PseudoArcana is an underground experimental record label founded in Masterton, New Zealand around 2000 by sound artist Antony Milton. Operating primarily through limited-edition CD-R releases, the label has grown to more than 130 releases spanning experimental, drone, ambient, and avant-garde music, with a roster including Pumice, Seht, The Stumps, Purple Pilgrims, Paintings of Windows, and Peter Wright.
Apoplexy was a Christchurch-based experimental and ambient record label founded in 1998 by Peter Wright, who had previously co-founded the kRkRkRk label. Active from 1998 to 2003, the label released 18 experimental and ambient productions before Wright relocated to London, with highlights including his debut LP, Distant Bombs (2002), and Pariahs Sing Om (2003).
Clementine Valentine are New Zealand sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, whose work weaves ancient mythology and folk tradition into critically acclaimed art-pop; their 2023 album The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor marks the culmination of over a decade of restless evolution.
High Street Project was a long-running art gallery set up as an artist-run, not for-profit project with a particular focus on emerging artists. Housed by multiple venues (in and around Christchurch’s High Street) over the course of 19 years, it also functioned as a performance space for a number of underground or experimental acts prior to the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 – 2011.
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‘Gleefully Unknown’ Wellington-based New Plymouth-raised lo-fi homebrew musician releasing material under his own name (on his own fiffdimension mail order label), under the fiffdimension or Dave Black aliases, as well as in collaboration with other like-minded artists.
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Celebrate Psi Phenomenon is a drone, noise and experimental music-focused label from Upper Hutt’s Campbell Kneale, the prolific performer behind Birchville Cat Motel and Black Boned Angel. The label often utilises a distinctive wallpaper aesthetic to their cover designs.
The label was particularly prolific from the mid 1990s until around 2008.
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FLASHBACK TO 9 October 2008 with Birchville Cat Motel, Peter Wright and Antony Milton at the Media Club. This Borderline Ballroom show marked Campbell Kneale’s final performance under the Birchville Cat Motel name in Christchurch.
Biography The duo of Antony Milton (aka AM) and Greg Larking, who play a clattering brew of experimental drone noise featuring guitar, violin etc. On “School Of Religious Studies” they take an abrasive approach to collaboration, and come out the… Read More »Street
Biography Wellington trio led by Dave Edwards (guitar / harmonica), with San Shimla (Cello) and prolific New Zealand music journalist Simon Sweetman (Drums / Percussion). Edwards has been self releasing on his own Fiff Dimension website his own recordings for… Read More »The Winter
Biography Yet Another Antony Milton Project! Guitar-Noise/Drift/Drone. Nz Free Noise Turns All Psychedelic And Transcendental. Everything Is Beautiful And Broken. If This Was The Foundation Of Western Music, Vhf Records Would Be Top 40 And Mathew Bower Would Be Our… Read More »Nether Dawn
Biography New solo project from Antony Milton on Pseudoarcana CDr label off-shoot The Seedy R. Clattery ecstatic backyard songs and drones from Antony Milton recorded in afternoons and evenings to Walkman and 4 track over a week in the late summer… Read More »Clay Man In The Well
Biography The duo of Antony Milton and Ben Spiers – both prominent wellington based experimental artists. Seen Through is a largely improvisation guitar-distortion duo, releasing material on Pseudoarcana, and a split release with US Outfit Davenport on Haamumaa. Discography Extant… Read More »Seen Through
Biography New duo comprised of Celebrate Psi Phenomenon / Birchville Cat Motel‘s Campbell Kneale and Pseudoarcana / A.M.‘s Antony Milton. Extended fluttering organ drones, shifting like sonic sand dunes, elemental forces dragging melodies and chords out over thousands of years,… Read More »With Throats As Fine As Needles
Biography Wellington based founder of the Psuedoarcana label, who also performs by the initials A.M., as well as Nether Dawn and Street, and has releases on Clayton Noone’s Root Don Lonie For Cash Peter Wrights’ Apoplexy label. Discography Wire Bridge… Read More »Antony Milton
Biography Stephen Clover – who also released lathe cut albums under the names Logstore and the Longshoremen. Yet another of the post H-Corp NZ bands that have risen in the aftermath of the mid-90’s free noise frenzy. Seht is much… Read More »Seht