Various Artists - MEXICOPILACION

 I've always loved a good compilation, I am always gonna pick one up when I see 'em, though I feel like I don't really see them often anymore, and if I do, it's just a digital comp.  Boooo.  So today I have a treat, this is the MEXICOPILACION compilation released on cassette in 1988 fromNo Estamos Conformes Tapes.  I think it's the only thing they ever released, but that's ok.  I wasn't familiar with any of the bands so it was all new to me.  Lots of very lo-fi raw as fuuuuk punk.  If this sounds like something you'd dig, go for it!  Get some!   - DH

VARIOUS ARTISTS - MEXICOPILACION

Tracklisting:

Introduction

SOLUCION MORTAL

La Armada

Mi Pais

Mi Rezo

HISTERIA

Liberacion

Nunca Cambiare

La Verdad

ESPECIMEN

Misa Para Muertos

Abuso

Canto Al Animal

MASSACRE 68

Crimen Capitalista

No Estamos Conformes

Elecciones (Fiesta De Represion)

XENOFOBIA

Muerte En America

Juventud Acabada

HEREJIA

Contraviolencia

DECADENCIA

Pido Muerte Al Presidente

Asqueros Policias

A.D.I.

Anarquia Del Poder

Corrupcion

ANTI-GOBIERNO

Repudio Al Presidente

Antisocial

No Obtendremos Paz

ATOXXXICO

Punx De Mierda

Puerco Policia

Divisiones Absurdas

SUBVERT - January 2nd, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [AUDIENCE]

 Today's offering is from SUBVERT, a punk band from the Pacific Northwest.  I know nothing about them, though I feel like I've seen their name on fliers and seen them get mentioned favorably on the ol social medias.   Here's a noisy raw audience recording of them opening for Neurosis and Final Conflict at 924 Gilman St in January of 1988.  Glad someone recorded this, as I hadn't come across any other Subvert live recordings yet.  It's an audience recording too, which is a nice change from Gilman soundboards I often post, which have mixes that clearly were not made for the tapes and can be a challenging listen.  Though this recording does have moment early one when it's interrupted by a young Steve Von Till yelling into the recorder.  It's a bit funny that this is before Steve was in Neurosis too, just him chillin at a Subvert / Neurosis show as a fan.  Anyhoo, hope ya dig this as much as I do!   - DH

SUBVERT - January 2nd, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA

Setlist:

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REPULSION - November 1988 - Flint, MI [AUDIENCE]

 Here's a badass audience recording of a set from Michigan grinders REPULSION!  It's a set full of their classics from Horrified, plus a cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", though this is more like a cover of Guns N Roses' version of the song.  They also warm up with a variety of GnR licks before breaking into the cover at the beginning of their set, so yeah. The GnR version wasn't officially released at this point but they were doing it live at that point, and had been part of a set broadcast by MTV if my memory serves me right.  Anyhoo, we ain't here to talk about GnR, this is a Repulsion set!   So, no exact date is known for this show as far as I know.   No idea who else played or if a flyer still exists.  There is a video though, that's probably where this tape was sourced from.  Just in case it's not the same, or if this is a lower gen tape, I'm posting it up for ya'll.  I did do a little EQ work on this for a minute to help boost some of the low end and the guitars a bit, so it sounds a bit better than it did on this tape.    Enjoy!   - DH

REPULSION - November 1988 - Flint, MI

Setlist:

Knockin On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)

Stench Of Burning Death

Slaughter Of The Innocent

Lurking Fear

Satan's Alive

Six Feet Under

Black Nightmare

Bodily Dismemberment

???

Black Breath

Pestilent Decay

Knockin On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)

Horrified 

Additional info:

 - Audience recording

 - Transferred and EQ'd by DH

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VICTIM'S FAMILY - February 28th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [AUDIENCE]

 VICTIM'S FAMILY!  I don't have a lot of VF to post, but I have some, and this is one of those.  I've listened to this a few times and have been excited to share it.  Today feels like a good day to share the VF so here ya go.  I don't know anything about this show, but it's a decent audience recording, a nice change from the Gilman soundboards that had super uneven mixes.  I didn't do any EQ'ing of this show either, it's just a straight rip from the tape.  Shows like this make me wish I grew up in the bay and was perhaps a few years older.  I liked listening to bands like them, or NoMeansNo.  At least I've seen Victim's Family a couple times since living out here, better late than never!  Anyhoo, enjoy the tape!  Shayne over at 3 Cameras And A Microphone probably has a better copy he'll upload eventually, but until then, this is it.  Cheers!   - DH

VICTIM'S FAMILY - February 28th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA

Setlist:

???

Additional info

 - Audience recording

 - Transferred by DH

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STIKKY - January 18th, 1988 Rehearsal

 Got a short one for you folks payin' attention to my posts.  This is a short and mostly instrumental rehearsal recording of the mighty STIKKY.  This comes from Chris Dodge's collection of tapes, as a lot of these do, so of course being that he was a member of Stikky he had some rehearsals recorded.  Here's one of them.  I am trying to keep Tuesday posts to a theme, and the theme is rehearsal recordings,  But this is the only one I had prepared and ready to go, but it's a fun one, even without vocals.   - DH

STIKKY - January 18th, 1988 Rehearsal

Setlist:

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Additional info:

 - Transferred by DH

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PLAID RETINA - May 27th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA [AUDIENCE]

This is a rarity for sure, a live set from PLAID RETINA.  Certainly a very under appreciated band from the Fresno, California. They do have an EP and LP on Lookout, as well as an LP on Very Small Records, but still, they are much more talked about bands on those labels sucking up a lot of the attention.  If you ain't familiar, do yourself a favor and look them up.  I have some demos I'll upload eventually, but I assume those are also uploaded by someone already.  This here is a recording made by someone out in the audience, so it's a bit noisy, but considering how uncommon it is to find live Plaid Retina audio, I'll take it.   I don't have a flyer, so I don't know who else played besides Stikky, who occupies side A of this tape, and which you can find posted a couple weeks earlier in the beginning of February.     - DH

PLAID RETINA - May 27th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA

Setlist:

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Additional info:

 - Audience recording

 - Transferred and EQ'd by DH

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NO FOR AN ANSWER - March 27th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [SOUNDBOARD]

 Dang, NO FOR AN ANSWER is suuuuuuper straightedge.  Or were.  Maybe they still are.  I dunno, but they really were going hard for it back in the 80's.  I've never seen them live but I have a few live video and audio recordings and these guys were always sxe to the point of it being silly.  I know they are striving to be really true and earnest and sincere and all that, and maybe I'm just a dumb pothead, but in every live clip I've seen they had the goofiest straight edge stage banter.  This set has a couple great examples that just makes my skeleton want to jump out of my skin and run away.  Their 'anti casual sex, anti abortion, etc" song, and their weird and fawning monologue before their Agnostic Front cover finale (spoiler alert).  It's just too much.  And yet I can't help but smoke weed and play this stuff loud.  I'm a complicated person I suppose.  If you are too, crank this, smoke up, and have a laugh along with me.   - DH

NO FOR AN ANSWER - March 27th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA

Setlist:

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Additional info:

 - Soundboard recording

 - Transferred by DH

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STIKKY - May 27th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA [AUDIENCE]

   I'm back to uploading again, so I hope folks still like noisy handheld recordings of old bands live shows and rehearsals as well as obscure demos.

   So kicking things back off is STIKKY, live at The Place, in Davis, CA.  I don't know if there is anything remarkable about this set, it's a typical set recorded by someone who was clearly intelligent and had great taste in music, thanks mysterious genius!  Thankfully, a typical Stikky set is pretty damn fun to listen to, they are a hilarious band and they also have a lot of killer songs.  So yeah, cram this one in your earholes.  - DH

STIKKY - May 27th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA

Setlist:

unknown

Additional info:

-  Audience recording

- Recorded by ?

- Transferred and EQ'd by DH

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SWIZ - April 1988 @ St John's Cathedral, Washington DC [AUDIENCE]

Here's a very rough sounding live audio recording from SWIZ, live in Washington DC in 1988.  I think it's incomplete as well.  Not great sounding but I like Swiz so it gets the occasional play by me, if you have my level of tolerance for rough live tapes, perhaps you'll enjoy this as well...   - DH

SWIZ - April 1988 @ St John's Cathedral, Washington DC

01. Wash

02. Stone

03. Condemn

04. Lie

05. Draw

06. Toon

07. Ghost

Additional Info:

 - Audience recording

 - Transferred by DH

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MELVINS - April 29th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [SOUNDBOARD]

MELVINS.  'Nuff said.  

MELVINS - April 29th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA

Setlist:

Let God Be Your Gardner

Vile

Echohead

Don't Piece Me

Heaviness Of The Load

Dead Dressed

Your Blessened

Beth (KISS acapella cover)

Disinvite

Easy As It Was

Love Thing (KISS Love Theme cover)

Additional Info:

 - Soundboard recording

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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STIKKY - May 15th, 1988 @ Kennedy Park, Napa, CA [AUDIENCE]

Another killer STIKKY recording from the Chris Dodge tapes.  I have no info about this show at all, other than it was with Ribzy, who were recorded on the flipside and was posted HERE.   This was probably recorded by Dodge himself, or at least someone recording for him with his stuff.  If anyone can sort out the setlist, comment below or on Youtube and I'll edit it in here.  For now, enjoy the Stikky!  - DH

STIKKY - May 15th, 1988 @ Kennedy Park, Napa, CA

Setlist:

[unknown]

Additional Info:

 - Audience recording

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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RIBZY - May 15th, 1988 @ Kennedy Park, Napa, CA [AUDIENCE]

Gonna keep this one real brief since it's the 2nd post of the day.  If you liked the demo I posted a few weeks back, then here's something more from RIBZY for ya!  This is a live set from Kennedy Park, in Napa, CA.  The show was with Stikky, their set was recorded and will be posted in the future.  This was recorded by someone in the audience, probably by Chris Dodge I'm guessing.  Well, if you like the demo, I hope you like this, and if you like this, please go follow the tags below and go check out the recording I posted!   - DH

RIBZY - May 15th, 1988 @ Kennedy Park, Napa, CA

Setlist:

[unknown]

Additional info:

 - Audience recording

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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SINS OF THE FLESH - January 8th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA [AUDIENCE]

Here's a not so great recording of a band I'm not so familiar with, SINS OF THE FLESH.  I know they were a fairly short-lived band from Sacramento, though they did manage to release an LP and a 7" in that time.  This was from a tape with two sets from this band, something I digitized a month or two ago and while I remember liking it, I can't remember anything specific that stood out about them. I plan to upload both sets, and figure I'll start with the worse of the two.  If I remember correctly this one had a lot of cuts between songs and is probably missing some based on the 14 minute run time.  This looks to be a tape that came to Chris Dodge via Shayne Stacy, so perhaps he knows more about it, and certainly would have an upgrade to the ones I'll post.  Thankfully he also curates the Sacramento Music Archive, click the link to check it out, and sub to his Youtube channel too!  Anyway, here's today's post, the next set from this band will be much better so keep an eye out if this sounds good to you.   - DH

SINS OF THE FLESH - January 8th, 1988 @ The Place, Davis, CA

Setlist:

[unknown]

 

Additional Info:

 - Incomplete audience recording

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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SMOLDERING REMAINS - "I Stepped Off The Curb And Got Hit By A Bus" 1988 Demo

SMOLDERING REMAINS!  This sounds like Ohio to me, based off experiences I've had in that state and demos I used to get from there in the 90's.  There's something in the water there, and it's probably on fire too.  So here's the demo this band did in 1988.  If you like immature knucklehead music like I do, and if you like Ohio like I don't, you'll love this tape.  Check it out.  - DH

SMOLDERING REMAINS - "I Stepped Off The Curb And Got Hit By A Bus" 1988 Demo

Tracklist:

01. I Stepped Off The Curb And Got Hit By A Bus

02. Blah

03. The Pigeonstrut

04. Speck

05. Spooge

06. U Make Me Wanna Puke

07. Black Twinkie

08. Smoldering Remains

09. Fat Albert

10. Fiend

11. Burgertime

12. Dawg

13. Unnamed Mosh Song

14. Grandma's Got A Tattoo...

Additional Info:

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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LETHAL OVERDOSE - "Get Serious" 1988 Demo

LETHAL OVERDOSE play some ripping hardcore!  They were an Australian band I believe, and from the '80's.  Are they straightedge?  Possibly, but I'll still enjoy this while baked all the heck.  Hopefully you will too! - DH

LETHAL OVERDOSE - "Get Serious" 1988 Demo  

Tracklist:

01. Had Enough

02. Rite Trak

03. People Lose

04. Ode To Smackie

05. Contempt Of Court

06. Yuppie Genocide

07. Fuck The French

08. Get Serious

Additional info:

 - Azimuth adjusted

 - Transferred by DH

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CHRIST ON PARADE - January 24th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [SOUNDBOARD]

This is a pretty decent sounding soundboard recording of CHRIST ON PARADE at 924 Gilman St in 1988, opening for Social Unrest.  Though give it a minute or two for the levels to balance out, after that it sounds pretty killer as far as Gilman board recordings from the '80's go.  Sadly it's missing the last song or two.  If anyone has the setlist or a flyer or pics from this night let me know!  And be on the lookout for an audience recording of this set to be posted eventually!    - DH

 

CHRIST ON PARADE - January 24th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA    

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Source : SBD

Lineage : ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC / MP3 / MP4

Equipment : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 816  > FCPX > MediaHuman

Recorded by : unknown

Transferred by : DH

Additional info :

 - Incomplete

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MACABRE - April 2nd, 1988 - Normal, IL @ The Gallery [SOUNDBOARD]

MACABRE!  I have no info on what city or venue this show took place in, if anyone knows, please let me know! All I know is that this is a soundboard from a show in Illinois.  It's pretty decent sounding though, with some songs from their self titled release, their demo, and some songs that would wind up on their LP released the next year.  They even do an M.O.D. cover!  Not very nice there though guys, haha.  If you like Macabre, hopefully you dig this as well.  - DH

UPDATE: (3/04/22):

Youtube user gavin. commented with a link to another version of this show, this time a video.  It's the same exact set, but listed as taking place in Chicago, though no date.  So we have the date from the tape, as well as the state, and thanks to the video we know it takes place in Chicago.  All we need is the venue name!  Sweet!  Thanks for bringing this to my attention gavin. and thanks to Reaper Metal Productions for uploading the video version.  -  DH

UPDATE: (3/04/22 pt 2: Electric Boogaloo)

Kingbean has come with the definitive info!  This show took place at The Gallery in Normal, IL!  Thanks KB! - DH

 MACABRE - April 2nd, 1988 - Normal, IL @ The Gallery   

01. The Embalmer

02. Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)

03. Killing Spree

04. Holidays Of Horror

05. Mr Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favorite Dish)

06. Disease

07. Night Stalker

08. Spandex Enormity (MOD cover)

09. What The Heck Richard Speck (Eight Nurses You Wrecked)

10. McMassacre

Source : SBD

Lineage : ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC / MP3 / MP4

Equipment : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 816 > Audio Hijack > FCPX > MediaHuman

Notes:

 - unknown city and venue

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ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT - April 15th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA [SOUNDBOARD]

This is a fairly decent sounding soundboard recording (by Gilman's standards) of a reunited ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT in 1988.  It's got some issues, a broken guitar string that had to be replaced, the occasional false start, but otherwise a pretty damned ripping set!  I did a little tweaking in Izotope, to turn up the guitar and bass, and turn down the vocals.  It helps a little bit.  Gilman soundboards can be pretty hit and miss, maybe more leaning towards the misses, but it's punk, so I won't nitpick tooooo hard, unless the levels are all over the place and fluctuating for the entirety of the set!  This one starts off rough, but gets better.  Dig it.   - DH

 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT - April 15th, 1988 @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA    

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Source : SBD

Lineage : ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC / MP3 / MP4

Equipment : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 816 > Izotope rx8 > FCPX > MediaHuman

Recorded by : unknown

Transferred by : DH

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MORBID ANGEL - October 12th, 1988 @ Escapades, Jersey City, NJ [SOUNDBOARD]

I was never a big MORBID ANGEL fan, so I can't speak much about this recording.  I know it's before they had any records out seeing as they talk about having demos for sale and a record coming out.  It's a soundboard recording, and a fairly decent one at that, so hopefully those who like the band enjoy this post.  Cheers!  - DH

 MORBID ANGEL - October 12th, 1988 @ Escapades, Jersey City, NJ  

01. Immortal Rites

02. Blasphemy

03. Suffocation

04. Maze Of Torment

05. Bleed For The Devil

06. Damnation

07. Lord Of All Fevers And Plagues

08. Funeral / Unholy Blasphemies

09. Visions From The Dark Side

10. Evil Spells 

Source : SBD

Lineage : ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC / MP3 / MP4

Equipment : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 816 > FCPX > MediaHuman

Recorded by : unknown

Transferred by : DH

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NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH - June 22nd, 1988 Rehearsal

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH!  I'm not very familiar with these guys but they were active around the mid to late 80's, I've seen their name on several flyers and there are a handful of shows that were recorded that are now in the collection and will eventually be transferred and uploaded.  So if you are following my posts and are along for the ride, we will all get a bit more familiar with these folks.  So yeah, here's a rehearsal recording of them.  Seems like there's a few false starts to some of the songs so perhaps not the best way to start off but it can only go up from here, right?  Besides, it was next.  Respect the queue.  Anyhoo, check 'em out!  - DH

 NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH - June  22nd, 1988 Rehearsal   

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Source : AUD

Lineage : ANA(x) > WAV > FLAC / MP3 / MP4

Equipment : Nakamichi CR7A > Focusrite Scarlett 816 > FCPX > MediaHuman

Recorded by : unknown

Transferred by : DH

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