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Hi and thanks for reading. I am sitting down to write this week with nothing in particular in mind, but I will briefly mention a few things I bought for myself today. I also wanted to mention that last week or so, we went through and marked down some more stuff. We’ve been doing this occasionally if you haven’t noticed. There is some middle of the road type shit each time we do this. But there is also always some heat waiting to be scooped up. I noticed we marked down these SISTEMA EN DECADENCIA 12”s.
This record, Nuestro Legado, is a pure ass-beater. While they are from Australia, they take obvious influence from the noisy side of Japanese hardcore, similar to classic bands like FRIGORA, or more modern stuff like D-CLONE. If you haven’t heard this one and love noisy stuff or crasher shit, I would definitely check it out!
So I heard about these PUNK JUNK VHS tapes little while ago, and I have been anticipating getting copies since. I know there are probably a lot of readers who think VHS tapes are silly, just like audio cassette tapes. To someone like me, I think it’s super cool to release something on this format. It’s much cooler than burning DVDs or just uploading the footage to YouTube. I don’t think every band on the tape is like super sick or something. There are actually a few I have never listened to. It’s the fact that this tape was done with pure passion that really draws me in. To me it just takes one glance to see this thing was made by the punks and for the punks. That sounds cheesy kinda but I’m not sure how else to say it. I think Baño from PERSONAL DAMAGE filmed all the footage himself. It looks like he’s credited Austin (BLAZING EYE) for some help with art, as well as Bungee from PERSONAL DAMAGE. I haven’t watched mine yet cos I just grabbed it, but I look forward to viewing it tonite.
We got a few different zine/mixtape combos with the PUNK JUNK stuff. While I think they all look cool, I had to limit myself to just one, and I chose the La Ciutat No Es Per Mi mixtape. The printing on this one looked especially cool, but the real reason I selected this one was for the bands. I feel like usually I’m grabbing stuff with bands I am familiar with, but in this case I was looking for something totally new. I recognize like maybe four out of these 20+ bands. On the front of the zine, it says the bands are punk & new wave, and from all over the world. I don’t really know anything about new wave really, so I look forward to Baño taking me to school (or whoever the hell made the track list, haha). Alright that’s it for the week. Cheers and thanks for your support.