SERVICE

 

Someone wanna tell me how I missed this shit? I know NO STATIK and STERILE MIND both played Santa Rosa around 2016 and I swear I never heard of these foos in real time.....thank fukk I'm hearing them now though. Dark, urgent punk with a keyboard that provides texture and mystery instead of being over-present. It's very much a sound "of the time" that sounds absolutely essential with these 52yo 2025 ears. Maybe I never heard them then because I need SERVICE now - if that's the case, then gratitude to the universe that made me wait. 

MK II

INHUMAN DISSILIENCY

 

Just when I was about to make some "old and out of touch" comment about how I just don't understand "kids these days" I realized that some of these tracks were recorded more than two decades ago. I guess that just means I was never meant to understand the wonder of PENNSYLVANIA GRINDING SLAMMAGE and that INHUMAN DISSILIENCY was simply never meant for me. And yet I keep listening - it's like a damn car crash and my neck is breaking while I keep trying to catch a glance. I remember when Kevin from RITUAL CONTROL told me what "slam" was while we were watching a "slam" band in Mexico in 2014 and....well, I thought I was just getting a handle on crab-core and then this thing happened and I simply accepted that I didn't understand. Still don't. Vocals on "Vomiting Decaying Fecal Matter" actually sound like someone is grunting "piggy, piggy, piggy" and it's about the most suitable moment of the entire tape. Tracks here form their 2004 demo, the split with DIGESTED FLESH, the Festering Fuckhole Slop split with ARTERY ERUPTION and the much sought after VOMITOUS split entitled Engorgement Of Exquisite Disembowelment. Erratic grind/sludge/slam with swamp monster vocals and....well, enjoy?

EXHUMATION OF ROTTEN ENTRAILS

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CONTEXT: I swung by Ragin' Records a few days ago to pick up a deadly grip of oldies and funk comps (including the Lowrider tape I posted yesterday) and naturally did some digging while I was there. Got a dead stock MUDWIMMIN EP and a single by a band I had never heard of and can't remember the name of but there was a song called "Straight Outta Tehachapi" so you know I'm gonna bite. There was a box in the back with a shitheap of JIMI HENMDRIX tapes, a SPETSNAZ demo and unknown (to me) metal tapes from DEHUMANIZER, COLONIZE THE ROTTING, ATAUDES, VOIMATON and this gem from INHUMAN DISSILIENCY. Shit was cheap and I had already broken the seal, so I acted appropriately about bought everything. 

LOWRIDER

 

I could go into the story about how this tape (and the next three volumes, and the Barrio Music comps and some face melting tech/grind tapes and some wild ass DIY LA party mixes) landed in my lap, but my recommendation is simple listening. Let me tell you what you'll hear: JOHN CHINGAS with one of the coolest love songs ever, RALFI PAGAN with one of the other coolest love songs ever, a couple of BABY G & ROCK BOX tracks, a killer from TIERRA that you have hopefully heard a thousand times, and oh my fukkn stars can we please get into the history of "Two Of Hearts" because I didn't know I could love this track more and apparently JON ST. JAMES is a thing I need to dig into. Fifteen tracks - Hi-NRG '80s meets classic cruisin' tunes.....even the most casual pop observers recognize that Lowrider culture is just fukkn cool, but this shit seals the deal. I can't wait to feed you more of this shit, it's amazing. 

LOWRIDER SOUNDTRACK VOLUME 1