Officine Schwartz - Terra fabbrica & cielo meccanico (tape) #1991

Rubo da Gianmaria questa meravigliosa antologia su nastro di quella che avevo già definito "un'orchestra di carpentieri partigiani diretta dal maestro Carlo Marx in persona". A deliziarci gli occhi è la copertina del compianto professor Bad Trip.

Officine Schwartz - Rambo

Tracklist:

a1. Rambo
a2. Fraulein (live 1986)
a3. Agg'male (live 1987)
a4. Al Fatah
a5. Ninnna nanna del capolinea

b1. Apretuchar
b2. Hey Polè Siroko
b3. Tamme vogel
b4. Torna in cantiere
b5. Asturiana
b6. Si riposa la domenica
b7. Einheits frontlied

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Mombu - Zombi #2012

I had listen this project last year and it nailed me down, Mombu’s debut effort made it to my list of favorite albums of 2011. They are back now and although Zombi seems to be the re-edition of the debut album, the only major difference is that Intro 253 has been dropped and it was introduced the title track Zombi as a gift for the Black President Fela Kuti: mixed from Husky Hoskulds (Mike Patton, Tom Waits, FANTOMAS).
Mombu is a duo made of Luca T. Mai (of ZU) playing baritone saxophone and Antonio Zitarelli (of NEO) playing the drum and merging the explosive and subversive spirit of improvisation and free jazz with the grinding and furious raging of (post) hardcore, but including tasty aromas of afro beats and hypnotizing voodoo vibes. This is something absolutely fresh, genuine and...murderous.
If you like the Norwegian SHINING, if you feel the vibe of the experimental outfit THE THING, but you still a headbanger, Mombu will definitively grind you to the ground with this mind-blowing release.

via Brushvox

Mombu - Stutterer ancestor

Tracklist:

a1. Stutterer ancestor

a2. Orichas

a3. Radà

a4. Regla de ocha

b1. Zombi

b2. Mombu storm

b3. Kemi

b4. Ten harpoon's ritual

Subsound records

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Boyz Nex' Door - Radio Honolulu #1998

Boyz Nex' Door were from Italy and played a cool mix of Killed By Death-style punk and trashy late '50s/early '60s r'n'r à la THE A-BONES. They had a whole mess of limited edition 7"ers on various labels and this here CD on 1+2 Records outta Japan.

via In The Rubber Room

Boyz Nex' Door - She's so bad

Tracklist:

01. Radio Honolulu
02. Juvenile delinquent
03. Hey!
04. Get stuffed
05. So kool
06. Tacoma's bridge dance
07. Shake it up
08. Mr. Skullhead
09. Marc Bolan stomp
10. Mexico go-go
11. Communist radio
12. Homer Simpson is a friend o' mine
13. I drink the beer
14. She's so bad
15. My girl Sue

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Fall Out - Demo 1992 (tape) #1992

Uno dei gruppi più importanti della scena hardcore-punk italiana anche se non hanno avuto tutta l'attenzione e la fortuna che si meritavano. Questo dovuto in parte alla natura del gruppo di per sè poco incline ai compromessi. Benzo, Marco, Beppe e Giampus sono stati i primi nel'77 alla Spezia, in zona e in Italia ad avere un repertorio di brani da potere reggere un concerto di un'ora cosa che per i gruppi punk a quei tempi non era da poco*. Tutti i loro concerti sono stati un evento con successo di pubblico ovunque si esibissero.
Questo è un demo, che mi diede Benzo, una cassetta con 6 brani che precedette l'uscita di Xenodrome del 1992, quando avvenne il primo cambio di organico. Marco aveva lasciato il gruppo ed era subentrato Andrea alla chitarra. Il suono era cambiato ma siamo ancora ai livelli dei dischi precedenti con classici come Kit per tagliare, Xenodrome, Schizofrenia ecc.

*(caricavano batteria e ampli e strumenti in treno x andare a suonare in giro e una volta a Milano al Leoncavallo in un concerto con altri gruppi gli chiesero quanti pezzi avevano tutti ne avevano 5 o 6... loro 50!!!)

da La Pelle Muta

Fall Out - Kit per tagliare

Tracklist:

a1. Kit per tagliare

a2. Tarantula

a3. Schizofrenia

b1. Xenodrome

b2. Lemmings

b3. Acciaolandia

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Dirty Actions - Apocrifo (10") #1996

Dirty Actions si formano a Genova sul limitare degli anni '70, in piena esplosione punk e, in breve, diventano la band di riferimento della giovane scena rock genovese, tanto da arrivare in pochissimo tempo alla prima produzione discografica, il 45 giri Rosa Shocking/Figli del demonio, pubblicato su vinile rosa dalla storica etichetta alternativa Cramps all'interno della collana Rock '80, che oltre ai Dirty Actions comprende SKIANTOS, WINDOPEN, KAOS ROCK ed altri protagonisti del nuovo rock italiano. L'uscita del disco dà il via ad una lunga serie di concerti e al ruolo di gruppo di supporto del tour italiano dei DAMNED.
In questo periodo la band si allontana progressivamente dal sound prettamente punk per avvicinarsi al funk e all'elettronica. L'unico reperto discografico di questa fase è il brano Bandana boys, che uscirà sulla compilation Gathered prodotta dal mensile Rockerilla, brano che entra nella storia quando il coatto-sintetico RanXerox, l'eroe più punk della storia del fumetto, lo "trasmette" attraverso la sua autoradio incorporata in un memorabile episodio pubblicato da "Frigidaire".
Nel 1982 la band si scioglie per consunzione naturale. Successivamente il cantante Gianfranco Johnny Grieco percorrerà la strada del reggae con il progetto solista BLACK MARIA, registrando nel 1986 agli studi Tuff Gong di Kingston, in Giamaica, il disco Insurrection, accompagnato dai WAILERS di Bob Marley e, piu' tardi Consciousness, dove sono gli ASWAD ad acccompagnarlo.
Vent'anni dopo l'inizio dell'avventura Dirty Actions, Grieco inizia la certosina raccolta di materiale inedito e nel 1996 pubblica l'album Apocrifo, che esce in edizione limitata solo su vinile 10 pollici.

da Ondalternativa.it

Dirty Actions - Rosa shocking (Demo 1980)

Tracklist:

a1. Jingle D.A.
a2. Attenti agli '80 (Live Milano 30.4.80)
a3. Rosa schocking (Demo 1980)
a4. Bandana boys (Demo 1981)
a5. Figli del Demonio/Dirty Actions S-ha (Prove 1979)
a6. Donalduck is dead

b1. (We're all) Androids (Live Milano 30.4.80)
b2. Tira la boccia (Live Milano 30.4.80)
b3. I wanna be your dog (Live Genova 28.5.82)
b4. Rosa shocking (Prove 1981)
b5. Aktion/Aktion (Demo 1981)

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Il Giardino Violetto - Dans macabre #2004

Giardino Violetto was born in 1989, year in which many other bands formed,as an answer to an advertisement posted up in a record shop. Guitar, bass, drums and a garage to play in, as the natural expression for any angry teenager in hatred with the world, a quest for an aesthetics ofthe inner and social catastrophe which was, in the late 80ies, the natural habitat of the band. Darkness, claustrophobia, insight, altered states are the main themes in the lyrics and the sensations flowing from Giardino Violetto’s sound.
After some playing, the line up is reduced from three members to just two, adding instead a drum machine. The technical weakness of the duo led necessarly to an experimetal output. The sound ideas whirled wildly in their hot minds, but how to achieve was really far from realizing. Thus, after an year spent closed in that garage, decide to record these few drum machine patterns, lack of skill, and the load of ideas.
What is created is their first and only demo tape: Danse macabre. Beside the written lyrics and some bass/guitar parts, the tracks are almost made up freely, especially the vocals. Has been let the sensation of the moment take advantage, like a polaroid of real life excerpts. Just the time to do an unique gig at the Uonna Club, legendary club in Rome’s underground scene, and by then everything stop just in the way it started, from emptiness to nothing. The band split up, the two members take their own ways not to meet again...
The cd contains the 1989 demotape (digitally remastered), plus the remixes of two songs, L.iquid S.ensations D.isplay (S*phz remix 2004) and Litanie a Satana (FM/S*phz remix 2004).
Danse Macabre is the first cd to be released in Italy with Creative Commons licenses.

via In The Night Time

Il Giardino Violetto - Litanie a Satana

Tracklist:

01. Perversion

02. Il giardino violetto

03. Waiting (Red death)

04. L.iquid s.ensations d.isplay

05. Premature burial

06. Litanie a Satana

07. Catacombs

08. Locusts

09. L.iquid s.ensations d.isplay (Throat remix)

10. Litanie a Satana (FM Caustic remix)

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Neon - Tapes of darkness (12'') #1981

Neon is not a common name for italian post punk lovers. Born in Florence, the cradle of peninsula's wave, they were probably the first important post punk gothic band in our country and they are still nowadays one of the most active band in 80's Italian new wave time, still marking Italian rock history. The band, which was born first as a duo at the end of the 70's in Florence's undeground culture, soon stands out for its KRAFTWERK and new wave icons' synth, which made their style a unique 80's cultural dream's specimen, together with newromantic and post punk tought of bands like JOY DIVISION, ULTRAVOX and HUMAN LEAGUE. In 1980, the band got off to an electronic start with the single Information of death, and later, through several line up changes, it achieves to synthetize a mix of obsessive electro sounds, obscure athmospheres and quite original pop melodies which take shapes in later works like Tapes of darkness (1981), Obsession (1982), My blues is you (1983), Dark age (1984); in 1985 Rituals sanctioned Neon as the best Italian new wave band of that year.

via banned from the empire

Neon - Boxes 


Tracklist:

a1. Boxes
a2. Spiders

b1. Drivin'
b2. Lobotomy

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Six Minute War Madness - Full fathom six #2000

Six Minute War Madness were born in January 1992: Federico Ciappini on vocals, Paolo Cantù (former member of TASADAY and AFTERHOURS) and Xabier Iriondo (also in AFTERHOURS) on guitars, Massimo Marini on bass and Daniele Misirliyan on drums. In September 1993 they put out their first 7” Holy Joe/Evensong on the punk label Blu Bus and during the same year another song, Truck fucker, appeared on the compilation Faces Vol. 2. A year later they contributed four tracks to the album Lubrificant for your mind. In 1996 the band released their first full length album and switched to singing in Italian. The self-titled debut was followed by 1997′s Il vuoto elettrico and, after a slight line-up change, the band released 2000′s Full fathom six. While the first self-titled record is based on the melting of powerful mid-times and explosive and angular guitarwork, in the two albums that followed Six Minute War Madness started to experiment with form by incorporating sounds that can be traced to the Chicago/Louisville scene and to the Cantù-Iriondo-Magistrali side-project called A SHORT APNEA. Six Minute War Madness split up in 2002.

da Wallace records

Six Minute War Madness - Un filo di vita

Tracklist:

01. Gli incubi
02. [untitled]
03. Uomini cattivi non ho più l’età per lasciarli vivi
04. Full fathom six
05. [untitled] 

06. Un filo di vita
07. [untitled]

08. VI Moravia
09. Prima noia
10. Come un soffio
11. [untitled]

12. Tokyo
13. [untitled] 

14. Washington che urla
15. [untitled]

16. Panorama

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Anti You - Johnny Baghdad (7") #2008

Brand new 4 song rager from these Italian punks. If you picked up their last ep on No Way you will know what to expect... high-speed, high-energy, early-'80s approach with a rhythm section that sounds similar to that of early POISON IDEA that is coupled with plenty of negative lyrics and jangly guitars.

via Grave Mistake Records

Anti You - Johnny Baghdad

Tracklist:

a1. Info O.D.

a2. Nothing new

b1. Fashion victim alert

b2. Johnny Baghdad

Puke 'n' Vomit records

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Os Estudantes - Álbum #2007

This is one fucking cool record. Sounds like a blend of old US punk with bits of Brazilian punk mixed in there. Snotty vocal delivery and catchy songwriting make this a great listen. Nice stark silk-screened cover with minimal graphics adds to the whole package here. Now, onto the bad stuff. This really good record with cool art (and did I mention that it is on yellow vinyl?) has a major flaw. There are only 100 fucking copies in existence – now isn't that cute? Good luck getting a hold of this.

Martin Sorrondeguy, Maximum Rocknroll #294, november 2007

Os Estudantes - Pária

Tracklist:

a1. Odio

a2. Pária

a3. Não quero saber

a4. Angústia

a5. Cumprimento

a6. Swing

a7. Perdedor

a8. Adeus

a9. Treze anos

b1. Meus olhos

b2. Aprendizado

b3. Kamikaze kid

b4. Morrer

b5. Medo da vida

b6. Gin

b7. 24hs por dia

Navena/Läjä records

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Nadja - La joie (tape) #1984

Ancora un po' di wave oggi. Stavolta è il turno degli spezzini e misteriosi Nadja, protagonisti, oltre a questa, di un'altra tape (Eros del 1985) e di varie partecipazioni in compilation assortite. Rimaniamo sul versante dark dell'ondata 80's, con sonorità cupe e ritmi sincopati (Gold drops, Shivers, Possession), marcate influenze post-punk e gothic, qualche lieve sperimentalismo elettronico (G.D.) e un convincente cantato in inglese. Se trovate la prima tape, ditemelo!

Nadja - Forgotten youth

Tracklist:

a1. Situation

a2. Possession

a3. Mirrors

a4. Gold drops

b1. Forgotten youth

b2. Shivers

b3. The garden

b4. G.D.

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