we have been very busy recently, almost like a real label.
THE UNFUCKABLE ''Complication Meditation Class'' 7''
three songs from wipey and pals recorded while i was living with him in sydney in 2004. wipey sings. i can't play drums very well. we roped in australia's greatest r&r guitar player ever johnny casino and got him to play bass. no-posting chat swingin_man plays guitar. three songs, crude (in every sense) saints aping garage sputtle. black vinyl, 300 copies.
THE OOGA BOOGAS ''Sentimental Stranger / Eisbar'' 7''
the stranger is a sensitive ballad written by attorney at arms jonathan wilmott written during one of his frequents spells of drinking in the country. b-side is an outtake from the romance and adventure weekend, a cover of swiss new wave sensations grauzone, a song they dominated the german charts with in the summer of 1984. ask frankie teardrop, he'll tell you all about it. black vinyl, 300 copies.
THE UV RACE ''Homo'' LP/CD
did someone say maturity? give us til october for this one, it's just arrived at the pressing plant. many copies.
awhhhh yeeaahhh
Shirley your kidding
good stuff
AWESOME X 2!
This ''Coming Soon: The Unfuckable'' gag may the best long-running prank that Australian music has seen since those 6 or 7 unforgettable years of ''Dallas Crane: the Next Big Thing''
Surely it didn't go on that long... did it?
what are the other two tracks that made it onto the 7 ?
''day off'' and ''unfuckable''. if this one sells out we'll do another.
believe it or not, i actually have the vinyl in my possession and the covers are printed. they were cut the wrong size so i'm just waiting to get them back from the printers, recut to a size that will fit in the plastic sleeve.
i actually called in sick for work the other day and listened to Day Off on repeat.
fantastic.
'ComplicatED Meditation Class' surely. Shirley? Wipey?
Re long-running Aus music pranks, I was going to say ''MARCUS IS COMING!'' but then I realised it might just be confusing.
Should we do a gig, Rigid?
yes we should wipey. i think swingin_man will be in melbourne in october for a couple of weeks.
hmmmm
Fabulous to hear! Once I hear em.. to be sure.
how about sept 26, and you can stream it, so i can watch at the buccaneer? done and done!
we have web presence...
aarght! website
march eh?
new and already out of date. we rule.
did that knife fight 7'' ever come out?
no. we're treating it with the same urgency that we treated the unfuckable with. it's scheduled for the next run to go to the pressing plant.
are knife fight still active?
yes and no. they are scattered across the globe...well, one of them is in melbourne, and 2 of them in wellington.
i know the feeling.
but that earthquake is literally bringing them closer. it's a sign.
It always depresses me to read ''your cart is empty''. Rub it in, why dontcha?
Also I look forward to seeing (and saying) oort on Aarght.
what band? or is it top secret, real record label business?
oh it's a solo project with Ron on panflute & chimes, pretty mystical.
Like dry ice in an artificial Chinese garden.
Finally got the covers for Oogas and Unfuckable singles. They're here! Want em? They'll be in the shops in a couple of days. Or mail-order them by emailing aarghtrecords at gmail.
177 copies in Australia of each. The remaining 123 of each went to our USA distributor and are already sold out.
today's a good day.
I want an Oogas single. I've been waiting for 'Eisbaer' to surface.
Dear Rigid,
Do you envisage that either of these bands may get together in the near future to launch, and dare I say it celebrate these highly anticipated top shelf releases?
Thanks
#9
There is a chance of a celebratory gig for the Unfuckable in November but the Oogas single will remain Unlaunched.
Go on, play another pizza shop gig.
Maybe but we can't play til next year when Mikey returns.
.... recently saw some electro/beats/hiphop/gig advertised at mario's pizza, aaarrrghhttt!!
AAARRRGHHTTT's totally branching out, i feel like the next natural step would be new orleans style marching band, and then on to sousa
Update:
Both singles are in all Melbourne stores. Interstate orders in the mail. We have a small handful left for mail-order - aarghtrecords.com
The UV Race album is now coming out on In The Red Records in the USA and Europe. Aarght! is going to do a run of 300 LPs like we did with the SW Horses. The band will release the CD themselves on Hidiotic Records. Congratulations UV Race!
wow, would that make them the first oztraylian act to get an ITR release?
I'm pretty sure ITR released Kim Salmon and the Surrealists' Hit Me With the Surreal Feel (some years after its original Australian release).
yes, indeed they did
http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/kimsalmon.html
also dirty lovers, Teenage Love Bomb! 7'' (In The Red, 1992, ITR 006)
seems like some other stuff i can't think of right now
bloodloss, though it was probably all seattle stuff if your spliting hairs
aarght! should do a limited edition reissue of 'hit me with the surreal feel' on vinyl. i would buy a copy. you know you want my business
Thats freakin' awesome for the UV Ragers. Best dudes!!!! Congrats.
just rang missing link and was able to get Oogas and Unfuckable singles 7''. yippeeee
29 left
We have no Boogas left. All over! About a dozen Unfuckable left.
went and picked a booga today, also a voxfuzz, & another single with a M.O.T.O cover on it, good stuff aght
new nobunz oort?
i better get down to the ' link tomorrow.
tastes just like a milkshake andyB