TOTAL DESTROY

 

Six bursts of guttural grind/crust and an eight minute 'live' session from Bulungan Stage (I have no idea what or where that is). The whole damn thing is over in twelve minutes, so I encourage you to listen to "Sistem Bobrok" twice. At least twice. Then "Berontak." Fuck, just listen to the entire fukkn tape, okay?

BIAR MAMPUS

DICK HICK

 

I feel like summer energy is starting. I'm seeing way more flyers for shows that I will probably miss, the weather has been freakishly gorgeous and people are exuding weird and unreasonably positive energy as the fabric of our society tatters before our eyes. Anyway, DICK HICK are from Houston and project ATOM + HIS PACKAGE by-way-of CONEHEADS vibes and it's easy for me to imagine blasting this shit at some backyard BBQ hosted by those mutants in their early 20s who do gigs in their basement and can drink you under the table. You rarely find about their shows until you see a flyer at the coffee shop the day after that band you like played though....because you're old. You probably wouldn't have gone anyway (because you were tired or something), but it still would have been nice to know. That's what summer is all about. 

HARDCORE SHMARDCORE

EATING

 

I've waxed on about Max Nordile in these pages many times, and I rambled about my low-key fascination with his creative compulsions on an episode of What Are You Listening To? a couple of weeks ago...and here I am again, doing the same. This collaboration goes by EATING, and it manifests as 94 minutes of bizarro improvisation and sonic mania. There's just something different here (and by "here" I mean "there"), something that makes me always need to stop and listen. And a thing that can make me stop and shut out the noise so I can pay attention to other and specific noise? That's a special thing.

ABSOLUTE PLEASURE

PURBALINGGA

 

A(nother) ripping collection of in your face, primal hardcore from Indonesia; been cranking through a heap of these lately and I'm not getting even remotely tired of the new (to me) sounds. Full throttle floppy 'hawk shit punk from SPATU BOOT, BLACK FROG, NDASZE and PROSOPIA (all seemingly recorded in the same studio on the same gear, assembly line style) with some raw grind crust from JACK BOAT. Each band contributes two tracks, and you'll feel more punk when you finish than you did when you started. Shit, you'll be more punk when you finish that you were when you started. 

PURBALINGGA: SCREAMING & LAUGHTER

ARMAGEDDON EXPERIMENTAL BAND

 

Tempted to just leave this one here and see if y'all know to do the right thing.

So I'm going to just leave this one here.....you know what to do. 

CRIES FROM PLANET EARTH

FREAK VIBE

 

Perhaps a more aptly named band has existed, but I dare say they have not crossed my path in my years on this Earth. Massive BAD SEEDS/JESUS LIZARD/GUN CLUB vibes crammed into a tiny package from the Pacific Northwest, and still they sound lkike they belong in a moldy basement. They were a sight live, and the recordings are essential - it's not a matter of whether or not the recordings "hold up" or if they are "as good" as seeing their glistening sweat, it's that each experience is, in fact, it's own experience. There are four songs here, I wish there were eight.

FREAK VIBE

CRUDE SHIT

 

This is one of the laziest posts I've ever made, but the tape (as presented) is pretty damn lazy too so I have prematurely vindicated myself. CRUDE SS and SKITSLICKERS shouldn't need an introduction here but back in the golden age of the 1990s maybe they did, and someone (I think it was Felix?) was determined to introduce some motherfukkrs. So they jammed some records and recorded them onto some tapes and they duplicated those tapes and then distributed those tapes. Because that's punk. First ten minutes or so sound like shit, but you're supposed to be drunk at a party and/or gig when you're listening to this shit. I didn't bother editing tracks since there are no tracks or information on the boot, so here's 40 minutes of seminal SwedeCrust. You're welcome.

CRUDE SS // SHITLICKERS

RELATED:
ARTIMUS PYLE and SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS played in Jyväskylä in 2003 and Peter tried to get us to do an impromptu "Warsystem" cover and I had never (consciously) heard the song and I couldn't grasp the three chords and it was kinda embarassing. Same thing happened when E-150 gave me the mic while they were playing "Young 'Til I Die" and I didn't not know what the fukk was happening. Poseur status achieved.