Masterful music producer-engineer Tony Cohen defined Australia’s punk and rock sounds in the late ’70s and ’80s. His long and celebrated career took him from the studios of Melbourne to West Berlin and Abbey Road. Half Deaf, Completely Mad is an exuberant, hilarious, tragic and triumphant memoir that reveals a chaotic genius who lived hard and loud.In candid reflections, Tony’s decades-long relationship with Nick Cave and his bands – Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – is well documented, along with behind-the-scenes classic recordings by Laughing Clowns, Models, The Reels, The Birthday Party, The Go-Betweens, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel, Beasts of Bourbon, The Saints, X, The Cruel Sea, Paul Kelly and so many more.
The ‘80s were so good because you could experiment without any kind of fear of consequence. – Kate Ceberano
The ‘80s.The era of Hawke, a booming economy, big hair, genderbenders and the new-wave synth-pop explosion.
Every Sunday night, Australians would be glued to Countdown to watch the latest and local bands strut their stuff. Bands who became household names and soundtracked our lives in one of the most colourful and creative decades in Australian music.
I Hear Motion is a celebration of the Aussie bands we loved: Models, Machinations, Wa Wa Nee, Real Life, Kids in the Kitchen, Do-Re-Mi, Koo De Tah, Eurogliders, Boom Crash Opera and more – and what happened to them following the end of the decade. With interviews, never-before seen photos and archives of the time, plus never-before told stories about the songs, bands, excesses and break-ups, I Hear Motion is a must-have for every Australian music fan.
STANDARD EDITION Hand-printed cover and sleeves. Just art, sweat, and sound.EXCLUSIVE TO TRASH CULT:The iconic DEAD boys have given Trash Cult the exclusive pre-sale for their epic new double LP Memory Jar. In-store pickups available immediately.Mail orders ship early May.Recorded at Sound Recordings in Campbell’s Creek using all-analogue gear — no digital trickery.YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!Spend $50 in-store at Trash Cult (including your DEAD LP pre order) and go in the draw to win:1x TEST PRESSING EDITION of Memory Jar (packaged like a book!)A Trash Cult beanie + your choice of a Trash Cult crew neck or hoodie
Winner drawn Friday, 30th May.Support local. Score something rare. Look awesome doing it.
SUPER DELUXE EDITION – ONLY 66 COPIES WORLDWIDEHand-printed sleeves. Hand-printed cover. Just art, sweat, and sound.EXCLUSIVE TO TRASH CULT:The iconic DEAD boys have given Trash Cult the exclusive pre-sale for their epic new double LP Memory Jar. In-store pickups available immediately.Mail orders ship early May.Recorded at Sound Recordings in Campbell’s Creek using all-analogue gear — no digital trickery.YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!Spend $50 in-store at Trash Cult (including your DEAD LP pre order) and go in the draw to win:1x TEST PRESSING EDITION of Memory Jar (packaged like a book!)A Trash Cult beanie + your choice of a Trash Cult crew neck or hoodie
Winner drawn Friday, 30th May.Support local. Score something rare. Look awesome doing it.
The third album by BLOWERS, BLOWMANIA, is a raw and ferocious blast of garage punk straight from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. With a four-pronged vocal assault and an unrestrained attitude, the band delivers pure intensity and irreverence at every turn. Inspired by The Reatards, The Spits, and Wipers, BLOWMANIA channels the untamed spirit of punk at its most chaotic and unapologetically loud. Prepare yourself for a sonic explosion!
Sleeve artwork fully illustrated by Luiz Berger.
Welcome to BLOWMANIA – one wild ride of a record that sees BLOWERS returning to form and upping the ante, turning their blistering vocals and buzzsaw guitar sounds up to maximum levels while adding synth for extra layers and urgency, with some truly warped production touches to top it all off. It’s an all-out attack from opener ‘Wasted On My Own’ to closing track ‘Everybody In This Room Hates Me’. The album delivers full-blown earworms and depraved humour about hospital-prone fans (‘Tony’s In Hospital Again’), drug love (‘Mushrooms On My Mind’), anxiety (‘Nightmares’), lifestyle choices (‘Cigs, Beer and Wine’) and hate-fuelled duets (‘I Hate You All The Time’). BLOWMANIA delivers 11 sharp shots of unapologetic punk adrenaline and is not for the faint-hearted – enter at your own risk!
BLOWMANIA follows up from BLOWERS’ debut self-titled LP released to acclaim and disgust back in 2021, and their second album, Blown Again, in 2023 (both on Chaputa Records/Spooky Records). BLOWMANIA was engineered and mixed by Julian Cue (Street Sweeper, Gut Health, Civic, Screensaver) and mastered by Mikey Young.
BLOWMANIA is due out in April 28, 2025 on Chaputa Records (EU) and Trash Cult Records (Australia).
Tracklist:Side 1
Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of Punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favourite bands are jammed into this menacing volume. Punk is Dead is massive, featuring a wide spectrum of bands that initially catalysed the scene, and later fuelled its global expansion. Contributing writers such as Wayne Kramer, Arturo Vega or Kid Congo flesh out the visual assault. This long awaited follow-up to the highly influential bestselling book Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement also features hard hitting interviews with Ian Mackaye, one of the most respected voices of the DIY music underground, and Malcolm McLaren, likely the most impactful promoter of the early punk movement. From the unknown to the infamous, they will likely be found within the pages of Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything!
The follow up to the critically acclaimed 'Untitled. Street Art in The Counterculture. Untitled II the irreverent book of street art has again been created without the collaboration of the artists and certainly without the permission of the wall owners. There are blatant statements that embody outrageous lies, articles laced with satire, plus cynical synopses of attempts to commercialize street art and make it fashionable via celebrity endorsement. Consideration is given to the question What the hell is it about the color grey that makes it appeal the powers that be and their ridiculous minions? and Outsider Art is it an expression of artistic impulse without interference from the idea of personal gain? All of this amongst a collection of graffiti collected from all over the world and preserved on these pages before the legions employed to destroy them chip them off the walls. Artists featured include Miss Van, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Swoon, Os Gemeos, and Herakut.
n 2004, before the advent of social media as a global phenomenon, photographer Patrick O'Dell launched the celebrated blog 'Epicly Later'd', dedicated to documenting the adventure and mayhem of the NYC skate/music/downtown scene. Two decades later, the influence of O'Dell's work is apparent, and the original photographs still astonish. Compiled by O'Dell and editor Jesse Pearson, this title collects the best of the blog into a body of work that's evocative wildly compelling.Patrick O'Dell is a photographer, photo editor, filmmaker, and skateboarder from Columbus, Ohio. In addition to the creation of the seminal photoblog Epicly Later'd, his work includes serving as a photographer for Thrasher magazine and photo editor for Vice. He also created and produced the webshow and television adaptations of 'Epicly Later'd', and is an acclaimed director of music videos and the film 'Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine'.
“I think Volvox is really outside of most things and most categories. That’s what attracted me to them immediately. You know, what are we listening to? What is this? Who are these people? That’s the stuff that I love and they were just outside of everything, outside of the experimental scene for sure. Even though people in the scene were supportive of them and loved them. I just think they were very very different. It was just very strange.” - Oren Ambarchi
Volvox were one of the most extraordinary bands ever to emerge from Melbourne, or in fact anywhere else. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, during their short existence (1991 to 1996) they never played outside of said city. Luckily for you dualpLOVER and SPILL have taken it upon themselves to re-issue their back catalog in an effort to preserve the recorded history of one of Australia’s true outsider outfits and to help its legacy grow outside of the few who saw them play or brought the original cassettes.
Describing the unsettling nature of the Volvox sound is somewhat difficult without pointing out one unmistakable feature, the vocals style of Anthoney Riddell (aka 'Lester Vat'), their all-stumbling neurologically damaged front-man, whose infamous fall at the Redfern squats in the late 80s left him in a coma for months, and then with a significant movement disorder. However unlike other bands that have had physically or mentally-impaired members, his involvement was in no way token. Anthony was actively involved in the Sydney noise scene long before his accident, most notably with his project The Good Chamber who some Sydneysiders may remember through the Cosmic Conspiracy tape label. The bands line up also included Dave Taskas (GRONG GRONG) , Glenn Norman, Christine Thirkell + various guests.
Ex Used condition
Limited coloured vinyl 5LP deluxe foil slipcase
For the first time, The Clouds present all four of their albums in one limited edition collected box set.
RetroActive features all four of The Clouds incredible albums – Penny Century, Octopus, Thunderhead and Futura – most of which are being repressed for the first time since release.
The box set arrives in a deluxe foil box, and each album arrives on limited-edition coloured vinyl.
" A previously unknown shellac recording of the dadaist recording his immortal sound poem, Ursonate, from the 1930s, was apparently recently discovered. And to much amazement has been released here for the first time. Historically, sonically mindblowing." (forcedexposure.com)
"This is a remarkable artifact and a revealing, even moving rendition." (Option, July/August 1995)
Note: According to Ernst Schwitters's testimony, this is the original recording of his father Kurt's performance. We do not wish to conceal the fact that this claim has since been doubted by a third party. WERGO is investigating the matter.
CD - New
Proper and overdue re-issue of a limited edition 12 cassette on Annihilvs released back in 2012. Hubrizine was two years in the making and features source material by Finland's mighty STROM.ec, undoubtedly heralded as masters of the PE oeuvre, as reinterpreted and re-engineered by Theologian, in celebration of a shared appreciation for the works of Philip K. Dick. From the opening moments, what immediately strikes you is that this probably isn't what you thought it was going to be, given the history of both acts. Sure, there are a good deal of passages of volatility and focused intensity as you might expect, but they are complimented by an equal amount of passages of hallucinatory ambience and cold, serene atmospherics. It's this very dichotomy that makes this such a masterful recording, and listening to it one sitting becomes almost mandatory just to wrap your head around the mind fuckery that unravels over its 7 tracks, as celestial drift and horizon filling textures collide with sudden eruptions of militantly hostile vocals, machine clatter, blistering frequency pulsations and writhing distortion. The title track is clearly the centerpiece here...an epic and sprawling 18 minute track of climatic and shimmering drones that disintegrates into corrosive generator hum and contorted loops with an insane vocal outburst that rivals any STROM.ec output ever created. Hubrizine clearly takes heavy electronics in a direction where few have dared go, and few will ever match. In fold out presentation folder with artwork by Andre Coelho
