[ Frenzy / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 16 February 2024
Wellington, Circa 1971-72. For just over a year Sonic label and studio owner Alan Dunnage and record producer Ed Morris aka O'Strange became a magnet for the Wellington and lower North Island Underground music scene. The label's output was small and included only eight singles and no albums. The legacy of those recordings is a time capsule from a fleeting moment in time when Sixties counter-culture effortlessly merged with the diverse and eclectic Seventies rock scene. PLAY IT LOUD!!
"Alan had been operating his studio since the early fifties when he recorded Johnny Cooper & His Range Riders. He loved the new Rock sounds that were being generated by a new breed of musician. Being a lot older than the musos and quite content to record and engineer, he would use me to produce the bulk of the sessions as I was younger and could relate to this new crop of young musos"....Ed Morris aka O'Strange
1. LITTLEJOHN Bloodsucker
2. BENJAMIN GARDNER Maneater
3. BLITZ STREET FUZZ Beautiful You
4. BLUEBRICK Pollution
5. FAT GYPSY I'll Still Be Laughing
6. ROGERS-BATTERSBY LEGEND Bullfrog
7. BLITZ STREET FUZZ Hard Times
8. STILLE RIPPLE Loner Postponer
9. SPANN Undertaker
10. FAT GYPSY Shotgun On His Arm
11. SONS AND LOVERS Make Us Free
12. LITTLEJOHN Have You Heard A Man Cry