Austudy is an Australian archival record label based in Naarm (Melbourne)
AUS001
Burning It Up: Australian Reggae (1979-1986)
Compiled by Lloyd Briggs
Mastered by Mikey Young
Design by Warren Taylor
Edition of 500
Released July 15, 2022
Side A
1. The Nights In Shining – Surfin’ Reggae
2. Wide Boy Youth – Busy Bleeding
3. Delaney Venn – Prisoner (Extended LP version)
4. Time Lords Inc. – Don't Mess
Side B
1. Lifesavers – Burning It Up
2. Janie Conway – Temptation
3. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Shape I’m In (Dub Version)
4. Agents – Night People
PURCHASE
Burning It Up: Australian Reggae (1979-1986)
Compiled by Lloyd Briggs
Mastered by Mikey Young
Design by Warren Taylor
Edition of 500
Released July 15, 2022
Side A
1. The Nights In Shining – Surfin’ Reggae
2. Wide Boy Youth – Busy Bleeding
3. Delaney Venn – Prisoner (Extended LP version)
4. Time Lords Inc. – Don't Mess
Side B
1. Lifesavers – Burning It Up
2. Janie Conway – Temptation
3. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Shape I’m In (Dub Version)
4. Agents – Night People
PURCHASE
A compilation surveying the influence of reggae on Australia’s preoccupation with rock, pop and new wave between the years of 1979-1986. This selection of 8 obscure tracks originally issued on 7'' records represent some of the earliest examples of reggae sounds in Australian recorded music.
Across 8 tracks Burning It Up encounters a psychedelic dub-soul stepper in Janie Conway’s Temptation, similarly The Lifesavers provide the compilation’s name-sake in their own spaced-out, improv-riddim. In Sydney Delaney/Venn join forces with Marcia Hines to deliver a glammed-out anthem while down the road a few ex-pats known as The Nights In Shining dance to an anthem of their own at a disco on the beach.
The mysterious Wide Boy Youth preaches over roots-rock from some plastic-tropics whilst up north the irrepressible Time Lords Inc. fight the good fight in a loose funk-rock protest. Faded, late-night echoes of Ska wane with the The Agents and one of, if not the earliest examples of an Australian dub reverberates gloriously in Jo Jo Zep's hands-on approach to his Oz-rock-classic
Across 8 tracks Burning It Up encounters a psychedelic dub-soul stepper in Janie Conway’s Temptation, similarly The Lifesavers provide the compilation’s name-sake in their own spaced-out, improv-riddim. In Sydney Delaney/Venn join forces with Marcia Hines to deliver a glammed-out anthem while down the road a few ex-pats known as The Nights In Shining dance to an anthem of their own at a disco on the beach.
The mysterious Wide Boy Youth preaches over roots-rock from some plastic-tropics whilst up north the irrepressible Time Lords Inc. fight the good fight in a loose funk-rock protest. Faded, late-night echoes of Ska wane with the The Agents and one of, if not the earliest examples of an Australian dub reverberates gloriously in Jo Jo Zep's hands-on approach to his Oz-rock-classic
