VA "Riot On Ramsay St."

I got the idea for posting this compilation after a post on the Mad Blasts Of Chaos blog.
This is benefit compilation for Barricade Books, an anarchist book and info shop located in East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia. Since this CD is quite poorly done info-wise (incorrect and incomplete tracklist on the cover, quite confusing booklet...), I can only guess that the bookstore published it 'cause there's no info on that too.
But never mind that. Let's focus on the music.
Here you can find all sorts of music; from some Lo-Fi (or just plain weird) stuff through straight edge, punk, ska punk, folk punk to crust and even crust with a violin! It's definitely worth checking out if you're unfamiliar with Aussie punk scene like I am.

Released: 1996
Label: Barricade Books
Size: 165 MB

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01. Wrong Body - Unnatural
02. The Scoops - Crazy Brick
03. H-Block - 21
04. Richard Watts - I Am Such An Egoist
05. Wonderfeel - Path Less Worn
06. Mutiny - Robin Hood
07. Self Reliance - Choose
08. Phobia - Refuse The System
09. A.S.V.U. - No Retreat, No Surrender
10. Stand Against - Flinders St. Station Interegation
11. Human Error - Punk As... Who Cares?
12. Human Error - Are You Really Happy With The Life That Was Chosen For You?
13. Walsh St. Cop Killers - Advance Australia
14. Bastard Squad - Never Return
15. Dada Tribe - Apocalypse
16. Multiple Insertions - Fargone Bliss
17. Bilious Scum - A.D.I.C. (Race Murder)
18. Crux Of Love - Chernobyl Child
19. Poo Poo And The Million Dollar Man - Jesus Is Killing Me
20. Gerald - Trapped In A Box
21. Two Year Olds - Hole In Your Vision
22. Vicious Circle - Overdrive
23. Insyte - Squat

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Johann Wolfgang Pozoj "Birth Of Pozoj"

Johann Wolfgang Pozoj are my favorite band from Croatia for the last couple of years. They formed after two crust bands (Intoxicate and Grob) disbanded and joined forces to create different kinds of music. JWP play excellent ambiental black doom? metal (or sympho-crust as they used to call it).
I'm not an expert on this genre 'cause I listen to a dozen of black metal bands tops, but this is truly great stuff, believe me. It was hard to decide which track to put in the player here because to me, the album is one whole part and I've just picked one song out without thinking. I just knew it wouldn't be the first track since it's over half an hour long, but don't let that put you off, because I used to play the album over and over again.
The album is part of the trilogy: Birth Of Pozoj, Escape Of Pozoj and Return Of Pozoj. Pozoj is some kind of demonic rooster from old folk tales in Samobor, the town they're from, which escaped to the woods when people settled there. The idea of the band is to disband after finishing the trilogy, but I surely hope that they'll change their mind.
During a berbecue at my friends' about two months ago, Fabek, the guitar player of the band said to me it's OK to post the album here and he also said that they're about to sign to Code666 Records from Italy which are specialised in avant-garde metal. If I remember right, Code666 will re-release this and the second album (which was their own DIY release and I guess you'll be able to get ahold of it still). Also, Code666 will release the final album in trilogy too, so put aside some cash for it when it all comes out.
The band members also play in True (death metal with Croatian national instrument - tambura) and Musica Ex Machina (electronica/trance/ambient).

Released: 2007
Label: Progressive Attack Records
Size: 153 MB

01. Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes
02. Queen Emeraldas
03. Autodistraktiv
04. Hisperia
05. Outro

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Mother Night "Extinct Dialects" EP

I haven't checked my e-mail for a few weeks, and now I've found this: Mother Night, the band from New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
Joel, the drummer of this band asked me if I could host their new demo on my blog, so I gave it a listen and loved it enough to try to help the guys out. He described the band as 3-piece instrumental noise/math/doom band and their MySpace says they're grime/psychedelic/shoegaze. Since I'm quite an ignorant on music genres (for one of these I've never even heard of before), I'll let you decide what kind of music they're playing. During the more frantic melodies, they remind me a bit of Raped Teenagers.
This is released in limited run of 200 copies and is also available as free download in all flavors of music formats you prefer right here. Here you have 320 kbps mp3 version.

Released: 2010
Label: Limbus Infantus Records
Size: 42 MB

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01. Chief Diamond Phillips
02. Ghost Orchid
03. Dawnstrider
04. Cosmocolori
05. Moth Voices
06. Gently Leaning Towards The Nearest Black Hole
07. While In A Collapsing Tunnel

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Ciderfex/The Chineapple Punx split 7"

Here's a little slab of punk rock with a good sense of fun to break almost two months of silence here. A lot of things are happening here.
Anyway, here's split of these two High Wycombe bands who play punk with a healthy dose of humour. Give this a listen and thanks again to Janša since this is his record too.

Released: 1996
Label: Dual Cabbageway Records
Size: 27 MB

01. Ciderfex - Bastard
02. Ciderfex - The Pope Song
03. Ciderfex - Mad Dog Ken
04. The Chineapple Punx - Dig
05. The Chineapple Punx - Our Friend Arthur
06. The Chineapple Punx - Riot Cop Diet Cop

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Ayaksvoksom "Démo 2"

I've got mail from Guilhem from this French outfit called Ayaksvoksom. They play a bit metallized oldschool grindcore and I like their sound even though I've never been an avid grindcore fan. This is their second demo, as you can see from the name and they had one more demo in 2007 with three songs that also apeared on this demo.
Anyway, here are the words of the man from the band:
Hello,
I am Guilhem, AYAKSVOKSOM’s guitarist, a band from the suburb of Paris, and we have released our 9 tracks demo in June 2009.
It’s a homemade and self released stuff.
AYAKSVOKSOM is 5 guys gathering their influences (Punk, Hardcore, Crust, Thrash, Death, and Grind); we called it “Rotten Sick Core”.
Hope you’ll enjoy our tunes and help us to spread our stuff.
Cheers from France
Guilhem and AYAKSVOKSOM
Contact:
ayaksvoksom@hotmail.fr

Released: 2009
Label: DIY
Size: 44 MB

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01. Quart D’heure De Gloire
02. La Grande Kermesse
03. Peuple Docile
04. Développement Létal
05. République Bananière De France
06. Ad Lib
07. Smith & Heston
08. Poudre Aux Yeux
09. Ode Aux Banquiers Et À Nos Amis PDG Du CAC 40

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Nonsense "Red I Rad"

First of all, sorry to Kukatz for being so slow (senile) with posting this here.
Nonsense is band from Požega, Croatia formed in 1993. They were one of the bands featured in the only issue of the zine that I made in 1995 if my memory serves me right. Back then the members were Kktz, Gera and Chucha (who had to leave the band very early due to obligatory army service). They played noisy grind crust and eventually disbanded and focused on many other projects/bands.
In 2008 they got together again and now Nonsense is actually two bands. One with Gera, Kktz and Dena (and Mata who joined in 2009) which is playing thrashing hardcore in the vein of 80s ex-Yu bands and the other with Kktz and Janez from Belgrade, Serbia that make noisecore and have already released 100+ songs on their demos.
This demo is from the thrashcore one. The songs are re-workings of their old stuff, covers of some of their bands from 90s, two covers of ex-Yu 80s bands: UBR (Slovenia) and Ženevski Dekret (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and mandatory Discharge cover (with a twist). No fancy production here. Just raw hardcore punk that rips throughout all of its 6 minutes.
Požega scene has always been one of the strongest ones in Croatia and the members of Nonsense played in far too many bands/projects for me to try to remember all, so I'll just mention a few so you can check them out too: Dislike, Hellback, Gruuthaagy, Bad Justice, Fight Back, T.R.B.U.H., No Name...........


Released: 2008
Label: DIY
Size: 10 MB

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01. Živim Kao Pseto
02. Sada
03. Nacija
04. Tko Je Tvoj Neprijatelj?
05. U.B.R.
06. Vidim Krv
07. It's No TV Sketch

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Vaffan Coulo "Di-Gymraeg Yng Nghymru" 7"

I don't know anything about this band except that they were punk band from small city of Bangor, Wales, formed in 1991 and disbanded in 1998. I've found that this 7" is sometimes reffered to as "Rich Woman" 7", but front cover says "Di-Gymraeg Yng Nghymru" so I'll call it like this. From the few things that I've found on the web it seems that they've been quite popular. You can find a couple of more songs on their MySpace and a video for Rich Woman. Any more info on the band is welcome. And if you don't know what their name means, your Italian sucks.

Released: 1995
Label: Madryn Cyfngedig
Size: 25 MB

01. Di-Gymraeg Yng Nghymru
02. Rich Woman Will You Marry Me?
03. O.J. Simpson

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