Australian rock musician Ollie Olsen, 66, died on Oct. 16 of multiple system atrophy. The singer, composer and multi-instrument player was a leader in the post-punk, trance, electronica, and techno (no, I haven’t the faintest idea) genres, with such delightful band names as The Real, Whirlywirld, Lionfeed, Orchestra of Skin and Bone, Antediluvian Rocking Horse, Too Fat to Fit Through the Door, and I Am the Server. He appeared in and composed the score for the film Dogs in Space; director Richard Lowenstein said that “the great thing about Ollie, and one of the reasons I asked him to do so much in the movie, is that his songs have always had a feel to them, a kind of mood that fitted in with what we were doing. You’d die to make a video for some of his songs, he uses so many great images, and the rhythms he uses are amazing as well.” Olsen himself told interviewer Bob Baker Fish of his early years in Fitzroy North, near Melbourne, “We lived next door to the Primitive Calculators and lots of our friends had ideas for bands, so the ‘little band’ idea formed from that. It was a fun time and it grew quite big I hear, but I headed to London.”