[{"id":230535037079,"handle":"alaska","title":"Alaska!","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:09+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-10-07T16:24:55+13:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Alaska!"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-10-07T16:24:54+13:00","alt":null,"width":600,"height":597,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Alaska.jpg?v=1602041094"}},{"id":234311975063,"handle":"all-products","title":"All Products","updated_at":"2022-01-29T23:00:23+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-10-29T22:34:04+13:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Shop"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211726860439,"handle":"betchadupa","title":"Betchadupa","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:00+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Betchadupa_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598525130\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore, coming soon...\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:46:49+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Betchadupa"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-27T22:21:45+12:00","alt":null,"width":1238,"height":1238,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Betchadupa_Flying_Nun_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598523705"}},{"id":228332667031,"handle":"cd","title":"CD","updated_at":"2022-01-29T16:25:02+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-09-27T18:50:15+13:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"CD"},{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Shop"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211727974551,"handle":"chris-knox","title":"Chris Knox","updated_at":"2022-01-20T09:50:11+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Chris_Knox_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598260692\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI first met Chris Knox in my shop Records Records, where he would come after he had finished his postie run. He would usually denigrate some of the vaunted albums in the Recent Arrivals bin, always with a smile, lovely teeth, and then drift over to the One Dollar Cardboard Box, where, in those incredible days, he was able to buy Pip Proud for just that one dollar. I had tried to sell Pip Proud for more, but nobody wanted it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris also worked, variously, at the Cadburys Chocolate Factory and Brian Snell's Hi Fi Shop. He flatted behind Snells, and shop manager Ron Esplin was fond of telling people later on when Chris' musical stature grew, that one morning when Chris didn't turn up for work, he went over there to yank him out of bed, only there was someone else in the bed as well. Ron, with the highly developed Presbyterian moral ethic so common to those of us who live in the south, was shocked. But he liked Chris, he kept him on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy was put together a year or two later. I knew Chris quite well by then, but didn't go to any of the practices, unlike others in our group, who reported back breathlessly that the songs were amazing. Like a number of others, I was asked to come and try out for the band with my Diplomat copy guitar, but I knew my limitations and said I was busy that night.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beneficiaries Hall debut confirmed The Enemy had amazing songs. Talk turned quickly to getting them down on tape. I had a good reel to reel, a Revox A-77 (which I later sold to David Kilgour, his song Tape Machine is about that) and a bad microphone, so I hauled the two along to the old Cellar Club in Manse Street to record a gig on Alec Bathgate's birthday. Chris had given me a tape I could use - \"Don't worry about what is on it, just wipe eberything off, they're just really old songs I used to write, they're crap.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNone of us had a sense of history then, not even me, who was older, and should have understood history. So I didn't even play the tape before I erased it with The Enemy at The Cellar Club. This would rank as one of the top ten studpiest things I have ever done in my life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnfortunately the cheap microphone had the final say that night. The band dutifully came up to our house on the following Monday and we listened to the tape through a big Jansen valve amplifier to try and get that raw rough live sound. Everyone got very depressed, tape recorders can be cruel when you have only performed in public a couple of times. But Chris was great all the way through, trying to pull the project up from under the water in much the same way he tried to rescue the Toy Love album years later, singing his heart out. Talk turned to doing covers. Yes please, said Mick. No, never, said Chris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy took all those good songs into Toy Love and records were finally made, chart positions achieved, and then came Flying Nun. When the label produced a pack of cards on their tenth anniversary with drawings by Chris, he did one of me, calling me The Godfather Of The Dunedin Sound. Wrong. Chris was always that. Everyone deferred to him, hung on his every word and piece of advice, and used his evaluation of their performance as a barometer of where they stood. Most of all, Chris helped so many of them, often reserving his most fulsome praise and material assistance to the ones who were at the bottom of the totem pole, the Pip Proud One Dollar Cardboard Box ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI went up to see Chris in Auckland this year, well after his debilitating stroke. I had been told a variety of distressing stories, I didn't know what to expect. But the old Chris was still there, wordless maybe, but the eyes and the smile and the expressive face said so much. As it always did. I had always meant to mention that silly story about him not making it to work that morning at Brian Snells, somehow it had just never come up. Probably because it was silly. It seemed the time now, the moment was ripe for something right off the wall. But Chris was getting tired. I saved it for another time, and used the extra few minutes it would have taken to tell to hug him that much longer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris would have laughed though, he would have really laughed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:56:44+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Chris Knox"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-24T21:18:30+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Chris_Knox_Flying_Nun_Square.jpg?v=1598260710"}},{"id":392313798900,"handle":"flying-nun-catalog","title":"Flying Nun Catalog","updated_at":"2022-01-29T23:00:23+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2021-12-04T16:32:39+13:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":true,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Flying Nun Catalog"},{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Flying Nun"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211730530455,"handle":"garageland","title":"Garageland","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:02+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Garageland_Flying_Nun-6_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598674582\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuckland's Garageland made a big splash with their debut record \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome Back Special\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein August 1995. The BFM favourites came out with five fresh pop songs that suggested a new wave of musicians were clutching the classic Flying Nun catalogue for inspiration and taking off to the garage to jam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith their guitars turned up to warm reverb and tossing off words not just with the lazy abandon so favoured by the modern American underground but in the way that great NZ bands have always mumbled their way through a catchy tune, Garageland were mining a rich musical vein.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn order of appearance, these songs also suggest that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1) the line \"come back, all is forgiven\" is something worth shouting at the rooftops if you truly believe a former loved one doesn't know what they're missing,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2) Billy Joel is an arsehole,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(3) you can't go wrong if you try and write thundering riffs like The Clean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(4) ditto on the riff -- but add some guitar squall for tasty spicing, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(5) Sonic Youth should maybe lay off the weed and try a pop cigar if they really want to stay young.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe band's released their full-length debut in 1996, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Exit to Garageland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, and broke into the Top Five on the country's charts. The Auckland-based band moved to England in early 1997, but Debbie Silvey chose to stay behind. Once the group settled in, they met guitarist Andrew Claridge, who promptly joined on for several tours that year. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe group returned to New Zealand for a tour in early 1998 and the US, but it wasn't till early 1999 that second album \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo What You Want\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e was recorded and the band relocated home. Repeating their debut's success, it went gold in New Zealand, and was release in the US and picked up by U.K. music publications including Melody Maker and NME.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe band released their third and final album \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScorpio Righting\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ein 2002 before calling it a day, however they did re-form for a one-off gig in Auckland in November 2007.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:16:26+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Garageland"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-29T16:15:41+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Garageland_Flying_Nun-24_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598674541"}},{"id":211730628759,"handle":"gerling","title":"Gerling","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:02+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:17:09+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Gerling"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211730661527,"handle":"ghost-club","title":"Ghost Club","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:02+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Ghost_Club_Flying_nun_600x600.jpg?v=1599471347\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"When I was young, my father locked my brother’s electric guitar in the cupboard, claiming it was an evil toy, so like any enquiring mind would do, I would unlock the cupboard when the house was empty and pluck and strum this forbidden thing. I made all the \"chords\" by playing a bar across the strings with my thumb. No, things haven’t changed much since then.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Piercing eardrums, stabbing at blind eyes and splitting our heads\"\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003cb\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/b\u003e’s initial reaction to the first album tapes received.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor most dedicated New Zealand music fans, these fellows need no introduction, but for the uninitiated; David Mitchell has been melting down guitar amps since the 80’s in many seminal New Zealand bands from \u003cb\u003ePlagal Grind\u003c\/b\u003e to the \u003cb\u003eExploding Budgies\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGoblin Mix\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eChug\u003c\/b\u003e to the \u003cb\u003e3Ds\u003c\/b\u003e. 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Musical tension is coupled with a compelling sense of calm that allows you to just drift in the beauty of noise. The following track \"Fauxtekra\" unleashes the power of hdu live, drum and bass attempting to hold down a guitar hellbent on the deconstruction of all rock axioms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slabs of noise subside briefly with the third track, appropriately entitled \"Lull\". The drums relax into a shuffle beat alongside a more introspective guitar line before hdu return to their heavy duty as the apocalyptic journey of \"Dune\" unfolds. Dense and foreboding, the track just relentlessly drives on before its oppressive grind breaks like a wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so to the close where \"Space Is The Place\" winds out to uncover a reverbed soundscape of chilling beauty. In space, it may be that no-one can hear you scream, but with higher hdu make another passionate case for the quality of the dark emotions they express in music and sound. In ten years time, high dependency unit will be a name that resonates with the 'underground' prestige that groups such as the Gordons and Skeptics command today. Live, there's not a band around today that can touch them. This is the sound of the 'dark side' of Flying Nun in full sonic severity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"high dependency unit maakt namelijk psychedelica ten voeten uit.\" Rif Raf Musiczine.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Distorted, dangerous and often devastating, New Zealand band hdu journey headlong into free-form noise and sonic terror.\" Rolling Stone (04\/97)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"hdu's mix of disciplined musical muscle and compelling sense of tension make them simply breathtaking.\" Russell Baillie, NZ Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:23:15+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"High Dependency Unit"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-27T22:23:55+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/HDU_Flying_Nun-SQUARE.jpg?v=1598523836"}},{"id":211738230935,"handle":"panam","title":"PanAm","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:05+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-09T20:33:04+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"PanAm"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-09-21T18:53:38+12:00","alt":null,"width":346,"height":345,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/PanAm_Flying_Nun.jpg?v=1600671218"}},{"id":211744489623,"handle":"robert-scott","title":"Robert Scott","updated_at":"2021-11-15T09:12:06+13:00","body_html":"\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Robert_Scott_Flying_Nun_Chris_Reid_1024x1024.jpg?v=1600331178\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Robert_Scott_Flying_Nun_Chris_Reid_1024x1024.jpg?v=1600331178\"\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T21:13:45+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Robert Scott"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-09-17T20:26:32+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Robert_Scott_Flying_Nun_Chris_Reid_1_SQUARE.jpg?v=1600331192"}},{"id":227113894039,"handle":"shop","title":"Shop","updated_at":"2022-01-29T23:00:23+13:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-09-21T21:27:50+12:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Shop"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211745996951,"handle":"tall-dwarfs","title":"Tall Dwarfs","updated_at":"2022-01-25T12:25:35+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Tall_Dwarfs_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1604909974\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTall Dwarfs\u003c\/strong\u003e are a partnership between New Zealand home recording pioneers \u003cstrong\u003eChris Knox\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAlec Bathgate\u003c\/strong\u003e. A duo, who have been making music together since 1977, first in New Zealand's early punk band, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Enemy\u003c\/strong\u003e, followed by \u003cstrong\u003eToy Love\u003c\/strong\u003e. In 1981 Chris and Alec returned as the Tall Dwarfs, they purchased a four track, and over the next 30 plus years would release wonderfully demented records and go on to influence bands such as \u003cstrong\u003ePavement\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eYo La Tengo\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eNeutral Milk Hotel\u003c\/strong\u003e and countless more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore on Tall Dwarfs coming soon...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4DfJc0Une5g\" height=\"630\" width=\"1120\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T21:27:31+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Tall Dwarfs"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-25T21:21:33+12:00","alt":null,"width":600,"height":600,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Tall_Dwarfs_square.jpg?v=1604910631"}},{"id":211728040087,"handle":"the-clean","title":"The Clean","updated_at":"2022-01-29T20:05:07+13:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/The_Clean_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598257731\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat can be said about \u003cstrong\u003eThe Clean\u003c\/strong\u003e? In 1978, they were the seeds of New Zealand punk and the reason for the founding of \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of the greatest record labels that ever existed. They carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in, and their influence resonated not only in New Zealand but around the world. Not only do bands like Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Sonic Youth, Pavement, and their ilk owe a debt to The Clean, but many of today's young upstarts such as Times New Viking, Eat Skull, and a band from China called Carsick Cars have the Dunedin godfathers deeply etched into their DNA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI've personally witnessed four or five waves of rediscovery of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Clean\u003c\/strong\u003e in the years since I first heard them in 1986, and the stuff just continues to educate. Homestead's US issue of Compilation in the late '80s and Merge's double-disc Anthology from 2002 both laid out a complete rulebook, and a pretty in-depth one at that. Nevertheless, if someone else compiles them again in 2015, it's going to resonate just as strongly. Simply put, the music of the brothers \u003cstrong\u003eKilgour\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBob Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e holds up pretty damn well in 2009 for anyone checking them out for the first or 5,000th time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tf1wzg4rdE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat's the sound? It's completely theirs but draws on everything from the psychedelic paste of Barrett\/early Floyd to vintage Velvets propulsiveness to almost everything else under the sun. In the case of the live staple \"Point That Thing Somewhere Else,\" here is a song that levitates any room in a way that makes you swear the band just stepped out of Conny Plank's studio in Germany with all the bulldozing power of Hawkwind. Their jubilance at times (the organ-laced \"Tally Ho,\" \"Beatnik,\" \"Whatever I Do\") makes the Banana Splits sound like Bauhaus while simultaneously exhibiting dark undercurrents, making Bauhaus sound like the Banana Splits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey created both full studio sound and lo-fi recordings before, during, and after the various waves of the 4-track revolution, making both recording modes work with no loss of the band's identity. 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Featuring tracks fromThe D4, The Clean, The Mint Chicks, Gerling, PanAm, alaska!, The Hasselhoff Experiment, Tall Dwarfsand a whole garage-load more!
There aren't many record labels still releasing music from their foundation artists more than two decades down the line. And where there are, they're not putting those foundation artists on the same record as their latest, fresh-faced signings.
But, then, there aren't many labels like Flying Nun Records. New Zealand's most widely-known musical brand isn't just a cult back-catalogue but a creative going concern that is, amazingly, enjoying some of its most notable international success as it approaches a quarter of a century in business.
"The NZ Rock record of the year…..astonishing" - 9/10 MNE
"Bugger me.…it's brilliant" - Hat, ex-FN wrangler
Tracklisting
1. HDU - Schallblute 2. The Subliminals - Uh-Oh 3. The Clean - Stars 4. alaska! - Lost The Gold 5. The D4 - Exit To The City 6. Ghost Club - Ghost Club Theme Song 7. Chris Knox - My Only Friend 8. PanAm - Natural 9. Gerling - The Deer In You 10. The Mint Chicks - Licking Letters 11. Tall Dwarfs - Baby It's Over 12. The Hasselhoff Experiment - Brown Paper Bag 13. Robert Scott - Shelf Control 14. Stephen Malkmus - Death and The Maiden 15. Betchadupa - Sleepy News 16. Graeme Downes - Sunday Kickaround 17. Garageland - Believe In You 18. The Subliminals - Speed Of Sound
