraries of radio station 3RRR and more often than not, the artists themselves. Renowned mixed media artist Maria Kocic enters with the mysterious downbeat of "Trust Me", her husband Philip Brophy responsible for digital and analog sonic construction (as the MK Sound). A recurring character in András and Instant Peterson's investigations, Brophy reappears with a score piece from his divisive feature film Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat (1988), recorded as → ↑ → (pronounced "Tch Tch Tch"). Other links are thread under the surface. Melbourne inner north experimentalist David Chesworth explores his Australiana song-craft leading Whadya Want? on "Open Spaces". The short lived project also featured Philip Jackson, whose husband-wife duo The Couch is restored from Fast Forward's dance issue - a pioneering cassette fanzine published by early-80s 3RRR personality Bruce Milne. The collection binds a certain musicianship that's indifferent to fame or chart success, although some artists unwittingly experienced this before and after. Poets Of The Machine's Grace Jones techno-wave was a modest moment for Coral Island and Red Stripe, an English migrant who once celebrated a #1 UK Christmas single with an acapella cover of "Yazoo", while the morbid coming of age electronics of Foot And Mouth is a lesser known prologue to Sean Greenway and Matty Whittle's rise as legendary teen punks heroes God. Quickly becoming a modern dancefloor hit, Mumbo Jumbo's sole release "Wind It Up" is only now basking in it's brilliance. The remaining figures shape the diversity further. There's Sydney dub addicts The Igniters, Mix's groovy synth song about masturbation and the Cameron Allen and Graham Bidstrup soundtrack for petrol headed "ozploitation" film, Midnite Spares (1983) - the compilation's namesake.
Tracks:
1.1 Maria Kocic and the MK Sound - Trust Me
1.2 Whadya Want? - Open Spaces
1.3 Poets of the Machine - Arabs
1.4 The Couch - Full Treatment
1.5 ;#8594; ;#8593; ;#8594; - Sedation
2.1 The Igniters - Hakka Suru
2.2 Mumbo Jumbo - Wind It Up
2.3 Mix - Do You Do It?
2.4 Cameron Allen and Graham Bidstrup - Bikini Atoll
2.5 Foot and Mouth - I Want My Mummy
