Oct 18, 2015

KOMPACT DEVELOPMENT cassette (VV023)

Debut recordings for Adelaide based artist Kompact Development
aka Freya Adele (Theta, Botox, Kash Konverters). 
Cold and crunching. Dense digital damage.
Artwork by Cakey Sportsman.
Listen / order HERE.
Photo by Edie Stevens.
A review via Yeah I Know It Sucks blog (South Holland)

Aug 27, 2015

BAD INTENTIONS - Everybody's Doing It cassette (VV022)

Otherworldly noise from Brisbane based duo, Bad Intentions.

 
This tape contains recordings of two separate live performances, both at Real Bad Music mid-late 2013. Audio courtesy of Matt Earle. Collage art by Peter Bramley. Edition of 50.

Live at Real Bad Music, photo via Blanket Canvassing.

Jul 12, 2015

SQUIRREL PANCAKE cassette (VV021)

Vacant Valley is proud to present the bizarre and entrancing debut solo recordings for Jen Tait (Is There A Hotline?, Go Genre Everything) - aka Squirrel Pancake.
Collage art and layout by Jen.
Edition of 50 copies
(comes with download code)
Order HERE

Feb 9, 2015

LIVING IN A SHADOW compilation CD (VV020)

Five years on from the first release, 
Vacant Valley is extremely pleased to present...
Cover art: Claire Pannell
A unique and diverse anthology encompassing 23 artists from Australia and New Zealand. The range of recordings featured are unreleased, exclusive, live, or have been previously released in a limited fashion. The booklet will contain recording details, a collage of flyers and liner notes from the compiler/label runner Peter Bramley.

This compilation will mark five years since the first Vacant Valley release. 

Over that time, the label has issued records by Pop Singles, King Tears Mortuary, Treehouse, Psy Ants, Go Genre Everything, Cured Pink, Per Purpose, Ghost Gums, The New Season, the Rough End Of The Stick compilation LP (The Stevens, White Walls, The Clits, Mad Nanna, etc) and more..

Artists featured on the Living In A Shadow compilation:

New South Wales, Australia
King Tears Mortuary, Shebeen Queen, Whitney Houston's Crypt

Victoria, Australia
Bridal Gnome, Go Genre Everything, Hex On The Beach, Orlando Furious, School Girl Report, 
Shiny Coin, The Bunyip Moon, The New Season, Useless Children, WASP

Tasmania, Australia
All The Weathers, Bi-Hour, Drunk Elk, Treehouse

Queensland, Australia
Bitchratch, Cured Pink, Gerald Keaney & the Gerald Keaneys, Per Purpose, Psy Ants

Auckland, New Zealand
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing

The entire compilation mastered by the legendary engineer/artist Simon Grounds
(who engineered records by God, Venom P. Stinger, Slub, Underground Lovers).

The cover art is by Perth based avant garde sound artist Claire Pannell 

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Reviews

The Wire magazine (UK)

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Stockists 
(as of July 2015)

AUSTRALIA

Melbourne, Victoria
Collectors Corner Missing Link, Gold Mine Records, Off The Hip, Polyester RecordsRecord ParadiseVicious Sloth Collectables

Sydney, New South Wales

Brisbane, Queensland

Hobart, Tasmania

Perth, Western Australia

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OVERSEAS

Auckland, New Zealand

San Francisco, U.S.A.

London, U.K.
Rough Trade (East)

Nagold, Germany
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Melbourne launch show
Performing on the night: 
SHEBEEN QUEEN (Sydney)
WASP
SHINY COIN
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