SURPRISE 016 | STEVE ADAMYK - DESECRATE 7"

SURPRISE 016 | STEVE ADAMYK - DESECRATE 7"

Steve Adamyk is the guitarist of the band SEDATIVES who I had the pleasure of doing a 7" with last year. He started the STEVE ADAMYK BAND as a solo project and the line-up now includes Emmanuel and Dave from the SEDZ! This is their 3rd 7" following two great smashers on P.TRASH and RED LOUNGE respectively. 3 songs on this one now, if you need comparisons before you click on the download link, ok, I think this sounds like a mix of POINTED STICKS and THE BARRACUDAS. Whoever doesn't like those two bands must feel no joy in life...

SONIC AVENUES + STEVE ADAMYK BAND EURO TOUR:

21.03 - Mannheim, Germany - Juz
22.03 - Kassel, Germany - Das Haus**
23.03 - Berlin, Germany - Koma F
24.03 - Leipzig, Germany - Zoro
25.03 - Prague, Czech - 007
26.03 - Graz, Austria - Musichouse
27.03 - Munich, Germany - Kafe Kult
28.03 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Alte Hackerei
29.03 - Cologne, Germany - Sonic Ballroom
30.03 - Paris, France - Bouillon Belge
31.03 - Kortrijk, Belgium - The Pits
01.04 - Meppen, Germany - J@M Center
02.04 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Occii

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Sabo33: Dramamine: S/T LP

"Dramamine is a medicament that was converted into active drug usage by

some resourceful junkies decades ago. The effect can be described as some

kind of escapism into an imaginary world, or – in a positive sense –

as some kind of introverted ecstasy. This young band from Germany could be the soundtrack for these specific moods as of now. Loud, noisy, then with a certain pop-affinity, minimalistic, but in the very next second pretentious, doomy and oozing with pathos. A heavy, deep bass, which you will not only feel through your ears; guitars, which you will find hard to classify; a krauty drumming with an obvious love for details – all this put together with resentful, hectic vocals, which will finally leave you asking for more. You’re going to realise very quickly that these musicians have used the years they’ve spend in other bands to learn how to communicate in their

own special language – although the sound that we’re talking about here emanates from a different awareness; this doesn’t sound like an intersection of Press Gang, Idle Hands, etc. Here the instruments don’t get touched, they’re being cleaved to. Experience it live or on record, afterwards everything will be quieter. It’s 2010, and you might think that the creative reservoir of noisy and drugged guitar music has been exhausted for a long time now: Dramamine prove you wrong!"

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Sab011:Echo Is Your Love: "Humansize"

After 8 years, 3 albums and several tours around Europe, Finland's Echo Is Your Love are back with their finest album. Echo Is Your Love was started in early 1998 in Helsinki by four guys who met and were introduced to each others at the first rehearsals. The guitarist´s girlfriend became the singer. The intention was to practice as little as possible and to record almost everything that comes out. After some 7"s and the debut album ("Sheets of Blank Fucking Paper" 2000) the band got bored of droning the same two chords and being compared with Pardo Bond, Dead C and the likes. The band decided to start rocking. With the 2nd album ("8 Hours" 2002) and tours around Europe Echo Is Your Love ended up playing at punk/hardcore shows to almost 100% punk crowds which made the band´s music tighter and more aggressive. On the 3rd album ("Paper Cut Eye" 2004) Echo Is Your Love found its own unique style of mixing hardcore aggressiveness with no-wave guitar madness, post-punk danceability with indie cuteness and pop melodies. “Humansize” is a tight and unique mix of no-wave guitar madness, dreamy indiepop melodies, hardcore aggression and danceable post-punk rhythms. Haunting female vocals, sometimes angry, sometimes heavenly, wash over shards of guitar noise and shuddering drums, like if the girls from the B-52s were invited to sing with the one band that wants to save the world with its noise.
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Sabo27: Team Robespierre: Everything's Perfect LP

Formed in Brooklyn during the winter of 2005, the members of Team Robespierre were

initially connected by their roots - having all grew up in similar punk rock scenes in New

York, Denver, Minnesota, Texas, Poland and Jersey, playing in bands like Thulsa Doom,

Morning Glory and Hipster Bloodbath. But as Rex, Tom, Ty, Mike and Jim got older their

record collections expanded to include noise, indie, electro and new wave among other

genres. All and none of these genres can be heard in their recordings or live shows. But

what comes across most when seeing these guys is their raw energy and unwillingness to

separate themselves from the crowd. With asound that melds the future and the past,

the Team brings back memories of 80s new wave and 90s hardcore, with the ability to

share stages with bands as diverse as Dan Deacon, Japanther, An Albatross, Leftover

Crack, Parts And Labor, Best Fwends, USA Is A Monster, Japanther and Kylesa. Having

already embarked on 3 tours in 2007, and recently enlisting a live drummer to add

another layer to their complex electro-punk arrangements, the Team felt the timing was

right to record an album's worth of material. With the help of Colin Marston (Orthrelm,

Ghengis Tron, Stay Fucked), Team Robespierre spent most of their summer recording an

album and playing dance parties.

Powered by a dirty punk rock ethos, synth hooks and programmed dance beats, Team

Robespierre has helped resurrect a Brooklyn punk scene that has been waiting to

embrace the raw energy of our nation's basements and late night warehouse dance

parties. With a sound that melds the future and the past, the Team brings back

memories of 80s new wave and 90s hardcore, and after IMPOSE owner Derek Evers saw

them play a show in the spring of 2007, he ended up so drenched in beer and human

sweat that he had to sign these guys – making "Everything's Perfect" the first official fulllength

for both the band and the label.

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Sabo13: Hero Dishonest: When the shit hits the man lp

Finland's hardest working and touring thrash unit, Hero Dishonest, has

released its 4th and by far the strongest album of its 7 years long

career. After around 300 shows in Scandinavia, middle Europe, UK, Russia

and USA the band is tighter than ever and what also sets it apart from the

grey mass of today's hardcore thrash, smart in its song writing.

"When The Shit Hits The Man" consists of 26 minutes and 21 tracks of

raging hardcore punk thrash that doesn't limit itself to just being fast

at all times but also knows when to slow down and to bring in the widest

influences from the 30 years of punk history. The band doesn't just speed

up the old school Black Flag riffs but also nods its head towards both old

and new innovators like Big Boys and Wrangler Brutes.

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Sabo28: The Estranged: Static Thoughts LP

"PDX 3 piece with a heavy background in the local HC/Crust scenes (members have been/are in bands like Remains Of The Day, Hellshock, Warcry, From Ashes Rise, Coldbringer, and lots more) Icy, ominous post punk ala Wipers, Mission Of Burma, Warsaw-era Joy Division, etc. LPs come with digital download coupon. "

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Sabo20: Coldbringer: Lust and Ambition 12"

"Eight song 12" EP. For those of you not familiar with Coldbringer, they feature members

of From Ashes Rise, Hellshock, Call The Police, the Del Toros, and Talk Is Poison. They

play a style of melodic hardcore that draws from influences like Naked Raygun,

Leatherface, Husker Du and the Wipers, but is all their own at the same time."

I’ve been getting a fair number of records these days with hand-screened covers and the

Coldbringer LP has some striking artwork. A stingingly melodic punk sound that sounds

like a cross between Born Dead Icons’ doomy sound with Leatherface’s tuneful

properties. Vocalist John Wilkerson (formerly with From Ashes Rise) has Frankie Stubbs’

timbre, albeit in a lower register. I know comparisons suck but that’s the best way I can

describe it. The people in this band have played in more “crusty” or thrashy bands and

this marks a departure away from D-beat and epic qualities. A warmth along with the

power and vigor.

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Sabo39: Union Town: Blinding lights 7''

The ‘Blinding Lights’ EP contains three new Union Town songs that capture the band’s shape anno 2010. The songs were written in the course of a year and were tested on the crowd in different variations during live shows. Raw takes and jams were carefully reshaped and re-recorded in cooperation with Mark van der Male, a friend of the band. Enriched with the artwork of Mara Piccione, who also worked on Union Town’s debut album, the EP will be released as Sabotage Records #34 in May 2010. Comes with a free MP3 download.

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SURPRISE 006 | SUSPECT PARTS - MANEATER 7"

SURPRISE 006 | SUSPECT PARTS - MANEATER 7"

Fronted by JUSTIN MAURER of the CLOROX GIRLS and featuring CHRIS BRIEF of ehm THE BRIEFS on drums, SMAIL from THE SHOCKS on bass and SULLI from RIPCHORD on guitar, they deliver great poppy punkgems with a hint of 60s beat. This 7" is the follow up to their great 17 TELEVISION EP on DERANGED RECORDS. MAN EATER on the A-Side is one hell of powerpoppy anthem and on the B-Side the band blasts through MODERN LOVERS' SHE CRACKED. I can't be happier to have them on the label!

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