The first cassette comp. that I'm uploading here. It piqued my interest because side 2 starts with a Sandpit song that I'd never heard of before (and had a release date about 6 months prior to their debut EP Lessons in Posture being released).
Just playing on the stereo now, it's an excellent indie comp.
The Beat street press magazine logo is on the back of the inlay, so I assume they were the responsible party.Most of the bands were fairly well-known and pleasingly have available catalogues today. Rail opens, followed by Autohaze (still going today) and Dollop, with the Hatfieldian Rubher (Jane Gazzo) closing out the side. Side 2 starts with the interest-piquing Sandpit track (more rudimentary and less melodic than what was to appear on their debut, but hints towards 'Die 501' in the chorus), The Earthmen, Snout and Header. Following up that Header lead gave this blog, which should prove of interest to you, as well as this Soundcloud set of rare live material from more (Perthling?) Aussie 90s bands.
For the nerds out there, the signal path used in digitising the tape: Technics RS-B66W deck with line-out into a Tascam US-800 USB 2.0 interface, captured at 24 bit, 44.1 kHz and sequenced in Audacity. I have not applied any equalisation or other processing, and I'm not shelling out $4,458 for Celemony Capstan, so you get what you get from a 22 year old cassette, wow, flutter and all.
N.b. the mp3 files are 160 kbps, if you need higher res let me know. The tape artifacts are worst at the start of the comp, but at least there's decent frequency range (response is lumpy) throughout. Lots of <100 Hz listening to the digitisation on AKG K240s.
Popsicle 2 (1995) - Various Artists
