SABETH - zwei (7") Join The Team Player Records #02 1998

Okay, here is the second Sabeth 7" which was the second release (first one was the 51 compilation lp, which is also worth a posting) from the small - back then - Join The Team Player label. The label is now defunct and the people involved are concentrating on tour booking. Together with Trans Solar they were the first to introduce a higher quality layout comparable to established US labels for their releases. The cover here is no exception if you think of Second Nature/ Edision, Initial, Doghouse etc. and compare it to what German labels were considering artwork (just think of some labels from Berlin or the Hannover area).

Really a good development within a short time from their first 7" to this one. Quite more moshy but not the generic and boring chuggachugga thing and a way more precise drumming. Does anyone remember Mine from Switzerland and Constance? The also had this total unique sound: mosh without being mosh and unpredictable and great changes within the songs.

Especially the lyrics here are taking a great new direction: a quite deep, less naive analysis and of course stricture of structures, behaviour etc. within the hardcore scene but also keeping associated mechanisms of projection while doing so in mind (I' ve been told that this is also a reason that led to the end of Sabeth). That was the moment when I really started to love Sabeth and I know that some people in the Stuttgart area weren' t very pleased with their lyrics which just makes me smile and say: yes!

Although the label doesn' t exist anymore in contrast to the first 7" you might find this one in mailorder lists, at Ebay or even record stores. Just try your luck.

SABETH - zwei (7") Join The Team Player Records #02 1998

side a:
1. der feind

side b:
1. trendkiller
[OGG Vorbis, 256 K, password: antithesis, mirror 1, mirror 2]

Links:
Review on Quebec Hardcore

SABETH - 1st (7") diy 1996/ 1997

The last few weeks I got some e-mails how about me posting some German bands from the last decade since over the oceans people mainly just know the whole Bremen stuff, the Common Cause roster (this blog needs some Abc Diabolo & Ambush postings!) or Love Records things, since they were distributed quite well. Then I started pulling out singles, then I thought about having a series with 90ies emo stuff from all over the world (that' s how the Rights Reserved and The Trigger Quintet ended up here) and in the end about 200 singles were in front of my shelf giving this blog a new direction for the next weeks since there are many Reagan era, KBD whatever blogs or even faceless downloading blogs (horrible institutions) out there and only a few who constantly are posting things from the last decade which is a pity. I mean: fuck pomo and the standard dictum "it was all done before", I grew up with this shit, Seeing Zorn and Abc Diabolo live way before I owned a +Void+ split lp or even This Heat, Can, Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman or insert anything (hey dickheads even Teddie was thinking about his childhood and youth every fraggin minute... hahahahaha) so why should I lie: my heart is still into this crap.

I went through the singles again and stopped with: Sabeth! A band from the southern Stuttgart area featuring a former Dawnbreed (also coming!) member, having fine lyrics and just existing for about three years. They were also a great and powerful live band and I still have some soundboard recordings I' d like to "release" as tape (side note: Antithesis released many live tapes in the 90ies), so if anyone knows where the members are nowadays: please contact me. Maybe I will add one show soon.

I will post their stuff chronically starting with their first 7" now which came in a nice, self done packaging with high gloss cards of paintings and lyrics on the back (does anyone remember those funny Dawnbreed autograph cards in the Flatline fanzine?). In the US the whole heavy music thing (we degenerated Germans refer to this as "heavy mucke") was just emerging out of hardcore - think about Kiss It Goodbye, Bloodlet, Coalesce, Deadguy and so on - while bands like Sabeth managed to find their own sound, very unique but with a huge influence of emo core (it' s funny how unbiased I am while writing this word today), Bremen (Acme/Carol/Systral...), Helmet, AmRep and Touch & Go artists parallel to this development - at least those things come to my mind while listening to them. This was also the first time besides Dawnbreed I thought that German lyrics might not sound awkward since there were more than 15 years of embarrassment between Fehlfarben, Mittagspause, DAF, S.Y.P.H. (hell yeah!), Die Tödliche Doris, Palais Schaumburg (da bomb yo!), der Plan etc. and what is called "Hamburger Schule" or - like Sabeth - hardcore bands from Bremen or Southern Germany (did someone in the back scream "what about some Deutschpunk?"?; dude, come here and get some!).

By the way: all those bands pay tribute to Bernhard Hahn (Elch Studio) who produced all those records back then giving them this particular sound. Like Kuschelrockstudios did in Northern Germany helped to define the Teutonic sound (hahahahaha) of Acme, Carol etc..

SABETH - 1st (7") diy 1996/1997

side a:
1. Aller Wege Ziel
2. Selig

side b:
1. Umstand
2. Ein Versuch
[OGG Vorbis, 256 K, password: antithesis, mirror 1, mirror 2]

RIGHTS RESERVED - galleons lap (7") La Cocina Records #01 199?

Most just know Rights Reserved from their split 7" with Assfactor 4 or maybe their lp on Assorted Porkchorps, which is really great. I am really jealous about my sister having it and me never buying it (I hadn' t to since we were living together for a long time able to listen to each other' s records).

What most people do not know is that this Durham based band started as a melodic hardcore punk band in the late 80ies having eps that are way different than their early 90ies sound which more or less touched the emo genre and so I thought it might be nice to post a 7" by them that is quite between their early stuff and their lp and shows somehow this development even within songs.

Yeah I am sorry but they are really doing a cover of "young turks". Due to this it will just be up for one week. I am a bit paranoid.

I couldn' t find any informations on the world wide web; but I will post other things by them including the lp.

RIGHTS RESERVED - galleons lap (7") La Cocina Records #01 199?

side a:
1. soup and crackers
2. chicken soup with rice

side b:
1. lemon soda
2. young turks
[OGG Vorbis, 256 K, password: antithesis, mirror 1, mirror 2]

BLOODSPORT - "Massmurder on every scale" demo (CD-R) Repel Records 1998

This is my first Repel Records posting, a small label and fanzine from the Ruhrpott area done by the second and notorious singer of Spawn and later True Blue (very much loved by the political correct ones.... hahahaha). He is currently doing Reaper Records. Anyway Repel was releasing some fine demos in the last century and I am starting with this one since I just pulled it out for a friend; all other demos I own will follow: True Blue, Damage i.d., Buried Alive and the great Iron Skull. I am still missing some stuff which is supposed to be on Repel: Despair live tape, a compilation tape called "return to heaven" and a Born From Pain demo. Maybe someone can help me out or will even contribute them here.

Back to Bloodsport: I think, they started with a drum computer like Rancor did, but added the former Invidia drummer soon (I have their demo tape but I am missing the cover; anyone?) to record this demo. Beside Invidia the band members used to be in Feeding The Fire (maybe the most famous red edge band beside Profound/ ManLiftingBanner), Backdraft, Rancor (I found a homepage... they are back together?!) and Invidia.
We played with them some gigs as a replacement for Brother' s Justice who got robbed and lost nearly all their equipment and merchandise on tour - that was together with Length Of Time. Bloodsport were what you might call a live band. I don' t know how their later album for GSR was, but the demo is just a bit behind their brutal live performance: what the audience was doing while watching Length Of Time was done by Bloodsport on stage before.

What I loved about Bloodsport around this time was that they orientated themselves way more towards the originally 8oies metal bands than most of the bands from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany were doing back then ( maybe besides Liar): less moshcore more metal. Just listen to "sauron". I really love the dry drum sound; not like all those overproduced things nowadays.

The demo was later rereleased as tape by Spill The Blood records (S.T.B. #05), which is the most known version and you might often find it in trade lists etc. This is the cover (I included the whole scan in the zip file):



As you might know: some members went on to play in Born From Pain. But this is a different story.

Again: please contact me concerning other Repel Records stuff and Invidia. Thanks!

Bloodsport - "Massmurder on every scale" demo (CD-R) Repel Records #?? 1998
1. shadowwar
2. sauron
3. iscarioth
4. with a passion
[OGG Vorbis, 256 K, password: antithesis]

Links:
Born From Pain homepage
Reaper Records
GSR

BIRTHRIGHT shirt

Original Birthright shirt from Catalyst records. One of the most well known 90ies vegan drugfree chugga chugga bands with former members of Jackhammer and Advance I think (both with singles and tapes on Initial and Catalyst). Especially in Germany the band name is misinterpreted due to the background of a vegan drugfree ideology.
I read on the Catalyst homepage once that Birthright wasn' t a full vegan straight edge band either since having constant line up changes etc. and not all members lived up to that; there were only a few bands with all members being vegan drugfree anyway.
Like most ot the vegan drugfree bands they just had few outputs or a few songs on many different records twice etc. (songs from the demos are on the 7", split 7" and MCD etc. and everything on a CD now). A constant phenomenom since many heroes of that area even just did one 7".

Links:
Birthright @ Catalyst
Birthright @ Myspace

THE TRIGGER QUINTET - self titled (7") Twistworthy Records #01 1995

I am not quite sure if someone remembers (at least Used Bin Forever! does) this very, very short lived Texas based band - I think they just existed for one year or so and had only a few outputs (one 7" and two compilation tracks).
If you grew up with all those early 90ies emo core bands who were also influenced by guitar rock you will like The Trigger Quintet. Well played, good and clear production and the typical nice packaging for this time - what else do you want?

So wherever Tim, Brian, Mike and Mark are nowadays: thank you for this nice piece of plastic.


THE TRIGGER QUINTET - self titled (7") Twistworthy Records #01 1995

side a:
1. senseless in drowning

side b:
1. a return home
2. kill me before I die
[OGG Vorbis, 256 K, password: antithesis]


Discography:

- selftitled 7" Twistworthy Records #01 1995
- track on "the ground rule double" lp/cd Actionboy Records & Divot Records 1995
- track on "use this coupon" lp Slave Cut Records 1996

Repost of the C.C.M. LP

Okay, here is the new rip of the C.C.M. LP (original post).

All those reripped stuff will be up for one week and then they are gone forever.

C.C.M. - into the void (LP) Belfagor Records #07 1986

Side a:
1. Feel Like
2. Enemy
3. Sterilized
4. Sorry
5. R.M.

Side b:
1. Daymare
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Strange Pain
4. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
5. Into The Void
[OGG Vorbis, 256 k, password: antithesis]

Hats off to Rob Halford & Creative Labs!

Okay kids (and old farts), hats off to Creative Labs!!!

I have a brand new soundcard and can provide much better rips now; currently I am reripping all vinyl stuff that has been posted before (tapes have been done at the computer of my convenant and should sound fine - or?).

I just realized how awful for example the C.C.M. lp sounded - I am really sorry.

By the way: never purchase a motherboard with Via chipset. The worst case scenario would be: Asus motherboard, Via chipset and Nvidia graphic card. Argh....

(UNION OF) URANUS - backhand (Tape) Daybreak Records 1994

These songs are also on the split 12" with His Hero Is Gone (became something like a neo crust and emo scum wet collectors dream) and again on something like a discography cd (which no one needs (?) because it just features the songs from the split 7", the 2x7"/12" and the demo (which means those lazy bastards didn' t record more songs?)). I just thought it might be a nice posting including scans of the tape cover. Union of Uranus, Uranus or (Union of) Uranus were an ignition for a whole wave of bands especially in Germany and France many bands originated who were mainly or directly influenced by them (Uranus nearly had the same impact like bands like Unbroken, Born Against or His Hero Is Gone/ Tragedy/ Remains Of The Day had concerning waves of new bands). The demo is still a bit behind the great 2x7" but a damn good offbeat by a new band. Released on Daybreak back then which is one of the many names of the label most of you know as Great American Steak Religion or Feral Ward or Witch Hunt. One band member went on to play in His Hero Is Gone and Tragedy as you might know.

(UNION OF) URANUS - backhand (Tape) Daybreak Records 1994
1. backhand
2. one eye strengthens
3. weight of tomorrow
4. equilibrate
5. pressure (Negative Approach)
[OGG Vorbis, password: antithesis)


Links:
Myspace Fanpage

Grundpfeiler der Demokratie #2. Heute: Amtsgericht Frankfurt.

Spiegel Online

( @Krauts) Neue Serie: Grundpfeiler der Demokratie. Erste Folge: die Berliner Polizei.

Berliner Zeitung

Netzeitung

Blinded by ideology

Here is a real tough one:

http://www.xcatalystx.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=83&highlight=israel

Someone is trying an impossible thing among those blinded by ideology; Hats off to this dude.

I pissed my pants - although I should cry - concerning the "semites" statement taking from a Wikipedia entry. Can you believe this?

Another day in the western world

When I am taking a shit, I read some Heinrich Heine while doing so (you should too). I think even Heine would love it while others won' t.

STRUGGLE shirt

Original Struggle shirt printed by Ebullition. There was a different version with colours for their US tour I think. When I was younger - I got into punk and hardcore at the peak of the 90ies political hc - I was obsessed with Struggle. I had this friend Axel in a great band called Liederkranz Seemann-Kahne who wore a wornout Struggle patch on his jeans jacket not willing to give it to me and I thought about a hundred ways how to steal the patch off his jacket or his whole jacket.
Their 7" from which the front motive is taken is a real great hardcore record and was the missing link between Downcast and Rorschach. Their lp was even a huge step towards the whole later San Diego stuff. No wonder since later members of Swing Kids (Eric Allen), Locust and Bread and Circuits played in Struggle.
The backprint is oh so 90ies but still causes some reactions. I think the bandmembers wouldn' t print such stuff today and they even left out some booklet pages from their vinyl releases on the discography cd which makes me feel quite comfortable about them progressing (with a huge "intifada worldwide" in their lp booklet they just had to!). GSL once had a nice tree graphic about all the members of those bands and how they are connected to each other but this one seems offline now. But try this one on BandToBand.com.

CONFLICT shirt

German bootleg with a slogan/ song title from their first lp ("meat means murder"1) and the motive from the compilation which included remixes of single songs. Really poor printing quality.
The band is constantly repeating itself since the late 80ies and all their stuff is in print (Emi not Mortarhate! Hahahahaha...).

Update: I just saw that some of the official shirts have a comparable bad printing quality anyway.

Links:
Homepage

1 yeah, we all know about Conflict' s sophisticated, eloquent and deep going lyrics and how they managed to postulate a progressive world-view.

AVAIL shirt

Early poor looking Avail shirt. I can' t believe what people were thinking back then and all of course in xl or even xxl. Used to be a great band especially live. "Over the James" was the last album I purchased nine years ago. Don' t know what their later stuff sounded like maybe I' ll try to get my hands on that.

Links:
Homepage
Myspace

ASSÜCK shirt

Original Assück shirt; there are probably hundreds of bootleggs floating around.
One of the best bands in the world for me. At least for this one record and the early singles. There were some horrible - punk typical witchhunt? - stories about them and ABC Diabolo on their European tour with infamous Daryl Kahan (known from Born Against, Citizens Arrest and Taste Of Fear) on vocals. Honestly: I couldn' t care less.

Links:
Wikipedia entry

C.C.M. - into the void (lp)

Sorry, about the flashlight but I was too lazy for scanning.

Since I got quite a few e-mails concerning the Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers tape (dudes and dudettes: post comments!) and also requests for the lp: here it is.

A bit less hasty than their early stuff but the most well written songs. Complex arrangements, sudden breakdowns and the complete song takes a total different direction, crazy guitar shit, very precise drumming and of course this scratchy, agonized voice. All recorded in just 41 hours on their US tour. This is my first listening pleasure after nearly 6 maybe 7 years (me = again stupid), how could I forget? "Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry" which features backing vocals by Paul of Zero Boys alone makes this worth buying. After listening to it for the third time now, I have to admit that this is as great as the first Die Kreuzen lp, even has a slight touch therefrom. Mixing and throwing in blues & rock parts and some Birthday Party or even Wall Of Voodoo makes this a fascinating record all completed by those angry and cynical lyrics. Someone wrote at 7inchpunk that Alternative Tentacles said that they would do a discography immediately if they could get in touch with the original band members, so maybe someone reading this can help them out.

C.C.M. - into the void (LP) Belfagor Records #07 1986

Side a:
1. Feel Like
2. Enemy
3. Sterilized
4. Sorry
5. R.M.

Side b:
1. Daymare
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Strange Pain
4. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
5. Into The Void

(OGG Vorbis, 224 k, password: antithesis)

GO! - a remembrance - live in Homburg live in Homburg AJZ 29.6.1991(Tape)

This is really a quite fine remembrance: Go! live on their European tour.

I wish Mike Bullshit would talk less between the songs because the whole show lacks a bit power due to this. But yeah: the communication with the audience thing was big in the early nineties. I still prefer Mike' s version to all those preaching political hardcore bands of that time. Speaking of preaching: Go! were fun, they were a funny band in a very positive way and at the same time they were dead serious about queer topics, scene bullshit etc.. Just think of the stuff that came out of N.Y. the late 80ies/early 90ies and then there is this straight edge hardcore type of band that partly plays this music but lyrically really took another direction. In my opinion bands like Los Crudos, Limp Wrist or Gayrilla Biscuits would have never seen the light of day without Go!.

Go! are back together again, they played some shows (I heard a radio recording and it sounded powerful for such old lads) and released a 7". All their other stuff pops up very often, you can get the 7"'s or the "total" compilation lp on First Strike quite cheap; their lp/cd on Epistrophy which is almost a discography is still available from mailorders worldwide or directly from Epistrophy.

All - like Nations On Fire did - now: Thanks Mike!


GO! - a remembrance... live in Homburg AJZ 29.6.1991 (Tape) Unique Tapes #01

Side a:

1. Hard as
2. King of Nothing
3. People
4. Survival
5. It's Up To You
6. Mom
7. Take Root
8. Section 28
9. Our Scene
10. The Word
11. Why Suffer?
12. Long Hot Summer
13. Holy Roller
14. Burn-out
15. Kept
16. Decide
17. Just Another Word
18. You Say You' ll
19. Milk
20. On The Need To...
21. Homburg
22. Me vs. You
23. A Day To Fight For

Side b:

1. Fear Of A Gay Planet
2. Electricity (O.M.D.)
3. What' s Your Price
4. The A-Train
5. Minor Threat (MINOR THREAT)
6. Left
7. Just Say GO!
8. Victim Of Civilization
9. Betrayed By Flesh
10. Julian
11. Escape From NY
12. Giat Training Camp
13. Sick People (BREAKDOWN)
14. Friends Like You (SICK OF IT ALL)
15. Gyroscope (SFA)

(OGG Vorbis, 224 K, password: antithesis)


Links:

Go!
Go! @ Myspace


"Eat shit dreadlocked motherfucker"

CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS - Right to be Italian - demo '83 & last gig '87 (Tape)

It' s a pity that you only find few informations about one of the best Italian bands of the 8oies. I mean for example there is the Kill From The Heart entry or even a Myspace "fan"page but with nothing on it; just some covers, pictures from the records and a discography (can anyone tell me why no one is willing to do a discography cd by C.C.M.?). And bloody hell: there is no single Google hit concerning their demo tape "we' re the juvenile delinquency"?

After I saw the first 7", the split tape and the second 7" quite a few times on all this downloading/mp3mos blogs I thought it might be nice to add this one. I will also do the lp soon since I have not seen it on all those blogs - if so: please tell me.

C.C.M. were my first real contact with Italian hardcore from the 80ies and they just blew me away (me being an idiot: I ignored all the other great bands for a long time despite many recommendations by friends). Some guys who took the name of that Dead Boys guy and just added "motherfuckers" can' t go wrong. What ever they had on their mind or in their bodies while choosing it: it' s one of the greatest band names ever!
Musically in my opinion they were to Italy what were +Void+ and Septic Death to the U.S.. And if +Void+ wouldn' t had started playing bad hard rock their unreleased lp should have sounded like C.C.M.

Back to the tape: it is listed as bootleg in some lists but I do not think so, my Italian is very bad but as far as I can get it from the liner notes Robert & Giulio (thanks for putting out that tape back then) used the original master tape for this compilation. If someone can translate or tell me exactly about the liner notes: just post it as reply here (PLEASE!). Anyway here you get the last gig in 1987 and the demo tape "we' re the juvenile delinquency" from 1983. Most songs of the demo are - of course in better versions - on the single, the split tape and the compilations ("single ticket to paradise" etc.), here they sound way more punk rock rooted.


C.C.M. - Right to be Italian - demo ' 83 & last gig '87 (Tape) E.U. '91/ Glued Stamps Records #13 & Provinciattiva #05 1995

Side A:

- live in Bologna, Italy, 20th june 1987
1. Intro
2. Feel like
3. Bendix power
4. Into the void
5. Enemy in my head
6. Sterilized
7. Sorry/ R.M.
8. Strange pain
9. Camp Darby Blues

Side B:

- "We' re the juvenile delinquency" demo tape 1983
1. Barbed wire world
2. We' re the juvenile delinquency
3. Best party ever - No bore
4. Nation on fire
5. Camp Darby Blues
6. Addiction
7. Right to be Italian
8. Foe or friend
9. 400 fascists
10. ......
11. Alkool
- live in Bologna, Italy, 20th june 1987
12. Brand new one n°2
13. Naymiorenggekkio

(OGG vorbis, 224 K, password: antithesis).

The download also includes the whole scan of the cover.

Someone told me that C.C.M. had another demo tape in 1983 with nearly 15 songs, so if anyone can give some informations: drop me a line. Same goes for an original cover of this demo! Thanks.

By the way: here are some snippets from 3 old Italian video compilations including C.C.M. live in 1983 and 1986 (there are also snippets from Rawpower, Negazione, Wretched, Kina etc.). If someone can do digital versions of those videos: you' d be my hero.


Update: I was told that this Tape is still available from E.U. 91 (same goes for the Negazione live tape I wanted to post in the future)! I also found this review on their homepage:

"Another strike for the invincible E.U.'91 + Provinciattiva team. Roberto's ability was to find telephone numbers of original band members and be so friendly + persuasive to always get to the point (licence to put out official releases). With CCM this worked out contacting the former guitarist Antonio who quickly agreed about doing this diy tape + sending the original masters and a brief commentary. This C-60 features the band's Demo '83 (according to me one of their best things ever) and a brilliant soundboard recording of their very last show. Unbelieably sick and direct Granducato HC with one of the most deranged vocals ever. I always loved them to death, too bad none of their records has been reissued yet. Tons of copies sold/traded, with no doubt over 1000."

Links:

Furious Party 7" @ Good Bad Music For Bad, Bad Times
Myspace page
Kill From The Heart entry
Informations about the split

DETASTATION shirt

Another favourite of the uncountable crust bands of the last century I am totally into respectively I grew up with - like I did with State Of Fear, Misery, Nausea, Hellkrusher, Exrement Of War, Dischange, Extinction Of Mankind etc. (all hail the crust edge!). This shirt is based on the great lp which is still available from Skuld.

DRASTIC ACTIONS Shirt

Drastic Actions is a new hardcore label from the Stuttgart area and also a small mailorder which features a second hand section (quite seldom nowadays). This is their newest shirt which is still available and highly visible a Sisters Of Mercy rip off. I can remember my whole school wearing their shirts back then - fortunately I discovered Minor Threat and Uniform Choice.... hahahahaha.
Drastic Actions also did funny Alternative Tentacle rip off stickers which will be posted soon.

Links:

Drastic Actions label & mailorder
Drastic Actions @ Myspace

DEFIANCE shirt

Switzerland' s Mister Universe Manni introduced Defiance to me after I missed the actuality that members of Resist - hell yeah, I loved that lp - and Deprived had started a new band. This band is really really great until the "no time left" e.p.. After touring and line-up changes the band lacked more and more power; and so does the second lp and the stuff afterwards. Their "no future no hope" lp is the perfect blend of the old crust influences and UK stuff like Chelsea, Chaos UK, Angelic Upstarts & Abrasive Wheels. The driven guitar parts, bass runs, a lot of chorus singing and those simple, but strong lyrics made this one of the best punk albums in the 90ies for me and accompanied me through a lot of shit.
Defiance got criticized for being on Punk Core now since Punk Core was supposed to distribute stuff like Ultima Thule; there are also rumors about their remaining Skuld stuff being destroyed due to that. Maybe you' ll tell me.

This shirt is based on the cover of the "burn" e.p. which was released on Consensus Reality in 1995.

Links:

Homepage
Punk Core
Skuld Releases

OUTREACH Records Shirt

Very rare Outreach Records shirt (Thanks Mike for this gift!) which is great fun for sports like running or at a boring undergraduates party.

MASSKONTROLL European tour shirt

The front print is from their lp "will you ever learn?" and I will upload it some day or the cd version, because I am quite lazy at the moment.

Masskontroll were one of the few bands that kept crust interesting for me. Their "warpath" e.p. is just great, nothing new but prefectly played with all those cliche parts you want to have while listening to a crust record. Like most fulllength records in this genre their lp (produced by Pig Champion) lacked power and variety, but what do you expect from songs that are plain copies of two or three bands who wrote nearly the same stuff (including the lyrics and the layout) 10 years earlier? It is the conscious blindness (or better: deafness) of being a fan that keeps me buying such records .

OUR WORLD Records shirts & longsleeve

Here are some shirts by the very small southern German label Our World Records.

The first one is making fun of one of the most popular slogans in hardcore "drug free youth", since a drug free lifestyle mostly ends with high school or the early 20ies and the former preachers became what they once despised. A quite normal thing if those jumping jacks wouldn' t give others a hard time in the years of x-ing up. Beside confronting lust the whole straight edge thing is mostly the production of masculinity so when starting drinking or doing drugs it' s mostly for the same reasons those dudes got into straight edge and not some elders who for example know the true promise of red whine (by the way: all the drug free adults I know are real laid-back persons).

The second one is referenceing to the the almighty Heresy on the back. I did not take out their records for a long time but I did it after taking those pictures and I have to say I still like their lyrics although they may sound naive nowadays.

The third one is the most popular Our World Records motive and also printed in larger quantities than the others.

ZAP fanzine shirt

This is one of the greatest shirts ever. Done by the famous ZAP fanzine in the early 90ies. The Raiders rip off on the front says "guerrillas against Germany" and the back just plain and simple "Germany peg out!". This lead to many funny discussions (even lyrics like "why are you still living here if you don' t like this country?" were written by some German grindcore and power violence bands) and identified many big mouth punk rockers as patriotic idiots. Sadly this shirt is also very popular among antizionistic, pseudo-anarchist and antiimperialist leftwing fruits; luckly: I do not meet them at law school (I still love the reactions I get while wearing this).

REGRET shirts & video

Regret was a short lived - they existed from autumn 1998 to the beginning of 2000 - band from Southern Germany and combined the typical youth crew hardcore with faster parts - think of Stikky oder Infest. Their lyrics disagreed with most things happening within the "scene" (homophobia, macho jock thing, just another part of the culture industry etc.) and were compared to those by Go! or MK Ultra. Speaking of Go!: Regret rehearsed rarely but accepted all offers to play live. Including funny moments in noble discotheques or even in the deer park at a local fair featuring shooting matches (!!!) - just think of the audience at such a location and band members throwing stuff at them while playing. The band released several tapes and a one sided 12" on Our World Records. Their bass player is now in Nme.Mine, the drummer and the guitar player are in Come Closer.

Those Infest rip off shirts were printed by Our World Records in small quantity and were sold at a one-time reunion show.

Here is a video from this show, which is also on the third part of the Our World videomagazine dvd. The first part after the Earth Crisis intro says: "Bring me the head of Tony Victory".

RITES OF SPRING shirt & 'mike fellows is dead' demo 1984

This was licensed by the band and features the artwork of the brilliant LP. As far as I know just 50 were made by Adagio830 and I am still asking myself: why is it so hard for all the other shirt bootleggers to write - in days of modern communication - an e-mail or to pick up the phone and call some original member, label whatever and ask if you can print some shirts. Who - within the smaller let' s call it d.i.y. based music "scene" - will say no if someone prints a shirt of a band in which you played nearly 20 years ago and that still touches kids' hearts or supports their moment of youth and hopefully involve the appropriate rebellion within this moment?
In all those years all people who have been asked by friends of mine who wanted to do shirts, patches or - in my case - live tapes with soundboard recordings by bands, they love or are/ were important to them, always gave their permission to do so. In the majority of the cases the former artists didn' t even want free copies or money (which would be normal anyway) and filed it under "network of friends". It is also funny that those category groups of "alternative" music which mostly domicile loose thinking of capitalism anyway are those with the biggest shirt bootlegging businesses; I am thinking of anarcho, peace and crust punk, grind- and noisecore or the whole emo genre. If capitalism is a real pain in the ass then definitely for someone who is printing Amebix shirts 12 hours a day to make a living... hahahahaha.

Back to Rites Of Spring. One of the greatest bands ever. They started an era and they partly ended it. The rest is history. I also uploaded their demo tape which was provided by my friend Alex. Thanks a lot! Although these are the same songs you' ll find on the record they have all those intros mentioned in the Dance Of Days book. Have fun!

RITES OF SPRING - 'mike fellows is dead' demo (Tape) d.i.y. 1984
1. end on end
2. remainder
3. persistent vision
4. hain' s point
5. all there is
6. by design

[MP3, 320 K, password: antithesis]

POLICY OF 3 shirt

This is a Policy Of 3 Shirt which was sold on their European tour - that was in 1995 as far as my rusty brain can remember. They were one of the more well known bands of the early 90ies emo hardcore wave but I loved them for playing a more Washington D.C. orientated sound and also not being that preachy - which was very, very popular back then. I haven' t listened to their records for like more than 5 years now, recently heard the Deepwater LP which featured Policy Of 3' singer. I am not quite sure if the still can spark off something in me - if they' ll do I let you know.

Update: okay, I found out that I sold their LP years ago and just have the 7" on Bloodlink left. Hahahaha... okay, worser things could happen to me... hahahaha.

Policy Of 3' s members went on to play in 400 Years and even R.A.M.B.O.

Related to Policy Of Three I am still looking for two records: The Spirit Of Solitude compilation 7" and the Superpowers tape (a dub would be just fine)! If you can help me out with them, just send me an e-mail! THANKS!

7 INCH BOOTS - death over Mülheim - live attacks & studio outtakes (Tape)

As promised before: another 7 Inch Boots Posting. Most of you might know them as being one of the bands before Bohren & der Club of Gore but mainly they are kinda overlooked today. Who cares as long as they are important to some fraggles and freaks out there?!
This tape was released by Horizons (yup, the Hardstance song) which was a small fanzine(1), tape label and mailorder in the early 90ies in Germany. Done by Gonzo who was writing for the huge ZAP fanzine back then and who was also the singer of Lebensreform.
The songs are live tracks, studio and demo outtakes and like most of the Horizons tapes: there wasn' t tracklist on the cover so I just kept it in one single track. After some requests I uploaded the regular demo tape again, to help out the 7 Inch Boots fans who never heard this one.

7 INCH BOOTS - death over Mülheim - live attacks & studio outtakes (Tape) Horizons #01 199x

Click!
[Ogg Vorbis, 224 K, password: antithesis]

7 INCH BOOTS - "walkin' through" 8 song demo (Tape) Hopser Tape Productions 1989
1. intro
2. sick of freaks
3. what it means
4. view
5. out of the water
6. moment of love
7. mutant
8. shouldn' t we be angry
9. strike back
[Ogg Vorbis, 192 K, password: antithesis]


Discography again:

"walkin' through" 8 Song Demo (Tape) Hopser Tape Productions 1989
"everything is relative" Compilation (Tape) No Hate No War #02 1990
"tamped concrete E.P." (7") Snoop Records #03 1990
"Death over Mühlheim - live attacks & studio outtakes" (Tape) Horizons #01 199?
"Drei Lieder für Bruce Lee" (7") Organon #01 199? - aufgenommen Februar 1991


(1) There used to be some digital versions of that zine on a server of the Frankfurt University, if I find the page again, I' ll post it.

Back with a... uhm not a bang but at least back!!!

First of all: after a hell lot of e-mails from all around the world, this blog is in English from now on. It is not my first language, so if you are looking for eloquence go read a book before Harry Rowohlt is going to translate it. Okay, just kidding: please write me concerning grammar mistakes, expressions etc. Hopefully I will take extension courses in English and French this year at university! Okay, cut that self hating Kraut stuff now.

Second: sorry, that it took so long for new postings, but I had to deal with the typical shit life has to offer. But that' s definitely my business.

Currently listening to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson' s "Winter in America" LP released 1973 on of my favourite record label ever: Strata East Records. It is a pity that some of their records are not available nowadays. Just think of all those fine spiritual jazz stuff like The Ensemble Al-Salaam (currently sold for about 80 bucks at Ebay)! Back to "Winter in America": there is a repress on Rumal-Gia Records at the end of the 90ies. If you see it or the CD version with additional songs: Take it!

What the fuck I am writing here?

By the way: Fuck this guy.



Found this some minutes ago:

Kinners, Ihr macht mir Angst!!!

Wenn man sich die aktuelle Suchbegriffsliste - die meisten landen über Google.de oder Google.com hier - ansieht, die dank Statcounter protokolliert wird, bekomme ich Angst: "Spit Acid LP Per Koro", "Stormstrike Records", "Ecorage vegan", "Ecorage Essen", "Step Into Nowhere", "Timm Sonnenschein hardline" oder auch - mein Lieblingskracher, da mit regionalem Bezug - "Köpi vegan".

Zu Euer Zufriedenheit: einen Teil werde ich demnächst hier posten (konkret: Step Into Nowhere, Ecorage Demotape & Stormstrike Kram).