#bunkerpop

[castorfell]

In another world, Trolls fandom used idiosyncratic ship naming instead of smashing 2 characters names together, like how Poppy and Barb is PopRocks

Broppy would be BunkerPop I think,,,, JD and Delta Dawn would be MayorGoggles mayb,, uhhh fleek would be Zensitive (zen & sensitive one)

[dealgemeneverwarring]

De Algemene Verwarring #105 - 22 January 2024

Episode one hundred and five of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday, January 22, 2024, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:

Pictured below is Belgian cold wave band De Brassers. The band played their very last show last week in Brussels, saying goodbye to their audience. They released a cassette, a single and a 12" in the early eighties before drug abuse stopped the band for a while. They had a restart in a different lineup somewhere in the late nineties and have been playing shows since then, compilations and live albums were released, the legend was growing. Yes, "En Toen Was Er Niets Meer" is a Belgian classic, but you know how it goes with classics: you get bored of them, so I played another song in this episode to pay tribute to a notorious Belgian band. Oh yeah apparently it is also "week of Belgian music" this week, but as you probably know we don't care much about that, I mean, I play Belgian music if I like it and I don't play it if I don't like it, that's the whole idea about playing music that we like, isn't it? Anyway, praise to De Brassers because they have had an important influence on Belgian music history. Other music in this episode comes from Brainbombs, Death, Tyvek, The Fall, Television Personalities, Cosey Mueller, HTRK, Ekin Fil, Myriam Gendron and more. Also, there's a track from The Soft Moon. Rest in peace, Luis Vasquez. I'll never forget the Soft Moon debut record that left quite an impression on me, and of course the show in Kortrijk at the Sinksen fest, which was amazing. And as always, beneath the photo you can find the playlist for this episode. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Brainbombs: Blackout Ripper (7” “Blackout Ripper” on Skrammel Records, 2023)

Personal & The Pizzas: Brass Knuckles (7” “Brass Knuckles” on Bubbledump Records & Search And Destroy Records, 2009)

Tyvek: Give It Up (2x7” “Summer Burns” on What’s Your Rupture?, 2007)

Death: Keep On Knocking (LP “…For The Whole World To See” on Drag City, 2009, originally released on a 7” in 1976)

Thee Oh Sees: Inquiry Perpetrated (2xLP “Singles Vol. 1 + 2” on Castle Face, 2011)

The Fall: Prole Art Threat (LP “Slates”, reissue on Superior Viaduct, 2021, originally released on a 10” on Rough Trade, 1981)

Television Personalities: In A Perfumed Garden (LP “They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles”, reissue on 1972 Records, originally released in 1982 by Wham! Records)

De Brassers: Twijfels (2LP “1979-1982” on OnderStroom Records, 2010, originally released in 1980 on a 7” “En Toen Was Er Niets Meer” by Bras Records)

Coitus Int.: Cat-Like Movements (LP “Coitus Int.”, reissue on Bunkerpop, 2014, originally self-released in 1981)

The Soft Moon: We Are We (LP “The Soft Moon” on Captured Tracks, 2010)

Cosey Mueller: Innen Ohne (LP “Irrational Habits” on Static Age Records, 2023)

Die Letzten Ecken: Der Ritter (LP “Talisman” on Static Age Records, 2023)

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Hell Rules (7” “The Natural Finger” on Ajax Records, 1990)

HTRK: Valentina (LP “Rhinestones” on N&J Blueberries, 2021)

Cindy: The Price Is Right (LP “Standard Candle Demos” on Sloth Mate Productions, 2023)

Myriam Gendron: Solace (LP “Not So Deep As A Well”, reissue on Feeding Tube Records, 2023, originally released in 2014)

Ekin Fil: Desired (LP “Being Near” on Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2016) - Ekin Üzeltüzenci - vorig jaar nog lp uitgebracht op 112 exemplaren

Ordeal: Huggormen (LP “Vätterns Pärla” on Aguirre Records, 2023

[ozkar-krapo]

AHOE AHOEA

"True Love never dies"

(LP. Bunkerpop. 2016 / rec. 1983) [NL]

[futuresandpasts]

Futures & Pasts | MRR #429

Nearing the last of my columns for the print version of Maximum Rocknroll; this one was from #429 (February 2019) & if y’all are quick, you still might be able to pick up some back issues. 

Since I just finished putting together my requisite top ten of 2018 list for MRR, which always feels so unnatural and stresses me out way more than it probably should, I feel like I’ve earned the right to mentally shift gears here for a bit and start my final column of 2018 by talking about what I’ve actually been listening to as this year is about to end, even if it’s mostly things that came out almost four decades ago…

Fringe post-punk resurrectionists Bunkerpop Records are back with their first release in two years, a reissue of the 1985 four-song 7-Inch Round Black Thing EP by Auckland, New Zealand’s art-damaged provocateurs ?FOG. Vocalist Sam Swan landed in the group after her stint in the short-lived LIFE IN THE FRIDGE EXISTS (whose “Have You Checked The Children?” remains one of the most eternal classics of ‘80s Kiwi DIY), and both projects shared a decidedly shambolic approach with inclination toward performative theatricality. ?FOG ultimately took things into a much more confrontational direction—deep, propulsive bass lines colliding with urgent drumming, stuttering razor-wire guitar, and deadpan lyrical recitations marked by pitch black, tongue-in-cheek sarcasm (especially on the fiery feminist take-down of “Fatman With a Big Dork”). The choppy rhythms and dueling male/female rant between Sam and guitarist Lindsay Fog on “Five Heads of State” puts ?FOG on a very EX-like axis of agitated skronk, and there’s even some distant echoes of the Rough Trade school of spiky AU PAIRS/DELTA 5-style UK femme-punk in “Move Your Brain,” if that particular sound had then been refracted through the cracked lens of harsh-edged avant-noisemakers like the GORDONS over on New Zealand’s South Island. Between this single, the two recent NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS LP collections, and the THIS SPORTING LIFE CD anthology, 2018 has been a pretty solid year for bringing renewed attention to some of the weirder and less musically linear products of the early-to-mid ‘80s NZ underground, but this one is an especially obscure delight to have been rescued from the archives. (Bunkerpop Records, bunkerpop.bandcamp.com)

French coldwave group COLDREAMS released a two-song 7” that’s since become one of the formative (and most highly sought-after) touchstones of the genre’s mid-’80s second wave, so the straight reissue of the original single that just recently turned up on Parisian label Camisole is a nice end-of-year surprise for any Factory Records-meets-4AD freaks out there. While COLDREAMS borrowed from the detached presence and bass-anchored minimalist post-punk rhythms associated with the early Euro coldwavers like CHARLES DE GOAL and KAS PRODUCT, their approach was also much less mechanical and dystopian, instead leaning toward gauzy, ethereal melodies not entirely dissimilar to those of goth-tinged dream-pop combos like COCTEAU TWINS or even Faith/Pornography-era CURE. You can almost picture frost forming on some dimly-lit window as the swirling synths in “Morning Rain” blur right into Géraldine Sala’s sweet-yet-somber vocals, but there’s an almost breezy undercurrent amidst all of the longing and gloom that spares COLDREAMS from any overly melodramatic darkwave pretensions. While that song is great, but the sparse B-side “Eyes” is the real gem here, quietly drifting in the same mysterious and otherworldly minimal wave/synth-pop atmosphere as cult heroes SOLID SPACE, and it’s just as chillingly beautiful as anything on that group’s much-beloved Space Museum. (Camisole, camisolerecords.bigcartel.com)

Not reissued (at least not yet), but something that I’ve been playing a bit lately: RAZOR PENGUINS were from Columbus, Ohio, and their debut two-song 7” from 1981 was an exercise in bleak, incisive post-punk that largely deviated from the sort of warped and deconstructed weirdo sounds generally associated with late ‘70s/early ‘80s Ohio DIY (think ELECTRIC EELS, DEVO, PERE UBU, et al). There’s definitely some psychic connections to be drawn between the post-industrial decay of the Rust Belt and the grey, brutalist urban landscapes of London and Manchester, so in that sense, it’s entirely fitting that RAZOR PENGUINS would have turned to the early output of 4AD and Factory Records for their primary source material—JOY DIVISION, obviously, but also slightly less canonized groups such as CRISPY AMBULANCE or IN CAMERA who had a similar affinity for sinister bass throb, martial beats, and vocals delivered with a desperately anxious edge. The single’s frantic A-side “Paris” is a perfectly dark discotheque smash for the black peacoat and clove cigarette crowd, all needling guitar, loping bass, busy hi-hat, and anguished shouts like they were trying to come up with an American response to SECTION 25’s “Girls Don’t Count”. On the flipside, “Indifference” gives in to the band’s starker goth leanings, existing in some parallel universe where Ian Curtis never died, NEW ORDER never existed, and JOY DIVISION had simply gone into semi-secrecy to come up with a follow-up to Closer after relocating to the middle of Ohio. RAZOR PENGUINS wound up putting out one more 7” in 1986 before totally falling off the radar, but it couldn’t reach the same heights at this one. Midwest post-punk gold!

On a more contemporary tip, Manchester’s clattering and clanging combo D.U.D.S. (formerly known as, uh, DUDS) are back from last year’s apparently brief foray on Castle Face with a new LP called Immediate, and it’s an even more controlled exercise in walking the tightrope between spiral scratched post-punk and the kinetic danceability of the early ‘80s post-No Wave downtown sound (think LIQUID LIQUID or pretty much anyone on ZE/99 Records). The clash of rubbery bass and wiry, minimalist guitar definitely still harks back to GANG OF FOUR, but without that band’s tendency toward dryly caustic lyrical commentary on the effects of capitalism on interpersonal relationships—the shouted (and somewhat buried) declarations that D.U.D.S. throw out seem to be much more abstracted and cryptic, with a good number of the songs this time around dispensing with words altogether, leaving just a skeleton of knotted and frenetic rhythms behind. The occasional sharp bursts of brass that were scattered across their previous record have also been more fully integrated into the D.U.D.S. equation this time around, with “Humour and Friction” and “Same Device” in particular recalling the horn-spiked harsh funk and mutant disco commotion of early A CERTAIN RATIO. Shack up, y’all. (Opal Tapes/Red Wig, opaltapes.com)

[pelounge]

(vía https://soundcloud.com/lonelady/silvering?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

[eatmepoptart]

LoneLady - Bunkerpop

[mishmishwords]

LoneLady, our headliners at next month’s Hidden Door Launch Party! WOOP! 

[futuresandpasts]

Nervous wreck / Any other way it would be different. 

Download the show here. Stream at the link above.

Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

The Buzzcocks - Promises - Promises 7" - United Artists Hand Grenades - Murder - Demos to London EP - Last Laugh The Lillettes - Nervous Wreck - V/A - Vaultage 79 - Attrix Rays - Work of Art - You Can Get There From Here - Trouble in Mind Jezebel - Sweety - Sweety 7" - Etiquette The Frantic Elevators - Hunchback of Notre Dame - Searching for the Only One 7" - Crackin' Up Garage Class - I Got Standards - Terminal Tokyo EP - Outer Reaches The Male Nurse - I'm A Man - GDR 7" - Guided Missile Jungle Nausea - Job Club - V/A - Sub Pop 5 cassette - Sub Pop The Girls - Any Other Way It Would Be Different - Punk Dada Pulchritude - Feeding Tube The Whines - Here We Sit - Hell to Play - Meds ?Fog - Five Heads of State - Seven Inch Round Black Thing EP - Bunkerpop Terry - Under Reign - I'm Terry - Upset the Rhythm Indifferent Dance Centre - Flight & Pursuit - Flight & Pursuit 7" - Outer Reaches The Staches - The Great Depression - The Great Depression 7" - Six Tonnes de Chair The 2x4s - Iron Line - s/t - Metal Snowball Student Teachers - Channel 13 - Channel 13 7" - Ork De Minz - Adultery - V/A - No Big Business - Kleo Dow Jones & the Industrials - Mental Disease - Can't Stand the Midwest, 1979-1981 - Family Vineyard Alpaca Brothers - The Lie - Legless EP - Flying Nun D.U.D.S. - Humour & Friction - Immediate - Opal Tapes The Monochrome Set - He's Frank (Slight Return) - He's Frank (Slight Return) 7" - Rough Trade Liliput - Turn the Table - First Songs - Mississippi/Water Wing The Reserves - Shattered Revolt - Look for Wire - self-released God & the State - 1967 Summer - Ruins - Happy Squid

[quartertofree]

LoneLady Bunkerpop

[pureshkafood]

LoneLady - Bunkerpop  

[losangeleslovesyou]

LONELADY : BUNKERPOP

[indiecirclesplug]

Lonelady.

Lonelady. http://wp.me/sMHRG-lonelady

Lonelady, with her new single, is like a combined electronic version of Patti Smith and Kate Bush. Dancy tune to blow away the floors.

[resistance765]

"Bunkerpop" - LoneLady

[noondaytune]

Bunkerpop - LoneLady.

Bunkerpop is the second single from the Manchester multi-instrumentalist LoneLady's new album Hinterland, out on 23 March. It's an infectious, restless, shuffling piece of guitar-laden synth pop, sounding at once like warmly familiar '80s post-punk and like a tune the kids will be dancing to in an apocalyptic vision of the future, I am about it.

Contributed by @orchidhunter.