Gauze - 面を洗って出直して来い

Artist: Gauze
Title: 面を洗って出直して来い
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

Track List:
1. 栄枯盛衰
2. 面を洗って出直して来い
3. ワッショイ
4. 歯を喰い縛れ
5. 口を閉ざした臆病者
6. 金返せ
7. 一言物申す
8. エッサホイサッサ
9. 負け惜しみ
10. 最後のお願い

This is Gauze's fourth album, released around the same time as the reissues of their previous three albums. I've posted this before, but this is from a source I can verify as being perfect or near perfect. It's a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of the CD.

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Gauze - 限界は何処だ (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: 限界は何処だ (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. 山深雪未溶
2. 己
3. 聾桟敷
4. 一触即発
5. 小細工無用
6. ふんだくる だけなら 誰にでも出来る 汚い 臭い 手前らクソ爺に 四の五の言われ 銭を取られるのは 真っ平御免だ
7. 人非人
8. ゴム紐どうだ
9. 逃れの街
10. 死人に口無し
11. Live in Scotland 1989 August

Originally put out in 1989 by Selfish Records this is Gauze's third album. 限界は何処だ (genkai wa doko da?) means "where is the limit?". Kind of an appropriate question for Gauze to be asking.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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Gauze - Equalizing Distort (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: Equalizing Distort (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. Pressing On
2. Crash the Pose
3. Thrash Thrash Thrash
4. 勝手にさらせ
5. Fact and Criminal
6. パッパッパ
7. Low Charge
8. Absinth Trip
9. Distort Japan
10. 言いなり / Children Fuck Off

Originally put out in 1986 by Selfish Records this is Gauze's second full length. Probably their best work. Probably one of the best hardcore albums period.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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Gauze - Fuck Heads (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: Fuck Heads (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. Power
2. Fuck Head
3. Shot
4. Coretik
5. One Last Kiss
6. Love Song
7. Ghostlike Crime
8. ノイローゼ
9. 酔狂
10. Go

Originally put out in 1984 by ADK Records this is Gauze's first LP. Consider this required listening.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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As I Look to the Future

Artist: Various
Title: As I Look to the Future
Release: 1997
Label: Solution Records

Track List:
1. Capgun - Take a Hint
2. Bane - Lay the Blame
3. Driven - Fear
4. The Rolemodels - Messy

I bought this solely because of the track by Bane but I was surprised to find that The Rolemodels song was actually my favorite on this. From what little I can gather this compilation was put out around 1997, it may have been 1996 but I'm gonna go with 1997 since that's when someone on a certain message board says they remember buying it.

The Capgun song isn't anything special, pretty typical 90's hardcore. If you've heard anything from that era you've probably already heard this. Bane's offering to this compilation is apparently some of their earliest recorded output. It definitely sounds more youthful in comparison to "Give Blood", and that was nine years ago now! I'm not really a fan of the song by Driven. It's got some dude from Killswitch Engage on it, vocals I think. Not my style at all.

What is my style though is The Rolemodels. When I was looking over the inside of the sleeve I noticed that the address given for them was Denton, TX. I thought this was pretty weird since the rest of the bands were from the North East so with a little help from google I found out that their drummer was actually the drummer from The Marked Men and their bass player was one of the early bass players for The Riverboat Gamblers. It seems the drummer started The Rolemodels not long after moving to Denton from Connecticut. I guess it makes sense that I found a copy of this in Carrollton, which isn't too far from Denton. Pretty interesting connection between two far away (especially in the 90s) places if you ask me.

600 DPI scans of the sleeve included.

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The Riverboat Gamblers/Electric Eel Shock - split

Artist: The Riverboat Gamblers/Electric Eel Shock
Title: split
Release: 2004
Label: Gearhead Records

Track List:
1. The Riverboat Gamblers - That's Entertainment!
2. Electric Eel Shock - Rock & Roll Can Rescue the World!

I picked this split picture disc up at a local record store a few years ago. If you're from Texas you're probably already familiar with The Riverboat Gamblers. The Electric Eel Shock side of the split is the only song by them that I've heard. It's a little more on the rock side of punk rock but that's okay by me. This record doesn't fall under "hardcore" at all, but I'm yet to meet a fan of hardcore or punk that doesn't enjoy The Riverboat Gamblers.

The Riverboat Gamblers originated nearby in Denton, TX but have since moved to Austin, TX. They've gone through a slew of members, most of who have been in other awesome bands. All I really know about Electric Eel Shock is that they're from Japan.

This is my first solid attempt at ripping a record with my new record player. I think it sounds fantastic. There's a bit of noise at the beginning and end of The Riverboat Gamblers' track but I couldn't seem to get it out without degrading the rest of the audio. It's not terribly distracting and might actually be from the recording not the record itself.

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Happy Birthday to Me!

My wonderful amazing girlfriend got me a USB turntable for my birthday! I've tested it out already with a few records and it sounds fantastic. This blog is gonna get real busy real soon.

Various Artists - Colorado Krew III: This Is My Donut
Various Artists - Pigs Suck
Meadowlark - Meadowlark
Pizza/Tideland - split
Pools/Cleric - split
Lie and Wait - Unrestrained
Riverboat Gamblers/Electric Eel Shock - split

100% British Oi!

Artist: Various
Title: 100% British Oi!
Release: 1997
Label: Captain Oi! Records

Track List:
Disc 1
1. ABH - Don't Mess With the SAS
2. Angelic Upstarts - Victory in Poland
3. Anti-Establishment- 1980's
4. Anti-Social - Official Hooligan
5. Attak- Today's Generation
6. Barbed Wire - The Age that Didn't Care
7. Blitz - Warriors
8. The Blood - Such Fun
9. The Burial - Friday Night
10. The Business - Product
11. Cockney Rejects - Beginning of the End
12. Cock Sparrer - Chip on My Shoulder
13. Combat 84 - Poseur
14. Condemned 84- Oi! Ain't Dead
15. Crack - Going Out
16. Fighting the System - Criminal Class
17. Crux - C. I. A.
18. Ejected - Have You Got 10p?
19. 5ive-O - Dr. Crippins
20. The 4-Skins - Sorry

Disc 2
1. Gonads - Jobs Not Jails
2. The Guttersnipes - Addicted to Love
3. Infa-Riot - Riot Riot
4. Intensive Care - Ghost Town
5. The Last Resort - Resort Bootboys
6. Menace - Screwed Up
7. The Oppressed - White Flag
8. The Partisans - 17 Years of Hell
9. Peter & The Test Tube Babies - Up Yer Bum
10. Prole - Generation Landslide
11. Red Alert - Take No Prisoners
12. Section-5 - For the Love of Oi!
13. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
14. Skin Deep - Football Violence
15. Slaughter & The Dogs - Situations
16. Splodgenessabounds - Pathetique
17. Strike - Skinhead
18. Subculture - Loud & Clear
19. Vicious Rumors - Anytime Day or Night
20. The Warriors - Horror Show

I'm not really a big oi fan. That doesn't mean I don't like what I've heard. It's just that where I'm from it's a pretty underrepresented subgenre of punk so it's not something I'm exposed to that often. As such I've never really made much of an effort to really delve in too deep into the world of shaved heads and boots (I'm more of a long hair indoor desk job kind of guy anyways). This compilation seems like as good a place to start as any based on what little I know.

I can't really comment on whether or not this compilation good. I mean I like it, but aside from Sham 69 there isn't anything else on here that I've heard more than a few songs of. And outside of this compilation the only oi band I've really heard is On File. I know how annoying it is when someone who knows next to nothing about a type of music that is important to you starts singing the praises of thoroughly mediocre bands that play that type of music and when asked don't know any of the genre defining bands. I think I'd run the risk of being that guy when it comes to oi. So I'll just say this, as someone who knows little about oi this is a pretty cool compilation. Big fans of oi may or may not like it, but they probably already know about it anyways.

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World Class Punk (reissue)

Artist: Various
Title: World Class Punk (reissue)
Release: 1998
Label: ROIR Records

Track List:
1. E.A.T.E.R - Kriget Vancinne
2. What? - Campbells Sign
3. The Zero Point - Working Class Zero
4. Hova-Lett Nagyfero Bikini - Come of It
5. Ratos de Porao - Parasita
6. Solucion Mortal - Ni un Amigo
7. Herpes Distress - Mozak
8. Slips n' Sperma - Caos Final
9. Akutt Innleggelse - Klasse
10. Nervose - Detournement
11. Zyklome - Scapegoats
12. Dezerta - Spytaj Milicjanta
13. BGK - Gone Mad
14. Mottek - Eine Neue Nacht
15. Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - HC Music
16. A-64 - Moment
17. Exile in the Kingdom - Freedom
18. Purrkurr Pillnikk - Surprise
19. Warriors of the Last Days - Under the Sun
20. Grisen Skriker - Dansa
21. Deja Voodoo - Jungle Out There
22. Copulation - Quicklime
23. Villa 21 - In the Darkened Night
24. Pop Guns - Shock Time for Rock
25. K4 - Six Million
26. Sort Sol - Boy/Girl
27. The Bastards - Liian Monta Turhaa Sotaa

More on this later.

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SHORT,FAST+LOUD! vol.#1

Artist: Various
Title: SHORT,FAST+LOUD! vol.#1
Release: 2000
Label: Slap A Ham Records

Track List:
1. Aftermath - Loyalty Oath
2. B.S.E. - What's Worse?
3. Catheter - Slain and Broken
4. Dataclast - Strategic Intertext
5. Daybreak - Romulan Boarding Party
6. Dead Nation - What Are You gonna Do About It?
7. Despite - Crust
8. Discordia - Segregacion
9. Dread 101 - Predestination
10. Dumbstruck - 180 Degrees
11. El Nudo - Hate and Hate
12. Entropia - Assunizone
13. Existench - Cleanse
14. Fetus Eaters - Father Howard
15. Goat Shanty - Thirteen
16. In Control - Crash and Burn
17. Insult - Let's Give Emo Something to Cry About
18. Iron Lung - Pushing Life
19. Kontortion - Boxed In / Closed Off
20. Lana Dagales - Instrumental
21. Life in a Burn Clinic - Unsilence
22. Life's Halt - Take It to the Heart
23. Mouthbreather - Pandemic
24. Mukeka di Rato - Mickey
25. Otophobia - Blue Polyester
26. Peruke - Your Choice
27. Pignation - Moral Demise
28. Point of Few - Developed Research
29. Progeria - Life's Scars
30. Ruinacre - Atrophied Emotions
31. Ruination - Who's in Season?
32. The Scarlet Letter - Collateral Damage
33. Shank - Ergot
34. Spaul - Unexpected Terms
35. Totally Ridiculous - Conquer Earth
36. Tusks of Blood - Flesheater
37. The Ultimate Warriors - The Only Good Mark...
38. Uniq - Take No Notice
39. What Happens Next? - Those Who Own the Streets
40. Wilbur Cobb - N.S.T.

Like 40 punches to the face in a little under an hour.

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Kakumei 2

Artist: Various
Title: Kakumei 2
Release: 1991
Label: MCR Company

Track List:
1. Misery - Total Destruction
2. Misery - Born, Fed... Slaughtered
3. Misery - Falling of Darkness
4. Fearless Vampire Killers - Dazzle
5. Fearless Vampire Killers - Bike
6. Fearless Vampire Killers - I'm a Believer
7. Fuck Geez - Stay Free
8. Fuck Geez - Wasted Land
9. Fuck Geez - 葛藤と矛盾
10. Spermbirds - I Might Kill You
11. Spermbirds - Hiding
12. Spermbirds - Dangers of Thinking
13. Don Don - Politics
14. Don Don - Cleopatra's Dream
15. Don Don - Love Song
16. Cox-Orange - Don't Throw Your Life Away
17. Cox-Orange - Nosy Neighbours
18. Assfort - No Reason
19. Assfort - Not Have a Leg to Stand On
20. Assfort - Keep My End Up
21. Nessun Dorma - Follow the Crowd
22. Nessun Dorma - Hardsell
23. Nessun Dorma - Meathead
24. Idora - Self Defence
25. Idora - Not Communication

Another international compilation by MCR Company. Assfort was the only band on this I'd heard of before. Misery reminds me a lot of Amebix.

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Fiesta Comes Alive!

Artist: Various
Title: Fiesta Comes Alive!
Release: 1997
Label: Slap A Ham Records

Track List:
1. Lack of Interest - My Life
2. Lack of Interest - Social Inequality
3. Excruciating Terror - Addiction
4. Bludgeon - Kill GOD
5. Dystopia - Backstabber
6. No Comment - Dead Stare for Life
7. No Comment - Distant
8. No Comment - Lament
9. No Comment - Skin Rape (Soiled by Hate)
10. Cavity - Burning My Eyes
11. Plutocracy - Dankstahz
12. Discordance Axis - Panoptic
13. Phobia - Internal Rot
14. Agents of Satan - Castigo Del Brujo
15. The Locust - Emaciation Fuckers
16. Gob - Columbian Nectie
17. Enemy Soil - Group Think
18. Nuclear Armed Hogs - Diff'rent Strokes
19. Man Is the Bastard - Heretic's Fork
20. Man Is the Bastard - Ether Rag
21. Man Is the Bastard - Instantly Beat
22. Man Is the Bastard - Semen in the Eysocket of Thomas Lenz
23. Stapled Shut - Killer Breed
24. No Less - Balls Deep
25. His Hero Is Gone - T Minus Zero
26. Noothgrush - Gage
27. Spazz - Might for Right
28. Evolved to Obliteration - Picked a Fight
29. Crossed Out - Pure Delusion
30. Crossed Out - Practiced Hatred
31. Benümb - Beyond Fucked
32. MDC - Nazis Shouldn't Drive
33. Cattlepress - My Only Wish Is to Destroy
34. Cop Out - Untitled
35. Cop Out - Over There
36. Hellnation - Silent Bigot
37. Utter Bastard - Macho Man
38. Capitalist Casualties - Rumor Mill
39. Capitalist Casualties - Fuck the Christians
40. Capitalist Casualties - Roll Over & Play Dead

This is a collection of live recordings taken from previous Slap A Ham Records compilations. Just look at the track list, you don't need me to convince you this is worth downloading.

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Fucking Noise Terror

Artist: Various
Title: Fucking Noise Terror
Release: 1996
Label: Sound Pollution Records

Track List:
1. Toxic Noise - Asinine Power
2. Toxic Noise - Uncertainty Life
3. Systral - Insignificant
4. Jack with Killer - Black Sheep
5. Jack with Killer - Conflicting Character
6. Jack with Killer - Wait for a Change
7. In/Humanity - Teenage Suicide... Do It
8. Hail of Rage - Unheard / In Vain
9. Hail of Rage - Cleansed
10. Wounded Knee - Usual Man
11. Genocide SS - Untitled
12. Genocide SS - Untitled
13. Genocide SS - Untitled
14. Damnable Excite Zombies - I Hate
15. Damnable Excite Zombies - Eight Roads
16. Sarcasm - Ghouls
17. Sarcasm - Sour
18. Sarcasm - Watching
19. Disassociate - Their Freedom
20. Visions - Evil Minds
21. Visions - Imperial State Terror
22. Haymarket - Police Acedemy
23. Haymarket - Slaphappy
24. Haymarket - Sucker / My Life as a Hamster / Hole Boy
25. Society Gang Rape - Terminal Abuse
26. Society Gang Rape - Drown in the Pit
27. Frequent - Chinese Fire Drill
28. Frequent - Same
29. Frequent - Fall into a Groove
30. Diskonto - Som Flugor
31. Diskonto - Ta Ert Ansvaret
32. Diskonto - Kopiöst / Hatet Gror

Pretty sweet international compilation of crusty hardcore. Put out in the States by Sound Pollution and distributed in Japan by MCR Company.

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Kamikaze Attacked Amerika / Yankee Bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Artist: Various
Title: Kamikaze Attacked Amerika / Yankee Bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Release: 1996
Label: Sound Pollution Records, MCR Company

Track List:
1. Insane Youth - The World Has Reached It's Worst
2. Ottawa - Desensitized
3. Ottawa - A Million Reasons
4. Ottawa - Cycle
5. Anti Authorize - It's Time for Change
6. Final Warning - Death Sentence
7. Senseless Apocalypse - About the War
8. Senseless Apocalypse - White Hassles
9. Suppression - Machines of War / Dick Fear
10. Disclose - Burned Alive
11. Mankind - Strategic Deterence
12. Balzac - Day the Earth Caught Fire
13. Spazz - D.J. Tinkle Fingers / Diplomatic Services
14. Addiction - Survivors
15. Monster X - Battle Fatigue
16. C.F.D.L. - Let You Know
17. C.F.D.L. - Tofu Song
18. Quadiliacha - Think About It
19. Masskontroll - Winds of Genocide
20. Violent Pain - Feel for a New Age
21. Bleed for Freedom - Sukiyaki

I must say, it warms my heart a little when I think about relations between the US and Japan over the last several decades. Considering the awful shit that went down between our nations it's a wonder we don't hate each other. Whenever I see a band from Japan playing in America everyone around me is always super excited they made the trip. I imagine the feeling in Japan is very similar when our bands play over there. With broken Japanese and broken English I've had the privilege to communicate with a few dudes touring the country from Japan and have been left with the impression that their respect and excitement about our hardcore is just as great as ours for theirs.

Anyways, enough sentimental talk. This here is a compilation of Japanese and American crusty hardcore. Real great stuff. Kinda the same deal as the next post, Sound Pollution in the states and MCR Company in Japan.

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Distortion to Hell

Artist: Various
Title: Distortion to Hell
Release: 1994
Label: Distortion Records

Track List:
1. Warcollapse - Misery & Despair
2. Warcollapse - Warcollapse
3. Dispense - Disorder
4. Dispense - Nervous Breakdown
5. Dispense - Massgenocide
6. The Perukers - Protest & Survive
7. The Perukers - Spräckta Snutskallar
8. The Perukers - Burn Out
9. Sauna - Bestiality
10. Sauna - Different
11. Sauna - M.N.C
12. Asocial - The Nightmare Arrives / Goodbye
13. Asocial - Burn Offerings
14. Asocial - Rebound Reality
15. Bombraid - Fuck Society
16. Bombraid - Brända Pengar
17. 3-Way Cum - Government Arseholes
18. 3-Way Cum - Begging for Help
19. 3-Way Cum - Kill & Infest
20. Dissober - Bödlar I Vita Rockar
21. Dissober - In the Shit
22. Dissober - Days of Pride
23. S.L.R - When the System Falls
24. S.L.R - Stimulated Agression
25. S.L.R - Crusade of the Cursed
26. Black Nation - Bomben
27. Black Nation - Ändrar Din Asikt
28. Black Nation - Vägra Blunda
29. Black Nation - Maskiner
30. Arsedestroyer - 4.25 Minuters Sodomi
31. Driller Killer - Who?
32. Driller Killer - Alcoholocaust

This is an excellent compilation of Swedish crust bands from the mid-90's. Highly recommended. I got lucky and picked this up for dirt cheap. I figured I might as well post my own rip. Expect more awesome compilations to follow.

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Systematic Death - Systemania 2

Artist: Systematic Death
Title: Systemania 2
Release: 2007
Label: Fade In Records

Track List:
1. Hi (7" Version)
2. 25
3. Island (7" Version)
4. Free (7" Version)
5. Check
6. Whisky (7" Version)
7. May Peace Prevail on Earth
8. Tonight
9. Jap Gate
10. Disobey
11. アニーにくびったけ
12. Don't Stop My Way
13. Underage
14. Chance
15. Liar
16. かんきせん
17. Don't Stop My Way (LP Version)
18. No! Rental
19. New York City (LP Version)
20. Inside
21. Color
22. Let's Go Back
23. Underage
24. Open Your Eyes
25. Jock
26. Bad Boy
27. Don't Stop My Way
28. Jap Gate
29. Jock
30. Free
31. Hi
32. New York City
33. Island
34. Whisky
35. アニーにくびったけ
36. Step
37. Sink You (7" Version)
38. Light (7" Version)
39. Read on Speed
40. Gamble
41. Bad Boy (7" Version)

Second part of the discography collection.

Tracks 1-6 from "Flash Back (Systema 3)' 7" (1986, Selfish Records)
Track 7 previously unreleased but recorded for "AA Record Omnibus" compilation (1986)
Tracks 8-12 from "Thrash 'Til Death" compilation (1986, Selfish Records)
Tracks 13-22 from "Final Insider/Lucky Time" LP (1987, Selfish Records)
Tracks 23-26 from "My Meat's Your Poison" compilation LP (1987, Kagamousou Records)
Tracks 27-35 from "Stimulate (Systema V)" cassette tape (1987, Systema Project)
Tracks 36-41 from "Gratis" 7" (1988, Systema Project)

"Stimulate (Systema V)" was sold at "Pipe-Cut Gig Vol.16" at Jean Genie, Yokohama on October 24, 1987. The recordings for "Jap Gate", "Jock", and "Hi" were sent to France in order to be included in Jungle Hop Records' 1988 "Virus" compilation LP.

"Gratis" was given away for free at "Super Battle Royal'88" in the Toshima Public Hall, Ikebukuro, July 17, 1988.

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Systematic Death - Systemania 1

Artist: Systematic Death
Title: Systemania 1
Release: 2007
Label: Fade In Records

Track List:
1. 77kids (Demo)
2. 腐乱死体 (Demo)
3. Japanese Punx (Demo)
4. Save (Demo)
5. Systematic Death (Demo)
6. かんきせん (Demo)
7. U.S. City (Demo)
8. Next You (Demo)
9. So What (Demo)
10. Sink You (Demo)
11. Instro (Demo)
12. Save (Flexi Version)
13. 77kids (Flexi Version)
14. Systematic Death (Flexi Version)
15. Sink You (Flexi Version)
16. U.S. City (Flexi Version)
17. Alley Army (Flexi Version)
18. 腐乱死体 (Live)
19. Japanese Punx (Live)
20. Disobey (Outtake)
21. Japanese Punx (Outtake)
22. Alley Army / Life / Disobey (Live)
23. Save
24. 77kids
25. Sink You
26. U.S. City
27. Alley Army
28. 腐乱死体
29. Japanese Punx
30. So What
31. 一神教
32. Oi Oi Oi
33. Island
34. U.P.P
35. Systematic Death
36. Disobey
37. Life
38. Pinfu Nippon
39. かんきせん
40. Near By War
41. Tokyo City (Live)
42. Fight Go (Live)
43. From Hell
44. Trial

This is the first compilation record from Systematic Death. The second one will be posted shortly. Off the top of my head I can't really think of many other bands from Japan that draw such obvious influence from Minor Threat. If you're not already familiar with Systematic Death then that should give you an indication as to what to expect. Fast, straight-forward, hardcore punk.

This particular encode is from a FLAC rip from the same generous soul that made available FLAC rips that some of my previous posts are encoded from. I've seen other half assed rips elsewhere on the internet which is a damn shame. If you're gonna do it do it right, sheesh.

Tracks 1-11 from the demo cassette tape (1983)
Tracks 12-19 from "Systema" 7" flexi (1984, Hold Up Records)
Tracks 20-21 are outtakes from the "Systema" recordings
Track 22 from "Hold Up Omnibus" 8" compilation (Hold Up Records, 1984)
Tracks 23-44 from "Systema 2" cassette tape (1984, Systema Project)

Download: Systematic Death - Systemania 1 (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload
Download: Systematic Death - Systemania 1 (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Hakodate City Hard Core

Artist: Various
Title: Hakodate City Hard Core
Release: 1997
Label: Straight Up Records

Track List:
1. Crude - No One Gave the Right Answer
2. Crude - 義勇 (Giyuu, Heroism)
3. etae - Protect Oneself
4. etae - Proof of Truth Proof of Power
5. etae - 絶望の時 (Zetsubou no Toki, Hour of Despair)
6. Mustang - 箱館 (Hakodate)
7. Mustang - 馬 (Uma, Horse)
8. Mustang - ヒエロ (Hiero)
9. Grass - 意識 (Ishiki, Consciousness)
10. Grass - 痛みの向こうに (Itami no Mukou ni, Beyond the Pain)
11. Grass - Humanity
12. Bad Trip - Fuck Religion
13. Bad Trip - Junky
14. Bad Trip - 矛盾 (Mujun, Contradiction)
15. Bad Trip - Impostor
16. Bad Trip - Decided Life

More on this later.

Download: Hakodate City Hard Core (FhG 192 kbps)

Chest Pain - Chest Pain

Artist: Chest Pain
Title: Chest Pain
Release: 2009
Label: Self Released?

Track List:
1. Yellow Noose
2. False Self
3. Murderers / Shop Till You Drop
4. Reverse Baptism
5. A Lifetime of Spit and Swearing

When I first met Matt Needles I figured "Needles" was just some nickname he'd acquired long ago that had just stuck well enough for everyone to know it. About a year later I asked him what his last name was and he said it was Needles. I thought he was just bullshitting me. But then he showed me his drivers license. Needles is seriously his last name, at least according to the great state of Texas.

I got this rip from another blog, so the credit goes to them for posting what I assume is their own rip from the cassette.

Matt (who plays Bass) was kind enough to give me the proper track listing since he knows how anal I am about that sort of thing. So what you'll find below isn't really anything you can't find elsewhere, but I like to have all my i's dotted and my t's crossed when it comes to my mp3 collection. Matt suggested I throw this up here, but I probably would have done it anyways since this little demo (I guess it's a demo) is really fucking good.

Don't let the first minute or so of the first track "Yellow Noose" fool you, Chest Pain is fast as hell hardcore. Some might even say power violence, but whatever. 6 songs in just over 8 minutes is perfect as far as I'm concerned.

I like to think Texas has consistently produced some of the best hardcore for decades now. Bands like Chest Pain are part of the reason that belief is continually reaffirmed.

Download: Chest Pain - Chest Pain (FhG 192 kbps)

Confuse - Nuclear Addicts E.P. (reissue)

Artist: Confuse
Title: Nuclear Addicts E.P. (reissue)
Release: 1996
Label: Anarchy Centre Recordings

Track List:
1. Indignation
2. People Are Nuclear Poisoning
3. Rebel & War
4. Hate (Is It War?)
5. No Victor
6. Disaster
7. The End...

This was originally released in 1984 by Blue Jug Records.

Download: Confuse - Nuclear Addicts E.P. (reissue) (LAME 3.98r V0)

Order of the Kite Volumes One and Two

Artist: Various
Title: Order of the Kite - Volume One
Release: 2001
Label: Bootleg

Track List:
1. Anti-Septic - Visions of Power
2. Anti-Septic - War Game
3. Anti-Septic - Dice with Death
4. Anti-Septic - Death or Glory
5. Crime - Suicide
6. Crime - Best to Death
7. Crime - Nucler Blood
8. Crime - Inside Out
9. Z - Violence Action
10. Z - Go to Kill
11. Z - Go Ahead
12. Z - Peace of Hiroshima
13. Disarray - Social Victim
14. Disarray - Sadist
15. Disarray - Slay
16. Disarray - Balder Dash
17. Disarray - Bad Blood
18. Disarray - Cry Murder
19. Disarray - The Place of Horror
20. The Sexual - Anarchy & Destruction
21. The Sexual - Crime of Sexual
22. The Sexual - War Cry
23. The Sexual - The Last Days
24. The Sexual - Scatter the Hatred
25. The Sexual - Devil Reversion
26. The Sexual - The End Approaches
27. M78 - M78

Tracks 1-4 from "First-Last" 7" (1986, Hold Up Records)
Tracks 5-7 from "Nuclear Blood" 7" flexi (1985, Uma Oi Records)
Track 8 from "I'll Gather Up" 8" compilation (1989, Musical Friends)
Tracks 9-12 from "Violence Action" 7" flexi (1988, Z Records)
Tracks 13-19 from "Disarray" 7" flexi (1984, ADK Records)
Tracks 20-24 from "The Last Days" 7" flexi (1985, Kochi Records)
Tracsk 25-27 from "Jisatu" 8" compilation (1985)

Download: Order of the Kite - Volume One (LAME 3.98r V0)


Artist: Various
Title: Order of the Kite - Volume Two
Release: 2001
Label: Bootleg

Track List:
1. The Clay - The Demilitarized Neutrality
2. The Clay - Fight for Your Rights
3. The Clay - The Middle East Combat Area
4. The Clay - Future Terror
5. The Clay - Militia
6. The Clay - Freeze Bomb / Distraction Symbols / The War to End War / War Crimes / Black Flag
7. Bitousha - Giseisha to Shiteno Kyouraku
8. Bitousha - Batou Kansha
9. Bitousha - Kyouja To Shiteno Koufuku
10. Dead Person - No Marcy Surviving
11. Dead Person - M.D.I.
12. Dead Person - Charge in Trap
13. Dead Person - Shout
14. Dead Person - No Money
15 LSD - Zouaku Sensou / LSD
16. LSD - Warst Time
17. LSD - Kill You / LSD (Instrumental)
18. Final Count - Imitate a Human
19. Final Count - Silence
20. Final Count - Will Full Life
21. Final Count - No Follow the Fashion
22. Final Count - Double Faced Person
23. Final Count - Organization
24. The Execute - Criminal Flowers Part 1 & 2
25. The Execute - Slash
26. The Execute - Moron
27. The Execute - The Voice
28. The Execute - Sag

Tracks 1-3 from "Middle East Combat Area" 7" (1986, Hold Up Records)
Tracks 4-5 from "Great Punk Hits" compilation (1983, Japan Records)
Track 6 from "Hold Up Omnibus" 8" compilation (Hold Up Records, 1984)
Tracks 7-9 from "Hiromi's Party Part 1" 7" flexi (1984, ACS Records)
Tracks 10-14 from "Dead Person" 7" flexi (1987, Stomping Records)
Tracks 15-17 from "Destroy" 7" flexi (1984, ADK Records)
Tracks 18-22 from "Final Count" 7" flexi (1988, Final Records)
Track 23 from "Enjoy Your Youth" compilation (1998, Adventure Family)
Tracks 24-26 from "Criminal Flowers" 7" (1984, Hit Parade)
Tracks 27-28 from "Great Punk Hits" compilation (1983, Japan Records)

Download: Order of the Kite - Volume Two (LAME 3.98r V0)


Both of these compilations are bootlegs from sources unknown (to me and apparently google as well). I'm normally not too keen on bootlegs since they tend to be of dubious quality and I don't really like the idea of people putting out a bands music without their consent. But, I suppose after enough time has passed and no official repress or discography collection is released then bootlegging can serve a valid purpose in that it can keep hard to find music from fading into obscurity. My understanding of "Order of the Kite" volumes one and two is that they collect records that, with a few exceptions, are neigh on impossible to find for anything resembling a reasonable price.

I won't spend much time describing each band contained in the compilations as reviews can easily be found elsewhere. But, I will say that if you like hardcore, especially the kind that is distinctly Japanese hardcore, then you'd be a damned fool to not download this.

City of Caterpillar - Demo + Live Recording

Artist: City of Caterpillar
Title: Demo + Live Recording
Release: 2002
Label: Level Plane Records

Track List:
1. A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction (Demo)
2. Shadows of Ghosts Passing on City Streets (Demo)
3. Demo Track 3
4. Demo Track 4
5. Demo Track 5
6. When Was the Last Time We Painted over the Blood on the Walls? (Live)
7. An Innocent Face (Live)
8. Shadows of Ghosts Passing on City Streets (Live)
9. A Little Change Could Go a Long Ways (Live)

While no means what I would consider a "hardcore" band City of Caterpillar nevertheless deserves some attention here. Active back in the days when screamo was for the most part not yet a dirty word City of Caterpillar played what I think is best described as a fusion between their contemporaries and Post-Rock. At times they lean so heavily towards the sort of beautiful and eerie sounds typically associated with bands like Mogwai that it can be pretty jarring when they suddenly shift into the harsh noise and screaming.

Somewhere around 7 years ago I left their self-titled album in my car's CD player when my mom asked to borrow it. Later that day when she returned it to me she made the comment that whatever was in my CD player sounded really pretty until it started to get really ugly. That's a pretty accurate description I'd say.

This particular recording is a little more on the ugly (in a good way!) side of things than their self-titled release but it's just as great of a listen. Rather than type out my own description, from the insert:

Songs 1-5 were recorded at Signal to Noise Studios by Duncan & Jay in the April of 2000 in Richmond, VA. These songs were originally released on demo tapes & CDRs. Song 3 also appeared on a split 7" with System 2600 which was released by the Sea of Dead Pirates record label.

Lineup... Brandon, Ryan, Adam, Jeff.

Songs 6-9 were recorded live on WNYU by Steve Roche in Manhattan, NY in the December of 2000. Songs 6 & 8 were released on a one sided tour edition 7" which was pressed by the Level Plane record label.

Lineup... Brandon, Ryan, Kevin, Jeff.

This release is intended to make these songs available at a reasonable price. There should be no need to pay ridiculous prices for these recordings on out of print records.

...Endless thanks go to...
Planes Mistaken for Stars, System 2600, Level Plane, pg 99, Lilac Sky, Adagio 830, Fil "Mako", our friends & families, and everyone who has supported us.

It's kind of funny now since this record can go for a good amount of money on eBay. I was fortunate enough to get my first copy on black vinyl for normal retail price. I won't say how much I paid for my second copy on clear vinyl, but it was as Brandon said, ridiculous.

I'm kind of in the process of organizing my mp3 library right now. Since I don't actually own a CD copy of this record I was curious to see if it is even available for sale anymore and sadly it appears it isn't. The only downloads I could find through Google find were low bit rate and probably done poorly. Fortunately, even though I don't have the actual CD I do have a FLAC rip with an EAC log that says it's damn near perfect. So for your convenience here it is in V0 mp3.

Download: City of Caterpillar - Demo + Live Recording (LAME 3.98r V0)

Kuro - Who the Helpless + 10 Tracks

Artist: Kuro
Title: Who the Helpless + 10 Tracks
Release: 2005
Label: SS Recordings

Track List:
1. X / 絶望 (Zetsubou, Despair)
2. Human Gas
3. Body
4. Who the Helpless
5. Selfish Cow
6. お前だ (Omaeda, You) / OiMaeda
7. No More No
8. A.N.P.R
9. Lightning Breaks
10. Furniture Fire
11. Dead Heat 10000V
12. Hey! Hey! Hey!
13. Midnight Baby
14. Jag Out
15. Top Less Go
16. Jag Out (1983 Gig)
17. Top Less Go (1983 Gig)

Kuro (whose name simply means "black" but is written with 白 (shiro), the kanji for "white" for reasons I don't know) played a type of very fast bass heavy hardcore that is now pretty distinctly Japanese. That isn't to say bands elsewhere around the world haven't done things in the same way, it's just that Kuro really helped get it all started and as such it's no wonder that sound is so heavily associated with what one thinks of when discussing Japanese hardcore.

This CD is a collection of all (to my knowledge) of kuro's records that they put out in their relatively short lifetime (1983 to 1986, I think). The only bad part about it is that it isn't any longer. Even including the live songs it's barely 36 minutes.

Speaking of the live songs, I have a very strong suspicion that Kuro's recorded output doesn't do their live show justice. When I first heard the last couple of tracks I thought the screams were added in into the recording but since watching some of their videos on youtube I'm not so sure anymore.



This encode I did myself from a beautiful FLAC rip of the CD that I was able to find (you probably can too if you can use google). I didn't think reposting the FLAC rip itself was necessary since V0 mp3 is pretty much just as good. Major kudos to the dude who remastered this though, since that's where the real bottleneck for sound quality lies, especially with hardcore from the 80's. I dunno if he worked with the master recordings (I doubt it) or if it was remastered from the vinyl but it sounds as good as one would expect from a punk band during that time.

I did manage to find the official site of the record label that put this out. If you've got ￥2,940 (about $32.33) lying around you might want to see if you can get them to ship internationally. It looks like they do mail order only so good luck.

I couldn't find album art larger than a small thumbnail for this so I just used the best I could find for the original "Who the Helpless" record.

Tracks 1-7 from "Who the Helpless" 8" flexi (1984, Blue Jug Records)
Tracks 8-11 from "Fire" 7" EP (1986, KPP Records)
Tracks 12-13 from "Pinch & Ouch!" compilation (1985, KPP Records)
Tracks 14-15 from "Kuro" 7" flexi (1983, Blue Jug Records)
Tracks 16-17 from "1983 Gig" 7" flexi (1986, KPP Records)

All tracks digitally remastered by Kotaro Kojima at Flair.

Download: Kuro - Who the Helpless + 10 Tracks (LAME 3.98r V0)

Lie and Wait - 2 Song Tour Demo

Artist: Lie and Wait
Title: 2 Song Tour Demo
Release: 2007
Label: Self Released

Track List:
1. King for a Day
2. Apostasy

I've posted Lie and Wait before. As this release's title suggests this is a two song demo Lie and Wait handed out during a tour some time in 2007. I don't really remember which tour at this point, but I do know I got this from them at The Way it Is fest which they played.

The first track "King for a Day" is pretty par for the course with Lie and Wait. For the most part mid paced with plenty of distortion on the guitars. Tyler is pissed at something and I'm pretty certain it's either society or religion or both.

"Apostasy" is a little bit faster at times but slows down just before a pretty awesome build up about half way through. This song reminds me of earlier No Warning more than anything else Lie and Wait did.

I seem to recall this coming out after their last album "Led Astray", but that may just be because I might not have seen them in the months immediately before its release. I got my copy after the album was out. The fact that a far more polished version of "Apostasy" appears on the album I'm inclined to believe this is from before it. "King for a Day" doesn't appear on anything else so maybe it just didn't make the cut. Next time I see any of them I'll ask.

Good luck finding this anywhere else.

Download: Lie and Wait - 2 Song Tour Demo (LAME 3.98r V0)

Breaking Power the Prisoner - Break Way

Artist: Breaking Power the Prisoner
Title: Break Way
Release: 1985
Label: Idol Life

Track List:
1. Break Way
2. What Do You See
3. Burning Body

More excellent 80's Japanese hardcore. This one was a bit of a bitch to be find which is why I'm posting it here. Sorry for the complete lack of album art. Update: Looks like someone who actually owns this got around to putting the album art on discogs.com. The awesome keyboard (or guitar part that sounds like a keyboard to me) interlude in "Burning Body" should make up for that.

Download: Breaking Power The Prisoner - Break Way (LAME 3.97 V2)