Various

Oz Echoes opens a portal into Australia’s shadowy underground — a decade of post-punk dreamers, synth explorers, and bedroom philosophers who recorded their truths on hissy cassette tape. This compilation from Efficient Space resurrects a scene that existed in the cracks: mail-order labels, radio experiments, kitchen studios lit by CRT glow.

From wiry minimal wave sketches to ghostly pop abstractions, each track hums with a fragile urgency — music made with no audience in mind, yet burning with unfiltered creativity. These are the transmissions of outsiders building their own worlds, equal parts loneliness and liberation.

It’s not nostalgia; it’s archaeology of feeling. Oz Echoes captures the texture of isolation, invention, and stubborn beauty that defined the Australian DIY underground — rough edges, cracked tape, and all.