Mo’ Wax was a record label started by James Lavelle in 1992, which closed about ten years later. Initially they released 12" singles and licensed a compilation from Japan of Japanese Hip Hop, until 1994 when they began releasing albums of their artists original work. While some of these artists…

The Three Out were a short-lived Australian jazz trio who formed in 1960, released two albums, toured Europe, and then went their separate ways. The trio’s pianist Mike Nock made a name for himself in North America, while drummer Chris Karan toured the world in The Dudley Moore Trio, but…

Based in Peru, Buh Records was founded in 2004 by Luis Alvarado and has released a mixture of local music and international acts, both new and archival. Earlier this year, as Oksana Linde’s album was about to be released, I asked some quick questions. Buh started almost 20 years ago…

On March 15, 2022, Oksana Linde released her debut album Aquatic and Other Worlds on Buh Records. Unlike most new releases, this wasn’t something created in the past few years. Instead, her album compiled music originally created between 1983–1989, when she was in her 30s. One of the songs had…

This mysterious Australian label run by Christopher L Ghill and Joshua Petherick recently came onto my radar when I heard Urchyn’s ‘low lying plains’ LP. The mixture of lofi, ambient, and noise spread across that LP grabbed my attention and I contacted Christoper to find out more… How and…

Garden Seat is an Australian record label run by Jaxon Bailey-Banks and Zeb Olsen who also host gigs in their event space Static Open in Footscray. The pair met while hosting shows on Castlemaine’s community radio station 94.9 MAINfm, and have combined Zeb’s archive of unreleased recordings with Jaxon’s ear…

Repercussions were an acid jazz style band made up of Andy Faranda, Daniel Wyatt, Genji Siraisi, Gordon Clay, Jonathan Maron, and Nicole Willis. They formed in 1986 as a smaller instrumental group but grew their members over the next few years alongside a great live reputation. Repercussions released their debut…

Rich Thair has been releasing music since the early 90s when he and Jeremy “Tuse” Tuson released two 12” singles with their group Sweatmouth. Those got the attention of James Lavelle as he was starting his record label Mo’ Wax in 1992, and a Sweatmouth 12” was planned as one…