Monday, 19 May 2008
Not the same shit
I guess I must have forgotten or something, either way I was shocked to notice that the Confuse tracks on this comp appears to be different versions of songs found on other releases. Or else, I am simply stupid. Either way this comp is essential as funk. Love the Craps too - check out "how long do you give me", later a famous "hit" by Swankys.
Totally original.
Formed Tokyo in 2000, total Discharge ripoff. Released two singles the second being "Dead or Alive EP" (also see this post). What with the cover above, do you need to even be told the name of the opening track on the record? Not really, but to spell it out for you: "DECONTROL"!!!!!! Later band turned into Final and their debut single is "Glow Strong" 7"ep. Final is described as Tokyo Dis-Bones...
The whole point of this is that I just can't stop listening to them! Fucking so good shit because the band doesn't giove a fuck about being original. Also, I know I downloaded the first Final Bloodbath EP off some blog a few months ago but I can't find the mp3s nor the blog. Anyone know where?
Sunday, 18 May 2008
DÖDEN "SLUTEN PSYKIATRISK VÅRD" EP
Just saw this on go for +$50 eBay today: Döden - Sluten Psykiatrisk Vård EP (1986, Karsudden Records, PSYK 001). The seller claims that it is one of the rarest and hardest to find Swedish records, printed in 2-300 [sic] copies in 1986, this slab contains "TOTALLY OBSCURE, EXTREMELY NOISY PUNK/GRIND/CRUST ATTACK BEFORE IT GOT "POPULAR"".
Some more infos on record here.
I want to hear it. Does any of you people have a decent rip? Let me know.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
Mikael Sörlings says...
"Jag försökte göra ett inlägg ang. Fear Of War igår, men det var alldeles för drygt och registrera sig;-) FOW släppte aldrig någon singel. Jag bodde en tid i Fagersta och hängde en hel del med Kera (mohikanen på bilden). Han lirade även i Ugly Squaws och var med i Twisted Nerve (tillsammans med bland annat Pille och P3 från Cruel Maniax).
//sörling"
So there you have it! Fear of War did not release a single afterall. Herr Mikael lived awhile in Fagersta and hung out with Kera (with mohikan on one of the pictures below). He also played with Ugly Squaws and Twisted Nerve (which also had Pille and P3 from Cruel Maniax).
ps. comments are enabled again for all ye chatterboxes ds
Friday, 16 May 2008
Correction...
Ok, I know I said it’d be a 2 post Friday but here’ s a third post nonetheless. Sorry about that, it simply won’t happen again.
This week I have been writing bands back and forth for my fanzine Distort Hackney. One mission was to get Framtid to do an interview since they are as you know already the best d-beat band in the whole world today. The other best (Japanese) band at the moment would be D-clone, but is more of a noise-d-beat band and can’t be compared therefore (D-Clone and Zyanose can be compared however, and both are best!).
ANYWAY, in the end it turns out that the Framtid interview won’t happen which doesn’t really matter that much. But the whole week I have been obsessed with the image of Japanese crusties going nuts over Swedish words like Framtid and Frigöra, just in the same way I do over the acronyms S.O.B. (see post before), D.S.B. or G.i.S.M.
Sadly I am completely and utterly unable (inable?) to create music or noise: I never as much as tried to plonk upon a guitar once in my whole life. I failed dramatically to learn how to play drums -once my friend and I were in arehearsal studio and he tried to get me to understand how to play the intro to Moderat Likvidation’s Enola Gay, but I just couldn’t.
This other time I was supposed to sing in a band that rehearsed a bunch of Misfits songs for an one-of Halloween show, but as we all noticed I could not sing either, in fact I was kind of talk-singing if you know what I mean...
So, since I can’t make music myself and have the pleasure of composing fuckedup band-names and lyrics, not to mention make really fuckedup designs, I thought I’d offer my services to you people who visit this blog who possess better music tendencies than me.
Here’s one lone Swedish word that would be an excellent name for a dirty peace crust band: FRED.
To start out, “FRED” translates as “PEACE” but has the cool distinction of also being a name of a dog, and this opens up cool ambiguities and possibilities of cryptic sublimities like “peace is not really possible it’s like dog eat dog” or “peace is the name of my dog”. The street-cred of this word is three-fold A) it’s THE pacifistic word in Swedish B) it starts with the letter “F” like Framtid and Frigöra, and C) Raped Teenager’s have a great song called “F.R.E.D.” (and using this acronymic version is even cooler!). More than anything the word is almost “too generic” to be used by anone as a name for anything–outside of Japan that is, and that spells instant success.
What do you think?
Today is turning out to be one of those...
...two post-a-day Friday. Boring long day never ending not much to do in office just sitting around eating blue berrys too much coffee and occasionally checking out some blog (saving links to check out when I get home, and that list of links is getting longer than my free time allows) here is the last thing I found that I will check out later namely Sabotage Organized Barbarian the other thing was Disaster CD source unknown but whatever I had this on LP once so feel perfectly ok getting for free. STream of cosyness style writing no need for pressing dowwn no damn shift key. capitals? bah humburg, me no need no capitals!
I could not help it...
Buy it now $99/£50.. The funny thing is that "early works" is a bit misleading because as far as I know the last recording is the Stupid Life LP (which is included here).
Or for free here.
Or how about GiSM 1st album on CD for only $300/£150? Note this is "original CD 1981" as if CDs were around back then!
Anyway, that CD can be found for free here in glorious 320 bit.
Jokes aside, I want to hear this SCAMP CD, they were on the V/a Discharged LP and sounded kind of alright - anyone know if they're any good?
Thursday, 15 May 2008
"Twenty thousand people: dieeeeee-iiii-aaaaaaahhh"
Fear of War came from the Swedish town called Fagersta, which incidentially is the same place where the Hives came from (lol). Fear of War were "active" between 1983-1984 or so until 1986-87 (the facts are a bit clear and this is based www.Swedishpunk.com).
It seems the band started as Practical Joke, but as far as I know there's no recordings under this moniker. In any event, around 1983 the name was changed to FEAR OF WAR. The members of the band were Dick "Kera" on bass and vocals (who also played with Crude SS), on drums Marko a.k.a Vela a.k.a Marko Parkbänk a.k.a. Aarne etc, and Micke on guitar.
It is said that they were influenced by the American HC scene, but I am not so sure - the name simply screams of DISCHARGE and Anti Cimex ('Wave of Fear' anyone?). Swedishpunk.com also states that the band also played under the name The Dickheads sometimes, when they played covers of other bands.
The band has gone into history / popular d-beat mythology as very sought-after and hard-to-find band as well as an oddity among the Swedish bands from this period. I have read people write on blogs about such adn such band being on people's wishlists and so on, well this is one of the bands that I remember svividly being on everyone's wishlist back in the time before internet.
One reason for this is that the band was included on no less than three key-compilations coming from Sweden in the mid-1980s (see below), all of which had vast exposure to punks outside of Sweden, and on these compilation Fear of War found themselves along side with some of the timeless legends of Swedish d-beat genre, most importantly Anti Cimex...of course.
Legend has it Fear of War turned down an offer to make a split LP with Mob 47 because they didn't have enough songs (a very lame excuse I think, all due respect to Mob 47 obviously but clearly Fear of War could have written the 10-15 songs required in the studio whilst recording, and easily!). In retrospect, Fear of War clearly shoot themselves in the foot with this decision...had things gone the other way, that LP would have been LEGENDARY today....they'd be making re-union shows and people from all over the world would travel to see them play and...the t-shirt sale on eBay and...well, you know what I mean.
But as the image above shows, the band members looks very young and perhaps that had something to do with it, who knows? Interestingly, perhaps, "young" is one of the words used to describe Fear of War on the Swedishpunk website...
Thus, apart from the compilations Fear of War has only one 7" EP as well as an obscure demo which I have not heard, in fact I could not find ANY information about on the internet, and this also helps to make sure the band remains one of last few obscure d-beat / hard core punk bands from the 1980s that very little is known of...
It is very tempting, with bands like this, to image that the music must be as good in direct proportion to how hard it is to find the 7"....an easy mistaken assumption I know, but having spend this whole week analyzing the State Children flexi and demos, LOL, I am not so sure afterall if the correlation obscure/genius is entirely mistaken, afterall State Children were GREAT no doubt about it....not to mention the so-called second EP by Shit Lickers which is also actually FUCKING GOOD...well I am digressing.
But let me tell it to you straight: as much as I want FEAR OF WAR to be the long lost but now found holy grail of the golden age of Swedish hard core punk d-beat, the fact remains that they weren't that good after all. In fact, the influences Discharge influences fail to lift off, in places it sounds just like any other generic Swedish 1980s punk...
The 7", to begin with, is a weird one. Most guitar and bass riffs are generic, the drumming is 1980s hammering d-beat without much variation or effect, the singer sounds like a mix of many of the other singers in bands around this period (in a word: generic). The subject is war, war and nuclear war but there's no direct finesse like for e.g. any of the zillion current bands in this style.
The first track is "Fruktan" which may be their "hit" -it's certainly the one that is the most tightly and together played I think. The topic is nuclear war and fear of nuclear war:
"1. Bombs are falling, the earth [something]/ animals [something]/ it is nuclear war/ everything is black and dark [something something] / it is nuclear war /
chorus: fear for it / fear for it / nuclear war "
2. Bombs are falling, the earth [something]/ animals [something]/ it is nuclear war/ everything is black and dark [something something] / it is nuclear war /
chorus: fear for it / fear for it / nuclear war " [I guess, lol]
The next song "Ny Lat" is simply weird. It starts out with neat d-beat drum intro with a sudden explosion of echo effect, not sure what the singer is on about ("sing"?). The lyric seems to be something "our lives...initiatives...more and more". I don't know. It's kind of cool that he sounds a little bit crazy at times, like his voice jumps from simply angry to desperate while still on one word. It feels a bit UK 82, the only thing to hold this up is the guitar solos that would not be out of place on a Discharge record.
From the start "Blind" sounds generic, there's 1000s rehearsal studio punk demos like this. The topic is something about "capitalist standards" or other and then suddenly there's a change of tempo into slightly more upbeat where the chorus goes: "20,000 people die / You will never see again" and then it slows down again and there's some nonsense about America. This has more in common with some garage band that could be termed sub-standard Metallica-wannabees than Discharge! This being 1985you would be correct to expect more than this...
But then next up is "Ingenting Kvar" which is little like a song by Disarm (Swe), it's much more upbeat and the singer's much more desperate and there's some echo-effects whcih works...but then, quixotically, halfway in the song there's a change of tempo and it sounds like a rock ballad, just as you feel like changing the record it speeds up again and it's not that bad afterall...but then you look at how long this track is and discover that it is more than 4 minutes long and there's 2 more tempo changes before it's over...again only the fast sections and the guitarsolo manages to save this...
The last track of the single is a bit more ambitious, starting with a guitar solo which this time is not Discharge at all but something more rock - and then it turns out the singer is singing in English and it sounds kind of like something more akin to underground heavy metal than punk, perhaps like very lo-fi early Broken Bones played by a bunch of Swedes that can't speak English...
Now for the comp tracks, well, It's the same again I am afraid. "Min Far" ["my dad"] on "Vikings..." is like some weird trall-folk-punk song and it fails horribly, with "Morality" you'd be excused to think that we're back in Dischargeland again with the intro, but it carries on for over a minute and is boring, but then again at the very end of the song comes a major guitarsolo which kind of manages to pick up the tempo of the song in its last half minute which closes with crossfading screams of "morality" a la Discharge. Finally, "surfer boy" sounds like how I imagine an American hardcore band influenced by Discharge would sound.
On Really Fast 3, however, you get a Fear of War that suddenly is not lo-fi at all! Here they have come together well and everything works in beautiful d-beat manner. I imagine Japan's Framtid was heavily inspired by this exact sound and style of playing. HOWEVER, it's only the one song on here that Fear of War contributes. And here starts the specualtion again....I wonder if there's more material like this, there must be a demo from the same session etc etc etc.
When I looked around (admittedly I wasn't too serious) I found this bootleg a.k.a. fanclub CD called FEAR OF WAR - "THE FINAL WAR" CD on "warsong recordss" with the descripton "Tracks taken from their 7", demo and comps". I suspect this is sourced from mp3s.
ANYWAY, here you are, listen and tell me what you think:
FEAR OF WAR - Discography (Comp tracks (4) and 7"ST EP (1985))
Also here's the full compilations (uploads from other blogs inc Carry On Screaming):
V/a The vikings are coming LP (1985)
V/A Afflicted cries in the darkness of war (1986)
V/a Really Fast vol. 3 LP (1987)
Now as an parenthesis (before you all point out how mistaken I am with the facts etc, lol) I would like just add that I am sure there's tons of info about this band but as I said I couldn't find much....
This week I will just say things which are SELF-EVIDENT
but I shall show no shame in doing so! Basically I have noticed that no one cares about serious discussion about anything, there is a state of general information overload mass neurosis going on and (as Amebix said) no one's driving, there is no direction or common purpose.
So whatever. I can't be bothered to try to clean up the mess, god knows I wanted to give it a shoot. But people's interest in PIH, OIFM or DH is not entirely SOARING. All I do is for me anyway so whatever. Go ahead: Shit wheels go on keep on rollin....
Anyway, I just wanted to say that today is a great day to listen to Dead Stop and all the other tracks on this fucker.
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Monday, 12 May 2008
"CFDL (you are really greatest japanese band)"
I just found this at somewhere. I doubt the original uploader (or Takeshi himself) will mind me reposting this here. Hey! Where's that CFDL discography CD? I WANT IT NOW!!! (Not to mention the interview I sent a year ago, actually don't answer that, it was stupid anyway lol).
And while you're at it. Here's the State Children - 1984 demo [28 songs of godawful noise]. 
Is it just me or is PUNKS IS HIPPIES totally pointless? No comments, very little feedback and the counter is basically static. Sure, almost every single zine has seen great numbers of downloads at about 150-300 each (which you will be surprised to know surpasses most music uploads, normally around 50-150). Anyway I don't care: it's good because I can hammer away at building the new website and then take the world by a STORM MOAHAHAHHAHAHAH!
Ps. It's kind of rejuvenating for this blog not to have an audience again. I like it! dS.
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Excuse or Notice, you decide
As I am currently upgrading the Punks Is Hippies Fanzine Archive to Wordpress, where I will attempt to create better category and search options, consistent and uniform layouts throughout as well as some extra stuff, I will not be updating this blog for a while. A peak preview of the new PIH site can be seen on the current site now, where bytheways one of my favorite fanzines ever ("Riot") was just posted.
I am also trying to finally get my fanzine "Distort Hackney" issue 1 printed and ready to send to people who helped make it happen as well as to distros around the world and needlesstosay this is taking up some time.
Issue one contains interviews with Disorder/Taf, Terveet Kadet, The Wankys, Chaos Channel, Chtuwulf, Chaos Destroy, D-Clone, Rob Baron/Amebix, Kuro, Geranium, RobNoxious/Lewdsnot etc etc etc. 60 A5 pages long. Expected price will be around £1/$2 plus postage (UK 0.50p / World $1). As I said it will be available at the main distros around the world but direct orders will be taken from me and I will accept PayPal, cash, cheques and TRADES!.
If you are interested in buying, trading or selling zines get in touch. Please note that I will not have zines ready to ship out before the next 4 weeks or so...slow as I am...lol
Added to the practical side, I have already started with issue two which I hope will be better in that it will not be an odd mix of new and old band interviews, but also have some review sessions, columns and such like.
Send stuff for review now!
I am also looking for people willing to pay to advertise in the zine, I promise extremely low rates for maximum exposure.
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Thursday, 1 May 2008
Advertising the hell out of you.
Got myself a preorder of the Wankys/Syphilitic Vaginas Split 8" lathe ep, and it sounds like a lot of fun, and it was good too because I think its already sold out. But perhaps haggling will help. In any event you sooo need this. How to get it onto your mobile phone is easy: simply take a photo and then plug in your speakers and voila! FFZFZFZFFZFZFZFZFZFZF comes out of your speakers!
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Systematic Death, feat the German-Swedish Japanese Noise Obssessives' Club of Int. Eurotrashery & Docuhebagery
I laughed so much reading these. but then I am of course still drunk from Systematic Death last night, my ears are ringing too. Shall I attempt to write something? Damn. Ok, Sick on the Bus is a band that I haven't managed to get into, neither on record or live. Of course as you already know it's got the dudes from Varukers but it sounds something like a cross between more US-leaning hardcore mixed with UK 82 and various other shit. Very prolific band, I would add. But I think their audience is with people who unlike me dislikes fuzz, speed, noise, terror, etc. So yeah. 
Last time I saw Varukers was when they supported Stiff Little Fingers waaaaaay back, and they were kind of shit but mostly due to the fact that the stage was too big and there was absolute nil audience response. But last night Varukers killed it. Right in your face two fists in your gut smash bang-bang d-beat style classic UK glue-punk gestures from Rat and hit protest to Survive started it all. My fist was banging the ceiling from start to finish. I even got so excited I threw a (plastic) pint glass at Rat during one of the old hits. Had it been slightly better I would have gone up to spit on his twat. 
And then there was Systematic Death. The great hardcore legends from Japan, sadly not as great as, say, Gauze, but whatever. Well what can I say? They were great of course. Fast loud tight passionate Japanese cool postures etc. They played all hits throughout and I think everyone was happy. I am not exactly sure but I think I even "slam danced" a little - out of a pure spontaneous reaction to the music, which basically NEVER happens. You know, I am Swedish and me and my people don't do things on impulse. So that was great. 
EDIT: I forgot to add that it was really cool that the band stopped playing as per normal and then everyone was pissed and drunk not really craing much and then people were kind of leaving (I think) or you know going for a piss or some shit and THEN all of a sudden there's SYSTEMATIC DEATH back on stage racing through another few fast ones! That was very refreshing....It was as if they enjoyed playing that much that they just decided to go out once more for some "more of that"! (I gues sthis is when I jumped up and down like an exicted school girl lol)
Afterwards I managed to annoy Charlie Harper from UK Sucks (lol), sell all the copies of my fanzine DISTORT HACKNEY (more on this when I sober up), pocket a bunch of Systematic Death CDs and t-shirts for free, talk Disclose with some Japanese dude, trick Rat into giving me his contact details for future hatemail, talk to the representatives of the blogworld that had convened at the gig (no less than 5 or 6 of us were there - which was surreal, standing with the internet punks in the corner watching the real punks over there, lol), eat kebab, get home etc. I even think I got S.D.'s tracklisting.
Why the Stalin image? Well to remind your sorry ass that it's a ABSOLUTE KILLER ALBUM in fact better than the original release methinks, and, moreover, its a great record for a rainy day. Like today.
Now I will die (from my hangover).
More Photos by Papst Benedict from Am I Mean Blog here. Except the one with the ugly dude with sunglasses which was taken by Vom from THIS BLOG.
Friday, 25 April 2008
An investment made in heaven?
At the moment I feel like I have consumed a bit too much downlaods if you know what I mean, and therefore it is interesting to read some shit about the music and the world that circulates music. That's to say, instead of simply downloading en masse (and listening to the music of course) which I have been doing for the past 2 years.
Here is one blog which you probably already seen but nevermind. Bidhardcore as the name suggests comments on eBay record collecting. Perhaps not as novel approach nowadays when all manner of Web 2.0 douchebagery have flooded the world. But amusing nonetheless so have a look.
Anyway, since day one on the internet (back in mid to late 1990s) I have had a constant eye on eBay. Sometimes just to marvel at records or curious paraphernilia such as CRASS coffee cups (hello??) or "autographed" Discharge singles (obviously fake but nevermind that). At first I pretty much bought records very recklessly for e.g. I bought some 50-60 or so Johnny Thunders live bootlegs. Then I after awhile I got slightly more serious in my choices...but I was never much of a serious collector.
I reckon I bought about 250 different records all in all (I bought only cheap shit like LPs for £1 that nobody was bidding on, back then eBay wasn't as popular as today when any of the records go for at least a few more £s added to what I bought). I should add that all this was funded by the generous Swedish Government grants for studying abroad (I owe them about £20,000 today, but I do hold a marvellous academic record in History, more particularly late period colonialism with focus on civil service transfers at end of empire - WELL WORTH THE MONEY HEY???? LOL).
Anyway, partly what I wanted to say with this post was that it since about a year ago or so I have noticed that the music that is being blogged about in our little community of punk blogs -as well as discussed in on forums etc- is suddenly appearing on eBay, at at great prices too! Now this is probably due coincidence and metaphysics (ha!) as well as me taking a closer interest in the same bands (i.e. perhaps I did not notice the auctions before). BUT, I think it is fairly reaasonable to state that YES in some contexts music blogging have indeed lead to increase in not only the interest and awareness of the music but there is also some direct (if circumstancial) evidence that people are buying more records as a consequence of blogging!
Personally, while I may have downloaded completist-style all that I could get hold off in the respective subgenres of punk (say perhaps around 100 gb all in all?) I have by no means stopped buying music, in fact I have probably started to buy music even more (and no, not so I can post it on my meagre blog either!). lately I have even started to buy CDs whereas I have previously NEVER really bought more than at tops 10 CDs in my life. For some reason I currently value CDs a bit more becuase when all is said and done its a convenient format to keep around at home, and also for the artwork (kind of hard to appreciate the artwork factor with mp3s, even if iTunes et al can have embedded artwork with mp3s.).
This is byway of saying, see image - lots of nice rarities there and by the close of them auctions I bet you there will be some happy but broke people around (no surprise then they walka round in rags, all patched up ha ha ha!).
Anyway, go forth and spend douche bags!
EDIT: Here's some amusing items for sale:
Sika Apara / Finn Records T-Shirt
Svart Parad Gig Poster
Discharge 1991 Tour T-shirt (according to the guy from Disgust / ex-drummer Discharge the band did very very few t-shirts, basically the 3 skulle one was the only official one, and of course the one linked here - the 1000s of auctions for socalled "official" Discharge t-shirts are NOT ofifical, this one is - and unused- but sadly XL)
AMEBIX Gig flier
AMEBIX Gig Flier 2
16 BUH demo (fran Sorling/Sodra Paraden blog)
And one more 16 BUH demo (rare as fuck and going cheaper than cheapshit)
GiSM??????
MISSBRUKARNA tape (rightly priced over $100+)
First Terveet KAdet 7" for $£325 only!!!
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Curious to see that...
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Oh! The days of youth are long since past
Now on to something (geographically so to speak) different: I found myself putting some old Disrupt shit on my portable music player last night. This was surely the first time I decided to listen to Disrupt since, well, since waaaay back when I discovered that the internet (and blogs more particularly) can allow you to track down old music. Many blogs have posted the complete Disrupt discography, but as popular as Disrupt was back at the time once I had all their stuff to listen to again, I found that I did not really like them as much anymore. It is as if the Disrupt sound is too closely tied to a specific time and that today it is not as wonderfully great as I once thought around the first half of the 1990s. That's not to deny that Disrupt was in some ways a very cool band.
I probably said this before, but one thing that I remember ruined my (incorrect as it turns out) percieved image of the band was to read (was it MMR or PE or somewhere? can't remember) that the band was NOT a bunch of uber-hardline vegan ideological crusties. The proof for this was that when they came over for that Euro tour they all went eating at McDonalds (shock horror!) instead of eating the provided vegan food made by hosting DIY centres. LOL! I think there was something about the main guy being the brains while the others were simply aspiring to rockstardom or something... 
In retrospect it is strange to think that the band could inspire such awe among young easy-to-influence crusties. I think it was that record cover - Smash Divisions and all the E-sign imagery that did it. People saw this and thought that they were the new CRASS for the crust generation. The lyrics, however, for example the one about being robbed by some scum on the street, betrays a concern that is at odds with generalist or traditional anarcho-left thought (I am obviously making vast generalisations here but I happy to debate this in comments if anyone wants to act Language Police).
Rightly or wrongly, little focus by blogs have been on the specific material on the Disrupt/Sauna split LP a.k.a. 'People Killing People', originally released by French label Sludge Records waaaay back in 1993. I think many people would agree with me here is found Disrupt's best material, perhaps because it is the most accessable in terms of the music: here is effective and energetic D-beat -as opposed to the more grind stuff. The paradox is of course that the (later) grind shit is probably their more original material.
Does this Disrupt d-beat stand today? Sure it does, though they were part of a whole plethoria of bands that spawned even further "D-clones" and the (ugh) melodic modern D-beat sound of today (give me a few more years and I'll turn out to be the No. 1 champion of this nonsense D-beat - a case in point, I only just managed to LOVE the first couple of albums by Driller Killer, whereas I have up until now pretty much hated it - more on this in a later post).
Sauna FYI was a sort of homage (I guess) to specifically Finnish hardcore's take on Discharge, with imagery and lyrics that can't be denied were informed by the attitude of the Sika Apara Fanzine editors.
Now on a more personal level. I can't remember how I got this split LP back in the day but I know that I played the first two tracks on the Disrupt side pretty much until the vinyl started to fray! Back then D-beat was entirely un-hip but a musician friend of mine wanted us to start a crust band nonetheless. I was supposed to be the singer (despite the fact that I can't "scream-sing" at all, for some mysterious reason). The bass player would be this other friend of us who notoriously could not play and dance at the same time (or so was his reputation from having played in local HC sXe bands -in which "dancing" was considered very crucial for members of bands!!!). The drummer to be, I remember, was this oldtimer who allegedly liked Discharge. He was I think perhaps 10-15 years older than me and had played in some small scale punk band 10 years before. My friend hooked up a meeting and when he saw me (18 years old, perhaps a little shy, though snotty as few needlesstosay) the band was off: he was not impressed! LOL.
So that band never happened but during this time when we were talking about it my friend borrowed the LP and mysteriously lost it somehow. He now plays in this band for the record.
Disrupt / Sauna: "People Killing people" Split-LP (link to another blog).
Saturday, 19 April 2008
ALL CRUSTIES SPENDING LOUD NIGHT 2002
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Monday, 14 April 2008
D-Beat nightmare continues...
This is at the same time the most craziest shit ever and the most appropiate shit ever. Kawakami rest in d-beat (R.I.D.). Thanks to Jonas for posting this elsewhere. If you are after some Disclose then two of my favorite blogs, Crustcracker and Distort Hope, may be good places to start. By the way, I shall be "lagging" a bit this week because I am going away on a business-trip (not in the Hawkwind meaning of the word unfortunately!).
Friday, 11 April 2008
"Another damn advertising break"
All yee wee Londoners! ALL AGES recordshop in Camden now have a "JAPAN STUFF" section with lots of Japanese Hardcore / Punk CDs including GAUZE New album + all 4 previous albums!! Hear hear hear!
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Desolute Bloody Satanistic crosses pond to slaughter the innocent.
Not my upload, I am just saying...
Sunday, 6 April 2008
FYI.
Various requested uploads from "elsewhere" (lol), reposted here if anyone's interested in Japanese oddities:
Vulgarity Kids - Same 8'' flexi (11.8 MB)
V/A - Go Ahead Make My Day LP (Oddsness#2, 1989, 43.81 MB)
V/A - Enjoy Your Youth by This Hardcore Sampler (1988, 61.75 MB)
V/A - Last Punk Osaka LP (1986, 42.25 MB)
V/A - Corruption LP (1988, 56.62 MB)
Toxo-Vomit - Crisis of Life 7" Flexi (1986, 7.47 MB)
The Futures - Electric Wave from the Under World (11.34 MB)
The Violence Youth Flak - Flexi (1988, 12.42 MB)
Sqwad (ex-Ghoul) - Set Free Me Out Rock You Out 7" Flexi (8.21 MB)
Mess - Get Into A Mess Flexi (15.2 MB)
Asbestos - 5 track EP (11.45 MB)
Rezist - Shelter Skelter 7" Flexi (9.67 MB)
Ugh!
"Zouo is brutally underrated"
The great almost forgotten "death core" band (I just made up that term, but I think it fits) ZOUO is sometimes likened to the great G.i.S.M, but I think not so much by the mainstream music community. This has to change! LOL. As mentioned at 7inchpunk, the singer also somewhat bizarrely (or magically if you prefer) also sang a little bit for US' HC band Half Life (see image above). So grab some of the below and go forth and bring death in the world!!!
Gai/Zouo split LP I already posted (see below).
Wedge's ZOUO 7" upload is at 7InchPunk.
Uploaded recently by xoscar17x from the number one forum for Japanese obsessions, here's also the complete Zouo show Live in Av-x,kyoto '84 33min. Quite a find I think.
In addition, if you are like me into this kind of death core shit then YOU have to also check out SYPHILITIC VAGINAS who are just about to share a split release with the great THE WANKYS. Here is SV's 9" EP (stolen from Seanocide's blog). Pre-order the split 8" now, friendly and violent brothers and sisters!
