Words with: Kisses Buh-Byeee

Kisses Buh-Byeee was a low-key duo made of Samuel Acres and Tony Reade, existing in Melbourne half a decade ago. Made from cold synthesisers, minimal drum machines and Tony's downcast lyrics/vocals, Samuel has recently decided to let loose the sole Kisses Buh-Byeee album as a free digital download on the internet. Violence is that album - a four year old lost treasure, now finally finding its place on scattered Australian iPods.

I recently had a small chat with Samuel Acres, who most probably know as the synth third of the original Drunk Elk line-up/album.

Review: Clones and Clones - Hobart+Melbourne (Compilation)

Over the past year, there has been a surge in the documentation of Hobart music.

Whether it is with the intention of exposing local artists or the making of an archival

artefact, recent compilations such as Community, Melodica, Three Minutes In A Carpark and the annual (but still mostly irrelevant) Amplified have all more or less focused on particular genres or aspects of the Hobart music scene. Community featured the cusp of an indie-rock/pop underground, Melodica had folk, Three Minutes In A Carpark with noise music, and Amplified with 'commercially viable/commercially produced' songs.

The first release from local blog/label Clones and Clones bucks this trend, not through an attempt at covering different genres (as all of these tracks could easily slip into another Community), but through its pairing of Hobart artists with Melbourne artists. It's a cross-city compilation that mixes tracks from five Hobart bands alongside songs from five Melbourne groups. While Hobart + Melbourne puts the two cities shoulder-to-shoulder, it is less of a statement on the relationship between two music scenes and more a group of bands who share either social ties or live bills.