commercially challenged and destitute music since 1995
 Avant-World duo from Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
 20 years of abela for free |
 Our first experiment with crowd socuring a release only pre-sold copies will be pressed. |
 Rully Shabara (Zoo) and Wukir Suryadi performing at Grub in Sydney June 2011 also featuring a bonus Jam with Lucas Abela. |
 beat poetry |
 post rave |
 we have take the lyrics to our most beloved oz rock classics and sent them to USA song sharks to see what would happen! |
 "this is the evolution of beatboxing, a one man barbers shop quartet attacked by a rubber lipped banshee" - INPRESS. |
 "the funniest most visceral and compelling music this writer has heard for a very long time" - INPRESS. |
 "demonstrating a remarkable ability to creatively curse and an almost implausible vocal dexterity" - Cyclic Defrost. |
 "Not music for normal folks, to be sure." - Multibeat. |
 "inventively twisted black-comedy lyrics, throwing in dirty punchlines and shades of modern depravity that our Edwardian ancestors would have blanched at. There's also however an equally strong streak of utter weirdness and lowbrow surrealism, not too far away from the malarkey of Charles Gocher or Revd Fred Lane." - Sound Projector. |
 "this record’s contrived cheepniss makes Bow Wow Wow sound like Mozart" - Sound Projector. |
 WARNING: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Nican Tiaca listeners be aware that the following CD may conyain voices of deceased persons. |
 "recycled waste products of a doomed civilisation - fragments of Metal guitar fuzzed into oblivion, snippets of easy listening beaten to a bloody pulp - but they're meticulously catalogued and cunningly sequenced" - the wire. |
 Beatles classic. twist and shout reworked into a celebration of pre natal pleasure. |
 "please keep our recording as secret private session. I don't want to release it any format." - Unspecified Drummer. |
 “like something from a claustrophobic horror-movie soundtrack" - Pitchfork |
 “his lyrics strike with all of the bravado of a Tom Waits album, but with a twinge of the old Vaudeville” - Folk it Up. |
 “Very stark in a black and white kind of way, and really quite hep" – The Wire. |
 “surges like Sigue Sigue Sputnik scoring Mortal Kombat porn” – MESS AND NOISE |
 "Your level of appreciation for this CD is likely to depend on your enjoyment of blacker-than comedy" - Cyclic Defrost |
 “Had Jean-Paul Sartre been born in Brisbane or Canberra, he could well have come up with something like this.” – Dev.Null |
 “Bradbury is a master sonic bricklayer who has the ins and outs of tension and release down pat” – Mess + Noise Magazine. |
 "the most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years – in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop" - Bruce Russell - WIRE magazine. |
 “one part Poly Styrene to one part Eraserhead radiator lady” – Mess + Noise Magazine. |
 "a show so visceral, so alive, that it can move a room full of the most jaded noisenrrds to gaping-mouthed wonderment." - christopher r. weingarten, CMJ |
 “perhaps the best band of their time. Certainly, Huhnenblut is worth the lives of ten thousand Cobains." - Bananafish. |
 “it doesn’t matter how many times you hear it, it doesn’t get any easier to cope with.” – INPRESS. |
 "it sound like a Dalek in it's death throes." - Chris Summerlin |
 "She's the bastard child of Anton LaVey and Kate Bush" - Blunt. |
 “Let your diamonds shine in the oceans. Do something good and throw it in the water! My ocean can also float out of the tab. I don't care.” - WILDEST GINA V. D'ORIO. |
 "evil stupid and wrong" - Inpress |
 "deranged and hallucinatory- more along the lines of what a glitchy Boredoms might do than any mash-up styled deconstruction of pop tunes" - angebase |
 “Bradbury has the rare double, not only is he meticulous in his execution, but he's been able to produce not one but fourteen new atmospheric worlds, where the laws of nature no longer exist, but chaos is kept at bay by Bradbury's odd and innovative logic". – Inpress Magazine. |
 "truly one of the oddest things one could ever ask to hear" - Andrew harper. |
 "the initial shift from high-pitched aggression to sweet calm is downright startling" - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide. |
 for those about to rock proceed with caution |
 karaoke without the practice rooms. |
 "one of the strangest albums in the history of recorded music." - ALTERNATIVE PRESS. |
 "swallows the prick of luxuriant mass of livid joy to the hilt" Bananafish. |
 ""i recorded schimpfluch gruppe with binaural headphones microphones and spun around on the spot as fast as i could for their entire set, if you listen to teh single with headphones you get dizzy" - Lucas Abela. |
 "it's a lot of fun, especially when the skull-pounding electronics give way to tiny flyswatting drum rolls." - david keenan, Wire Magazine. |
 "not since Jad Fair and his brother David unleashed the triple LP set Half Gentlemen Not Beasts, have we heard such unfettered energy" - The Sound Projector. |
 a celebration of the fools return. |
 Hyper sized turntablist action without the turntables. |
 "manage to fuse aqua with throbbing gristle without letting the seams show" - The Wire. |
 "maximum precedent transcendence" Banannafish. |
 Commercially Challenged / New Music For Modern Swingers & DoDo Sheild T-shirts |