17 September 2010 - 0 Comments

CHART - Christchurchmusic.org.nz in association with Coffee Supreme, Al's Bar, Cosmic Ticketing, Creative NZ and RDU 98.5FM is proud to announce CHARTDISC VOL. 4 the ‘New School vs Old School’ Indie Guitar Edition 2010. The compilation features a total of 12 tracks from new school upstarts O'Lovely, recent overseas tourists Bang Bang Eche, The Transistors, T54, Valdera, Sleepy Age and No Aloha versus old school luminaries Into The Void, The Undercurrents, Sexy Animals, The Cranks and How To Kill.

With more than a passing nod towards the Christchurch sound put out in the 1980s and 1990s by seminal local label Flying Nun, CHARTDISC Vol 4 ‘New School Vs Old School” celebrates all things independent with a compilation packed full of raw energetic rebellion. The bands represented here are the future of guitar based goodness in Otautahi (Christchurch). It illustrates the diversity of the local independent music scene and also demonstrates what sifters could expect to hear around the bars of Christchurch right now.

CHARTDISC Vol 4's release also marks the return of RDU98.5FM’s annual band competition, Round Up, which over the years proved to be the breeding ground for many indie guitar bands in Christchurch.

CHART invites you to the FREE launch party at AL's Bar, on Thursday 23rd September for a night of live music from some of Christchurch's best indie guitar bands both young and young at heart. Everyone who attends will also receive their own hot-off-the-press copy of CHARTDISC 4, and bands on the night include Into The Void, The Transistors, The Cranks, T54 and How To Kill, all performing live and FREE for you.  ‘New School Vs Old School’ - get the beers in, turn it up, and enjoy.

CHARTDISC Volume 4 has been hand-picked to be turned up loud, and is for promotional/broadcast only.

Coffee Supreme (218A Madras St)
Cosmic Corner - Dunedin (355 George St)
Cosmic Corner - Christchurch (237 High St & The Palms)
Cosmic Corner - Wellington (215 Cuba Street & Manners Mall)
Cosmic Corner - Auckland (5 High St)
Galaxy Records (110 Manchester St)
Marbecks - Christchurch (Triangle Centre, Riccarton Mall, Palms Shopping Centre, Barrington Mall, Eastgate Mall,  Merivale Mall & Domestic Aiport)
Marbecks - Auckland (Queens Arcade)
Marbecks - Wellington (Lambton Quay)
Marbecks - Dunedin (Wall St Retail Centre)
Marbecks - Nelson (Richmond Mall)
Penny Lane Records (461 Colombo St)
Radar Records (85 Cashel Mall)
Real Groovy - Wellington (25 Cuba St)
Real Groovy - Auckland (438 Queen St)

and

Al's Bar (Dundas St) and at RoundUp 2010 (Dux Oct/Nov)

Listen with full audio quality at chchmusic.bandcamp.com
Get your digital copy (mp3's) from http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/56704/chart-disc-3.html?full=1 with sales going directly to the artists. 

TRACK LISTING

O’LOVELY – A Different Day
Shimmering shoe-gaze guitars overlaid with Laura Lee Watson’s haunting vocals. With the BDO under their belts, expect big things with a debut album out soon.
(Mahoney/Watson/Native Tongue Music Publishing) © 2010 O’Lovely
myspace.com/theolovelys

BANG BANG ECHE – Fist Full Of Dollars
Dance punk with attitude. Just the kind of musical noise that comes out of the club you're pretty sure you aren't cool enough to get into.
(Doney/Ryder/Sullivan/Worsely/Native Tongue Music Publishing) © 2009 Bang Bang Eche from the EP ‘Sonic Death Cuntttt‘
bangbangeche.com

T54 – Julie K
Walls of driving melodic fuzz built around a catchy Flying Nun-esque melody. Backed by one of the best young rhythm sections in the city, Joe Sampson’s T54 gifts you a frenetic taster off their soon to be released debut EP.
(Sampson) © Gold Sounds 2010 from the EP ‘T54’
t54t54.bandcamp.com

THE TRANSISTORS – Details
Rock’n’roll gymnastics from Bob Frisbee punk luminaries and recent support act for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club …fast, loud and unpredictable.
(Crawford-Ellis/Harding/Roxburgh) © 2010 from the EP ‘Flux Pentaphile’
transistors.bandcamp.com


VALDERA – Mystery
Valdera aka James Musgrave pierces through the distorted gloom to give us all future hope.
(Musgrave) © Valdera from the EP ‘All Past And All Future’
valdera.bandcamp.com

SLEEPY AGE – Kyle Blackman
Voodoo indietronic rhythms from the Roundup winning enigmatic 3 piece.
(Burgess) © 2010 Sleepy Age from their forthcoming EP
facebook.com/pages/Sleepy-Age


NO ALOHA – Where To Be
The criminally underrated Insurgents morph into a new project. Melodic guitar angst never sounded so good.
(Coffey/Ellis/Mahoney/Young) © 2009 No Aloha
facebook.com/pages/No-Aloha

VS

THE UNDERCURRENTS – Some Kind Of Closure
A slice of indie guitar pop genius from the long-awaited debut album from Christchurch city’s low-fi indie under-gods.
(Holloway) © The Undercurrents 2010 from the album ‘Heavy Sky’
theundercurrents.bandcamp.com


SEXY ANIMALS – Up The…
Glamour sleaze dance rock from the axe-weilding elder statesmen of ChCh music’s dark past. Oh, and the lead singer works as a butcher as well.
(Banfield/Imlay/Mulcahy/Whyte) © 2010 Sexy Animals from the EP ‘Hold Hands’
sexyanimals.bandcamp.com

INTO THE VOID – Motorbike
Seminal noise merchants skewer rock’n’roll with their legendary classic gutter rhythms. 
(Greig/Greig/Imlay/Sutherland/Van Hout/Whyte) © Avoid Music 2006
facebook.com/pages/Into-the-Void

THE CRANKS – Interferon
Creeping up on the mind like a strange man in a dark alley, The Cranks show their younger counterparts a thing or two about dirty rock.
(Billows/Daly/Mulcahy) © The Cranks 2010 from the EP ‘Noise /Silence’

thecranks.bandcamp.com

HOW TO KILL – Burning Ships
A unique amalgam of oceanic feedback manipulations and angular counterpointed melodies from Lyttelton’s rejuvenated instrumental noise merchants.
(Johnson/Leigh-Mackenzie/Mateer/McLean) © Failsafe Records 2010 from the album ‘Like Angels’
myspace.com/howtokillnz

www.christchurchmusic.org.nz/chart-news/music-releases/chartdisc4-2010

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