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  • 01. SUV
    02. Job In Security
    03. Masculinity
    04. Coma Chameleon
    05. I Don't Wanna Lend You Money
    06. Police Bastard
    07. Berlin
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    ALDI OST

    s/t

    [engl] "Aldi Ost: the debut of the male-fronted punk discounter. With a sympathetic and healthy pissedness, the distorted vocals wail their way through the seven songs, over the cutting surf guitar of the early Dead Kennedys and a rhythm fraction that just reigns hard! Live is the highlight when the singer's jugular veins burst during the last song! FFO: sweaty basement shows, dusty bridge shows, awesome guitar banging (not meant like solos and stuff like that), hate cops, hate SUVs! NFFO: Cops in SUVs!"
    Format
    TAPE
    Release-Datum
    01.04.2022
     
  • 01. Neonlichterherzen
    02. Klappmesser statt Subwaykarte
    03. Lie, Copulate And Die
    04. Unterschicht
    05. Aldi Youth
    06. You Only Lobotomize Once
    07. Hollister
    08.$tabil am Inhalieren
    09. Die Nüchternheit der Stille
    10. Penner
    11. W.S.D.D.A.
    12. Blümeranz
    13. Adelskrone
    14. Kräftemethen
    15. High Kickz statt D-Land
    16. FAR•CE oder Henry Rollins würde Dich Scheisze finden
    17. Alderaan
    18. Life Went Whack
    19. Fuck Nazi Sympathy
    20. MHGTTT
    21. Irgendwann & mal wieder
    22. Nur ein erbärmlicher Versuch
    23. Taking Part Equal Selbstwert
    24. Sich irgendetwas zu beweisen
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    BATTRA//

    2014 - 2017

    [engl] If I told you the career-spanning collection of Halle, German’s drum and bass duo Battra//, 2014-2017, began with a sample of Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, you might not believe me. Or, in the worst of all potential reactions, it might turn you off to listening to it in general. But then you’d miss out on some truly face-melting powerviolence, and I don’t want that for you. (SPIN)
    Format
    LP lim
    Release-Datum
    18.05.2023
     
  • 01. Brezel Göring - Fahrradsattel
    02. Anton Garber - Marlboromann
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    BREZEL GÖRING / ANTON GARBER

    spielen Pisse

    [engl] Nine months after it's premiere finally physically consumable! The two "Pioneers of Punk", Brezel Göring & Anton Garber each intonate one song of a band, they and you used to know for some time now. Brezel Göring, Lilith Stangenberg and Chang Wang hack 'Fahrradsattel' into a two chapter, 8bit wild-west ride directly into lunacy. And Anton Garber? Really! Who else should sing the swansong of the earth than the apocalyptic duo, Danja Schilling & Anton Garber.
    Format
    7''
    Release-Datum
    29.01.2024
     
  • 01. Get Down
    02. Budapest
    03. Happy Hour
    04. Garden
    05. The Vase
    06. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
    07. St-Tropez In Summer
    08. Aye Aye
    09. October
    10. Wot U Lyk
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    DEWAERE

    Slot Logic

    [engl] Definitely a head-scratcher, this one. A crazed outing from this French band, almost Ministry-esque music that's riff-heavy and dense and very well-produced, fronted by what sounds like either Gibby Haynes or Mike Patton doing his best work at running a game show or a pledge drive. Weird, challenging, confident, and hard to latch on to, like if a rock band was commissioned to write circus music. Sounds like they're having a blast, whatever the hell it is they're doing. - Razorcake
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    14.12.2018
     
  • 01. Dispo - Zmartwienia
    02. Dispo - Stimmung
    03. Dispo - Viel zu viel Gras
    04. Dispo - Das letzte Hemd
    05. Dispo - Fick die Cops
    06. Dispo - Pöbelbasis
    07. Dispo - Bagger
    08. Dispo - Danke für den Smalltalk
    09. Telesatan - Company Man
    10. Telesatan - Respect The Rock
    11. Telesatan - Eau de Köln
    12. Telesatan - Yuppie Preacher
    13. Telesatan - Leechlord
    14. Telesatan - Finanzamt
    15. Telesatan - Dirty Fingers
    16. Telesatan - Wochenende
    17. Telesatan - Gotta Dart
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    DISPO / TELESATAN

    s/t

    [engl] Dispo, at times, sounds like a more urgent, chaotic Death Wish Kids, certainly no easy feat if you're familiar with that band's sneering, crazed brand of streetpunk. At other times it's lurching, bass-heavy, blown-out art punk. Always high velocity, like everything's teetering on the edge of falling apart. Telesatan, meanwhile, has a number of songs just crossing over the one-minute mark, and yet they still manage to let their songs breathe a bit - often mid-tempo, sparse guitar lines, shouted hoarse vocals. I imagine these are a pair of fun live bands. - Razorcake
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    26.11.2021
     
  • 01. Working Class Losers
    02. Terrible II
    03. Steel Splinters
    04. Interlude
    05. White Horse
    06. Sausage Got Haire
    07. Stiffy Girl
    08. Human Pork
    09. Slugheads
    10. Cowboy Silvio
    11. Introducing
    12. Piece Of Crap (Live)
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    DOC FLIPPERS

    Human Pork

    [engl] "The good doctor is finally back to flip us on our backs and give us the old one-two-three-four, following a cassette I only knew about and listened to death and onto rebirth after hanging with the boys in Marseille. These new-age space cowboys take us to the other side of the galaxy with a space shuttle of punk-fuelled psychedelic country… and drop you off into a black hole. The riffs bring the good news of the apocalypse to the new world from the one they left behind. US Maple lightsaber guitars fighting in a Uranium Club? Singer running out of oxygen. References aren’t required anymore, just like when you hired VHS from the local video store. Take the risk, take the plunge, form an opinion yourself… get your money’s worth, tell me to go to hell and stop reading this. If Captain Beefheart kept playing punk music and joined Marbled Eye or something, wearing modern, youthful clothes with an iPhone to hang out with some of the deranged, loveable, lust-for-lifers of Leipzig, maybe it would sound like this, but only after pulling him apart and putting him back together as robocop with a country teasers bumper sticker on his metal arse. Why hire VHS when you can see their amazing video clips, which look like they’ve been directed by Giuseppe Andrews... Doc Flippers are trailer trash cooking bratwurst on top of flaming oil drums... crazy homeless, performance art punk rock."
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    17.06.2022
     
  • 01. Welcome To Wödmusik
    02. Urlaub auf der Autobahn
    03. Longboard
    04. Gusch
    05. Schnipp-Schnapp
    06. Infiziert
    07. Atelier
    08. Spazieren
    09. Taube
    10. Müde und einsam
    11. Tschau Baba (für Susi)
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    F.E.I.D.L.

    Wödmusik

    [engl] The first F.E.I.D.L. full length! And just like the 7", everything just fits here again! Viennese dialect, brass band music, this guitar made of glass-cutting sugar and one or two stories from life in the 20s, with the experimental alternating with the non-experimental in the songs. This is the soundtrack in the Walkman of the provincial rebel who is still looking for access to his anger and for all those who mistakenly think they have seen and heard everything. For those who supposedly sort themselves in the middle, the record is definitely a stroke of luck! Half of the records are located in Falco City and are sold there in the tram. So better hurry up!
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    18.02.2022
     
  • 01. Intro
    02. Data
    03. Basement
    04. Not A Punk
    05. Spazieren
    06. Interlude 1
    07. Sinn
    08. My Friend
    09. Baby I Am A Car
    10. Super Garage Cocain Type
    11. Interlude 2
    12. Hot Pockets
    13. Gun Powder
    14. Dummkopf
    15. Outro
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    FIX

    More Is More

    [engl] Fix blew me away with their debut single a couple years ago – not from the music, but from the fact that they just called themselves “Fix”, blatantly swiping the name of one of the greatest American hardcore pioneers for their basement-y sounding weird-punk band. This time around, it appears Fix is an actual live band, and with that came a stylistic shift. Rather than blasting out some direct-to-laptop egg-punk full of neon farts and irritating-on-purpose motifs, they’ve transitioned to a sinewy hardcore-punk outfit, no contrivance needed. On More Is More, they come across like Germany’s answer to Hank Wood & The Hammerheads. The drumming has that same swing (and lots of cowbell!), and the vocalist delivers his shouts in short staccato bursts, much in the Hank Wood manner. Can’t say with certainty that Fix are intentionally aping Hank Wood this time around, but the similarities are certainly glaring, and Hank Wood are one of the most popular underground punk bands, or at least were a year or two ago, so it wouldn’t be a total shock. Thankfully, Fix do well with that same set of sonic characteristics, and the lack of singalong hooks might be more due to my lack of fluent German than their lack of catchiness. Now then, if some other band from Leipzig starts calling themselves The Necros and sounds eerily like Chubby & The Gang, my tolerance will truly be put to the test. - Yellow Green Red
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    11.09.2021
     
  • 01. Welcome
    02. Take A Walk
    03. I'm A Car
    04. Basement Life
    05. The Good Life
    06. Fun Powder
    07. My Friend
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    FIX

    s/t

    [engl] That’s right, legendary Detroit hardcore pioneers The Fix are back with a brand new EP. Wait a minute! This is actually some new German weird-punk group who don’t care about recycling a band name. They open with a sparse spoken-word track, like some funky and coherent moment one might find on an early Nurse With Wound album, before getting down to the nitty gritty of lo-fi, presumably-somewhat-synthetic punk rock. It’s such an in-the-red mess that the instruments are nearly unintelligible, except for the snare (is that a real drum kit?), the guitars when they hit a high note and the vocals (although just barely). Reminds me of Factorymen at their most traditionally punk, a live Crazy Spirit tape, the Pillow Talk 7? played on 33 instead of 45, or a particularly rough mix-down of one of the many current Neck Chop Records punk bands hailing from Nova Scotia or Fort Wayne or something. Personally, I enjoy it, particularly cuts like “Basement Life” and “The Goof Life”, whose main riffs overcome the sonic hurdles set forth by Fix’s production standards, although it remains to be seen exactly how many repeat listens Fix will bear. I’m gonna go out on a limb and answer my own question with “less listens than The Fix, more listens than The Fixx”. - Yellow Green Red
    Format
    7''
    Release-Datum
    27.09.2019
     
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    GYM TONIC

    Good Job

    [engl] Gym Tonic are an international (1x Canada, 3x France) four-piece (living in Berlin) and talk of the town when it comes to hyped-up synth punk. In some parallel universe, DEVO, Half Japanese and The Residents grew into one and decided to channel their energy into songs about nuclear catastrophes, vitamin injections, car sickness and deadly events. Throw melody lines straight out of the Twillight Zone on top and you have an all-around gem. This is a reissue of the 2019 release on Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu?
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    01.09.2023
     
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    GYM TONIC

    Sanitary Situations

    [engl] The six new songs on Sanitary Situations continue where Gym Tonic started their way to the top with the 2019 full length Good Job. Like their long-time touring siblings Lassie, they know, that it is a long way (to the top). But the proof, that they're on the right track is right here. Drawing inspiration from their everyday lives or the world around, the new record is their usual merging of post-punk with new wave and 80’s synth music, worshipping (not copying) their masterminds DEVO. It includes themes such as addiction, contagious diseases, sexual harassment and the relations between human mind and technology. At times comical, satirical or tragic their songs are always very lively and floorfillers. Gym Tonic: now more than ever.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    01.09.2023
     
  • 01. Loslassen
    02. Monotonie
    03. Leere
    04. Anonym
    05. Schwätzer
    06. Durchhalteparole
    07. Rost
    08. Eis
    09. Wortlos
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    ISOLATIONSGEMEINSCHAFT

    Der Tanz geht weiter!

    [engl] Well, there we have the salad, encouraged by positive feedback Isolationsgemeinschaft just carry on instead of simply disbanding after the first tape and the consequent LP to live on as a legend forever and ever. And if you then put on something like this LP, then at least I'm very glad that it wasn't a flash in the pan. We're still digging deep into the early 80's, citing DAF, STAHLNETZ (with better lyrics), DEO and plenty of high profile pioneers of other styles, but finally getting to the heart of loose ends. "Der Tanz geht weiter" is a bit darker than the debut, but it also perfects the sound to such an extent that I can hardly avoid giving it full points, because there's not much room for improvement anymore. Completely successful retro trip that sounds so modern, as if there had never been a tape twist and a missing rewind bolus. Oh, if such a band had actually existed in the eighties, we would have been spared a lot of crap. - Ox
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    01.04.2022
     
  • 01. Blindflug
    02. FFP
    03. Gelände
    04. König
    05. Schockstarre
    06. Flexibel
    07. Klick Sent
    08. Ausklang
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    ISOLATIONSGEMEINSCHAFT

    s/t

    [engl] No, Instagram didn’t put out a vinyl album just yet, this I.G. stands for Isolationsgemeinschaft and this is their debut! They play a very German-sounding form of restless cold-wave, which is reasonable considering the duo’s Berlin residence. Synths and drum machines lead the path forward out of a neon-lit ’80s bunker into, well, a very similar-looking ’20s bunker. I’m reminded of Voice Farm, Vono, and that brief intersection where NDW bands revolving around the ZickZack label encountered the Sky Records synth scene that preceded it, a nice pairing of ’70s synth worship and ’80s post-punk paranoia. I.G. are certainly closer to the post-punk paranoia side of things, with many of these songs sounding as though they’re being tailed by a dark figure shrouded in a long trench coat, even if it turns out it’s only one of those Drab Majesty mimes looking to score party drugs. A genre exercise for sure, complete with some subtle Kraftwerk rips here and there (let the electronic group who has never ripped Kraftwerk cast the first stone), but it’s pleasant enough, or should I say unpleasant enough, that Isolationsgemeinschaft receives a synth-wave passing grade if not high honors. - Yellow Green Red
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    12.06.2021
     
  • 01. Verklappt
    02. Weiss
    03. Planeten planieren
    04. Antisein
    05. Ping
    06. Posthumane Weltregierung
    07. Reiz-Reaktion-Automat
    08. Der Untergrund
    09. Folter und gezieltes Töten
    10. Pimmel kneten
    11. Tellerrand
    12. Mitmachdiktatur
    13. Burnout ausgesessen
    14. Absolution in spe
    15. Der Durchschnittsmensch
    16. Smart
    17. Weltorganismus
    18. Tag 1 nach den Menschen
    19. Aus dem Mark der Nebenniere 2016
    20. Beyond Earth
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    JAPANISCHE KAMPFHÖRSPIELE

    The Golden Anthropocene

    [engl] "And in my German words, we totally screwed up." According to JAKA, this unsuccessful sentence on VW's unsuccessful environmental protection through driving a car concept characterizes the twentieth century, which can probably be identified as the previous peak of the Anthropocene that gives the title. The "Golden" is, how can it be otherwise with JAKA, meant ironically, because the lyrics of the album move in the well-known cosmos of consumer and system criticism and general misanthropy. Sonically, there is an intro with “Verklappt”, which for some reason is a single song, but which seamlessly transitions into the second, “Weiss”, which again features clean vocals, which irritated me a bit when I first heard it. After that it actually goes on musically in a typical JAKA way: sampled quotes, nice ideas such as a key tone that supports the guitar in "The Average Man", breakdowns, nice riffs, guitar tinkering, fast, fast drums, grunted lyrics and all of it well produced . Well, despite the English title, everything at JAKA has stayed the same overall and that's a good thing. It is perhaps interesting that the band packs twenty songs into forty minutes, while some are only thirty seconds long, but others exceed the three-minute mark, "Tag 1 nach dem Menschen" is even over six minutes long and fades out. But I don't want to complain about little things here. - Ox
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    10.08.2016
     
  • 01. Vamos al amor (feat. Yoko Ano)
    02. Funkloch
    03. Zukunft
    04. ?ert (feat. Jimmie Prage)
    05. Gemeindebau (feat. F.E.I.D.L.)
    06. Stadtrand
    07. Hängengeblieben
    08. It's your feet
    09. Misery Machine
    10. ?? ????? (feat. D.Klein)
    11. Sex Gulag
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    JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO & RICHARD

    Das ist die Zukunft, aber nicht Deine!

    [engl] I can’t imagine this band name would work if you went with anything other than “Richard.” “Richard” just has this poncy air about it that really sells this dumb joke. Anyway, this project is the work of a single person—presumably a Richard—who’s been at it since about 2016. He peddles an oddball mix of noise, minimalist avant-pop, dub, yé-yé, downtempo electronica, and space age bachelor pad music. It’s out there, man! Depending on the track, it can sound like a more listener friendly MEN’S RECOVERY PROJECT, a less wacky MR. BUNGLE (Disco Volante-era), or, like, the entire Ralph Records roster covering the poppier cuts from CABARET VOLTAIRE’s Red Mecca. Dude may be a Dick, but he made a cool record. This is the future, but not yours! - MRR
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    11.09.2021
     
  • 01. Das ist unser Leben
    02. Gefangen im Hühnerstall
    03. Chickenfuck
    04. Heavily Heart Sorrow
    05. Big Mouth
    06. Wheel Yang
    07. Die Fickmaschine
    08. Die Keulung der 4000
    09. Streuner bedrohn unsre Scheune
    10. Kloppe
    11. Henk's Lament (Lonesome Town)
    12. Spit on me
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    JONNY KURT UND DIE HÜHNERFICKER KOMBO

    s/t

    [engl] Jonny Kurt is back and he's bringing the chicken fucker combo with him. Originally intended as a soundtrack for a western that can only be watched with virtual reality glasses. But the film didn't materialize because the glasses are so expensive. That's why only the record now, but it's also so good!
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    24.01.2020
     
  • 01. Action
    02. Verfassungsschützer
    03. Blitz
    04. Lady In Bag
    05. Helly Belly
    06. The Veit
    07. ??-Stroll
    08. The Zex
    09. Ebola Beat
    10. Action II
    11. Split My Head
    12. Heartbreak
    13. Granny
    14. Bereit
    15. Bitte
    16. Chef
    17. Essen
    18. Volksfest
    19. Schlipse zu Stricken
    20. Mutter
    21. Löbauer Pisse
    22. Techno DJ
    23. Zukunft
    24. Satan
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    JONNY KURT vs. HANK THE TANK

    Awo Maria

    [engl] "And in my German words, we totally screwed up." According to JAKA, this unsuccessful sentence on VW's unsuccessful environmental protection through driving a car concept characterizes the twentieth century, which can probably be identified as the previous peak of the Anthropocene that gives the title. The "Golden" is, how can it be otherwise with JAKA, meant ironically, because the lyrics of the album move in the well-known cosmos of consumer and system criticism and general misanthropy. Sonically, there is an intro with “Verklappt”, which for some reason is a single song, but which seamlessly transitions into the second, “Weiss”, which again features clean vocals, which irritated me a bit when I first heard it. After that it actually goes on musically in a typical JAKA way: sampled quotes, nice ideas such as a key tone that supports the guitar in "The Average Man", breakdowns, nice riffs, guitar tinkering, fast, fast drums, grunted lyrics and all of it well produced . Well, despite the English title, everything at JAKA has stayed the same overall and that's a good thing. It is perhaps interesting that the band packs twenty songs into forty minutes, while some are only thirty seconds long, but others exceed the three-minute mark, "Tag 1 nach dem Menschen" is even over six minutes long and fades out. But I don't want to complain about little things here. - Ox
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    28.08.2017
     
  • 01. Adultes
    02. Plan
    03. Submersion
    04. L'Homme
    05. Descendence
    06. Tapis
    07. Première Classe
    08. Quitter
    09. Vive Le Travail
    10. Génocide Sociale
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    LA VASE

    s/t

    [engl] Tight and catchy punk, post-punk and garage out of Leipzig from a German/French three-piece with the lyrics all urgently delivered in florid French. Not much else information is to be gleaned from the album itself, which I’m guessing is purposely to let the music speak for itself. It has that pleasingly frantic MARKED MEN guitar sound sans distortion which drives the melody and pace of all ten songs featured. This will be given quite a few revolutions before I’m finished with it. - Artcore
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    16.02.2018
     
  • 01. Modern World
    02. Temporary Cemetery
    03. Behold The Multiverse
    04. Onkel Maik
    05. Toaster
    06. Food Fuckers
    07. Hurricane
    08. Zychokiller
    09. Spiderweb
    10. Frowning Term
    11. One For The Road
    12. Nightmares
    13. BBF
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    LASSIE

    Behold

    [engl] """Slithering out from the radioactive waste, we are once again blessed by the glorious creeps from Leipzig known as Lassie. This aberrant hit machine strikes again and again with more of their clever, punchy wacked flavor of synth-punk. Loaded with wacky samples, synth and guitar harmonies, riffs and, of course, a fucking shitload of ear worm melody packed and densely arranged for your listening pleasure. Don’t miss the boat. Pick up this outstanding ripper. For fans of a werewolf who can only be killed by piss."" - Sims Hardin ""Ever wonder what it would sound like if you mashed together the music of the Marked Men, Spits, and Rezillos and played it with the ferocity of the Lost Sounds? Behold! Leipzig’s Lassie delivers their debut LP off the back of a hotass streak of EPs and 7”s, and it’s every bit of fun that those earlier records promised. Poppy robot rock for disaffected punks looking to have the wildest of weekends!"" - Alex Howell"
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    17.06.2022
     
  • 01. Phonecalls On My Deathbed
    02. Modern Vacation
    03. The 4th Wall
    04. Zegway Cop
    05. Tiger In My Tank
    06. Gimme A Break!
    07. Chucklehead
    08. Bald
    09. Camp David
    10. Deposit Bottles
    11. Go West
    12. Subtle Stallion"
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    LASSIE

    Collected Cassettes

    [engl] LASSIE kinda sounds like if LOST SOUNDS were more into the B-52’S than GARY NUMAN. Super-snotty and non-cloyingly goofy, LASSIE is a rare beast indeed. There’s not a bummer track here, but “Phonecalls on My Deathbed” is a hit if I ever heard one; where’s Dick Clark or Rick Dees or CDs….yeah. Hey, this is why I don’t write silly but endearing spazz-wave songs. LASSIE does, they’re really good at it. “Tiger in My Tank” sounds like the fucking RONDELLES! I bet they turn a boring bar into a total fucking blast. “QT Enhancer” is a pogo party in a can. If you like C.C.T.V. or LUMPY or DEVO, I don’t see why you wouldn’t like this. I feel like if this band was from California, they’d be big, or at least “opening for the SPITS” big. So, not that big. But they should be. They’re great. - MRR
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    27.09.2019
     
  • 01. L'étau
    02. Les Bancs
    03. Le Bureau
    04. Empörung
    05. La Fugue
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    LAXISME

    Premiere Sortie

    [engl] Fast, fun, and loaded with energy, LAXISME delivers a five-song cassette that is a little poppy, a little hardcore, and completely infectious. With bluesy howls to round out the choruses, I am already singing along to the French and German that I don’t know, wishing I were pushing through their crowd. Phantom seems to have their ear pressed firmly to the Berlin [Leipzig] underground, and I hope they keep listening. More, please! - MRR
    Format
    TAPE
    Release-Datum
    12.06.2021
     
  • 01. All Right!
    02. Sugar
    03. Burning Bilderberg
    04. Watching You
    05. Army Of Dolphins
    06. Fish
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    MEAT SHIRT

    Army Of Dolphins

    [engl] Suicidal Tendencies covering Dead Kennedys, both in their best phases. It won't take long before you get affected by the contagious enthusiasm provoked by MEAT SHIRT. Some electrifying waves are coming and no one can take control of the untamable energy. MEAT SHIRT tumbles without warning and throws everything on the ground. Is it punk ? hardcore ? garage ? Who cares, this is just the right dose of spontaneity you need. MEAT SHIRT confesses being influenced by the Californian and Texan 80's hardcore scenes as well as the psyche movement but you better judge from yourself. MEAT SHIRT comes from St Brieuc, Brittany.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.10.2023
     
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    NOVOTNY TV

    das volk sind wirr

    Zurecht abgefeiertes Album der ungewöhnlichen Deutsch-Punk Truppe mit dieser verdammt geilen Orgel! Nach der ersten erfolgreichen Sendung im Jahre 1996 liefert die Band mit Das Volk sind wirr die nächste Produktion, die bereits im Namen schon bizarr undeutsch anblödelt, was in den nächsten 40 Minuten auf die geneigte Zuschauerschaft aus Kuttenträgern und Hängeiros zustürmt. 17 gaggige Kleinode, die jedem Programmdirektor öffentlich rechtlicher Sendeanstalten buchstäblich die Fußnägel kräuseln lässt. Hemmungslos unbeirrt sendet die Thundersound-Powergruppe von NTV jedoch weiter und auch heute, über 20 Jahre später, kann man das elektromagnetische Grundrauschen dieses Albums noch ein bisschen hören, wenn man ganz feste dran glaubt. Ohne Netz, doppeltem Boden, Placeboeffekt und paranoiden Wahnvorstellungen ist es Technikern der Firmen Höhnie und Phantom 21 Jahre nach Erstaustrahlung nun erstmals gelungen, die Essenz von Das Volk sind wirr gesundheitsschonend zu entschlüsseln und im modernen Sound- (Daniel Husayn a den Knöppen) und Bildgewand (Hugues/Pzzl hat gesetzt, Ricaletto gezeichnet) den Investoren zu präsentieren. Presse und Fans sind begeistert! Novotny TV klang noch nie so wirr.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    11.11.2019
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    01.07.2019
     
  • 01. December
    02. 89/90
    03. Dark Side (Of The Moon)
    04. Heartbreaker
    05. Empty Sorrows
    06. No Wave
    07. The Wire
    08. Good For Health - Bad For Education
    09. Hologram
    10. Master Of The Universe
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    NOWAVES

    Good For Health Bad For Education

    [engl] This is darkness in the right way. What I mean to say is that NOWAVES sound like they exist in a shroud and/or shrouded by smoke—sounds composed in the physical and metaphorical recesses, presentation that struggles to harness a primitive determination. NOWAVES will certainly appeal to goth revivalists with cuts like “Empty Sorrows” that focus on the synth and that ’80s dancefloor swing, but it’s all in the context of a record that mostly lands somewhere between EA80/GRAUZONE and WIPERS. Although the record is not overly layered, I notice something new every time I listen (WARREN ZEVON meets the CURE vibe on the title track, for example), which only encourages me to listen more. - MRR
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    06.09.2019
    Format
    TAPE
    Release-Datum
    18.05.2023