Music from Australia

The collaborative project of Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker has consistently been concerned with processes of transformation. This is all the more true for »Fathom Tides,« the duo’s second album for Hallow Ground following up on »Tropic of Capricorn« from 2023. Using field recordings collected from diverse coastal environments made by English and later treated extensively by Dafeldecker, the two sound artists explore cyclical changes in nature across these seven pieces. Through its abst…

Sold out at the label. Sparkling or Silent finds crys cole and Oren Ambarchi pausing their restless, always‑on‑the-move discographies at a curious angle, as if turning the light slightly to see what has been glinting at the edges all along. Both artists have long carried an electroacoustic sensibility in their work - in cole’s hyper‑attentive treatment of small sounds and negative space, in Ambarchi’s use of guitar and electronics as malleable matter rather than fixed instruments - but here that…

Tip! *100 copies limited edition* redacted. incomplete narratives. non sense. but. working with what i have. walkmans. tapes. dictaphones. Green's electronic work of recent years focussing on defective analogue technology simultaneously broadens and refines with UnXpKtD; his first definitive electronic noise outing incorporating a pair of dictaphones in various states of disrepair. The music is chaotic yet concise, disorientating yet focussed; UnXpKtD is an intensely abstract and personal sonic …

** 2026 Repress ** First released in 2016 and long out of print, Hubris has come to feel like a pivot in Oren Ambarchi’s catalogue - the moment when his fascination with groove, repetition and ensemble friction finally detonated into something both overwhelming and weirdly precise. This new edition gives that record the sonic treatment it always deserved. Working from the original mixes, mastering engineer Joe Talia revisits the album with what can only be called forensic care, teasing out layer…

The first ever official release by this legendary Melbourne post-punk band who only ever existed for a number of months in 1978, but who cast an important and influential light in Australian (and global!) music, influencing the likes of the Boys Next Door/Birthday Party and The Models, the group's membership and its diaspora reading like a who's-who of crucial Australian music of the past 50 years. In the band was a young Rowland S. Howard, who would soon go onto join the BND/Birthday Party; Oll…

*2026 stock*  "the most stunning album" Elizabeth Alker, Unclassified BBC radio 3. "If you are an inquisitive talented improviser like her you can use those [rubber band boxes] to conjure up some sonic riches" Verity Sharp, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3. bright lines stretched thin,spring back and creak,little slingshot.a temporary bundle.these desk-bound daydreams,of rubber trees and sap.let's snap and break. Experiments with building and playing rubber-band noise boxes.

*2026 stock* What goes on inside a cell? What might it sound like? Inspired by tiny processes and interactions Organelles presents a sonic imaginary of intracellular operations. Cells are busy: folding proteins, exchanging gases, creating energy, growing, dividing, mutating and communicating. Likened to minute factories or warehouses, organelles are the entities which perform the specialised tasks which enable cellular life. So often explored visually, this album offers one version of what the a…

*2026 stock* Carr and Donohoe eschew the typical depiction of a storm as a linear escalation. Instead they illuminate the multitude of comings-and-goings that occur throughout its lifecycle: the quietening of birdsong, the thickening and dispersal of the wind, the ever-changing texture of the rain. The title itself is an act of misdirection. Most of the runtime concerns the storm’s prelude (it’s a full half-hour before we hear the first rumble of thunder), and we’re ushered into a fadeout before…

Recorded in a bedroom with classical guitar and 4-track tape, The Next From Field Commander is Australian folk of rare emotional density. Layered vocals, inhabited silences, a voice that lingers.

*300 copies limited edition* Auto-Da-Fé is a collection of SPK’s singles from between 1978 and 1979. The first five tracks, from '78 and '79, are basically a scratchy thrashy punk sound, augmented by synthesizers and samples. Guitars grind, electronics screech, and metal is most thoroughly bashed. Highlight of these early works, and indeed the album, is the deranged Slogun. The intro to the song, a demented echoing clucking and quacking, leads into a pulverising mechanical grind. Surely a candid…

Renowned composer and guitarist Oren Ambarchi releases Long Story Short, a captivating solo guitar album that distills his signature sonic explorations into intimate, hypnotic compositions. Recorded on December 9, 2024, by Daniel Bengston at Studio Rymden in Stockholm, and mixed in February 2025 by Joe Talia and Ambarchi at Good Mixture in Melbourne, the album features two evocative tracks: "Apricot/Paper Cut" (4:02) and "And So Say All Of Us" (4:12).  Ambarchi's mastery shines through in these …

Very rare first edition on Graeme Revell's own Side Effects of his unparalleled industrial project's debut LP, here under the name System Planning Korporation, one of the must-have albums of early industrial music. No booklet (not included in all copies).

Original 1982 cassette-only edition on Fresh Sounds with a great recording of a concert in Kansas in April 1982.

Ultra-rare 1983 Italian cassette on Plasma Tapes with live recordings from 1981/1982 complete with Viva Noir magazine, an elaborate package made of an oversize folder containing a booklet about SPK plus three more inserts, one about the Whitehouse and the Come Organisation.

Original 1983 EP on Side Effects by Graham Revell's unparalleled industrial project under the name SepPuKu.

Original German edition on Normal of SPK's third album from 1986, one of the best dark ambient albums ever.

Trinity, the third collaborative album between Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello, continues the pair’s patient, pliable musical explorations while marrying them with a unique collaborator—one per track—to map new territories. Trinity presents five collaborations with acclaimed artists who work at the edges of sound and genre: Chris Abrahams (The Necks), improvising turntablist Marina Rosenfeld, Brendan Canty (Fugazi, The Messthetics), multidisciplinary artist Aki Onda, and the late contempor…

Drawing from Tasmania’s rugged landscapes and the spectral absence of its lost fauna, Clinton Green composes a series of site-specific sound works that fuse kinetic turntable setups with ambient field recordings. The album is an evocative journey through environmental improvisation, blending mechanical invention, wildlife acoustics, and subtle instrumental textures into a narrative of listening and ecological reverence.​

Movement, unpredictability and found sound take center stage as Clinton Green and Ernie Althoff bring together turntable constructions and hand-built kinetic instruments. Their joint work finds a magnetic middle ground between gentle percussive chaos and immersive, floating textures—highlighting the overlapping of machine logic and human touch.​

In a sonic dialogue that balances delicacy and depth, Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver explore the shifting textures of acoustics and resonance. Employing bowed aluminum bowls, strings, and a grand piano, their work unfolds in patient layers that probe the very essence of sound and its environment, evoking an atmosphere of quiet tension and subtle transformation.