The music on this blog is out of print (at least that I know) so that none of the bands/labels would be damaged/ripped-off by sharing their music. If for some reason you don't want your stuff to be here just send me a message and I will remove it. I encourage all other to buy the stuff from the bands you like and support the people that keep underground scene alive and kickin'. There's much effort put in these releases, from making the music to artwork and releasing it and it would be a shame to end up just as another lame mp3 folder.
Scraps were hardcore punk band from Lille, France that were active from mid-80s to mid-90s. As a kid I've listened to their first two 7"s (Apartheid and Aaargh!) religiously and one of the first bass lines that I learned to play in my life was the beginning of Dubeauf S'en Va T'en Guerre from Aaargh! 7".
Later on I haven't got nothing newer from them until I bought this 7" around 1996(ish) and it was a disappointment to me. First of all, it is a live recording and they're mostly not so good to me, but it also lacked that frantic energy that the old releases had. I gave it a go again now after more than 10 years and it still doesn't do it for me, but maybe you like their later period stuff, so here it is.
The record doesn't says when it was out so I'll trust discogs site that it is 1992 release.
Released: 1992
Label: Ammunation Records
Size: 29 MB
I've just found out from KYPP pages that Poly Styrene has passed away yesterday from breast cancer, less than a month after releasing her new album which was produced by Martin Glover (aka Youth of Killing Joke fame). What I've always loved about Spex was that they were that cheerier side of punk without having nonsense lyrics like some other "cheery" punk bands had. Despite the fact that her post-Spex life went into some spiritual direction which holds no interest to me, the fact remains that the Spex were one of the most original and underrated punk bands ever. The reason that I'm posting this record is that it's (unfortunately) the only X-Ray Spex vinyl that I own and it's the german release of their 3rd (or is it 4th?) 7". Again, the sound level is through the roof 'cause I can't adjust it through my USB pre-amp, so, until I buy some better equipment... R.I.P. Poly.
This record was a bit of surprise for me because both bands on it are not my usual cup of tea and I ended up loving both of 'em. Both bands were quite "soft" for my taste back then and Anomie were of the emo bunch which I never could fully digest, but this record led me to buying two more LPs and an 7" of P.O.M. and unfortunately only one 7" by Anomie. I cannot rationally explain why I love both of these bands, but if you ever get a chance to buy something by them I cannot recommend it enough. You can notice in the tracklist that two of the songs are done by AnomiePeaceOfMind which was supposed to be collaboration of both bands, but ended up only with Anomie people and Jobst from P.O.M. due to other bandmates not being able to make it. Also the song "I Want My Life (And I'll Get It!)" is labeled "Disconcience" in the booklet if this means anything to anyone.
Released: 1995 Label: World Upside Down / Ape Records Size: 95 MB
01. Peace Of Mind - Part 02. Peace Of Mind - Education 03. Peace Of Mind - Communication Is Strength 04. Peace Of Mind - We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister cover) 05. Peace Of Mind - Anarchy 06. Peace Of Mind - Repression 07. Peace Of Mind - Rotten 08. AnomiePeaceOfMind - I Want My Life (And I'll Get It!) 09. Anomie - ...Chercher Des Solutions... 10. Anomie - Les Liens 11. Anomie - Rôle 12. Anomie - Le Paraître 13. Anomie - Acoustica 14. AnomiePeaceOfMind - Afraid
Here's another short one by another amazing Words Of Warning genre bending band. One of my all time favourites. Go here for more. Again, the recording levels are quite high, but you'll have to live with it.
Released: 1994 Label: Words Of Warning Size: 19 MB
Here's a short one. Third post by these free festival nutters from Sunderland. An amazing band and an single from an amazing label make an amazing release. This time it's cover of The AK 47’s Tottenham Three from their "Don't Call Me Vanilla" LP and dub version of their own song To Dream The Impossible Dream (both version appeared on their "God's Secret Agent" CD). The recording levels are quite high as unfortunately I don't have the possibility to adjust it on my USB phono pre-amp, but if you don't have this it should do you justice. Enjoy.
Released: 1992 Label: Words Of Warning Size: 18 MB
Since yesterday one very little fella joined Röckin' Nöiz crew, I find this little piece of vinyl just the right thing for this occasion. Cress song set to the music from a children's tape. Welcome aboard Jan.
01. The Sheriff Of Nottingham 02. Mr. Crust And Two Veg 03. Liar Liar (Pants On Fire) 04. History Of The Soviet Union Part 2 (Civil War, Isolation And Starvation 1918 - 1923)
Here's another one that I haven't bought and don't actually remember how it ended up with me. I've listened this once or twice more than 10 years ago and gave it another shot now and it still leaves me unimpressed, but maybe someone was just looking for this one, so here it is. I've managed to google out that this hardcore bunch is from Gijón, Spain and that's about it. Feel free to fill in any additional info in the comments section if you know more about them.
OK. It's been over one month since my last post (again), so I've put the effort in ripping a double LP this time. That is also a bit of extra effort (by my standards) as today is 3 years since I started this blog and if you look at last year's b-day post, the things are more or less the same with top 10 posts, so I won't do it again. What we have here is Bullshit Detector Vol. 4 inspired by 3 volumes made by Crass Records between 1980 and 1984. These compilations were first introduction to some of nowadays well known bands such as Amebix and Napalm Death among others. The compilation was compiled by Pablo who used to run Resistance Productions (Switzerland) and now is part of Strawberry Punx Records. It was co-released with Örmaal Records (Switzerland), Mass Media Records (USA) and Loony Tunes Records (UK). This LP should be looked more as a D.I.Y. statement (just like the original series, only this time it's international) rather than selection of someones favourite bands. I must add that there was no selection of the bands. It's first 36 bands that submitted their material. The only rule was that they had decent lyrics and no previous vinyl release. The music is recorded by the bands/artists/projects at various places between 1988 and 1994 and the quality of the stuff here is often very, very bad (music and recording-vise), but there are some very good bands too. Some of them already appeared here such as Headache, Recusant, Katastrofialue and Naked Aggression. What Bullshit Detector compilations mean to people can be seen in Naked Aggression's cheating their way to a compilation despite already having vinyl outputs by changing their name to Naked A's. The track appeared later that year on split 7" with Aus-Rotten. I remember laughin' my ass off when I saw that. Now you can proceed to download if you want, but be warned, as the record itself states: Quality is shit, the bands can't play.
01. Hated - Gusundheit 02. Orange World - Disneyfuck 03. Necrosis - Show Me The Pure 04. Pille Allein - No Fun 05. G.U.R.K. - Ausbeuten 06. Putang-I-Nas - Radioactive Survival 07. Eric D. Thompson - An Honest Pledge 08. Little Zomki - Copies Conformes 09. Valtiokontrolli - Sairas Ihminen 10. Cheese Police - Arsholes 11. Nallekerho - Oikeutta Alkuperäiskansoille 12. Recusant - Organised Murder On A Conveyor Belt 13. Shadowed Veil - America The Beautiful 14. Katastrofialue - Päätä Vailla 15. Freak Show - Handled World 16. Autumn Poison - Utopia A New World In Our Hearts 17. Primitiv Bunko - Certifié Conforme 18. Agente Laranja - Racista 19. Homo Erectus - Anarchy 20. Faster Than Sheep - Bitch 21. Pichismo - Ne Ricevos Ŝtato Ĉuron 22. Yan - Heavy Metal Music 23. Mash'm - U.N. 24. Inokentijs Marpls - Demokratiska Dziesma 25. Marichuana - Mes Pritariam Visiems Antifašistiniams Apsireiškimams! 26. Protest - War 27. Steine Fur Den Frieden - Free? 28. Antitude - Hey, Mister President 29. Armed Revolution - Corporate Slave 30. Gruuthaagy - Start Insane 31. Headache - Die! 32. Love, Chips & Peace - Royal Family 33. Apatridi - Camino Para Guerra 34. Parkaj Mental - Soldat Amerikkkain 35. Naked A's - You're A Disgrace 36. Mi-Asma - The Dirtiest Game (War)
I got this 7" (with some more records) after my friends' sister stopped being punk and didn't needed her records anymore. It didn't quite catch on me at first, but now that I've listened to it for the second time, I actually quite like it. Unfortunately, I don't know nothing about them except that they're from Portland, so, if you know something more, feel free to add some more info.
As requested by Mikxxx, here's split LP by Nula from Croatia and E.M.S. (Ego Means Survival) from Austria. Nula were flagbearers of 90s anarcho punk scene in ex-Yu and you can read a bit more about them in the last Nula post. This is their last release if I'm not wrong because they had a long break and now are gigging again. Here they offer six of their songs which were also released on tape as split with Bagger who contributed their side of split LP with Lieselotte. And for E.M.S., I'll do a bit of copy/paste from pages of their Bloodshed666 label. E.M.S. were band from Waidhofen/Ybbs in Lower-Austria and they were influenced by the austrian d.i.y.-punk/hardcore-scene in the mid-90ies with bands like Kurort and Those Who Survived The Plague who had a big impact on the bands development, their way of working and their political positions. On this LP they present their old school stylish powerviolence / melodic hc / emo-core - mixture. Oh, yes! If you're wondering who's the punk skeletor on the cover, it's Vedran, the drummer of Nula and Radikal Dub Kolektiv.
01. Nula - Znaj Za Kraj 02. Nula - Vidija San... 03. Nula - Ispiranje Mozga Otvoreno Non-Stop 00-24h (Sva Sreća Da Nemam Ni Jebene Kinte U Džepu) 04. Nula - Put 05. Nula - Zlo 06. Nula - Krivi Smo 07. E.M.S. - Kleinbürger 08. E.M.S. - Hiebe 09. E.M.S. - The Saw Is Family 10. E.M.S. - I Hate 11. E.M.S. - Der Mensch, Des Menschen Wolf / Wrath (Sommerhit '99) 12. E.M.S. - Freiheit 13. E.M.S. - Einfach Wegschauen 14. E.M.S. - Tod / Amok
I guess there's no point in writing much about Schwartzeneggar as you all know that it's an all-star anarcho affair with people from Crass, Thatcher On Acid and Conflict. What's interesting about this release is the fact that it has songs that are not on any of the studio records. I have them all on vinyl, so I'm not sure about the CDs. Feel free to fill me in. Anyway, this plays the same two songs on both sides and is recorded live at mighty MKNŽ club in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia (so you can be sure that the sound is great) on 27/10/1995. Discogs page says that it came free with Fear & Loathing fanzine. Well, not in my case, but never mind. OK. I guess that'll be it. Enjoy.
Released: 1996 Label: Fear & Loathing fanzine Size: 9 MB
Here's a little slab of punk rock with a good sense of fun to break almost two months of silence here. A lot of things are happening here. Anyway, here's split of these two High Wycombe bands who play punk with a healthy dose of humour. Give this a listen and thanks again to Janša since this is his record too.
Released: 1996 Label: Dual Cabbageway Records Size: 27 MB
01. Ciderfex - Bastard 02. Ciderfex - The Pope Song 03. Ciderfex - Mad Dog Ken 04. The Chineapple Punx - Dig 05. The Chineapple Punx - Our Friend Arthur 06. The Chineapple Punx - Riot Cop Diet Cop
I don't know anything about this band except that they were punk band from small city of Bangor, Wales, formed in 1991 and disbanded in 1998. I've found that this 7" is sometimes reffered to as "Rich Woman" 7", but front cover says "Di-Gymraeg Yng Nghymru" so I'll call it like this. From the few things that I've found on the web it seems that they've been quite popular. You can find a couple of more songs on their MySpace and a video for Rich Woman. Any more info on the band is welcome. And if you don't know what their name means, your Italian sucks.
I've planned to rip this record for quite some time now, but it always somehow slipped under the radar. Since Ex-Cathedra were mentioned in the last post and also a friend of mine kicked off with his Nečista Savjest blog after ten month break with their "2x4=" CD (which contains their songs from this record) it's about time to give it to you. As you probably know, Ex-Cathedra were great punk/ska band from Glasgow, Scotland and are most known band of the three. After their disbanding, the members played in Fleas & Lice and all-star dub/punk supergroup Suicide Bid (actually it's more of a collective than band that also features people from King Prawn, The Filaments, P.A.I.N, Inner Terrestrials, Deathskulls, Sonic Boom 6...). I'm not in the mood for writing biography, so you'll have to do with this (it's google translated from czech). Machine Gun Etiquette (called after The Damned album) were their hometown (drinking) buddies and they've quite often exchanged members which resulted in them playing punk with a bit of ska here and there too. They had split 10" with Juggling Jugulars, later became Scunnered and that's about all I could find out 'bout them. Nutcase were from Kiel, Germany and I like them least. Some songs are OK - some not and scottish punks take the win here. I guess that this record was another product of a couple of bands touring together. The label Trapdoor Recordz who released this is also from Kiel. OK. Now go 'n' get it.
Lately I'm going through some records that I've hardly ever played and this is one of such. I believe that I got this one from someone, but I guess that too much alcohol in those days have done its job and my memory is quite bad, so I guess I'll never know how I got this. This is (as the title says) second of the Gore Gore Girls compilation series which included female bands. Volume 1 included Xenolith Oger (Japan), Women From Hell (USA) and Roadrunners (Sweden). As far as I could find out from the New Wave Records site this 7" is their last release until 2002 and 7" by Cojoba from Puerto Rico. Since I like to google a bit before posting, there are few more facts that maybe you'd like to know, New Wave Records was (still is?) French label formed in 1983 and it was also a zine (last issue in 2007?). And now back to this record. The bands on it are Voodoo Dolls from Coimbra, Portugal, Uneven from Saint-Etienne, France, X-Syndicate from Pantin, France and PMT from Norwich, UK. Voodoo Dolls play surf/horror punk/psychobilly? mix, two French bands are heaviest and they play hardcore punk. Uneven are kind of slowish and they somehow don't hold my attention while X-Syndicate sound much better to me and the vocalist reminds me a bit of singer Tati (Day By Day, Lost World...). PMT play punk with ska bits thrown in and they are actually the only band I knew before since I had their "In Tomato Sauce" tape. Later their saxophone player Jenny went to play in Ex-Cathedra. If you want you can find their split 7" with Red Flag 77 here.
Another one of rarely played records. In fact when I first bought it I have listened to it quite a bit, but it somehow always slipped from the listening line in next 15+ years. That is not strange since this is kinda industrial music and that's not my cup of tea (well-coffee, since I rarely drink tea too). Here and here you can find more extensive info on the band and I'll give you just a few words. They were from San Francisco, USA and this record is one of their first outputs (if not the first) their music was mainly labeled as industrial, but there were lot of other musical genres present and they became quite popular among wide circles of music fans and their second LP came out on Alternative Tentacles. After that, during post-Nirvana major label craze for indie bands they were signed by London Records which was very short affair since they were not actually "hit" material. They disbanded in 1997 and their website describes major label stunt like this: The band encourages all other groups to think carefully before going to major labels, and to really figure who can and will do what for you. Trust no one! BTW - this single was benefit for Bay Area Earth First!
Released: 1991 Label: Spirit Music Industries Size: 15 MB
Another one that I haven't listened for quite a while. Ropney Produkt were Czech band that was quite a revelation to me as they were among first bands that brought me closer to more metal sound in hardcore. I don't know nothing about them except that they had one more live 7" and that's it. The music is sometimes slow and heavy and sometimes faster and it's in fact more metal than hardcore punk, crust or whatever. If you like bands like Acid Rain Dance and similar then you could like this. What I find interesting on this record is short solo done with trumpet instead of guitar on song Samota. All in all, this is one nice record that should have it's place in everyone's collection.
Released: 1993 Label: Vegan Protest Size: 34 MB
01. Intro 02. Tvoje Smrt 03. Samota 04. Malá Planeta 05. V Zajetí Těla
This is EP by Finnish band that has dual Fe/Male vocals and they play hardcore punk that sounds melodic because of the fact that they have a saxophone among their instruments. This record somehow doesn't quite do it for me, but I know for the fact that a lot of people really liked this record when it was out. I think that I'd like it more if it was saxless (heh), it could all sound quite dirtier, but it surely gives me pleasure to hear Dezerter song in such arrangement and in Finnish. Try it, you could really dig this.
01. IVO 02. Orpo 03. Smurffi-Vaara 04. Hetken Hiljaisuus 05. Katharsis 06. Tulevaisuuteen (Dezerter cover) 07. Luonnon Puolesta (live) 08. Annos Elämälle (live) 09. Jälkeen
I had this 7" lying in my drawer for ages being played maybe three times alltogether. It's not that it's bad, it's kind of Bad Brains(ish) hardcore (first track) and dub/reggae (the second track), but it's just one of those records that was always skipped when browsing through the lot. I guess you have some of those at your place too. The band was from Peterborough, UK, the home of The Destructors, English Dogs, The Desecrators... I had no luck with finding more info about the band on the net except that they "recorded two albums & numerous singles & extensively toured Europe & north America in the mid 90’s". On the record inlay I've found that one of the albums' name is "We're All Niggas..... But Not Your Boys" and for a bit of name dropping: the drummer Spikey T. Smith played with the likes of Sacrilege, English Dogs, Morrissey, The Damned, Conflict, The T4 Project, The More I See to name just a few... If someone has more info, please leave a comment because there's really no info about them anywhere.
Masskontroll as you know were Punks from Portland who thought that they're Swedes with Japanese parents and Heartline were I guess sure that they're from Czech Republic so they are screaming their side of this split in their native tongue. But all this bullshit doesn't matter. What matters is that this is nice piece of crust muzak and you should get it.
Scraps were hardcore punk band from Lille, France that were active from mid-80s to mid-90s. As a kid I've listened to their first two 7"s (Apartheid and Aaargh!) religiously and one of the first bass lines that I learned to play in my life was the beginning of Dubeauf S'en Va T'en Guerre from Aaargh! 7".
