Gus Till / Rainsong / Second Circle

I’ve got no idea how Second Circle found this track, but I’m so glad they did. Gus Till’s “Rainsong” was originally released in 2006, on a CD only compilation, titled “Tribal Matrix”, on the tiny Tokyo-based independent imprint Dakini Records. A label run by Giovanni Fazio, whose reggae and dub work, as Mayko, Ban Ban Ton Ton briefly covered recently. Till is an Australian musician, who’s been making music since punk first hit Melbourne. Amongst many, many other things, Till worked on the score for the film “Dogs In Space”, which documented the city’s post-punk scene, and, moving into dance in the late `80s, collaborated with Ollie Olsen and Michael Hutchence on the chart-topping Max Q project. Assuming the alias Third Eye, he and Olsen then experimented with psychedelic electronica, and were around for the start of Goa Trance. Relocating to London, Till became the in-house engineer for Ian St Paul and Youth’s Dragonfly Records and Butterfly Studios. He still, prolifically, produces…