Amazing graphix+poetries fanzine made with love and passion by Sergio,who was running Apnea distro and Katia, who was the headmaster of the zine La Banda dei Balordi. In this joint effort they work on some fantastic graphix connected with ideas/messages...the final result is a mix of emotions on paper with ink:very nice ideed! In Italian language ,only.
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Great compilation on a 60 minutes cassette by the legendary Flush Productions.A bunch of fantastic bands make this sampler tape a very good one.This compilation will make happy the lovers of a certain old-school punk-rock and HC punk! Big Thanks to Mark Terminus for sending this little jewel as gift, nice one. Enjoy it.
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Lately, I have been in touch with Paul Shiva, headmaster of the blog Capit Mundi, and therefore I discover his fantastic work.Paul is working on a digital archive of Italian anarcho-punk fanzines from the 80s! Here I attach his own introduction to such great project! Big Thanks to Babs for the english translation.(faraway)
“Fanzinet”: Toward the Definitive Mapping of 1980s Italian Fanzines
A mapping of Italian fanzines originating from the punk subculture during the 1980s is currently being developed—as part of a wider and more complex project - on Paolo Palmacci's Capit Mundi? webpage.
In Paolo's words, in that decade every fanzine constituted a "link" that functioned, in actual fact, like an IP address does today and - even if it used basic and essential "protocols" (such as telephone tokens and stamps) - that absolutely analogue network was every bit as good as today's world wide web precisely because these collages of images and texts written by hand and/or typed, mimeographed or photocopied, managed to almost magically make it possible a truly widespread interconnection between people (and between the various musical/artistic scenes spontaneously formed by them), amplifying the resulting creative exchange.
Paolo's research is totally carried out according to a "from below" perspective, essentially for two reasons: first of all because he was part - with his not very well-known bands of the most deep-rooted underground scene during the 80s and, therefore, this is his “natural” – so to speak - point of view, and secondly because of his consideration that this deluge of self-productions was a sort of “amniotic fluid" without which nothing, even what somehow emerged in the end, would have been possible.
A work of documentation performed with systematic and organic methods, which no one had previously planned or attempted to achieve on the web. To this day, Paolo has “recorded” approximately 670 fanzines, of which about 440 are available free of charge (in keeping with the DIY spirit which created them) in their entirety in PDF format for consultation and/or download.
Paolo tells us that anyone who would like to provide tips, information, news, documents, suggestions and corrections regarding his mapping is very welcome, as the aim is to ensure its widest possible implementation.
If that’s the case, please don't hesitate to write to Capit Mundi?(capitmundi@paolopalmacci.it)
Anyone who would also like to receive updates (mainly retrograde ones) can subscribe to the Capit Mundi Telegram channel by clicking herehttps://www.paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/blog_fanzine_elenco.html.
For direct consultation
Link to the Interactive Graphic Map:click here
Link to the alphabetical list of fanzines:click here
P.S.: Finally, Paolo tells us that he's planning to release a vinyl compilation entitled “No Capitulation” early next year, as part of his project. It will feature 8 tracks by obscure bands he discovered during his research. He literally described it as “the No New York of the Third Millennium”. Stay tuned!
The project CRISIS hailing from the UK and came to life after the recordings for ’Reactor4’ were finished. The album got his name from the notorious “Reactor 4” that ultimately caused what is commonly referred to as Chernobyl. For most of us, this is merely a name we connect with a nuclear disaster that happened long time ago. But in fact, it’s one of the most horrifying nuclear catastrophes mankind has experienced in recent history and this album is for us to see it that way again.
If you push the play button, you’ll be entering a desolate environment. In the beginnings, it feels almost like you’d be sort of examining the remnants after the catastrophe with a team of specialists, so from a more detached view, but then a disquieting dread about the cold, dehumanized nature of this place overcomes you. You’re starting to feel the terror that still haunts these ruins, the fear the employees must have felt, the fear of dying. As you walk on you can hear voices all of a sudden; muffled voices buried under the dust of decades, desperate cries and alarms sounding through the corridors like all of this is just happening. ‘Reactor4’ revives all these past events in your mind; makes them horrifyingly real. For that purpose, the project employs cold industrial sound sculpturing coupled to an array of overdriven electronic noises.
Also the voices aren’t a product of a vivid imagination; this is indeed original audio material from the Chernobyl disaster. In my view this underpins once more the graveness of the compositions. All that’s left to say at the end now is that the debut album of this mysterious new project marks an ambient highlight in a year that’s drawing close to its end. I am already looking forward to the next release.(review taken from Reflections Of Darkness webzine)
An interesting interview to this project is on the Syndrom Records blog. click me
A band from New York formed by South American Punx.This tape,very possibly,recorded in Mexico in 2025. 5 tracks of pure fast Hardcore Punk sung in spanish.For some reasons It is not on their Bandcamp Page. Enjoy it.
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