BAILTER SPACE

Robot World

This is the undefined band on the label, and I mean that in the sense that they play 90's music, yet they have no specific postmodern point of reference. Those of you who have listened to their previous records or seen them live know what I mean. A perspective of Dead C. and Bailter Space as the yin and yang bands of New Zealand is so conceptual it makes my head spin, but think about it: Where Dead C. celebrate the randomness of structured noise, Bailter Space celebrate its precision. Both bands build upon textures, but where Dead C. find melodies in the disabled random harmonies of feedback, Bailter Space control those same harmonies with the precision of sonic surgeons.

The Bailter Space musical family tree includes members of the Skeptics, the Clean, the Gordons, and that doesn't even begin to attempt to list the amount of production work drummer Brent McLachlan has under his belt. These three gentlemen are completely entwined with the history of New Zealand music over the latest decade and a half. They are Chris Lombardi's favorite band and you just don't disagree with a person with his encyclopedic knowledge of food and restaurants.

Alister Parker - vocals, guitar, bass
John Halvorsin - bass, guitar, vocals
Brent McLachlan - drums

BAILTER SPACE

Wammo

I'm not selling drugs, Mom, I'm a successful businessman. Say hello to my little friends Bailter Space, they are businessmen, too. They came over in the flotilla from New Zealand when Presidente-for-life Roger Shepard opened the asylums. Since arriving, they've been making dense, thunderous, repetitive and super-powerful rock music over the course of three Matador LP's, not to mention their pioneering work as The Gordons ... now, they categorize themselves as industrial reductionists, and have made their most accessible, song-oriented record since they got thrown out of the Wellington Sound Machine. You will like it, my friend, you will like it very much, or I'm gonna come over to your house and show you the fucking director's cut of "Bobby Deerfield." So, let's do some business, OK?

Sincerely,
Tony Montana

Tanker/Nelsh

Thermos

Domestic reissues of Bailter Space's first three releases, originally issued by Flying Nun circa 1985 1989. "Tanker/Nelsh" combines their debut EP "Nelsh" with their first full-length Tanker. Thermos contains their second full-length album called, that's right, Thermos.

Bailter Space Discography

THE GORDONS
Future Shock 7" (Gordons) 1980; Future Shock 12" (Flying Nun) 1988
The Gordons (Gordons) 1982; (Flying Nun) 1988
Volume 2 (Gordons) 1984
Adults and Children video (Flying Nun/Atavistic) 1991

BAILTER SPACE
Nelsh Bailter Space EP (Flying Nun) 1987
New Man/In a City Wardrobe 7" (FN) 1987
Grader Spader 12" (FN) 1988
Tanker (FN) 1988
Thermos (FN) 1990
The Aim EP (FN/Matador) 1992
The Aim/We Know 7" (Clawfist) 1992
Shine/Unseen 7" (Clawfist) 1992
Robot World (FN/Matador) 1993
BEIP EP (Matador) 1994
Wammo (Matador) 1995