• 12inch


Volition Cuts Vol. 1

  • Cat No: ES035
  • updated:2025-09-02

Format

12inch ---- JPY

Efficient Space's latest excavation focuses on Volition Records, a pioneering rave and dance music label in Australia in the early 90s. This 4-track 12" captures the raw enthusiasm that propelled a local movement to exploration and national scale!

Volition Records was established in Sydney in 1984 by Andrew Penhallow, who also ran the Oceania branch of the prestigious Factory Records. Since then, the label has continued to pioneer and support dance music from the region, and was active until the late 1990s. Sisters Underground's anthem "In the Neighbourhood," which made NZ rap and R&B widely known, was followed by a hip house dub A1 (sample 1) by Robert Racic, producer of the late Volition Sound. 1(sample1). The ritualistic industrial tunes of synth-pop unit Boxcar are reworked by Miami freestyle artisan Tony Garcia for a lilting electro A2; Sexing The Cherry's bleepy B1 "This Is A Dream" (sample2), all from Australia; and the "B2" (sample3), a hip house dub by the late Volition sound producer Robert Racic, is the first ARIA Charts compilation. B2 (sample 3) is Sydney trio Single Gun Theory's ambient-pop "Fall" from Stuart Crichton and Apollo 440's Norm Norman Burns, while B2 (sample 4) is the first Australian release to reach #1 on the ARIA charts. and Apollo 440's Norman Fisher-Jones transform the ambient pop of Sydney trio Single Gun Theory into euphoric gore trance. This is a piece recommended for listening as well as for the floor, where you can inhale the air of undifferentiated intermingling of genres. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)

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