Decrepit Tapes - Coming 6/1/08
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(Sorry for the delay, I know this was supposed to open 5/1/08 but it'll be worth the extra wait)
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Not Given Lightly: A Kiwi Tapes Retrospective
Discs 1 & 2 posted today. Discs 3 & 4 will be posted tomorrow. I would like to thank all of the readers of this blog for their support. I couldn't have done it without you! Thank you to all the contributors who made this blog what it is by uploading all of the great gems and rarities over the past year. I am honored to have been able to spread such timeless and amazing music all across the globe. Please continue to buy this music and support the Kiwi artists and music scene in any way you can. Spread the word, and make sure that this music lives on and never dies. Thank you all again. See you again soon.
-Steve
Various Artists - Biding Our Time
23 tracks from New Zealand bands, previously unreleased, unavailable elsewhere, lots of Flying Nun bands making special outings just for this release.
(Released 1986, now available on CD)
Ripped at 128 kbps (sorry, if you want better quality buy it from failsaferecords.com)
Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For Single
Snobby McBitrates alert: these Mp3s are encoded at 160 kbps and are ripped from vinyl
Peter Jefferies - Electricity
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An extremely under rated solo release. Features guest spots from a lot of the Xpressway favorites as well as re-done versions of "Crossover" & "Wined Up"
Live At Avalon Studios
Tracklisting:
01 - Circumspect Penelope - Look Blue, Go Purple
02 - Only Dream Left - Verlaines
03 - Taste Delight - StraightJacket Fits
04 - Baud To Tears - Verlaines
05 - Dead Heat - StraightJacket Fits
06 - Dead Heat - StraightJacket Fits
07 - Come Sunday - Verlaines
08 - Life in One Chord - StraightJacket Fits
09 - Ballad of Harry Noryb - Verlaines
The Shallows - Suzanne Says Single
The only release from Roy Montgomery's post-Pin Group band (correct?). If you dig the Pin Group you will definitely like this pair of songs.
Nocturnal Projections - Understanding Another Year In Darkness EP
A great release from an extremely under rated pre-This Kind of Punishment project from the brothers Jefferies.
This Will Kill That - Nailed Out
The debut cassette from this early 9o's Wellington band. Toured with Bailter Space, but relatively unknown. Pretty cool noise-rock stuff and this was actually sent to me by a band member, which is always a plus in my book. Sorry, no cover art. Check it out!
Able Tasmans - A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down (re-post)
A major work from this New Zealand indie group, A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down comes highly recommended to those in love with the sophisticated and delicate arrangements of the New Zealand rock scene's Flying Nun label sound. While some of their peers in the productive period of '80s and '90s down under produced edgy, loud guitar music inside the framework of pop, Able Tasmans temper their largely acoustic sound with keyboards and acoustic arrangements in place of corrosive guitars. The songs are built on the delicate threshold of complexity/simplicity, filled out with lush arrangements and dreamy atmospheres that call to mind Fairport Convention. A great album filled with sweet and crafty pop songs that will hold much appeal to fans of intelligent guitar pop; Yo la Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, the Bats, and Television Personalities spring to mind.
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