Get all 23 Fringe Benefit Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Fringe Benefits 1977-1985, Devils and Angels, Kicking As Art Form, Rainy Season Music, Gurus Are Fucked, Genuine Tape Stories, Dutch Trumpet Music, The Last Waltz, and 15 more.
Fringe Benefit Records Sydney, Australia
Fringe Benefit Records was set up in 1977 by Jon Rose as a tape library of Australian improvised music. By the time of the final release in 1985, more than 50 cassettes and more than a dozen LPs had been released. This site now exists to digitise and bring those releases to a new audience, beginning with the compilation double CD released on Entropy Stereo Recordings in Michigan in 1998... ... more
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