Is there a hardcore/punk equivalent of Soul Jazz records?

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There's a criminal lack of any early 80s Brazilian, Italian, nor Japanese hardcore/punk releases readily available. Can someone start this label please?

It has to have as generic and disassociated a record label name as "Soul Jazz" too. Emo Crunk records or something like that.

Name some bands, releases, and titles of this theoretical label, too k thanks bye.

― donut e-g (donut), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Good idea.
I would say the early Raw Power stuff, from Italy. Sounds like someone has done that recently, but I support the idea of a hardcore/punk reissue label and these guys would deserve to be on it.
M.I.A. is criminally unrepresented in the reissue stakes.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Such a label would be a wonderful thing. THEY SHOULD START BY REISSUING KILL FROM THE HEART.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

And then go to the various corners of the world

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Gauze and Gizm comps, please.

― donut e-g (donut), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

sorry, Gism.

― donut e-g (donut), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Sounds a little like Hyped to Death.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

For me, it's Japanese legends The Stalin I've always wanted to hear. MRR used to rave about 'em in the 80's as one of THEE key H/C progenitors, but there was no way of getting the records. I saw an ad for a Japanese tribute CD recently, but I've never seen the original recordings offered.

There was also a Chinese punk band called The Dragons(google-proof name if ever there was one) who had an LP which I remember hearing on Peel. As I recall, they did a version of 'Anarchy in the UK' which had a distinctly Chinese traditional-music feel - that actually makes me wonder if it was a hoax. Anyone else remember them?

It'd be great to have all of this stuff readily available in properly mastered CDs with comprehensive sleeve notes and cool packaging, Soul Jazz stylee . . but then that wouldn't be very PUNK, would it?

― Soukesian, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

A guy I used to work with had a Gism cd. it was cool. i'd like to see that out too.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

The Stalin is FUCKING GREAT! I downloaded a killer comp off of soulseek a few years back.
Yes, they deserve a reissue.

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/eastgermany/schleimkeim_main.html

I would reissue these guys just because of their story!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Great site Brooker, you could start putting the label together right there . .

― Soukesian, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Relapse put out their "assault" series of comps showcasing grindcore bands from across the world (Japanese Assault, Dutch Assault, etc).

― original bgm, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

ENDLESS BLOCKADE!
ENDLESS BLOCKADE!
ENDLESS BLOCKADE FOR THE PUSSYFOOTER!

I second (or third) the Gism request.

Broken Rekids has done a pretty good job with the UK peace punk stuff - great reissues from Zounds and The Mob a.o. Maybe we should bug them.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Are Grand Theft Audio still going? They reissued tons and tons of 80s stuff like this

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

There are several labels doing this - (some already mentioned)

UK anarchopunk - Broken Rekkids / Overground
UK Oi/HC/street punk - Captain Oi / Anagram
US 70s/early 80s punk - Rave Up
US HC - Grand Theft Audio

Also quite a lot of great European HC thrash has been reissued but is sometimes fairly hard to find, e.g.

Agent Orange (from Holland)
Anti Cimex, Mob 47 (Sweden)
Raw Power (Italy)

But yeah, there's some fucking great stuff that's way OOP -

Gauze - there was a CD of their 1st 2 LPs in the mid-90s, way OOP and only turns up on Ebay as homemade CDR copies.

Confuse - there's a really well-made bootleg LP of their Indignation demo & a live show called "Old God Meet New God" - this came out last year so it's easy to get, and well worth it. But unfortunately the discog CD of their actual records (Old Master) is long gone.

Stalin has been reissued on CD but only on expensive Japanese imports to my knowledge.

Other Japanese thrash needing reissues - Lip Cream, Systematic Death, Comes

And seriously SST needs to let someone reissue The Dicks, Stains & Subhumans for a start.

Other HC/punk records I wish would get reissued:

Conflict - The Last Hour (the US Conflict not the anarcho one)
Christ On Parade (there was a comp released in the 90s but it's OOP)
45 Grave - Autopsy (pre-goth stuff, kicks arse)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Dr Strange as well, they've reissued more stuff than they've done new records in the last few years

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

I think the Freeze comp Token Bones came out on Dr Strange. That's a good one, although the 90s stuff isn't up to much. It includes (I think) all of the Guilty Face EP, I Hate Tourists 7" and This Is Boston Not LA tracks.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Also, upthread Brooker B says MIA needs reissuing, I was under the (probably mistaken) impression that Alternative Tentacles had done this recently. Is there a lot of stuff not on the AT CD? I wish they'd reissued the Dicks properly instead of that 80-86 comp they did.

While I'm on the subject of Alt Tentacles reissues, any hardcore punk fans should get these if they haven't alraady:

BGK - A Dutch Feast
JFA - We Know You Suck
False Prophets - Blind Vultures
Va - Not So Quiet On The Western Front

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

"There was also a Chinese punk band called The Dragons

Hey, I remember reading about them in a Trouser Press Guide years ago:

http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=dragons

― todd (todd), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Cheers, Todd, that link gives the LP title, which means there's now a fighting chance of tracking it down. Sounds like it's not all punk, but I want it anyway!

― Soukesian, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Re: MIA reissues.

AT did put out a compilation of early M.I.A., featuring early singles, demos, and their AT full-length "Murder In A Foreign Place". I'm hoping someone will reissue the LPs after this material, "Notes From The Underground" and "After The Fact". I heard "After The Fact" years and years ago, and it was truly great.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough, I ended up getting know Mike Conley a bit during his Naked Soul days. Very friendly guy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

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