SPILL music

Studio

We've worked on about 350 releases by Australian and international artists and labels - see list below.

These are mostly new releases, but we've also worked on reissues of heritage material. An early example was the Four Gods reissue released in 1999. The most recent example is the Rare Units and Genius Heads compilation of 90s Hobart bands, released in 2023.

The early Spill studio recorded on a Fostex reel-to-reel eight-track tape machine and mixed down to DAT. In the late 90s we shifted to computer-based recording and mastering, with help from sound-scientist Richard van Hoesel. We currently use:

  • Delta M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card
  • Teac A-H500 amp
  • Wharfedale Diamond 8.2 speakers

Mastering

2024

  • Adam Park live performances (IF IT'S NEW label, in press)
  • The Bowles / Chrome Dome live split (IF IT'S NEW label, in press)
  • Alzheimers Blanks (IF IT'S NEW label, in press)
  • Scrabbled album (in press)
  • Julian Williams Twelve Stages album (FTSM label)

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

  • Teresa Duffey-Richards album
  • Glen Schenau single
  • Business of Dreams album
  • Gosloe Punks e.p.

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

  • Community 3 compilation of Hobart bands (Rough Skies label)
  • Tut Tut Kyngs album
  • Nathan Abbey album
  • Redspencer Tell single
  • Andre album
  • Ryan Sterling Rock and or Roll Volume One album
  • Zone Out ep
  • The Dames album
  • The Sump Cheek by Jowl album
  • Ryan Sterling Two Mountains and the Sea album
  • Totally Mild cassette
  • Cheap Nasties album
  • Soda Eaves like drapes either side album
  • Pomme de Terre single
  • Julian Williams Foreign Film album
  • Elizabeth Mary Mitchell album
  • Shannon Kelly EP
  • Tender Bones EP
  • Aaron and Mick Gongs Underground album
  • Dan Preston single
  • The Inevitable Orbit Block Dissolve album
  • He Dark Age One Constant album

2012

  • Claire Birchall This Gallery of Mine album
  • Claire Birchall Captain Captain album
  • Finn de Siecle Dusk ep
  • au.ra EP
  • Lehmann Smith Roominations album
  • Terry McCarthy album
  • Alex Robb album
  • Nathan Kearney Pockmarket album
  • vinyl re-issue of New Season ep (Vacant Valley label)
  • Emu Parade benefit compilation
  • Dave Graney and the mistLY You've Been In My Mind album
  • Hobart Improv Collective Mount Wellington / kunanyi 12"
  • My Favourite Colour is Gold single
  • Val Stephens retrospective cd (Shame File label)
  • Dave Graney King of the Dudes iTunes single
  • Forces 7"
  • Clag Pasted Youth retrospective
  • Tax 7"

2011

  • Undecisive God RPMs 5 6 7 album
  • Lakes 7"
  • Chrome Dome 7"
  • Wendy in the Mountains tape
  • Darling Downs cd
  • Lehmann/Natasha split cassette
  • Little Milk lp
  • Jonny Gibson lp
  • Hammocks and Honey remix ep
  • Hammering the Cramps lp
  • Wendy in the Mountains single
  • Drunk Elk lp
  • Community volume 2 compilation cd (Rough Skies label)
  • Ruth Rogers-Wright The Book of Ruth album
  • A. Wallace split 7" (Special Award Records)
  • Bunny cd ep
  • Motifs split single (Knock Yr Socks Off label)
  • Swedish Magazines album
  • Lakes Winters Blade album
  • Go-Go Sapien album
  • Jonny Telafone 7" (Nihilistic Orbs label)
  • Alysia Manceau The Longest Winter album
  • Per Purpose album
  • Loomers album
  • Nicola Watson ep
  • The Limp re-issue (Fifth Column label)
  • Ashtray Boy re-issue

2010

2009

  • Community (Hobart compilation on Rough Skies label)
  • Holy Sissy album
  • Sun of Clark album
  • Oblako Lodka album (Special Award records)
  • Wasted Truth cassette
  • Mickey Gloss album
  • Transcription of Organ Music Songs from the Great Lake album
  • Dave Graney Knock Yourself Out album
  • Patinka Cha Cha album
  • Chrome Dome 7"
  • Slug Guts Down on the Meat album
  • Lakes cassette
  • Occult Blood ep (Sweatlung)
  • Whitehorse cassette (Sweatlung)
  • Riververb album (Sweatlung)
  • Watson Brown album (Sweatlung)
  • Collapsed Toilet Vietnam cassette (Sweatlung)
  • Penguins EP
  • Vlady Vivaldi album (Alberts Basement)
  • Summer Cats album
  • Full Ugly Ants Pants album (Alberts Basement)
  • Clear Spacemen Outerlude album

2008

  • Loveletting album (Alberts Basement)
  • Julian Williams Liqidambar cd (Synaesthesia / Spill)
  • Huon album (555)
  • Mia Schoen Birdsong album (555)
  • Sean McMahon Welcome to Gippsland album
  • Lakes 12"
  • Northatlantic Audio album
  • James Earthenware album
  • New Estate Out of the Ground album (LTI)
  • Summer Cats singles
  • Jane Dust A Spray of Red from the Deep album (Shocking Flirt)
  • Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist We Wuz Curious album (Fuse)
  • White Male Dumbinance / Masstrauma split 7" (Sweatlung)
  • The Motifs Cross Paths album (Knock Yr Socks Off)
  • Galactic Locksmith album
  • Fabulous Diamonds Seven Songs cd (Nervous Jerk)
  • Fabulous Diamonds self-titled 12" (Siltbreeze)
  • Rahdunes self-titled album (SweatLung / Emperor Jones)

2007

  • Naked on the Vague The Blood Pressure Sessions album (Dual Plover)
  • Viva Computer self-titled album
  • Lindsey Low Hand Poached Egg album (Fckn Stoner)
  • Kaye-Louise Patterson International Travel album (Fuse)
  • Deaf!Deaf! split 10" (DNT label)
  • Mirrormen ep
  • Darling Downs From One to Another album (MGM / Carrot Top)
  • Summer Cats Scratching Post ep (Pop Boomerang)
  • Bad Luck Charms Rant and Drift album (Consumer Productions)
  • Panel of Judges / Garbage and the Flowers split (Weather Records)
  • Electric Jellyfish single
  • An Apple compilation
  • Summer Cats split 7" with Eux Autres
  • Klunk Underground Recordings cd (Diagnosis Don't)
  • Human Six Billion The Night is a Movie, The Sun is a Star ep
  • Lakes Magic Food cd (Inverted Crux)
  • Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff split cd (Sweatlung)
  • Magnetics ep
  • Kraus I Could Destroy You with a Single Thought / Lamentations of an Ape album reissue (Diagnosis Don't)
  • SpiderVomit Widows Walk ep (Unstable Ape)
  • Justice Yeldham Cicatrix album (SweatLung)
  • Paeces 7" (Siltbreeze)
  • Fabulous Diamonds 7" (Mistletone / Nervous Jerk)
  • Whitehorse and 731 eps (Sweatlung)
  • Zond / Hi God People split 12" (Spanish Magic)
  • Salmon Rock Formations album (Bang)
  • Can't Stop It vol. 2 compilation (Chapter)
  • New Estate Is It Real? cd (Low Transit Industries)

2006

  • Dave Graney and Clare Moore Keepin' It Unreal album (Reverberation)
  • Lakes album
  • Popolice Middle Ground ep
  • Possum Moods Possum and the Moods cd (555)
  • Driving Past Travel album (Jacana)
  • Scientists Sedition live album (All Tomorrows Parties)
  • UK re-release of Dave Graney The Brother Who Lived album (Reaction)
  • Paeces album
  • Flywheel What To Look For In Summer album (Karmic Hit)
  • Because We Can Our Bars, Our Tonics cd
  • v/a 33 1/3 compilation (Jacana)
  • New Waver Neuters cd (Spill / Dual Plover)
  • Popolice Forceback cd (Jacana)
  • New Estate Rock Shop album (Jacana)
  • On self titled album (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  • The Happy Lonesome ep
  • Baby Bees album
  • Bohemian Knights album
  • Seaworthy Map in Hand album (Steadycam)
  • Ian Wadley Three Uneasy Pieces ep (SweatLung)

2005

2004

  • Ashtray Boy Last Years Song cd (Phonostatique)
  • Melbourne Water volume 1 compilation (W.Minc)
  • Seaworthy Backwoods Architecture ep (SteadyCam)
  • Panel of Judges ep (Weather Records)
  • Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Night of the Wolverine re-release (Cockaigne)
  • Woodlot Surer compilation cd (FTSM)

2003

  • Das Butcher All in Blood / Mummy single (Saucerlike)
  • The Royal Dave Graney Show All Our Friends Were Stars single (Cockaigne)
  • The Random Numbers Mornington Crescent cd
  • Hardy Coxon Eniwetok Atoll II cd (Fkn Stoner)
  • I Want a Hovercraft ep
  • Sleepy Township Tragedy and Hope mini-album (Dutch Courage)
  • New Season ep (2003)
  • part of Minimum Chips Gardenesque ep (Trifekta)
  • The Bird Blobs Stihl Life (Unstable Ape)
  • Eric Goldd and T.B. Egg through the range of the exposed parts, the stimulated glance rebounds of the one with the other (Realistic)
  • Jen Turrell One Night the Stars Began to Fall (Red Square)
  • Possum Moods cd (Red Square)
  • Grey Tapes cd (555)
  • Snow Fairies Feel You Up (Red Square)
  • 555cd55 compilation (555)
  • GirlRacer/Kanda split cd (555)
  • The Tall Boy Goes On (555)
  • The Moodists Two Fisted Art retrospective cd (W.minc)

2002

  • Julian Williams Leaf Rain cd (Rhizome)
  • Julian Williams Noodle Sun cd (FTSM)
  • v/a, The Way Things Change volumes 4 to 6 (Red Square)
  • The Cannanes Trouble Seemed So Far Away (Lamingtone)
  • Chapter label Double Figures compilation (Chapter)
  • Function album The Zillionaire-Retarded Speeds Of Ordinary, Measured Light(Love and Mercy)
  • The Legend Everett True Connection cd (3acrefloor)
  • Mia Schoen Champions cd (Library records)
  • The Frustrations The Dole Years (Consumer Productions)
  • Sleepy Township retrospective All These Records (Lost and Lonesome)
  • Fog and Ocean album (555)
  • Australian Popfest compilation (555)
  • Snout Non Stop Fun ep (W.minc)
  • Escargo-gos si vous aimes lamour (Red Square, 2002)
  • Bright Lights cd (555, 2002)
  • Bill Ricchini Ordinary Time (Red Square, 2002)
  • v/a Invited to Dinner (Red Square, 2002)
  • parts of Minimum Chips retrospective (Chapter, 2002)
  • Boyracer To get a better hold you've go to loosen yr grip (555, 2002)
  • Hi God People Play to the Temple of Depth cd (Spill/FTSM, 2002)
  • Volvox Bad Earth cd (Spill/Dual Plover/Freedom From, 2002)
  • Soft Love Soft Cell tribute (555)
  • Tracey Read Everything is Real cd (Chapter)
  • Flywheel My Career Meltdown 10" (Z and Zoe)

2001

  • Can't Stop It compilation of Australian post-punk bands (Chapter)
  • Bird Blobs album (self-released)
  • BoyRacer boyfuckingracer (555)
  • 555 compilation Knowing We Was Right From Da Start (555)
  • Famous Boyfriend album (555)
  • Saucer album (555)
  • Above Ground Pool ep (FTSM)
  • Paul of Blood Poxy Music

2000

1999

  • Static Modulation compilation (Static Modulation)
  • Dworzec album (self-released)
  • Sleepy Township Set Sail album (Chapter)
  • Huon Epic album (555)
  • Huon Songs For Lord Tortoise album (Animal World)
  • Huon Hung Up Over Night album (555)
  • Hydroplane Hope Against Hope (Drive-In)
  • Kokoshkar album (Organic)
  • Long Weekend ep (555)

1998

  • Fifty Record Players comp (Snawklor)
  • Pip Proud One of these days album (Emperor Jones)
  • Chris Smith Cabin Fever album (Avalanche Express)
  • Ruff Buff album (Arrowroot)
  • Crabstick album (BBP)
recording studio in 1990
early Spill setup, Brunswick, 1990

Recording / mixing

  • Chris Smith Bad Orchestra album (with Cal Orr) (Death Valley, 2006)
  • Chris Smith Justin Fuller album (SweatLung, 2006)
  • bonus tracks on the Triffids Born Sandy Devotional re-release (mix only, with Graham Lee) (Liberation, 2006)
  • Hi God People Shortwave Children ep (Shame File, 2006)
  • Julian Williams Skylike Affliction album (assisting Julian), (FTSM 2005)
  • Chris Smith split 12" (with Chris), (Fat Cat, 2005)
  • New Estate self-titled ep (overdubs) (Jacana, 2005)
  • A-Mo Yo Fatties split cd, (mix and master) (Land and Sea, 2004)
  • Deep Country Twelve Cautionary Tales album (with James Dutton) 2004
  • New Estate Considering... album (with Mia Schoen) (W.Minc, 2004)
  • Julian Williams Continuous Antennae album (with Julian), FTSM 2003
  • Chris Smith Plates Shift, on Motion compilation (Preservation, 2003)
  • Geyana Dancey Lovers (Realistic, 2003)
  • Origami Please Exit Quietly album (555, 2002)
  • The Legend I'm not like that (appears on Kill Rock Stars Tracks and Fields compilation 2004)
  • Chris Smith Map Ends cd (Emperor Jones, 2002)
  • Peter Jefferies / Chris Smith single (International Trash, 2000)
    (aka Whatever You Want and Ghostwriter on PJ album Closed Circuit, Emperor Jones 2001 and Grapefruit 2023 )
  • Driving Past Real Estate album (Chapter, 1999)
  • Panel of Judges ep (Chapter, 1999)
  • Jaguar is Jaguar ep (Million to One, 1999)
  • Hi God People Nega cd (Varispeed, 1999)
  • Tracey Reed ep (Chapter, 1999)
  • Driving Past 7" (Chapter, 1998)
  • Solids 7" (FTSM, 1998)
  • Above Ground Pool Red-Green Confuser 7" (FTSM, 1997)
  • Above Ground Pool Bolger Cupcake Dynasty album (Chapter/FTSM, 1996)
  • parts of Dragster self-titled album (Hoppel de Hoy, 1997)
  • parts of 99 767 and self-titled albums (Patsy, 1996-8)
  • parts of v/a Box and Trianti compilation (1996)
  • Clag splits (Endearing, Spit and a Half, 1995)
  • New Waver releases (Spill, 1990-2010)
  • Gatekeepers 12" and 7" (HWS/Spill, 1987, 1990)
recording studio in 2010
later Spill setup, Brunswick, 2010

Remixes

  • Ashtray Boy, VIP 600 and Underwater Conversations on Euro album (Jellyboy, 2003)
  • The Dave Graney Show Too Fast For Love (Cockaigne, 2002)
  • Ukiyo-e South Western (assisting Chris Smith), on experience makes you dumb remix cd (Trifekta, 2003)
  • Above Ground Pool You (unreleased)
  • The Cannanes You Name It on Electro 2000 ep (YoYo, 2000)
  • Huon Getrappel on Disco Square album (555, 2000)
  • Huon Complex on Songs for Lord Tortoise album (Animal World, 1999)
  • Ruff Buff Roosters Lament on These Are Testing Times 7" (555, 1998)