SPILL music

Studio

The Spill studio supports affordable production of independent music. We've worked on about 350 releases by Australian and international artists and labels: see list below and article at Tape Op.

The early Spill studio used an eight-track reel-to-reel tape deck and mixed to cassette and DAT. In the late 90s we shifted to computer-based recording and mastering. We currently use:

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

Analog-to-digital transfer is via an electrically-shielded sound card that samples at 24-bit/96 Khz and can receive digital input from DAT players, which is particularly useful for remastering old recordings.

Spill 8-track (90s)
Greg with 90s-era 8-track

Work Done

Mastering

2023

  • Julian Williams Twelve Stages album (for release in early 2024)
  • The Frustrations Half-Arsed Diaspora album

    • 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)