![]() ![]() Through researching Cohen, Blackman discovered Queer Music Heritage, a website run by JD Doyle, which Blackman calls “an exhaustive archive of everything to do with queer music history, from early blues records to the present day.” Inspired, Blackman started buying historic queer records on eBay.Ĭlear Vinyl. Various - Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81Īt a thrift store in the ‘90s, Ben O’Connor-who co-founded the Australian label Chapter Music with his boyfriend Guy Blackman-scored a 1973 record by gay folk singer Michael Cohen called What Did You Expect? The couple was enamored with the painful, poetic songs of this proud gay songwriter, out at a time when that felt unthinkable to many. All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement. Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s. ![]() ![]() Orange Vinyl Heavyweight Double Vinyl with Fanzine and Printed Inners. 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 ever impressive Efficient Space label. Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. Various - Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989 ![]()
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