In Media Res N9-(Fanzine-Croatia-1997)

In Media Res was a small punk fanzine edited by Mark Strpic in Zagreb on the end of the 90s.

In this issue you`ll find a spanish punk scene report,an interview to Selfworth fanzine and the american band Retallion,reviews of tapes and 7inches,a report about Villa Squat in Thessaloniki(Greece) and more random thoughts.

A small yet very creative fanzine.

Here the introduction to this issue.
Enjoy it.
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TERMINUS-Live at Queens Hotel-Scunthorpe-19.03.1988+TERMINUS-Live at Queens Hotel-Scunthorpe-19.10.1991-(Not On Label-c60-UK-1992)

Here two live recordings by the mighty Terminus,a band already covered in this blog,in fact I just love their music and attitude.I wrote about them when I posted the very rare tape Hands Up For An early Grave, after that post I got in touch with Mark(the singer/guitarist) and He kindly donated to this blog 3 other rare tapes First Demo(1984),Catalogue of Crime(1985) and Body Count(1986).

I am now very happy to share those two other jewels,two gigs at Queens Hotel in Scumthorpe,the recordings are pretty good and in fact this tape delivers us their full energy as live act.

For all of you curious to know more about this astonishing band I can just suggest you to visit their nice webpage where you can read their biography,discography,interviews and more related issues. 

To complete this post I must give all my gratitude to Mark for giving me permission to post those amazing live documents.
Enjoy it.
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live at queens hotel-1988 
live at queens hotel-1991 

 

ETICA ASCETICA-10 Years Anniversay Tape,The Worst Of...-(1000+1 Tilt-Greece-c90-1999)

Etica Ascetica(Ascetic Ethics) is another name for the ghost collective E.A., I spoke about this project many times now posting all the tapes and some of their art-fanzines. 

This tape, as the titles refer, was a celebration for 10 years of activities, it is a compilation of songs taken from the other tape-works released previously. It was compiled by Raff during the summer 1999 and then released by Iason on his cool label 1000+1 Tilt in Greece on the end of the same year. 

Enjoy it.
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a01- Tribal Conviction's End
a02-Silvia Barsi recites a Pablo Neruda `s song
a03-Fragment taken from-Pestilentia Urit Urbem
a04-tesi circonstanziate
a05- Lenses Stained With Blood
a06-Fragment taken from E.A.-Herb Mullin split tape
a07- A Waterfall of Emotions
a08-Cielo ambrato-latte
a09-Fragment taken from Pornohorrors
a10-Finestre sulla pena
a11- Traüm
a12-Cerchio di coscienza
b01- Your Voice by Mail (part I)
b02- Drops of Ashes
b03-Fragment taken from Diskarika Screaming
b04- A Flight of Steps in Your Body
b05- Just Another Prey
b06- Haemorrage Yourself
b07-Oasi finale del rantolare
b08-Poncif(luogo comune)
b09-fragment taken from Culver-E.A. split tape
b10- Angry Voices, Happy Voices

 

NO MAS EXCUSAS-(Mail Art Project-Global Networking-1991)

NO Mas Excusas was a mail art project lauched by the Uruguayan Mail Artist Clement Padin on the end of the 80s and terminated with an exhibition and this documentation in 1991.
A small biography taken by Wordpress.
"Clemente Padín was born in Lascano, Uruguay in 1939. He is a poet, performer, designer, video- and multimedia-artist, and art critic. He studied Spanish Literature at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. In 1967 he made first experiences in the field of Mail Art, exchanging publications with Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Guillermo Deisler and Dámaso Ogaz. In 1969 he published the magazine “OVUM” as well as postcards and visual poems. During the Military Dictatorship in Uruguay he organised the first Latin-American Mail Art exhibition in 1974 at Gallery U in Montevideo. With his fake postal stamps he doomed the dictatorial regime for its brutal suppression of human rights. This might have lead to his imprisonment from August 1977 to Novembre 1979. Mail Artists from all around the world protested against it.
In October 1983 he showed the public his artistic activities in the exhibitions “1. Mai” in Uruguay. After that he organised the Latin-American and Caribian union of Mail Artists, founded August 31, 1984 in Rosario, Argentina. Since then Padín has been participating in hundreds of Mail Art exhibitions worldwide.
“Mail Art is not made for the art marked, it is there to be consumed and communicated. It is impossible to reduce the artistic to political or social interests. The political content of art is inseperably bound to the artistic content. Mail Art shows itself as a form of social consciousness.” Clemente Padín (translation by MAI)"
You can read a very interesting interview to this artist on Iuoma.org
In this documentation you`ll find a very good article about :Networking, MAil Art and Human Rights in Latin America.(in spanish and english).
Enjoy it.
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RADIKALNA PROMJENA-Jaki Ljudi Ne Trebaju Vođu-(Self Released-Croatia-1997)

"RADIKALNA PROMJENA (eng. Radical Change) was an important DIY anarcho-hardcore-punk band, with some dub elements in their music, from Zagreb, Croatia.

One of the founders of the band and the vocalist/songwriter is Domagoj Šeks. He was son of the Vladimir Šeks, that was president of Croatian parliament and still is now very influential politician in Croatian government and 'the word on the street' is that Domagoj, his son, had a really big problem to live with the fact that he is his son, so perhaps that is the reason, why is this tape full of very honest & constructive rebellious attitude against government & society stupidity that (still) gets rapidly even worse every day. Domagoj Šeks tragically died in 2005 in India, because some local group of people, that didn't like him, put the poison in his tea. Some of other Radikalna Promjena members formed dub band called Radikal Dub Kolektiv."(from Pouludjela Pankcina blog)

5 tracks of furious political HC punk, well recorded, all the info in Croatian language only on the cover sleeve of this great cassette.

Enjoy it.

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MARCEL HERMS & MARC VAN ELBURG-Feedback Distortion-(De Hondenkoekjesfabriek-Holland-2004)

Here the marvellous art-opera of the sublime duo Marc Van Elburg and Marcel Herms.
Expect noise,industrial,weird frequencies,odd loops and more genial passages.

It came in a very spacial folder with cartboard printed label and a 40-page booklet with 'art brut' drawings, packaged in a plastic sleeve.  

De Hondenkoekjesfabriek seems to be the label associated with the Dutch noise project called Fck'N'Bstrds*.

Xs4all.nl is the webpage by Marc Van Elburg where you can check his great drawings and art-works,you`ll find it here. 

The booklet give us an insight of his own strange yet very nice drawings and art.
An exquisite piece of art-brut plastic+papers.
Lovely.
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MAHIMA-Mahima-(Self Released-Italy-1992)

Mahima was an Italian punk band active in the 90s, I do not know if they released anything else besides this cool demo.

It has a good recording and its cover sleeve includes their political lyrics/ideas too.

Enjoy it.
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