Ollie Olsen
| Ollie Olsen | |
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| Birth name | Ian Olsen |
| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Norway |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Synthesiser, guitar, vocals, saxophone |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Psy-Harmonics |
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Ian "Ollie" Olsen (born Norway, 1958) is an Australian-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer. He has performed, recorded and produced rock, electronic and experimental music since the mid-1970s. Olsen joined with Michael Hutchence (of INXS) to form a short-term band, Max Q, which issued an album in 1989. He co-founded, Psy-Harmonics, with Andrew Till, as an alternative electronic music record label. In 2014 he formed Taipan Tiger Girls.
Ian "Ollie" Olsen was born in Norway and grew up in Melbourne. He developed an interest in electronic music as a teenager in the mid-1970s, studying with Felix Werder. Olsen has issued a range of work from experimental to film and television soundtracks, pop and dance music, installation projects and has established record labels. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, he is "recognised as one of the key figures in the Australian post-punk electronic movement of the late 1970s. Ever the experimentalist, Olsen's eclectic career in avant rock has taken him from the Reals, one of the original Melbourne punk combos of the late 1970s, through to the acid-house/techno/trance outfit Third Eye. He was also the driving force behind the innovative Psy-Harmonics label."
In the late 1970s Olsen formed two punk, post-punk bands, as leader and vocalist, as well as being a key figure in the Melbourne little band scene. His punk bands included the Reals and the Young Charlatans. Aside from Olsen on guitar, the Reals line-up was Peter Cave on drums, Gary Gray on lead vocals and Chris Walsh on bass guitar. At the end of 1977 he formed the Young Charlatans with Janine Hall on bass guitar, Rowland S. Howard on guitar (ex-Obsessions) and Jeffrey Wegener on drums (ex-Saints). Australian music journalist, Clinton Walker, described how they "had inner-city 'supergroup' status from the outset and helped pioneer post-punk rock in Australia." They did not record any material but Howard had written "Shivers" which they performed: it was later recorded by Howards' next group, The Boys Next Door.
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