Neither one genre nor another, New Weird Australia champions the artists who find refuge in the spaces between. To celebrate fifteen years of operations, label friends and family have selected their personal favourites from the catalogue, which have been curated into a new compilation titled […]
Compiled by ‘transient ambient’ group Worlds Only, featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities. Listen and donate on Bandcamp. ‘Community’ in experimental music is a nebulous thing. Online, it is sprawling and vaporous; on ground, it can be […]
Featuring 25 tracks across over two hours, Fragile States is a collection of ambient / experimental / electronic works that seeks to soundtrack our perilous times. Available as a Name Your Price download / stream from Bandcamp. Ambient Music was defined by Brian Eno as “atmosphere … […]
Featuring 28 unreleased tracks from experimental and underground Australian artists, New Weird Australia, Collapse Theories emerges at the tail-end of the two-year pandemic, and takes a precise psychic snapshot of the bridge between then and now. As artists endeavour to once again lift their heads […]
The ‘New Weird Australia, Essential Tremors’ compilation celebrates a new three-day festival of outsider artists, curated by Angus Andrew (LIARS). Held at Phoenix Central Park in Sydney, ‘Essential Tremors’ features six distinct sessions of experimental music, sound art and ruthless noise that push into uncharted […]
From 2012-2015, New Weird Australia ran a parallel netlabel focused on individual artist releases. Over four years, Wood And Wire released 36 original EPs and one compilation. The Made Of Wood And Wire compilation was originally compiled for The Lifted Brow in 2013. For this […]
New Weird Australia, Space Between Space is a work of four parts: quiet, loud, broken and fixed. Music of inquiry, of anger, of loss, of promise – and the space between all such things. Available as a Name Your Price download / stream from Bandcamp. […]
New Weird Australia returns with a 26-track compilation of eclectic and experimental music – the project’s first release in over five years. Solitary Wave is a two-volume compilation of new Australian music made, remade and reconsidered during a global pandemic. Solitary Wave (Out) is a […]
New Weird Australia returns with a 26-track compilation of eclectic and experimental music – the project’s first release in over five years. Solitary Wave is a two-volume compilation of new Australian music made, remade and reconsidered during a global pandemic. Solitary Wave (Out) is a […]
New Weird Australia marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume retrospective set titled ‘Passages’. Each volume is curated by one of New Weird Australia’s three directors – Stuart Buchanan, Andrew Tuttle and Innez Tulloch – and features 51 tracks from the project archive, including music from Holy Balm, Guerre, Kučka, No Zu, […]
New Weird Australia marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume retrospective set titled ‘Passages’. Each volume is curated by one of New Weird Australia’s three directors – Stuart Buchanan, Andrew Tuttle and Innez Tulloch – and features 51 tracks from the project archive, including music from Holy Balm, Guerre, Kučka, No Zu, […]
New Weird Australia marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume retrospective set titled ‘Passages’. Each volume is curated by one of New Weird Australia’s three directors – Stuart Buchanan, Andrew Tuttle and Innez Tulloch – and features 51 tracks from the project archive, including music from Holy Balm, Guerre, Kučka, No Zu, […]
