Last week I went to check out this benefit show some guys had organized over at balazo 18 (in san francisco, yep im on my holidays). The headlining band Chest Full of Arrows tore it up with some awesome native american chanting/ thrashy hardcore. I can only hope they release some material soon. Anyway, I ran into some of they guys/girls from Myth of Progress, with whom I commenced to hang out O...
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Posts by Fritz
Myth of Progress
Nerdcore: Gangsta CS Rappin
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Artist:Mc Plus+
Always in the search of free music on the net I ran across this guy here, Mc Plus+. What we have here is Nerdcore hip hop, with songs about writing better code than the next man and workin algorythms on myspace. This stuff is too funny, the beats are pretty good as well. Plus+ has just released his new album "Chip Hop" and put up all the trax for free download over at www.mcplusplus.com he's al...
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Wallbreaker 1986-1989
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Artist:totalitaer
Due to incredibly miserable finances this is the first record I have been able to buy in two months. So when I got a bit of cash to spend I was real selective when I went to the store. After sampling the delights of this record my hunch was proven correct. Damn this is good!Totalitaer (i have to spell it ae cuz my computer cant do the umlauts) were one of the best hardcore/d-beat groups to come...
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Fritz's Picks No. 1
Hello and welcome to the first installment of Fritz's Picks! Seeing as I spend most of my time perusing through the musical underground I thought it might be worthwhile to give you periodical updates as to what cool stuff I've found. So not all of it is gonna be brand new stuff, I do like trawling through old music and finding interesting artists. This column aims to seperate the wheat from the...
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The Herd
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Album:The Sun Never Sets
So I was surfing the net in the dead of night and going off on random tangents and I came across this awesome hip hop group from Australia called The Herd. Seems that they hail from Sydney and have been active since 2001. They make really fresh, conscious music which is helped by the fact they have a full band format. Their rhymes are very witty and great to listen to, even though you might hav...
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Music to listen to when you walk around in the dark...
So sometimes youre gonna hafta walk somewhere late at night. Youre goin out for smokes or some brews, or you gotta treck to the mr/mrs, or youre just trying to get some fresh air. When I leave the house I always feel the overwhelming urge to take some tuneage (classy trax) with me. When im out late at night I wanna hear some of that spooky stuff just to get with the atmosphere etc. So heres a l...
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On the importance of tapes...
Back in the 1980s the trading of demo tapes was what kept the underground music scene alive. In those times not everyone could afford to press vinyl, or to send it around the globe to interested fans. Tapes were cheap, easy to record/master, and small enough to mail without breaking the bank. A quickly scrawled drawing and liner notes in ball pen made up the cover and inlay and the tape was rea...
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Flyblown
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Artist:Flyblown
So it looks like the awesome Flyblown are still going strong. This d-beat/crust phenomenom comprises ex-members of Unseen Terror and has been releasing quality material for quite some time now, including a split with Disclose (do Disclose record anything other than splits?) Anyhow when I booked a show for Realities of War a while back, their singer Pete whos also in Flyblown asked me to create ...
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