Tag Archives: 1986 in Melbourne

The Australian neo-prog outfit Aragon has combined the ambitions of progressive rock using the instrumentation of modern pop. Documenting three albums well worth of idea materials in the 1990s that presented epic songs and intellectual lyrics, Aragon’s keyboard-led audio can be dominated by drum devices and sequenced bass parts. Aragon …

Australian rapper Illy defied the “haters” to create resolutely industrial, pop-influenced hip-hop that eventually snagged him a major-label deal and lots one album. Created Alasdair Murray on Sept 6, 1986 and raised in the beachfront Melbourne suburb of Frankston, Illy was a teenage tearaway who hardly scraped through college. He …