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LOW LIFE - Dogging

Dogging crawled into the world desperately and painfully. Originally slated for release on Brisbanes singular Negative Guest List Records in 2012, the labels owner sadly passed away before it got there. It eventually emerged two years later as a split between two labels from the bands home turf of Sydney, Disinfect Records and R.I.P. Society. Its fitting that the latter had reissued Venom P. Stingers Dugald McKenzie-era material the year prior -- arguably the only other Australian band that compares to the tough, shit-kicking intensity found on Dogging. Comprised of Mitch Tolman, Cristian OSullivan, and Greg Alfaro at this point (the current 2017 line-up includes Dizzy from Oily Boys), the reckless ferocity and defeatists humor is pointedly nihilistic. Its not kitsch nihilism either, its the kind that enlivens. Indexing happiness, fear, lust, grief, and sorrow, the wry indulgences outlined in Tolmans coded and scheming lyrics amount to white-knuckle sincerity. Its disarming, but its blunted by a weighty smirk. If all this werent delivered through a sardonic curled lip, the violence at the edge of it all would perhaps come off a little less real. Theres a bitterly angry confrontation with the contemporary Australian psyche once you enter Low Lifes estate. Thugged-out and at pace, theres a genuine rush to Dogging. The mindless logic of harder and faster" could never get you to where they were at this point. Even at the marginally calmer moments, the guitars glance you like a headache revealing just how bad it is. Theres no respite, but on the whole, its a very functional arrangement between the three of them. Each song is belted out with a short, sharp fit, with some synthesizers occasionally glistening out at the edges. The restraint is all the more fierce as it amplifies everything thats fucked about them. Low Life pull you through it all on all their terms, and that impact feels as untimely and excessive now as it did then." - Alter.

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After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.

This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).

Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.

Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.

Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

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