Punkanada: 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Death Of Gods - A world Of One Divided By All 7" EP

I've been having a lot of trouble uploading for a while, the Internet in Uganda is crap these days. After 20 tries I finally got an 11mb file uploaded! Welcome to Africa!

Another Onterrible band, Mississauga to be exact. Also known as D.O.G., they played melodic thrash. They released a demo tape and this 7" EP. There is suppost to be 10 songs but tracks 4 and 5 are as one, although you can't really tell. The sound is not so good on this one, I tried to clean it up but it ended up sounding worse so I just left it as is. I imagine the original recording was also bad.

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Hatebreeders Records, 1988

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Negative Gain - Back From The Dead

After another lenghty break here's Negative Gain from Toronto. Fast and thrashy crossover type hardcore similar to MDC, DRI and the like. A fitting post for Halloween.

Pusmort, 1986

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Ruggedy Annes - Jagged Thoughts

Ok, I haven't posted anything for a while so here's one that was hard to find. Winnepeg's Ruggedy Annes, an all girl band that I saw play once. Yes, it was posted somewhere else first and yes, I do have an original copy.

Tabb Records, 1985

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Friday, January 27, 2012

GUS - Hetero Bash Was Flipper 7" EP

Here's another one from Gus, this time a cool 4 song 7" EP.

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Slow To Burn Records, 1994

Punkanada

You grew up in Regina of all places? Yes, and it wasn't as lame as you might think. There was no where else to go between Winnipeg and Calgary so we got all the bands coming through. I lived in a house with some friends and we had a deal with one of the promoters, we got into the shows for free if the bands could stay at our house. There were a lot of bands and a constant party so some of the post may or may not be correct due to memory failure!

You will need Winrar to extract the files or you can use 7-Zip which is free.

A lot of this music has been reissued on CD. If you like the music then please support the band and go buy it!

If you own the rights to any of this music and don't want it posted here, leave a comment or email me and I will remove it.

About me

It all started in 1981 or 82 in Regina, I was listening to the Clash and bands like that. I went with some friends to a house party and saw a local band called Diplomatic Immunity and that was it for me. I fell in love with the music and the messege and have been listening to it ever since. At the time I didn't have much money so had very few records. The first 3 records I bought were Black Flag Damaged, The Exploited Punks Not Dead and The Subhumans No Wishes No Prayers. In the late 80's I was listening to a lot of metal but got back into punk in the early 90's. I moved to Vancouver in 1990 and searched the city for punk vinyl. I did quite well and now have about 200 -300 records including a sealed copy of No Means No Mama and The Subhumans Incorrect Thoughts!

I am currently living in Entebbe, Uganda in East Africa.