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Right on the heels of their Ahead Of Two Thoughts LP released earlier this year, A Casual Assembly is the latest offering from Melbourne's EXEK. The EP coalesces around a stirring theme for synthesizer, trumpet and bass, bringing together reference points to Laurie Spiegel, Jah Wobble and The Velvet Underground's "The Gift."
Frontman Albert Wolski's disembodied narration – at times reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Robert Ashley – unfolds over a series of dark vignettes set in a dystopian near-future. Autotune has been banned, secret police patrol the redoubts of the wealthy, and world beaches have been cleared of their sand for the construction of enormous urban prisons. As these events turn more fraught and absurd, Wolski reveals just how much is gained through EXEK's stripped-down arrangements and dreamlike tones.
A Casual Assembly echoes like the lost soundtrack to a Kubrick or Jarman film. Recommended for fans of Normil Hawaiians, Jenny Hval and Harmonia.

The highly revered, inspirational, and most recent recording by Bloomington's much-loved Defiance, Ohio. First pressing in eleven years! Remastered, re-cut, and reissued in an aesthetically-pleasing chipboard LP jacket with kraft paper inner sleeves and insert. Edition of 300 copies pressed on 150-gram vinyl.

The Pack A.D. aren't ones to wait. When their songs kick off, you're immediately met with a one-two punch of searing guitar riffs and pulverizing drums, a signature symbiosis of raucous garage-rock that singer/guitarist Becky Black and drummer Maya Miller have perfected over the past decade. With 'Dollhouse', the band is eager to follow up 2017's critically-acclaimed 'Positive Thinking' with urgent thoughts on the current climate of the world.

5 years after its ghostly original release and facing its last tour to take place in June I cannot be more proud to be able to reissue the debut LP of the Colombian band Primer Regimen. Uk82 punk in its purest form and capturing the essence of the British bands of the 80s as few bands have known and been able to do throughout the subsequent decades. Taking Charged GBH, Crux, Ultraviolent or even the first single from Blitz in equal parts, 7 songs and a cover of Dead Wretched + a bonus track closing a practically perfect LP and again within the reach of those who did not have the option of getting hold of it at the time. Limited to 300 copies only!

Remastered reissue after 10 years of the fantastic 1st album “umareta”, which was self-produced in 2014 with only 350 copies and sold out immediately! Limited numbered analog LP of 500 copies (first LP release)!

Dark Entries and Sacred Bones team up to release the early discography of UK synth-punk and Deathrock label Outer Himmalayan Records. Between 1979 and 1982, Nick Blinko and Martin Cooper’s Outer Himmalayan Records released 7-inches by three short-lived bands – The Magits, Soft Drinks, and S-Haters – who would nonetheless cast a massive shadow on the UK’s burgeoning post-punk/anarcho punk scene. Outer Himmalayan Presents collects all of the music found on those original records, along with rare and unreleased tracks by all three bands. It’s a snapshot of a period of frenzied creativity by some of the UK’s most thrilling experimental punks.


Before Blinko went on to found the essential anarcho band Rudimentary Peni, whose storied body of work also appeared on Outer Himmalayan, he and label co-founder Cooper were The Magits. The lone release by the minimal synth-and-vocals duo, Fully Coherent, was the inaugural release on Outer Himmalayan — and, in fact, Blinko and Cooper’s impetus for starting the label. The four tracks on Fully Coherent are short, sharp bursts, comprising a total of four minutes. Here, they’re presented alongside the five-and-a-half minute “A Pawn in the Game,” a song that sees Blinko and Cooper get truly weird with the extra space the longer runtime afforded them.


The next release on Outer Himmalayan was S-Haters’ Death of a Vampire 7", which the quartet quickly followed with Stories as Cold as the Irish Sea. The band was recognizably a deathrock act, their gothic punk in the same lineage as Joy Division and PIL’s Metal Box, but it showed the same sonic adventurousness that characterized the rest of Outer Himalayan’s output. “1980,” an oddity taken from the rare Another Bouquet on the Grave of Free Enterprise cassette comp, shows the most experimental flourish, with dueling male/female vocals and a prominent acoustic guitar.


The final Outer Himmalayan release before it became strictly a Rudimentary Peni label was Soft Drinks’ Popstars in Their Pyjamas 7". Popstars ended up being the tongue-in-cheek synth-punk trio’s only release before their breakup, though they would also record “Dangers of Drink,” for the Bouquet of Barbed Wire comp and included here, as well as the one-off track “Misconception,” previously unreleased but now available exclusively on Outer Himmalayan Presents.


All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. Cover artwork features a collage by Eloise Leigh and each copy includes a 20-page zine featuring liner notes and ephemera associated with the original pressings plus never before seen photos.

The third album by the Austin-based punkrockers, featuring guest appearances from members of Anti-Flag and Screeching Weasel.

The Dwarves are back with a new album on Burger Records. Take back the night featuring Big Dahlia, Hewhocannotbenamed, Sgt Saltpeter, Rex Everything, Josh Freese and more.

Dead Ending is back with their second release and it's simply brutal. The first laid the foundation, but this EP better reflects the band firing on all cylinders, with all members now contributing songs. DE II sports screaming guitars, thumping bass, pounding drums and a vocalist who makes you crap in your pants as you run for protection.By now, punks should already be familiar with Dead Ending, the fierce hardcore outlet for Joe Principe (Rise Against), Derek Grant (Alkaline Trio), Jeff Dean (The Bomb, Noise by Numbers) and the legendary vocalist Vic Bondi (Articles of Faith). The band has only played one show to date-at the Punk Rock Bowling Festival in Las Vegas-and will be hitting the road in 2013. "Vic's still schooling us." -Vice "Move over, OFF! there's a new generation-spanning, '80s hardcore-influenced band in town." -Exclaim "This is exactly what pissed off, political hardcore should sound like in 2012." -Punks in Vegas

When THE Release OF Various Junk Shop Glam Compilations Created AN Ever Growing Demand FOR Those Great Lost Nuggets OF THE Glitter ERA IT Didn´t Come AS A BIG Surprise That IN THE Wake NEO Glam Bands Started TO Rise. Giuda Paved THE WAY, FAZ Waltz Come TO Mind BUT Then THE WAS Little More, WAS There? BUT Wait! Since THE Days OF Rodney Bingenheimers English Disco LOS Angeles HAS Always Been THE Epicentre OF Glam IN America. While Glam NEver Made IT BIG IN THE U.S., IT Nonetheless NEver Completely Disappeared. Glam Aficionados Kept ON Deejaying Their OWN Shows TO A Small Circle OF Committed Supporters. Enter Noah Wallace. TO SAY Noah Knows A BIT About Junk Shop Glam Would BE THE Understate-ment OF THE Year! Ever Since HE DiscoVERED THE Milk´n´cookies Album HE NOT Only Build UP THE Most Comprehensive Collection OF Junk Shop Glam Obscurities, HE Also HAS THE Deepest Understanding OF ALL Facets OF THE Genre, HE Lives IT, HE Breezes IT! SO Putting Together HIS OWN Band IN 2010 WAS A Logical Step. HE Named IT: Hammered Satin. IN 2012 Hammered Satin ReleaseD A Very Limited Tape Which Brought Them TO THE Attention OF Burger Records, AND 2014 Gave Birth TO Their Great First Album GlamORAMA. Oddly Enough THE Album – Which IS EN PAR With THE Very Best NEO Glam YOU CAN Think OF! – Failed TO Make AN Impact IN Europe. IT WAS NOT Distributed Here AND TO This Very DAY A Copy OF THE Original IS NOT Easy TO Locate. TOO Great TO BE Ignored I Came TO THE Decision That Europe Needed This Record! SO When Noah Agreed I Started TO Work ON A Reissue AND Finally… Here IT IS!!! Hammered Satin ARE Still Going Strong AND Have Added Ex-germs Drummer DON Bolles TO THE Line UP!