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Thursday, 5 March 2026

ZOOTIC - Coisa Nenhuma (Difusion Libertaria La Idea-Spain-2001)


 16 songs of political songs Hardcore Punk by this Portuguese band from Estoril, active in the early 2000. The CD comes with a long booklet reporting lyrics and messages/scripts in Portugues and English about various political subjects.The graphic layour is pretty well done too and some drawings are really cool. Enjoy their post hardcore.

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Thursday, 19 February 2026

Travelling/Viagens (Mail Art Project and Exhibition-Portugal + Global Networking-2002)


 Amazing Mail Art documentation for the project "Travelling/Viagens" promoted by the Portuguese Organization For The Celebral Palsy. It came out as a CDr including all the artworks received for this project/exhibition. It is an amazing documentation, and I am attaching some excerpts from their introduction. For all the Mail Art lovers this is not to be missed. Enjoy it.

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The spirit of mail art is the total freedom.

Freedom of creation,ideas,concepts,limits,materials, techniques. Therefore,in substance of mail art is doesn`t have juries,it doesn`t have prizes r any type of classifications. At time,it is suggested to mail artists a subject,as it is the case. But given such freedom,all the proposals are respected and admitted. Also it was and it is the case.

The heading considered to the mail artists “Travelling/Viagens” was chose to try to translate the subject and the spirit of EUROLINE project. EUROLINE is an European Project supported for the Program Culture 2000 of The European Commission,with nine transnational partners,whose primary aim is toe create a line of cultural communication between as many countries and as wide a range of people as possible,including with social disadvantage and deficiency to work creatively in a series of challenging and exciting artists activities and events.


 

In result of all the invitations sent, it had answers coming from the 5 continents, on the part of 409 artists, representing 33 nationalities, in a total of 531 displayed works. In this genre of artists expression, the exhibition surely represents one of the carried through greaters already in Portugal, presented in the Museu Do Carro Electrico for the last three weeks of October 2002.

The event was organised by the Associacao Portuguese de Paralisa Cerebral(APPC) in Porto, who have previous experience in this form of art, in full connection with the EUROLINE partnership.


 


Friday, 23 February 2024

DOKUGA - Demo 07 - (Self Released-Portugal-2007)


 

Dokuga is a Portuguese crust punk band from Porto formed in 2007 by Kisto Kutabari on vocals, Banzai Mig on guitar, Oscar Gloom on bass and Arikiri Giró on drums.Their bandcamp page is here. This is their demo self released as CDr in 2007, 6 tracks of pure raw HC Punk sung in Portuguese. Aproveitar!

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Friday, 19 January 2024

Without Future? (Fanzine-Portugal-1993)

Anarcho-punk zine made in Coimbra(Portugal)in the early 90s. In This issue interviews to Hiatus, Agathocles and Sofa-Head + an article against the death penalty and music reviews. Photcopies and pencils,very old school yet cool. All in english language. Enjoy it.

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Wednesday, 1 March 2023

BUSTER Presents Tales Of A Headless Horseman - (Self Released-UK-2005)


 Buster is a DJ of Portuguese origin based in London, active since the late 90s,in his long music jouney he crossed various music styles touching the drum`n bass, the breakbeat and the deep bass dancehall oriented music.This cd is self released and presents a Breakbeat/Nu Skool Breaks mix from 2004/2005.

Buster is still very active playing festivals and parties in UK and Europe, at the moment he is also involved in SubFm radio with his amazing show BassPaths, sometimes with special guests. His radio shows can be found here. Enjoy the Heavy Breaks.

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Saturday, 5 June 2021

Renegados De Boliqueime ‎-1993/2001-(Puta Punx-Portugal-2001)


 Renegados de Boliqueime were a Portuguese punk band formed in 1993 by Frágil on vocals, Guerra on guitar, Libelinha on bass and Giró on drums, they recorded their first demo "Troco Deus Por Uma Cerveja!!!" in 1995, Libelinha is then replaced with Óscar but he only plays a few shows and is replaced by Rui, in 1997 they record their second demo "Assim Na Terra Como No Céu" in the following year they recorded a live album at the Hard Club in Porto which later released as a cdr, the band disbands in 2001, but have since then reunited for a few shows.(from Discogs) click me



Tracklist


Demo-Tape - Troco Deus Por Uma Cerveja - 1995
1 Troco Deus Por Uma Cerveja
2 Straightedge
3 Do Lado de Ninguém
4 Bófia
5 Desordem
6 Sofrer Até Morrer
7 Assassinos No Poder
8 Bêbado
9 Pet Sematary
10 Militar
11 Papa Cabrão

Demo-Tape - Assim Na Terra Como No Céu - 1997
12 Do Lado de Ninguém
13 Straightedge
14 Sofrer Até Morrer
15 Não Acredito Em Deu$
16 Bêbado
17 Militar
18 Troco Deus Por Uma Cerveja
19 Solidão
20 Hasta La Vitória

Gravação Pirata - Ao Vivo Em Ovar - 1996
21 Do Lado de Ninguém
22 Não Acredito Em Deu$
23 Animal Zoológico
24 Big-Women
25 Deixa-me Viver
26 Assassinos No Poder
27 Trabalho...
28 União E Força
29 Hasta La Vitória

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

11a Exposição De Arte Postal Século XXI-(Mail Art Documentation-Portugal+Global Networking-1999)

Massive Mail Art documentation released by the City Library of Barreiro in Portugal for their 11th Mail Art exihibition held from the 27th of November to the 18th December 1999.

The documentation is a 148 pages long book printed on glossy paper containing 726 Art Works received for their mail art project/exhibition from 38 different countries.

Very well done and professionally printed,this is a great example of Mail Art networking.Enjoy it.

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Sunday, 22 November 2020

Ras.Al.Ghul ‎– The Experimental Absorption Spectrum -(Tonspur Tapes -Germany-199?)

 
Ras.al.ghul born from the ashes of the electro-industrial group Croniamantal. This group started their activities in 1985 and the music was constructed aggressively obsessively, heavily linked with the industrial culture. 

Tonspur Tapes was a  German cassette label, run by Stefan Schwab, for experimental, industrial, and noise recordings. 

Enjoy it.

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Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Aphora ‎– Crematore -(Maldoror Tapes-Portugal-1996)


Amazing single side cassette by this obscure Portuguese project active in the 90s.6 tracks infusing acertain kind of industrial mixed with dark ambient and noise.
Maldoror Tapes was a small Portugese label founded by José Vilela, specialized in industrial, ambient and power electronics. All of their releases were extremely limited cassettes (typically 20 or 30 copies each), with a J-card made from an actual photograph, with the title and label number written in rub-on letters. A small photocopied insert was also included with each release, containing the tracklisting and other information.
Enjoy it.
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Tracklist


A1 Corpore Salvetur Et Mente 0:40
A2 Beneficia Inveniat Dominium 2:17
A3 Agios, Otios, Ischiros 1:18
A4 Á Crea 2:44
A5 Sabaot, Houmouzion 2:13
A6 Crematore 5:50

Credits

  • Performer [Collaboration By]David Rui
  • Written-by, Arranged By, Producer, Photography By [Photography Originals By], GraphicsJosé Vilela


Notes


Limited edition of 20 numbered copies.
Photograph cover with a photocopy insert.

Recorded and mixed by studio at L:C: in Bragança.

Sunday, 29 March 2020

Humor Cáustico-Ensaio(2001)-Gravação Directa-(Self Released-Portugal-2001)

Humor Cáustico was an HC Punk band from Oporto(Portugal) active last decade, I m  not sure if the music and images here were ever released as a  proper production, in fact, Rodolfo(the guitarist) passed these files to me as mp3s on a CD-R probably 13 years ago, since then I have lost touch with him.
18 tracks in this practise recording, pretty good quality and performance. Political lyrics are sung in Portuguese, powerful guitar riff, fast drums and energetic vocals: all the right ingredients for a great HC punk production.
I have posted a live production by this great band, you`ll find it here.
I am adding a few pics that were included with these files.
A big thanks to Rodolfo for this nice digital gift. Enjoy it.:f(a*r~a_w)a*y: click me




Friday, 6 March 2020

APHORA-Crematore-(Maldoror Tapes-Portugal-c40-1996)

Aphora was a Portuguese industrial project formed by José Vilela, also involved in these projects:Corvu Prettu, José Vilela, Karfreitrg, Lacrima Christi, Negrume.
With 6 tracks in this single-sided tape, Aphora plays a good mix of quiet noise and dark ambient reminding me of some old experiments of esoteric electronicks.
It was released in a limited edition of 20 copies with a photo cover and a xerox copy insert.
Maldoror Tapes was a Portuguese label founded by José Vilela specialized in industrial, ambient and power electronics. All of their releases were extremely limited cassettes (typically 20 or 30 copies each), with a J-card made from an actual photograph, with the title and label number written in rub-on letters. A small photocopied insert was also included with each release, containing the tracklisting and other information. (all info from Discogs)
Enjoy it.
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Tracklist

A1 Corpore Salvetur Et Mente 0:40
A2 Beneficia Inveniat Dominium 2:17
A3 Agios, Otios, Ischiros 1:18
A4 Á Crea 2:44
A5 Sabaot, Houmouzion 2:13
A6 Crematore 5:50

Credits

  • Performer [Collaboration By]David Rui
  • Written-by, Arranged By, Producer, Photography By [Photography Originals By], GraphicsJosé Vilela

Notes

Limited edition of 20 numbered copies.
Photograph cover with a photocopied insert.

Recorded and mixed by the studio at L:C: in Bragança.
 

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

ALVARS ORKESTER-Woodtrip-(SPH-Portugal-1992)

Alvars Orkester is the Swedish project by Jan Svensson and  Joachim Nordwall, both musicians involved in various labels and projects since the end of the 80s.
 SPH was a  tape label from Portugal, created by Fernando Cerqueira (a member of Ras.Al.Ghul) and featured a wide range of work from artists like Brume, Alvars Orkester and Maeror Tri. 
Here a review originally published on Soft Watch and then re-published on the Discogs page dedicated to this tape.
Enjoy it.
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Side A opens with the title track "Woodtrip". Waves of warm, muted sound sweep in, suggesting heat or isolation, The sound gradually builds, the waves flowing across each other in complementary washes, some deep and resonant, some higher-yet-dulled to give an overall pacifying effect. There is no beat, no rhythmic structure, merely wave-upon-wave of swelling sound. This night be described as New Age Industrial - it's a warm factory/machine sound. The depth of sound abates, leaving the higher tones to describe languid shapes and textures ethereal mists hiding unknown things - the thrill of possible danger coupled with an overall sense of security. "Dance In Halfway Under The Earth" swells in on darker, more Industrial sounds, and the higher pitches give it a desolate, isolated sound once more. Feedback flows through the sound, deep and rich, yet full of potential power, an understated threat that it could at any second smash through your speakers like a bolt of electric blue. These sounds follow each other, complementing each other despite their unusual qualities. It's a long & frankly wonderful piece of sound, reminding me of the little I've heard from ARCANE DEVICE.

Side B opens with "Ihn", rising on warm, even hot electronics a little like THROBBING GRISTLE did with their Industrial Introduction, although this is by far a less threatening, longer piece, twisting & turning through it's limited vocab. The machine sound loses it's subtlety, speaking in angry tones only other machines might comprehend. "Bhaktivizew" follows this, being the first of 4 tracks from 1988. A deep synthetic sound over which a continual patter of sound is heard. A noise penetrates & the whole structure concludes. "Amseeeer" has a basement of synthetic sound over which old dancehall music is played. This fades away & other synth noises, following neither tune nor rhythm puncture the sound, scrawling various images across it. "Teri" fades in on dark sounds, a little like some dark & potentially evil film soundtrack, "Quas" is a strange little thing, a rattling, muffled piece, very brief and hard to describe. Suffice to say it's a jumbled sound. "Lighthouse Service" concludes the album, returning us to the present - this is a 1992 piece. It swells & sprawls in warm shapes & textures, while a higher-pitched-but-distant sound flies across the entire swelling structure. It seems akin to DAVID MYERS' feedback music, and actually grows near a sort of ambient organ music (if there could be such a thing). A calming, warming sound with a strong, darker side to it.

To conclude, the closest comparisons I can come to are those mentioned above, especiallyARCANE DEVICE. If you are into MYERS music, then this is ,without doubt the cassette for you.

Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Croniamantal –Latnamainorc-(Ritual De Sombras-Portugal-1991)

Amazing obscure ritual dark ambient project from the crypt of the 90s.
I haven`t got much info about it yet this is gold.
Gonna attach the Discogs info and a video found on Youtube.
Enjoy it. 
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Tracklist

Credits

Notes

Official release by Ritual De Sombras from 1991, original recordings made in 1990.
Cassette is packaged in small handmade paper box with black and gold printed artwork on it.
This is a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies.
 

Saturday, 5 January 2019

dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS-Poda/Enco-(Associação Terapêutica Do Ruído-Portugal-2018)

I know dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS and Associação Terapêutica do Ruído since a few years now and I was thinking to make a post about them already last year, lately, I met in Lisboa Boris and Joao and I asked them to write something for this post. Today I am proud to present this band and their music releases+biography and videos. They play a very personal form of noisy free jazz mixed with art-rock and avant-garde propelled bass lines,obsessive guitar riffs + rhythmic weird passages.
As I was very curious about their name, I did dare to ask:  dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS  means "two reversed semi-quavers" or "two reversed sixteenth notes" (or "due semi-cromi invertiti;) and the original idea was to have just a symbol/logo with no name, but then at a certain point the symbol had to become a word and that's how we ended with this name:)
They have out quite a few releases, split tapes, and collaborations, all as a free download on their bandcamp page.

Here a short bio provided by Joao:
"Formed in 2007 by the same sick minds who created the hyperactive Associação Terapêutica do Ruído (ATR), their siamese entity which is dedicated to promoting DIY concerts and releasing and distributing records, the dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS (dSCi) are a collective of noise therapists based in Lisbon that have a curriculum almost as extensive and intense as their music: two EPs ("I" in 2008 and "II" in 2009), a tape (“SADITREVNiSAIEHCLOcIMEsSAUd“ in 2010), a LP (“4” in 2012), two split-tapes (“dSCi/Cangarra” in 2013 and “Chains Split Tape Vol. 2” in 2016), a single (“Poda/Enco” in 2018), a split-vinyl (“dSCi/Parpar split” in 2018), two live albums with their side project of electro-acoustic improvisationdOISsEMIcIRCUITOSiNVERTIDOS, participations in several compilations, countless european tours and hundreds of concerts in the most varied situations and places and with the most diverse groups and musicians, not to mention all the other projects to which they are or have been directly and indirectly linked during these years."

Their last production is a split vinyl with their friends PARPAR and I am attaching here their official press-release.

Associação Terapêutica do Ruído & A Besta present:








After having shared the stage on a number of occasions, including the recent Ñekñek Tour, the infamous dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS (dSCi) and the intrepid PARPAR have just released a split album together!


Recorded in October last year by maestro Milo Gomberoff at his Hukot studio in Barcelona during dSCi's KsChNpSk Tour and PARPAR's Tuktuk Tour and mixed and mastered by the master himself during the following months, the album was released on vinyl on the 18th November at Feira de Vinil de Lisboa, a vinyl record fair that took place at Mercado de Santa Clara in Lisbon.




The record, whose artwork was done by Katafu (Krafica), includes 4 tracks from dSCi: the already well-experimented “Jean-Louis is not a crime”, “Glut” and "Dr. Músculo” (aka "Mr. Muscle", which features the special participation of Pedro Arelo from PARPAR) and the new "Benco", a full version of the B-side track of the single “Poda/Enco” released last January; and 3 tracks from PARPAR with guest André Calvário (aka Jorge) on the bass: new versions of “STOSTO” and “PAIPAI” and the brand new “HUKHUK”, which was made during this recording session (and which is the first improvisation of the duo with a third element).



The vinyl edition is a partnership between the collectives Associação Terapêutica do Ruído (ATR) and A Besta and the labels Epicericords (France), Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? (France), Experimentáculo Records (Portugal), Gaffer Records (France), Lepers (Italy) and Panda Records (Thailand) and it can be ordered by mail through any of these labels (or found at some record stores and distros around the world). And the digital edition is available for free download through the Portuguese netlabel Enough Records (and also in the bandcamps of some of the labels involved on this joint release).
To complete this post I am going to attach here all the useful links about this amazing trio, they are often in tour therefore if it happens that they are in your town I recommend to go to see them live. Thanx to Joao and the rest of the gang for sending me all these info and their help.
Enjoy it.
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