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Poota

CD: Poota - Bits.
Release: December 2001.
label:KETTLE [POO03]
10 tracks. Time: 47:57
Following the success of 'Chunks', 'Bits' was pre-planned as another retrospective of `Poota', but this release was a fresh remix of the entire year that was 1998. The track names where a play on the orginal material that they came from. All Remixing produced by Lloyd Barrett.

1) No one will find us here. [4:42]
2) Birth. [2:01]
3) Carnal. [3:15]
4) Only the basement remains. [6:44]
5) Ghoul Ash. [5:24]
6) Spoon. [4:04]
7) Delerium. [4:47]
8) Sow. [4:31]
9) Death Rattle. [1:27]
10) Dreaming of unravelling the quilt of desire. [10:28]

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mini- CD: Poota - Chunks.
Release: December 2000.
label:KETTLE [POO01]
5 tracks. Time: 20:35
A retrospective of `Poota', a 4 year collaboration between Lloyd Barrett & Andrew Kettle.
Chunks is the amalgamation of the best material from 1998. Each track is a deep collage of recorded material both live and studio work. The first official Poota release.

1) Chunks. Track 1. [3:27]
2) Chunks. Track 2. [4:02]
3) Chunks. Track 3. [3:15]
4) Chunks. Track 4. [4:42]
5) Chunks. Track 5. [5:03]

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minidisc: Poota - Tattwa Meditations..
Release: 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
5 tracks & remix. Time: 1:22:44
Meditational music to contemplate the ancient Tattwa Symbols. Each 10 minute track is one of the symbols and the album migrates 'up' the tattwa consciousness. Instruments and style where decided upon with respect to the symbol being honoured. The remix was created in 2000.

1) Tattwa Meditation 1 - Prithivi - Earth. [9:54]
2) Tattwa Meditation 2 - Apas - Water. [10:04]
3) Tattwa Meditation 3 - Vayu - Air [10:11]
4) Tattwa Meditation 4 - Tejas - Fire. [10:59]
5) Tattwa Meditation 5 - Akasha - Spirit. [10:59]
6) Tattwa Meditation - Remixed 2000. [31:29]

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minidisc: Poota - The World You Never See..
Release: 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
10 tracks. Time: 58:16
A complete unediting studio recording by Poota from 1998. The story goes like this... Andrew Kettle and Lloyd Barrett had finished studio work for the day and decided to hire a video. Choosing something 'silly' to watch while listening back to the days' recordings, 'The World You Never See', A BBC nature documentary was hired... so many sychonicities existed between the two productions that it was decided that the recording was in fact the 'alternative' soundtrack to the documentary and hence the name.

1) Gn Gt Fkd. [2:51]
2) Microscopic World. [3:25]
3) Burrowing Insect [3:25]
4) Trout. [7:30]
5) Underwear in a train station. [4:55]
6) Black mirrors in space. [8:29]
7) Phallus Deli. [7:05]
8) Scraping the sky with fingertips [10:48]
9) An Urgent Track. [4:19]
10) Finding Something Missing. [8:32]
11) Gotta Go Gotta Get Gogo. [3:13]

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minidisc: Poota - What can I say?.
Release: 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
10 tracks. Time: 51:01
After the success and supportive reception of Poota's first demo a second collection of the personal best selections was compiled of further studio experimentation and explorations with sound, primarily around 1998. 1998 was a very prolific year for Poota and considered the first 'Golden Age' of Poota when both Andrew Kettle and Lloyd Barrett lived in the same city, Brisbane. This compilation contrained extracts from 'The World You Never See' soundtrack.

1) Beat my Humm. [4:43]
2) Why! It's paper thin! [5:05]
3) Father's Day. [1:53]
4) Memory Fades. [5:05]
5) Bad Drug [3:31]
6) A Genetic Journey Through Several Species. [3:41]
7) Electronic Pool Swimming Remedial Class. [12:44]
8) Microscopic World [3:25]
9) Burrowing Insect. [3:25]
10) Trout. [7:29]

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minidisc: Poota - 1st Demo.
Release: 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
12 tracks. Time: 58:16
A collection of the personal best selections of over 24 hours of `Poota' studio experimentation and explorations with sound, primarily from 1996-1998. This minidisc hit the 4ZZZ Weekly Top 5 twice in 1998.

1) Landing. [6:14]
2) The Earth that Fell to Man. [4:40]
3) cat-front-television. [3:39]
4) Sterio. [1:07]
5) Stab me while I F**k you. [12:24]
6) Come find me. [6:35]
7) Zonal Breeding. [4:51]
8) Hot Cone Hits Throat [2:54]
9) Answer. [1:08]
10) Droid surviellence. [5:23]
11) Intra Venus. [7:43]
12) Gimp. [1:38]

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LIVE Recording: CD: Deviations Live:Brainlego/ Poota /Vynal Anus
Artists:Poota=L.Barrett(Brainlego)+A.Kettle(Vynal Anus).
Recorded: 14 November, 1998.
Release: December 1998.
Label: Atmospheric Disturbances.
14 tracks Live recording (14/11/98) Time: 43:00
Scouts into the cut & paste territory, these savages return with more victims from the mass media and corporate enemy. A swirling kaotic collage of sounds conclude in an aftermath of drone. This was the first live performance of Poota.

1) Live 01 (Brainlego). [3:55]
2) Live 02 (Brainlego). [1:20]
3) Live 03 (Brainlego). [4:20]
4) Live 04 (Brainlego). [3:47]
5) Live 05 (Brainlego). [2:11]
6) Live 06 (Poota). [4:13]
7) Live 07 (Poota). [2:53]
8) Live 08 (Poota) [2:59]
9) Live 09 (Poota). [4:49]
10) Live 10 (Kettle). [1:17]
11) Live 11 (Kettle). [1:16]
12) Live 12 (Kettle). [1:51]
13) Live 13 (Kettle). [6:49]
14) Live 14 (Kettle). [1:03]

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LIVE recording: Poota - Garden of Earthly Delights - Winter Solstice Celebration..
Recorded: 19 June, 1999.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
4 tracks. Time: 48:55
A complete unediting Live recording by Poota from 1999, performing at the Northey Street City Garden's Winter Solstice Celebration, 19th June 1999.

1) dub. [12:28]
2) Feeding Ibis. [0:35]
3) Sex & Zen [4:12]
4) The Winter Solstice. [31:40]

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LIVE recording: Poota - Live 2 Air - 4ZZZ fm102.1, Brisbane..
Recorded: 9 November, 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
6 tracks. Time: 1:12:28
A complete unediting Live recording by Poota from 1998, performing at the Community Radio Studio's of 4ZZZ fm102.1, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane on the 9 November, 1998.

1) Live 01. [13:20]
2) Live 02. [14:47]
3) Live 03 [17:42]
4) Live 04 [10:33]
5) Live 05 [8:22]
6) Live 06. [7:36]

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LIVE recording: Poota - Beautiful Noise #2, Logan..
Recorded: 8 August, 1998.
label:KETTLE [POO02]
1 tracks. Time: 63:41
A complete unediting Live recording by Poota from 1998, performing at Beautiful Noise #2, Logan,on the 8 August, 1998.

1) Beautiful Noise #2 [63:41]

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