‘Closed Circuits’ features detailed liner notes and track-by-track commentary by Nichols as well as an original design by Michael Trudgeon, the graphic designer for the seminal Melbourne ‘80s cassette fanzine ‘Fast Forward’ (which was a vital outlet for this music back in the day), as well as numerous images.
‘Closed Circuits’ provides a unique and invaluable look at the specifically Australian beginnings of key elements of the music of the 80s: music that is more popular and examined more closely now than at any time since it was originally made.
TRACKLISTING
1 The Metronomes - A Circuit Like Me
2 The Reels – Shout and Deliver
3 Informatics - Great X-1
4 Jules - Rock Rock Daddy
5 Bring Philip - Fire Truck
6 Anne Cessna and Essendon Airport- Talking To Cleopatra
7 German Humour - A Young Man's Old Girlfriend
8 Models - On (Original 7” Mix)
9 And An A – Affirmation
10 Voigt/465 – Imprint
11 Whirlywirld - Window To The World
12 Ya Ya Choral - Waiting Time
13 The Dugites - Waiting
14 Karen Marks - Cold Café
15 The Limp - Outer Space Moth
16 Asphixiation - L'Acrostique D'Amour
17 Machinations - Average Inadequacy (Original Version)
18 Scattered Order - A Few Little Shocks
19 Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle (1987 Sydney Disco Mix)
20 Distant Locust - I Feel Love