Packages from HUP and Musicstack

From a very successful one-weeks leave from the daily routine, I returned to my nest and found 3 packages lying on my kitchen table. mmh.....
First a visit at my old folks place, then a successful destruction of the our spare capital city :)
Anyway, here' what I got this time:

Two additions to my Broadcast-collection. I got these fairly cheap off Musicstack - around $10 each. at the top is Broadcast - Pendulum 12" (Lovely design!!) the guy who designs all the Broadcast sleeves is currently in The Focus Group. At the bottum of the picture is Broadcast - America's Boy 7" from the album Tender Buttons. The track America's Boy is stunning!

The first Bane-release on Hurry Up Records is "Dublin, 11:58 pm". The design is really gorgeous and not like previous Bane releases. The music though is a natural continuation of The Note. This 7" is loaded with hardcore strength and I might favour this over The Note.
This 7" exists in 5 colors, 2 of them which have record release covers. This one is a regular version; orange w/ white spectacles and it's out of 200.

Bookworm Rip...

One week of holiday has started and I decided to spend monday to friday at my old folks place, which is about 350km from CP of H. On my way I could just as well pay the biggest record store in the country, which is only about 80km from my folks' town, a visit. I had about $120 credit in the record store and here's what I blew 'em away on:

I apologize for the unforgiveable bad picture. Anyway, here's the content in words:

Tom Waits - Blood Money (Anti Records)
Easily his best record IMO... More rough around the edges than Alice and more deep and challenging than Rain Dogs (just to compare with a few)... Blood Money has a finely tuned mix of rough pirat-like hymns, and soft, cotton-like easy tunes... It literally gets me up and down. Massive!

Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp Records)
Perhaps Broadcast' finest release along with Work And Non Work. The aesthetic production along with the charming 60s-like vocals of Trish Keenan is really a combination that appeals to me. Quite a lot of people say that Broadcast fans must also be Stereolab fans. I disagree on this, because Broadcast has more focus on making their work sound vintage and aesthetic (buzz-word of the month!), where Stereolab has a stronger focus on exploring in the Electronica-world IMO. Track 2 on Haha Sound called "Pendulum" will most likely underline my point.

Touché Amoré - ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse (6131 Records)
The most promising newcomer on the screamo-hardcore scene have released a solid debut! See, usually screamo does not appeal to me. I couldn't care less for Thursday, Poison The Well or Hawthorne Heights..... But Touché Amoré has a more grooving hardcore vibe to it. I first became famiiliar with this band when a friend of mine introduced me and later showed me some live footage that really caught my attention.

Vision - In The Blink Of An Eye (Tacklebox Records)
As much as I wanted a limited colored copy of this one, as much was I mind-numbingly impatient to get it. So I settled for a black copy. This is, along with the Chain full length and Break Down The Walls, the best hardcore release ever to emerge from the 80s IMO. It is much more melodic than YoT or Chain. Massive!

Count Me Out - Permanent (Indecision Records)
I noticed Count Me Out quite late and at first I didn't really care for them, but then one night, when I was on my way home I had my iPod set to shuffle and it played 3 songs in a row from Permanent, then I was hooked. It's hardcore right down to the core and it's really aggressive and straight forward. With all the revival stuff that are being thrown out nowadays, Count Me Out is... not anything new... but is generic for what it's supposed to be.

Jeez, I almost stepped on these when I opened the door!

A quick little post here.
When I got home from school today, I almost stepped on two small packages. I'd recently decided to make a move on my starving Broadcast collection, and here's the first new addition:

I really endure the aesthetic design of the sleeve. It's quite the same feeling I get when I listen to the music. Massive!

Last, but not least I got a 7" off the Bay that I been wanting for some time. This time I thought "to hell with it! gonna get it this time!"... and I ended up paying $26.50 + shipping for this version which is stamped on the inside and comes with a nice insert and two pins. May I present: Our Turn - the Step Aside EP:

The cover is, as mentioned, stamped on the inside, which is shown beneath:

I'm expecting more Broadcast soon.....

Packages from JAD, GW, etc.

I received the following stuff a few days ago, but I've been too busy to report it. Lately I've been focusing on redecorating my apartment and redecorating my soul as well. It all went good somehow. There's still a few scratches on one, but perfection is overrated anyway.
So I got my complete 2nd press of Debaser - Rich White Boys 7" a couple of days ago. 4 pieces all in all, with two of them being handnumbered out of only 12. Apparently Just Another Day Records is getting a lot of praise and respect, which is fully earned. But JAD haven't grown out of size, so Seb still takes time out to respond to his loyal supporters (read: moi). I asked him for a full set of the 2nd press, and he promptly responded in a coorperative manner :)

Here they are:

white /225, green /190, mint white /12, green & black /12

I also got a free 7" from JAD this time. The debut from Out To Sea. It's located below with a Miles Away 7" I got off Ebay for $0.99 and the debut 7" by Signs Of Hope on blue /108:

Out To Sea on clear vinyl /200
Signs Of Hope on Blue vinyl /108
Miles Away on Black vinyl /500

I ordered the Sign Of Hope 7" from Goodwill Records in Portugal. Unfortunately he was in the middle of moving to Berlin with a stop in Italy, so I had to wait about two months before I got this. With that I also ordered a Pointing Finger - Milestone LP test press out of 10. I was really siked that they had more of these left. They're one of my favourite hardcore bands, so 20 euros for this super rare piece of European hardcore history was a bargain: