X WAY VISION

If you can spare 8 bucks and are in Wellington it'd be worth checking out the Film Archive tonight at 7pm. X WAY VISION is a 50 minute collection of rare performances from bands off Xpressway Records from Dunedin in the late '80s early '90s. The label was formed by experimental musician Bruce Russell to release noise music that would not fit the mainstream New Zealand mould.

"He established the Xpressway record label, which was active from 1985 until the early 1990s, releasing mostly cassettes and a few records. Russell then founded the Corpus Hermeticum record label. Xpressway released only music by New Zealanders, usually song-based. Corpus Hermeticum releases, in contrast, may feature New Zealand or international artists, and they eschew song forms in favor of free-form, experimental, usually improvised sounds." (WIKI)