BLANK TAPES

I have seven copies of these blank tapes I bought in Grand Central for only ten pesos. My trip to these tapes is to record something on it what I did was to connect my tape player in my computer then dub some of the mp3's I have. Instead of burning it to CDR I use these tapes. It's far out right but I like it tapes are cool man. To my surprise it has a good quality as long as you have a quality tape player. Now I am still hunting for some cheap quality blank tapes I can snatch and maybe I will do some mixtapes.

BULLDOZED "Demo 97"

This was the sound of hardcore at that time. It represents that hardcore is a street wise thing. Just pure fucking hatred. No holds barred anger on the living conditions we have in the Philippines. It shows on the raw recording but it is still listenable. I practically lived by this tape mesmerized by the sheer sound that's coming out on the speaker and fast forward it is 2010 now and listening to it again it's still relevant the music, the lyrics still holds the significance of it. You may agree or disagree. How can you match the term "demonyo murder gangcore" or "demonyo gang murder core" and it was a Bulldozed thing. I think Still Ill tapes will release this on a pro-printed way so be on the lookout. I can't wait for that.

REAL TIGHT CREW VERSION 2.0

If I am not mistaken we have 22 local cats here in our house as pets. We also have one local dog. My mother has a soft spot when it comes to animals. She really is a pet lover. We feed them boiled fish (pinakulong galunggong) and I am the one in charge for that to give them food two times a day. You may wonder it's a lot of cats right yes sometimes it gets messy inside the house but it's all good we love them anyway.

I REMEMBER HALLOWEEN

review taken from RTC #2 I REMEMBER HALLOWEEN #1, 2, 3...For me I honor I.R.H. as a staple zine in our local scene. The highlight for issue number one for me is the interview of Chris Dodge. I am a fan. It’s nice to read the humble answers of Chris. The second one is the interview with Devon of Conquest For Death. I would never get to know he has a new band if not for this feature. For the second and third issue there is a Bystorm and Choke Cocoi tour diary. An enjoyable memoir for both bands sharing their experiences having the chance to go outside the country to promote their music and enthusiasm for the hardcore punk scene. This is a great achievement for them and also for the whole local underground movement putting our country on the hardcore punk map.I urge you to take hold all the copies of IRH for a near sum up of how superior this zine really is, to seize the spontaneous devotion of Dane.

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review taken from RTC #3: I REMEMBER HALLOWEEN #4 Another tight issue for IRH. It’s just keeps getting better and better. This is the end result having lots of enthusiasm and passion to our hardcore scene. I like the Omerta interview because I am keeping an eye for this local hardcore band. The Staid interview is short but it’s nice knowing that Raymond is still up screaming his guts out again with a new unit and sharing again his great lyrics to us and still jumping around to youthcrew hardcore style. Let’s fucking go! There are foreign interviews with Kah-Roe-Shi, Thou, Protestant and Fight Amp. Also an old reprinted interview with Requiem. All in all this is good stuff. I guess Dane is already overwhelmed by the praises he’s getting right now. But hey it’s all you’re going to get for doing a great job. Keep it up man.  

BIG TIME COWARD

What's gonna be Boy Floyd? How long will you hide yourself from Manny Pacquiao? Common Boy Floyd man up!

GINSBERG: A BIOGRAPHY BY BARRY MILES

Finally I finished reading this overwhelming 500 pages biography by Allen Ginsberg. Another gem I've got from Booksale. Before I just know his name from a Sonic Youth song Hits For Sunshine from the album A Thousand Leaves. This book is a great a help for anyone who is interested to Allen Ginsberg. Here is a quote from the pages that would best sum up what this book and Allen Ginsberg is all about: For Ginsberg poetry, philosophy, political action and personal expression go hand in hand. His biggest battles have been with society and with himself. His entire career, as lived in public and documented in his poetry and journals, has been a struggle to explore and express his own awareness, and to protect the right of others to do the same. His is a fight for life, for individual freedom, against the incursions of social forces.

PRESERVING SILENCE DISTRO

AJ of Path To Misery blogspot has a distro of mostly 90's hardcore called Preserving Silence. Because of the post he has in his blog about the band Between Earth & Sky I've contact him about it and he immediately answer my e-mail and he even post something about my blogspot too which is really cool. So in return I am posting some information about his distro. I've visited his webstore and there are interesting stuff in there. For those of you who has a lot money go check it out. Path To Misery is not only a blogspot but also a metallic hardcore band which AJ is also a part of it.

some info taken from his blog: I've basically spent any free time I've had on the internet for the past month working on getting my distro hosted on a webstore. I posted nearly 1000 CDs up so I think you should go check it out and spread the word for me if possible. I have a lot of cool shit up that I always have people asking about purchasing ... so go take a look...go order something from the webstore. Shipping is only $2 for the first disc and then only $1 for each disc after that. For international orders it is only $4 for the first disc and then $1 for each disc afterwards. Used CDs are all $5 or less!!! 

PRESERVING SILENCE DISTRO

BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY

I've just discovered this from Path To Misery blogspot. I've stumbled upon this blogspot long time ago and I've been a reader since then. From there I've come across about this new band of Greg Bennick (Trial) et. al. I've known him not personally but through the pages of Inside Front from his columns and reviews in there. Also an interview from an old local fanzine called Step Forward. For a great info about this visit Path To Misery. I also just googled if there is a downloadable material from them to my surprise there is a three song demo. And if you play it with windows media player there is an accompanying lyrics to every song. I wish I could make a correspondence with him.

 

Here is the download link for the demo that I found in google:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ahuuz5nnyyt

ASPIRE #1

This just arrived now handed by Mr. Postman. I already have read the review of this from La Cosa Nuestro and it got a good response. I can now see the reason for it. Thumbs up for Jay for doing a great job on his debut issue. I can't wait for the sophomore issue. I'll be on the lookout. To be properly praise in the fourth issue of RTC.

BREAKFAST INSOMNIA

issue #1 review taken from RTC #2: The inspiration comes from the fatalism of Asiong Salonga and the notorious and critical streets of Moriones, Tondo. The fortune of holding the craziness of Senator Miriam Defensor. Elevated from the wonders of offense strategy of the legendary coach Sonny Jaworski...the writings in here are eloquent collection of sentiments from the mind of Archi.

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issue #2 review taken from RTC #3: The long awaited second installment of this urban personal zine. Continuing on the cut and paste mayhem with all the typewritten texts. Confusing us on the backward order of pages. Once again the eloquent writing is there. Grasping the wit of Nora Aunor. Attracted by the handsome faces of Korean actors. A wide range of words used in paragraph to show he has a good vocabulary. The anger comes from the passive existence of the general Filipino public with their lives cycled around telenovelas, chismis, pseudo-anarchism. Dark, gloomy and sadness filled the whole air of this zine. It promotes finding our own morality. To make an apparition. If you are political then read this and you will realize in the end you are not. You’re just rebelling against your parents. By the third issue it will promote to burn the filthy streets of Metro Manila till the break of dawn just for fun. There will be no manifesto from that action it will all be spontaneous. Showing his disgust that life is really hard and there is no hope. This issue ended with lengthy thank you list of friends that I think inspire him to do this and music that agitated him.

      

RUSH IxDx Demo CDR

I've got this copy from Zepol when we met some time ago. This is old but I get excited by the time I put this in my player. Kick ass review will be included on the fourth issue of RTC.

LYRICS OF THE DAY: NEW ORDER " Love Less"

There was a time I call before
When all I knew was what I saw
The keeper of a major key
I lived in a town called Liberty
I worked hard
To give you all the things that you need
And almost anything that you see
I spent a lifetime working on you
And you won't even talk to me
Can't you see
Why don't you look at me
It's not your right to be
So much my enemy
I knew that I could never give
You knew that you could not forgive
No price or pride would fall before
A ten foot wall without a door
But you know
I watch every step that you make
To find some other fool you can take
And I don't know why I even try
Because it all comes down to this
Can't you see
Why don't you look at me
It's not your right to be
So much my enemy
Can't you see
Why don't you look at me
It's not your right to be
So much my enemy
I worked hard
To give you all the things that you need
And almost anything that you see
I spent a lifetime working on you
And you won't even talk to me

V/A: This Is Cavite Not L.A.

A classic compilation released by Take Four. As I am browsing the old posts of La Cosa Nuestro I found about this but  to my surprise with another version of cover but the silk screened art in the cdr is the same. I bought my copy in Radiation Area. Talking about nostalgia, huh. I think this was the only recorded material of YFC (they rule most especially in live), Take Action, and A.O.D.

this photo is stolen from La Cosa Nuestro blogspot.

Here is the review of Joe taken from his fanzine Seven Inches To Freedom from the States. Obviously I've sent him a copy for something to trade with him. I also gave this a review from the first issue of RTC. But it's good to share what other people might say to this.

On the insert of this CD it says: "this CDshould serve to document the existing scene in Cavite (Philippines)...following the great tradition of classic comps such as "Flex Your Head," This Is Boston Not L.A."..." With that said this cd rules. It compiles six of the hardest, fastest bands Cavite has to offer. The CD starts with YFC, who play fastcore with crazy, screechy vocals. A.O.D. play half grindy, half sludgy HC. FRIENDSHIP 7 are next with some straight up old-school youthcrew-ish HC. FEUD deliver youthcrew and even a GORILLA BISCUITS cover. BACKFIST are my favorite on here playing some kung fu obsessed powerviolence. TAKE ACTION bring the noize with some old school skate thrash. All of the recordings are pretty bad, but that doesn't hide the sincerity. Another awesome thing is that all the bands have seriously good lyrics. It's neat to hear that the same shit sucks half way around the world, and that kids over there are as pissed as we are here. If you're a fan of international HC this is a killer document of a sincere group of kids that made a scene in  a place you probably didn't know existed. 

LYRICS OF THE DAY: MORRISSEY "You Have Killed Me"

 

Pasolini is me
'Accattone' you'll be
I entered nothing and nothing entered me
'Til you came with the key
And you did your best but
As I live and breathe
You have killed me
You have killed me
Yes I walk around somehow
But you have killed me
You have killed me
Piazza Cavour, what's my life for?
Visconti is me
Magnani you'll never be
I entered nothing and nothing entered me
'Til you came with the key
And you did your best but
As I live and breathe
You have killed me
You have killed me
Yes, I walk around somehow
But you have killed me
You have killed me
Who am I that I come to be here...?
As I live and breathe
You have killed me
You have killed me
Yes I walk around somehow
But you have killed me
You have killed me
And there is no point saying this again
there is no point saying this again
But I forgive you, I forgive you
Always I do forgive you.

SISTER BASTARD "These Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves" CDR

I've just got up from an afternoon nap while watching again Bourne Ultimatum. I am thinking something to post this November 1 so I've chosen this cdr from Sister Bastard. They're my new favorite local band now besides Disabuse, Feud and Sauna. Here is my review included in the third issue of Real Tight Crew. Check it out yo! 

Imagine if RZA, Killah Priest, Ghostface Killah, and U-God decided to form a hardcore punk band this would be the result. Better watch out for this crew they would attack you with their violent sonic assault the way Spazz and Infest did. They would beat you up with their four fingers, shot you with their 12 gauge sumpak, stab you with their hunting knife newly bought at Quiapo. These cats are for real they belong on the streets. Oh and watch out if they find out you are listening to Martin Nievera and Gary Valenciano they will kidnap you and bury you alive six feet deep. Better watch your back ese.