Hi Richard,
I'm a Sydney resident. Welcome!
I'd say that, related to www.snarl.org, it's well worth popping down to
the Hopetoun on a Sunday evening to check out Frigid, which Sub Bass
Snarl run. Great chill-out club in a nice pub.
There's plenty else happening. Red Eye is certainly the shop to visit,
but there are various other IDM-friendly places - Disc in Paddington for
one.
Hate to blow my own trumpet at all, but if you get a minute, have a
listen at Red Eye or something to the 2CD remix project I put together
for my band FourPlay, which features a 26-track lineup of Australian
electronic artists, of whom the majority are from Sydney (some from
Melbourne + Adelaide as well). It's called Digital Manipulation -
www.fourplay.com.au/remixes/. A few idm-listers on that too ;) Includes
Tim Koch/Thug, Pimmon, Black Lung, etc...
Australia has some excellent electronic music happening at the moment, a
very healthy and growing scene.
Outside of Sydney, but the best record store in Australia is definitely
Synaesthesia in Melbourne - check out www.synrecords.com. Mark
distributes a fair lot of the more experimental end of the spectrum to
shops like Red Eye and various others, but if you go to Melbourne you
must check out the store, in the middle of the city. He does mail order
too.
Other than Synaesthesia, we're very lucky to have Inertia music
(www.inertia-music.com distributing a huge array of fab o/s labels,
including Planet Mu, Rephlex, Mille Plateaux and lots more. So we get
quite a lot of o/s stuff at local prices pretty much on time with their
o/s release dates. Sadly, Warp and Ninja Tune are both distributed by
Creative Vibes, who think they're oh so special but aren't terribly good
at getting things out on time. Especially with Warp, who they picked up
about a year ago, they've been pretty bad at getting the smaller
releases, and 12"s and stuff, at all. Still, that stuff isn't too hard
to find either.
Cheers,
Peter
--
Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au
http://www.fourplay.com.au/blog/
FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet
http://www.fourplay.com.au/
Raven: experimental electronica
http://www.fourplay.com.au/raven.html
"Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and
your brain cells dance" - Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.
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