24th post

amazing pics find here...wax trax rules
i'm getting more and more Industrial...STRENGTH THRU INDUSTRIAL! more on the US side of industrial stuff...they got a different approach and meaning to industrial...usually with industrial we talked about Throbbing Gristle or Clock DVA or Einsturzende Neubauten...the americans talked about KMFDM or even the Prodigy!!
now i'm listening:
CHEMLAB - Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar (1993)
industrial rock ..pretty nice !!

16th post

oregon t-shirt by Alore

Acid Wash Levi's Jeans

Dr. Martens boots

song of the day:

DEATH IN JUNE - BLACK RADIO ...killer hit! really underrated DIJ as a post-punk band...only the folk stuff...but dudes....they did some real kick-ass funky post-punky songs!

movie of the day:
GO FISH - rose troche 1994 US
lesbian black&white indie movie- Kinda of Clerks lesbo themed...really nice, really 90s style. it got style!
music bought: aavv. this is !HYPE cd 1992
collection of songs released through !HYPE records. Mostly euro-techno from Germany..90-91...some nice New Beat (or it's better to say Schizo, the later evolution of new beat..more techno oriented) tunes and some Acid lines.

15th post

some real kick ass pictures from this fotogallery, by Unità (italian newspaper)...As you have already understand (i swear) this pics are about prostitution..they haven't got any years indication..they covered however from the 70s (i guess) to the 90s...

album of the day:
CANDIRU - unloved and weeded out (1993 relapse)
I'm not into metal at all...i'm into post-punk, minimal-synth, new wave, new beat...and industrial....i'm into a early 90s hype...1991 is the damn year...hovewer...Candiru, pennysilvania duo, released in 1993 this amazing album...early 90s are absolutely (especially in the US) industrial, funky industrial or industrial-metal...
this album covered both genre...tons of electronic effects, or sludge metal guitar,,,smooth metal...very cool drum programming..nice beats, nice sampler, always slashing industrial sounds..reverbed vocals..echoed stuff...pretty varied tracks..from more sludged oriented to experimental electronic tracks...this is a top notch album...and a pretty underrated...

13th post

In the past I've been an intense punk fan...later you know...grew up and stuff...hovewer I'm really astonished by the anarcho-punk scene...but not the usually Conflict chaos-punk or punk82 stuff...really annoying...but from the experimental one. Like the CRASS they start with a pretty boring marching-punk sound...but all the stuff later went more and more experimental...through post-punk till noise....
''Gerard’s right about the anarcho scene. At the time we got into it there were very blurred lines between the anarchos and the goths - because the goth bands were just bands they weren't corralled into a fashion - so a lot of the people who might see Crass and the Poison Girls might also see the Mob or Blood and Roses and might also see Southern Death Cult or Sex Gang Children. Then the journalist boyfriend of the singer of a band called Brigandage tried to lump some of these bands as a "positive punk" movement and it all backfired ludicrously so bands started to define themselves as anarcho bands or goth bands. But for a few months in 1982-3 there was a really lively scene and even after that the "anarcho" scene in London was a mixture of all sorts of people and I think, like the Mob, we fitted into that because we didn’t fit into it.” [from Flowers in the Dustbin site]
This is pretty interesting.
But just take a look to CRASS Records catalogue or the Corpus Cristi label...you will definitely find that kind of mixture of bands and style. Crass Records got the K.U.K.L. (post-punk from island with Bjork in it), Hitparade (wacky synth-punk outfit), The Cravats (amazing jazz-punk stuff) or the Lack of Knowledge (sort of anarcho Joy Division). Corpus got the UK Decay (they should be considered the first positive punk band amongst Sex Gang Children..imo), Very Things (Cravats spin-off) and Annie Anxiety (one of the coolest experimental dub lp).
The 96 Tapes label, is another of that kind...releasing only tapes...band like This Bitter Lesson, Flowers in the Dustbin and Blood & Roses were totally on the goth vein...



The Mob also were influencial in this flirting. Their label 'All The Madmen' released lot of great post-punk records. One of the best onthe label were Hysteria Ward, female fronted goth band with a tape and flexi single..mind-blowing. 

Some other gems are the Spirit of an Old Age Anthem compilation tape, released by The Snipers. All the bands inside it are inspiring moving toward post-punk to a more conventional introspective punk. 

War Toys were a band from North Devon and released some tapes, their demo of 1984 is simply amazing, the romanticism of goth band but the power of punk stuff.. To name other stuff...Youth in Asia released a demo in 1982, appears in Bullshit Detector 2, and played an outstanding post-punk sometimes more punk but got moments. The list could goes on & on, to name a more famous..the Rubella Ballet...but can we talk about the A.P.F. Brigade? minimal punk with drum-machine and their later big involvement in the cassette culture scene?? and the charming punk of Zounds?....

8th post

MAXX MANN - MAXX MANN (12'' ExtendedPlay 1982 Red Dog Productions)

I read about Maxx Mann here (Phil Mison Mixtape) but it was already on my RYM wishlist since february 2010...Finally i found some stuff on the net...This EP totally rocks! Freaky twisted disco oddity. It's something in the edge between new-wave, minimal synth and disco...For sure this is my number one EP of the week.

7th post

Today I spent a lot of time searching in the web scanned pics or photo of the BOY London, clothing brand.
In the official site you could find some history...and stuff to buy...
Just to name something ..it was (and still is) run by Stephane Raynor, were involved people such Steve Strange (Visage), Vivienne Westwood (Seditionaries), Boy George (Culture Club), batcave band Specimen and the stuff was worn from Andy Warhol to Pet Shop Boys...

Early stuff...during punk days..this was taken from the Blackmail Catalogue

The NIGEL Shirt

another promo pic for early punk stuff...

awesome the Throbbing Gristle's Memorial Society (Gary Gilmore) T-Shirt!

and also she's wearing Stiped Pants and Wraparound Shades.

These were before the BOY eagle logo...

and later.. 

BOY eagle long-sleeve and BOY hat..rad!

the Eagle Catsuit is a top Notch! this was problably from mid 80s...86 or 87

What i like about the brand..is of course the main logo...the nazi eagle that hold BOY ...with that classic, evergreen anthem nazi reference as punk provocative style.

Also I pretty love that this brand born in the punk era, represent it, and change though the ages. During the late 80s BOY became an acid house essential hit. This is what i would like to say to everybody out there...punk was revolution..wasn't a fucking statement...punk is a mutant that changes every times...don't focus in the guitar style...punk is the attitude..acid house was the punk revolution during 88...probably...but for sure still playing punk stuff in 1988 wasn't revolutionary anymore of course....

find of the day:
Soul Hunter - Cain's Sign (12'' Ep 1985 Contempo, Coloured Vinyl ltd. 300 copies)
Italian post-punk band, from Florence founded by Vannini, the first singer of band Diaframma.
Nice ep...and it's nicest cos i've paid it only 2 fookin euros...

6th post

DROP ACID NOT BOMBS! couldn't agree more with this!

BOY'S OWN was an acid house fanzine (and later label) during late 80s.

today i without anydoubt think that my natural habitat is the beach...

SUMMER=BEACH=LIFE

5th post

pretty nice t-shirt...TUXEDOMOON...cool..

song of the day:

POP WILL EAT ITSELF - there's no love between us anymore (1987)