Welcome to Australian Music Monolith

Why the different colored Dots?

When the coloured dots are next to links they tell you whether or not the link is 'Australian'.

	Links with Blue Dots preceding them lead to Australian Sites or Sites with Australian Content.
	Links with Red Dots preceding them are links to sites other than ones we consider to be Australian.

Screen Width

To get the most out of the Monolith you should set your Browser's width so that you can neatly fit in the all the horizontal lines on this page however it will still work if your browser can't do that.

Who put the Monolith here and Why?

Who

Musicians Contact Service is a Music Industry Consultancy in Brisbane Australia who created the Monolith. Musicians Contact Service provide a placement service for Bands and Musicians as well as Management & Marketing consultancy services for Artists, Managers and Record Labels.

Why

Back in August 1995 there were a lot of great directories in printed form and also heaps of fantastic Australian Music Web sites that had pointers to other places but there was nothing on the World Wide Web that could be considered a comprehensive directory of Australian Music Web Sites.

Musicians Contact Service began building one for their own use and decided to put it on line to help others as well. The Email then started flowing in requesting all sorts of information directly and indirectly related to music, and it just blossomed from there!

Australian Music Monolith was then taken over by Hitsquad in May 1996 and continued to operate until October that year.

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