Digging back into the fertile fields of the 1980s Christchurch underground. Many of these songs were comped on the Krypton Ten 2xLP, but now you can listen to them in all of their 35-year-old, 'tape-saturated', hissy and disintegrating glory! Read all about Onset/Offset in Andrew Schmidt's article here. 20 Krypton Hits Volume One (1983)
These links are for the enjoyment and preservation of discontinued music. Whenever possible, links will be added to buy hard copies. If I discover that these works are available legitimately in any format, I will remove the links. These works are all long out of print, and hopefully the continued trading of these inferior digital formats will encourage their re-pressing, rather than suppressing.
If you like these artists, support them! It was hard for many of them to make a living long before their albums were available for free downloads. Find out what they are doing now, buy what they have available, and go see their shows. Tell your friends about them too.
Artists, labels and copyright owners, please contact me to have any of these removed. My main interest in posting these albums is digging up forgotten gems and promoting them. I hope that by sharing, enough interest will be aroused that official releases will be forthcoming. And re-issue labels, please press lovely new 180gm vinyl versions, with heavy cardboard sleeves, for all of them.
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Looking for rare, out of print New Zealand-ish psych, electroacoustic, garage, rock/pop, experimental, electronic, avant-garde...
Contributions welcome -- out of print only! -- as are comments.
Radio Active - Angela 1983
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This is Wellington band Radio Active's debut single. For a band that
released three singles I know very little about them. Please leave a
comment if you...
tac - Next
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*A comment hit out of the blue but at an opportune time. If you missed this
majestic collection first time around, you are forgiven.*
Maybe you haven't...
Dancing in My Socks
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Sad news: Pat McMinn passed away on 21 March 2018. She was probably New
Zealand’s busiest vocalist in the early 1950s, in concert and on
recordings. In fac...