Cheesy pop retouched by one third of Sydney's Single Gun Theory up on Empty Archive.
Vincent Stone, a pop singer lost to the ether of mediocre CD albums, put out this 12-inch featuring Girls from his 1994 self-titled album remixed by Peter Rivett-Carnac.
Rivett-Carnac was part of pioneering Sydney post-punk electronic group Single Gun Theory, who recently featured on Efficient Space's Volition Cuts reissue and had varying mainstream success throughout the 1990s in Australia.
Here he gives Girls two remixes that slot beautifully in with similar releases from the time on labels like Volition and Dancenet.
Girls (Trouble In Alexandria Mix) is a downtempo, breakbeat excursion evoking images of UK chillout tents and resembling a modern Melbourne chugger.
The Love Is Kind Mix is a industrial-soaked raver, with euphoric stabs echoing over a bassline that makes you wonder if it ever got a run at a harbour beach in the early ours of the morning.
Another great lost Australian gem I found while buying for my Vitamine FM feature, hoping to have it air soon!
More stuff from Nathan G and Australia's Volume Records unearthed on Empty Archive.
After hearing a number of incredible and intriguing productions from his debut album, now we hear a promo cut that was also released on small press CD with vocalist Lilia Auzou.
For those playing along at home, Auzou seemed to be a sought-after vocalist in the Melbourne house scene at the turn of the millenium, she was also the vocalist for The Genre's Just You And Methat I uploaded a few weeks ago.
This Volume release was a summer promo, for which summer I can't work out, but probably before Nathan G blew up and started making cheesy house. This one has the beautiful pads we often heard in Sun-Day Sessions, just enough breakbeats and a sweet violin solo from mysterious feature Daniel Palamara.
Nice to find another gem like this while searching for an upcoming appearance on Noods Radio for Vitamine FM. Can't wait for you guys to hear it!
Through one of my many frantic Discogs deep dives, I came across Nathan G, a producer who had releases on some big Australian labels like Dance Pool and Tinted, he also had success overseas with UK's Kinky Vinyl and Waako Records in the US.
I became particularly interested with his only album, The Sun-Day Sessions Vol.1: Dysfunktional Moments. It looked from a distance like a wholly unseen house album from Melbourne's club scene at the turn of the millennia. After managing to track down a cheap copy, I wasn't disappointed.
I have chosen to upload a number of tunes, all incredible deep house gems in my humble opinion. These tracks feature some beautiful ambient pads, intriguing and varied production, and some eyebrow raising solo breakdowns.
The best way I think to sum up the mood of the record would be with the poem that features on the CD insert, featured here as it appears on the CD and maybe even written by Nathan himself:
our saturday night plays it's last tune>the rush of the peak hour continues>sunrise hits the city>another sunday is upon us>resistance? irresistable>so again, we let the wilder sides of the creatures inside us, come out to run around on this day that awaits>with an injection of funk and a filter on the groove, our mind penetrates our spirit and we shift to the highest frequency>in all the madness though, we forget to realise the sunday soundtrack we hear is controlling our mood>music, sweet music again takes over and we find ourselves sinking in an ocean of fun>sunday>chillin' deep in the sun.
All these tunes would now be sought-after if released elsewhere on other labels, but for some reason the small CD only release on short-lived Volume Records seems to have faded into obscurity.
I guess I am grateful that I am able to share these truly remarkable gems of the Melbourne house scene, but I can't shake off the feeling that these tunes might need more than just a boom in the YT algorithm.
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