This week I have the flu and what I do when I get really ill is sleep and update
my website (oh, and this week we've been watching the complete Twin Peaks
series). Sorry for the crosspost, there is nothing that I'm selling here.

I have recently completed some revisions and updates on the Lathe Universe
website and wanted to write a little informational to remind people of the
resources available. Recent additions to the site include substantial updates to
the lathe record discography, new discographies for the Crawlspace, IMD and
Trinder imprints as well as updates to existing discographies in the New Zealand
Underground Archive (including a major update to the Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
discography).

There have been some minor format changes mostly to make access to other pages
within the site easier and to, hopefully, remind people that I am not Peter
King. There are a batch of new links. Additionally, I have enlarged the images
of my Popwatch articles on Xpressway and the New Zealand vanguard found under
the New Zealand Underground Archive for easier reading (I acknowledge they are
still not the best scans).

Best- Dan Vallor

The Lathe Underground is a massive documentation project on the work of Peter
King and his lathe cutting record operation King Worldwide in rural New Zealand.
The site features a large, but not complete, discography of the records cut by
Peter King as well as David White in his short lived lathing operation in
Palmerston North. The site includes ordering and contact information and should
have most every bit of information needed to order a lathe cut run of records
from King Worldwide (be sure to let me know if you do a lathe run so that I can
include it in the discography). Orders can be editions of as few as 20 discs,
barely enough to haunt you later in life.

The Links page features links to a number of labels, distributors/mail order
operations, bands and resources that are friendly to the lathe "scene" and the
New Zealand underground music scene.

The New Zealand Underground Archive features scans of two major articles I wrote
for Leslie Gaffney and Frank Van Den Elzen's journal "Popwatch", one of the
Xpressway label and one on the burgeoning NZ avant garde scene of the late
1990's ("New Zealand Vanguard", featuring early write ups on some of today’s
major players in the world stage). The page also includes comprehensive
discographies on many of New Zealand's most important underground rock and avant
garde labels; from the earliest punk and new wave labels like Ripper and
Propeller to the deep underground post-punk labels such as Onset/Offset and
Industrial Tapes to the most important NZ underground labels of today including
Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Root Don Lonie For Cash & Apoplexy. Additionally there
are complete discographies for the pivotal Flying Nun label and Xpressway.

Discographies include:
Apoplexy Label Discography: Peter Wright's fine Christchurch label.
Arclife Label Discography: Dunedin's premier cooperative label.
Blunt Instrumentals Discography: Sandoz Lab Technician's private label.
Celebrate Psi Phenomenon Discography: Campbell Kneale of The Birchville Cat
Motel's label
Corpus Hermeticum Discography: Bruce Russell of The Dead C's label
Crawlspace Label Discography: Including the Auckland record shop's house label
and their Crawlspace Artist Series releases.
Extemporanious/LifeSpace Discography: Witcyst's labels.
Flying Nun Records Discography: A Complete Record of New Zealand's premier
(formerly) independent label.
IMD Discography: Short lived but essential Dunedin post Xpressway imprint.
Industrial Tapes Discography: Paul Luker's (This Is Heaven/Phantom Forth)
mid-80's imprint.
Language Label Discography: The Dead C's private label.
Metonymic/Medication Label Discography: Kim Peiters and Peter Stapleton's art
and reissue labels
Onset/Offset Discography: Legendary outsider label from the 80's-90's
Precious Metal Discography: Michael Morley of The Dead C's label
Propeller Records Discography: One of New Zealand's premier pop and punk label
Ripper Records Discography: Another, slightly more consistent New Zealand
premier pop and punk label
Root Don Lonie For Cash and Plop Recordings Discographies and the Oat
Publications imprint: Clayton Noone's (CJA) label.
Stabbies And The Rockets Recordings Discography: Pumice's Stefan Neville's label
Trinder Discography: The brief output of the label that introduced Omit and
Crude as well as Nigel Bunn.
World Resources Discography: Paul Toohey's label, home to K-Group, Surface Of
The Earth and others.
Xpressway Discography: The mother of all NZ underground labels.

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