Various Artists: Artifacts Vol.1

Was just shown this from a friend, some excellent rocknroll/punk/outsider music. Here are some notes:

This 1976 compilation was transcribed directly from one of the earliest two-sided EvaTone Sound Sheets (pressed on translucent red plastic); the original master has been lost. One thousand copies were distributed in three-color, silk-screened gatefold sleeves.

We now refer to recordings made between 1970 and 1981 by the following artists and all the bands descended from the Artifacts/yclept community as "Analog Music from a Lost World." Newer, more comprehensive collections will follow this one.

Record conceived and produced by Dennis Madigan, drummer for X-Breed and later, Single Bullet Theory.

These are the original liner notes:

SPRINGTIME. The year is 2020. Nannaw is preening the robot and Ooompaw has just finished his nap. It is early afternoon, and Ooompaw is sitting there, transfixed. Nannaw can never tell if he is for real or "just cloning around." "I can almost remember...," Ooompaw keeps repeating, sort of to himself, but just loud enough for Nannaw to hear. "I can almost remember...Cross Brace, yep, and Big Nappy and Little Nappy...heh, heh, heh...yep, I can almost..."

NANNAW SUSPECTS it is time to take the bull by the horns. So she pulls out the old red disc from long ago, and she drops it on the box. Which is to say she gives the platter a spin. With the first chords of "Marlene," Ooompaw is up and hopping. "Circus of Terror" finds Ooompaw unsteady and for good reason. The cold sweat passes. Crank up the robot, Nannaw, it's time to "cop a buzz," hey? "On the Can" sends the little robot hurrying to the store for some "supplies," and Little Lacy beckons the cute little mutants from next door to dance, too.

AND SO IT GOES, on and on and on, down through time...Ooompaws & Nannaws of tomorrow, we proudly present these ARTIFACTS for your memory library. See you around. 

-- William "Montserrat" Burke (1976)

Hysterics (Olympia, WA)

Who are Hysterics? Hysterics are a fucking house fire, a cacophonous explosion of hardcore punk. An all girl band from Olympia who would beat the shit out of you and take your money just for kicks. I could imagine these chicks spend their days listening to Poison Idea records while crushing cans of PBR or Olympia beer in dilapidated squat on the outskirts of town.  I'm infatuated with these girls but at the same time never want to meet them due to fear of looking like a total sissy compared to them.

Here's a video of them playing live at LA's The Smell




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R.I.P Society Records

R.I.P Society are probably my favourite Australian label going around. Everything they release is fucking gold. Their founder Nic Warnock seems like a pretty chill dude who obviously digs good music, and plays good music himself in his band Bed Wettin' Bad Boys. I managed to stumble across their soundcloud page, so I thought I'd pay homage to the legendary label and embed some of my favourite RIP bands. 

Unity Floors - Womens Golf (Sydney)

Unity Floors make music in the same vein as Sonic Youth, Pavement and a heap of other 90's noise/no wave bands. They had built a reputation around Sydney as being the band that supports every other band for every show. Now is their time to take the headline position.

Give it a listen for yourself. You can also buy this record in hard vinyl format for the bargain price of 10 bux off their bandcamp page. I did...

Kitchen's Floor - Lonliness is a Dirt Mattress (Brisbane)

Brisbane is making some amazing weirdo/punk/outsider of late, and Kitchen's Floor are my favourite of all them, possibly even my favourite band in Australia. They play pissed off bummer punk for the unemployed that goes well with the dreary city of Brisbane - full of discontent youth and a burgeoning punk scene. This is their first LP that was released on RIP Society and Bedroom Suck Records. Their newest LP has been picked up by Siltbreeze in the USA for vinyl release and Bedroom Suck in Brisband for the other duties.

This is probably a shitty rip as its only twenty something mb, so if you remotely like it go out and buy the record and listen to it in all its lofi budget beauty.

...also if the band wants the link down I will take it off with no hesitation.

Here is a sample of KF's music, the awesome track "116" which is from their recent LP "look forward to nothing."



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Taco Leg - Printed Gold (Perth)

I just picked up this the other day from Repressed Records in downtown Newtown. It is a 7inch that was released on Philadelphia's richie records/testosterone tunes. Basically, Perth's taco leg play crusty no wave punk that is constantly compared to Fang - so much so that there is a Fang cover on this that kicks ass. This is three songs that are all excellent aussie punk.

give em a listen

Useless Children EP (Melbourne)

I can't seem to get enough of the female vocal high speed hardcore punk. Hysterics is an excellent Olympia band that comes to mind. But Melbourne's Useless Children aren't far off. The first song off this EP is brutal, but so perfect. I don't need to write more, not that you'd read it anyway. Check them out.

Turns out these guys have a heap of releases and are all available to listen and buy from their bandcamp page. Here is the EP in its entirety

RIP Brendon Annesley

Brendon from Negative Guest List zine died about a month ago, there is nothing that I can say about him that hasn't already been said. I'm just grateful that he gave me the chance to get an article into NGL. There is some excellent tributes to him by DX, Tony Rettman, Terminal Boredom, MRR and Mess and Noise. There are also some excellent tribute compilations for him, here are some of my favourites.

Sydney band Low Life who have a 7inch on NGL records: http://alowlife.tumblr.com/post/16972659188

And Vice magazine's Tony Rettman who writes the awesome Rettsounds blog made an excellent mix:

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Best Band in Sydney

I haven't posted for a long long time, and two all three of you that read my blog, I apologise. I have moved to Sydney to pursue the bullshit career of music journalism. Will I fail? Probably. But least I'm out of the hellhole known as the Gold Coast. 

I'm going to post more punk music on here, I barely have any, and that is sad for someone who claims to listen to a lot of punk. In celebration of moving to Sydney I'm going to post the Bed Wettin' Bad Boys who are an amazing punk/garage band on the awesome RIP Society label. Truly the grime on the bottom of your boot at the end of a Reatard's gig kinda punk, and for that I salute them.

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