va- Raw Tape: It’s a Stage (va dXr 2014)

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A Music tape compiled as a complement to raw tape,as will appear in bats&cockroaches deathrock zine#4 (out in friday!). A tribute to older and newer goth&deathrock, from all sides of the world. Play it loud with the gas full on!

https://www.mediafire.com/?idwnj8nhpi8npjd

 

A1.Black March – Angel Day
A2.Anasazi – I Saw The Witch Cry
A3.Dead Babies – Nobody
A4.The Wake – Christine
A5.Siekiera – Jest Bezpiecznie
A6.Korowa Bar – Pusti Me
A7.Adhs – Ikona Tou Spilaiou

B1.Vex – World In Action
B2.Virgin Prunes – Sweet Home
B3.La Guillotina – Invoco A Dios
B4.Capela Das Almas – Negro
B5.Sleeping Children – Between Your Legs
B6.Radio Scarlet – Sir Rots a Lot
B7.Hans-a-plast – Monstertanz

MAKE YOUR OWN ZINE!!!!!

 

 

Rosa Lux & Signo XIII (2012 postpunk dXr)

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This is the continuation of a rather short series of uploads from the past of this blog. 2 bands in a shared upload, 2 sides of a tape , 2 same differences, or you can call it as you like. These guys have2 things  in common- their origin, both coming from south america (brazil & argentina), and that they sent us their stuff to listen. I fear that my friends may worry that i m developing a spanish speaking gtoh goth band obsession, latinophilia, but if less modern european/american bands sounded like shit, that wouldn’t be the case.

Rosa Lux come off as a bit more diy-ish and punkish, deathrockian. I like their album covers, attitude [that they didn’t wait to have a finished mastered product to present but rather hurried along and sent us their work], their sound and that they’re carrying a dead world in their hearts (how goth, how spanish, me encanta!!!).

Signo XIII (treze) are more pust punkish, indie even. The vocals are clearer, the guitars crystal with barely any distortion. I hate band to band comparisons, but they remind me of a modern day the sound/chameleons hybrid. I hear they’re on their way to bigger things(3 more records out!), the brazilian scene is exploding. With tracks like the torturer, i am not surprised.

Enjoy

https://www.mediafire.com/?yg55n2it155i222

 http://ulozto.net/x24NVxjS/rosa-lux-signo-xiii-rar

Rosa Lux – Demo (2012 Argentina, Buenos Aires)

MP3 320kbps

01 contra-himno

02 flores negras

03 peregrinacion

04 llevamos un mundo muerto en nuestros corazones

05 la antorcha

06 fuego jacobino

 

EL VERDUGO Y LA VENDETTA EP

Signo XIII – El verdugo y la vendetta (2012 Brazil EP)

Mp3 128Kbps

01 – JARDIM DE INVERNO

02 – CLÉO

03 – VERDUGO

04 – MIRAGEM

05 – TORTURADOR

06 – VENDETTA

http://rosalux.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/signotreze.postpunk

Sleep Money – Demonstrations I & II (2012 US post punk/avant garde))

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Not many words here. Sleep money from phoenix-arizona is a band better experienced than described, and they were nice enough to send us a sample of their work. I consider them truly experimental and original, hence the avant-garde in their tag. They have a very specific way they want to express, and they have really paid attention to the whole package, appearance, aesthetics, tape covers, prefering alternative media (tape  format rather than cd, tumblr rather than fb) everything. To me, this is the “righteous” path, the way to walk in 2014…wherein so much art is being produced you have to be sure you are not misrepresented.  So you get to mind all the details, you care about your work and want to be listened,  not just vomit your tracks on the earth’s surface, and you’re lucky if you end up sounding like this band. [If you don’t though, you’re just another necrohipster with a mac ,an ableton and a deep ego obsession to see yourself on stage (back in your school days you were probably the  ugly duckling of your school, not even spit upon but rather ignored). So, keep in mind kids, an artist pays attention to the details!]

I truly liked the noisy/artsy/samples/narration bits between the music tracks because surely, in modern times such as ours, the ordinary 4.00 mins track platform, can’t cover all that you have to say or express. And if you just want to listen to how this band sounds, go for “carnivorous” or “minimum”. Of course, just by the sound of them, it is easy to categorize them along with the likes of the nu new political dark punk movement, anasazi, dekoder, bestial mouths and as such, but sleep money are also covering new musical grounds and are hybridizing the nowave of times past.

They say this about themselves:

we’re a 3 piece; with a drum machine, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist – our influences range from christian death, bauhaus, killing joke to chrome, and rudimentary peni. Chondritic Sound has described us as “Stunted, repetitive industrial rock in the vein of stalwarts Big Black but with a Bad Party or Revolting Cocks sense of attitude and thrusty sleaze. Like waking up from a blackout under a pillow in the back room at a Touch & Go reunion.” 
band info – 
– started in 2011
– members of this band were also in OSS, and Cielos, and most recently in Mallevs
– we have a few upcoming shows with Deafheaven, and Stoic Violence (with Gay Kiss).
 Download
MP3 192 kbps
Demonstrations I (on Tagobella)
01 __________
02 Deconstruct 1
03 Minimum
04 _________________________ 1
05 Honey 1
06 Pet Semetary (Ramones) 1
Demonstrations II (on Ascetic House)
01 ___________________________
02 White On White
03 ________________________________________
04 Replicate
05 Content
06 Carnivorous
07 Nightwalker

Va – NewRetroWave – Crypt EP (2013)

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-Wow, wow, let me stop you there, wow, new retro wave, but isn’t this hipster music?

Yup, you got a point there. The hipster audience, as is the case with fucking omar suleiman, embraced yet another “movement” or genre irrelevantly to the musical content, just because everybody else seemed to be doing it. But what if, what IF there is some musical worth in some of the hipster stuff being marketed nowadays (dirty beaches, lynch?, the dreams?) . Let’s find out.

There has been a recent resurgence of the 80’s electro soundscapes, and perhaps it is because that decade’s nerds have grown up to become the 30year old musicians of today. For 20 year old they were punks in a way or another, jamming out hard and fast, but naturally now they “nostalgia” (see what i did there?i used it as a verb) about their SEGA gaming teen and preteen <glorious> days and we end up with this delightful mix of great music to drive to or just get lost in. Plus, you know it as well as i do, the hipsters don’t have a clue how to dance gloomily shake their booties to dark minimal synth music, but goths have had 3 decades to practice this to perfection. These urban landscapes, simple and instantly recognizable drum machine patterns, severely dated synth presets and the occasional post-disco vocal found the way in our hearts somehow. ++++, this is their halloween special release for 2013. Who is they?  The new retro wave audience is centered around a great bandcamp account that’s rotating/giving away various free compilations, and slowly building what resembles a scene around it (RESPECT THE LOVE).  This year’s CRYPT ep features loveable spooky artworks and track themes as well as musics, since apparently we share the love for 8os italo horror with these guys. Give it a chance, it might give you a glimpse in your own past, or who knows a 1950’s retro future that never came (dystopia arrived in its place).

MP3 320kbps

01. Niky Nine – Road

02. Ex-Machina – Night Of The Rottweiler IV (Main Theme)

03. Vincenzo Salvia – Love Crime At The Disco

04. Arc Neon – Los Ritos Sexuales Del Diablo

05. Vector Sector – The Zeta City Slasher

06. Denovomutans – Black as Sackcloth, Red like Blood

07. Nightcrawler – Necro City

08. Dana’s Vision – Zombie Werewolves

 

https://www.mediafire.com/?l8jx98ib779s3h1

http://ulozto.net/xCAhLG2b/new-retro-wave-rar

The Exploding Boy – Four (2013 post punk Swe)

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Perhaps this does not belong here. It can be argued it is too poppy, mainstream oriented, or that this genre (post punk gone indie) has been way overplayed from other media. Fact is, if this band had been playing in the 80’s they could be the cure of today- and saying this without being jaded good or bad.

The exploding boy are hurrying towards success, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. It takes a certain kind of persistence to keep a band together, mostly those who do it for A*R*T don’t stick to see the ending. What cant be argued is that this is rock played in minor, gloomy radio songs or even dark rock or dark alternative as some like to say. Would have liked it if they’d included an obscure cover, some delta blues or somefink.  Worth a listen, so you can have an opinion of your own, just before you see them headlining or sth in a wave gotik treffen somewhere.

Good music to do your chores, or for when you don’t want to listen to boring repetitve unoriginal difficult claustrophobic 80’s french cold wave. Besides I still listen to interpol, pretty regurarly.

http://ulozto.net/xW97rsKs/the-exploding-boy-four-rar

256kbps MP3

01.Cracked – Reasons

02.Street Cliche

03.Going to Hell

04.Dark City Pt. II

05.Runaways

06.Awful

07.Shadows

08.Always

09.Get it Out

10.Scared to Death

 

What you cant convince me otherwise though, is that being from Sweden, all these guys were into metal in their teens. And it shows. And it is a bad thing. Period.

https://www.facebook.com/theexplodingboysweden

Νυχτερίδες και Κατσαρίδες #3 (2013 DX r zine)

Good news everyone. To νέο τεύχος ειναι πραγματικότητα. Καθυστερήσαμε πολύ. 2 μόνο τευχη σε ένα χρόνο. Το επόμενο όμως είναι σχεδόν έτοιμο και θα βγει μες στο Γενάρη του ’14.

συνεντευξη υποκουλτουρα, νικος κυριακιδης, αφιερωμα ελληνικο 80ς dark punk, ποίηση, κριτικές ταινιών, ελληνικά κομικ πολλά.

exo

Δειτε το ονλαιν, κ διαβάστε απο εδώ.

http://issuu.com/sofanky/docs/nk3s

Κατεβαστε Download

https://www.mediafire.com/?0s4sjfgzl8sh3zf

mnttaB – Rocky 4-2 and 3 EP (2012 synthpunk Auss)

This psychotic australian band tags themselves death disko, synth punk, electronic noise and they actually mean it (Cathartic spastic disco sludge gauranteed to block the sink and leave chunks floating on the surface.). They are true to the Atari Teenage Riot spirit, but in kind of an updated new mutant way. I love their crazy artworks (see also their EP mainsHum). They use the new digital music media , their synths, their drum patterns, everything, the way they are supposed to be used. This is waht they have to say about the rocky ep.

released 09 April 2012
“I’m nobodies sidekick, dont have to pretend, I wont suffer your mood swings : I will not accept my own weakness.
Cos Im bigger than Elvis, Arnie, Dolph Lungren , Steve Seagal.
Believe me – I’m Rocky 4, 2 and 3.
See I’m big in Spain, Italy and Japan: I’m bigger than Beckham and Jesus AND Bono.
Fuck yeah : I’m Rocky”
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this is their fb
https://www.facebook.com/mnttaB
Make an effort to go to bandcamp and at least listen to their new stuff
“Welcome to the planet, dear”, it is way crazier and darker. Good stuff!
Go on, make my day motherfuckers!

http://www.mediafire.com/download/0712szfpmlg3518/mnttaB+-+Rocky+4-2+and+3+EP.zip

raw tape #3 ” Dark Punk in Greece of 80’s”

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dark punk in greece of 80’s

To απαραίτητο μουσικό συμλήρωμα για τη στηλη raw tape από το ζειν νυχτερίδες & κατσαρίδες #3… Η στηλη αυτη τη φορά επικεντρωνεται στα εγχωρια 80ς ακουσματα, πληροφοριες κ φωτο για τις μπαντες.Το ζειν κυκλοφορεί την επόμενη εβδομάδα.

 

128-320kbps

Α1. Αδιέξοδο-Soundtrack για οδομαχίες

Α2. Αδιέξοδο-Απάθεια

Α3. Μάβρα Ιδανικά-Σάπιος ανδρισμός

Α4. Μάβρα Ιδανικά-Μάβρα ιδανικά

Α5. Ninelives-Sick star

Α6. Ninelives-Teenage party

Α7. Αντίσταση ’84-Κάτι που τρελαίνει

Α8. Αντίσταση ’84-Πίσω από την ηρεμία

Α9. R.R. Hearse-Loneliness

Α10. R.R. Hearse-Endlessleep

Α11. Ausschwitss-Απειλή

Α12. Ausschwitss-Auschwitz

 

B1. Κουμπότρυπες Α.Ε.-Καινούρια Επανάσταση

Β2. Κουμπότρυπες Α.Ε.-Ανοικτός λογαριασμός

Β3. No More Dreams-I wish (the Mob cover)

Β4. No More dreams-Mind mirror

Β5. Παρθενογένεσις-Feeling

Β6. Παρθενογένεσις-The House of the rising Sun

 

download

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ddvl2q2jfy8y302/Raw+tape.rar

Flowers in the dustbin – Always Another Door (cass /demo) 1983

 

Flowers in the Dustbin were very different and not as fast as the other anarchist punk bands, but they were still regarded as a big part of the scene. In the beginning, they were called The Anabollic (Sic) Steroids, and were around from 1980 to 1982 because their vocalist Gerard Evans became tired of the usual fast, barre chords, screaming side of punk and wanted to do something completely different. That was when Flowers in the Dustbin were born(after around ten lineup changes), and they were Gerard Evans on vocals, Charlie ‘Chas’ Loft on bass, Joanne Mead on drums and Samantha ‘Noname’ on drums.

They played their debut gig that same year at the Lee Centre in South London. Their two female members left immediately after the show because their vocalist Gerard had been cutting himself pretty badly on stage while they were playing.

Soon enough a demo was recorded titled ‘Always Another Door’ with just Gerard and Chas switching instruments in the studio(Chas did guitars and bass, Gerard did vocals and drums). At this point they became involved with the Kill Your Pet Puppy collective and where stuck between the anarchist punk bands and the goth anarchist bands. They regarded themselves in the same kind of field as The Mob, Rubella Ballet and Poison Girls. Several gigs where played, and some big ones were turned down because the band didn’t believe in playing shows that were expensive for the audience to go to.

In 1984, the band came to a stable line-up with guitarist Simon Barry and drummer Bill Mahoney from the band London’s Fear. The Mob quickly approached them and helped them release a 12″ record on their own All the Madmen label. It was called ‘Freaks Run Wild at the Disco’ and it was very different from the majority of punk that was being released at the time. Afterwards, the band got in contact with Rob from Faction and he also helped the band release a tape on his 96 Tapes label.

‘All the Best People are Perverts’ became the name of that tape, and it was released in 1985. It was followed by another single titled ‘Nails of The Heart’ which was released on Conflict’s Mortarhate label since at the time All The Madmen was having financial problems. A copy was sent to John Peel to play on his show. It contained some of the bands best work(some tracks were live and others were studio).

Shortly after, guitarist Simon was replaced by Antje Klaehn after Si decided to bail out to pursue college, and John Howells was also added on keyboards.

This would be the line-up to write and release the ‘Lick My Crazy Colors’ single. Their new guitarist had a much more softer sound so the band’s sound evolved into something even more passive and bizarre. Several more gigs were played, and this was when Flowers in The Dustbin where at their best.

Lots of material was recorded for an album meant for Cold Harbour Records from Brixton, but the label ended going going bankrupt and the album was ultimately lost(November’s Song was one of the tracks). Now Flowers in The Dustbin had left the ‘Anarcho Scene’ and were on a separate road towards something different.

Around 1986, the scene around them had lost, and no one really knew what to do besides bail out. The band had removed itself from that so they tried to continue, but Chas and Bill got into a really bad fight where Gerard had to try and split them, but he ended up getting his leg broken in the process(it was so bad he almost lost his ability to walk). That sparked the beginning of the end, and the band felt unsure as to where they should go or what should be done next. Fortunately, enough material was recorded for an L.P, but the band split prematurely before it could be finalized, thus it became the ‘Lost L.P'(Ko).

the text for the history of the band is from the blog Listen and Understand

http://anarchoscene.blogspot.gr/2011/07/flowers-in-dustbin.html

 

here the demo Always Another Door (1983) :

http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/95718475/file.html

 

 

 

The Dead Billies Discography (BRA Psychobilly 1997)

Don't Mess With

 

 

There have been at least 3 bands that play under the moniker deadbillies. It is chaos out there but mostly you can distinguish between the two most known, cause these guys use a space between the words and the other band that supports sparky, they have no spacing btw the words and ends with a -y “deadbillys”. The third band never existed but for a demo.

But here, we came to talk about the lost in tyme brazilian band. They were great. We gotta love any band that has a “vampire” track, but no, they are beyond that. They are awesome. Their singer’s got this neurotic frontman vibe that is so familiar to us from say “wall of voodoo”. Creepy lyrics and themes, memorable guitar work, reverbed spooky vocals, complex-but-still-rocking and danceable song structures. They were a musician’s psychobilly band, and for us  at least, the “don’t mess with” record is still remembered at almost every party that needs a li’l bit of twang. So, ok, they don’t use the slapping double bass sound, they lack that, but to say the least they don’t sound the same as like the rest of these mediocre psychopunk bands that seem to appear out of everywhere these days. So get a few of your pals, prepare your swim suit, burn a tape, put it on the car radio, speed up to 100 kmph in an abandoned highway road in a hot summer day and dive in!
Mosckabilly (vocal)
Morotó Slim (guitarra)
Joe Tromondo (baixo)
Rex (bateria)

 

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Don’t Mess With – 1996

Heartfelt Sessions – 1999

download

http://ulozto.net/xFJoFcSA/the-dead-billies-rar

 

 

 

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