THE RITA

 

Twenty (more) minutes of aural disorientation from THE RITA. Crackle worship. Harsh noise. 

Painful listening. 

WOMANKIND

KK NO FUTURE PUNK COMP 2018

 

You want me to tell you that I fucked up by not spending all of 2018 in Kota Kinabalu? After listening to this tape, that's not a claim I'm prepared to make...because if this compilation is any indication, 2018 was a motherfucker of a year to be in Kota Kinabalu. XRDM you are familiar with (or you fukkn should be), but every damn track on this tape is a face melter: MATAI, HEADLOCK, BODYBAGS, THE Y.K.U., FRUSTASI, BLITZBOY....and two unqualified scorchers from XRDM. You like hardcore punk? Then I guess you wish you had been there with me. 

KK NO FUTURE

TUSKS OF BLOOD

 

This one comes from deep in the Satan's Pimp archive - a dreary stoner violence slog from turn of the century Portland that sounds like it was ripped from the clutches of hell herself. It's easy to imagine these sounds coming from those lost decades....but think about them now. That's the point. The now. 

TUSKS OF BLOOD

FASTGAME

 

It seems like every time I revisit turn of the century fastcore I miss the era more. Still not totally sure if I miss the bands and the scene more than I miss the fact that I wasn't old and decrepit (I'm joking - it's definitely the bands...and the freedom to go see all of them). FASTGAME exemplifies the absolute explosion of the scene in what seemed like "far corners" of the world to tunnel vision North American punks - while we were singing along with nine of our closest friends in Rapid City, South Dakota these kids were covering our songs to throngs of rabid thrashers who knew every word. It was a different time...and while it was impossible to be everywhere at once, it's nice to look back into the time machine and see what you missed the first time. Shit flies by, y'all - soak up as much as you can becauser you don't get it back.

SOME ULTRA RARE STUDIO STUFFS THE BAND NEVER MADE PLAUS AN INSANE LIVE SET RECORDED IN A PLACE WHERE HARDCORE EXISTS! 

PISSY

 

Straight up and no qualifiers, PISSY released one of the coolest tapes I heard last year. The spanish language two piece from Berlin sounds like a wall of sonic punk mania - lyrics barked with a stark ferocity over jerky neurotic stomps that are indescribably infectious. Art punk no wave meets hardcore meets early '80s anarcho. PISSY sounds familiar, PISSY sounds demented, PISSY sounds demanding, PISSY sounds fukkn alive. "Luz Ardiente" is a top ten coolest songs in my world right now....PISSY is fukkn cool. I hope there is more.

MIDE TUS PENAS

ASYLUM

 

Bombastic and chaotic fury from Stoke-On-Trent. Why DISORDER is plastered on the glue addled brain of every noise punk freakazoid on earth but no one talks about ASYLUM is fukkn beyond me. Y'all have the internet, right? Because ASYLUM is on the internet, and the shit is absolutely mental. 

LIVE AT SKUNX

NURSE WITH WOUND // CURRENT 93

 

You know what I'm not going to do? Pretend I can speak from any kind of informed position about NURSE WITH WOUND or CURRENT 93. Two artists I have known about for well over two decades, but have never actually dug into. This tape was initially released in the early '80s and tweaked and regurgitated and booted a few times...and it ended up in my hands. And I still can't speak from any kind of informed position about either artist because the internet has volumes already and the last thing the internet needs is another amateur making shit up so....damn, this shit is cool. I'm gonna need to start digging - seem like I've waited long enough. 

MI-MORT