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"The more off the wall, speculative, metaphysical one can be, the more one is gonna help oneself to..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:22:57 +0000

“The more off the wall, speculative, metaphysical one can be, the more one is gonna help oneself to understand what is going on.”

- Paul Mason at LSE (via pulled-up)

yo emma, i’mma let you finish, but your dissertation was one of the best things i read last year

HAPPY NEW YEAR! New stuff in for 2012

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:21:00 +0000

Happy new year. Here are some singles and zines we JUST got in:

STAB – Nation rising 7”
Incandescent UK straight edge punk, faster than a speeding policeman

SALEM RAGES - Disturb not the sleep of death 7”
Members of Cold ones, SSS and Nowhere fast doing Misfits on the Mersey

SALEM RAGES – Our Halloween Flexi
Beautiful package of gloomy LA-esque hardcore from scousers w/ a pedigree

Plus ZINES:

LIMITED READERSHIP
Featuring: Milk Music, Condominium, Spike in Vain

NUTS 8

Huge newsprint zine with Art and words from Olympia, Milk music and White wards, comes with huge A1 poster

Thanks!

Pre-Christmas Distro Update!

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:10:00 +0000

New in the distro :

SINGLES

ART YARDS – The Law b/w Something in my eye 7”
Totally killer Mission of Burma Bostonian classy punk reissue.

CUFFS – Privilege b/w Archer
Rad, downer indie-pop from ex-Pants Yell! members

BLACK CLOUDS – s/t 7”
Wild n out garage barnstormers from Boston

SLUGZ – Suit and Tie 7”
Richmond, VA, rabid young upstarts, hyperspeed catchy hardcore

PIG HEART TRANSPLANT / ENDLESS BLOCKADE 7”
Mutant music for bad people, beautiful record.

MULLTUTE – s/t 7”
German surprise big-hitter, gruff vocals, stripped down raw punk

YOUR PEST BAND/ DEFECT DEFECT / GROANING GROOVE 7”
This Japanese/Portland mash up from melodic punk to hardcore, plus a whole bunch of Snuffy Smiles records are also in.

LPS

BRAIN F – Sleep Rough LP - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Artfully squirrelly riffs meet boy/girl trade off vocals, best LP of 2011 hands down

HOMOSTUPIDS – Orange
Ridiculous noise rock agit-prop form Cleveland’s finest.
THE ESTRANGED – Subliminal Man
Incredible catchy goth punk vibes from a post-Tragedy Portland

ZINES

EXCITEMENT LEVEL ZERO
Featuring: Crazy Spirit, Boston Strangler, Accept the Darkness

GOT MYSELF
Featuring: Night Birds, Wasted Time, Non-commercial Records

FIX MY HEAD - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
An indepth series of interviews with women in punk and hardcore, including women from Punch, Ampere, Deathrats, Good Throb, Battle of Wolf 359.

STILL AVAILABLE:

Koro - 700 Club 7”
Homostupids -Strawberry Orange Peach Banana LP
Secret Prostitutes - Mati Di Moskow 7”
Double Negative - Hardcore Confusion Vol I + II 7”
More Noize Zine
Modern Hate Vibe Zine

Maximum Rocknroll comes in monthly too, buy in the webstore or email to reserve.

We’ll ship anywhere, just email direrecords@gmail.com with any site problems!

New Releases

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:04:00 +0100

It’s been a while, but we are stoked to finally have three new releases out today. They are all 7 inches in diameter, all UK bands of different styles that we hope you will enjoy. One is the Abandon Ship – Of Time’s Turning Wheel four track 7”, our limited to 100 Dire version of which has been available for a couple weeks, containing the band’s classic raw and desperate hardcore that we think deserves a special unveiling. Another is the latest banger from The Love Triangle, a primordial three-dicked beast that tells of a Boomerang Girl, and finally the swansong from The Sceptres, a twisted, harrowing post-punk anomaly, this single is their goodbye record, two weird songs from four weird kids. We will have a few of these records at the Inservibles gig in London Tonight.

Here’s the skinny:

THE LOVE TRIANGLE – BOOMERANG GIRL 7” £4.00 Listen here

“Brand new single from this excellent English combo featuring a couple of Shitty Limits. Like their earlier tapes and single, these two songs combine the frantic energy of early punk like the Buzzcocks with the tossed-off quality of 60s Nuggets comps and a killer raw 4-track recording. I dare you to listen to this single and not be chanting “booma booma booma RANG! RANG! RANG! RANG!” for days afterwards. Includes an intriguing cover of a Kasenatz Katz classic. Complete with psyched-out acidic artwork unlike anything you’ve seen before. (US distribution by Sorry State Records) Order Here

THE SCEPTRES – CHILDSPLAY 7” £4.00

Listen here

“Final 7” from this British post-punk band featuring some familiar faces. While their earlier recordings had an upbeat, jerky sound somewhere between X-Ray Spex and the rawer early post-punk bands, these final two songs from the band are downbeat, dirgey, and downright depressing. You still get Ralph’s trademark weird guitar, but the emphasis here is on the dark atmosphere and brooding melodies. It’s a shame they’re done, as these two songs show an intriguing and unique change in direction. RIP The Sceptres.” (US distribution by Sorry State) Order here

ABANDON SHIP – OF TIME’S TURNING WHEEL 7” £3.50

Listen here

This new four song 7” by Abandon Ship picks up where their last material left off some three years ago. For the unitiated, this Brighton-based band rang rings around the unimaginative slop-pile that hardcore in the UK had become in the mid 2000s, upping the stakes for all. This record is the output of a temporary reformation before the band went their separate ways to new projects and continents. It contains four more ferocious, livid hardcore punk ragers that take the meditative hardness of genuine greats like Burn, Inside Out or Damnation AD and fuse that with extra switched-on punk bile. This is a co-release with our friends at Carry the Weight records, and the band themselves, and is limited to 100 copies. Order here

More than happy to trade for anything we’ll be able to shift, and sort out wholesale rates to anywhere in the world on all of the above, so get in touch about that by emailing direrecords@gmail.com Non UK/European trade/wholesale enquiries for the Sceptres and Love Triangle records, please go to www.sorrystaterecords.com

We have a whole bunch of neat things in the distro, particularly demo tapes and international punk zines, but only a few of each.

Distro Highlights

MOB RULES LP (US pressing on Sorry State records) £8

Stitches in my Head Fanzine (Aus/US hardcore zine) £1.50

More Noize 6 (the Uk’s premier Noise punk viewspaper) £1.50

Domestic Blitz Cassette Album (insane warped punk like the fugs meets the fall / hyperspeed Dr.feelgood in a black hole) £4.50

So Nails 6 - Hawaii based punk zine! £1.50

Hunger demo tape (repetition therapy 2 piece stomp rats) £2

You can reserve orders for pick up through the webstore at the following gigs, but write which gig in the paypal note:

16th Oct MEANS TO AN END 2011 (Saturday only)

22nd Oct GYC Last Shitty Limits Gig

23rd Oct Sectarian Violence (mems. of Coke Bust), Harbour (London)

COMING IN SOON:
Satellites of Love s/t 7”
Pig Heart Transplant / Endless Blockade 7”
Double Negative - Hardcore Confusion Vol I
Double Negative - Hardcore Confusion Vol II
Koro 7” THANKS!