Scattered Order releases
A trainspotter's complete list of Scattered Order releases (to the best of our knowledge). If you know of any others, please send us the details for inclusion.
Career of the silly thing
Klanggalerie
gg460
CD / Download
Tracks: 1000 Gene Autrys; Tost Rust Host; Cut you up; The galaxy is dead; Life on a bed; No mattresses in heaven;
Career of the silly thing; Escape via Cessnock; 4 or 5; Remember May 12th; The little eye;
The entire combine/Capital of Sweden; Loose in the house; Home before the sirens; Hell changes address;
Vacation of a lifetime
The 1985 album Career of the silly thing is now available for the first time on CD/Digital via the Austrian label Klanggalerie. Originally released by Volition Records in Australia and Ink Records in the UK Career of the silly thing represented something of a breakthrough release, revealing a shift towards a more conventional and melodic yet still challenging sound. Available from
Klanggalerie
Release Date: October 2024
Peoples Republic
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE17
Download
Tracks: Boiling Wires; Form; We should go; I see the old man; The silent dark; Dust Bisquits; Mammoth
A live recording of the performance at the People's Republic in Sydney on the 19th May 2024. Jones and Fahey pay tribute to friend and band mate Michael Tee (Coffey) RIP. Available from
bandcamp.
Release Date: June 2024
All things must persist
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE16LP
2 x LP / Download
Tracks: Boiling Wires; Form; It was a Saturday; Need to increase speed; We should go; I see the old man; The silent dark; Dust Bisquits; Mammoth
Originally assembled in chaos and disorder; a collision of 1970?s trippy movie soundtracks; ?you know who? live at Pompeii; lush sounds; jokes; messed up grooves; pianos tinkling in the night; mistakes and bungles; a couple of old canons and drones. An introspective subtly is evident throughout the nine tracks. Scattered Order's most challenging release in 44 years of music creating. The album they have always strived to make. Available from
bandcamp.
Release Date: March 2024
Review: ".... Together these artists combined to produce beauty, noise, humour and strangeness, all of which are instrumental qualities here; three ghosts at play in an abandoned factory. Pianos, synths, guitars, loops, smudged and submerged vocals are performed live, deconstructed and edited back together. Scattered Order just snuck on to a new level of eerie grace." Mark Mordue. Australian Weekend Review
Artefacts from the fuzz mines
Sleepers Records
Compilation
LP
Tracks: Heat; Must reach the control panel; Messing with planets; Frequency; KO OK; Full Metal Rubic; Kapt Kurbain
U.S. compilation vinyl only release. Tracks selected by Sleepers Records. A great introduction to the fuzzed up world of Scattered Order. Available from Sleepers Records
Release Date: July 2023
PRANG
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE15cas
Cassette / Download
Tracks: And then there is revision - Remix; You want to pat them - Remix; Dressed in the shadow of a hat - Remix; Confirm humanity - Remix; Chill Blaine blues - Remix; National Adjustment Scheme - Remix; Third Rail - Remix; He did for him - Remix; Mister Burley meets the Puppy Man - Remix; Rummage - Remix; Alastair Sim and the price of fame - Remix; What will you bring? - Remix; Spinning Cradle - Remix
Mitch Jones totally rebuilds the Everything happens in the beginning and Where is the windy gun? albums. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: June 2023
The Final Transmission
Iceage Productions
Compilation
3 x CD / Download
Tracks: Non Stop
A huge compilation release from Melborne label Iceage Productions containing over 50 Australian and New Zealand acts including Lint, Bonnie Mercer, Constant Light, Browning Mummery, Paul Kidney Experience, Shane Fahey, Distant Locust, A Cloakroom Assembly and many more. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: November 2022
Sashimmy Halloween 2022
Sashimmy
Compilation
Download
Tracks: Anti Freeze (ACRA Remix)
A compilation release from Sashimmy Records U.S.A. containing tracks from Galaxy Fuzz Band, Browning Mummery, Siphonophore and others. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: October 2022
Where is the windy gun?
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE14LP
LP / Download
Tracks: Third Rail; He did for him; Mister Burley meets the Puppy Man; Rummage; Alastair Sim and the price of fame; What will you bring; Spinning Cradle
Recorded remotely during the 2021 Covid lockdown this sees the band continuing their quest for human/machine bliss. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: September 2022
INAUDIBLE SNIFF
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE13USB
USB / Download
Tracks: Messing with Planets; Absolute Moral Icepools; At last you have won; Ticker + Drone; Udub; Boys in Coal Trucks; Trafficeternityleftlegout; Uname, Naked Melody; Claude Stroop; One drowned drone; SO Mufflings; And then there is revision; plus 49 more tracks on USB;
10 years of live recording presented as a 66 track limited edition USB stick with photos, posters, set lists and a collection of album videos from LIVING SCIENCE Dept. packaged in a tin box or a 13 track download. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: May 2022
Everything happened in the beginning
Provenance
PR026
LP / Download
Tracks: And Then There Is Revision; You Want To Pat Them; Dressed In The Shadow Of A Hat; Confirm Humanity; Chill Blaine Blues; National Adjustment Scheme
Recorded in their home studio over a weekend in June 2019, this album combines the spontaneity of live performance and in-the-moment composition with a new poise in production. Some listeners will recognise the spoken and direct vocal style characteristic of some of their earliest work making a welcome reappearance. Above all, this is an album brimming with ideas about how to shift sound forward, something that has been their urgent intention since day one. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: August 2020
Marks of Provenance III
Provenance
PR022
Compilation
Download
Tracks: National Adjustment Scheme.
Marks Of Provenance III features fourteen exclusive tracks of new Australian music, embracing a wide spectrum of genres from avant-pop and psych-folk to modular electronics and new wave experimentalism. All proceeds from the 14-track compilation will go directly to those affected by the Australian bushfire emergency via the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities. The album includes new work from the current Provenance family including Sebastian Field, Aphir, Kris Keogh, Shoeb Ahmad, Ahm, Paneye, Arrom and KAIAR, alongside several new family members, including Saint-Leon, Scattered Order, Broken Chip, Lack the Low, cilt and Youtube yoga.
Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: January 2020
A suitcase full of snow globes
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE12CD
2 x CD / Download
Tracks: Fish Supper; Cyclotrobe; Much reach the control panel; Your father's weird; Before (the art of); Frequence; Pragmaticus; How did you get on last night? Them Bones: Claude Stroop: Where is this island of yours? One drowned drone; After Pudding; Going Up; Leaves on the line; SO Mufflings; History of the Cortina; Kapt Kurbain; Nil attire here; How I hated that man; Skin like Fanta; Trash too;
"Fiction plays out along the bi-ways between cold industrial capital and moorland easy chairs.." 22 tracks covering 105 minutes of sonic glee. Recorded remotely over four months by Jones, Tee and Fahey and mixed in a small fibro box in the mountains HQ. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: August 2017
Closed Circuits
Festival
FEST601051
Compilation
LP / CD / Download
Tracks: A Few Little Shocks;
Australian alternative electronic music of the '70s and '80s with tracks from Whirlyworld, Ya Ya Choral, The Limp, Distant Locust, Voigt/465 and more.
Release Date: July 2017
Full Metal EUROPE
Terrorgraph
V/001
12" EP / Download
Tracks: Full Metal Rubic; Boys in Coal Trucks; Ticker
Recorded live in Europe on the 2012 Planet Scrape tour this record has been remastered for a limited edition vinyl release on the Terrorgraph label. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: October 2016
Magnetophonics
Vinyl on Demand
VOD 144
Compilation
7 x LP Box Set
Tracks: Villa Life; Heat
Massive and comprehensive overview of Australian Underground Music released as Tapes/Cassettes or Vinyl between the late 70s and early to mid 80s. From Browning Mummery to Severed Heads. Available from Vinyl on Demand
Release Date: May 2016
Some men remember music
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE11LP
LP / Download
Tracks: I remember diamonds; Bastard Harry Loop; KO OK; Clip Device Drop Area; What's that in Euros?; 3 2 1 Now; Sqitch; Naked Melody
The first vinyl release for Rather be Vinyl. Creepy soundscape country or a foreign diplomats idea of a condemned retreat. The songs offer an in-depth look at the crack in the glass of self reflection. The bands dark and heavy noise element is inverted where moods come to the surface in furtive fleeting moments primarily through voice samples sticky with thick chugging rhythms. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: January 2016
Extras: 2 bonus download tracks and 2 illustrated inserts with vinyl LP.
A dancing foot and a praying knee still don't belong on the same leg
Klanggalerie
gg196
CD
Tracks: Boys Of Alpha; Greek Airport Now; It's our friends that kill us; A few little shocks; Find girl In Boeing; Villa Life 84; Hugo died In 1972; Average family Average bloodbath; God Is running a book; Good My Lords; Through Fahrenheit: Find girl In Boeing (Live); Greek Airport Now (Live); Villa Life 84 (Live); Bent Up (Live)
First Volition release in 1984, this was originally recorded live in a chicken shed in Wakefield NSW and the Musicians Club, Sydney by Tim Whitten. Now remastered with bonus unreleased tracks for this first time CD release. Available as a CD and digital download from Available from Klanggalerie.
Release Date: November 2015
Bodram Bogota
Iceage Productions
Cassette / Download
Tracks: Bodram Bogota (Radio Mix); Bodram Bogota (Gated Mix)
The sad but inevitable tale of a contract killer trying to escape the city because there is a contract out on him. Little does he know there is a revolution in the jungle where he is running to . . . 36 minutes of transcendental atmospherics. Available from Iceage.
Release Date: October 2015
Puppy Frequencies
Klanggalerie
gg182
CDr / Digital Download
Tracks: Boys In Coal Trucks; Fast Buzztanks; Happy Sampling; Full Metal Rubic; Trafficeternityleftlegout; Udub; Heat; Anewsong; Slot Car Synth; Swiss Like Knives And Forks; Ticker.
Incredibly loud live recording of the November 2012 "Planet Scrape" European tour. Hear the band tear through both old songs and new in this tense and invigorating set. Available as a CDr and digital download from Klanggalerie.
Release Date: August 2013
Planet Scrape
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE10CDr
CDr / Digital Download
Tracks: Uname; Ticker; Fastbuzz Tanks; Happy Sampling; Barbara Cartland in Twisted Fabric of Time; Anti Freeze; Full Metal Rubic; Slow to Steady Mr Tortoise; Thrill of it all.
An album that broods and shimmers in equal parts, sometimes simultaneously. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: April 2013
SLR016
Second Language Records
SLR016
Compilation
Cassette / Download
Tracks: The Artificial Sympathetic Eye.
Collaborative track with Breathing Shrine on a compilation release with Constant Light, Dark Monolith and Seaworthy. Available from bandcamp.
Release Date: November 2012
Odd Din
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE9
Digital Download
Tracks: U Dub; Messing with planets; This here loop; Pick up the nearest wheel; Trafficeternityleftlegout.
This collection of abrasive ditties leaps out of the speakers and caresses the messes in your head. Recorded live during the 2011 tour and then treated by highly skilled process workers back at Megaphon Studios. Available as a free download from bandcamp.
Release Date: December 2011
Danza de Navidad
Klanggalerie
gg162
Compilation
Digital Download
Tracks: Snow Faked.
A Christmas 2011 compilation from Klanggalerie with tracks from Scattered Order, Section 25, Andrew Liles, Mushroom's Patience and others. Most of these were recorded specifically for this release. Contains our ode to all things flakey, Snow Faked.
Release Date: December 2011
Mucky Duck
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE8
Digital Download
Tracks: Ooze n Puss n Pox; Airplane; I see God; Photosynthesise; Dragfoot; Free Sandy Nelson; We love you; Of the stars.
Jones, Robertson, Jones, Doherty recorded live to DAT at The Iron Duke Hotel, Sydney 10th October 1998 by Matt Crosbie. Digital transfer by Shane Fahey 15th September 2011. Available as a free download from bandcamp.
Release Date: September 2011
a solar rush towards a treble heaven
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE7CDr
CDr / Digital Download
Tracks: Babble Fridge; This here loop; April Which; Trafficeternityleftlegout.
With their assembled collection of eccentric sound tools, Jones, Tee and Fahey have fermented another set of dangerous sonic gases: sometimes absurdly pleasant, sometimes scarily abrasive, always multi-layered and certainly hurtling towards a blissful destination. CDr sold out but digital download is available from bandcamp.
Release Date: August 2011
It's behind you
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE6CDr
CDr / Digital Download
Tracks: At last you have won; Messing with planets; Numnumbing; Absolute Moral Icepools; Pick up the nearest wheel; So this is jazz; U Dub.
Jones, Tee and Fahey in a crazed combination of doomed rhythms, fuzzed up bass, dental drill guitars, incomparable synthy looseness and found sounds. CDr sold out but digital download is available from bandcamp.
Release Date: May 2011
41 Pardons
Ascension
ANCD 037
Compilation
2 x CD / Digital Download
Tracks: Tanks; Violent 4; Untitled; This is a song about love; Hold my cold hand; Because they are more difficult; Waiting for you to come home.
2 CD set of rare M Squared material. Taken from the vinyl only release "Pardon me for barging in like this.." Contains tracks from Scattered Order, Systematics, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Patrick Gibson, A Cloakroom assembly, Prod and others.
Available directly from Ascension
Release Date: April 2011
Greenwich means time
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE5
Digital Download
Tracks: Greenwich means time Part A; Greenwich means time Part B
This sees Jones and Tee joined by Shane Fahey in a combination of cassettes, laptop, rhythm box, synthesiser and guitar swirl around in a punchbowl of liquid summer bliss. Recorded live in Greenwich at John Blades' birthday party. Available as a free download from bandcamp.
Release Date: December 2010
Adjust the terminology
Klanggalerie / Rather be Vinyl
gg146
CD / Digital Download
Tracks: Eat at Joes Vs Why; Ruined by me; Viral Rhythm; Astro Pants; Oil and Plank; I want to be in a castle; Rotten Burroughs; Thunk Tank.
It's been a 10 year wait for this new studio recording which finds Jones, Tee and Robertson taking a blow torch to noise / tune conventions in a Happy Trails wig-out on Plague Island. Available as a CD and digital download at Klanggalerie.
Release Date: September 2010
Play Sample: rotten-burroughs.mp3
New Weird Australia, Volume Four
New Weird Australia
NWA004
Compilation
Digital Download
Tracks: Ruined by Me
17 track free download compilation from New Weird Australia. Contains a diverse range of exciting sounds from Australian acts including Paint Your Golden Face, Scissor Lock, Seaworthy, Alpen, Gold Tango and Automating.
Release Date: January 2010
Terrace Industry
Ascension
ANCD 036
Compilation
CD x 4 Box
Tracks: Bent Up; I'm not whole; Pilot reads crosswords; The Learn Useless Knowing; Wronging Dogs with Ladders; Hold My Cold Hand; Heat; Personal Safety; Yellow Suit Weighing Machine.
4 CD box set of the original M Squared vinyl and cassette releases. Completely remastered, this treasure trove contains tracks from Scattered Order, Systematics, The Dead Travel Fast, A Cloakroom Assembly, Patrick Gibson, Height / Dismay, Prod and others. Available directly from Ascension
Release Date: January 2010
Prat Culture Plus
Klanggalerie
gg134
CD
Tracks: Slot Car Synth; Swiss like knives and forks; Absolute Moral Icepools; Contact European Repetition; Frank Sartre; Koo Koo Kamus; Prat Culture; Boys in Coal Trucks; Burros through Mexico; World's longest intro; Mass Murder; Screaming Tree; Through Litre Chase; World's longest intro (2JJ Mix); Screaming Tree (Live '81); Koo Koo Kamus (Live '82); Boys in Coal Trucks (Live '82).
The "Prat Culture" LP and "Screaming Tree" EP completely remastered for this limited edition CD release. Available as a CD and digital download at Klanggalerie
Release Date: September 2009
SO
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE4CDr
CDr
Tracks: Slot Car Synth; Astro Pants; Where To Land; Koo Koo Kamus; Art Delay; Viral Rhythm; Heat; Born To Go.
Scattered Order Mk 1, Jones and Tee deliver a reversed engineered monster from old songs and new. Recorded live at the CAD Factory, Megaphon Studios and a fibro room in the Blue Mountains, March, June and July 2009.
Release Date: September 2009
Play Sample: slot-car-synth.mp3
Pardon me for barging in like this
Vinyl on Demand
VOD 62
Compilation
5 x LP Box Set
Tracks: Tanks; Violent 4; Fun; Untitled; Still Happily; What / Not now; Greek Airport '80; This is a song about love; Count your blessings; Hold my cold hand; Giant; Waiting for you to come home; Teenage romance; Because they are more difficult; Last one / Another song; Motionless; Blood is your blood; Star star delta.
Unique 5 LP box set of rare M Squared recordings from Scattered Order, Systematics, The Dead Travel Fast, A Cloakroom Assembly, Patrick Gibson, Height / Dismay, Prod and others. Remastered from original sources by William Bowden. Available from Vinyl on Demand
Release Date: May 2009
Extras: 10" EP -initial copies, Optional T Shirt
Can't Stop It! 2
Chapter Music
CD CH57
Compilation
CD
Tracks: Swiss Like Knives and Forks.
Late 70s / early 80s Australian post-punk compilation with Systematics, Ya Ya Choral, SoliPsiK, Severed Heads and others. Contains the original "Prat Culture" mix of this Euro-centric stage favourite.
Release Date: March 2007
Pretty Boffins
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE3cd
CD
Tracks: Who Lives in the Other One?; Drought Crumbs; We Love You; Nuvo Gunk; Limbo Scuffy; Chop in the Whole; I see God; Alice and Ailie; Photosynthesise; Left Without My Tie.
Recorded at Dogbox Studio Sydney by the band and Dale Moore during 1999. Tim Whitten was called in to make sense of this end of the 90s noise mountain. Now available as a digital download at bandcamp.
Release Date: December 1999
Play Sample: photosynthesise.mp3
Free Sandy Nelson / Brother Number 1
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE2cas
Cassette
Tracks: Free Sandy Nelson; Brother Number 1.
A numbered, limited edition cassette single release. Seen live in both Melbourne and Sydney throughout 1998 Jones, Robertson, Jones and Doherty deliver a sonic stew of samples and swing. Recorded and mixed at Dogbox Studio by Matt Crosbie and the band.
Release Date: March 1998
Extras: matching manchester (Pol Pot tea towel)
Play Sample: free-sandy-nelson.mp3
Asleep in the Knife Drawer
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE2cd
CD
Tracks: Airplane; Vitamin Shape; Euroyeah; Night Home; Robert Mitchum Takes The A Train; Cough; Throw; Goal; Locomotivo Darlin; Mary Flies Below.
This was recorded in 1992 in a lounge room in the Blue Mountains and mixed by Tim Whitten in a lounge room in Sydney for "Rather be Vinyl" but released through Tom Ellard's Sevcom five years later. These were Geoff Holmes' last recordings with the band. Now available as a digital download at bandcamp.
Release Date: May 1997
Chicken Hilton
Rather be Vinyl
PTOOIE1cd
CD
Tracks: It Wobbles; Wave To Brian; Pipeline; Eeek; History of Reverb; Airplane (Sheriff Lindo remix); Jose Whale; Moth; Of The Stars; 66 Stab Wounds.
Feel threatened by this cold and dank CD release for the "Rather be Vinyl" label. Recorded in the Blue Mountains during the winter of 1996. Introducing Paul Doherty (The Johnnys) on guitar. Now available as a CD and digital download at bandcamp.
Release Date: April 1997
Play Sample: of-the-stars.mp3
Review: "Scattered Order have redefined themselves as electronic untouchables... Mostly though, this disc stuns, or perhaps repulses, with the depth of its individuality. We need music like this to remind us that there really are alternatives." John Encarnacao Sydney Morning Herald Sept 19 1997
Sheer / Lotus Killers
Volition
Promotion
12 inch Single
Tracks: Sheer (Tom Ellard remix); Lotus Killers (Tom Ellard remix).
Two tracks from the "Professional Deadball" CD given a complete Tom Ellard (Severed Heads) sonic make-over. A very limited release, this 12 inch single was given away at the Annadale Hotel show in February 1993.
Release Date: February 1993
High
Volition
VOLT CD 88
Compilation
2 x CD
Tracks: Sheer (Tom Ellard remix).
A double CD dance compilation of Volition acts. This was the band's last release for Volition Records. In an attempt to attract a "dance" audience, Tom Ellard was given the remix task. This is the same mix as the 12 inch promotional single.
Release Date: August 1992
Professional Deadball
Volition
VOLT CD 41
CD
Tracks: Sheer; Doggone; Amarakbar; More Allure; Bet You Wouldn't Live In...; Fire Girl; Lotus Killers; Grid Up; Contaminated; Thief's Dust; Gaygroups; I Smell Meat; 2 x 4; This is Plunger; Cannibaloop.
Scattered Order's first CD release is an intense offering of samples, guitar and noise. Recorded at Megaphon Studio and various lounge rooms across Sydney during 1990 and 1991. Now available as a digital download at bandcamp.
Release Date: November 1991
Review: "Mitch Jones' dry, flat, rough little voice is rarely prominent enough to be understood as easily as the thousand other sounds and the hundred broken beats. He does quite clearly say 'If you can't stand the darkness get out of the shade' and a similar warning is owed to the potential buyer of this CD only album." Colin Ink Drum Media Dec 17 1991
The New Wave Complex - Volume 1
New Wave Complex
NWC 01
Compilation
CDr
Tracks: Heat;
An unofficial compilation release from
Germany. Not sure of exact release date or version of Heat
Release Date: March 1990
Total Beat Factor
Big Noise in Archgate
BNIA THREE
Compilation
10 inch EP
Tracks: Escape via Cessnock;
Compilation vinyl release with Portion
Control and Front Line Assembly. Contains
the 12 inch mix of Cessnock.
Release Date: May 1988
King of Blip
Volition
VOLT 12
7 inch EP
Tracks: King of Blip; Comfort 5 Range; Love is Not.
A 7 inch EP with the A side "King of Blip" from the "Comfort" LP. "Comfort 5 Range" and "Love is Not" are from the same sessions but not on the LP. Jones, Robertson, Jones and Holmes with the help from both Rob Souter and Greg Fitzgerald on drums
Release Date: April 1988
Review: "One of the few genuinely innovative idea groups this country is offering lately. They toy with environments, unusual blends of sounds and jarring dynamics ..." Al Webb Juke April 23 1988
Comfort
Volition
VOLT 14
2 x 12 inch LP
Tracks: Absolute Moral Icepools; Koo Koo Kamus; The Pilot Reads Crosswords; Heat; A few Little Shocks; Find Girl in Boeing; Remember May 12th; Loose in the House; Texas; King of Blip; Mother's Dish; Saturday; Chicken; 50,000 Volts; Lunchtime for Lungfish; Clockdog.
A double 12 inch LP. One LP of new material and one a compilation of selected older tracks.
Release Date: April 1988
Review: "Comfort shows Scattered Order still chancing it, still hungry for ideas, as resilient, ungainly and endearing as ever." Mark Carey RAM July 13 1988
Selling the Axe to Buy the Wood
Volition
VOLT 8
12 inch EP
Tracks: Loose in the House; Home Before the Sirens; Hell Changes Address; Vacation of a Lifetime.
The loss of Scott Holmes but the gain of Geoff Holmes (X) guitar is evident on this 12 inch EP release. This was Michael Prowse's last hurrah with the band.
Release Date: September 1987
Review: "An interesting four track EP, one that touches base with the variety of styles that form the Order's curriculum vitae - ranging from heavy metal to atonal experimentation....... makes it almost worth selling the stereo to buy the record." Andrew Johnson RAM July 29 1987
Escape via Cessnock
Ink UK
INK 1217
12 inch EP
Tracks: Escape Via Cessnock; Heat; Knife Perpendicular; Swiss Like Knives and Forks (Live); Mass Murder (Live).
A 12 inch EP, UK only release. Also contains "Knife Perpendicular" from the "I feel.." sessions and live recordings of "Swiss Like Knives and Forks" and "Mass Murder" (new versions).
Release Date: February 1986
Review: "Rough is not a swear-word in their book and they roam through a random mess of rhythm scrapes, instilled with antipodean saltiness. Scintillating stuff." Jonh Wilde Sounds Feb 22 1986
Career of the Silly Thing
Ink UK
INK 017
12 inch LP
Tracks: 1,000 Gene Autrys; Tost Rust Host; Cut You Up; The Galaxy is Dead; Life on a Bed; No Mattresses in Heaven; Career of the Silly Thing; Escape Via Cessnock; 4 Or 5; Remember May 12th; The Little Eye; The Entire Combine/Capital of Sweden.
Jones, Prowse, Robertson, Holmes and Jones. Same track listing as the Volition release.
Release Date: February 1986
Review: "Here are a dozen tunes wrapped around a crucial bass line core with monotone vocals casually draped over the musical body, almost as an afterthought. The more identifiable as a song a track is, the greater the achievement: ....the somnolent synths of No Mattresses in Heaven and the insistent bass throb of Escape via Cessnock are therefore the high points of a carefully balanced record." Andy Hurt Sounds March 22 1986
Escape via Cessnock
Volition
VOLT 4
7 inch Single
Tracks: Escape Via Cessnock; 1,000 Gene Autrys.
A rollicking good time was had by all with this 7 inch single remix from the "Career of the Silly Thing" LP. Tape loops and nervous energy collide with Scattered Order's own take on the lament of the cowboy.
Release Date: January 1986
Career of the Silly Thing
Volition
VOLT 2
12 inch LP
Tracks: 1,000 Gene Autrys; Tost Rust Host; Cut You Up; The Galaxy is Dead; Life on a Bed; No Mattresses in Heaven; Career of the Silly Thing; Escape Via Cessnock; 4 Or 5; Remember May 12th; The Little Eye; The Entire Combine/Capital of Sweden.
A Tim Whitten production recorded at Electric Avenue Studio, Sydney. No Shane Fahey as band is reduced to a 5 piece.
Release Date: October 1985
Review: "Scattered Order have produced their most cohesive work to date, one of concision yet also of spontaneity and adventurousness. This is lean music with a smooth, hard surface, but not without dips and curves." Clinton Walker 1985
A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg
Volition
VOLT 1
12 inch EP
Tracks: Boys of Alpha; Greek Airport Now; It's Our Friends That Kill Us; A Few Little Shocks; Find Girl in Boeing; Villa Life 84; Hugo Died in 1972.
First Volition release, recorded live in a chicken shed and the Musicians Club by Tim Whitten. Now with DC Robertson (Prod) Bass, Scott Holmes (The Same) Guitar and Drusilla Jones (Height Dismay) Keyboards.
Release Date: May 1984
Review: "A Dancing Foot attacks you. It harnesses and legitimises cacophony. It plays with jangling, exposed nerves, but it plays a game where there are no winners. And a Praying Knee brings no consolation." Jon Casimir RAM Aug 17 1984
I feel so relaxed with you
M Squared
M2024
12 inch EP
Tracks: The Pilot Reads Crosswords; The Learn Useless Knowing; Wronging Dogs with Ladders; Hold My Cold Hand; Heat; Personal Safety; Yellow Suit Weighing Machine.
Jones and Prowse are joined by Shane Fahey (Dead Travel Fast) Keyboards on this introspective M Squared swan song.
Release Date: September 1983
Review: "...is a moody assault, heavy metal pared down to savage strands of claustrophobia and black humour.... 'Heat' is especially potent , the building tension broken and magnified by a shocking surge of guitar that could be called a 'lead' if more traditionally conceived." Mark Mordue RAM March 16 1984
Prat Culture
M Squared
M2020
12 inch EP
Tracks: Slot Car Synth; Swiss Like Knives and Forks; Absolute Moral Icepools; Contact European Repetition; Frank Sartre; Koo Koo Kamus; Prat Culture; Boys in Coal Trucks; Burros Through Mexico.
Jones, Tee, Gibson and Prowse recorded at the Basement Studio Brisbane during the "Finally, Ultimately Tour" in Feb 82 and live at the Sydney Trade Union Club. Mixed at M Squared.
Release Date: November 1982
Review: "Prat Culture is an aggressive affair where electronic and contemporary guitar based-music are fused into a powerful, melodic soundscape." Sounds Oct 15 1983
Entrave et Etouffement
L'Invitation au Suicide
INV0400
Compilation
2 x 10 inch EP
Tracks: Bent Up; Mass Murder; I'm Not Whole.
A French M Squared compilation consisting of 2 x 10" EPs. Released in Europe as a limited edition of 4500. Jones, Tee and Gibson plunder tracks from "Growing Pains", "Screaming Tree" and " A Selection".
Release Date: April 1982
Boxed Brownies
M Squared
M200C5
Compilation
Cassette
Tracks: Screaming Tree (Live); World's Longest Intro (Live); Mass Murder (Live).
Live cassette compilation (released in a 7 inch tape box) with Systematics, Dead Travel Fast and Splendid Mess. The band's only 2 shows with this lineup. Jones, Tee and Gibson with Michael Prowse (Prod) Drums, DC Robertson (Prod) Bass and Michael Filewood (Systematics) Guitar.
Release Date: December 1981
A Selection
M Squared
M2010
Compilation
12 inch LP
Tracks: I'm Not Whole.
On this M Squared compilation (Christmas 1981), 12 inch LP Jones, Tee and Gibson deliver a sad but noisy tale about "man". This was recorded on 4 track very late at night in 1980 at the M Squared Studio. Michael Tee on vocals.
Release Date: November 1981
Screaming Tree
M Squared
M2008
7 inch EP
Tracks: World's Longest Intro; Mass Murder; Screaming Tree; Through Litre Chase.
The first dedicated Scattered Order release. Material was recorded between December 1979 and May 1980 at the M Squared Studio. Jones, Tee and Gibson are joined by Simon Vidale (Numbers) Drums.
Release Date: May 1981
More Songs That Will Never Be Released
M Squared
M200C2
Compilation
Cassette
Tracks: Teenage Romance; Violent 4.
Jones, Tee and Gibson deliver "Violent 4", a song about large men in Fiats and "Teenage Romance", a song about small boys with no girlfriends. A very special M Squared (Christmas 1980) cassette release with only 50 copies made.
Release Date: December 1980
Growing Pains
M Squared
M2003
Compilation
12 inch EP
Tracks: Bent Up.
Mitchell Jones, Michael Tee and Patrick Gibson (Systematics) reveal their true intent with this ode to mag wheels. Recorded on 4 track at M Squared Studio one winter's night. Patrick Gibson is the man with the lungs.
Release Date: October 1980
