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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.
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Dunedin-based free improvisation ensemble formed in August 1993, occupying a singular position in New Zealand underground music history across three decades of releases.
Live Music Reviews and Photos
FLASHBACK to June 2008 — Borderline Ballroom at the Christchurch Media Club with performances from Black Boned Angel, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Alex McKinnion and Lee Noyes.
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Led by the dynamic duo of Celia Mancini and Chris Heazlewood, New Zealand's surf and noise guitar gods King Loser were one of the best local groups for much of the 1990's with 3 terrific albums and a handful of singles and bootleg releases before their split in 1997. #nzmusic #kingloser
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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. #nzmusic #experimentalmusic #dronemusic #celebratepsiphenomenon
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Christchurch free-noise group featuring future Breathing Cage bandmates Greg Malcolm and Michael Kime, plus Into the Void's Paul Sutherland and the drums of John Kennedy. #nzmusic #dontmakenoise
Venues
The Christchurch Media Club was a large building on Armagh Street, next to the notoriously seedy Centennial Pool. Broken up in to several parts – It had a mid-sized hall with hard-wood floors, a large performing stage and bar (used mostly for Media Club patrons, housing pool tables, darts etc), the smaller ‘Winter Garden’ ballroom where most live performances occurred – which was carpeted and decked out in ornate ceiling alcoves, plus a hallway, toilets and a small kitchen.
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Not-quite defunct label based out of an Auckland record store that put out several limited edition underground releases in the 90s and early 00s. One compilation of this material (Fit for Kings) was actually issued on well-known US indie Drunken Fish. Since the closure of the Crawlspace record store, Crawlspace have been limited to short one-off 7" releases and casually distribution through mail-order and the K-road market. Truly worth visiting, the market is the place to go to find one-off Snapper and Victor Dimisich Band 7"s, and a variety of abstract low run vinyl releases and even imports.
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An off-shoot of Sandoz Lab Technicians members Tim Cornelius and Nathan Thompson: "Unspecified was recorded 94/95 by Sandoz Lab Technicians Nathan Thompson and Tim Cornelius. This prehistoric piece of grind and scrape shows the pair tip-toeing through a trough of strawberry shortcake on their way to a screaming mass extinction. edition of 50 lathe cut 7″ vinyl" Nathan Thompson
Interviews
First off, describe your music in 10 words or less Antarcticish. Please substitute my use of the genre label ‘noise’, i’m not particularly fond…
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Biography The Renderers are New Zealand’s prime example of southern-fried country, and are indeed one of our finest ever bands. Brian Crook formed the…
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Biography The Stumps are the New Zealand superspawn of Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana, The Nether Dawn, Etc), Stephen Clover (Seht), and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab…
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Biography What makes this album great is the aforementioned brevity of the pieces. Duncan spans all shapes of the volume curve, sliding through landscapes…
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Biography Flies Inside The Sun off-shoot featuring Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton, along with Nathan Thompson (Sandoz Lab Technicians and their various off-shoots) and…
