Private Release

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Third World Planet & The Republic Of Freedom Fighters - (1996) Split 8.5'' Flexi

Diminutive ‎– DR 01, Break Even Records ‎– BE 064

Joey Casio - (2010) The Frame 7''

K ‎– IPU CXXIX

"The Frame" is the third single by Joey Casio released by K, and the second in the International Pop Underground series (following 2009's "Debtor's Prism"). Casio continues to create something wholly new for this unsteady era. The longtime Olympian, and current Portlandian, reassembles the wired connections of white-hot punk energy and post-disco electronic dance music. "The Frame" finds Casio sharpening his edges rather than just running in place: you'll hear the calculated combination of dance and punk forms fused within a neon-lit matrix of percussion, including electronic strings, claps and bells and Casio's laconic delivery; a box inside a box. The b-side,"Rituals," is a tar pit of sound, pure disenfranchisement,remaining danceable while flirting with chaos.

VA - (2009) Fresh Cuts & Cigarette Burns 7''

Criminal IQ ‎– CIQ038

Review auto translated from German to English:
33 rpm, 2 pages, 6 bands: FNU Ronnies, Sick Jump!, Kill The Hippies, The Curtains, White Load and Flying Trichecos have CIQ Records gathered here, and the mixture is wild: FNU Ronnies play intense vortex-noisy punk rock with DRI reminiscence while Sick Jump! very simple go to the point - primitive is an appropriate, non-negative-meaning description.

Kill The Hippies finally catch strangely funky, then aggressive unhooked. Sounds more after 1983 and The Dicks than after 2009. On the flipside, it goes with The Curtains more, the inferior a slight ska beat and remember something Subhumans (UK).

This is followed by White Load with nihilistic, hysterical noise pollution, and finally Flying Trichecos whose punk rock sounds very broken, over driven and brutal. Broken marching music, early Wire through the hardcore meat grinder rotated - nasty.

It may be that all current bands with new recordings, but would the compilation as Killed By Death EP sell, it would not it, that the songs do not originate from the early eighties.

Tracklist
A1 FNU Ronnies - Ain't No Place
A2 Sick Jump! - Fuck Kids
A3 Kill The Hippies - No Control But Dance Control
B1 The Curtains - Hidden Agenda
B2 White Load - Nothing Is Funny
B3 Flying Trichecos - Recidivist

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

3 Finger Spread & Elmer - (1994) Split 7''

Too Many Records ‎– TM57

Pounded Clown - (1993) Trashmen 7''

Turgid Records ‎– none

Sacramento 1988-1995. Pounded Clown! (often billed as PC!) was a Sacramento, CA area punk rock band active from the early 1990's until June 1995. Horns meet punk but stay away from ska and form a side show.

Sea Pigs - (1992) Freaktard 7''

Very Small Records ‎– VSR 17

Members:
Dave Seapig, guitar, vocals
Mike Seapig, drums
Jay Onyskin, bass
Aaron "Cubby" Fatguy, bass (lasted about 4 months before Jay took over)
Billy, keyboards (back in the LA days)
Dave Seapig says a lot of neat stuff, here's what I remember, "Cubby quit to join Johnny Nitro & the Door Slammers. We got him from Screamin' Dave Wright & the Boll Weevils. I met Cubby at Melarkys while I was shooting off guns. We moved to Sacramento in 1987. Mike's wife Jackie fell in love with a heroin dealer and left him, and I transferred to the Sacramento Youth Authority as a guard. As "Silent Runner" we had laser shows and 12 minute songs called stuff like 'The Wizard'. Then Mike's dad died and we started playing punk."

Nuisance - (1991) The Rut 7''

Very Small Records ‎– VSR 12

“It’s like being on top of the mountain, and you can reach out and touch the sun. Dusty trucks buzz on the county road down from you. And it’s like the most poignant moment that could ever be. Tell me with your lazy rock’n’roll just what it means, whisper in my ear".

Nuisance & Bitchcraft - (1992) Split 7''

Kirbdog Records ‎– KD 004

Nuisance was a punk band from the late 80s and early 90s, one of the earlier bands to take punk roots and soak them in folksy country music.

Counterclock - (1994) Wrong Diagnal 7''

Too Many Records ‎– TM59

Strawman - (1992) Politics On The Pavement 7''

Allied Recordings ‎– Allied No. 12

STRAWMAN were a socialist inspired punk band from the Mission District of San Francisco, California, active from 1990 to 1995. Led by Tommy Strange (Tom Seiler) on rhythm guitar, a San Francisco transplant from Sandusky, Ohio, and Jimmy Broustis (from Chicago, former guitarist of X-tal) on lead guitar, Strawman hosted a variety of Bay Area drummers and bassists. Early recordings featured the rhythm section of the Bedlam Rovers, while later incarnations consisted of drummers Aaron Cometbus (from Crimpshrine, Pinhead Gunpowder et al.), Adam Pfahler (from Jawbreaker), Diane Glaub (from Ohio) and bassists Rich McClain and Chandan Narayan (from the east bay, currently a linguistics professor at the University of Toronto). Strawman played shows across California and the West Coast with the likes of fellow Mission-district acts J Church and Jawbreaker.

J Church - (1992) She Said She Wouldn't Sacrifice 7''

Allied Recordings ‎– ALLIED No. 14

"Our first proper release. I think we had only played eight or nine shows when this came out. The last passage from Commodity was lifted from Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord. Aaron played drums. Cover photo was lifted from a book about the Nazi resistance in France and the back cover photo was of a cop killed in London in the '40s."

J Church - (1993) She Never Leaves The Neighborhood 7''

Dead Beat Records ‎– DB 04

"We did a Peel session while in England. We had a DAT tape. We claim no responsibility as to what happened to that tape. I don't have it and I have no idea where it is. Good Judge Of Character - John Peel's pick as the "Yank sizzler destined to be a pop hit". Well, we all make mistakes... Really, a pop hit about prostitution? Everyone thinks that Priest is this really deep song. It's mostly about Tony's brother, who is a priest, in Saturday Night Fever."

J Church - (1995) Ivy League College 7''

From Lance's original J Church website: "Probably our best release. Our first proper recording with Reed on drums. Basically one song is a tirade against college students, one against people dissing every band I've ever been in and a cover of a Nick Lowe tune. Nifty cover is a spoof on Cheap Trick and the label itself is a take off on Stiff Records (one of my fave old labels)."

Although the words above date from 1995, that 'best release' comment has also appeared in much later interviews. Band You Love To Hate was inspired by touring with Beck, which Lance did as his guitarist around this time. The title track may have been inspired by the year that Lance lived in College Station, Texas (an experience which also led to another song, named after the town).
Marie Provost is a cover of a song by the British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, a real-life story of a silent movie star who couldn't make the transition to the 'talkies' and who killed herself, locked in her apartment with her dogs...
Finally, the inner sleeve features the declaration: "No synthesizers ever!"