It’s easy being green. Essendon Airport @the_hangar_1979 just sold out of the second pressing with blue screenprinted covers of their new album MOR, and with a bunch of (now sadly postponed) shows coming up they decided to do a third pressing, this time in beautiful green! Another 150 copies, all covers hand screenprinted by the band’s percussion prince Paul Fletcher. Up now on Chapter Bandcamp!
So exciting to have @holybalm back on stages! Here they are at @nagnagnagfest on the weekend playing their all time classic Fashion. Wish we could have been there, hopefully they make it to Melbourne soon!
Returning for a second edition after making its debut in 2023, the @independent_music_exchange is set to connect Australia's most admired indie record labels and the fans that sustain them. Taking over Northcote Town Hall this June, expect 50 imprints offering vinyl, cassettes, merch, artist-signed items and more, while an education program featuring leading local voices will help inspire the next generation of label makers. Get the details at our link in bio.
@bjennymontero made these beautiful one-off paintings of Chapter Music record covers for our 20th birthday party in 2012. There were a bunch more that got sold on the day, did anyone get them? Would love to see them again!
***sold out***
Chapter Music & Liquid Architecture present Jeremy Dower performing live in celebration of 'Personal Computer Music, 1997–2022, released via Chapter Music.
8pm, Thursday 30 April
Tender, Brunswick
Tix in bio and from the Liquid Architecture website.
Joining the night in supportive performance will be a duo of Ai Yamamoto and Dan West.
Personal Computer Music, 1997-2022 is a quarter century-spanning compilation of previously unreleased music, split into halves to showcase Jeremy's unpronounceable 90s ambient techno project Tetrphnm, as well as the wistful faux-jazz electronica made subsequently under his own name. It is the culmination of Chapter Music’s ongoing reissue series for Jeremy, who is based in Bendigo on Dja Dja Wurrung land.
In August, Chapter made his earlier albums available digitally for the first time ever - Sentimental Dance Music For Couples (originally released in 2000 via US label Plug Research, home to releases by Flying Lotus and Jon Tejada) and Music For the Young and the Restless (originally released in 2004 on Japanese imprint Bit Of Heaven). Chapter also released a mini album Music For Retirement Villages, Circa 2050 on 12" and CD back in 2002.
Hosted at Tender and presented on the Tender custom made Sound System. Limited capacity!
@chaptermusic@personalcomputermusic@tender_place_@ai_yamamoto_mel@tweakandtwang
We have just put up some discounted LPs on the Chapter website, all with a little seam split or some ringwear but still sealed and unplayed. Grab yourself a bargain and get them out of our warehouse/garage! And if you’re somewhere near to our Northcote HQ, feel free to message to sort a drop-off and save on postage. Link in bio x
I am chuffed about this very sweet introduction to my song Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on @rageabc last night by Lewis from @blackcountrynewroad after I played some records at @merricreektavern in January
Today is the 10th birthday of Up To Anything, the debut album by Brisbane trio @thegoonsax ! Recorded and released when they were still in high school, Up To Anything was fresh and touching and infectious on its release on March 11, 2016, and quickly became a modern classic of jangly indie pop.
To celebrate Up To Anything’s 10th birthday we’ve made everything by the Goon Sax 20% off on the Chapter website (link in bio).
The band went on to release two more beautiful albums, 2018’s We’re Not Talking and 2021’s Mirror II before breaking up in 2022 and are still sorely missed!
It’s Bandcamp Friday again. Here’s all the records Chapter put out in the last year. You can get all these and the 200+ others we’ve put out in the last 34 years via our Bandcamp from 7pm with all the money going to us and our artists :) Ps lots more Chapter records coming out from mid this year, we might have shifted to a reissue focus but we’re still going to be busy!
Excited for the upcoming shows at @antifaderecords ’ Jerkfest and @melbournepopfest for Nicole Plays Minimum Chips, featuring Nicole @thibaultband and Guy from legendary retro-futurist space pop band Minimum Chips teaming up with @snowy___________ on guitar and @jimigregg on drums. Did you know you can still get copies of most of their releases on the currently back-in-vogue CD format via the Chapter Bandcamp? Well you can :)
Chapter CEO Cindy O’Connor is very excited that The Particles instant classic compilation 1980s Bubblegum is back in stock on beautiful black vinyl, after selling out lightning fast on its initial 2023 release. We’ll be sending out pre-orders today but it’s not too late to grab yours. The record should also be hitting retail stores around the world in the next week or two!
