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2011
Seven new murky synth-ballads from The Internets' own SECRETS! As much a biographical document of inadequacy as it is a compilation of bedroom synth-pop. Listen as Secrets romanticizes futility, makes excuses, picks up girls, and confesses to his webcam. Bonus remixes change the game as Spelunks calls Secrets' on his bluff and Cartoon slaps your ears with a fresh pottle of CyberClean. $5AUD + P&P
1. OUT RUN DEATH
2. I WAS SICK 3. DON'T BELIEVE 4. PSYCHIC 5. ABOVE IT ALL 6. NEVER GIVING UP 7. STAY TRU 8. I WAS SICK (SPELUNKS OPTIMISTIC MIX) 9. I WAS SICK (CARTOON REMIX)  DAIF LATER DUDE CASSETTE D10
2011
You: a young up-and-comer, snappy dresser and power-point commander. It's your first opportunity to present your ground breaking IDEAS to the board. The shades roll down and block out a high-rise lens-flared cityscape. The blue of the projectors default setting flickers then lingers. Nervously you loosen your new tie, is it hot in here? starwipe - starwipe - starwipe. THEY LOVE IT. YOU'RE A HIT. REALLY GOING PLACES. Three triumphant tracks to EMPOWER your own rise to FAME and NOTORIETY. Limited edition of 10 cassettes!
$5AUD + P&P
A1. Flight Night
A2. Rewardzz
B1. Runn
SECRETS GOING DOWN CD-R
2010
Very much a day in the life EP, follow a fictional Secrets as he goes about his daily rituals. From drinking coffee,eating badly, buying comics to ultimately feeling sorry for himself. Listen as he spirals in and out of bored delirium. Sentiments of loss, apathy and obligation weigh down on slinky bass lines and murky synth posturing. A slacker poem for a dole dependent neurotic.
$5AUD + P&P
1. Down
2. Problems
3. Remind You
4. Going out
5. Manic monday
2011
At the Miami Beach generated-waveforms swell up and crash on a pixelated-bass-beach, the sun only sets to rise again instantly and the vibe never cools. A never ending 60s-beach-party-movie starring a rock-lobster wearing shades. Don't Worry Be Happy is a document to this fantasy bikini-clad beach party, one you don't have to leave, you can light a fire as the sun goes down and no dudes with acoustic guitars will harsh your buzz. Miami Beach are Chris (GOLDEN AXE / FUTURESPORTS / POWER NAP) and Sjionel (THE COOLIES), recorded in 2005 this album really didn't see the light of day 'til now.
$5AUD + P&P
1. Summer summer
2. Shark attack
3. Sandcastle
4. TV
5. The sun goes up
6. At the beach
FEELINGS Feeling good, nah… suck! MINI CD-R
2010
Feelings debut recording is a document of 30 minutes of hitting RECORD with a guitar. Highschool-vibe pop-punk snippits.
$5AUD + P&P
1. Fun
2. face
3. HEY!
4. She walks
5. feelings
SECRETS SLACKER CD-R
2010
Secrets EP of slacker-synth jams curated out of numerous keyboard meanderings and drum machine slurps. Summer skateboarding ballad Slacker evokes a collins-esque pop introspection, themes of self-pity, ritual and escapism collapse under the hazy vs lazy weight of it's self-aware mumbled miserabalism. hershehimme responds with an icier cafe loneliness; dense sadness with a hood-up drum beat. Drifting into a improvised tape jam I'm Having a TV Dream closes the EP with hissy dread, bladerunner without the cityscapes or protagonist.
$5AUD + P&P
1. Slacker
2. hershehimme
3. I’m Having A TV Dream
2010
The follow up single to Free Time, Telephone pays homage to the pop obsession with TELECOMMUNICATION. Observational and anthemic, Telephone is like standing in a busy share traders office while dancing on desks shouting and finger point dancing to the point of ecstasy. THINKING AHEAD is the accompanying powerpoint presentation theme, closing your eyes reveals a starfield simulation of pie graphs and escalating lines wiggling up to ever impressive investment return BONUS.
$5AUD + P&P
1. Telephone
2. Thinking Ahead
3. Free Time (Mark Wundercastle REMIX)
2009
Recorded live @ the high seas in orcland, this furious maelstrom of bass dirge and drum-splosions is the alternative-reality death rattle to Lemmy falling into the pool drunk and drowning in The Rise and Fall of Western civilisation. The soundtrack to his eyes rolling back into his head, then waking up it all being a dream, just to find his shuttle having crashed on earth and everyone being apes dressed as cops.
Re-issued here with beautifully screened sleeves by Ryan, as colourful as blood-clots and psychedelic as bootsy-collins underwear draw.
$5AUD + P&P
1. ##<>##
2. POWDERCHUCK
3. 3LITTLEdORKS
4. LEMMYZUMBAS
5. LEMMY FOR REAL
6. ssssSLEEPINGDAWGZzzzz
7. COUNTRYHIgH
8. DEEPoBSESSION
2011
A handcrafted CDr filled with slacker-jams to make you feel lazy. Common themes of loss, apathy and caffienation are smudged together amongst the synesthetic tape hiss and teen-weed-abuse memory-loss grooves. Somewhere between straight to VHS synth-moods and self-obsessed romatic-comedy, Secrets makes feeling sorry for yourself sound like a blue-light disco.
$5AUD + P&P
1. To do
2. Invisible
3. OP
4. Walking slow
5. Wizard's chores
6. RMBR U
7. Given up
8. Time
9. Yet 2 B
10. Ghosts
11. Secrets
12. Rite thru
2010
The most bodacious-LP of 2010, a follow up to their 2006 Party Alarm Bells LP, Fantasy Footwork throws down like a a bear whose had enough of the worlds biggest sandwich. Golden Axes' maddeningly loveable synth lines with keyboards preset-tempo set to MAX will make you want to kick over all your living-room furniture just to give you room to dance. From the insta-buzz "Free Time" to the psych-jam of "Give Me Real Food", this album will be your default-good-time for years to come! Available on MUSICAL COMPACT DISC.
$10AUD + P&P
1. Psypirates
2. Cat Master
3. Telephone
4. Free Time
5. Planet Of The Apes
6. Watch The Clock
7. Fantasy Footwork
8. Give Me Real Food
2010
The debut single off of FANTASY FOOTWORK available here on a limited edition CD-R. Free Time sat on the NZ Radioscope charts for ages! No. 1! Altered Zones also did a nice write up too featuring the cable-access spell casting of Simon Ward's amazing video for the track @ here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8gfSWe-eg
$5AUD + P&P
1. Free Time
2. Like It Or Limpit
FRASE FANTASY CD-R
2007
Recorded after having had a revelatory experience whilst working at a record store hearing Georgio Moroder’s “E=MC2” album for the first time. HiNRG and italo disco hit this smalltown New Zealander like a synthesized laser shot, much to the amusement of his work mate at the time.
“Fantasy” became the template song whose theme Fraser would then continue to riff on. The tired duality of the fantastic introversion we need to get by in a dreary mundane world; shift work, unfulfilled romance and cheapest-cans-at-the-supermarket realism. A borrowed sound palette of straight-to-video escapism, contrasted with the musings of a dude in his bedroom, not a man out dancing.
Available as a CDR in a handcrafted cardboard sleeve.
$5AUD + P&P
1. fantasy
2. shoegazer sweat
3. star of yr class
2006
Here is a three track EP with tracks culled from a LONGER recording session had in Wellington whilst coming down from touring. The results at the time became the album Fraser refused to acknowledge existed. A few years later he found the masters and was happy enough with “Forever” and “Dear Catastrophe” to release them. Tacked on is “8hr Crush”, previously only available on a Real Groovy compilation CD and on 7” Lathe via SHRIEK SOUNDS in Australia which was a split with Newcastle indie hero ALPS. FRASE+BRI stopped playing together in 2008, this being their LAST release.
Available as a CDR in a handcrafted cardboard sleeve.
$5AUD + P&P
1. forever
2. dear catastrophe
3. 8hr crush
FRASE+BRI LIVE @ THE DUX 2006 CD-R
2006
A live document of FRASE+BRI playing at the DUX DE LUX in Christchurch. Six tracks of primitive synth-pop. Typed-riffs, diary pages spoken aloud to a thin on the ground audience of friends. Recorded from the sound-desk and and mostly empty-room by Marcus Winstanly.
After having played solo as FRASE for most of 2005/2006, Fraser asked long time friend Bri to help him play the keyboards he couldn’t. FRASE+BRI played and toured A LOT following this period, up and down New Zealand. Fraser continued to pick up commodore c64s cheaply, repairing them and readying them for the road. This unique combination of antiquated-gear anxiety and observational storytelling helped garner F+B a strong national following. Becoming New Zealand’s BEST introverted-party band. Available as a CDR in a handcrafted cardboard sleeve.
$5AUD + P&P
1. stomach heart
2. boys in yr books
3. 9 to 5
4. he’s going to artschool
5. 8hr crush
6. shoegazer sweat
2005
The year is 2005, living again with his parents Fraser Austin aka Frase stops writing sad-dude guitar songs and starts writing upbeat sad-dude synth songs. Not being able to buy a synth he started using a commodore 64 he brought from a garage sale. The result was a primitive riff driven twee-pop. He was soon playing shows armed with floppy discs full of drum patterns and a nervous stage act that involved smoking consoles and bleeding heart observational confessions. Saturated in work place longing, dole smoked crushes, awkward life lessons put to a loud and temperamental beat.
The debut two track EP was originally sold at shows housed in a recycled 5 1/4” diskette. First track “He’s Going To Artschool” was quickly picked up by local student radio stations throughout New Zealand, it’s woozy repetitive synth pop encapsulating Fraser’s lame dude twee observations on art school longing. Shrugging off obvious 80s new-wave nostalgia with the realism of being self-recorded and DIY in way that sounded more indie-rock than pop. Available (again) as a LIMITED EDITION CDR in a handcrafted cardboard sleeve.
$5AUD + P&P
1. He’s Going To Artschool
2. Stomach <3
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