Hardcore Mixtape!

I discovered some pretty cool bands on Hopeless such as The Nobodys, The Queers & Mustard Plug and got reacquainted with old favorites Heckle. But this time I’ve decided to go for some more familiar territory and go for some harder stuff. So let’s check this cool mixtape I got.

download the shizzle here http://rapidshare.com/files/59068269/BTD.rar

Side A starts off with The Enforcer from Leeway from their semi-classic album “Born To Expire”. The intro of the song is hard and unforgiving and it’s a song about Clint Eastwood, how very cool is that.

Next up is 59 Times The Pain with the song Can’t Change Me. 59TTP were a cool Swedish band on Burning Heart Records. Over the course of their existence they gradually evolved from a typical hardcore band to classic punk not unlike The Clash. This song is from their album More Out Of Today which falls somewhere in between, which I think is their best stuff, sort of a best of both worlds thing. Can’t Change Me is classic hardcore with an underlying sense of melody which makes this song great.

Negative Approach shouldn’t need an introduction; they’re one of those old classic bands that you need to know about if you want to talk about hardcore. Can’t Tell No One is the first song on their self titled 7” record, which is considered one the best hardcore releases ever. One thing I find somewhat weird is that they recently played a reunion tour. It’s been over 20 years; I wonder what they did in the meantime.

Talking about NA, the next band has a lot of NA influences in their sound. I’m talking about Direct Control here off course, which have been called America’s answer to Dead Stop. It’s clear to hear why as they both played furious Reagan era hardcore. They even have a song about Reagan called Ronnie’s dead.

We continue fast & furious with skatecore thrashers Bones Brigade. To bad they called it quits last year after releasing 3 records. It was hard not to like the uncompromising 80s style skatethrash on their amazing record I Hate Myself When I’m Not Skateboarding. It was released on Porcell’s Fight Fire records which has since mysteriously disappeared. This is most unfortunate because it was a promising label with a bunch of cool bands like Porcell’s own Never Surrender.

Around the same time I first got to know Bones Brigade I also listened a lot to Between The Lines. A Belgium band with old NYHC influences, they never received the recognition they deserved and since the release of their excellent LP I never really heard from them again although they haven’t broken up. I suppose some band members were busy with Dead Stop in the meantime but now DS has quit maybe we’ll hear from BTL again sometime. I guess they just need a wake up call (haha)

Since we mentioned Dead Stop already a couple of times let’s throw in a song here; one of the more popular live songs, Reagan Youth, a cover by, you guessed it, Reagan Youth.

Hard Resistance are next with their eurocore classic Who Pays Your Bills. Eurocore was popular back in the nineties with a lot band coming out of Belgium, Holland & Germany. Even though back than it wasn’t called eurocore. By the beginning of the new century is was popular among newjacks & washouts to ridiculize this kind of hardcore but I guess by 2007 people like those are long gone from the scene anyway so who gives a shit right?

One of the few bands remaining from that era are Backfire! represented here with their classic track One By One. They released their last record in 2003 and they have recently signed to GSR and a new release is planned for 2008.

Another band from that era but from an entirely different scene were Congress. The legendary H8000 band has recently played their last show and together with Liar the last of the original flag bearers have quit. The song here is the fan favourite Conspiracy of Silence from the classic groundbreaking, earth shattering EP Euridium, a true milestone in hard music if there ever was one.

To conclude we’ll shove some metal up yours, here’s Anthrax with the classic Caught In A Mosh.

Check back soon for the B-Side!