V/A - Burning It Up (Australian Reggae 1979-1986)

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1.	The Nights In Shining - Surfin' Reggae 04:08	buy track
2.	Wide Boy Youth - Busy Bleeding 03:24	buy track
3.	Delaney Venn - Prisoner (Extended LP version) 05:29	buy track
4.	Time Lords Inc. - Don't Mess 03:25	buy track
5.	The Lifesavers - Burning It Up 05:13	buy track
6.	Janie Conway - Temptation 04:08	buy track
7.	Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Shape I'm In (Dub Version) 03:02	buy track
8.	Agents - Night People 03:34	buy track

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Austudy Records is proud to present it’s debut release Burning It Up: Australian Reggae (1979-1986). 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.

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released July 15, 2022

Compiled by Lloyd Briggs
Artwork+Design by Warren Taylor
Mastered by Mikey Young

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