GOBLIN MIX 1985 (3D'S) Glass Framed Album Artwork

The birth and death of … Goblin Mix

The birth and death of ...by short-lived Auckland band Goblin Mix was one of the great New Zealand albums of the mid-1980s. But today the band is probably best remembered as an ancestor of The 3Ds, the Dunedin group led by former Goblin Mix guitarist David Mitchell.

Like many of the groups that flourished in the fertile local music scene of the 1980s, Auckland band Goblin Mix – made up of guitarists and songwriters David Mitchell and Phil Moore, bass player Alf Danielson and drummer Andrew Moon – weren’t around for very long. But they did release two records, both on Flying Nun. One was a self-titled four-track EP (1985), which included the superb ‘Lament’ and ‘The water’, and the other was the seven-track mini-LP The birth and death of ... (also known as Son of Goblin Mix) in 1986.