"Oz Echoes" peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. The "Oz Waves" successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio archives and irrationally abandoned studio sessions, as Steele Bonus sequences a 10-track compendium of drone pop, psyche-electronics and agitated tape cut-ups.

From the Sydney cassette network, The Horse He's Sick returns with an industrial car crash, alongside Wrong Kind of Stone Age’s pagan cacophony and primal riddims. M Squared dynamo Patrick Gibson appears in both "Height/Dismay" and "Mr Knott", his respective studio-as-an-instrument collaborations with Dru Jones [ Scattered Order ] and ex-Slugfucker Gordon Renouf - the former’s worn out apparition hails from an instantly deleted 1981 7”, while Mr Knott entrust one of the compilation’s five previously unreleased tracks.

Matt Mawson represents Brisbane music media-printed matter collective ZIP, as Adelaide’s Three D Radio grants access to their vaults of live-to-air recordings and aspiring demo submissions, rescuing the slap-happy punk-funk of The Frenzied Bricks and Jandy Rainbow’s prodigious beginnings in Les Trois Etrangers and Aeroplane Footsteps. Synchronously in Melbourne, Ash Wednesday [ Karen Marks, The Metronomes ] leads Modern Jazz’ improvised proto-techno and EBM pioneers Shanghai Au Go-Go home record their sardonic synth-wave.

A cherry-picked cast of unusual suspects, "Oz Echoes’" unfamed artist and non-band narratives are detailed by track-by-track liner notes with rarely published archival visions and artwork from Video Synth, prompting further rabbit hole ventures into this golden era of creative risk-taking and instant action.

TRACKLIST:

01. Height/Dismay - Mother’s Footsteps 03:12
02. The Frenzied Bricks - Vicious Circle 03:30
03. Modern Jazz - Zoom Dub 05:01
04. Mr Knott - Poor Galileo [He Has Gone Mad] 03:47
05. Aeroplane Footsteps - Arabia 03:13
06. Shanghai Au Go-Go - I Cried All Winter 05:20
07. Matt Mawson - Open The Goddam Door 03:21
08. The Horse He's Sick - Terminal Rebound 03:47
09. Wrong Kind Of Stone Age - Ravi Dubbi 03:54
10. Les Trois Etrangers - Luna 01:55