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AVS 047CD
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$27.00
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"Originally released in June 1967, The Master's Apprentices is one of the great Aussie albums of the 1960s. Their legendary debut has been re-mastered from the original source for the very first time...and it's a 2CD set with a massive 27 bonus tracks! Deluxe 8 panel digi-pak presentation with a 28-page booklet with many previously unpublished photos and recent interviews with singer Jim Keays and guitarist / songwriter Mick Bower. Features the singles: 'Undecided' / 'Wars Or Hands Of Time' (best b-side ever?), 'Buried And Dead,' 'But One Day,' 'Elevator Driver,' 'Living In A Child's Dream' and 'Brigitte.' PLUS the full Max Pepper demo recordings AND 16 wild garage rehearsal tracks from 1966."
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AVS 044CD
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"The 1974 follow up to their startling debut Stillpoint is another progressive rock gem, another chapter in the story of one of Australia's best bands of the seventies. This, their last LP (excepting their legendary 'lost' album Brave New World ...we're still searching...) again featured a striking cover from roadie/artist Drak and was lavishly packaged in a gatefold sleeve and insert (artwork faithfully created for this release). Musically, Butterfly Farm continues in the same 'psychedelic blues' vein as its predecessor and features the mighty 'Ride On Fast' along with some amusing adlibs (on the live at Sunbury version of 'Lizards') from singer Mick Fettes! We have added two subsequent non-LP singles and a live track from Sunbury and the Garrison as bonus tracks. The last six months have seen a triumphant return to the live scene from Madder Lake, who are rumored to be writing and recording new material for a projected follow up - 25 years later! This deluxe reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes by Gil Matthews, with a 24-page booklet filled with rare photos and liner notes from noted Australian rock aficionado Ian McFarlane. Four bonus tracks."
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AVS 042CD
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"The Moomba Festival on Sunday the 12th of March 1972 culminated in a massive live concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The lineup was Friends, La De Das, Gerry and the Joy Band and headliners Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs. As noted in TV and newspaper reports, an enormous crowd of 200,000 (yes, you read right: two hundred thousand!) turned up. The following GoSet edition featured a detailed report on the concert and noted the debut of a new track entitled 'Long Live Rock And Roll And Long May It Move Me So' (predicted, following the success of 'Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy,' to be another number one smash, though it was never recorded). We have taken the Aztecs' barnstorming performance and added another from late 1972 at Melbourne's Festival Hall (their farewell show before traveling to the UK) to create a never before released Aztecs' CD, one that captures the band at the peak of their live power (this is the same year and lineup of the classic Aztecs Live! At Sunbury performance, i.e. the 'Sunbury Aztecs': Billy Thorpe, Gil Matthews, Paul Wheeler and Bruce Howard). The Festival Hall show features a lost classic: 'Let Yourself Go' a song in a similar vein to 'Time To Live' and 'Momma' monster riffing, powerful vocals, relentless beat (with obligatory drum solo) with a running time of over 10 minutes! There's also a rare live version of their single 'Believe it Just Like Me.' Remastered by Gil Matthews, liner notes by Ian McFarlane."
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AVS 043CD
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"In late 1979, Ian Rilen, Steve Lucas and Steve Cafiero entered Trafalgar studios with producer Lobby Loyde to record some demos for a projected single. They emerged just five hours later with a completed album, the undisputed classic X-Aspirations. Bass monster Rilen had been a founding member of Rose Tattoo (he wrote their seminal debut single 'Bad Boy For Love,' but had left in October 1977 after his harder edged compositions like 'Hate City' were rejected. Debuting in December 1977, X became one of the leading lights of the Sydney punk explosion. After the shocking death of original guitarist Ian Krahe, vocalist Lucas, with his distinctive sandpaper scream, took on guitar duties and, along with the powerhouse drumming of Cafiero, the classic three-piece lineup was born. Australian rock legend Lobby Loyde (Aztecs, Coloured Balls) was an early champion of the band and the perfect choice for producer. The single taken from the LP, 'I Don't Wanna Go Out,' is one of the great singles of the punk era. X, however, were not purely a punk band -- in attitude maybe, but Rilen's Oz rock roots added another dimension. X were simply a great rock band -- their sound has not aged in 30 years and their legend looms large in the history of Australian music. Aztec Music are proud to present a long overdue reissue of such an important album. Features the singles: 'I Don't Wanna Go Out' and 'Mother' (best Lennon cover ever? Lucas certainly has the primal scream vocal down pat!). Digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, 6 panel digipak, 24 page booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Ian McFarlane. Plus 3 bonus tracks."
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AVS 041CD
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"Died Pretty's magnificent 1986 debut LP: Free Dirt is one of the all time classic Australian albums. It followed 3 excellent singles / EPs and signaled the arrival of what would become of our most loved bands over their celebrated 18 year career. Collected here, for the first time, are Died Pretty's first five releases: the Out Of The Unknown and Mirror Blues singles, the Next To Nothing EP, the Free Dirt album and the Stoneage Cinderella single. Plus an additional 10 bonus tracks -- including previously unreleased demos, a live-to-air radio performance from 1986 and other live rarities. This deluxe 2CD version is packaged in an 8 panel digipak, with a 28-page booklet containing many previously unpublished photos. It has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes."
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"Singer-songwriter Ross Ryan's breakthrough single I Am Pegasus was released in October 1973. Not only did it top the charts, earning him the first of four gold records, it would also go on to be recognized as one of the all time classic Australian singles -- and would continue Ryan's swift ascendancy since being 'plucked from obscurity' for a Roy Orbison support a year earlier. Ryan: 'On Thursday night I was playing at Gramps Wine Bar to about 20 people -- none of who were listening -- and by Saturday I was in front of 5,000 people on an Orbison show. And so my act really consisted of telling everyone how petrified I was and explaining how I got to be there that night -- and they started laughing and I got an incredible ovation'. Ryan ended up doing the whole tour. Orbison unexpectedly received bad reviews with Ryan going over a storm. As a result of all this positive publicity, he was suddenly deluged with record contract offers eventually signing to EMI. The subsequent album (Ryan's third) ...My Name Means Horse repeated the success of the single and would go triple gold. It was produced by Peter Dawkins and arranged by Peter Martin (SCRA). The 12 track LP included 'I Am Pegasus,' the follow up single 'Orchestra Ladies,' and classic album tracks including 'Blood On The Microphone,' '606' and 'Don't Look To Me.' Ryan was even presented with a gold record by then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Aztec Music's reissue of ...My Name Means Horse is packaged in our famous 6 panel digi-pak, was digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, has 2 bonus tracks, a 24 page book with rare photos and liner notes by Ted Lethborg. Bonus Tracks: 'Blood On The Microphone (Pina Colada version)' : Ryan recorded this version with Stewart D'Arrietta producing. It first appeared on The Lost Ross Ryan Album. 'I Am Pegasus (acoustic version)' : Live from the ABC-TV rock program GTK (Get To Know) 1973, 'Pegasus' is presented in its unadorned form."
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AVS 039CD
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"Barrie McAskill was the lead singer, band leader and driving force of one of the greatest progressive soul/R&B institutions in the annals of Australian rock and pop history: Levi Smith's Clefs. Their sole LP, the pioneering heavy soul classic Empty Monkey, has been a much requested title in our reissue series, as it meets both collector's requirements: not only is it very collectable, it is a bonafide Aussie classic (possibly the best Aussie '70s LP you've never heard). McAskill encouraged his band members to improve as musicians, and for them to move on as the urge arose (not unlike an antipodean John Mayall). Accordingly, up to 60 musicians passed through the band, including former and future members of: Tully, Aztecs, Fraternity, SCRA, The Groove, Jeff St. John & The Id and La De Das. Between 1966 and 1971 (first as The Clefs, then Levi Smith's Clefs -- and later, McAskill's Marauders), the band released one LP, a handful of singles and an EP -- all collected here, along with some live-in-the-studio rarities. While searching for the masters, we lucked upon the master tapes of, not only their Empty Monkey, but many of their singles and EP tracks -- PLUS the master tapes of Empty Monkey: The First Sessions from late 1969. This live run-through, recorded in the early hours of the morning -- straight after a gig -- was originally thought 'too loose' to release, so the band were allowed to record it again. Listening to it today, it is an unexpected delight, a testament to the live power of the band. The only known copy was a warped and scratched acetate, so the remastered version from the original masters is a revelation. It is, in fact, different enough and, more importantly, so magnificent, that we had no choice but to expand our release from one to two CDs! So, for the first time anywhere -- the complete Empty Monkey sessions -- remastered from the original tapes, plus a further 13 bonus tracks. Digitally remastered by one-time member of The Clefs: Gil Matthews. Deluxe 8-panel digipak, double CD, a 24-page booklet with many rare photos and liner notes by Ian McFarlane."
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"Tamam Shud were formed after the break up of beat/R&B band, The Sunsets. The band was ostensibly a vehicle for singer and songwriter Lindsay Bjerre (whose burgeoning interest in the acid rock experience had precipitated The Sunset's demise). Bjerre christened the new band Tamam Shud (means 'the very end') which was taken from the closing words of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The band's first release was the 1968 soundtrack to Paul Witzig's groundbreaking surf film Evolution and brought them to the attention of Warner Brothers, who offered them a deal. The band, with a key line-up change in teenage guitar prodigy Tim Gaze (just 15 when he joined!), recorded their masterpiece, the concept album Goolutionites and the Real People in 1970. Ian McFarlane calls it 'one of the truly great Aussie progressive rock albums,' and it also distinguished them as one of the first local bands to tackle environmental issues in their songs. It is now extremely rare and one of the most collectible albums of the period. Following Goolutionites, Tamam Shud contributed three tracks to another surf classic: Alby Falzon's legendary surf film Morning of the Earth in 1972. These tracks are included in our deluxe reissue, along with their 1972 non-LP single I Got A Feeling/My Father Told Me and four previously-unreleased live tracks from Melbourne's Regent Theatre in 1971. Goolutionites, with the aforementioned nine bonus tracks, is packaged in our world famous 6-panel digipak. It has been digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, with liner notes by Ian McFarlane and a 24-page book with rare photos."
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2005 reissue. "Formed in 1975 by Australian synth pioneer Steve Maxwell Von Braund with fellow musician Geoff Green, Cybotron paved a new musical path for Oz electronic music. Combining prog, Krautrock, and grafting an avant-garde darkness, Cybotron opened up a new sonic world to Aussie audiences. Von Braund found inspiration while living in England in 1970, having witnessed live bands like Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Can etc., and brought these influences back with him upon his return to Melbourne when forming the band. Implosion was Cybotron's third full-length release. Unleashed in 1980 to melt people's minds, it featured Von Braund, Mark Jones and Gil 'Rats' Matthews (of Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs fame), who produced the album both at his home studio and at legendary Armstrong's Studios. It is a symphony of sound, ultra-dramatic and presents a super mind-bending inter-galactic journey. Lovers of Can, Neu, Faust, Amon Düül II, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, etc., will find inspiration in Cybotron's Implosion. This deluxe version has been digitally remastered, with extensive liner notes containing new interviews and rare photos. It contains six bonus tracks -- five from Cybotron's uncompleted and unreleased 1981 album Abbey Moor (one being a curious version of Mancini's Peter Gunn theme). The album is also packaged in Aztec Music's trademark six-panel digi-pak."
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AVS 037CD
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"Aussie rock icon Ross Wilson has been at the helm of two of Australia's biggest bands (Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock) plus one of our more obscure: Mighty Kong. Mighty Kong lasted less than a year, but they did leave us with one terrific and underrated album: All I Wanna Do Is Rock. When Daddy Cool broke up in August 1972, Wilson and Ross Hannaford set about forming a new band that would explore a heavier style that harked back to the pre-DC days of Sons Of The Vegetal Mother and The Party Machine. After some initial changes that at one stage included Tim Gaze (Tamam Shud/Kahvas Jute) and Gulliver Smith (Company Caine), the final line-up was settled with Wilson, Hannaford, Russell Smith (Company Caine), Tim Partridge (Company Caine) and Ray Arnott (Spectrum). Signing to the newly-formed Wizard Records, the band recorded All I Wanna Do Is Rock with American producer John Fischbach. The album came out in December 1973 along with the single 'Callin' All Cats (The Cats Are Callin').' With a mixture of funky hard rockers like 'Hard Drugs (Are Bad For You)' and 'Homesick And Horny' and two terrific Gulliver Smith/Russell Smith penned ballads 'Some Other New Address' and 'With A Smile Like That (How Could We Refuse)' Mighty Kong seemed poised for success. But, despite some enthusiastic reviews and excellent live shows, Mighty Kong were still overshadowed by the spectre of Daddy Cool. Wizard's decision to release a Daddy Cool live album and a swag of DC singles just before the release of the Mighty Kong album did not help matters either. The success of the Daddy Cool material eventually led to a one-off Daddy Cool appearance at the 1974 Sunbury Festival. Their performance was so well-received that, two weeks later, Daddy Cool reformed and Mighty Kong were no more. Still -- it makes an excellent 'what if' story and this reissue is a reminder of the varied repertoire from one of Australia's all-time talents. Of course, after Daddy Cool broke up for a second time in 1975, Wilson formed Mondo Rock and had another successful run. Aztec Music will be reissuing Mondo Rock's debut Primal Park in the near(?) future. Our deluxe reissue of All I Want To Do Is Rock has been digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, liner notes by Ian M Farlane, housed in our usual 6-panel digipak with many rare photos. Two bonus tracks -- the single version of 'Callin' All Cats' and the previously-unreleased studio jam of 'All I Wanna Do Is Rock.'"
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