Les Photonics was a band from Caserta(Southern Italy) active on the end of the 90s, they were playing a nice form of garage psych-rock with a very 60`s sound touching the surf wave with a good dose of splashed old rock`n`roll.
They released also a 7 inch in 2001 on Psych-Out Records
Italian independent psychedelic garage punk label since 1995, based in Ostuni (Brindisi), run by Cosimo Pecere.
This tape is crafted with 8 very catchy tunes, well recorded and well played. The cover sleeve reports a few info and some pics. A little obscure jewel for people into old school garage rock. To complete this post I am attaching a rare video. Enjoy it. ~f(a*r¬a:w{a)y_ click me
This is the second release by this fantastic Italian duo called Zona Industriale, I have already posted Materiali(85-87) and Requiem. A Discogs page about them is here, this tape was reprinted in 1996 by the mighty Slaughter Productions with the title "Pornografia: Materiali/Frammenti",I am posting here the cover sleeve that Marco Corbelli chose for this reprint.
Adn was an Italian electronic/experimental/industrial label based in Milan. ADN was run by Marco Veronesi, Piero Bielli and Alberto Crosta (with one Carla Crotti also involved at some point), although Alberto Crosta was the main international contact. I have posted a few productions by this old Italian label too.
This is an amazing tape documenting the live show of this fantastic band at the Social Squatted Centre of Udine(Northern Italy) on the 21st January 1989.
Try to describe the music by this great band is not easy, with thousands of various influences they play a very personal form of Avantgarde Art Rock, their live shows were explosive mixing improvisations and performances leaving the public struck with an assault of lights, costumes,body movements, improvisations and more genial ideas, changing all the time.
I was lucky to see them twice back in the 90s ,they blew everybody away. Their various productions are quite different music-wise,as well.
Indexing this tape was very difficult because many tracks are mixed up, it took me a long time and for whoever will get it then please read the notes that I have added. The recording is pretty amazing, delivering to us their full energy as a great live act.
To complete this post I am adding some info taken from a Wikipedia page dedicated to them + an old video from their Youtube Channel.
A very big thanx to Marco for giving me permission to post this astonishing live document.
Born during the New Wave era but with a very original music idea, Gronge has been groundbreaking of many music genres that evolved in the following years.
The name of the band, that prefers to define itself as a musical collective, originates from the roman slang and it means a boxer apparently defeated but who still has the strength for his last punch.
Their music style is been defined by themselves as tecknopunkcabaret because they mix in their shows music and theatre. Among the first bands to include in their compositions some samples,
they have been an epiphany for important Italian bands like Zu.
They have been, together with Franti from Turin, the first to propose the DIY/self-production in Italy.
Gronge, that from 2014 change its name in Gronge X, are still active.
In 2015 They have published a CD titled Manuale Di Imporvvisazione Per Giovani Socialisti released on Danze Moderne label.
Between 2015 and 2016, the Again Records reprints all their discography of the 80s and the 90s in two double cd.
Zona Industriale was an industrial group (two people) formed in Cosenza (south Italy) in 1983, and released 5 tapes album before became inactive in 1987: “IZ” (C60), “Neutro” (C45) (for ADN Tapes), “Sequenze” (C20), “Away” (C45) (for Bloedvlang Produkt) and “Requiem”(C45) (for Discipline Production). Tracks appear on some compilations in Italy, France and Netherlands. In 1996 the Slaughter Production re-releasing first on tape after on CDR (2003) the first tape “IZ” and after another two tapes: “Pornografia: frammenti/materiali” (1996) (C34), “Materiali 1985 - 1987” (C34) (1997). The first tapes of the group were noised and industrial from “Sequenze” the sound became more evanescent and ambient. Discipline Produzioni was
an early Italian industrial/experimental label run by Gianfranco Santoro (info from Discogs).click me
Cruentus was a Death/Thrash metal band hailing from Bari (Southern Italy)! It seems that they were active on and off until 2007. A Discogs page about them is here.
This cassette offers us 5 tracks of well-played thrash metal, the recording is also quite good and the folded cover sleeve reports info and lyrics.
Amazing double tape compilation with a bunch of great artists from the last century playing a weird mix of industrial, experimental electronics, new wave, dark ambient, post-punk,minimal synth and similar music genres.Limited and hand-numbered. It was released with 2 insert sheets.
Discipline Produzioni was an early Italian industrial/experimental label run by Gianfranco Santoro.
Production number 11 by this small Italian label covered in this blog many times now. This 90 minutes international sampler came out with a long booklet with a section reporting a few examples of police crimes, some articles about the subject and another section covering the bands(address, lyrics, pics, graphix).
Music-wise it is a very eclectic mix of bands and tracks exploring various music genres: hardcore punk, industrial, crazy electronics, ska, stoner rock, ragga, crust punk, garage rock, and more hybrids of this kind.
Eventually, to complete this post I am attaching here the introduction for this amazing compilation.
