8 Feb 2016
27 Dec 2015
Synth is not dead
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| El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados Preterito Perfecto 7" (DRO, 1983) |
El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados – Anarquía En El Planeta
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| The Soft Pink Truth Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? LP (Soundslike, 2004) |
The Soft Pink Truth – Do They Owe Us A Living
Get it here.
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| Digital Octopus Digital Octopus 12" (2015) |
Digital Octopus – Voice Of A Generation
13 Dec 2015
We are the best!
I was a teen punk before you were a teen punk
Verboten – My Opinion (Kidding Around, 1983)
Chandra – Concentration (Ed Steinberg, 1980)
Revo – Geloof In God, Geloof In Fascisme/Fascist Religion/Blah Blah Blah (Live, 1979)
Addendum:
Beastie Boys – White Shadow (The Scott And Gary Show, 1984)
Verboten – My Opinion (Kidding Around, 1983)
Chandra – Concentration (Ed Steinberg, 1980)
Revo – Geloof In God, Geloof In Fascisme/Fascist Religion/Blah Blah Blah (Live, 1979)
Addendum:
Beastie Boys – White Shadow (The Scott And Gary Show, 1984)
11 Dec 2015
End all discrimination
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| Powerage Protest To Survive 7" (Neg Fx, 1985) |
Powerage – Freedom
More info here.
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| No Song Kutkotz Personal Anarchy Cassette (AD Tapes, 1983) |
No Song Kutkotz – Personal Anarchy
More info here.
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| Sadistic Exploits Anarchy For Freedom 7" (Freedom Records, 1982) |
Sadistic Exploits – Freedom
Addendum:
The Children – Freedom
8 Dec 2015
Yeah Yeah Noh
6 Dec 2015
Music is not the message
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| Vitality Life Styles 7" (MaNi, 1986) |
Vitality – Life Styles
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| Aly-Us Follow Me 12" (Strictly Rhythm, 1992) |
Aly-Us – Follow me
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| Nicolette No Government 12" (Great Stuff Recordings, 2007) |
Nicolette – No Government
Addendum:
Heaven 17 – (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
5 Dec 2015
Don't believe the hype
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Bertrand Russell
Brand New World – Life In A Police State
Get it here.
“Fear is a tool of control. It is fear of punishment that will keep a classroom quiet and make the teacher's job easier; it is fear of the sack that will keep the grumbling workers quiet. Fear is also an efficient controlling device. It also helps us to fulfil our roles as consumers. It is fear of life itself that keeps us spending in the arcades and typing our credit-card numbers into websites.” Tom Hodgkinson
Sub Verse – Science Of Fear
“Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it's good for business. Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food, so the system deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away.” Tom Hodgkinson
“Terrorism has often served to break the momentum of radical situations. It stuns people, turns them back into spectators anxiously following the latest news and speculations. Far from weakening the state, terrorism seems to confirm the need to strengthen it. If terrorist spectacles fail to spontaneously arise when it needs them, the state itself may produce them by means of provocateurs.” Ken Knabb
Appliances – Paranoia Rap
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For further information, please do not hesitate to watch Better This World and read Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s On Terrorism and the State.
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| Brave New World Noise From The Heart! LP (Fartblossom Enterprizes, 1987) |
Brand New World – Life In A Police State
Get it here.
“Fear is a tool of control. It is fear of punishment that will keep a classroom quiet and make the teacher's job easier; it is fear of the sack that will keep the grumbling workers quiet. Fear is also an efficient controlling device. It also helps us to fulfil our roles as consumers. It is fear of life itself that keeps us spending in the arcades and typing our credit-card numbers into websites.” Tom Hodgkinson
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| VA Scaling Triangles LP (Eustone Music, 1981) |
Sub Verse – Science Of Fear
“Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it's good for business. Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food, so the system deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away.” Tom Hodgkinson
“Terrorism has often served to break the momentum of radical situations. It stuns people, turns them back into spectators anxiously following the latest news and speculations. Far from weakening the state, terrorism seems to confirm the need to strengthen it. If terrorist spectacles fail to spontaneously arise when it needs them, the state itself may produce them by means of provocateurs.” Ken Knabb
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| Appliances Paranoia Rap EP (Applied Music, 1981) |
Appliances – Paranoia Rap
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For further information, please do not hesitate to watch Better This World and read Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s On Terrorism and the State.
18 Nov 2015
PiLesque
15 Aug 2015
How minimal can you get? #99
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (Live at Carmel High School Cafeteria, IN 1983)
“Sounds like these guys try to play speedcore on handmade instruments; really weird. Sounds like a horrible parody of the first DRI EP. Cult or trash?“ Burkhard Jaerisch
“Totally crude and psychotic garage stuff here. They've got amazingly primitive drumming, raw guitars, and lots of super-short outbursts of madness called songs. A delight for Neos and early Half-Japanese fanatics.” Tim Yohannan (Maximum Rocknroll #9)
“Lack of proficiency in playing instruments would be a deterrent in just about any musical genre but it is exactly this 'weakness' that elevates the seven-inch to Dadaist improvisational levels, something I'm pretty sure Chemotherapy wasn't consciously aware of at the time.” Freddy Alva
Chemotherapy – Smart, Tough, And Catholic
Get it here.
“So if you enjoy music that was obviously put together in a matter of hours and sounds like the band recorded it with a Walkman whilst they were falling down a very long flight of stairs then this is for you!” Punk & Hardcore Record Sleeves
More info here.
Chemotherapy (Live at Carmel High School Cafeteria, IN 1983)
“Sounds like these guys try to play speedcore on handmade instruments; really weird. Sounds like a horrible parody of the first DRI EP. Cult or trash?“ Burkhard Jaerisch
“Totally crude and psychotic garage stuff here. They've got amazingly primitive drumming, raw guitars, and lots of super-short outbursts of madness called songs. A delight for Neos and early Half-Japanese fanatics.” Tim Yohannan (Maximum Rocknroll #9)
“Lack of proficiency in playing instruments would be a deterrent in just about any musical genre but it is exactly this 'weakness' that elevates the seven-inch to Dadaist improvisational levels, something I'm pretty sure Chemotherapy wasn't consciously aware of at the time.” Freddy Alva
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| Chemotherapy s/t 7" (Uprising Records, 1983) |
Chemotherapy – Smart, Tough, And Catholic
Get it here.
“So if you enjoy music that was obviously put together in a matter of hours and sounds like the band recorded it with a Walkman whilst they were falling down a very long flight of stairs then this is for you!” Punk & Hardcore Record Sleeves
More info here.
9 Aug 2015
Nuclear power & weapons: No, thanks!
“This confirmation that, for the first time, it is possible to govern without any artistic knowledge, nor any sense of the authentic or the impossible, could alone suffice to make us conjecture that the naive dupes of the economy and the administration will probably lead the world to some great catastrophe; if their actual practice had not already demonstrated that fact.” Guy Debord
The Reactors – Meltdown
Get it here. More info here.
“Not that I wish in any way to belittle the evils of conventional air and water pollution; but we must recognise 'dimensional differences' when we encounter them: radioactive pollution is an evil of an incomparably greater 'dimension' than anything mankind has known before. One might even ask: what is the point of insisting on clean air, if the air is laden with radioactive particles? And even if the air could be protected, what is the point of it, if soil and water are being poisoned?” E. F. Schumacher
The Mistakes – Radiation
Get it here. More info here.
“Nuclear practices, both military and civil, necessitate a far higher dose of secrecy than in other fields — which already have plenty, as we already know. To make life — that is to say, lying — easier for the sages chosen by the system's masters, it has discovered the utility of changing measurements, to vary them according to a large number of points of view, and refine them, finally juggle them, according to the case, with several figures that are hard to convert. Hence, to measure radioactivity levels, one can choose from a range of units of measurement: curies, becquerels, roentgens, rads alias centigrays, and rems, not forgetting the humble millirads, and sieverts which are worth 100 rems. This evokes the memory of the subdivisions of British currency, the complexity of which foreigners could not quickly master, back in the days when Sellafield was still called Windscale.” Guy Debord
Fallout – Nuclear Power
Get it here. More info here.
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For further information, please do not hesitate to watch Robert Stone's Radio Bikini documentary.
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| The Reactors Meltdown EP (Nuclear Waste Records, 1979) |
The Reactors – Meltdown
Get it here. More info here.
“Not that I wish in any way to belittle the evils of conventional air and water pollution; but we must recognise 'dimensional differences' when we encounter them: radioactive pollution is an evil of an incomparably greater 'dimension' than anything mankind has known before. One might even ask: what is the point of insisting on clean air, if the air is laden with radioactive particles? And even if the air could be protected, what is the point of it, if soil and water are being poisoned?” E. F. Schumacher
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| The Mistakes Radiation 7" (Twist And Shout Records, 1981) |
The Mistakes – Radiation
Get it here. More info here.
“Nuclear practices, both military and civil, necessitate a far higher dose of secrecy than in other fields — which already have plenty, as we already know. To make life — that is to say, lying — easier for the sages chosen by the system's masters, it has discovered the utility of changing measurements, to vary them according to a large number of points of view, and refine them, finally juggle them, according to the case, with several figures that are hard to convert. Hence, to measure radioactivity levels, one can choose from a range of units of measurement: curies, becquerels, roentgens, rads alias centigrays, and rems, not forgetting the humble millirads, and sieverts which are worth 100 rems. This evokes the memory of the subdivisions of British currency, the complexity of which foreigners could not quickly master, back in the days when Sellafield was still called Windscale.” Guy Debord
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| Fallout Fallout EP (1981) |
Fallout – Nuclear Power
Get it here. More info here.
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For further information, please do not hesitate to watch Robert Stone's Radio Bikini documentary.
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