SNÄGGLETOOTH

 

The lazy move is to drop MOTÖRHEAD and DISCHARGE comparisons. The right move is to acknowledge the Singapore's SNÄGGLETOOTH spent the 2010s doing for the Asia what INEPSY had done for North America the decade before. Every time I pop one of these tapes in the deck I am transported...every time I pop in one of these tapes I'm floored...every time I pop in one of these tapes? I rage. 2013's Road To Nothingness on the A Side with the 2012 demo (that I've already posted...twice) on the flip.

ROAD TO NOTHINGNESS 

22 DECEMBER 1984

It's been a while since we've seen one of Pat's tapes shared on these pages, but this broadcast from 39 years ago today is a perfect reintroduction to the wonder that is his seemingly endless archive.  There's some weird X-Mess season bits (not too many) and an absolutely stellar selection of sounds. Some of you are feeling pressure to do things you might not want to do this week/end....I suggest downloading this recording and listening to it while you do what you want to do. Or while doing nothing at all. 

KALX - 22 DECEMBER 1984

ALTARALTA

 

Cold, minimal, raw, howling sounds from Providence. I hear RAGANA clashing with an unknown dark wave power. Brooding, passionate, howling lo-fi bass/drums punk that sounds like nothing else but feels like it belongs.  I hear me, wishing that ALTARALTA had left us with more than these six songs. 

ALTARALTA

SOCIAL UNREST

 All hail tape traders, right? Then, now and always.....the things I (continue to) unearth still make me giddy like a teenager who just realized he could order punk records through the mail and have them delivered to his house in Ponca City, Oklahoma (it was a good feeling). Last week, I stumbled upon this SOCIAL UNREST demo buried in the middle of the second side of a tape that featured two snarky sets from THE ROTTERS, a few tracks from SCREAMERS recorded at The Mab in '78 and a ZEROS demo session....and I like to think that somewhere there was a tape maker and trader thinking "The Wizard gonna be real real psyched when he cranks this shit up in thirty years." That tape trader and maker was absolutely correct - Hayward, California's finest export bashing out five shots of stripped down animated punk, Making Room For Youth era from the sound of it. More punk, please and thank you. More tapes please and thank you. 

SOCIAL UNREST 

LOCAL SHELTER COMMUNICATIONS

 

Absolutely brilliant improvisation captured in a picnic shelter in Washington last summer - if there were justice in the world then the Sun Ra bandwagon jumpers would be talking about the Yard Sale For World Peace (and Hair Clinic) family of artists in 2023 and beyond. These heads are light years ahead/s of the rest of us, and I'm here for all of it. 

FLOWER POWER SOUND SYSTEM COLLABORATIONS

SORE THROAT

 

A master clinic in thunderous noisecore crust from SORE THROAT. A whopping 92 tracks (the tape includes the Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP, because tapes rule of course) ranging from damaged light speed crust to chaotic sub-5 second blasts that challenge the concept of music itself. Sometimes you need a sonic reset, you know....? And still after all these years, I can listen to "War Is Horrendous" and "A Bow To Capital" on repeat - the rest of the tape is just a cherry on top of perfection. 

UNHINDERED BY TALENT

GRAND INVINCIBLE

 

DJ EONS and LUKE SICK combine forces once again, demonstrating how effortless and smooth the West Bay flow is supposed to sound. I remember standing at the top of San Bruno in Vis Valley listening to "West Bay Propane" when this first dropped...watching the sun rise over the Hunter's Point and feeling like I actually belonged there. Belonged here. This tape has been a go-to for a long time, and it's not going anywhere.

THE RESULT

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