Massive solo dub/drug-damaged percussion bombs from Matt Earle of xNoBBQx/Breakdance The Dawn, with miniature electro-acoustic constructs that recall the more solitary, wigged-out form of Sun Ra through to almost Faust-scale slo-mo thunder crossed with that amazing/inexplicable 'edge' that he brinsg to pretty much everything. Still one of the most enigmatic performers on the Australian underground. Highly recommended.

Limited edition fanzine produced by Black Petal and A Binary Datum featuring art by Joshua Burkett, Matt Earle (Breakdance The Dawn/Craft Bandits/xNoBBQx et al) and Daniel Lebow, photos by Daniel Lebow, photos by Clint Morgan, poetry by Ian-John Hutchinson, a review of the Japanesse curry house run by Pirako and Kageo of Suishou No Fune (!), an interview with Tetuzi Akiyama, a short story by Jienko Kurosato and a review of Takahiro Hirama’s ‘Thr Eat Rhy Thm’ CD-R. Packaged in the usual exquisite Black Petal style, handbound with string with an obi strip and fold-out pages. Each copy comes with an original A4 lithograph by Joshua Burkett. 

Staggering blast of a-formal rock confusion from one of the first group’s to articulate the NON-aesthetic of the whole Breakdance The Dawn scene, contemporaries of xNoBBQx, Your Intestines and Mosseisley. Antipan featured Matt Earle on guitar, Nick Dan on vocals and bass, Anthony Guerra on drums and Sumugan Sivanesan on guitar.  Antipan have a scratchy, devolved guitar band sound that’s somewhere between the stumbling early Rough Trade style, the absolute refusal of No Wave and a disjointed Magic Band and this captures them live at Club Consolador De Dos Caras in December of 2008. There are primitive echoes of free jazz and even stomping two-chord blues but Antipan play the kind of blues more associated with Corwood Industries, wrapped in barbed wire and tuned to the moon. Pretty fantastic. Comes with an original photograph of the group rocking the bandstand and exposed to firelight by Guerra. Recommended.

Another full-length from the duo of Matt Earle of Craft Bandits/xNOBBQx et al and Adam Park of Unique Oil Free Air here joined by Mel Jade Simpson of Craft Bandits/Simsuns/EATR, Adam Sussman of X-Wave et al and Kelly Keating of Knicker Onasis. The sound is little more psych rock focussed than on their debut, with explosive Tokyo Flashback style guitar married to super crude stumbling bass/drum attacks that match The Shaggs and Tori Kudo’s Guys N Dolls in terms of sheer stagger. Excellent.

Brand new blat from the always-winning duo of Matt Earle and Nick Dan. No one has so completely devolved rock form as these two, playing guitar/drums face-offs in the kind of blunt style that would relocate Doug Snyder and Bob Thompson’s Daily Dance somewhere downwind of the crudest DIY with two guitars orbiting fists of blurry single notes, drums that collapse all over themselves with the force of your favourite sledgehammer and simple two chord jams that are almost irresistibly charged. xNoBBQx take everything that was great about alla the most primal rock/roll hunch and reduce it to its most primal phonetics. The results are always stupidly satisfying.