Various Artists - "Underground Australia"

I got to talking with Chris from Cipher Productions on a message board and discovered he was situated in Australia. A bit more chatting and he showed me a link to the C.P. discography. On that list I noticed a compilation tape called "Underground Australia". Eagerly I ordered and happily it arrived this week.

The packaging is damn sexy, fresh tape stock, labeled professionally on side A and side B. The insert covered in gorgeous and very dark images (not entirely sure what they are, but they look nice), with the track list and the contact information for each of the bands on the compilation.

The track listing is as follows:

Side A

1. IT - OMDMM(2)
2. With Exposed Nerve - Twitch Of The Death Nerve
3. Miles Brown - Fluoresca
4. Chrysalis - Propaganda Due
5. Toecutter - Sea Of Lovers
6. Near Earth Objects - The Tether Incident
7. Rats With Wings - Weak Little Cunt
8. Isomer - United Front Disco
9. Agit8 & Smallcock - ass biting midget power vs. slappy the pinhead

Side B

1. Mark Harwood & Rodney Cooper - For Frederick Valentich
2. Streicher - Threatcon Edit
3. Sokuseki-Men - Harsh Australian Son
4. DLS 10 - Lesson One
5. Undecisive God - Things Fall Apart
6. C-Scan - Only Hours To Go
7. Halo - untitled
8. Kunt - Porky Kyushu Ramen (edit)
9. Rancid Shitwank - Live At Haz Music Derby 25 May 2002

Now onto the sounds.

I will admit that this tape has a lot of very very harsh sounds. But I am more than happy with that myself. I have grown even more fond of harsh music recently. There is a mix of pure noise and rhythmic noise on this compilation. And mixed between the two are styles very stark brutal tracks and eerie tracks that use noise to sublime.

My only complaint is that it is on cassette tape. Its damn hard for me to find a working tape player that isn't in the car, which means I have been listening to this whilst driving to and from work for the last few days. Hard to record thoughts on each track whilst driving, so for now I will call this review to a halt.

But I definately recommend the $aus10 in cost (including postage) a good investment for those that want to hear the level of noise (quality noise?) being created in Australia.

NOTE: The Cipher Productions website is at http://iheartnoise.com/cipherproductions/

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