The Electronic Music Club

Melbourne, Australia

Early 80's

The Electronic Music Club used to happen at the Central Club in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, and feature 2-3 bands each week. "There will be live music, recent videos, disco, and a base for information exchange on electronic music". Some of the featured bands are listed below. The opening night was 23 May 1983.

The soundtrack (60 minute cassette tape) released for the Electronic Music Club on Subterranean Tapes:

Second Glance - You Really Got A Hold On Me
7/8 World - Kitchen Logic
Dance Synthesis - Electromance
Human Backs - Takayama Rising
Donno Detti - Automation
Cannon Fodder - One Ton Sombrero
Human Backs - Pulse Music
Boptronics - Another Life
Bill Tolson - Basketweavers Of Venice
Lub Dub – Lights
Tanzmachine – Inside
Shanghi Au Go Go - Un-compatible
Tester Housing - An Igloo For Accomodation
Software Seduction - New Collision
Infomatics - The Great X-1
Modern Jazz - Boom Boom Baby
Ollie Olsen - Excerpt From "The Bad Planet"

Booklet associated with the EMC. As far as I know there was only one edition:

Volume 1 Issue 1 - 3.45MB pdf file.

Donno Detti

jandy rainbow - vocals, programming

julie mcinnes - vocals, saxaphone, cello

joseph sgro - electronic percussion, backing vocals

ross guy - synthesizer, backing vocals

initiated in jan. '83 as an experimental project by jandy and joseph, donno detti has become a fully functioning live & recording unit. the 3 inclusions on the s.t.n.s. were produced by the band with assistance from ash wednesday. engineered by richard brobyn. recorded at quiklik recorders july '84

Human Backs

mal kilpatrick

nina bondarenko

jai mchenry

started in '82 with various electronic and acoustic devices, the current line up is an '84 creation. the band produced themselves with jim atkins mixing. they have a C60 tape available called human backs - obtainable from subterranean tapes

Ides of March

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Informatics

philip mckewar

valek sador

steve adam

michael trudgeon

formed in '81, the informatics perform live "occasionally", using a video backdrop. a previous recording was an e.p. entitled dezinformaticsiya. the great x-1 was co-produced by the band & jim atkins who also engineered

Lub Dub

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Modern Jazz

"We're not really a band, we're more like an intelligence test."

ash wednesday - voice, rhythm programmes

lyn gordon - synthesizer

andrew philpott - synthesizer, tapes

a live-performance oriented group, co-ordinated by ash. it exists as a vehicle for creative input from various sources, this input directed towards mating automated rhythms with human spontanaeity. modern jazz, however ironic a name may be considered to be specifically descriptive in this context. produced by ash. engineered by martin pullan at quiklik

The Black EP - recorded 1 June 1983

Contributors include Ash Wednesday, Al Webb, Steve Williams, Ian Forrest, Warwick Marks, Lyn Gordon & Ruthven Martinus.

Boom Boom Baby
Life In Paris
The Galvanised Garden Of Inner Peace

Live

Mt Erica Hotel 10 February 1982

Setlist:

Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
Boom Boom Baby
Piano Lessons
Brain Cathedral
Short Stop
Bubble Head Breakdown
Religious Picture
Engine Noise

The Club, Collingwood 10 December 1982

Setlist:

Repeat After Me
Piano Lessons
Radar Radar
On TV
Venusian Dreams
Brain Cathedral
Bubble-Head Breakdown
Big Emotion
Religious Picture
Regulator
Overture For You & Me

19 March 1983

Setlist:

Bubble Head Breakdown
Sodium
Engine Noise
Life In Paris
Colour Me Red
Jesse James Turd
Nothing Grows In Texas
Airstrike
Cut My Hair
Boom Boom Baby
H2MOD

The Tote, Collingwood 30 July 1983

Setlist:

Whole Lotta Shakin Going On
Life In Paris
Charlie Brown
18 Creature
Wild Guess
Hairstyle Exploding
The Galvanised Garden Of Inner Peace

Nuvo Bloc

peter tesla

ronnie valentine

t.e. power

formed in '79, nuvo bloc made this 4-track recording in a disused studio in north adelaide. engineered by jim (the surgeon) barbour. t.e. power & p. tesla

Crystal Ballroom 18 July 1981

Setlist

Im A Rock
Cameo Bravado
Women In Love
Dangerman
Beaten To A Pulp
Equal Education
Brave New Mind
Not Communicating
Extention Green
Living Brigade
Fun Times
Atomic Fiction
Western Drugs

Schism

Scott Griffiths - keyboards and vocals

Simon Circus - lead vocals

Gordon Graham - drums

David Morgan - bass, keyboards and vocals

Frozen Statues
Time After Time
Thirst For Taste
It's All One To Me Now
Start Again
When The Trumpets Blow
Prey/Pray
Listen

Recorded - 1 July 1982 at C'est Ca Studio, Melbourne.
Produced by David Lord. Engineered by Normie James.

Second Glance

david williams

warwick marks

shackles & chains was recorded at rampant studios, melbourne. produced by second glance and ash wednesday

Shanghai au go-go

chris mort - vocals, rhythm tracks

karen harborow - vocals, synthesizer

(warwick marks - vocals, synthesizer)

(melinda - vocals)

the nucleus of chris & karen gelled in oct. '82 and settled into the current line-up july '84 with the addition of warwick who has worked with modern jazz & second glance. the band have self-financed a video of one of their tracks which obtained a national screening in june. produced by ash wednesday at quiklik. engineered by martin pullan

the band released a tape called "I cried all winter..." of prerecorded and live material. recorded at mooney's, mitford st. live tracks recorded at seaview ballroom - with the usual ballroom crowd. mixed by christian. the usual crowd refers to some drunks off the street who "chatted" with the band, otherwise the venue was pretty much empty

Talk Back
I Cried All Winter

Software Seduction

urszula - vocals, bass guitar

peter badenoch - vocals, guitar

software seduction - sequencer, drum machine

now a 2-piece, software seduction have abandoned keyboards in favour of guitar & bass with a mechanical rhytms section & vocals woven into the overall sound without loss of presence. the style varies with influence but is generally sinuous, slightly funky & always optimistic. produced by eddie rayner. engineer - richard brobyn. quiklik