7 tracks plus 13 minutes live video of heavy hardcore crust. Comes with silk-screened, pinned cloth cover and 20 pages booklet (lyrics, articles, tour pictures & flyers).

Now available at the Ricecooker shop for RM10 each.

Also now/will be available from these 13 label/distro: Kandar Mosh Distro, Quiet Still Death, Third Arm, Anock Mayrun, Papakerma, Cellulite, Cactus, Bullwhip, Pissed Off, Protocrust, Theatrical, Pure Minds & Denegerate Art.

Kah-Roe-Shi played their first show in 2006 with the name Union Of Slaves. Kah = excess, Roe = labor, Shi = death, translated literally from the Japanese as “death from overwork” or occupational sudden death.

The band is musically characterized by unrelenting heavy crust hardcore and “human-system-hating” lyrics; with influences from From Ashes Rise, His Hero Is Gone, Dystopia, Counterblast and peers. A collective of system-hating armchair revolutionaries, the guilty comrades are Kid (vocals), Tiong (guitar, vocals), Fahmi (bass) and Zul (drums).

Related bands: Mass Separation, Tools Of The Trade and Akta Angkasa. Previous release: Indonesian tour demo cd-r & split 7″ with Pazahora. Previous tour: Singapore & Indonesia (July-August 2007).

Trade & wholesale (please write/call first): unionofslaves@gmail.com / 013-2497199 / 012-9127037 / 016-9081485 / 017-2775010

For more info (to sample Kah-Roe-Shi songs, video and merchs):
kah-roe-shi.blogspot.com

“Two fastcore bands, Common Enemy (U.S.) & Weot Skam (Malaysia), join together from different sides of the planet to keep the punk in hardcore while kicking the conservative non-liberated hardcore punk kids straight to their face!! HELL YEAH!! Shredding rifts, fast beats, circle pits, and deep anger will be kicking your teeth in while spinning this record.

Overdose On Records, Jerk Off Records, Party Time Records, Crapoulet, and Solidaridad Distro worked together to spread this disease further then the cassette tapes Epidemic Records pressed originally. Limited to 500 copies. 500 on Black Vinyl.”

myspace.com/jerkoffrecords | commonenemy2000.com | myspace.com/weotskam

a comp from Bulacan, Philippines | myspace.com/northernterritoryrecords

do check out Israel’s Brutal Assault and Singapore’s Bloody Rejects

contacts: myspace.com/radic_all_docs | radicalldocs.co.nr

Crustatic reportage from Jakarta! Contact: myspace.com/jarwoitus

I heard a lot about pioneering Philippines punk bands who are still gigging 20 odd years after their golden era in the mid-80s, and the stories are not good.

These reports and rumours painted the veterans as violent elitists drunken chaos punks, wrecking shows and venues all over Manila; with most of them keeping distance from the younger scenesters. I won’t mention names as I myself have never met these people, but they are members of bands who I used to worship back in the ol’ TRC days.

That said, I do believe there are still a few surviving old bands from Manila that are beyond cool, and one of them is THROW.

THROW rose from the ashes of my foremost favourite Pinoy Punk band, THE DEAD ENDS. It features Al Dimalanta, the singer and guitarist; who along with his now deceased brother Jay and friends turned Manila into one of the earliest active and vibrant Southeast Asian punk scenes ever. Dead Ends released four albums from 1985 to 1997, and they rocked my world.

I’ve just heard THROW is now planning to release their 2nd album, and unlike many other veterans from there, it’s gonna be a DIY release too!. I sure do hope I’ll get myself a copy. And Kid! If you’re reading, please pass me the 1st album please!! It’s been years, boss!!

For more info on THROW, do go here: Throw on MySpace | Official Site

Those who are interested to hear great Pinoy Punk/HC from the 80s, and there are tonnes of downloadable Dead Ends mp3s too, go here:

philippines80shardcore.blogspot.com

get your arses slamming to great DEAD ENDS here: fan page @ myspace

and get more Pinoy releases from: MYO Distro | Delusion of Terror | Take 4

Details of the THROW album launch in Manila below:

read the rest of this entry

Actually this has been out for around a month now! Done by Pat Apparatus, and it’s all in English with the intention of highlighting good bands from around the region.

photocopied A5, 36-pages of mostly uppercase typewriting!

RM3 / USD 1 from: Pat, No. 7B, Blok 3, Seksyen 16, 40200 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA | email: punkpingponk [at] gmail [dot] com

AVAILABLE At The Ricecooker Shop

available at the Ricecooker Shop!

Furious Old-School from Jakarta Selatan, re-threading the early-80s California-style!

Sukma Records | myspace.com/sukmarecords
Take It Back | myspace.com/takeitbackthrashy

As usual pretty thick with words and stuff. I’ve just got this last Sunday but haven’t had the chance to read it yet. The last issue was too haphazardly laid-out with fonts too small to squint through but this one is better in that aspect.

nekrophone.com

from Paaya in Brno, Czech Republic:

“The 1st English issue of the DRUNK NACH OSTEN zine has been finished already since a couple of months ago and now I finally got to put it on the web in .pdf file. So if you are interested in an English written fanzine about EastEuropean DIY punk/hc… you can download it from dno.maskcontrol.com

If you want me to send you the zine in paper form+cdr, for whatever reason, just let me know at paaya.ds seznam cz, we can trade some copies or something… no problem! Take care and get in touch if you want to cooperate in any way!”

dno.maskcontrol.com | myspace.com/paayajainen

Stick This In Your Memory Hole
Tristan Clark

Paperback | ISBN 978-0-9803351-2-5 | RRP: $24.95 | 192 pp - order from here: aduki.net.au or download the pdf from: here

Comprising thirty-seven essay-style chapters, Stick this in your memory hole is a brutally honest and bitingly funny discussion of the state of Australian politics and society. Clark tackles a range of issues including politics, economics, consumerism, media, food, oil, logging, water and transportation.

The title is a reference to George Orwell’s 1984, the ‘memory hole’ being a hole into which documents deemed to be conflicting with ‘official truths’ were placed for disposal. This is an important work at a time when radical thought and debate have been seriously eroded from the public discourse.

Stick this in your memory hole is licensed under the Creative Commons open copyright scheme.

*click on the image for a bigger one

Healing Cancer is a zine brought out under Diseased Records, situated way over there in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The label was involved in releasing the recent PAZAHORA / KAH-ROE-SHI split-7″ (with Singapore’s Epidemic Records) and soon to release a split-7″ of Indonesia’s HOMICIDE and USA’s MC HOPELESS (a project with Singapore’s Prohibited Projects).

Anyway, the 3rd issue has been out for a while now and actually all gone BUT you can still get them by downloading the zine in PDF format. The printed zine came with a sampler CD, so you can also download the songs when you download the PDF.

Go here: diseasedrecords.com, or you can go direct to the download page: here

There are a lot of bands interviewed (including Genghis Tron, Homicide, Pazahora etc.) but what’s exciting is an interview with local pron_peddlers, ONANI!

and yes, there’s also a song by Kah-Roe-Shi:

EXIT HIPPIES
Fuck in Here Discography cassette

Japanese noisecore-punk like CONFUSE, GAI, etc. constantly referred to as “raver-crusties” due to their mixing of rave-techno with crust (well, not all the time!). This cassette includes almost all their previously released tracks from a myriad of 7″s, EPs, split-releases, compilations, albums, etc.

Features a nice cover art by Guru.

RM 7 (local) / USD 5 (Asia) / USD 6 (World)
All prices includes postage paid via air mail and registered service.
note: we don’t use ordinary postal service due to safety reasons.

Send your mailorder to :

Black Konflik ,
P.O BOX 28, 27600 RAUB, PAHANG, MALAYSIA.