Whaddya mean you don't know Steve Maxwell Von Braund

Andy Votel's mix of Steve Maxwell Von Braund's twisted "Monster Planet" appears on the Monster Skies comp. 

Various Artists – Monster Skies (Finders Keepers/Dual Planet)

Finders Keepers recently announced the birth of a new collaborative series of comps and reissues with the brains behind the awe inspiring Australian based Roundtable/Dual Planet archival labels who for the last few years have continued to blow our minds with recent releases by Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Cybotron, Teisco and Egisto Macchi amongst others.

On the 14-track Monster Skies compilation LP there are unheard and exclusive tracks from some of the aforementioned luminaries rubbing shoulders with fresh new finds unearthed from the vintage vaults of some of Finders Keepers most celebrated patchbay polymaths such as Suzanne Ciani, Andrzej Korzynski and the lost Alaskan synthesists Clone and mysterious saxophone playing Australian synthesist Steve Maxwell Von Braund who somehow managed to convince celebrated Masters Apprentices frontman Jim Keays of to voice his apocalyptic vision "Monster Planet" back in 1975.

As a further testimony to Finders Keepers ongoing collaborations with enthusiastic and likeminded detective labels, this lost pop cultural exchange literally spans the entire length and width of the globe to bring you more untravelled and unreleased mutant strains of 60s/70s/80s vintage voltage pop, electronic rock, malformed tape music and zombified funk punk.

Monster Skies pools the resources of two of the most unique and studious vinyl snoop-units and plummets the lost vaults, damp cellars and dark corners of this alternative musical universe from either side of the pear-shaped planet. Check out Steve Maxwell Von Braund's aforementioned electro-psych curio "Monster Planet" followed by the track list for Monster Skies.



Monster Skies
1. Clone – Mind Script
2. Suzanne Ciani – Shrinking Particles
3. Teisco – Mutazione
4. Steve Maxwell Von Braund – Monter Planet (Andy Votel Edit)
5. Lucien Goethals – Studie 2
6. Don Harper – The Ghouls
7. Philippe D’Aram – Bizarre Cult 2
8. Andrzej Korzynski – Zombie
9. Val Stephan – Abstractum
10. Clone –  Halloween (Edit)
11. The Ultra Sonic Perception – The Laboratory 2
12. X Ray Pop – The Living Dead
13. Emerald Web – The Raven
14. Ian Macfarlane – Muzak To Moralise By