Manila’s Bystorm and Baltimore’s Pulling Teeth

Now available at The Ricecooker Shop for RM20 and also from these labels:

TakeFour Collective | Major Malfunction | Delusion of Terror

Kesumat MySpace

Our good friend Nevin surprised us with his very own band in Beijing, China and the first CD is now available for sale, distro & trade. It features “10 songs of fast and furious DIY hardcore sung in Chinese, with backup vocals in English and Swedish”

check them out: myspace.com/fanzuixiangfa

Forgot to tell you guys that the Klangmutationen 12″ released by Holy Mountain is now available from one of the band’s members, Boon.

do go here to order: laminal.blogspot.com

and go here for more info on the band: myspace.com/klangmutationen

BTW; Boon is also selling a lot of his old CDs there, mainly alternative & indie-rock stuff. All going cheap.

Brazil’s Besthoven 32 tracks in one tape, available from the new Kemaman-based label!

Zai Azizi, ex-vocalist of The Act (a part of the old Chaos Kuala Pilah or Chaos KP kids of the 90s) died at the age of 30, last Thursday in his house, Kuala Pilah. He was suffering from lung-related complications.

Condolences from all of us to his family and friends.

Kids on the Move & France’s Backsight with 6-tracks each on a CD out in the UK

myspace.com/nothingtoproverecordsuk

Thanks to Merve Espina for pointing this out for us here.

Myself: Scumbag is a book detailing the life of Ivan Scumbag, written by fellow band member Kimung; both active in the early Bandung hardcore scene (especially the Ujungberung crew) and also members of Burgerkill.

It was launched in Bandung last month, complete with the appearance of Burgerkill playing an acoustic set. Read the report here.

Here’s an excerpt from a review in DeathRockStar:

“Sosok yang mengikat dan menjiwai dalam buku ini adalah Ivan Firmansyah, atau lebih dikenal dengan Ivan Scumbag, vokalis dari band hardcore-metal yang legedaris di scene underground lokal, Burgerkill. Seperti yang diakui oleh penulisnya, Kimung, seorang teman dekat dan sesama pendiri Burgerkill, membuat biografi ini berarti juga menuliskan sejarah perkembangan musik underground lokal di Ujungberung dan Bandung serta sejarah Burgerkill, dimana Ivan berkarir sampai pada akhir hayatnya.” - read more here.

Written in Indonesian, the book is published by Minorbooks and available from Common Room in Bandung. Hopefully we’ll get it here in KL soon.

Common Room can be contacted here

If you’re in Bandung, go here:

Common Room, Jl. Kyai Gede Utama No. 8, Bandung 40132

Jean-Luc Guionnet & Seijiro Murayama
LE BRUIT DU TOIT, CD 4-Panel Digipak

“LE BRUIT DU TOIT is a rare meeting, and a recording which took place at a Buddhist temple in Mishima, between two stalwarts of music — Seijiro Murayama, founding figure of numerous seminal avant-rock outfits during the 80s/90s like Fushitsusha (Murayama was its original drummer) and ANP (Absolut Null Punkt); and Jean-Luc Guionnet, already a veteran and a revered artist in the musical constellation of sound art/composition and improvised music.

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Our soon under Mannequin Rein Recordings, Iowa.

Anyone interested to get this, please contact pureminds.records
RM 15 (by-hand) & RM 18 (by-post)
Very limited! So, grab it now!

from Wan:

War All The Time
Discography CD

cactusdistro.cjb.net | myspace.com/cactusrecords

They sound like Japanese but actually from Portland, USA; featuring ex-member and members of Atrocious Madness (Frank and Chanel), Deathcharge, Hellshock, etc. so the band is like a Portland all-star project.

If you like Jap legends Confuse or Gai mixed with classic UK82 noisemongers Disorder then this will be a classic. It is fully charged with agonising feedbacking mega-distort guitars (ala early JAMC) and a female singer going spazztix over the clattering explosive racket. You should be able to make up your minds by playing that track below.

here’s the note from Aizu:

LEBENDEN TOTEN
State Laughter discography cassette

contact : blacxkonflik site