Limited edition cassette of the 2022 compilation cassette 'Psychic Hysteria & Friends #1' featuring 30 tracks donated by artists as a fundraiser for Dreamtime Aroha's 'Biggest Mob Christmas Appeal'. To purchase the digital version, please head to: psychichysteria.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-hysteria-friends-1

Please accept this compilation of some of our label's bands and some of the extended Psychic Hysteria family as at November 2022. All profits raised will be donated to Dreamtime Aroha's 'Biggest Mob Christmas Appeal', and once that's complete the next fundraiser organised by Dreamtime Aroha.

You can donate directly at: www.gofundme.com/f/dvcrb9-biggest-mob-christmas-appeal. We highly recommend you folllow www.instagram.com/dreamtime_aroha.

A huge thank you to all of the bands that have donated their song to this fundraiser, to Dreamtime Aroha for all of their hard work, to Mikey Young for mastering the tracks and the cassette and to the B.East for hosting our launch party (on November 26 & 27).

There is a zine that accompanies this release with contributions from local artists, including some featured on the tape.

We (Kurt & Kalindy) feel so lucky to be a part of such a nurturing and supportive music community. Thank you to everyone whose labour, commitment and passion makes it so.

This show is taking place on stolen land that belongs to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded, and a treaty has never been signed: this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
The cassette release features a bonus track: Marville - Fiction.
Compilation mastered by Mikey Young. Curated and sequenced by Kurt Eckardt.

To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page for an instant download.

Melbourne-based label Psychic Hysteria is proud to release Quiet / / Disquiet - companion albums from skipism and the little hand of the faithful. Available on double C60 chrome cassettes and digital download.

These two artists have worked side by side on the fringes for almost 40 years. Their inspirations and influences have intertwined and infused their creative work in sometimes unconscious ways. And yet these two albums could not be more divergent.

Both will fill your mind and move it to a different space.

Quiet / is the third release for Skipism, the solo project of Dru Jones (Height/Dismay, Scattered Order, Lint, whisker floater).

Quiet / draws your attention to small sounds, combining electronic instruments, field recording and voice in subtle and emotive layers.

Disquiet / is the second release by the little hand of the faithful, the solo project of Mitchell Jones (The Barons, Scattered Order, My Name is Mannering, Lint).

Disquiet / selects disconcerting found sounds and conversations and relocates them in the troubled waters of interpretive soundtracks.

The pairing of these two contrasting approaches mirrors the way these artists work and live together. Both are quietly pressing on in an ever-expanding world of soundmakers. Both are hell-bent on exploring and refining their own skewed sounds in a way that defines them as people.

We’re extremely proud to release is with you, the debut album from The little hand of the faithful.

Mitchell Jones and Michael Tee formed trail blazing post / industrialists Scattered Order in 1979 and, to release their own music, they established M Squared, an influential independent / experimental record label based in Sydney, helping to invent the now familiar DIY aesthetic. The constantly mutating Scattered Order moved to the Volition label (Severed Heads, Single Gun Theory, Boxcar) in 1984 where they continued to release some of this country’s most innovative work in sound exploration, and in 1996 set up the Rather be Vinyl label, in a return to the intimacy of small scale music releases, but now with the added benefits of the nascent internet music scene. Later, a lively interest in post punk reissues in Europe saw the band reach old friends and find new ones, but audiences today know them for their immersive live sets and a growing body of vital, inventive new music.

On a sabbatical from Scattered Order this year, Mitchell has adopted the name the little hand of the faithful to record this album of instrumental tracks with messed up guitars, odd beats, synths, found sounds and samples, which he combines to form a foreboding and urgent atmosphere. Sometimes this intensity is balanced by a haunting melancholia, with always a tiny glimmer of hope poking its head over the parapet.