Modular Recordings

One was Fellaheen, who released cool but obscure records that were almost deliberately hard to find.

And the second was Modular Recordings, at the end of the decade, who took some big swings.

Both labels involved Steve Pavlovich.

Welcome to Just Ace, a podcast about the 90s Australian alternative music scene, whatever the hell that means.

This week we look at Feliheen and Modular and the artists that fell into Steve Pavlovich's orbit.

If you've not been paying attention, we've met Pav before.

In the Big Day Out episode, the Half a Cow episode, and notably the Festivals episode.

This time, they would be looking to have big records.

really could not shake this love of creating music.

So on the day he was on his way to his final astronomy exam, he got a phone call from someone from Modular Recordings and they were like, hey, we want to sign your band.

So he literally turned the car around, drove home, skipped the exam and started making more music that day.

Wow.

After playing in bands around Perth in his teens, Kevin launched Tame Impala in 2007 as a home recording project.

Signing to Modular Records in 2008, he formed a touring band to perform the tracks live ahead of releasing his acclaimed debut album Innerspeaker in 2010.

By the time his Grammy-nominated second album Lonerism appeared in 2012, Tame Impala had become a huge critical and commercial success.

While releasing the albums Currents in 2015 and The Slow Rush in 2020, Kevin has also shared his talents as a performer and as a producer with artists including Justice, Gorillaz, Thundercat, and Dua Lipa.