Xpressway
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Xpressway was a record label founded by New Zealand musician Bruce Russell in Dunedin in 1988. Until it ceased in 1993, Xpressway released a variety of New Zealand musicians, primarily on cassette, but its catalogue included several 7" singles and one 12" EP.
Russell began releasing and distributing cassettes via mail order, to offer a 'lifeboat' for those artists who had been dropped by Flying Nun Records, as Flying Nun moved away from its low-fi roots to focus on artists with more 'commercial potential'.[1]
Artists whose material was released by Xpressway include The Dead C, This Kind Of Punishment, Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos, Alastair Galbraith, Graeme Jefferies, The Terminals, and Sandra Bell.
[edit] Discography
- X/Way 01 Dead C Live Dead See cassette
- X/Way 02 This Kind Of Punishment TKP Live 1985 cassette
- X/Way 03 Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos A Childs Guide To Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos cassette
- X/Way 04 Alastair GalbraithHurry On Down cassette
- X/Way 05 Various Xpressway Pile Up cassette
- X/Way 06 Various I Hate Pavel Tishy's Guts cassette
- X/Way 07 Dead C The Sunstabbed 7" EP
- X/Way 08 Victor Dimisich Band The Mekong Delta Blues cassette
- X/Way 09 Peter Gutteridge Pure cassette
- X/Way 10 Alastair Galbraith and Graeme Jefferies "Timebomb" / "Bravely, Bravely" 7"
- X/Way 11 Peter Jefferies and Robbie Muir "Catapult" / "The Fate Of The Human Carbine" 7"
- X/Way 12 Dead C Play DR 503b cassette
- X/Way 13 Plagal Grind Plagel Grind 12" EP
- X/Way 14 Sferic Experiment Bunny Liver cassette
- X/Way 15 This Kind Of Punishment Beard Of Bees cassette
- X/Way 16 Peter Jefferies The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World cassette
- X/Way 17 The Terminals "Do The Void" / "Deadly Tango" 7"
- X/Way 18 Angelhead Eat cassette
- X/Way 19 The Terminals Disease cassette
- X/Way 20 Scorched Earth Policy Foaming Out cassette
- X/Way 21 David Mitchell with Denise Roughan "Dead Dog In Port Chalmers" / "Dogs" / "Grey Funnel Line" 7"
- X/Way 22 Sandra Bell Dreams Of Falling cassette
- X/Way 23 Heazelwood Hellmouth 666 cassette
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Williams, Mark (November 2000). "Magic Kiwi's - Bruce Russell interview". Perfect Sound Forever. http://www.furious.com/Perfect/deadc.html. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
