The Lost Album for Auckland based 90s indie rock band CRASH makes it across the finish line with 17 sparkling indie rock tracks recorded in top studios and polished off with a sparkling 2023 Remaster. Most of these songs did not see release at the time and it is testament to the wonderful writing, performance and recording that they sound so relevant now.
The Album comes in a double gatefold Card sleeve with a 16 page booklet and a pressed CD and comes with a free download code. You can also order the download directly from us here by clicking the buy downoad button. Ignore the postal on this. We won't charge you for it.

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Inheritance is the New album from Orangefarm, the band vehicle for thr songwriting and performance for CHCH via Wellington musician Nigel Mitchell. Orangefarm has been a fixture of the Wellington music scene for 20 years as a vehicle for Mitchell's songs which have channelled the spirit of classic NZ bands like The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, and The Clean, alongside international touchstones like Radiohead, Smiths, and Go-Betweens.Broadly indie rock but with a distinct original slant. Mitchell's talent for crisp, clear melodies was evident in his first band The Rue in 1985 in Christchurch. There, he met Mayes who became the band's sound engineer. The pair collaborated on recordings and kept in touch after Mitchell migrated north to Wellington where, musically, he has delivered a run of releases under his own name and various others'. In 2021 and based in Tokyo, Mayes reworked Mitchell's 'Who is Dianne', his 1988 contribution to Failsafe's South Compilation Deluxe Edition. Inspired by the song, he approached the songwriter with a view to creating a new album, taking it all a little bit more seriously and giving his tunes the full production and release treatment. The album includes contributions from previous Orangefarmers ÑKaren Apperley (drums), and Vivien Reid (French horn). The album also features Celia McAlpine's backing vocals on selected tracks, and Mayes himself (additional guitars, percussion, bass, backing vocals). As producer, Mayes brought his extensive experience into making Inheritance, the album, both cohesive and timeless. Recorded during 2021-23, the album showcases Mitchell's distinctive songwriting style, one delivered in a with a laidback contemplative feel with his warm and understated vocals.

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Your Time Will Come is the new album by Like Angels, the solo offshoot of How to Kill songwriter/guitarist Robert McLean. The 88-minute long double-disc album features 8 genre-defying guitar-driven instrumental pieces, continuing on his work creating soundtracks, soundscapes, visages and movements in How To Kill, but defining this collection as separate from the work he does with the 4 piece band, as he has composed and performed this collection solo. Not long after the release of the How to Kill debut album (Like Angels 2010, which is where Robert has culled the name for this project from) the band went on hiatus following the Christchurch earthquakes. McLean leaving for Wellington, where he concentrated on his writing. Returning to Lyttleton he re-ignited his involvement with music, both with a reconvened How to Kill and on his own.
Whilst keeping the cinematic expansiveness, the unusual rhythmic intensity, and sonic nuance of How to Kill, the developing demos had a wider range of references and broader sonic palette, the tracks on Your Time Will Come unfold organically and gradually, but with purposiveness and drive. The album's pieces unfold in sections, using rhythmic and melodic motifs. Rather than being composed before being recorded and arranged, they developed organically and experimentally as the process unfolded. Your Time Will Come has a cinematic scope and emotional charge, often evoking the feeling of being at sea: the ocean's vastness, depth, and power, and our fragility compared to it.

Your Time Will Come is a double CD and comes in double gatefold cardboard cover with a 24 page full colour booklet, and a complimentary download code.

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The theme song from Feature film Lone Wolf[2022] directed by YFC bass and vocalist Jonathan Ogilvie in three very different arrangements. YFC deliver a post-punk version (dig the Goo-Goo-Muck bassline). Sublime Sydney duo, Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams offer a torch song touch. Magnifique Melbourne chanteuse Moogy Morgan channels Serge Gainsbourg in her Loup Solitaire version Française. Available on limited edition (200) 10" vinyl. (Currently available via post from Australia. Postage is nz$12.90. We'll contact you with the correct amount as our shopping cart can't manage individual item postage, so place the order and we'll adjust and contact you with the correct amount.)

Colab is Failsafe artists mixing it up and pulling melodic pop out of the ether. The concept was to get our favourite artists together, put them in a room give them a theme (slow)and see what they would spontaneously create in the space of a couple of hours. The results were rewardingly good and this is another song in the series this time coupling Matt and Jo Barus (Deluxeboy) with Mark Roberts (The Enright House), Michael Daly (YFX, Kimo) and Rob Mayes (Throw, Springloader, Dolphin, Kimo). Bring Me down is a confident low tempo pulse of a tune that effortlessly evolves across it's play time. Comes in an extended version with previous single Space and Place. More to come.

Singles building up to the new YFC album "Yankee Charlie Foxtrot'
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In 1982 Pop Mechanix headed for the golden shores of Australia to take their music to the next level. They played lots of gigs to win over new Australian audiences and scored a great record deal to have an album recorded and produced by the legendary Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner. Things were going well. They recorded 13 songs toward the project, and it was sounding grea, Pop Mechanix firing on all cylinders as per usual, and then a small post punk band Popular Mechanics approached with a trade name issue. They would have gone away for a quick payout but the major record label wasn't going to bend to that so they took it to court, and lost the right for Pop Mechanix to perform under their name in some Australian territories. It all got a bit too hard and then band of the moment The Swingers asked Pop Mechanix Vocalist Andrew Snoid to join them at the height of their career as new Swingers Vocalist. Although he would later regret it Andrew took the Swingers up on their offer and Pop Mechanix were left with an album of material with a singer who wasn't in the band any more. They quickly re-recorded the vocals with main songwriter Paul Scott taking the vocal duties and changed the band name to Zoo (This material available on the Pop Mechanix - Zoo - lost in australia collection), and the original album was forgotten about. The band would later regroup with Snoid back in NZ and continue on their path together, but here finally is a copy of the lost album complete with 3 unreleased songs and a different version of their hit previous single The Ritz. This album is available now on CD and comes with a complimentary download code.

Mainly Spaniards were a core band in the 1981-1983 Gladstone scene mining similar territory to the Scottish Postcard label but with their own spin on it. Centered around the 12 string electric guitar and vocals of Richard James, Mike Jefferis 6 string guitar, Bass from Nick Strong, Drums from Dave Swift, and also on Drums Tony Green. The album contains 12 tracks, including lovingly remastered versions of their Iconic debut single 'That's What Friends Are For', Studio outtake track 'All Night', an unreleased second single 'The Absolute Truth' b/w 'The Story of an Ordinary Guy' and 6 Live recordings of unreleased songs. The limited edition cd album comes with a double gatefold cover and 12 page booklet with liner notes and photographs. Please note This disc is shipped from Japan please click international Shipping rate in the shopping cart on the next page if buying from nz. ($6.50 is applicable for all NZ orders)

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'hey ghost' started out as a retrospective collection of some great powerpop/gaze/dreampop tracks Supertanker made in their 92-97 career but morphed into something bigger and more current.
One of the core 5 Avalanche scene bands they centered around lead singer/guitarist and main songwriter Francis Hunt, and were exponents of sonic guitar built over a core of catchy melody and powerpop delivery (sharing ground with what would later be known as dreampop/shoegaze) and were .
Francis has expanded on the initial premise of presenting a collection of the bands recordings, turning in new compositions, and substantially reworking and augmenting many of the songs. Hence it's kind of an album of new music, and sounds pretty current to what's happening in 2021. Dense big guitar textures and melodies.
The album contains the original 4 Songs recorded with Failsafe for The Avalanche and Good Things collections, and an additional 9 tracks including the lead single 'Made of Light' which should please the sonic guitar fans , and next single Guiding Star which will please the Dreampop/powerpop fans.
The album comes in a double gatefold cover with 12 page booklet of lyrics, and song art made by the band.
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Auckland based power-pop post-punk band Lils impressed with their singular 1991 lodestone album and they get the remastered and expanded love and care treatment with this deluxe expanded edition featuring the original 13 tracks remastered with 2 songs getting a remix and augmentation plus 6 unreleased bonus tracks including 2 studio recordings and 4 live cuts from the band at their peak on their album tour in 1991.
This album rediscovers the potent melodic muscle of the band and presents it with a double gatefold full colour sleeve and 12 page booklet highlighting the bands career.
This is a limited edition hand made boutique item. Please note This disc is shipped from Japan and is a CD with 12 page booklet and double gatefold cover. please click international Shipping rate in the shopping cart on the next page if purchasing from NZ ($6.50 is applicable for all NZ orders)

2021 Deluxe Edition with new liner notes and booklet
**Double CD deluxe edition with 24 page booklet with band info and photos and double gatefold original artwork cover with all new liner notes**
Failsafe's first major compilation chronicles the exploding post punk live scene centered around Christchurch music venues the Gladstone, Star & Garter and Hillsoborough which all had strong original music bills 3 and more nights a week. Most if it wasn't getting recorded or released so this compilation was created to document the scene and to stop the waste of good local material that wasn't making it to vinyl and thus not seeing the light of day. Contains 27 full-length tracks from most of the best bands in Christchurch from 1981 - 83. All tracks were previously unreleased or unavailable.
1984 released on c90 cassette.
2005 -Remastered & re-released on double CD.
2019 Digital download with original and expanded booklet.
2021 Double CD with New Cover and 24 page expanded booklet, and a download code for a full resolution digital version with pdf booklet.

Click here to read a review of this compilation from NZ Musician magazine, January 2006

2021 Deluxe double CD Edition with new liner notes and booklet,and extra tracks.
****limited edition deluxe double CD with 12 page full colur booklet ****
The second major Failsafe compilation, this time focusing on the 1984-86 period where the jangling power pop of what was partly to became defined as the flying nun scene exploded. This is the scene as it hit CHCH venues the Gladstone, Star and Garter, and Hillsborough. Containing 23 tracks from New Zealand bands, previously unreleased, unavailable elsewhere, lots of Flying Nun bands making special outings just for this release.
1986 released on cassette.
2005 remastered & re-released on CD.
2019 - Digital download with expanded booklet and liner notes & 2 restored* extra tracks). 2021 - Limited edition double CD restoring 2 tracks from the original cassette release and including new versions of Belle Motions and Crane tracks, and including a 12 page full colour booklet with all new liner notes and double gate fold cover with band poster art, and a download code for a full resolution digital version with pdf booklet. 2021 Newly reissued with double gatefold cover and 12 page full colour booklet with full band info and photos, poster art etc.

Click here to read a review of this compilation from NZ Musician magazine, January 2006

2021 LIMITED DELUXE EDITION!
16 tracks from 15 of Christchurch's up and coming indie bands, containing unreleased material from the Bats and a live version of Song Of The Silence by Tall Dwarfs with members of the Bats on drums and guitars plus tracks from the best Christchurch bands around.
1988 Released on Cassette.
2005 remastered & re-released on CD.
2019 Will soon be avialalbe for Digital Download with expanded booklet.
2021 - Limited edition deluxe CD including a 12 page full colour booklet with all new liner notes and double gate fold cover with band poster art, and a download code for a full resolution digital version with pdf booklet.

Click here to read a review of this compilation from NZ Musician magazine, January 2006 2021 Newly reissued with double gatefold cover and 12 page booklet with full band info and photos, poster art etc.

2021 New double gatefold sleeve. a compilation to give you an overview of the alternative music production of chch in the 1998 - 2005 period. Features tracks from Eskimo, Hooster, Substandard, Degrees K, Throw, Delphy, Dolphin, Springloader, Alpha Cast, Breathing Cage, Deluxeboy, Astro64, Leigh Franklin, Atomic Blossom, Naked Lunch, Chameleon.
(April 2005 Release on CD)
(May 2021 - new double gatefold deluxe edition)

Click here to read a review of this compilation from NZ Musician magazine, January 2006

Malchicks pioneered swirling, dynamic guitar sounds in New Zealand, mining similar territory associated with bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Swervedriver, with the band taking it in their own direction, adding a focused punch behind the sonic guitars and a literary flourish to their lyrics and vocals. The band were ahead of their time, and in a class of their own in their hometown of Auckland New Zealand, a globe away from their stylistic contemporaries in the UK, but delivering songs and sounds easily on par with the best. The remastered 'Everything' collection captures and accentuates the power and beauty of their original work, bringing it up to sonic spec for the present day. The collection writes the band back into local music history as a reminder of the exceptional wealth of music found at the bottom of the world. The remastered collection will be available in a strictly limited edition hand made boutique double CD with full colour double gatefold artwork and insert postcards and liner notes.
Limited release from December 7th 2019. Please note This disc is shipped from Japan and is a double CD with 12 post cards and double gatefold cover so is a bit heavier so please click international Shipping rate in the shopping cart on the next page ($7.90 is applicable for all NZ orders)

Rarities - Collection. deluxe
A long time in the making this collection was originally scheduled for a 2007 release but got caught up in the remastering stage with some of the tracks proving too difficult to bring up to the bands high standards under current technology, which we've since solved. We present to you the Beings Rest, Finally - Rarities collection charting the bands course from their more post punk origins including the two songs from the **** (4 Stars) 1980 collection (Not Necessary, None in the Universe), 7 further unreleased songs (live), plus Wellington Zone (1981) tracks and additional live versions of the singles. Now with 12 page lyrics and photos booklet.
Yes 2 albums, a deluxe reissue and some live gigs in one year. It happened.

The Return of Beat Rhythm Fashion.
Some 37 years after the release of their 3 ground breaking singles and adjournment to Australia BRF return with a 50 min album of newly recorded music. The album purposfully picks up where the band left off in 1982 with new and fresh studio recordings of the last few of songs the band were working, then takes it from there into the natural direction the band were going before mindless manufactured pop took over the world.
We couldn't reasonably predict that we would be treated to a new BRF album and acompanying March NZ tour (Check the band's Facebook page for details) in 2019 but through hardwork and good luck we have both.

A LIMITED deluxe packaging edition of the bands 2007 Album.
A Collection of finely crafted songs from this much respected and greatly sought after Wellington group. This Disc collects all three singles, lovingly restored and remastered, plus 9 tracks from the band's live set at their peak to complete 'The album BRF would have made' if .....
Brothers Dan and Nino Birch made sweepingly beautiful and thought provoking intelligent music. Part of the Wellington terrace scene that gave us the four stars compilation BRF grew past their edgy post punk beginnings to create open melodic soundcapes like the classic "Turn of the Century".
The band only managed three 7" singles before departing for Australian shores, where things never quite gelled for them to continue their legacy.
LIMITED EDITION PRESSING. Now available in a double gatefold cardboard sleeve with the 7" singles artwork, Band photo postcards and lyric cards. This is a special limited edition of 50 package made for the bands 2019 NZ tour.
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Thirty five years since they played their last live shows in the soon to be demolished Mainstreet and SPAM venues New Zealand Post Punk band This Sporting Life (TSL) have collected and remastered their 3 vinyl products (Alms For Children - Alms not Arms ep, TSL - Show Me to the Bellrope Album and In Limbo ep) and previously unreleased live material to create AFC - a complete collection of their sounds. AFC/TSL existed in a time in NZ when identity through music felt like life and death to many. It was a group of people that took the sound they made seriously but also had an underbelly of humour when standing up to perform. This 24 track collection stands as a testament to the fact that post punk innovation was alive and well in NZ in the early 80s

Dunedin indie/shoegazer band that existed from 1989 - 1990 recorded the 4 songs on this EP in a spurt of perfect timing at the makshift Failsafe studios that spawned the dolphin out of hand album and the Holy Toledos Forget and Forgive albumm. This ep contains 4 slices of exuberant late 80s indie pop, part Mary Chain, early Primal Scream, Primatives, and C86 scene

First single from this collaboration of Failsafe Records artists and Friends from the forthcoming Songs in the Key of Slow Album. Space and place is a love letter to hometowns, in this case the pre earthquake Christchurch, NZ, and features a beautiful video of the town at it's finest. The song and its lyrics are even more potent, poignant, and unexpectedly prescient post quake, as the song becomes a love letter to something we all lost. Space and Place features Leigh Franklin (Guitar and Vocals) Mark Roberts (Guitar and Vocals), Rob Mayes (Bass Strings, Brass, production) And Steve Birss, (Drums).
The track is available as a Hi Res digital download from our bandcamp site.

Ten years since the release of their Global Research Systems album Substandard return with 4 new tracks. The ground work for these tracks was around the time of the bands last gig in 2004 before individual members moved to different cities and then countries, time flies but it sometimes reconverges. Social media, broadband internet and an earthquake damaged Christchurch studio formed the odd road to completion. This mini album comes in a gatefold - limited edition - deluxe hand - screened package wih insert post cards.
Tracks are - Trick of the light, Elite, Slow Way to Sleep, and Doppelgänger.

Post punk from a strong chch punk scene lineage. Southern Front formed from the ashes of Evasive Action, and before them 2 seminal local punk bands Desperate Measures and Unauthorised. The band comprise 3/4 of Unauthorised with Erik Van Den Hoven from Desperate Measures filling in on Bass duties while Mark Gibson shifts to Drums. Phil Johnston handles guitars and Harry Hepworth holds down the Vocals. This is the extended remastered and restored 1984 album from Southern Front expanded with 7 unreleased tracks culled from live performances and the rare - as - punk - rock - tears 'lost' UNAUTHORISED ep as a bonus, which was initially the other side of the long deleted split Wasted Again album with Desperate Measures, but since most of Unauthorised is present here we felt it appropriate to add it as a bonus. 22 tracks in total.
Available Now in a limied run CD package.
Tracks are - License to Cry, Heaven and Hell, Mission Zero, Southern Comfort, Loose Love,Custody, Nosferatu, Shock Horror, Silence, Agony, Elevator, The Sixth , Ghosts of Dead Soldiers, Mainline, Socialite, Entrapment, The Other Man, Max Factor. Plus Bonus tracks Unauthorised mini Album - Your War, Nazi Police, Never Look Back, Militant Takeover.

The Legendary Mechanix of Pop present 13 tracks tracks of Timeless New Zealand pop history.
Mastered and selected by Paul Scott in Australia this is a shiny collection of the prime cut singles from the bands career.
The album comes in two packaging options, The Standard Jewel Case edition for those who just want to get the songs, cover art and liner notes, and the deluxe edition which is a double gatefold edition with 12 cover are insert postcards with the original singles covers and band photos. Limited edition hand made so grab it while you can.
Also of note - this is a pressed CD, not a CDR. The first 5 albums are CDR because they are very short run discs (100). This one we went the extra mile on so please support our effort by grabbing a copy or 2 for you and a friend.
Tracks are : Now, Radio Song, The Ritz, Jumping out a Window, Holidays, Cowboys, Keep it Up, Brains Are Dumb, Art School Bop, Spanish, Texas, Land of Broken Dreams, Celebration of the Skin.

Pop Mechanix in their earliest form with Dick Driver out front, energy to burn and  5 unreleased post punk tracks to tear up the stage, alongside amped up versions of their classics. Recorded live at Mainstreet this is an edgy welcome glimpse into this bands full charge start.
Tracks are - Kamikazi Man, Artschool Bop, Sick of Waiting for Tomorrow, Steve Gilpin , Too Cool for Words , Talking, Spanish, Mr Smooth, Cliche, City Girl - Observation, Brains are Dumb, Money, White Girls , Disco Fever, Now.

How to Kill play rhythmically propulsive sonic soundscapes of dark beauty, light & shade, space & texture.  It's modern neo-rock, hued in orchestral structures, punctuated by power & grit. These are songs, but songs without words, unsung, vocal. Unscripted - the stories speaks volumes. A soundtrack, a picture made from verse of missing words. To call this instrumental music does not convey the stories within. Eight pieces of mood & meaning.

Insurgents play catchy indie pop, playing their hearts out like it was the most important thing they ever did. Their live shows could be chaotic; things break all around them as their audience goes wild and the band plays on with even more conviction, and why wouldn't they? With a strong collection of hook-laden songs, a freshly minted album and all the members just pushing 20 the Insurgents are a shiny indie-pop revelation. Channel the corpse of Blondie through the reanimated souls of My Bloody Valentine, add a touch of Bowie, shake vigorously and let it marinate in the suburbs of Christchurch for its youth.

Evasive action rose from the ashes of Desperate Measures and Unauthorised. Merging the street level punk of the measures with the abrasive energy of Unauthorised the band landed in post punk territory, somewhere inbetween. Inspired by the dark edges of the likes of Killing Joke they hit a hard alternative sound that distanced them from straight hedonistic punk.Groove based tracks like "Live for Fun" push the envelope, and the band also revisit harder versions of some of their previous bands classics.
Pulse-poundingly remastered, even Failsafe had forgotten how good some of these songs sound. (2008)

Alpha Cast's singer Michael McLeod takes his songwriting to the next level and morphs into The Alpha State, a delicious alt country tinged affair with shimmering melody over slow moods. McLeod has assembled a new team of talents to sparsely shade his deeply melodic songs, the result is 9 tracks of catchy low key wonder.

Mulchzoid is the electronic extension of David Mulcahy, dark pop luminary of JPS Experience, Superette and Kimo / Eskimo fame. Mulcahy has a long history of providing quality dark pop masterpieces to the unsuspecting public and Laptopdancer is no exception to that rule.
Exploring the premise of one microphone one computer and one bedroom Mulcahy has locked himself away and produced a strong collection of sparkling dark compositions musing on themes of Girls, Drugs, Suicide Bombers, Existence, Celebrity and Fascism over its lucky number of 13 tracks. Stylistically the album touches on the sounds of New Order, Suicide and Snapper, and Cabaret Voltaire, whiles still sounding exactly like an album you'd expect from someone of David's lineage. Sparkling Dark Pop. Enjoy

Surrender is the new album from Christchurch band Kimo, 2 years in the making and featuring dark pop and deep textures from the core duo of Rob Mayes (Throw, Dolphin, + guest stints in Children's Hour and Chris Matthew's Robot Monkey Orchestra) and David Mulcahy (JPS Experience, Superette, Mulchzoid).
The band decided to try and make an album in a unified and cohesive style rather than attempt to cover all aspects of the wide world of music and aided (or unaided) by a bizarre luggage accident break to Mayes' fretting hand saw a push for the album toward the less rock spectrum of Kimo's sound, ie all the pretty songs have made it to the one album. That coupled more by accident than design a thematic similarity with most of the songs exploring the various connotations of the word Surrender, many of them positive.
DELUXE EDITION FEATURING EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS AND PACKAGING

Jay Clarkson's legendary late 80's band. This disc features the superior demos for the notorious Rheineck Rock Award 'Miserichord' album plus other unreleased tracks.

Remastered collection of the band's recorded work including the '1984' EP, and 'Wasted Again' album tracks plus bonus tracks, liner notes and photos. A fitting tribute to one of Christchurch's best punk bands.
LIMITED EDITION PRESSING

'Best Of' compilation featuring tracks from the band's 5 albums compiled specifically for Japanese label Freshwater for Japanese release (import at standard price)

Debut release from Failsafe sub-label Electrode.
Subtitled "Scenes From New Zealand's Electronic Underground", this collection aims to stimulate and encourage the electronic scene as much as it does to represent it.
From the lush orchestration of Refrag and the slick upbeat electronica of Module, to the surreal mutant lounge music of the Tom Bosley Experience and the electro-rock fusion of Flying Dreamz, to the impossibly happy pop of Disasteradio and the Casiotone kitsch of Golden Axe, this compilation has something for everyone!

Click here to read a review of this compilation from the Christchurch Press, July 2005

Leadleg were the continuation of 2/3 of YFC after the band left for Australia.
Initially the solo project of Jonathan Ogilvie, Jon continued to explore tall dark tales of love and loss, with strong Johnny Cash overtones.
Ogilvie was caught in a suicide bomb incident while visiting China which left him and his then girlfriend with chunks of shrapnel in their bodies and legs, hence Leadleg.
Jon and Michael joined forces with guitar and keyboards to explore the more moody world and dub territory. Influenced by the On-U-Sound thing but heavily tinged by their own musical heritage the band explores pool hall brawls and literal references with that heavily rhythmical thing permeating through out.
The band released a 7 inch EP and a 12 incher before recording this album which was not released by the time the band split.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

The last recordings with the original Throw lineup of Steve Birss, Rob Mayes, and Jeremy Taylor.
These tracks were recorded in 1992 and at the time proved too difficult to mix with the technology of the time, and one pair of hands. This album contains so of the bands best material and show's Throws deft hand at a good tune, and a careful balance of mood and dynamics.
(August 2005 Release on CD)
Out of Stock. Check the Failsafe Bandcamp page for an upcoming 2019 remastered collection.

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Eight Living Legs were one of those good Auckland bands around in the early eighties that you didn't get to hear about outside of that city. The band were a gifted bunch of songwriters and musicians doing a fine line in angular, intense and moody post punk rock.
They released one side of an split EP with fellow AK band Flak before leaving for Europe in 1983.
I purely by chance got sent a cassette of 9 songs they recorded at Progressive Studios and I always thought these great songs should be out there for people to hear. Sadly I should have thought of that before this year because when the studio changed ownership the new management took it upon themselves to take all the master tapes they couldn't easily find owners for to the dump. (bad studio, bad). Luckily I kept my copy of the tape!
(April 2005 Release on CD)

Live material and unreleased songs not available on the studio false sense of security album. Tracks are No Star In Sight, Five Yards Ahead, Pay The Fee, Four Horsemen, Nato Practice, No Cheap Ride, Sick Noise Part1, Don't Do That Near Me, Centuries, False Sense Of Security, Sick Noise Part 2, Peaches, Consolation Prize, Story Book Fashion, Big Rock Stars In Auckland, Back In The Bad Row, What Do You Mean By That?, No Star In Sight. Recorded and mixed by Greg Carroll. Greg, you may remember, was the much-loved sound crew member for U2 who tragically died in a rigging accident while working for U2.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

Great pop band from Christchurch from the late 90's to 2003, in the classic pop vein of Heavy Jones Trio and Throw these guys morphed into current band The Dukes. This is a collection of over 18 tracks the band recorded but never got around to releasing. We got our hands on a CD and were blown away so we're taking it out of their hands and bringing it to you. Makes you wonder what the major labels are occupying themselves with when they overlook a grade gold like this in favour of.....what??
(August 2005 Release on CD)

This much loved Christchurch outfit were on the road to international success when they recorded and released this great little album. The band self-released this then went to New York to follow up on interest the band had gained from supporting Smashing Pumpkins on their NZ tour. On arriving in New York the band attracted the attention of Madonna's Maverick label and were all but set to make it when they imploded with co singer/guitarist Prudence Stone deciding she didn't want to be in a rock band after all. You get that sometimes, with musicians.
Consequently it was almost impossible to get a copy of the original album and so we've decided to re-release it in a remastered form to share the music.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

In 1996 Dolphin left NZ for the UK to find fame and fortune and recorded this collection of 18 songs. Drummer Steve Birss never made it to the UK but his drums appear on this collection along with Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello & The Attractions drummer) who filled in while the band searched for Tracy Thompkins their eventual replacement for Birss. "Bring It All Down" is all the studio recordings the band did while in London.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

Dolphin rocked Christchurch from 1988 - 90 with their chunk of jagged-edged guitar rock, with a dose of Husker Du and dark british pop over their melodic NZ influences, they were the forerunners of what lead to many a good Chch rock band.
They released 3 cassette-only EPs which have never been available on any other format (apart from the first single which appeared on Pagan Records' "Positive Vibrations" album). Until now.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

Springloader managed to record a full album of material in their 2 year career but only managed to get 2 tracks into the public eye, one was on the Good Things compilation ("Now I Know") and the other was the NZ On Air funded video for "One More Thing". This album expands on the music direction of Dolphin and Throw sounds, melodic infused power pop/rock music heading toward post rock and Shoegazer.
Our web designer Peter Lewis is particularly excited about the release of this album, having worn out his demo copy from enthusiastic overuse!
Highly recommended.
(April 2005 Release on CD)

These guys were an inspirational band doing cutting edge and unusual stuff with attitude and cool. Back then it flew over most peoples heads but now with the likes of Franz Ferdinand and Interpol riding the charts it almost seems the time is right for their music.
We've managed to find most of the studio recordings that comprise their "Between Two Thieves" mini album from 1984 plus an unreleased track. We've also got the bands last NZ concert full of brilliant just-written material that put this band well ahead of its time.
For those not familiar with them YFC comprise the angular and tribal drumming skills of Michael Daly (now of Eskimo) and the two-bass attack of Grant Horsnell and Jonathan Ogilvie, Jonathan doing most of the vocals which were shard like interjections loaded with pop culture overtones. There was no guitar in this band, hence you get a quite distinctive sound and feel from what they did, highly rhythmical, abrasive and intense at times, hook laden, and with elements of the Beat poets.
(May 2005 Release on CD)

Demos And Rarities 1987 - 1991
This album contains the last recordings by dolphin before they left for the uk. it shows a melancholic dark pop sensibility and collects a great bunch of soundscapes and rock songs. also contains the never before released re-recording of their track 'Pink Baby' from their second EP, Promise.(May 2005 Release on CD.

Debut EP release from Christchurch 3 piece Hooster containing their NZ On Air funded and indie hit disc favourite track Lucy, as well as the retro rockin' Rotate (also on Indie Hit Disc, and check out the live video too), plus live favs Blowtorch, and JFK. Hooster have a strong live following for their warm rock sounds and this EP serves as a good taster for the forthcoming album.
"three-piece Hooster sound good on their debut four-track EP Rotate, punching out a gutsy, rock sound." - Christchurch Press
(May 2003 Release on CD)

Failsafe Records bandcamp page

Failsafe Records bandcamp page