Double Figures, by Various Artists

Double Figures

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1.	Small World Experience - Side Projects 02:53	buy track
2.	Molasses - Fingers In My Eyes 02:37	buy track
3.	The Cannanes - Tennyson 02:37	buy track
4.	Minimum Chips - Wrapped 03:39	buy track
5.	Smiley - I Hate Summer 02:22	buy track
6.	Sleepy Township - World Of Bees (Short Version) 02:32	buy track
7.	Karl Smith - Your Work? 04:38	buy track
8.	Wagons - Chains 03:45	buy track
9.	Clag - My Friend Goo 01:39	buy track
10.	Tracey Read - Courageous 02:56	buy track
11.	Mia Schoen - Troglodyte 01:32	buy track
12.	Sulk - Bleak 03:35	buy track
13.	Riot Guy - Benjamin Franklin 02:00	buy track
14.	Sea Scouts - Strange Loop 02:53	buy track
15.	Tren Brothers - Au Revoir Mon Petit Chou 01:32	buy track
16.	Clare Moore - All Of Me 02:58	buy track
17.	New Waver - Monday Morning's Alright 02:39	buy track
18.	Driving Past - Drive Out Of Melbourne 01:21	buy track
19.	Panel Of Judges - Blind As A Bat 03:22	buy track
20.	O! - Outskirts 04:31	buy track
21.	Gus - Just Foolin' 01:25	buy track
22.	Above Ground Pool - Campaign For Human Lights 02:43	buy track
23.	Bluetile Lounge - Concrete/Tunnels 07:01	buy track
24.	Jeremy Dower - Windy Ponies 04:12	buy track

about

From original press release, 2002:

Chapter Music was born in June 1992 in Perth, Western Australia when label boss Guy Blackman was a couple of weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday. He had to fake his way into the launch of his first release, the Bright Lights Small City compilation.

The initial impetus was to release a compilation of Perth bands to accompany Blackman’s Syd Barrett-inspired fanzine Chapter 24 (named after a Barrett-penned song from Pink Floyd’s first album), which produced three issues between 1990 and 1992. At that time in Perth, cassettes were the only format readily available to bands and musicians and Chapter was inspired by the example of labels such as K Records, Shrimper and Australia’s own Toytown to document the lo-fi, pop and experimental underground of its hometown, then gradually the rest of the country.

The label moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 1995 to expand its horizons and venture into the world of vinyl. After releasing Chapter’s first two seven inch singles, Blackman landed a job at the only operating vinyl record factory in Australia, Corduroy Records, and proceeded to churn out singles and LPs by Australia’s finest at a rate of knots.

Chapter grudgingly acknowledged the digital age towards the end of the 90s with CDs by Chapter artists such as Sleepy Township, Driving Past and Andrew Wilson, but its heart will always lie in vinyl. As the new millennium dawned the label began more fully to reveal its truly eclectic and inquisitive heart, releasing archival reissues of Australian post-punk recording, and delving into electronic music and even country.

Double Figures compiles Chapter's favourite memories from its glittering ten year history, with early cassette hits by Molasses, The Bluetile Lounge and O!, as well as new recordings from The Tren Brothers, Wagons, Minimum Chips, Sleepy Township, and others. Fittingly, it contains twenty-four songs, plus a Quicktime video for Jeremy Dower's track "Windy Ponies"…and self-obsessed, long winded liner notes!

With truly, long-lasting independent record labels very thin on the ground in Australia in the 21st century, Chapter Music’s ongoing growth and development is a thing to be cherished.

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released September 1, 2002

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