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NOWHERE

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NOWHERE - a dream damage compilation - lo-fi oddities from Ngunnawal/Ngambri/Canberra, Australia 2006-2012.

A selection of unreleased tracks, lost demo's, b-sides, bedroom projects, bootlegs and forgotten gems collected throughout the years.

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"The 2000s caught young musicians at a crosspoint, where increasingly accessible recording technology converged with a nascent social media landscape. You could assemble recordings with little more than a laptop, then make connections with other bands and find an audience across the world.

NOWHERE has sought to unearth and preserve a collection of remnants from a busy period in Canberra's underground music scene. Extensive, but by no means exhaustive, there are many more projects and songs that have been lost to the ravages of time and hard drive failure.

While some of the music here was rescued from the cutting room floor of 'proper' studios with soundproofing and multiple microphones, the compilation primarily focuses on lo-fi oddities that have been languishing in personal archives for the past decade. Its easy to romanticise the era of cassette four-tracking, but the advent of cheap, easy-to-use digital technology launched a new wave of bedroom musicians and you can find just as much inventiveness and idiosyncratic charm in the results of enthusiastic young musicians grappling with the emerging digital technology at their fingertips. Entire albums were recorded with little more than a 10-watt practice amp and an inbuilt laptop speaker.

Some projects featured here would continue on for years, produce full albums and tour interstate and overseas. Most never lasted beyond a few local shows or a self-released CDr. Quite a few never made it out of the bedroom - and some never recorded more than a single song.

For those who were there at the time, it's an opportunity to revisit bands that may have only existed in memory; or on car CDs scratched beyond repair; or in long-expired Mediafire links. For those that weren't, it provides further backstory to the city's ever-unfolding musical lineage."

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released December 21, 2023

Mastered by Lachlan Thomas
Artwork by Robin Mukherjee
Thanks Lachlan, Robin, Peter and Kieran
DDR020 | Dream Damage Records 2023

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Independent DIY record label (and music blog) based in Canberra, Australia from 2008-2016.

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