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$37.50
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RELEASE DATE: 6/11/2021
19 track round-up of demos from The Partisans who formed in Bridgend, South Wales in 1978 and ended up being one of the best of the UK82 punk movement. The first side of the LP has ten tracks recorded in April 1980 in one day and like bands in their early years -- it features mainly covers. It includes songs from the Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, UK Subs, Buzzcocks, and Cockney Rejects. It also has primitive and raw versions of future Partisans classics "No Time" and "I Don't Give a Fuck". This demo has never been heard or released in any form. Less than a year later, February 1981 with Savage leaving and Louise joining on bass, the band have their most well know line up and are in full flow with a six-track demo that was sent to No Future Records. It's not surprising the label snapped them up straight away as the recordings are high energy and full of anthemic gems. The label released "Police Story" and "Killing Machine" as the debut 7" direct from these recordings. The other four tracks from this demo have never been released on vinyl. The last three tracks on the LP are the demos from 1982 recorded for No Future for the 17 Years of Hell single. Rawer and more punk than the actual well know versions. All members of the bands helped in this release and shared original masters from which everything was remastered plus archive from their own personal collections including photos galore, handouts, ticket stubs, interviews, etc. which are included in the 28-page booklet.
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 5/28/2021
Recorded several years ago before Rudimentary Peni engaged in another mysterious hiatus, Great War has finally emerged to kiss the gas-tinged light of a mustered morn. Expanding on the skeletal sounds and subject of 2009's Wilfred Owen single the band has seen fit to concentrate on a more mechanized approach doing away with even more of the humanizing aspects in their music this time delivering ten painful familiar shards fraught with brittle anxiety and anguished simplicity. Great War cements new phase in the ever-crawling metamorphic madness that is Rudimentary Peni. The record comes with brand new Nick Blinko artwork.
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$28.50
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RELEASE DATE: 5/28/2021
LP version. Recorded several years ago before Rudimentary Peni engaged in another mysterious hiatus, Great War has finally emerged to kiss the gas-tinged light of a mustered morn. Expanding on the skeletal sounds and subject of 2009's Wilfred Owen single the band has seen fit to concentrate on a more mechanized approach doing away with even more of the humanizing aspects in their music this time delivering ten painful familiar shards fraught with brittle anxiety and anguished simplicity. Great War cements new phase in the ever-crawling metamorphic madness that is Rudimentary Peni. The record comes with brand new Nick Blinko artwork.
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Reissue, originally released in 1987. Astaron from Vienna Austria were a music and art performance duo made up of Angie Mörth (member of Viele Bunte Autos) and Martina Aichhorn who existed from 1984 to 1989. Influenced by the Viennese Actionism, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Kate Bush and armed with a big dose of black humor and a true love for trash culture they created an impressively unique body of work. They released two DIY tapes, one 12", and this stunning self-titled album at the tail end of 1987. It was originally released by local label Ton Um Ton Records in a criminally low pressing of 500 copies. It's an unadjusted highly experimental and totally addictive dark wave album with hints of minimal post punk. The music ranges from dirge-like chants to ethereal pop to haunting ballads. It's pure melancholic beauty from start to finish. Think KUKL, Cocteau Twins, Young Marble Giants, Brian Eno, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and Diamanda Galas.
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The second release on Sealed Records is Can't Cheat Karma, a 13-track round-up of the first five singles by Zounds. Their debut single from 1980, Can't Cheat Karma was released on Crass Records and 39 years later still stands as one of the finest singles both politically and musically. For the next three singles, Zounds worked with Rough Trade Records, who also released their debut album The Curse of Zounds (1981). 1981's Demystification was a tense and stark masterpiece; it was followed by the haunting Mikey Dread-produced Dancing and then the more straight-up pop of More Trouble Coming Everyday (both 1982). The final single here is La Vache Qui Rit, released on Belgian label Not So Brave in 1983. It was originally supposed to be a split single with The Mob but ended up being two scratchy studio tracks and two rough and raw live tracks recorded in Holland in 1982. Every home should have these essential Zounds recordings.
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Sealed Records release the complete remastered Iconoclast discography, including the immense self-released 1983 Demo, the Flipside 7" from 1985, plus two compilation tracks. It's a small but perfectly formed discography and one that 36 years after it was first recorded still has power, intensity and rage. Iconoclast were part of the early '80s American peace punk scene -- idealistic bands highly influenced by Crass which shined amongst the heavily nihilistic California punk scene of the era. Iconoclast's sound was in tune with Discharge, early Antisect, or Wretched while lyrically the songs were political and to the point. The demo was followed by their only vinyl release on Flipside which has two ragers and the more mellow "In These Times" which has a touch of The Mob and Omega Tribe about it. The band had tracks on various compilations including the seminal International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit LP on R Radical in 1984 which had the cream of the crop of international hardcore punk of the heyday. Domination Or Destruction comes housed in a heavy reverse board sleeve and includes a 24-page, 11x11" booklet containing interviews, photos, and flyers from the era documented (1983-1985), which will help understanding the band ideas and the local scene of the era.
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Society's Rejects is 21 tracks of singles rounded up from one of the UK`s first wave of hardcore punk bands, the Mau Maus. Formed in Sheffield in the early '80s, they released a string of hard-hitting EPs on the Pax and Rebellion labels, including Society's Rejects (1982), No Concern (1982), Facts Of War (1983), and Tear Down The Walls (1984), all of which hit the UK Indie top ten. This set includes all the tracks from those four singles plus "Give Us A Future" from the Punk Dead - Nah Mate, The Smell Is Jus Summink In Yer Underpants Innit (1983) compilation on Pax. Each track is a prime example of fury delivered with intensity and passion. Includes A4 booklet with lyrics, reviews and archival materials.
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Remastered vinyl reissue of the debut and only Omega Tribe album, No Love Lost, originally released in 1983 on Corpus Christi Records. The album was recorded by Pete Fender deep in the Poison Girls' studio and contains 11 punk anthems with a pop sensibility missed by most of their curse of 1983 peers. Omega Tribe were one of the few bands that had a much softer, poetic and melodic style of playing that still managed to impress, educate, and influence their audiences. It was protest music with a heart and sense of love that still is relevant 35 years later.
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