STRES - S/T LP

Experimental, wild, jarring hardcore punk from Czech Republic. I don't really know anything about this band, but it's a pretty obscure LP and there's not much out there more intense than this. Not for the toe-tappers and head-bobbers. Prepare to be aurally challenged. 

STRES

THEE NODES - October 2011 Demo

Here's a neat little cassette I received for review a little over a year ago. THEE NODES are from Montreal, I believe, and I got a note with this claiming it was the only copy. Probably not the case anymore. Five tracks  of hi-fi snotty punk with really demented vocals. I hate terming things 'KBD' as a style, but this would definitely fall into that category. It seems to have been recorded over some French spoken word thing, which is still evident between the tracks (I made the in-between song stuff their own tracks, in case you're in the mood for just the tunes). Following the 6 catchy punk jams from THEE NODES, the tape also contains 3 tracks of solo work from the vocalist, Mr. Node, complete with a heavy tape hum. 

THEE NODES -October 2011 Demo

CS-137 Cassette

Holy crap y'all - I usually don't post brand new stuff right after I get it, but I couldn't let this one sit on the shelf for another day! Barcelona's CS-137 have made a fucking masterpiece here - who the hell are these guys? If I had to try to deconstruct this sound...let's start with the insane riffs and perfect d-beating of TOTALITAR and SKITKIDS, some epic but tasteful DEATHSIDE guitar elements, and the sickly growled vocals of NERORGASMO (sometimes growl-sung!), and you're somewhere in the ballpark of CS-137. But don't take the comparisons too heavily - this is really fucking original sounding. No posing here. All 14 tracks are short, interesting, rampaging, and catchy. This is the best new hardcore band I've heard in a looooong time. Fucking Downloooooad!  

CS-137 Cassette

Also, buy it from Discos Enfermos or Sorry State  !!

NOVI CVETYA - 83 98 Cassette

I'm a complete sucker for rare Eastern European punk.Today's completely deranged post may be a test of patience for most of you - i.e. a must for 'exotic punk' fans, and a maybe for everyone else. If you dig the GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA post I did a couple weeks ago then you should definitely download this, because it has a similar style in vocals and melody. The cassette is obviously a 327th generation copy of a copy of a copy, and suffers in quality, but hey what the fuck do you expect from some obscure artifact from the tape trading circles in Bulgaria in the 80's-90's? So if you can't hang with it, just skip to tracks 16-20 when the recording is much fuller and you can hear the drums and stuff - it evolves into super catchy punk with some hints of UK 80's anarcho sound, and an added female vocalist for an extra dynamic.  

нови цветя 83 98

There's absolutely no info in this tape or in my "Discography of Eastern European Punk Music 1977-1999" book by Luk Haas, (oh, you don't have one of those?? ---> http://darbouka.pagesperso-orange.fr/), but I do have a NOVI CVETYA reissue 7" that has a short history of the band:

"The band was made of a bunch of kids, that heard some punk stuff on the Yugoslavian radio and decided to become 'punks'...back in 1979. They made their own instruments, recorded demos in their summer kitchen, using simple reel to reel recorder.

With the 'perestroika' they became more famous, did their first official gigs and even got an alarm clock as a prize! It was 1987...

The early 90s brought more fans, more concerts and then one day it all faded away, as after all they had to take care of their families, to work and...you know...

In 2004 'Radiation 1978-1995' was released, a sort of collection of tracks that never made it on vinyl or cd, until then. In February 2007 they released the new album 'Zemen Rai' (The Earthly Paradise) also including some of their old tracks."