Brett Naucke ‘Electronic Hypnosis Program’ (Make Noise, 2019)

byJoe Silva
August 13, 2026

"Over on the west side of town, there’s a beer market where you can pick up pineapple vanilla IPAs, whiskey stouts or a gently used Minimoog Voyager..."

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Bill Nelson ‘The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking Heart)’ (Mercury, 1982)

byNigel Huddlestone

The love affair started with ‘Flaming Desire’. The single got played on the radio at least once, possibly more, and had me swooning with its propulsive rhythms, swirling synths and croonerish vocal – a weirder version of Blancmange, Yazoo on speed.

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Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson

As someone who writes about a lot of weird music, I can get desensitised to it. The soundtrack to an imaginary film about school dinners? Meh.

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Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

When Pete Shelley died in December 2018, a universal acknowledgement of just how much we’d lost soon followed.

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Single Gun Theory ‘Millions, Like Stars In My Hands, Daggers In My Heart, Wage War’ (NETTWERK, 1991)

byClaire Francis

In retrospect, the films we watched growing up as kids in Australia in the early 1990s were extremely weird

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Bo Hansson ‘Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings’ (Silence, 1970) (Charisma, 1972)

byPush

Since the huge commercial success of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ movies, it’s been easy to forget the significance of the JRR Tolkien novel to the 1960s counterculture hippies.

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