all things old school

Friday, May 28, 2010

HIGHLIFE - Oceanside Blues

Location: Texas, USA
Release: Inkblot Records, 2010
Artwork: Ryan Sinz

Tracklist:
  1. Lifes a Beach / Born 2 Lose
  2. Skate Snakes
  3. Lowlife
  4. My Boogers Smell Like Glue
  5. Resin Heavin
  6. Oceanside Blues
  7. Hidden Track (not too hidden!) Circle Jerks Cover

Influences: JFA, Rich Kids On LSD, Citizens Arrest

SUPPORT: inkblotrecords.bigcartel.com

Thursday, May 27, 2010

YOU LOSE! - All In

Location: Paris, França
Release: D.I.Y., 2008 (out-of-press)

Tracklist:


Influences: Guns Up!, Down To Nothing, Allegiance

SUPPORT: youlose.bigcartel.com

HåRDA TIDER / BALANCE - Split

Location: Sweden
Release: Not Enough + Monument Recs, 2009

Tracklist:
Hårda Tider Side
1. Upprensningen
2. Packet
3. Crazy but not Insane [Warzone]
Balance Side
1. Time to react
2. Masskontroll [No Security]

Influences: Mainstrike, Straight Ahead, Brotherhood

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credits to Old School Mike

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

GO FOR BROKE - Traditions

Listen: www.myspace.com/goforbrokecrew
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Release: City To City Records, 2008


Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Traditions
3. Change Your Way
4. Nowhere To Escape
5. Search For Peace
6. The Difference
7. Step Aside
8. Intolerance
9. Open Your Mind
10. Out Of Reach
11. Facing Failure
12. Belief
13. Left Behind
14. Do Your Part
15. No Time To Waste
16. Nothing's Changed

Tracks 1-8 "Traditions EP" recorded Feb 2008.
Tracks 9-15 "Open Your Mind" Demo recorded Nov 2006.
Track 16 Previously released on "One Kind Word" Compilation by Cycle Records

Influences: Side By Side, The First Step, Insted


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Members went to play in BALANCE, LIONS DEN and ANGERS CURSE. Read this quick interview for more enlightenment.

REMAIN - Out Of Anger

Location: The Netherlands
Release: Not Just Words, 2008 (out of print)


In dutch's REMAIN last record, that 80's NYHC influence is more present and features a superior production, think of Breakdown and Judge.

Not Just Words did a great job in the whole concept of this album, turned out superb! Gatefold sleeve, nice imprint not to mention the artwork. LP was limited to 525 copies.

Tracklist:
01. Never Cared
02. No Regrets
03. Kept Alive
04. My Friends
05. In Search Of
06. Never To Return
07. Always Believe
08. What's Up With You
09. Stick To It (Life's Blood)
10. What It Takes
11. Lesson Learned
12. Our Own Downfall
13. What We Had
14. Time To Learn

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

V/A - A WORLD DIVIDED BY POWERTRIPS & BULLSHIT POLITICS, can't we all just get along!

Compiled by the enthusiastic hardcore guru Old School Mike, a punk legend from the L.A. scene circa 1979! Mike saw and heard everything from the very beginning and with no signs to quit any time soon, he's working with new bands from around the globe to bring the finest compilations on full speed ahead HARDCORE PUNK music. For 2010 a new compilation is in progress called Thrash Up Your Ass! to be released by Spastic Fantastic Records.                                                                                                                          - Dr.Fresh-Rhymes May'10
 In this 2009 issue we have 60 selections of really-fast-no-frills-songs from the following bands:

01-SUCKED DRY - give up (kansas city-U.S.A.)
02-SNAKE RUN - death trap (australia)
03-SARJAN HASSAN - play fast or die (malaysia)
04-ANTISEXY - PxDxMx (italy)
05-SCREWED UP - aboard your doubts (germany)
06-CRIPPLED FOX - old school or no school (hungary)
07-LEDGE ATTACK - game of skate (indonesia)
08-GERIATRIC UNIT - sell-out (U.K.)
09-TIEMPO CRUCIAL -  ciudadania enemiga (chile)
10-CRUCIAL CAUSE - blood money (bay area-U.S.A)
11-ELASTIC DEATH - the shaolin masters... (brazil)
12-NOMOS - the most dangerous game (ny-U.S.A)
13-TENSE REACTION - profit of doom (holland)
14-DOGENDS - i'm not racist-i.w.b.g. (ca-U.S.A.)
15-BORED STRAIGHT - deaf (wisconsin-U.S.A.)
16-DAMAGE REPAIR - you are but what you eat (latvia)
17-DADDY NO! - culpable (scotland)
18-SAY WHY - starec (czech republic)
19-FUN FREAKS - bad religion (japan)
20-ULTIMATE BLOWUP - elimination sequence (turkey)
21-URBAN UNREAT - rat race (finland)
22-SHORTLIVED - pyrotechnic (new zealand)
23-S.P.G. - absurd life (nj-U.S.A.)
24-RUIDOSA INMUNDICIA - condiciones... (austria)
25-SMARTxBOMB - just screaming (macedonia)
26-EVAZIJA - educate yourself! (croatia)
27-REMINDER - strong enough (argentina)
28-MARGARET THRASHER - stagedive king (siberia)
29-MONDO GECKO - raw anger (israel)
30-FORCED MARCH - manifest catastrophe (portland-U.S.A.)
31-GOOD FUCKING TIME (GxFxTx) - must pay (lithuania)
32-JEAN MILS SOCIETY TORCH - p.e. (maryland-U.S.A.)
33-REPROACH - the L.A.P.D. can suck it (belgium)
34-KNUCKLE SCRAPER - cross the pit (texas-U.S.A.)
35-AMOBA - kontroll (sweden)
36-ARCHAIC - 15 (va-U.S.A.)
37-COCHE BOMBE - plastico (france)
38-LOVE POTION - overdose (denmark)
39-INFESTATION OF ASS - you call me frizzo (iowa-U.S.A.)
40-PULL OUT AN EYE - p.o.v. is crime (belarus)
41-NO MAN'S SLAVE -  prescription drugs (oklahoma-U.S.A.)
42-NO MINION - alone and forsaken (dc-U.S.A.)
43-LET'S GROW - zombie scene (serbia)
44-S.B.V. - the sunday collector (ca-U.S.A.)
45-VARIVARI- kanji title (japan)
46-BUNNY SKULLS - life of rage (mi-U.S.A.)
47-SHARON STONED - no one's young twice (malaysia)
48-PAHAA VERTA - kaikki irti elamasta (finland)
49-DEATH OF PRESIDENT - revolt (indonesia)
50-INSURGENT RAT - crippled cop (sweden)
51-NEON BITCHES - dropout (rhode island-U.S.A.)
52-NOSSA VINGANCA - p.q.s.j.p.s.c. (brazil)
53-URBAN BLIGHT- breakout (canada)
54-IN I ELDEN - aldrig slutat (sweden)
55-STRAIGHT JACKET NATION - the threat (australia)
56-NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - cut off (germany)
57-S.S.F. (STRONG SOFAR) - meat free (poland)
58-NINPULATORS - nincs isten (hungary)
59-DEMOKHRATHIA - lemssid-usine a bombes (algeria)
60-RxTxEx (RUN TIME ERROR) - captain trash (austria)

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...now grab your board and start thrashin' thru the walls of injustice

Saturday, May 22, 2010

RADICAL ATTACK - Priority

Location: Quebec, Canadá
Release: Ghost Town + Vinyl Addict Records, 2006
Artwork: Last Chance Illustration (Mike Bukowski)

Think in something fast, angry and pissed-off-sxe-hardcore like theres no tomorrow! This is how it goes with RADICAL X ATTACK. Highly influenced by almight INFEST.

They recorded quite a few 7"s and splits here and there, Priority is their only full-length and last album. If you want to demolish a building this is your soundtrack! 

FFO: Shark Attack, Negative Approach, Cut The Shit

GONNA FALL HARD - Everybody Is...

Location: Venice, Itália
Release: Superhero Records, 2007
Artwork: Rise Above (Marcello Crescenzi)

Tracklist:
01. The Next One To Be Hated
02. No Hero
03. Barking Dogs Seldom Bite
04. I Don't Care
05. Revenge Is My Right
06. Don't Put Your Tears On Me
07. Your Last Breath
08. Iron Pride
09. Sick Love After Midnight
10. Hell Can Wait
11. She Cheers Me Up

(12. Hidden Track)

Influences: Negative FX, Verbal Abuse, Scolastic Deth

SUPPORT: gonnafallhard.bigcartel.com

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*ripped from my own collection (highest bitrate)*

NEWGATE POTENTIAL - Polonaise of Death

 
Location: Bruges, België
Release: High Five Records, 2006
Artwork: The Tok

UPDATE 2020!! - NEWGATE POTENTIAL belongs to a selective group of bands from Belgium's Old School Revival glory days that spanned roughly over a decade.

They started in 2004 and quit in 2007 with a demo and one full-length out. The demo is quite generic but it worked as the foundation for the sound they were looking for in "Polonaise Of Death", a type of hardcore specific of that time & place, very reminiscent of their more well-known local peers like JUSTICE. Topics covered in the songs range from seizing life, DIY attitudes and the ever growing far-right political parties. 

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

THE ICE - DEMO MMVII

Location: Cologne, Germany
Release: Demons Run Amok, 2007
Artwork: Florian Bertmer
 
Tracklist:
1. Powertrip
2. Spitting Venom
3. Into The Light
4. Shedding Skin
5. Stay Hungry

Influences: Cro-Mags, True Blue, Icepick

PURCHASE 7" [last copies]
DOWNLOAD [new link!]