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Spectrum - Part One
Catalogue Number: AVSCD026

Australian Classic, First Time on Comapct Disk !

To the Australian public at large, Spectrum will always be remembered for the 1971 #1 hit ‘I’ll Be Gone’, an enduring rock classic if ever there was one. As song writer and Spectrum lynchpin Mike Rudd has put it “‘I’ll Be Gone’ has had a marvellous life”, with indications that its potency will continue to rise. It still gets played on Australian ‘Classic Hits’ radio to this day. Spectrum still play the song at practically ever gig with the enthusiastic, sing-along response of the audience inevitable; a perfect example of this was the band’s appearance at the 2002 arena rock spectacular Long Way to The Top. The sound of an entire concert audience singing the song’s rousing refrain at full voice, with little encouragement, was indeed magnificent.

Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs
Live! At Sunbury
Catalogue Number: AVSCD001

And You've Never Heard this Album Sound this Great Before!

Originally recorded at the historic Sunbury Music Festival on Australia Day 1972, by the loudest, hairiest, blues-rock band our country has ever known, Live at Sunbury sold 80,000 copies when first released. This deluxe reissue (digitally remastered, digi-pak, liner notes by noted Australian Rock author Ian McFarlane and a 16 page booklet with many rare photos) is a classic slab of rock history that every Australian home should have.

* Billy Thorpe was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1991.

* Thorpie had his own Channel 7 TV show in 1966 called ‘It’s All Happening’. The Aztecs were the house band.

* Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs made history when they were the first rock band invited to play at Sydney’s Opera House.

Billy Field
Best Of: You Weren't In Love With Me
Catalogue Number: AVSCD00

Billy Field seemingly came from out of nowhere in 1981 with the album Bad Habits and the hit single of the same name. The Bad Habits LP became one of the biggest selling albums of the year, and was followed by another hit LP Try Biology. 2 further LP’s Say Yes and Western Light displayed Billy’s talents as a uniquely Australian songwriter.

Aztec Music’s 21 track career retrospective covers all 4 albums, and includes the hit singles Bad Habits and True Love and the Australian number 1 classic You Weren’t In Love With Me. Deluxe digi-pak release with 20 page booklet with rare photos & lyrics, digitally remastered (by Billy himself) and liner notes by noted Australian Rock author Ian McFarlane.

Buster Brown
Something To Say
Catalogue Number: AVSCD003

Buster Brown was a short-lived, but highly influential Melbourne band from the early Seventies, who are remembered as the breeding ground for some of Australia ’s most famous musicians (AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd & Rose Tattoo vocalist Angry Anderson being the most notable). Aztec Music’s reissue of Something To Say has finally made this slice of Aussie hard rock history available for the first time in over 30 years.

This deluxe package is housed in a 6 panel digi-pak, with a 20 page booklet with liner notes by Australian rock expert Ian McFarlane , rare photos and ephemera from the research team at Vicious Sloth Collectables, and has been digitally remastered by Gil Matthews .

As an added bonus, the CD features 6 extra tracks, including an extremely rare Rose Tattoo track “Release Legalise”, which was recorded for the Australian Marihuana Party in 1980 (released on the independent Repeal label as a limited edition pressing of 500 copies).

$25

Thump’n Pig & Puff’n Billy
Downunda
Catalogue Number: AVSCD004

By 1972, piano player extraordinaire Warren ‘Pig’ Morgan had performed a key role in the careers of two of Australia’s most legendary blues-rock bands, Chain & Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs. He’d been a founder member of Chain in 1968, and had been instrumental in helping Thorpie establish his reputation as one of the wildest and heaviest blues-rockers of the day.

Initially a solo project, it soon became a collaborative effort after Warren asked Billy Thorpe to join in. Christening themselves “Thump’n Pig & Puff’n Billy”, they then enlisted the talents of another Aztec (Gil Matthews) and 2 members of Chain (Phil Manning and Barry Sullivan) to record the LP they called “Downunda”. The single Captain Straightman became a much loved hit.

Remastered by Gil Matthews, this deluxe digi-pak version also features 4 bonus live tracks, liner notes by noted Australian rock author Ian McFarlane and a 16 page booklet with rare photos.

$25

Young Modern
Play Faster - 25th. Anniversary Edition
Catalogue Number: AVSCD005

Young Modern, were a seminal Australian Power pop band from the late seventies. Cited by the likes of Sunnyboys and the Hoodoo Gurus as being an early influence on their careers, Young Modern were an anachronism – either too late for the first wave of Power Pop (Big Star, Raspberries, Badfinger), or too early for the second (DB’s, Plimsouls, Marshall Crenshaw). Listened to today, when these time-lines mean little, “Play Faster” (a taunt often yelled at the band by rock hungry pub goers in outer suburban beer barns) can be appreciated for the terrific collection of infectious pop tunes that it is.

Young Modern formed in Adelaide , Australia in 1977. Four guys barely out of their teens, led by a slightly older and more experienced frontman, their blend of youth and taste - backed by great tunes and a solid soulful sound - is a joy to listen to. Singer John Dowler, who would go on to further success in the eighties with The Zimmermen (and can still be seen today in Melbourne band The Glory Boys), bought a distinctive mix of cynicism and pop smarts, not to mention one of Australia’s best voices, to the punchy 60’s influenced backing of the rest of the band.

The classic single “She’s Got The Money / Automatic” (produced by Stephen Cummings), became a staple on radio stations such as Double J in Sydney (now JJJ) and Triple R in Melbourne . The rest of the original LP tracklisting is made up of demos from late 1978, and is rounded out in this 25th. Anniversary Edition, with 8 bonus live tracks – recorded between 1978 and 1979. This deluxe package is housed in a 6-panel digi-pak, with a 16 page booklet with many rare photos.

$25

Buffalo
Volcanic Rock
Catalogue Number: AVSCD006

One of the great lost classic Australian LP ’s from the 1970’s is Buffalo’s 2nd. LP: Volcanic Rock - one of the band’s greatest records and essentially the first stoner rock album ever issued in Australia.

The importance of Volcanic Rock can never be underestimated. This is the album that established the band’s reputation for dispensing uncompromising heavy psych rock of monumental proportions; this is the album that continues to enthral aficionados of the genre the world over. It was this LP that established the classic line-up of: vocalist Dave Tice (who later joined UK R&B band The Count Bishops), guitarist John Baxter, bass player Pete Wells (who later switched to slide guitar in another legendary Aussie band: Rose Tattoo), and drummer Jimmy Economou.

Aztec Music will be reissuing all 5 Buffalo Dead Forever, Volcanic Rock, Only Want You For Your Body, Mother’s Choice and Average Rock N’ Roller. Each release will be a deluxe version: newly remastered from the original master tapes with rare bonus tracks. They will be packaged in a 6-panel digi-pak with 24 page booklets – liner notes by Ian McFarlane, rare photos and recent interviews with key band members. Please note: there have been several unauthorised Buffalo CD’s released over the past 10 years - Aztec Music’s reissues of will be the first ones that are both fully licensed, and done with the full co-operation of the band themselves – look for the AVSCD catalogue number & Aztec Music logo.

The bonus tracks on Volcanic Rock are the mono single version of Sunrise (come my way), and a live version of Shylock from 1973.

$25

Buffalo
Only Want You For Your Body
Catalogue Number: AVSCD007

Buffalo ’s third album: Only Want You For Your Body, the last with the classic line–up of Dave Tice (Count Bishops), John Baxter, Pete Wells (Rose Tattoo) and Jimmy Economou, was released in 1974. The album sits comfortably next to Volcanic Rock as one of the most outrageously heavy and ground-breaking stoner rock albums ever released in Australia. With 6 further Tice/Baxter classics, including “I’m A Skirt Lifter, Not A Shirt Raiser” and “Kings Cross Ladies”, the album cemented Buffalo’s reputation as Australia’s premier hard rock band.

The wildly tasteless cover design featured an obese, screaming, semi-naked woman shackled to a torture rack. On the back cover, the band revelled in their role as leering, lascivious Aussie yob rockers, with Tice wearing a devilish grin while clad in his black leather strides ‘n’ braces and brandishing a bullwhip. It was just a bit of harmless fun, yet outraged record store managers across the land refused to stock the record, some eventually placing it in a brown paper bag to hide the offending images.

Aztec Music will be reissuing all 5 Buffalo Dead Forever, Volcanic Rock, Only Want You For Your Body, Mother’s Choice and Average Rock N’ Roller. Each release will be a deluxe version: newly remastered from the original master tapes with rare bonus tracks. They will be packaged in a 6-panel digi-pak with 20+ page booklets – liner notes by Ian McFarlane, rare photos and recent interviews with key band members. Please note: there have been several unauthorised Buffalo CD’s released over the past 10 years - Aztec Music’s reissues of will be the first ones that are both fully licensed, and done with the full co-operation of the band themselves – look for the AVSCD catalogue number & Aztec Music logo.

The bonus tracks on Only Want You For Your Body are the mono single version of “What’s Going On”, and a live version of “United Nations” from the ABC TV show GTK (Get To Know).

$25

Cybotron
Implosion
Catalogue Number: AVSCD008

"Cybotron is to Australia what Tangerine Dream is to Germany, Jean-Michel Jarre is to France, Neuronium is to Spain and Wavestar & Steve Hillman is to England ." (Jeff D., Sedalia MO )

Formed in 1975 by Australian synth pioneer Steve Maxwell Von Braund with fellow musician Geoff Green, Cybotron paved a new musical path for Oz electronic music. Combining prog, kraut rock, and grafting an avant-garde darkness, Cybotron opened up a new sonic world to Aussie audiences. Von Braund found inspiration whilst living in England in 1970 having witnessed live bands like Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Can etc., and brought these influences back with him upon his return to Melbourne when forming the band.

Implosion was Cybotron’s third full-length release. Unleashed in 1980 to melt people’s minds, it featured Von Braund, Mark Jones and Gil ‘Rats’ Matthews (of Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs fame), who produced the album both at his home studio and at legendary Armstrong’s Studios.
It is a symphony of sound, ultra-dramatic and presents a super mind-bending inter-galactic journey. Lovers of Can, Neu, Faust, Amon Duul II, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream etc will find inspiration in Cybotron’s Implosion.

This deluxe version has been digitally remastered, with extensive liner notes containing new interviews and rare photos. It contains six bonus tracks – five from Cybotron’s uncompleted and unreleased 1981 album Abbey Moor (one being a curious version of Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme). The album is also packaged in Aztec Music’s trademark six-panel digi-pak.

$25

Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
More Arse Than Class
Catalogue Number: AVSCD009

Fronted by one of the most powerful voices in Australian history, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs were a musical force to be reckoned with. Few Australian bands since have matched the fury or volume of Billy & his Aztecs during the 1970’s.

The conundrum of playing in a fearsome live band is that it is often difficult to record a studio album that translates that same level of quality. More Arse Than Class undoes this theory. It was the most favoured studio album by all band members, and also provides a slice of Australian musical history being the last album recorded with the Sunbury Aztecs alongside Billy Thorpe.

More Arse Than Class was released in June 1974 and featured an inner-gate fold sleeve photograph of the band members' bare backsides. Filled with blues boogie rock tunes, More Arse Than Class reached #12 on the national charts and stayed in the Top 20 for three months.

This deluxe version has been digitally remastered, with extensive liner notes containing new interviews and rare photos. It contains eight bonus tracks – 3 live in the studio, singles, demo’s and a song the band recorded for a Kawasaki motorbike Advertisement. The album is also packaged in Aztec Music’s trademark six-panel digi-pak.

$25