SIMON FRANK

 

I first heard of Frank through HOT & COLD's excellently sparse Border Area LP, but most of his solo output has eluded me.  Until no, that is - because after relentless and compulsive listening to 2018's Humid Music, I will be making every effort to seek down physical copies of everything. Everything. The 7+ minute "See Self" opener hits like an entire night at the club; everything is there. Everything is here. Monotonous SUICIDE clashing with driving '80s new beat by way of early PIAS and shades of NITZER EBB and then a burst of no wave like the brilliant "Good Taste Is Worthless." Simon freaks and chants deliberately over each track and it feels like you're in a trance just listening....I would love to experience this at full volume in a packed club.

HUMID MUSIC

GERUTUAN BANGSAT

 

Raw UK styled punk from Indonesia - distant, distorted and damaged. 

LAWAN KEMBALI

NSA

 

This shit is absolutely damaged. Carelessly replicated and hopelessly destroyed mutant hardcore maybe from Florida - sometimes I listen to "I's" and I'm thinking "this is like CONEHEADS on a steady diet of CROSSED OUT" and while I know that doesn't really make sense (or seem like it works).....just listen.

NSA IS WATCHING

THUMBTHUMB

 

Super trippy.
Like an improvisational synth artist interpreting a series of insect migrations. 
Definitely mysterious. 

THUMBTHUMB IS NOT MYSTERIOUS

MELT

 

Let the Indonesian S.H.I.T. destroy your brain and let the squirm pit commence.

Depok City hardcore represent. 

MELT

CREPE DE CHINE

 

This shit is so weird, y'all. No idea who and/or what CREPE DE CHINA is (or was), but some ESMERELDA ass freak show karaoke might be exactly what you need today - it's Friday so consider it a compilation....of sorts. Space synth-auntie versions of G'N'R, LED ZEP, SALT 'N PEPA, THE SMITHS, 2 LIVE CREW classics and others. It doesn't have to make sense to be good. 

CREPE DE CHINE

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