New Weird Australia, Volume Two | NWA002

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	1.	Oceans - 02 + 03 05:11
	2.	Ghoul - Swimming Pool (Remix) 03:05
	3.	William Gardiner - Sonance Arboreal 04:34
	4.	Sam Price - Auto Hackney 05:28
	5.	Broken Chip - Summer Stars 05:05
	6.	Kharkov - Crustacean 03:11
	7.	Cock Safari - 8MH 06:29
	8.	Lucia Draft - Not Interested 01:15
	9.	Mieli - Hometime 03:32
	10.	Karoshi - Re-Animate Me 02:42
	11.	No Art - Fight In The Nocturnal House 03:56
	12.	Transmissions - Staring At Lightning Strikes, Catching Every One 02:45
	13.	Panoptique Electrical - We Was Them 07:22
	14.	Maddest Kings Alivea - Measels 04:06
	15.	Splendid Friends - Holy Shears 01:42
	16.	Paul Fiocco - Torsions and Drifts 13:33

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Grant Hunter’s cover artwork for the free download compilation, New Weird Australia Volume Two – featuring our country’s endearing emblematic marsupial with black claw outstretched and a murderous fleck in his eye – perfectly illustrates the ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ binary of the Australian story.

On one side, the world is sold on paradisal visions of Australian reefs and plains, care-free surfers racing down golden sands, and the classic long-shot of a sun-blemished Uluru. On the flip, with just as much fervour, we mythologise and peddle stories of perpetual gangland warfare, malevolent outback serial killers and dingoes eating babies for their morning snack.

If only the same warped duality could be brought to bear on the world’s vision of our musical worth. The exported track record is however largely one-sided – our place as the shiny, electro party-starter of the Southern Hemisphere is unrivalled, along with a seemingly endless passion for rock, culled from a 40-year old tombstone. Ask the world to identify a prominent Australian undercurrent and they will remain largely tight-lipped. Hence New Weird Australia – a project aimed as much at curating a contemporary library of alt-Australiana, as promoting that collection to the rest of the globe.

For Volume Two, we once again represent a strong geographic diversity with music from Tasmania, Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. We embody genre diversity from 21-year-oldWilliam Gardiner’s neo-classical work to the sprawling sample ephemera spread by Newcastle’s Cock Safari; from Maddest Kings Alive’s shoegaze chip-tunes to a seemingly perfect drift plain soundtrack, hewn by Solo Andata’sPaul Fiocco. There are also multiple exclusives from Kharkov, Lucia Draft, Mieli, No Art, Karoshi, Transmissions and Jason (Pretty Boy Crossover) Sweeney’s Panoptique Electrical project, and new work from Broken Chip, Ghoul, Oceans, Sam Price and Splendid Friends.

In mapping and redefining the local terrain, New Weird Australia represents a new breed of Australian musicians that cast an essential shadow over Australia’s sunny disposition.

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released September 5, 2009

Compiled by Stuart Buchanan & Danny Jumpertz
Artwork by Grant Hunter, granthunter.daportfolio.com.

www.newweirdaustralia.com.au/music/new-weird-australia-volume-two/

All music donated by the artists for use in this compilation only, all rights reserved.

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