SARJAN HASSAN

 

They've graced these pages before, and any self respecting fan of global fast and/or thrashcore will already be familiar - for the rest of you? SARJAN HASSAN. Kuala Lumpur's premier thrashers offer up twenty-nine doses of high quality metallic fastcore taken from splits with PEOPLE AGAIN, CONQUEST FOR DEATH, DAIG HILA and NADIMAC plus some comp tracks and their 2005 self titled demo. If this band had existed in North America or Europe in the early 2000s....? I'm just saying that fans of the shit need to listen to the shit. 

TAPE RULES

ERROR CREW

 

Another brilliant and under-appreciated street punk band from Indonesia? The more you dig the more you will find, and the more you find...? The more you will find that you need to dig for. 2001's Loose And Gain is anthemic UK hardcore tempered with 1994 RANCID and 1998 CASUALTIES so if you think even for one fukking second that these tracks aren't going to stick with you.....? Well, then you clearly have not blasted "Confused" seven beers into a Tuesday evening. I recommend it. 

LOOSE AND GAIN

DESBORDE

The self titled tape was good (really good), but this thing is an absolute stunner. Maximum energy synth drenched punk from Argentina with multiple vocals delivered with different but competing levels of harsh intensity. RADIOACTIVITY caliber hooks and CRUDOS level ferocity....and killer early '80s new wave synths. "Son Todoxs Policias" is a straight classic that could steal the heart of any era and/or subgenre specific punk rocker and then "Sin Caminos" drops in a mid-paced squirmy driver with keys that would make Greg Hawkes weak. These punks are simply flawless. 

 YA NO KIERO SER PARTE DE ESTE MUNDO

PROTOPLASMA

 

In the world of gloriously bizarre and indescribable recordings, PROTOPLASMA might belong in their very own brain melting category. Complete freak vibes activate - you're going to hear MELT BANANA, RITES OF SPRING, PARLAMENTARISK SODOMI, IDIOT FLESH, JAMES BLOOD ULMER and/or THE VSS (with grindcore drums)....none of this shit makes any sense at all. It's as if some punks fron Budapest got bored with mastering all known amalgamations of outsider music and decided to deconstruct all of them and use the remnants to make....different sounds. Nothing sounds like PROTOPLASMA. 

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Yeah - the tape is called " - " so the clickable link is small. 
Sometimes you have to work for magic. 

VIBRATORS

 Companion post for a batch of killer and essential live recordings from THE VIBRATORS. Sometimes starter bands and standards are what they are for a goos reason....and that is absolutely the case with this LP, captured on the backside of a blank some live tracks and BBC session on the flip. Punk fukkn rules, and there ain't no reason for the most seasoned degenerate to not do a mental pogo to "Sweet Sweet Heart." Also "Whips & Furs" is a stone classic. Don't resist. 

PURE MANIA

THE SABOTAGE

 

These Indonesian street punks have made several appearances on these pages so frequent visitors should know what they're in store for today (as if the cover wasn't enough of a tell). THE SABOTAGE have evolved considerably from the ramshackle UK82 assault that defined many of their early releases - 2021's Generation Is Lost owes to THE CASUALTIES much like Give Us A Freedom did fifteen years earlier, but the sound is so much more realized now and incorporates Japanese hardcore influences (check the leads on "Down & Dirty" and the title track). Just as you'd expect from a crew of DIY street punk veterans.

GENERATION IS LOST

PRESSURE DROP

 

Sometimes you want gruff, hard-hitting, in your face street hardcore. Sometimes when the world is in turmoil, you want to listen to a band called PRESSURE DROP deliver a song called "World In Turmoil" and feel like you still have a fighting chance....or at least that someone else is as desperate as you are. Blast "Streets Running Red" and know that someone else is. 

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