Biography
Fairly free-improv and underground Dunedin-based group comprised of James Kirk (one time King Loser member, along with the Glen Campbell Experience), Tim Cornelius, Nathan Thompson and occasionally Mark Curragh.
Sandoz Research Laboratories was where Albert Hoffmann accidentally discovered LSD in the ’20s. There’s always been quite a heavy drug influence in the band. You’ve come across it.
Tim Cornelius on the band names origin, taken from the Sandoz interview with Opprobrium
A fairly constant stream of releases on their own Blunt Instrumentals label, often comprised of off the cuff ramshackle performances (particularly their earlier recordings which date back to late 1993). With Curragh living in Australia, Thompson formed Unspecified with Cornelius, and Curragh and Thompson with Curragh, both as off-shoot additional side-projects.
Thompson keeps himself very busy by also performing in the Flies Inside The Sun off-shoot Sleep.
Members
- James Kirk (Black Boned Angel, King Loser, Ohm, Renderizors, Superbugger, The Renderers, The Stumps, With Throats As Fine As Needles)
- Tim Cornelius (Little Deaths, Ray Off, Sky Blue Lodge, The Cornelius Brothers, Three Forks, Unspecified)
- Nathan Thompson (Eye, PSN Electronic, Renderizors, Sleep, The Renderers, Unspecified)
- Mark Curragh
Discography
- Lost Early Recordings Cassette (1993, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT000)
- Sandoz Lab Technicians 8″ Lathe-Cut EP (1994, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT001)
- Big Shiney Ship Lathe-Cut 7″ EP (1994, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT004)
- Live! And 12b Cassette (1994, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT003)
- Sandoz Lab Technicians Cassette (1995, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT008)
- Daily Light (1995, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT009)
- Sleeping Beneath The Clay Lathe-Cut 7″ EP (1996, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT011)
- Sandoz Lab Technicians (1996, Siltbreeze, SB-55)
- The Tale Of The Pixielamb (1997, Lotus Sound)
- An Ounce Of Birds Blood Lathe-Cut 7″ EP (1998, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT012)
- Synaptic Acres (1999, Metonymic, METONYMIC008)
- The Three Imposters Triple 8″ Lathe-Cut Ep (1999, Crawlspace, Artist Series 2.8)
- Let Me Lose My Mind Gracefully (1998, Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes027)
- Microverse Wallpaper 7″ (2001, 20city, 20C-8)
- Everythings Fifteen (2004, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 1007)
- The Western Lands (2007, Last Visible Dog, LVD063)
- New Botany (2013, Blunt Instrumentals, BINT013)
- Grey Orders, Distant Trails (2019, Ikuisuus, IKU-055)
- Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music double-CD compilation (2023, Fördämning Arkiv, F-ARKIV 9)