In my dreams I´m always running

Hardheaded Soul

Can´t find much on this three-to-four-piece from Eindhoven, Holland. (This is their site: http://www.dse.nl/~kolonne/msp/muziek/hhs.htm)
They started in the early 90´s, toured across Europe including the Balkans and Russia and their singer and bassist Martin S. Past travelled twice around the globe on a bicycle. However, to my attention they came not by their velocypedal prowess but through a flexi that supplemented an issue of Austria´s leading Hardcore fanzine Flex´s Digest. (Now if I could only find this flexi, I´d be presenting it here as well, but frankly, the chances are slim.) Sacro Egoismo obviously took a liking to HHS, since they also brought out a 7" in 1995 , which is the one we have here - Waiting for the Black Train Jack .

With their dominant rhythm section pushed and shoved forward by it´s powerful noisy bass, one could compare HHS to No Means No or the Amsterdamian polyrhythmic fringe core of The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans but Hardheaded Soul just let out more raw howling emotion and they were - well, yes - a bit more soulful than these bands. If "Emo" actually had a heart we could even glue that oft´ derided term to those Hollanders.
The organic interplay of four musicians really working together must have made them a massive force live, evidenced by the B-side of this here single which was recorded in a venue in Zürich, their touring power captured quite well on vinyl.

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For this single Hardheaded Soul were:
Martin Scheet Past - vocals and bass
Len - gitaar
Short Kees - drums
Tall Kees - gitaar





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So if you´re in for a hearty treat of Bulldozer Blues, clicketyclick here:

>>>Hardheaded Soul - Your Money is a Monster

and here:

>>>Hardheaded Soul - Missing In Action


The cover to the single was a wraparound poster with red´n´black art and the lyrics. I took it on me to scan it piece by piece and stitch it back together digitally, for you to marvel at it´s expressive power. The whole affair´s ready for download >>>here







(And if anyone could point me in the direction of more of their material I´d be eternally grateful)

You shan´t blow up the embassy

not even in celebration of 30 years of islam-fascism.
An addendum to the previously posted "Get rid of" album: Three songs from the first 7" of Those Who Survived The Plague, that live from the duetting powers of Astrid and Gerald. Great A-side with the tumbling "Joke Paket" and a ripping cover of The Fearless Iranians From Hell (Texas)´s hit tune "Blow up the Embassy". (You could get the original at 7inchpunk)
The amok-scenario on the B-side is of somewhat lesser appeal- Alice Donut were more successful with this sort of thing.


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In ´93 TWSTP were:
Andreas «Mops» Breitwieser - guit.
Günther Castanetti - dr.
Astrid Hammer - voc.
Werner Khol - eb.
Gerald Waibel - voc.


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Download the "Genealogical Research By..." EP here:
TWSTP - Jokepaket
TWSTP - Blow Up The Embassy
TWSTP - Everyday & Everywhere

Sacro Egoismo 89-92

Today, Doris Knecht is a professional young mother and writes a lifestyle column for young urban families. I don't read that crap.
Had I known what would become of this lovely smoky, dispassionate voice, I wouldn't have liked the Pirates' jangly Pop-Hardcore record as much as I did. Then. 1992. Sitting in my young person's bedroom.
On this here tape you'll find three songs from that record.

Sacro Egoismo was the main distributor of Austrian Hardcore in the early 90ies and eventually grew into a label/mailorder/shop/fanzine "empire".
Imperator Tiberiju had contacts to the scene in former (or then rather falling apart) Yugoslavia and so his first release in 1989 was the "The Return of Yugoslavia" compilation with bands from the region. Later came a Motus Lp, but that was a financial fizzer as the Australians say (as the online dictionary suggests). (Motus are still going strong in the zeroes - see here . On Corpus Delicti you can get their first demo tape)
Of the austrian bands the best known beyond our borders probably would have been Cold World - a white-undershirt clad, baseball bat wielding tuff guy troupe influenced by early grindcore.
The bigots in the austrian scene somehow missed the irony involved and consequently rather resented the band - ah, the golden era of the PC crusades. Cold World in 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clJ8uUyUQFs

But Sacro Egoismo never was limited to HC as you'll find when listening to this roundup. There's more jangliness by the Bicycle Thieves, but most importantly there are three songs from the second claustrophobic Extended Versions album. Brilliant, brilliant stuff by those two total refusers of military service (as the online dictionary suggests) - freejazzer and freeform electronica master Christof Kurzmann and guitarist and drumcomputer operator Helmut Heiland.

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A01- Target Of Demand - Heaven.mp3
A02- Cold World - But Jealous Still YouAre.mp3
A03- Cold World - Disgusted.mp3
A04- Extended Versions - Ice Man.mp3
A05- No Fish On Friday - Street Sold.mp3
A06- Strelnikoff - Sayne Ikkorumovidax.mp3
A07- Pirates - Crash Through.mp3
A08- Bicycle Thieves - Liquid.mp3
A09- Motus - Hala.mp3
A10- Heiland Solo - I Talk.mp3
A11- Heiland Solo - The Truth.mp3
A12- Sons Of Ishmael - Ohio.mp3
A13- Extended Versions - Tell Me.mp3
A14- Cold World - Sailin.mp3
B01- Pirates - At The Other Side Of Ignorance.mp3
B02- Zenevski Dekret - Necu Da Budem Dlo Jebene Mase.mp3
B03- Bicycle Thieves - Losing My Religion.mp3
B04- Heiland Solo - Insanity .mp3
B05- Motus - Grad Dosade.mp3
B06- Motus - Dan Poslije.mp3
B07- Target Of Demand - Sicher Pt1.mp3
B08- Extended Versions - Mother Sky.mp3
B09- It - Tawken Hookah.mp3
B10- Heiland Solo - Retired.mp3
B11- Cold World - Cold World.mp3
B12- No Fish On Friday - Phoenix From The Dirt.mp3
B13- Pirates - Johnnys Gift.mp3


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The Pirates - Crash Through on Box.net
Get the tape, scans and all, in two parts here and here