Militia - Dunarobba #1990

MILITIA is an Italian post-punk/alternative rock from Perugia. MILITIA was born officially in late ‘82 when a post-punk band called STRANGE MILITIA, formed in 1979 (before as LO NOIZE), disbanded. Founder members: Dario Bavicchi (keyboards, electronics, guitar and vocals), Fabrizio Croce (rhythms, electronics and vocals) and Giovanni Romualdi (guitars). Bass players were, in chronological appearance, Augusto Croce (late founder of AIDONS LA NORVEGE), Nicoletta Vinti (late in London with THE PASSIONS and with TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND original line-up), Claudio Castrini, Andrea Conversano (a long-time member of the band), Arlo Bigazzi (solo-artist and founder of Materiali Sonori Label) and Aroldo Toccaceli. Without a bass player the three remaining members are still continuing in 2006 as open line-up featuring part-time collaborators.

The live activity of MILITIA was developed between 1984 and 1992 with tours in Germany and in Holland and concerts all over Italy; they performed in the most representative italian clubs and billed in the most important festivals of that period, contributing to start an italian “new-wave” scene. During their career they received sincere appreciation worldwide. At the end of the ‘80’s MILITIA started a partnership with Materiali Sonori label, the oldest italian “indie”. Two records will be produced with this important label: Dunarobba and Elvengamello.

The first part of the MILITIA career is signed by a classical wave production, dark atmospheres and really energetic post-punk bases. With the Dunarobba record starts an experimental itinerary that it will continue until the last works.

Since 1996 MILITIA started also to work for avant-garde theatre, cinema and visual arts.

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Tracklist:

a1. Sei mesi di luce

a2. Il signore n. 6

a3. Lo scherzo dentro

a4. Notturno

b1. D'Aria

b2. Dunarobba

b3. Eva

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Crash Box - Il mio inferno (tape) #1987

hard-to-find tape compilation for these italian punk/hc dinosaurs.

don't know why but the mp3 files don't match exactly with the tracklist (there's another version of Nato per vivere veloce and the Outro (Crash Crew) track is apparently missing).

anyway, it surely deserves a click.

* Tracks a01 to a07 recorded in February 1983 @ Hammil Studio, Milano, Italy.

* Tracks a08 to a16 and b01 to b03 recorded in May 1983 @ Panda Studio, Milano.

* Track a17 recorded live on May 21st, 1983 @ Virus, Milano.

* Tracks b04 to b05 recorded live on May 31st, 1985 @ C.S. Leoncavallo, Milano.

* Track b07 extract from an interview on July 9th, 1984 @ "Hell Hole" on WNYU, NY with Titty, Marco and Fabricius. Tracks La trappola/Sangue: recorded in March/April 1984 @ Lupo Studio, Vercelli, Italy.

* Tracks b07 and b08 recorded on March 28th, 1987 at Record release party @ Virus, Milano.

* Track b09 recorded in December 1986 @ Sintesi Studio, Milano.

Tracklist:

a01. Sono io la vittima

a02. Noi

a03. Accuso

a04. Nessuna colpa

a05. Nato per essere veloce

a06. Veleno per voi

a07. Crash box

a08. Il mio inferno

a09. Senza uscita

a10. Crash box II

a11. Non so tacere

a12. Ascolta

a13. Na-y

a14. Nessuna colpa

a15. Noi

a16. Sotto la mia pelle

a17. Nato per essere veloce

a18. Crash box II

b01. Accuso

b02. Veleno per voi

b03. Sono io la vittima

b04. Se devo vivere

b05. Troppi rimpianti

b06. "1984 Escape from N.Y"/La trappola/Sangue

b07. Io confesso

b08. Sul filo del rasoio

b09. Sul filo del rasoio

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Fru-Aut - Fru-Aut (demotape) #1985

Demotape del 1985 per i FRU AUT di Bassano del Grappa.

Capitanati da Uber Cavalli (ex militante nelle fila dei bizzarri conterranei PLASTICOST) affiancato da Matteo Balanc, Gigi Cavalli, Vinicio Mazzini, Gino Morello e Gianni Nichele. Un lato A con un frizzante post-punk tinteggiato da una vaga psichedelia lisergica per approdare a un lato B sperimentale ed esoterico. Dopo questo tape realizzarono un mlp 1988 per la torinese Toast Records e nel 1994 l'album A sangue freddo.

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Tracklist:

a1. Tesò

a2. Verderame

b1. Sdies Nuzna Vainà

b2. Glu Glu

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Zu - Bromio #1999

ZU, an all-instrumental Italian band (Massimo Pupillo on bass, Jacopo Battaglia on drums, Luca Mai on saxophone, and, on the first album, Roy Paci on trumpet), played some of the most adventurous post-rock music at the turn of the century, occasionally evoking the legendary LAST EXIT with Sharrock's guitar replaced by Pupillo's bass.

They fine-tuned their aesthetics through a series of theatrical soundtracks ("Vladimir Majakovskj", "Il Funambolo", "Histoire du Rock'n'Roll", "Octavia") and eventually debuted with Bromio (Wide, 1999) in a wild, loud and fast style that harked back to the heydays of jazzcore (SACCHARINE TRUST, UNIVERSAL CONGRESS, THE EX). They simultaneously sprayed bits of funk onto their convoluted mix in the manner of THE CONTORTIONS (Detonatore) and launched into gargantuan free-jazz fanfares (Xenitis, Asmodeo). Their tone runs the gamut from brainy (the hiccupping Testa di cane) to droll (the vaudeville-like Zu circus). The interplay is both geometrical and intricate, as best displayed in the frenzied Erotomane. While most compositions stick to a unitary core with little or no movement, La grande madre delle bestie ends the album with a transition from chaotic partying to melancholy introspection. Each of these short pieces is a strike at the core of prog-rock. By the standards of jazz-rock, this is harsh and jarring music.

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Tracklist:

01. Detonatore

02. Xenitis

03. Testa di cane

04. Paonazzi

05. Zu circus

06. Asmodeo

07. Cane maggiore

08. Epidurale

09. Villa Belmonte

10. Erotomane

11. La grande madre delle bestie

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Bologna Violenta - Uno bianca #2014

Uno bianca is the fourth BOLOGNA VIOLENTA's full lenght album, out on February 2014 thanks to Woodworm, Wallace Records and Dischi Bervisti.

This concept album is based on the crimes of the “Banda della Uno Bianca”, a gang formed by five policemen and a civilian operating in the Bologna area (from 1987 to 1994), which made more than hundred crimes, killing twenty four people and wounding more than hundred.

The gang's name is taken from the type of car used for the crimes, a white Fiat Uno, very popular in Italy in those years.

The gang, led by Savi brothers, has always been known for the brutality of its operations that didn't save the lives of those who was between criminals and their purpose. The album goes over twenty-seven steps in its criminal history, a sort of imaginary soundtrack of the gang's worst crimes against gas stations, motorway tollbooths, banks and supermarkets.

Uno bianca is characterized by extreme sounds, made even more dramatic by the massive use of string orchestras. The song form is completely abandoned, the track structures are modeled on the progress of events, as reported by the procedural acts.

BOLOGNA VIOLENTA wants to pay homage to the city of Bologna, telling through music one of his most violent stories ever. He does it with an extremely dark album, in which the death bell rings to remember the tragedy and madness of those times.

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Tracklist:

01. 19 giugno 1987 - Pesaro: rapina casello A-14   

02. 31 agosto 1987 - San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo): rapina casello A-14

03. 3 ottobre 1987 - Cesena: tentata estorsione

04. 30 gennaio 1988 - Rimini: rapina supermercato Coop

05. 19 febbraio 1988 - Casalecchio di Reno (Bo): rapina supermercato Coop

06. 20 aprile 1988 - Castelmaggiore (Bo): attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

07. 19 settembre 1988 - Forlì: rapina supermercato Coop

08. 26 giugno 1989 - Bologna: rapina supermercato Coop

09. 15 gennaio 1990 - Bologna: rapina ufficio postale

10. 6 ottobre 1990 - Bologna: rapina tabaccheria

11. 10 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: assalto campo Rom

12. 22 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: attacco lavavetri extracomunitari

13. 23 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: assalto campo Rom

14. 27 dicembre 1990 - Castelmaggiore (Bo): rapina distributore

15. 4 gennaio 1991 - Bologna: attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

16. 20 aprile 1991 - Bologna: rapina distributore

17. 30 aprile 1991 - Rimini: attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

18. 2 maggio 1991 - Bologna: rapina armeria Volturno

19. 19 giugno 1991 - Cesena: rapina distributore

20. 18 agosto 1991 - San Mauro a Mare (Fc): agguato auto senegalesi

21. 28 agosto 1991 - Gradara (Ps): scontro a fuoco con due poliziotti

22. 24 febbraio 1993 - Zola Predosa (Bo): rapina banca

23. 7 ottobre 1993 - Riale (Bo): rapina banca

24. 3 marzo 1994 - Bologna: rapina banca

25. 24 maggio 1994 - Pesaro: rapina banca

26. 21 ottobre 1994 - Bologna: rapina banca

27. 29 marzo 1998 - Rimini: suicidio Giuliano Savi

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Lightning Bolt - John Peel session #2004

Easily the best release from this band, as it's basically better versions of all their best songs. It was from a show in early 2005, so it's between Wonderful rainbow and Hypermagic mountain, and you can hear how there's early versions of a few Hypermagic mountain songs on here (tracks 2, 5, and the ending of track 4).

The studio albums have a hard time capturing them with this kind of intensity. Brian and Brian add so much more energy to the tracks in the live setting than they could ever possibly do in the studio. The climaxes are all amplified and songs flow into each other seamlessly in perfect fashion, often while they are in full noisy apocalypse mode. You can hear just how many hours these two guys have obviously been jamming together to become this tight with each other.

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Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. 2 morro morro land
03. On fire
04. Dracula mountain
05. Dead cowboy
06. 30000 monkies
07. Rotator

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Squadra Omega - Materia Oscura #2017

SQUADRA OMEGA is one of the bands which best represents the vast spectrum of the Italian underground. Psychedelic, avant-garde, jazz-rock, improvisation, kraut-rock, rock in opposition and ethno-tribalism blend seamlessly into the work of a collective that moves and expands depending on the urgency of the moment, focused around a core that rotates around the two members OmegaMatt and OmegaG8. In the band's wide discography we find compositional freedom, improvised jam-sessions in and a amplitude of references, all of which move between different spaces and times.

Materia Oscura (Dark matter) offers a glimpse at the same time the soil of the "rock" matter as well as the alien, seen from multiple points of view, neighbors and materials distant and mysterious. Three tracks that stretch their eyes at Orient or Africa as well as into the depths of the cosmos, landing on the side of the art-rock of the '70s and towards some psychedelic, visionary, cinematic drives then explode into a real ecstatic trip. Inputs from Coltrane, Canterburian jazz-rock, GRATEFUL DEAD and Synthy-Space views are melted into free-form landings until they discover their own personal form of prog. Different Universes collide and coexist in the band in a constant mutation, maintaining faith in one single ideal: "music for the third eye”.

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Tracklist:

01. Massa mancante

02. Mondo-brana

03. Le oscillazioni dell'universo giovane

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Gli Avvoltoi - Questa notte (7") #1987

Il progetto musicale degli AVVOLTOI nasce a Bologna nel 1986, evoluzione diretta dei MISTER MAT & THE BABY'S MIND dei musicisti Claudio Spirogi e Moreno Spirogi, quando con l’abilità tecnica di Umberto Palazzo e godendo della collaborazione, tra gli altri, di Mimo Rash, batterista degli ALLISON RUN, viene registrato il primo singolo della band di stampo puramente beat ed è tale la peculiarità mostrata, che nel 1987 la Toast di Giulio Tedeschi pubblica il loro 7" con il titolo Questa notte, contenente tre brani.

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Tracklist:

a1. Questa notte

b1. Era un beatnik (LE TESTE DURE cover)
b2. Un uomo rispettabile (THE KINKS/THE POPS cover)

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Cannibal Movie - Avorio #2012

Cannibal Movie is a sub genre of exploitation films made mostly by Italian filmmakers through the 1970s and 1980s.

CANNIBAL MOVIE is also a duo from south of Italy, exponents of new italian occult psychedelic scene.

They play drums and an old italian organ and their sound is a mix of obscure psychedelia, hypnotic tribalism and ecstatic magic tunes.

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Tracklist:

01. Teste mozzate

02. Fame

03. Mangiati vivi!

04. Django

05. Schiave bianche

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Zeit - Monument (ep) #2016

ZEIT is a four piece band from Venezia, Italy, who formed in 2014, from the looks of things. ZEIT play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, crust, sludge, and grindcore within their sound. Musically, ZEIT can be said to be influenced by bands such as CONVERGE, CURSED, THE SECRET, ROT IN HELL, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2014, ZEIT have released a two track EP titled Zoe-Bios in May of 2014 and a ten song LP titled The World Is Nothing in November of 2015. Monument is the band's latest four song EP, which was released via Assurd Records, Cave Canem Diy, Dingleberry Records, Dischi Bervisti, Epidemic Records, Icore Produzioni, Indelirium Records, Rip Roaring Shit Storm Records, Shove Records, and Tanato Records on October 29th, 2016. On Monument, ZEIT offer up four tracks of chaotic and volatile sounding hardcore, punk, crust, sludge, and grindcore. Overall, Monument is an amazing EP and should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!

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Tracklist:

1. Staring

2. They run in circles

3. Monument

4. The swarm [feat. Nicola Manzan - AT THE GATES cover]

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Simbiose - "Fake dimension" #2009

The emperors of metal punk crust (or whatever you call the brutal sound barrier of Symbiose) are back! This is SIMBIOSE's 4th album, one of the most well known and legendary portuguese crust grind bands.

Produced by Ulf Bloomberg (M40, END OF ALL, GRACE WILL FALL) and with special guests like João Gordo (RATOS DE PORÃO), Sofia Loureiro (WE ARE THE DAMNED) and João Ribas (TARA PERDIDA, CENSURADOS, KU DE JUDAS).

Tracklist:

01. A solução

02. Obey

03. Auto-estima

04. Sem moral

05. United

06. Suffer inside

07. Intro (our world)

08. Fake dimension

09. I deny

10. Vai para pior

11. Can't understand

12. Gene

13. Evolução é repressão

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