Melbourne via Sydney via Hong Kong via Brisbane band Regurgitator are back in action. Or at least, the core duo of Quan Yeomans and Ben Ely are. The band have made a move to Melbourne and begun recording new songs, with the help of drummer Cameron Potts (Baseball, Ninety-Nine, Sandro) on skins. Here's a peek:


Regurgitator - Studio diary 1

The band have also made the claim that from this point on, they will release music in a variety of new ways, enabling them to "eschew the stock-standard album release/record label scenario for a 'take it as it comes' approach more in synch with current trends of the listener".

Quan explains:

"it's been a reaction to a multitude of radical changes (from our perspective) in the industry over the last few years. Technological transitions are notorious for bewildering a whole cultural set who have grown up with a certain industry methodology for most of their former careers. We definitely fall into that category and are beginning to accept that the new paradigm is in a state of flux and can only be respected and adapted to. This is why we are beginning to naturally shed some of the old habits of a 'band'.  Album production was initially geared to provide marketing impetus for the sale of vinyl records. More and more young people are not listening to music this way. They download music for free and they pick and choose tracks and create playlists or rely on blogs to automatic generate such playlists. This actually suits a home recording/producing musician more because it is more natural to focus and create one track at a time, release it then move on to the next one. To be truly independent of the record industry you should forget the old release mentality and match the current listener mentality.    

The band have been ensconced in Melbourne's Head Gap studios with engineer Casey Rice on new material. A clutch of such tracks have been posted on their Soundcloud, including the two cuts below. Listen:


1 - MAKE NO SENSE by Regurgitrax

3 - MIRANDA JULY by Regurgitrax

It's not all for the sake of meddling with new media. They have shows too you know:

REGURGITATOR - AUSTRALIAN TOUR SEPT/OCT 2010
 
plus RAT VS POSSUM (expect WA shows)
and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH (except TAS & WA shows)
with co-headliner DJ KRUSH from Japan (Brisbane show only)

WED 15 SEPT Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM

THUR 16 SEPT Adelaide THE GOV
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

FRI 17 SEPT Melbourne THE HI-FI
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

SAT 18 SEPT Brisbane THE TIVOLI
with DJ KRUSH (from Japan) plus LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH and RAT VS POSSUM

SUN 19 SEPT Byron GREAT NORTHERN
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

WED 22 SEPT Katoomba HOTEL GEARIN
plus RAT VS POSSUM

THUR 23 SEPT Canberra THE MARAM
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

FRI 24 SEPT Wgong UNI BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

SAT 25 SEPT Sydney MANNING BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
An official selection of Sydney Fringe 2010

SUN 26 SEPT Karratha WA WALKINGTON THEATRE

MON 27 SEPT Perth AMPLIFIER BAR
plus BOYS BOYS BOYS!  and NAIK

FRI 10 DEC Port Macquarie FESTIVAL OF THE SUN

See regurgitator.net for details.