THE FREEZE - In Colour EP 1979

The Freeze formed in Edinburgh and were active from 1976 to 1982, gigging continuously throughout their homeland of Scotland, and supporting a wide range of acts, from the likes of Sham 69 to Echo & The Bunnymen. On stage they were quite the lively bunch - with an unusually diverse spectrum of sound, glam-punk gender-bending theatrics, and a knack for random song improvisation - it was a package that often left onlookers enthusiastically scratching their heads in astonishment. The group had two official releases – 1979’s debut EP 'In Colour' and 1980’s 7'' Celebration, both are self-financed on their own A1 label. Three punk/wave songs we have here and I like all a lot. Cool & nice stuff!!!!

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V/A - Smelling Just Another Bad Breath 1986

The third release from Double A Records is this fine goodie. The label owner was always searching for bands around the world and so they sent plenty of material to Germany and the result shows this strong international compilation. A healthy dose of exclusive songs in a decent packing. I remember that I had to sell the record for lack of money, but I could take it again on a record fair, unfortunately without the booklet. Naja, es gibt schlimmeres! Have fun with this.

1.På Somme Jord - PSYKISK TERROR

2.Charge Alley - DETONATORS

3.Stand & Fight - MOSKWA

4.Blind Eye - INSTIGATORS

5.King Of Greed - ANGOR WAT

6.Use Me Up - BLUE MARBELLAS

7.Desertieren - ZSD

8.Rats - BILLY & THE WILLIES

9.Irgendwann - SONS OF SADISM

10.Psychopathen - SONS OF SADISM

11.Anarchy - MOSKWA

12.Die Fabrik Macht Dicht - ZSD

13.Fxxx - EA80

14.Wipeout - CONCRETE SOX

15.Beyond Control - DETONATORS

16.Suicide - SKEEZICKS

17.Eye To Eye - INSTIGATORS

18.Hvid Natt - PSYKISK TERROR

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V/A - Why March When You Can Riot?! 1985

This is the last record in a series of three compilation LP’s from Australia's Aberrant Records. And here we have again Sydney Punk Bands with fuckin' awesome punk music. I think this is the rarest sampler of all and I'm glad to give you all three exemplares for your absolute listening pleasure and like the KBD series all three albums are a must hear. End of line, time for POGO!!!

1.Living Like An Animal - JOHNNY DOLE & THE SCABS

2.Home Is Where The Floor Is - X

3.School Days - HARD-ONES

4.Die Hard - LOCAL PRODUCT

5.Don't Tell Me - FEEDTIME

6.Face The Facts - BEDSPREADS

7.Pig Boys - LOCAL PRODUCT

8.Chemical Slave - BEGGARS COURT

9.Squat House - HARD-ONES

10.Psycho-Analyst - JOHNNY DOLE & THE SCABS

11.Hate City - X

12.3 Minute Warning - BEGGARS COURT

13.Coffs Harbour Blues - HARD-ONES

14.Judge Dredd - BEDSPREADS

15.Skylab (Son Of Telstar) - XL CAPRIS

16.Stuff Your Rules - JOHNNY DOLE & THE SCABS

17.Small Talk - FEEDTIME

18.Lipstick Blues - BEGGARS COURT

19.Magenta - LOCAL PRODUCT

20.TV Cabaret Roll - X

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Join the essential another both compilations as well:

Flowers From The Dustbin

Not So Humdrum

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DELINCUENCIA SONORA - La Ley EP 1988

From Madrid are Delincuencia Sonora, founded 1981 by Jose (bass + vox), Javier (guitars) and Antonio (drums), they are one of the pioneering bands in Spain of the Punk/Hardcore and Anarcopunk movement. They've been playing continuously since its formation. In December 1982, Antonio Cruz has to leave the band due to his forced recruitment into military service. He returns after that shit and becomes the second singer for a year. In 1982 they recorded their first professional recording for the radio station Radiocadena Spanish (RCE) and one year later their first official demo 'Too Late' was made. A few compilation contributions followed before the release of the La Ley EP on Basati Diskak came out. 1992 finally the album 'Por La Causa De Algun Rebelde' was recorded and with their melodic punk sound they fascinate. More albums were released and they still active. As well necessary: Viva La Punk 1978-1988.

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THE NEWS - Do! Do! Do! EP 1987

And now a small piece for fans of Japanese girlie pop-punk and I think they are from Tokio. The Band created not a new genre and they were influenced by 80's punk rock and I like their energy here on this 4 Track EP which was released by Kojima Recordings, Inc. - Not much information about them and so all I can say that these girls are very hot and there's no filler on it. I do not know many bands from Japan, but The News are surprisingly fresh and leave such many lame Power-Pop band far behind.

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SERENE FALL - Demos 2003

Considering that their last record is already four years ago and this autumn their new 10'' Silent World comes out on Major Label I thought it's time to post some partially unreleased demos of my favorite dark punk band from Mönchengladbach (would a pity if they were going to die in nothingness). Serene Fall create once again the balancing act of aggressive melancholy songs, which always held personally, and fascinate. The sound is quite good and here yet as four piece combo: Maul (vox + guitars), Udo (bass), Nico (drums) and Rainer (guitar) and the 2nd guitar is clearly noticeable what the songs even more power gives, meanwhile they have shrunk to three members. Serene Fall is music I can always put in. Don't know who this send in but you have my frank thanks. Who wants/needs more stuff I recommend to use the search option top left.

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EL VICIO - Born To Be Wild EP 2009

All Right, time for something new and completly different, haha... - First info: 390 copies with an full color sleeve and 77 with a one color silkscreened sleeve on black cardboard and 33 on a grey cardboard with a different front and back cover. And El Vicio is a garage punk'roll band from Perpignan/France. I think these boys are using drugs, TV-News, Heino platters or whatever to recording such a heavy record like this. Four trashy numbers, first is a definitive fatal sound of 'Born To Be Wild', then we have two awesome rather "quiet" (the tempo was slightly lower) numbers, and the record ends much too quickly with a monotone version of Suicide's 'Cherie Cherie'. Puuhhhh, I'm sweating, this is an amazing record and if they released an album, I would buy it immediately. Check these weird frenchmen take a listen to their sound and all softies should better let your fingers off!

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JAWOLL - Rendezvous 7'' 1983

One of my favourite songs from the 80's is this one by an interesting band that I would not denote as a typical NDW band, rather German Rock. And who is behind it follows in this small description:

Jawoll was founded 1981 at the Kassel Art Academy, where singer Kornelia Scholz and drummer Matthias Kutschke studied. As the guitarist was an Englishman the lyrics of  'Taxi' was initially in English. But after the appearance of the first Ideal album they decided only to sing in German. After a few gigs the band was discovered from Hamburg Rüssl-Räckords-Verlag, who procured them an elaborately staged appearance in the former cult broadcast Bananas. After the broadcast their first 7inch 'Taxi' scrambled into the Top 20 of the charts. A tour throgh Germany followed and the second single 'Rendezvous' made it to number 49 on the charts. After several changes of record company the third single 'Ich Bin Verrückt Nach Dir' appeared in 1984 and reached number 2 in the ZDF Hit Parade. In 1986, the band broke up and the members left the music business, except for the guitarist Robert Foster, who emigrated to Canada, and with singer Jann Arden celebrated international success and to this day he is still active as a musician. Sadly Kornelia Scholz died 1988 from leukemia (Info by Matthias Kutschke, thx!).

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GNÄ GNÄ - The Terrible Unexpected Brainstorm 1987

After an interesting afternoon at the Main (Yeah!) and now listen to the Disco Zombies (I Love Those Fuckin' Tunes) live tracks and before the second match SGE - FCA starts a quick post with a nice swiss combo. Here we go: The four-member punk band Gnä Gnä from Basel existed from about 1982 to 1990. They played a noisy mix of pop & punk. Most of the songs have the guitarist Ramon and singer Helen wrote. Steff was on bass and Dani on drums. This band have announced their first gig on 11. September 1982 at the school festival of Holbein Gymnasium in Basel. From then on they were playing regularly, initially in the area of Basel, then in Switzerland, (Zurich, Bern, St. Gallen, etc.). In the spring of 1985 bassist Angelika left the band and Steff came in her place. After that they played also in Germany and Scandinavia. In 1987 they recorded their debut LP on Sick Records and in 1989 appeared on the German label Positive Destruction their second album 'Lost In Time And Space' and a few singles that were also partially split with other bands. Helene left the band in late 1988, and for her came Smada and took the Micro for about one year. Shortly thereafter Gnä Gnä broke up. All members played in the following years in various bands, including Helene until 1999 as back-vocalist for the last album of Touch El Arab. Interesting LP with varied songs and beautiful booklet.

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TOTAL EGON - 7inch Collection 1987-1989

Time for another 7inch collection (check out this Blog for others) by this one man band from Stockholm: Total Egon is Mart Hällgren, better known as lead singer/bassist, songwriter and frontman of melodic punk band De Lyckliga Kompisarna (DLK). 1979 started Hällgren his first punk band called Likström. Ten years later he formed De Lyckliga Kompisarna with Bjorn Gunér. The band was active until 1997 and reunited in 2008. Besides he always had some other bands like Dr.Anti-Skval, Crudity, Brackor, Ubba and Greven & James. Total Egon was created in 1984 because he didn't managed to play in Egon Egoist and has been around since 1984 and has been more or less active due to Mart's involvement in other bands. He connected two tape recorders and started to play drums, bass and guitar by himself. It was music without any arguing in rehearsal room. Since then it has become alots of recordings, and nowadays there are computers to arrange the music. "Sure it's nice to play in a band, but home on your own the music become its best." So this file contains all three 7inches he made, all self-released. In individual: Fördomar Mot EP ('87), Guldkängan EP ('88) and the Män EP ('89). Musically he's at home in solid melodic punk rock embellished with "quiet" passages and fast ass kickers. Great talent, decent songs, keep it up!

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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