About This Website
This guide was compiled by DJ Robot Citizen commencing in late 2012 based on other music media work going back to ancient times. This site topped 100,000 "visits" in Nov 2014 and has had 171,062 visits as of Jan 01 2016. As of October 2018 it receives 2,000+ "unique ip visits" per week; around 100,000 visits per year. It's good to know others are (re)discovering and enjoying this music too. :-) (Charts of site stats are shown here.)
The scope of music covered on this site includes numerous genres that came out of the post-punk music movement of the late 70s, particularly industrial and goth and the many offshoots and siblings like: goth rock, electro-industrial, new romantic, electronic body music (EBM), darkwave, death-rock, industrial-metal, (darker) new-wave rock, pre-punk '70s glam-rock (being a precursor prime influence), cybergoth, cyberpunk, electro-punk, synth-punk, horror-punk, electro-rock, dark alternative pop/rock, dance-punk, power-noise, witch-house, glitch-hop, drag, dark ambient, coldwave, chill-wave, musique concrete, dark electro, dark electronica, (darker) synthpop, digital hardcore (DHC), techno-punk, elektro, hellectro, aggrotech, breakcore, darkcore, darkstep & so on... artists, bands, groups, projects, producers...
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If you'd like your work to be considered for inclusion on this site please send an inbox message via that FB page or via the contact page on this site. Please note that this site is devoted to artists living in or who are from Australia or New Zealand (ANZ). There are plans to develop a broader international site... time will tell!
This website is meant as a respectful tribute to all these artists/producers; bringing them together like this, as a collation of our cultural heritage, can potentially boost exposure & recognition for all the projects. This page contains a copyright-disclaimer notice - in sum all rights belong of course to the copyright owners/creators. You are encouraged to financially support the artists.
Why did I build this site?... There are several factors that inspired me to put this site together. In short:
- I absolutely love this music! Keen to share the love! :)
- So many people (especially Aussies & Kiwis) do not realise that many of these better known artists are from ANZ or have resided here for a significant period. And it's good for us to know because, it just is! :P ... Furthermore, many of us (in ANZ) dismiss many ANZ artists because they later had commercial pop-chart success, were 'mainstream', yet they made awesome music (particularly earlier on) that is relevant to this site's scope, which was of its time, even ahead of its time, & tends to receive greater respect overseas while being dismissed here... and that's just (imho) sad, and silly!
- There are so many underground self-managing independent artists who produce & release great music which sadly disappears in to the void because the music industry ignores it hence not many people ever hear of it; only those who search avidly beyond the walls of the corporate music world.
- After many years away from making websites with software (remember 'dreamweaver' & 'flash'?) I wanted to build a site entirely via hand coding. I was passionate to do this topic.
- Making this site seems a natural extension of prior activities like: the many hundreds of alternative music radio shows I've hosted; the hundreds of alternative music nightclubs I've organised; and the numerous compilation albums I've released via a small alternative music record label ... that support, in particular, local underground music artists in these genres.
I hope that this site's collection helps to foster, locally, a greater appreciation for what we have and where we come from. And that from that position more artists have a chance of being able to make more art. :) I hope you discover music via this site that you love too and so much so that you'll fork out some $ to help the artists.
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