Disgorge - Big Trouble Bachten De Kupe MC

A few bands use Disgorge as bandname but this one is the Belgian one. Maybe some will know them from a split 7" with Agathocles released in the late 80's.
Disgorge started somewhere mid-80's in Veurne, close to the French border and the sea. The area is known as 'Bachten De Kupe' as it lays behind the Yser, a small river that played an important role in the 1st World War.
The later Disgorge sounded pretty grindy with a drummer that really didn't have a problem playing blast beats. He even played once with my old band when our drummer was forced to leave by his parents. Total improvisation and way too fast! But a cool guy nevertheless. They did a 2nd demo "New Wave Sucks" but here is the more hardcore-sounding 1st tape of them released in 1986. Some people think of Zyklome A when listening to this.
It seems that they got some problems with the local new wave folks who laughed at them so hence the title of the song and 2nd demo.
Don't know what happened to them later but I heard a rumour that one of them is a cop now.

1. School
2. Katholic Club
3. Gods Own Land
4. Expensive Army
5. Blood-Films
6. Fascist Attitudes
7. Niets En Niemand
8. Olympia
9. Martens VI
10. N.M.B.S.
11. Capitaine Flame
12. Disgorge (Live)
13. A-Team (Live)
14. Intro
15. Real Cops
16. Lessons Of Condition
17. Instrumentaal
18. A-Team
19. Destroy The Arena's
20. New-Wave Sucks
21. Kots
22. Go Away
23. Non Important Lives
24. RIOT

Disgorge

V/A Montreal New York Connection '85 LP

9th release on NY label Big City. I think it was originally planned to be released by other people but they didn't have enough money so Big City helped out.
This is a live compilation with Montreal bands Countdown Zero, Vomit And The Zits and Gassenhauer. Scab and Ultra Violence are from NYC and Krakdown from Long Island.
The NY bands were recorded at CBGB's on June 3rd. The Montreal bands at Salle St-Louis De France on July 6th.
Bands that played but didn't make it to this comp. are No Policy, Genetic Control, Fair Warning and Cro-Mags.

I ripped the tracks by band.

1. Scab - Overture
2. Scab - Get Burned
3. Scab - Tools
4. Ultra Violence - No Help From Up Above
5. Ultra Violence - Misunderstood
6. Countdown Zero - Blastoff
7. Countdown Zero - Brainless
8. Gassenhauer - N.D.G.
9. Gassenhauer - Drunken Skinhead
10. Countdown Zero - (Intro) Degenerates
11. Countdown Zero - Out Of Control
12. Ultra Violence - I Wanna Kill
13. Ultra Violence - Soul Stealer
14. Scab - Games
15. Krakdown - Freedom
16. Vomit And The Zits - Rip Off

Montreal - New York

Ripcord & Heresy Live Netwerk, Aalst 1988

Reading 'Trapped In A Scene' by Ian Glasper and visiting the Smurfpunx site from time to time brings back good memories. One of the best gigs I ever attended was in 1988, set up by the Smurfpunx in Netwerk at the city of Aalst. 4 bands played: Anguish from Belgium, Cry Of Terror from Holland and Ripcord & Heresy from the UK.
Can't remember much of Anguish but they were very political. Some members would form Indecency after Anguish split.
Cry Of Terror were a metallic HC band. They released a 7" and 2 albums on Old World Records and contributed to various comps.
And then came Ripcord and Heresy! I was (and still am) very much into them and both played a great set which you can listen to here.
There were like 500 people at the gig and the atmosphere was great. No troubles at all. If I could use the word positive hardcore then it should have been like that all the time.
The European HC scene would soon collapse after bands like Heresy split. Well you still had the straight edge scene and also came along the crusties. The HC scene didn't interest me at all and I started listening to anarcho stuff again as well as all the early Swedish and Finnish bands thanks to bands like Doom and ENT who brought back punk into HC.
The Smurfpunx lost their space to do gigs and folded soon afterwards.
But in Ieper, a new place was created to do gigs called the Vort'n Vis were bands like MDC, Scraps, Nations On Fire, Nausea, No Security, Sedition, Disaffect and even Disorder played.
It also created a schism between the XXX brigade and the drunken crustie punx.

And the guy who yells 'Fur Is Murder' the last time in the song 'Furder' is yours truly (well 22 years ago!).
Tracklists are provided in the files. The last bit of Heresy sounds a bit muddy as the recording was split over 2 tapes.

Also check out the next bands with members of both bands: Violent Arrest, Geriatric Unit and Warprayer.

Ripcord

Heresy

V/A People Of The Pit LP

Not so well known comp. but a very interesting one. Don't think there were a lot of copies pressed of 'People Of The Pit'.
This comp. was released on the Italian label Goddam Church in 1986. Has lots of cool bands from the beginning of the 2nd half of the 80's. Most tracks taken from 7"s or demo tapes.
All bands play their own brand of HC, except Corruption who sound quite metal.
Goddam Church released albums of Stige and Furious Barking and also another comp. in 1990 'Attitudine Mentale Positive'. Also co-released the Crime Gang Bang 7".

1. Corrupted Morals - Mad Reign
2. Corrupted Morals - Big Man
3. Pure Hate - Terrorist
4. Pure Hate - Don't Hurt Me
5. Puke - Stig-britt
6. Puke - Klockan Gär, Klämtar Och Slår
7. Stige - Senza Alternative
8. Stige - Una Vita
9. Corruption - Beef To The Core
10. Corruption - Human Fireworks
11. Puke - ?
12. False Liberty - Ignorance
13. False Liberty - Count Me Out
14. No Fraud - Suicidal Maniac
15. No Fraud - Nothing Left Inside
16. Raped Teenagers - Moder jord
17. Raped Teenagers - Din Van
18. Raped Teenagers - Fred Och Frihet
19. Raped Teenagers - Träskallar
20. Barn Av Regnbuen - Et Liv
21. Barn Av Regnbuen - Edb Og Data
22. Barn Av Regnbuen - Ikkje Fan!
23. Subterranean Kids - No Puedo Perdonarte
24. Subterranean Kids - Hasta El Final

People Of The Pit

Civil Defense - Gun Control 12"

Punkband from Saint Paul, Minneapolis. First they were called Propaganda and contributed the the Kitten comp. tape, released by Hüsker Dü. They changed the name after adding an extra guitarplayer in 1982 and they played gigs with Willful Neglect, Hüsker Dü, and other local bands from that time.
MRR review:
What we have here is a bunch of medium-speed punk tunes with a melodic orientation. Songs like "Gun Control" and "Capital Punishment" (which has simplistic "law and order" lyrics) are straightforward numbers with good, strong hooks, but certain other songs are less memorable and lacking in energy. An uneven debut, but Civil Defense have potential.

'Gun Control' was released in 1983 on National Security Records.

1. Gun Control
2. Personal Phone Call
3. Capital Punishment
4. Artificial World
5. Human Race
6. New Religion
7. Changed

Civil Defense

No Class - Broken Message 7"

Nice little rager from this quite unknown Japanese HC band, No Class. One and only release from 1988 on Tune Records.
Fold-out sleeve with pictures of the bandmembers, but no info from where they were from. Had to xerox the sleeve front first and then scan it as my scanner doesn't like the gloss on the sleeve.

1. Core
2. Broken Message
3. Dead X Alive
4. No More War
5. Teenage Dream
6. No Class

No Class

Don't No - Incite The Riot LP

2nd and last vinyl release of this CA. posi-band Don't No. Their first was a 7" 'The Real World' on Mystic. Seems they also have a demo tape prior to these.
'Incite The Riot' was released on National Trust in 1986.
The 7" has been posted before on blogs but I've never seen the album so here you go.
Note: some tracks ripped as one track as it was impossible to seperate them.

1. War
2. Children
3. Volcano
4. Blind Ambition
5. Don't No
6. Life Is Cheap
7. No Edge
8. What Price Freedom
9. You Are Mixed Up
10. Emanon
11. Time
12. Solitary Man
13. Thrills
14. V.B.A.
15. Products Of Love
16. Dirt
17. Earache
18. H.B.P.D.F.S.U.

Don't No

V/A A Message From Camp Sunshine MC

One of the countless comp. tapes released in the 80's. This one was released on Red Mist Tapes in 1985 in the UK.
Great international selection here: bands from Spain, UK, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Canada.
I've heard rumours of a reissue of the Chronic Submission demos. Does anyone know anything about this?
Last track is cut off unfortunately.

01. Anti/Dogmatikss - El Modelo De Español
02. Maniacs - Violence
03. Maniacs - Grenada Today (Tomorrow The World)
04. Chronic Submission - Chronic Submission
05. Rövsvett - Makt
06. Rövsvett - Heroin
07. Ceresit 81 - Pancho
08. Post Mortem - Asylum
09. Black Vampire - Nothing Else To Do
10. Black Vampire - Virgins Blood
11. Anti-Heroes - All We Want
12. Funeral Oration - Hell-age
13. Ad Nauseam - Who Are You
14. Ad Nauseam - Nausea
15. The Fiend - Weird Boy
16. Bluttat - The Grass
17. Anti-Heroes - Media Control
18. Chronic Submission - Modern Hell
19. Chronic Submission - Bad Trip
20. Black Vampire - Family Disaster
21. Post Mortem - In For The Kill
22. Post Mortem - TV
23. Rövsvett - Oskyldiga Människor
24. Funeral Oration - Kill Kill
25. Funeral Oration - Sacrificed
26. Maniacs - Victim Of The Night
27. Anti/Dogmatikss - Estado De Caos
28. Anti/Dogmatikss - Campos De Cruces
29. Ad Nauseam - Ain't Gonna Be No Peace
30. Ceresit 81 - Kraft Durch Bier
31. Ceresit 81 - Korn
32. The Fiend - IRA

Camp Sunshine