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Category Archives: s artists
Sleepy Age
Disco-pop indie-rock tunes from Christchurch’s own Josh Burgess (Guitar/Synth and Vocals, ex Bang! Bang! Eche!) with Josh Black (Bass, ex A Flight to Blackout), Julian Vares (Drums, Magic Eye) and more recently Charlie Ryder (Keyboards, Bang! Bang! Eche!). The group … Continue reading
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salmonella dub
the very definition of ‘i like your old stuff better than your new stuff’, salmonella dub started out creating bass and horn-heavy dub ready to get down too, but slowly (well, more like immediately after former sound-man tiki tanae joined … Continue reading
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sandoz lab technicians
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 … Continue reading
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satan’s pitbull
an experimental lo-fi/noise release from lynton denovan (space dust, cm productions etc), recorded on a simple 4-track setup and released in a peter king lathe cut 7″ format through denovan’s one-off hit-machine label. discography picks in bold satan’s pitbull lathe-cut … Continue reading
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salon kingsadore
ultra-mellow surf-instrumental act out of auckland. very soundtrack-like atmospherics (described as ennio morricone meets milton nascimento) from this band, originally comprised of john howell (guitar), billy squire (rhodes keyboard), matt sandford (drums), hayden sinclair (bass) and gianmarco liguori (guitar). howell … Continue reading
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s.p.u.d.
brash and noisy flying nun rock act from the early 1990s. discography picks in bold ‘breakdown town’/’slo’gin’ 12″ single [1990 flying nun FN132] sour mini-lp [1990 flying nun FN133] gnaw [1991 flying nun FN198] ‘creep’/’recliner’ cassette single [1991 flying nun … Continue reading
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jason sad
discography picks in bold saduction ep [1982 JSA2] lilac dan and the underworld ep [1983]
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salad daze
robbie ans simon kay, kieren cooney, luke casey and miles gillett.discographypicks in bold gib ep [1991 sting SD2] ‘pulling the strings’/’it’s in my mind’/’intrusion’ lathe-cut 7″ [self-released]
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school of meat
wellington punk hardcore with aidan and nathan (both ex-killtrain), ryan and simon. discography picks in bold enrol today ep [2000, day job records, djrcd001]
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satina saturnina
one-woman band of country-fied blues rock with a cd and 7″ on andrew tolley’s kato label. discography picks in bold ‘annabelle’ / ‘doll valley’ 7″ singlern[kato Kato 8]
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