97-shiki’s show in KL! As posted earlier, the band is from Chicago and the members have been active is many, many bands in the city’s DIY scene.
To those who are wondering how the band sounds like, here’s a special recording by 97-shiki for their upcoming “tour release”, a cover of Carburetor Dung’s 1993 tune Oppression:
I carry his songs with me for years now. Walking down the hill to the shop with his sweet voice serenading my thoughts and the rocksteady beat counting my steps, Alton Ellis has been making sure I will be in a good mood as I start the day. The fact that the man is now no longer with us would not change that beat nor the jaunt in my feet but I’m sad.
SABAW Media Art Kitchen presents FETE DELA WASAQUE
a 2-night festival for adventurous music and related visual art.SCHEDULE:
OCT 14, (TUES) 9PM:
Mag:net Cafe Katipunan, AGCOR Bldg. 335 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City (150 php)
OCT 15, (WED) 8PM:
Green Papaya art projects, 41 T.Gener St. cor. Kamuning Rd., Quezon City (Free)
Presenting two nights of handmade music that blur the lines between electro-acoustic, free improvisation, industrial, free jazz, performance art and freeform-noise, and will be paired with the intensity of live video performances (vjing), exquisite homemade machines, real guitars, absurd costumes, and even more live action on stage. FETE DE LA WASAQUE will be hosted by SABAW Media Art Kitchen in cooperation with Greenpapaya art projects and Mag:net Galleries.
A brand new zine called Radical Review featuring DIY reggae mavericks The Garrison and also grindcore faves Tools of the Trade, and lots more. We are also very happy to see the second issues from the very good read Innerview (from the DEP camp) and d-beat/crust champion Punk Ping Pong (by Pat Apparatus). At the same time we also have the first issue of Burning Distortion (another d-beat worship) by Seed (Skullcrusher/Defeat/Skitsofrenia). And of course, we have October’s MRR plus most of the back issues. There are more but come around lah!
Various Artists Happy Little Creatures Compilation CD
(Third Arm Records)
Third Arm Records must be one of the most hardworking labels in our local scene right now. Being committed on releasing local bands, this time Third Arm had compiled 8 of their current and future roster with each of the bands presented with 1 or 2 unreleased songs in a neat transparent-sticker-wrapped digipack.
Well known for championing the modern hardcore/grindcore scene, Third Arm had been putting out great releases from Infinite Delay, Blood On Wedding and Devillica. Technical, odd music arrangement and maniacs screaming their hearts out. You know the drill, a beautiful chaotic mess.
But no, they’re not just all about that! You will be glad to know what kinda beast the emo violence forerunners Daighila had grown to be and to discover the underrated jazz-fused Lord Sunny Day.
Akta Angkasa are definitely one the bands with a notable space-rock track, but too bad that this is could be the last from them as they had broken up recently. Thats the same case for Devillica whom also followed suit. But I’m still not giving up hope and looking forward to be punished with more brutality from Nazark and Foliage. Could Foliage’s synth-driven chaos be our answer to The Locust?
Footnotes:
Bands: Daighila, Infinite Delay, Blood On Wedding Dress, Lord Sunny Day, Devillica, Nazark, Foliage and Akta Angkasa.
Genres: Modern grindcore, chaotic hardcore, space rock and jazz.
Tracks: 14 (57 minutes). Damage: RM15 only.
A personal review of the compilation cd that I would like to share with everyone. I’m hoping to see more documentation on our local scene like this. Worth every single cent!
A split-CD featuring the first ever material of old school thrashers STORMING STEELS from Kedah/Perlis, Malaysia plus rare recordings from the cult early 80s Florida, US deathrashers HELLWITCH (tracks recorded back in 1990 & 2005).
Available for RM15 @ USD8 from:
M.HAFANIZAM HAMID
NO 24, TAMAN SERI MAWAR, JALAN SYED HASSAN,
02600 ARAU, PERLIS, MALAYSIA.
EMERGENCY FESTIVAL! Sebuah Darurat Dua Minggu is a 16-day explosion of histories, images, narratives and sounds from the first Malayan Emergency from 1948-1960. A Multi-Arts Festival featuring theater, exhibition, film screenings & daily interactive presentations.
“The Malayan Emergency was a state of emergency declared by the British colonial government of Malaya in 1948 and lifted in 1960, as well as an insurrection and guerrilla war fought between government forces and the Malayan National Liberation Army around the same period. The state of emergency entailed the revocation of many civil rights, the granting of special powers to the police, and other measures aimed at the suppression of left wing political movements, especially the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). The guerrilla war was part of the ongoing conflict between the MCP and other leftists, and the colonial establishment, starting shortly after the Japanese withdrawal in 1945 and extending to the signing of the peace treaty between the communists and the government of Malaya in December 1989.” - read more: here
“Unveils adalah segerombolan pemuda brengsek yang memintal thrash metal dengan hardcore, setetes fragmen progresif rock dan jeritan pita suara ala vokalis Chaotic Dischord…
Unveils lebih menekankan progresifitas daripada sekedar thrash metal itu sendiri. Campuran vokal yang hardcore-ish, agresifitas punk rock, dan tentu saja thrash metal klasik.”
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A split-CD featuring the first ever material of old school thrashers STORMING STEELS from Kedah/Perlis, Malaysia plus rare recordings from the cult early 80s Florida, US deathrashers HELLWITCH (tracks recorded back in 1990 & 2005).
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