Just to sum it op...

The last weeks have been heavy work for my mailman and I've been too busy to keep up with it here, so.... I'll just post a list of all the records I've gotten within the last weeks.... no descriptions, no pictures....

7"

Committed - The Pride We Share (Green vinyl, Reflections Rec /100)

Sportswear - Keep It Together (Slikscreen sleev, CRR)

Sportswear - It Runs Deep (CRR)

Know Your Enemy - S/t (CRR)

Right Idea - Our World (Olive vinyl, Bottled Up Rec.)

Resolve - S/t (Chung King rip-off sleev #11/15)

One Voice - Break Free (Blue vinyl, CRR)

The Defense - Common Sense (Green vinyl, CRR)

The Defense - Statement (Orange vinyl, CRR)

Thought Crusade - It's Our War (Clear vinyl, Triple-B Rec. /100)

Usipian - Clouded Restrainment (Metal Fortress /300)

Stand & Fight - Impact Demo (Red vinyl, B9)

Pushed Aside - S/t (Indecision Rec.)

Hit The Lights - S/t (Reaper Rec.)

Strike First - Chan Down Babylon (CRR)

Up Front - What Fire Does (Red vinyl, Smorgasboard Rec.)

Vitamin X - Straight Edge Crew (Commitment Rec.)

Atari - Skate Tuff (Siton Rec.)

Go It Alone / Blue Monday - Split (White vinyl, Rivalry Rec.)

Damage Control - Can't Keep Us Down (CRR)

Downslide / Know Your Enemy - Split (CRR)

Expired Youth - Where We Stand (Think Fast! Rec.)

Fired Up - When The Lights Go Out (Blue vinyl, Youngblood Rec.)

Go For Broke - Open Your Mind (Take The Risk Rec. /100)

12"

Turning Point - 1988-1991 Discography 2LP (Orange vinyl, Think Fast! Rec.)

Defeater - Travels (White vinyl, Topshelf Rec. /100)

Right Idea - Our World (React! Rec. Accepted Test Press /20)

Mainstrike - No Passing Phase (CRR)

Lie And Wait - Led Astray (Blue-white swirl vinyl, Triple-B Rec.)

One Voice - Break Free (Orange vinyl, CRR)

Token Entry . The Re-Issues 2LP (Gold vinyl, Durty Mich Rec. /500)

Damage Control - What It Takes (Purple vinyl, Livewire Rec.)

Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (Burning Heart Rec.)

Modern Life Is War - Midnight In America (Reflections Rec.)

Modern Life Is War - My Love. My War. (Black-gold swirl vinyl, Lifeline Rec.)

Reaching Forward - For The Cause (Reflections Rec.)

Subject To Change - What Tomorrow Brings (CRR)

The Defense - From The Start (CRR)

Stand & Fight - Together We Win (Blue-grey swirl vinyl, B9 /770)

Lights Out - Overload (Blue marble vinyl, Youngblood Rec.)

Onward - These Words Still Pray (Silkscreen sleeve, CRR)

Eyeball - More Days To Come (Reunion Show sleev #120/280)

Champion - Promises Kept (Mustard vinyl, B9 "Warehouse edition" #170/205)

Comeback Kid - Turn It Around (White vinyl, Hellfest Press, GMS /33)

busy weeks.... I'm about 20-25 12"/7" behind on my updating..... will post them sometime....

CRR arrivals

I recently placed an order at Crucial Response Records - one of Europe's bearing hardcore labels - and only a few days later it arrived at my door. That was some time ago, but I haven't been able to find the energy needed to post it. Now I'm at my old folks place for a few quiet days, so I figured that now would be the time.

Ordering at CRR implies that most of the releases are from European bands, and here's a couple from the members who has been there almost from the start.

Profound - Integrity 7" (Black vinyl, CRR)

This was the band that started a lot. The family tree goes like this: Profound - ManLiftingBanner, Mainstrike - Birds Of A Feather. Profound turned a spark into a raging fire on European hardcore scene. This release, however, suffers from a poor sound, and to be honest I mostly got this for the historical reasons. Albeit this could have been produced better, it's still a damn good record.

Mainstrike - S/t 7" (Mint vinyl, CRR)

Mainstrike was perhaps one of the best hardcore bands in Europe (Portugal had some rad bands as well!) and this, their fourth release on CRR, is solid and generic as most of the American releases! Mint vinyl /405

Mainstrike - A Quest For Answers LP (w/ silkscreen cover, CRR)

First full-length release by Mainstrike. Pictured is the version with the limited silkscreen cover /97

Mainstrike - Times Still Here 7" (w/ silkscreen cover, CRR)

The debut by Mainstrike pictured with the limited silkscreen cover /102

Birds Of A Feather - Our Aim EP (Stamped labels, CRR)

Birds Of A Feather is the last remaining fort in the family tree mentioned above. This 7" was included in the Voice of a Generation zine #1 released by CRR.

Sportswear - What It Meant (Stamped labels, CRR)

I got acquianted with Sportswear quite late. My first encounter happened when I bought Voice of a Generation #2 where this 7" was included. I gave it a couple of spins and was hooked. Sportswear arose from the ashes of Onward - one of the best Scandinavian hardcore bands ever.

Brotherhood - Words Run... As Thicks As Blood LP (Black vinyl, CRR)

This is the best European hardcore release (Brotherhood is American, but released by CRR, Germany, hell yeah! We take credit for this one!). If you don't know this release, leave my blog now.

Hands Tied - S/t 7" (Black vinyl, Equal Vision Rec.)

I ordered this through Merchnow.com - the only place this is still available to my knowledge. Hands Tied include members of Mouthpiece and is just as rad!

Awake again with two LPs that rocks!

It's been a long time since my last post, and that is even though I got a couple of records in the meantime. The Chilean hardcore band Remission had put their album "Accept" on for free download and there's no poetic way to say that I thought it kicked ass right from the beginning, so that's whal I'll say. It's unbelieveable that something like "Accept" from 2009 can sound like something from 1988! It really does! So, having to feed my craving for the limited shit, I wrote to the guy from Amendment records, because they only had white vinyl available, but the purple one is more limited. He said he's send me a copy on purple and under two weeks later I got it. Here is one of the best old school hardcore records of 198... 2009:

Remission - Accept (Amendment Rec. Purple vinyl /100)

Download the entire album here, but if you like it buy it here afterwards.

I went down to Repo Man Records in Copenhagen the other day just to look around, and I found a record that I've been meaning to pick up but never got to because other records came in the way.... Well, they had it at the store and I have 100dkr that wasn't earmarked, so.... I got this:

Mouthpiece - Can't Kill What's Inside: The Complete Discography (Revelation Rec. Black vinyl)

I got familiar with Mouthpiece through there "Waht Was Said" LP and it blew me away. Discography releases are always nice (unless they have a jacket like the Turning Point discography!) so this was the ideal way for me to have it all. There's no need for me to elaborate on the music of Mouthpiece, because you should know it.

mid-january arrivals

January's looking pretty solid as my pre-orders from November/December are ticking one nice and slowly.

See, there's been this big fuzz about the vinyl edition of Thrice - Beggars, because it is out on a variety of colors, and the only known fact is that the pressing is limited to 2000 copies. So far it has there's been detected 6+ colors. I got my white/clear version from Nerd Alert Records and later found out on the Vinylcollective board thats this color is out of 205.

These are already hitting Ebay for $40+ which is pretty insane considering they're still available some places..!!

Thrice - Beggars (White/Clear vinyl mix /205)

This is my first Thrice purchase as it is not really a band I have a flawless relationship with.... meaning that I dislike their previous work. This is like a a soft version of Muse (which is a good thing despite how it sounds).... and you just gotta love the artwork!

Seattle's Not Sorry, one of my current favorite hardcore bands, released their debut 7" on Lifeline Records in USA and Salad Days Records in Europe. I pre-ordered a special package of the Europe pressing. This package has two transition presses included, one of them is limited to 30, so there was 30 of these packages tops.

Not Sorry - Moving On (Blue vinyl /96)

Not Sorry - Moving On (Black vinyl /300)

Not Sorry - Moving On (Yellow vinyl /78)

Not Sorry - Moving On (Transition Yellow/Green vinyl /37)

Not Sorry - Moving On (Transition Blue vinyl /30)

The blue transition press is sold out now, but you can still pick up the other 4 version from Salad Days Records (Portugal). As I said, this is one of my favorite HC bands at the moment, and if you'd just pcik this up and put it on, you'll see why! I don't really know how to explain their music without making it look like other YC music from our time, but it is something else..

Last I got the final issue(s) of At Both Ends zine. This baby is a 148-page BOOK! with a lot of great interviews! I personally loved the interview with Verse and with Wait In Vain. Along with this zine came a double 7" with brand new songs by Bane, Grade, Unrestrained and Between Earth And Sky. The dude put so much work and effort into this zine and it is very clear when you hold it in your hands and read the articles. Only thing is that a lot of the records reviewed in it are pretty old.

Here's the double 7":

V.A. - At Both Ends #9/10 (Black vinyl and Grey vinyl /??)

As for any dedicated vinyl collector, I've had my ups and downs regarding the amount of gold I spend on it and the amount of time flew out the window looking for a piece of vinyl I need. None the less it's all worth it in an irrational way, that few people would actually understand.

React! Records is one of the most active and alive labels around when it comes to YCHC, and when they released the pre-order for the vinyl issue of Carry On - It's All Our Blood I acted fast and got the limited red vinyl version (well, with that being said, I lost a nights sleep because of my inability to convert time zones!).

Anyway, because of an unfortunate delay, I finally got my record about a week ago and here it is:

Carry On - It's All Our Blood (Red vinyl /250)

I always try to keep up with updates about pre-orders from my favorite labels, and not long ago I found out that Six Feet Under Records, was doing a limited pressing of the True Colors debut full-length and a limited edition of their second release Rush Of Hope.

I am not a TC collector, nor will I ever be, but since I recently sold my regular copies of those albums, I just saw this as an excellent opportunity to get them back - in a cooler edition (although few things are as cool looking as the cover of Focus On The Light!)

True Colors - Focus On The Light (White vinyl w/ silkscreen cover /78)

Sadly TC broke up, but they announced that they're doing a final 7" and it will be available around March/April. I hope I can scrape enough money together to see them at the React! Showcase in San Francisco in April.

True Colors - Rush Of Hope (Yellow vinyl w/ silkscreen cover /79)

Their second and final full-length is somewhat of an exploding volcano of straight forward YCHC, with the distinct vocal like early YoT. When you put this record on, and then later read that it will be the final full-length, it really comes to mind that there is no justice when it comes to all! ;-) Maybe this was written for dramatic effect, but none the less the European HC-scene lost one of their dearest children.

Last but what was later discovered as NOT least, I pre-ordered the reissue of Title Fight - Kingston 7". I have always had a sweet tooth for melodic hardcore like Title Fight, Hostage Calm and Shook Ones, and this 7" might easily be the best one.

Title Fight - Kingston (Grey marble vinyl /97)

Also a Six Feet Under Records release. Not much to say about this one besides that it is one of the best melodic hardcore 7" I've heard in a long time.

catching up...

...because I've received 6 packages since my last post and I am very close to comparing this to homework, and that's not good. Lately I've just being posting what I've received, but cared so much about the written stuff.... this is not gonna be different.

I am in the middle of a hard situation. My hardcore-buddy doesn't have the same spark for it anymore and it's taking me some time to accept :P

I'll try to post these in order after when I received them, first one's going first:

2x Pointing Finger 7"s from Nico (New Morality):

Pointing Finger/Pollution 7" Yellow vinyl w/ Wide Awake rip-off tour sleeve /100

Pointing Finger - Reasons, Not Rules on black vinyl:

Bane is continuing to do this realesing-7"s-on different-labels-within-a-short-period-of-time-thing, and here's their second 7" released on the Irish label Hurry Up Records:

Bane - Rome 12:58 on Magenta vinyl w/ blue haze /250. Colour is better seen below.

Next up is the first release from my good friend Dave's band Outlast (not the Swedish band)... Life To Live Records put up a pre-order package with all four colours (white being the exclusive pre-order colour /100). It also included a t-shirt, put they only had Small left, so this is like body-paint on me!

Pressing info:
White (numbered /100)
Clear /125
Blue /125
Black /150
Black test pressing /10

Here is my first post that include something besides hardcore (with the exception of Broadcast and Tom Waits). I haven't been updating my indie vinyls much (in comparison to hardcore), but here's a little update:

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (black vinyl, Matador Records)

..... And here's a little update to my skinny electronic vinyls (not very keen on much electronic music anyway

Yelle - Pop-up 2LP
This is a bit of a hard piece to find. Not that it's expensive at all, but it's just not available a lot of places. I had to buy this from a store in New Zealand for crying out loud!
It's electronic at it's best with female fronted vocalist singing in French... and my god she's charming. Unfortunately their best song Qui Est Cette Fille isn't on this record :(

Last up is my order from Get The Most. I got a hoodie and their double-pack 7" with their Tour sleeve /75:

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