Melbourne avant-drumming duo Peon (Ronny Ferella and Sam Price) join guest presenter Peter Hollo for a live in-studio session ahead of the release of their upcoming second album ‘Intercourse Suite’. Published 11 August 2011. Subscribe to the New Weird Australia podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify […]
Brooke Olsen from Dirty Shirlows talks with guest presenter Kimberley Galceran about the history of the Marrickville underground venue, ahead of their third anniversary fundraiser. We also hear a number of tracks selected by Brooke, from Australian artists Axxonn, Grey Daturas, Gary Butler & Amanda […]
Sydney-based Ivan Lisyak is a multidisciplinary media artist, and musician working with video, sound, feedback, and noise. In this episode of New Weird Australia, Ivan talks about his new release on Avant Whatever, titled ‘South West Line’ and performs a live in-studio session. Published 21 […]
Two live sets from a recent show at the FBI Social in Sydney, featuring Sydney improvisational collective Forenzics, launching their third album, ‘Build Ruins’; plus experimental / electronic duo Domeyko/Gonzalez. Published 16 June 2011. Subscribe to the New Weird Australia podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify […]
“This isn’t your Slayer or Metallica or Pantera, to be certain. It’s heavy sonic seance shit. Big walls of fuzzed out guitars or sludgy numbers swimming in the murky murk or knob twiddling feedback frenzies or straight up droooooooone or sort of industrialized punk frock […]
Sydney collective Forenzics deliver their album ‘Build Ruins’ as the seventh release for New Weird Australia’s label imprint, New Editions. Build Ruins by Forenzics Tracklisting: 1. Let’s Build Ruins! 10.46 2. Noise Avoider 9.54 3. Dub Scab 5.06 4. Motor Systemz Collisionz 12.33 5. Palin’s […]
Brain Drain is a Sydney based artist who straddles the divide between structure and improvisation, often revelling in the contrast between the two. His guitar-driven pieces centre around creating both mood and rhythm through loops, and using this repetition as a foundation on which to […]
A live set from Rueben Ingall, recorded at the recent ‘Sound Of Young Canberra’ show at the FBI Social in Sydney. Reuben Ingall grew up in Canberra, and studied computer music and interactive digital media at the Centre for New Media Arts at The Australian […]
Reforming their original line-up in 2009, Scattered Order join Stu Buchanan for a rare in-studio live session and to talk about their recent release ‘Adjust The Terminology’. Scattered Order are one of the most unique bands in the history of Sydney’s experimental and electronic music […]
This week, an exclusive in-studio live session from Severed Heads, regarded as being one of the most influential experimental and electronic bands in Australia. Pioneering the use of tape loops and samples in the late 70s and early 80s, Severe Heads forged an innovative career […]
Rites Wild is the solo project of Adelaide artist Stacey Wilson (Terrible Truths, Comfort Zones, Regional Curse), making monotone pop with 80′s analogue keys. Stu Buchanan talks to Stacey on the eve of the release of her debut self-titled cassette under the Rites Wild name; […]
The latest project from Sydney composer Edwin Montgomery is a live re-scoring of Werner Herzog’s surreal 1969 film ‘Fata Morgana’, a “science-fiction elegy of demented post-colonialism”. Stu Buchanan talks to Edwin about the project and his work to date, and Edwin performs the piece ‘Waterfalls […]
