Tarantuja “Do Not Resuscitate” CD

TARANTUJA are a new band from Edmonton. The band features two members from the former LET’S DANCE. However there is no upbeat melodic fused roots punk in TARANTUJA. This is some classic crossover in the vein of DFA or BEYOND POSESSION. Thick chugging riffage with a raging pace and vocals that make you think of early RKL. It is totally in line with bands like REHASHED and POSER DISPOSER or even FRATRICIDE and the DAYGLO ABORTIONS. Crossover is alive and well and living in northern Alberta. I wonder what the rig pigs think of that. Not much probably. (Unrest Records – 10654 – 82 nd Avenue, Suite 239 / Edmonton, AB / 76E 2A7 / Canada)

Top 10 - February 2011

Top 10 - February 2011

1. I OBJECT “Save Yourself” ep (Feral Kid)
2. COLA FREAKS CD (Hjernespind)
3. NERVOUS SYSTEM “Bombs Away” ep (Ratbite / Several Casualties)
4. DFA “Discography” CD (Unrest)
5. APPARATUS “Hardcore Religion!” LP (Disarmament / Totalmangel)
6. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED / A.N.S. “Tribute to Gang Green” 5” (Tank Crimes)
7. SICK-FUCKIN-O “Sex Cell$” ep (Regurgitated Semen)
8. 1981 ep (Passing Bells)
9. COUNTDOWN TO ARMAGEDDON “Eater of Worlds” LP (Aborted Society)
10. PARASITIC “Poison Minds” LP  (Vex)

Labels:
* Feral Kid – 27 Ripley Place / Buffalo, NY / 14213 / USA / www.feralkidrecords.com
* Hjernespind – P.O. Box 2200 / Copenhagen N. / Denmark /www.hjernespind.com
* Ratbite Records – ratbiterecords@gmail.com // Several Casualties Productions – aki.tervonen@hotmail.com)
* Disarmament Records – P.O. Box 7126 / 40704 Shah Alam / Selangor / Malaysia / www.disarmamentrecords.tk // Totalmangel Records – P.O. Box 12482 / 50780 Kuala Luimpur / Malaysia / totalmangelrecords.blogspot.com)
* Tank Crimes –
* Passing Bells – Lantinen Pitkakatu 19 as. 18 / 20100 Turku / Finland
* Aborted Society Records – 1122 E. Pike Street #1377 / Seattle, Washington, / 98122-3934 / USA / www.abortedsociety.com
* Unrest Records – 10654 – 82 Avenue, Suite 239 / Edmonton, Alberta / T6E 2A7 / Canada / www.unrestrecords.com
* Regurgitated Semen Records – Strasse des Friedens 45 / 07819 Mittelpoellnitz / Germany / skrupel@web.de

DFA “Discography 2000 – 2004” CD

I am glad to see these Saskatoon ragers get their due. A discography was certainly in order especially because their releases came out all over the place. This CD collects all the full lengths, splits and some hard to find demo tracks. But this collection doesn’t tell the story of this crossover band from a little prairie town. I think that it must have been tough being into hardcore and growing up in a city isolated in the middle of Canada known for farming. Saskatoon is not a farming city per se but it’s whole existence is based around farming and potash. Somehow these kids who raged as hard as BEYOND POSSESSION came out of there. I only know them for the 12” they did with Ugly Pop. In an interview that we did with them I found out that they were huge fans of LEFT FOR DEAD. Who wasn’t back at the turn of the century. That certainly explains their cover of “Pliant” on the second CD that was released on “Defy False Authority”. They do a respectable job of it, but Kramer’s speedy riff chugging certainly put them in a class with MUNICIPAL WASTE, HOLIER THAN THOU and BONES BRIGADE, who they would do a split with. They were a diamond in the rough. Their music played at a speed thrash pace. It was heavy as fuck. And Mike could scream as fast as they could play. 29 songs of raging crossover.

The first bit is from the 12" on Ugly Pop and the songs are:

1. Destined for Assimilation
2. With a Straight Face
3. Hypocrite
4. Nerve
5. Our Lord and Saviour
6. Your Form of Unity
7. Under the Influence
8. I IKNow Everything

The next material was the :Defy False Authority" CD that came out on Six Weeks and features the songs:

9. Defy False Authority
10. No Fight to Lose
11. Your Song
12. Futile
13. Pliant
14. That's Gonna Leave a Mark
15. The Muse
16. Useless
17. Eat Shit
18. Fight Club

Then there was the split with Bones Brigade on Still Holding On Records.

19. Wanna Play With Us?
20. Bad Breath
21. Colour Me Sadd

The split that came out with Under Pressure on Flowerviolence Records:

22. Advantage DFA
23. No Problem
24. Chad

The Let's Get Retarded" demo

25. Thank You
26. Hockey Hair
27. Could Be Worse
28. Punk Points

and the unreleased song:

29 New Enemy for Life

Now it's all collected on a CD released by Unrest Records – 10654 – 82 Avenue, Suite 239 / Edmonton, Alberta / T6E 2A7 / Canada / www.myspace.com/unrestrecords.

Whiz Kids "We Go Bananas!!!" ep

The WHIZ KIDS were a project band set up by Graeme and Konrad to deal with the down time from WEDNESDAY NIGHT HEROES. Graeme has always expressed his love for youth crew  and WHIZ KIDS is that expression. Specifically GORILLA BISCUITS, hence the chant "We Go Bananas" in the song "Gorilla Whiz Kid". Gorillas love bananas not bicsuits. And the song breaks out into a SHAM 69 / COCKNEY REJECTS like football chant with "Bananas" becoming the chorus. This is a fun outpouring of youth crew love played by guys capable of ripping it up. The songs on here are:

1. Gorilla Whiz Kid

2. Time to Move

3. Whiz Kidz

4. What's Up

5. Shoe Thief at the Sock Party

6. A Slice of Life

7. Whiz Kidz (Turbo)

Released by Unrest Records - Suite 239, 10654 - 82 nd Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T6E 2A7 / Canada / www.myspace.com/unrestrecords)