Class Pride World Wide vol. 3

Bitrate - 192 kbps
Size - 80.22 MB

And some more... all thanks to wonderful Canadian label Insurgence Records.

1. Union Made (can) - Products
   
2. Nuts & Bolts (usa) - Corruption
   
3. Loikaemie (de) - Good night white pride
   
4. Discipline (nl) - Red and white army
   
5. Runnin' Riot (ire) - Lost generation
   
6. Street Terror (pol) - Nigdy nie bedziesz szedi sam
   
7. Spit on Your Grave (usa) - So far past sick
   
8. Cervelli Stanki (ita) - Figli della klasse operala
   
9. Boiler (hun) - Formas popsi, szep szemek
   
10. Fear City (usa) - FSC anthem
    
11. Freiboiter (de) - Schöne neue Welt
    
12. Esclaves Salaries (can) - Ils ne passeront pas
    
13. Curasbun (chl) - Cerveza
    
14. Death in Custody (usa) - Pissed off and broke
    
15. Bayonets (yug) - Our fight
    
16. Puntas de Acero (arg) - Clase obrera
    
17. Borderguards (can) - Independent
    
18. United Front (uk) - Vengeance
    
19. Anger Flares (jap) - Search for the light
    
20. Hard Skin (uk) - Skin hard
    
21. S-Contro (ita) - La mia storia
    
22. Razor Bois (rus) - Burned discos
    

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Class Pride World Wide vol. 2

Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 55.46 MB

More antifascist and left-wing oi!, streetpunk, hardcore and ska from all over the globe. Life is beautiful.

1. The Prowlers (can) - We come out first
2. Social Combat (esp) - Our enemy
3. Red Alert (uk) - Million dollar punx
4. Nogood Heroes (usa) - Populist
5. The Class Assassins (can) - For the kids
6. Pub All Stars (arg) - Radio 69
   
7. Bolchoi (fra) - Gueules cassées
   
8. Fuori Controllo (ita) - Aggro on the streets
   
9. The Analogs (pol) - Blask szminki
   
10. Fate 2 Fate (can) - Fight for yourself
    
11. Jonny Gerriwelt (eus) - Freedom words
    
12. Signal 3 (usa) - Spirit of rebellion
    
13. Garotos Podres (bra) - Garoto podre
    
14. The Protest (cze) - Tri postavy
    
15. Frontkick (de) - Danger
    
16. Razzaparte (ita) - Noi ci siamo ancora
    
17. Wildcate Strike (swe) - Ar det demokrati?
    
18. Sick Sick Six (prt) - Quantos de voces
    
19. Charge 69 (fra) - Casse-toi
    
20. Fighting Chance (usa) - Coward's pride
    
21. Angelic Upstarts (uk) - Machine gun Chelly (live)
    

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[Repost] Class Pride World Wide vol. 1

Genre(s) - Oi!, punk, ska
Origin - all over the world
Year of release - 2001
Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 51.46

[Had this one up for a while but it is only the first out of a series of three compilations and why not post them all together?]

For those still believing that the term skinhead is synonymous with neo-nazi, here's the final solid proof that this is a total misconception. The first compilation of a series of three released by the antifascist Insurgence Records presents us with 19 bands mostly from the SHARP (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice) and RASH (Red and Anarchist SkinHeads) scene. Not a skinhead myself - full head of hair here - I'm nonetheless fascinated by their subculture and praise their class consciousness. Their music is awesome too, this isn't the first oi! release I'm posting here. Street Troopers, Brigada Flores Magon and Los Fastidios deliver some of the best tracks on the disc but it's full of sometimes catchy, sometimes angry songs about working class life, beating up nazis and other fun, important subjects.

1. Street Troopers (can) - Don't let 'em win
2. Stage Bottles (de) - Dead but not forgiven
3. Reazione (ita) - Forse un giorno vincera!
4. Worker (usa) - Betrayed
5. Remences (esp) - Sota control
6. The Oppressed (uk) - Substitute
7. Brigada Flores Magon (fra) - Continente olvidado
8. FFD (ita) - Proletario
9. H-Block 101 (aus) - Aunty Pauline
10. Klasse Kriminale (ita) - I ragazzi sono innocenti
11. Scrapy (de) - Still standing
12. Blastcaps (can) - Shining light
13. Pinkerton Thugs (usa) - Propaganda by the deed
14. Opcio K-95 (esp) - Skinhead only red
15. Los Fastidios (ita) - S-H-A-R-P
16. Fermin Muguruza (eus) - Newroz
17. Les Partisans (fra) - Radio rebelle
18. Blaggers ITA (uk) - 1949
19. Ya Basta (fra) - Chiapas

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Mediæval Bæbes - Mirabilis

Genre(s) - Ethereal, neo-classical
Origin - United Kingdom
Year of release - 2005
Bitrate - 320 kbps
Size - 80.91 MB

My hopes for a true winter are being fulfilled: it hasn't snowed like this for years! I've been trudging through Leiden's monumental 17th-century city centre for a few hours today and it was a more beautiful sight even than usual. Music to go well with weather (and towns) like this is swirly gothic or ethereal, and the Mediæval Bæbes deal in a very neo-classical version of it that suits the name well, as does the fact that it is an all-women band. With various acoustic and old-timey instruments like (f)lutes, harps, percussion and (I believe) all of their voices they create wonderful music that seems to be made for snowy days' candlelit evenings, and especially these days around Yuletide. I have a large and equal fondness for all the seasons; I love winter for its magical dreaminess and I have a feeling many of my posts will be reflecting this. Already a lot of the previous ones do, and of course this one too. Enjoy, if you feel the same way. :)

1. Star of the sea
2. Trovommi amor
3. Temptasyon
4. San'c fuy belha ni prezada
5. All for the love of one
6. The lament
7. Musa venit carmine
8. Kilmeny
9. Umlahi
10. Cittern segue
11. Return of the birds
12. Tam Lin
13. Scarborough Fayre
14. Come my sweet
15. Mark hur var skugga
16. The world fareth as a fantasye
17. Away
    

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A Beautiful Machine - Solar Winds, White Noise, Antigravity

Genre(s) - Post-spacegaze
Origin - Australia
Year of release - 2000
Bitrate - Various
Size - 70.45 MB

An early, and unfortunately still inexplicably unknown post-rock band, whose music is considered to be built up from space rock and shoegaze elements. The latter are a lot more obvious, I think. The space rock aspect can be most clearly noted in the worked-open structures and spaciousness and universal (non-personal) overtones, but then those feautures are applicable to most regular post-rock bands as well. But common sense tells us not to give a crap about genres, so just give it a listen if you like expansive, mind-bending soundscapes that glow with all the colours of a stellar nebula. A Beautiful Machine will be happy to show you around.

All material by this band can be downloaded officially for free from archive.org, here.

1. Entwine
2. Shining
3. Sometimes
4. Glow
5. The sound of her wings
6. Follow mine
7. Breathe in space
8. Coming up...
9. ...Again
   

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Toil - Obscure Chasms

Genre(s) - Black metal
Origin - United States of America
Year of release - 2007
Bitrate - 96 kbps
Size - 28.52 MB

Toil are an American underground raw black metal project and this is the first and only full-length. Main dude seems quite active in the scene, with many (guest) positions in different bands and projects, among which Vrolok, Funeral Mourning and Nox Inferi. Obscure Chasms is marred by a thin sound and low volume, for which the bitrate isn't solely to blame, but this in turn generates a mystic, hazy sound that suits the band's style well. I'm posting this album for the sake of Mistress of the Deep (Part 1) which really hits home with its intricate, obscenely depressing guitar lines. This exercise is repeated in a much more monotonous way and to less effect on Desolate Reflection. The rest really can't flop my mop but I'm sure plenty of you will have a use for this lo-fi, murky and moody black metal album.

1. Obscure chasms
2. Within the damp earth
3. Mistress of the deep (part 1)
4. Mistress of the deep (part 2)
5. Ashen sky
6. Dead leaves
7. Desolate reflection
   

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SpringtOifel - Engelstrompeten und Teufelsposaunen

Genre(s) - Oi!
Origin - Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Year of release - 2007
Bitrate - 256 kbps
Size - 47.27 MB

Those who have followed this blog for a longer time may know: I have a soft spot for German oi!, only this hasn't really been mirrored in the blog entries recently. Time to set some shit right! SpringtOifel are, let's respectfully call it an "experienced" band; the track Gebortztaachslied, literally a birthday song, tallies "Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Alkohol, Sex und Droogs und Rock 'n Roll!" Basically they were full-grown beer-binging skinheads before most current skins even had to bother shaving their heads yet. They are both a professional and very fun-loving bunch: Engelsposaunen shows remarkable songwriter- and musicianship and production values for a skinhead record, with upbeat sing-along songs with very witzige lyrics. Definite high point of the album is the hilarious ode to Bud Spencer, apparently the singer's childhood hero, in Als ich ein kleine Junge war. They are an apolitical SHARP (antiracist) band that have earned their stripes and let's hope they keep going at it for years to come.

1. Engelstrompeten und Teufelsposaunen
2. Alkohol - der dritte Weg
3. Tanzt!
4. Ebsch bois
5. Mr. Hyde
6. Der Schwamm
7. Himmel und Hölle
8. Der Pöbel regiert die Stadt
9. Buffalo bill
10. Holiday in Guantánamo Bay
11. Getaway from Guantánamo Bay
12. Ave Moguntia
13. Der Mond über Mainz
14. Als ich ein kleine Junge war
15. Der Kater gehört dazu
16. Gebortzdaachslied
17. Schlaf-apneu
    

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Stormwarrior - Heading Northe

Genre(s) - Power metal
Origin - Germany
Year of release - 2008
Bitrate - 256-320 kbps
Size - 79.43 MB

Alright, some very strong power metal with mostly Viking-related (yawn) lyrics. Appropriately "standard" stuff, Heading Northe is still a real pearl owing to the exceptionally powerful execution with an awesome, fat bass sound nice and upfront in the mix, and a very mean-sounding singer that, in contrast to some colleagues, has retained his nutsack. The album has a satisfying heaviness, the pace is mostly kept fast but the slower sections are not without grace and a seafaring, really quite Viking-y atmosphere. The riffs and choruses, the most important elements of any good power metal song, are top notch, especially on the opener and the defiant ("We'll never resign to...") The Holy Cross ("...never bow down to your lord!!"). Bands like Sonata Arctica and Freedom Call should be forced to attend these guys' practise sessions and take notes on how to really make power metal that honours its name.

1. Heading northe
2. Metal legacy
3. The holy cross
4. Iron gods
5. Ragnarök
6. The revenge of Asa Lande
7. Remember the oathe
8. Lion of the northe
9. Into the battle
10. And the valkyries ride
    

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Somos Pueblo, Somos MAS

Genre(s) - Folk, world music
Origin - Bolivia
Year of release - probably 2006
Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 40.96 MB

Last week, Evo Morales has won a second term as president of Bolivia with 62 percent of the vote, and his party Moviemento al Socialismo has finally gained a majority in the Congress. As the first indigenous president and a radical champion of the lower classes, that is, the extremely marginalised Indian majority, he is a symbol for la lucha para las derechos indigenas in the whole of South America, and indeed, Middle and North America as well. This album was probably released in celebration of his first electoral victory and is full of odes to him and the MAS, in a very authentic style - too bad about the programmed drums the album opens with - including three tracks (partly) in a fascinating native language. Basically it's a Latin folk template with acoustic guitars and male and female vocals. Some songs are better than others, in my opinion, but if there's any appropriate time to post this, it's now (okay, actually last week, but shhh). People of Bolivia, I congratulate you.

1. Evo presidente
2. Compañero Evo
3. A mi amigo Evo
4. Con Evo y el MAS
5. Cueca del MAS
6. Todos santo del MAS
7. Tinku al socialismo
8. Vamos MAS
9. Siempre Evo
10. Gringo asesino
11. Llaqtaqpa richáriynin (desperta de un pueblo)
12. Jiwasataqui (para nosotros)
13. Jatun tantakuman rispa (hacia el constituyente)
    

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The Shanes - Polka over Serbja!

Genre(s) - Polka (but hard)
Origin - Germany
Year of release - 2007
Bitrate - various rather high bitrates
Size - 75.35 MB

Howdy people, I'm sorry for the stall, but your patience has been rewarded; the ol' computer has been resuscitated (probably against its will)! This calls for a celebration. Well, when you think of a party, what immediately springs to your mind? That's right, polka! But we are advanced partygoers with expanded livers, asphalted lungs and hangover-proof brains, so we need some really HARD POLKA to make it worth our while. Here are The Shanes, they got what we derserve and they want to give it to us. I say we should take it with both ears. It's catchy, melodic, fast and folkish and yes, it's live... in Chosebuz! Which is not in Serbia. Oh well, it makes a person dance. Dancing is fun, healthy, socially integrating, co2 neutral and not tested on animals, so you've got no excuse now.

Note: track 8 is missing, I haven't got it and can't find it now either, but it will be fixed when I do. In any case I suggest you take it anyway.

1. The haunted house of polka
2. Godfather of polka
3. Hard to do something no one else did before
4. The road to my horizon
5. Love will tear us apart
6. Long haired country boy
7. Tango demi
8. The big punishers polka
9. King of the fairies
10. My time will come
11. The ripper
12. I'm so happy and I don't know why
13. The summer's almost gone
14. Bring me the head of Zoltan Narray
15. The rake
16. Polka heart
    

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Why aren't you posting, you dick?

You'll have noticed the post rate dropping still further lately, and this last week there hasn't been any activity at all. Please rest assured, I have not run out of music, but my computer has finally collapsed under the strain. It had been taking over half an hour for it to start up for a few months now so nothing unexpected, and it's been slow but faithful to the end so I don't blame it. The harddisk is probably the problem, but then I have two harddisks and the one that is dead is probably not the one I have all my music on so good for you.

I hope to be able to post something again after the weekend when my programmer dad will install some new hardware in hope of reanimation, but it won't be much since I'm still very busy being such a serious, disciplined student.

But tell me something. What music are you missing on here? I like to keep things as broad as I can, and all the music you can find on here is stuff that I like. What is there that you would like to see posted one day, something weird, something different, something I probably don't know but would like if I did. Recommend me stuff. Anything goes. Thanks in advance.

Hasta la musica siempre!

Paysage d'Hiver - Kristall & Isa

Genre(s) - Ambient black metal
Origin - Switzerland
Year of release - 2001
Bitrate - 192 kbps
Size - 51.01 MB

Winter is coming! Put on your thick coat and headphones blasting some glacial black metal. Secretly I'm hoping for a harsh season this year because there's no more welcome way of coming home than from out of the cold. For those grimmest, bone-chilling nights there is Paysage d'Hiver, a Swiss one-man project that manages to capture both the gleaming beauty of freshly fallen snow and the hostility of a february hailstorm, through a unique atmosphere that creeps up on you like cabin fever. If you haven't heard this band, forget what you think of as grimness, because there's nothing like this, seriously nothing at all. Also, Wintherr's shrieks are definitely among the sickest vocals in the genre. Kristall & Isa may perhaps just fall short of the self-titled release, but the harshness probably requires some getting used to and then this one is a bit easier to digest. If you succeed you might also be interested in this great split.

1. Isa
2. Austritt aus dem Körper
3. Äther
4. Der Kristall ist Eis
5. Wachen - innere Stimmen
6. Kälte
   

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