Label: Daisart – none Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Limited Edition Country: Australia Released: 13 Nov 2020 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Experimental
Deep dive into the forgotten world of small-run Australian ambient music previously privately distributed on CDrs and file sharing sites.. (Mint / New)
Wound Without A Tear is a compilation of “Australian” Ambient and Experimental Music; an area so often overlooked and misunderstood because it does not easily fall into historical context. However, the fifteen years (1993-2008) the collection cites–a period of early 90s post-rave ethereality defined by pleasure-centred spaces (chill-out rooms) and the personal computer’s emergence as a popular tool for file-sharing and secondary-living in the 00s–is befitting of closer examination.
The recordings were sourced from artists, labels, corrupted disk drives, CD-Rs, the WWW and archives of Melbourne’s 3RRR community radio station.
During the 1990s, as new technologies emerged and mass digital culture flourished, artists explored the emergent possibilities of the Internet with a utopian fervour, viewing the web and its plethora of images and information as a site of boundless potential. In the 2000s, file sharing connected people around the world directly to one another, and this incorporation of online experience into material objects, meant there was an increasingly porous border between the online and offline worlds–if there remained a border, at all.
What is remarkable from this collection is that somany people, working (mostly) on their own came up with such remarkably similar ideas. In most cases these similarities can be related to the inherent qualities of the medium, though often any distinction is decidedly blurred at the edges. The compilation seeks to make the works of these various artists available as a means of “demystification”. No specific destination is intended upon. Perhaps by the time you have reached the end, you will have forgotten where you began.
Tracklist A1 –Peter Ball* Drawn From Sleep A2 –Paul Schütze The Lotus Voltage A3 –Sense Eb Ni Twein B1 –Kazumichi Grime Rounded B2 –Kaputnik Sleepers Sleep B3 –Sarah Hopkins Kindred Spirits B4 –Ros Bandt From Under The Sacred Oak C1 –Pretty Boy Crossover Audio Letters C2 –Melbient Narla C3 –Random Acts of Elevator Music Waiting In The Foyer D1 –Didjitalis The Abyss D2 –Tim Jackiw Composite Memory 7 D3 –Linga Sarira Void Calm D4 –Pelican Daughters Aurascape
