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Sep 4, 2021
1 min

Mixtape : Give Up All Hope

A short trip in the history of Japanese Hardcore & Punk... Tracklist: Crow - Give Up All Hope GISM - Endless Blockades For The Pussyfooter Life - Ossification Of Coral The Comes - Medium Grave New World - The End Death Side - Crossfire Reality Crisis - Fragments Gauze - 死人に口無し Bastard - The Way To Survive Boris - Anti-Gone #Mixtape #Japan #Hardcore #Punk

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Jul 3, 2021
1 min

Mixtape : The Best Punk Mix Vol. 2

#Mixtape #Punk #Hardcore

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Callin' from the fun house with my song*...

jupitervariations

Jun 26, 2021
3 min

Callin' from the fun house with my song*...

Most rock stars have their audiences so cowed it’s nauseating. What blessed justice it would be if all rock stars had to contend with what A.C.** elects, if it became a common practice and method of passing judgment for audiences to regularly fling pies in the faces of performers whom they thought were coming on with a load of bullshit. Because the top rockers have a mythic aura around them, the “superstar,” and that’s a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it’s the v

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Selections from my Record Collection : Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992)

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Nov 28, 2020
2 min

Selections from my Record Collection : Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992)

I bought this album back in 2003 (that is more than 10 years after its original release) mainly driven by my newly (at that time) acquired adoration for anything US Hardcore and Punk. Having listened only to Damaged till then, the iconic Black Flag album where Henry Rollins was also fullfilling the vocal duties, the comparison with The End of Silence generated a mixture of disappointment and awkward feelings. You see, to my young, untrained and thus "immature" ears the compl

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jupitervariations

Nov 21, 2020
1 min

Mixtape : The Best Punk Mix Vol. 1

This is a mixtape that I have been thinking for quite long time doing. The thought process behind it, was to make it a mixtape that my teen self would easily listen to. That meant that I should include no demo versions, no live recordings, no alternate mixes, remixes and so on...Only original classics, the same songs that made me listen to punk and hardcore in the first place. I had fun making this mix, I hope that you can enjoy listening to it as well... You can find my othe

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Selections from my Record Collection : The 10 Best Greek Punk Albums

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Nov 8, 2020
5 min

Selections from my Record Collection : The 10 Best Greek Punk Albums

Greek Punks 1985 (Photo Credits : Giorgos Tourkovassilis) The usual perception about "music taste" in Greece is that it is a country "dominated" by Heavy Metal and even though that this not so far from the truth, there is a long and quite unknown tradition of Punk Rock music and bands that had emerged in the early 80s mainly from the 2 big Greek cities (Athens and Thessaloniki). Taking the influence for their lyric themes from the politically turmoiled period and singing in t

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Selections from my Record Collection : G.I.S.M. - Detestation (1983)

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Oct 24, 2020
1 min

Selections from my Record Collection : G.I.S.M. - Detestation (1983)

Some of this week's most exciting news were about the upcoming official re-release (by Relapse Records) of G.I.S.M.s classic 1983 album Detestation. The announcement was met with such response that Relapse web shop crashed as soon as it opened for preorders due to the increased demand and high number of "hits"! Being long time out of print and having seen many bootleg pressings through the years, Detestation is considered by many as THE definite Japanese Hardcore/Punk album.

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jupitervariations

Oct 17, 2020
1 min

Böndbreakr - Böndbreakr review (2020)

BÖNDBREAKR are a hardcore punk/metal quartet from Austin,Texas featuring members from various groups from the local punk/metal scene. After a year of playing lives extensively in Austin area, BÖNDBREAKR are ready to release their first EP which was recorded within a single weekend! The EP contains 6 songs (actually 5, as "bonus" track number 6 is a repetition of all the previous 5...) which sound 80's thrashcore in the vein of bands such as S.O.D., D.R.I., Gothic Slam, Mucky

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jupitervariations

Oct 8, 2020
1 min

Citizen Rage - Black EP review (2020)

Citizen Rage are a hardcore band from Calgary and their latest release Black, is the sixth (If I am not mistaken) EP in a series which are all named after a colour. Not having the opportunity to listen to any of their previous releases I am not sure if there is a logical connection or a relevancy between the colour after which each EP is named of and the song/lyric themes themselves. Coming to the music, the EP contains 4 hardcore songs, all played in less than 10 minutes, wh

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Selections from my Record Collection : The Comes - No Side (1983)

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Aug 16, 2020
1 min

Selections from my Record Collection : The Comes - No Side (1983)

The post about OXZ provided me the idea to explore deeper the "Japanese" part of my collection and I think that there is no better way to begin this than presenting No Side, the debut album by The Comes a legendary female fronted Hardcore/punk band from Tokyo. Many consider GISM as the quintessential band of the Japanese Hardcore/punk scene however in my opinion nothing can overcome the ferocity and the sheer energy of this album. 11 songs in less than 20 minutes (which actua

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Selections from my Record Collection : OXZ Along Ago: 1981 - 1989

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Jul 25, 2020
1 min

Selections from my Record Collection : OXZ Along Ago: 1981 - 1989

From a genre purists perspective, the "association" of OXZ with the punk scene bares similarities to the case of Fugazi. Emerging from Japan in a period and a society when and where women rights were still a matter of discussion it was actually their radical appearance, their live performances and their agenda that contributed in having them classified as punk rather than their music with their material being actually enough diverse and versatile to be constrained under any l

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Selections from my Record Collection : Bullet Lavolta - the Gift (1989)

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Jul 19, 2020
1 min

Selections from my Record Collection : Bullet Lavolta - the Gift (1989)

I always had the feeling that "the Gift" is one of those albums that were released in the wrong time. The year was 1989 and - for those who lived back then and remember - it was a year when Hair/Glam Rock was prevailing, therefore the dirty and heavily influenced by punk Hard Rock of Bullet Lavolta had little chances to offer them a big career or even a short breakthrough. Had "the gift" been released a couple of years later (and particularly after "Nevermind") I have the str

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