ARTIMUS PYLE

artist: ARTIMUS PYLE (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 02 September 2000
length: 27 minutes (this includes more than 7 minutes of hanging out with room microphones picking up conversations between attendees and friends, some of whom are now dead)

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THE PATTERN

artist: THE PATTERN (Oakland, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 20 May 2001
length: 22 minutes

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RAKTA

artist: RAKTA (São Paulo, SP, BRASIL)

venue: SESC

location: São Paulo, SP, BRASIL

date: 02 June 2016

length: 42 minutes

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The video of this show has been widely circulated online, and is well worth your time. Cassette version released for their Japan/North America tour earlier this year...

AKIMBO

artist: TEEN CTHULU (Seattle, Washington, USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 02 September 2000

length: 21 minutes

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Note: the first couple of tracks are recorded so fukkd up that this sounds like a really not chill at all abrasive harsh noise session. Into it. 

ELEPHANT MAN

artist: ELEPHANT MAN (San Francisco, California, USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 16 December 2001

length: 30 minutes

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DESTRUCTION UNIT

artist: DESTRUCTION UNIT (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

venue: Shacklewell Arms

location: London, ENGLAND

date: 24 September 2015

length: 32 minutes

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Physical copies of this recording available through Ascetic House - pretty much the coolest cassette label in North America....in case you weren't aware. 

SILENT SERVANT

artist: SILENT SERVANT (Los Angeles, California, USA)

venue: ???
location: ???

date: ???

length: 41 minutes

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EXIT HIPPIES // SUN CHILDREN SUN

artist/s: EXIT HIPPIES & SUN CHILDREN SUN (Tokyo, JAPAN)

venue: Uguisudani & Ibaraki Anarchy

location: ?? JAPAN

date: ??

length: 33 minutes

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MUTILATED MANNEQUINS

artist: MUTILATED MANNEQUINS (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 20 October 2001
length: 36 minutes

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ABIGAIL // EFFIGY

artist: ABIGAIL: (Tokyo, JAPAN)

venue: Shin-Okubo Earthdom

location: Tokyo, JAPAN

date: 24 February 2007

length: 30 minutes

artist: EFFIGY (Tokyo, JAPAN)

venue: Shinjuku Antiknock

location: Tokyo, JAPAN

date: 04 March 2007

length: 29 minutes

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This tape is a bootleg of the version released by Black Konflik in 2007.

P.A.W.N.S.

artist: P.A.W.N.S. (Chico, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California USA
date: 30 December 2001
length: 17 minutes

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S.H.I.T.

artist: S.H.I.T. (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

venue: The Silver Dollar

location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

date: 23 October 2015

length: 17 minutes

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S.H.I.T. Set // Not Dead Yet

SCREAMING MAILBOXES OF DESTINY

artist: S.M.D. (Ingomar, Pennsylvania, USA)

venue: ??

location: ??

date: 27 April 1985

length: 44 minutes

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LÄRM

artist: LÄRM (Amersfoort, THE NETHERLANDS)

venue: ?? (Thrashfest)

location: Hoogeveen, THE NETHERLANDS

date: ?? 2005

length: 25 minutes

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DYSTROPHY

artist: DYSTROPHY (Milbrae, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 30 December 2001
length: 14 minutes

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MARSHSTEPPER

artist: MARSHSTEPPER (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

venue: MATA

location: Los Angeles, California, USA

date: 13 July 2013

length: 29 minutes

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HATE MAIL KILLERZ

artist: HATE MAIL KILLERZ (Hanford/Fresno, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 30 December 2001
length: 15 minutes (including a gratuitous two minute drum warm up and 100 seconds of people milling about after the set)

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ROCK AGAINST RACISM

artist: AUTONOMY // FRANTIC PUZZLE (Fullerton, California, USA)

venue: George Washington Community Center

location: Anaheim, California, USA

date: 25 July 1992

length: 61 minutes

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Recorded live in a time and place where things like "non-violence" and "anti-racist" were actual flash points and not just talking points....

DESTROY!

artist: DESTROY! (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

venue: THD House

location: Minneapols, Minnesota, USA

date: 01 March 1992

length: 27 minutes

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MUZZY

artist: MUZZY (Portland, Oregon, USA)

venue: KBOO Radio

location: Portland, Oregon, USA

date: 27 September 2013

length: 20 minutes

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True and absolute Freak Sounds....Je Suis Le Grand

TEEN CTHULU

artist: TEEN CTHULU (Seattle, Washington, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 19 August 2001
length: 22 minutes

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Excuse the 4+ minute intro, but sometimes the shit before the band plays is as good as the shit when they play, you know?

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS

artist: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS (Austin, Texas, USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 19 August 2001

length: 16 minutes

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"Now I'm in control....Microphone Control."

99¢

artist: 99¢ (California, Pennsylvania, USA)

venue: ??

location: ??

date: 24 February 1985

length: 32 minutes

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All I know comes from the scrawl on the front of the tape and a listing for a band with the same name on the Infernal Noise comp tape, also from 1985. If you ever wanted to draw a bridge between FEAR and VOID....here you go.

SIXTEENS

artist: SIXTEENS (San Francisco, California USA)

venue: Mission Records

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: 20 October 2001

length: 41 minutes

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Twenty years too late for the primitive industrial/synth their sound was rooted in, and more than a decade ahead of the current synth-punk explosion (see also contemporaries like VANISHING, MUTILATED MANNEQUINS, SUBTONIX), this band was genuinely weird, a total trip to see live, and would remain active in SF and Berlin for most of the '00s.

SCREAMING TREES

artist: SCREAMING TREES (Seattle, Washington, USA)

venue: Kennel Club

location: San Francisco, California, USA

date: ??, 1988

length: 61 minutes

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Middle of the road recording quality, but the overwhelming and relentless wall of guitars is still noteworthy. Tracks mostly from "Even If And Especially When" and "Invisible Lantern," for those interested in such things.

SWAMPSURFERS // THE VERNON WALTERS

artist: THE VERNON WALTERS (Hoorn, THE NETHERLANDS)

venue: Boerderij-Geleen

location: ??, THE NETHERLANDS

date: ??

lemgth: 30 minutes

artist: SWAMPSURFERS (Sittard, THE NETHERLANDS)

venue: Boerderij-Geleen

location: ??, THE NETHERLANDS

date: ??

length: 29 minutes

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Both recordings released on a cassette to benefit and raise awareness for Greenpeace.

Stand Up Tapes 002

THIS COMPUTER KILLS

artist: THIS COMPUTER KILLS (Reno, Nevada, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 06 January 2002
length: 24 minutes

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IRON LUNG

artist: IRON LUNG (Reno, Nevada, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 19 August 2001
length: 18 minutes

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Should he change a string or should we just, uh...stop?

SKINNAY ENNIS

artist: SKINNAY ENNIS (Hollywood, California, USA)

venue: Hotel Astor

location: New York City, New York, USA

date: 23 September 1947

length: 25 minutes

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ABC Radio broadcast, with introductions and between song banter from the emcee.

S.N.F.U.

artist: S.N.F.U. (Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)

venue: Uptown Bar

location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

date: 02 Jan 1992

length:

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An excellent side benefit of ripping live tapes that Mark recorded in Minneapolis is catching bits of his commentary during the sets.

MARSHSTEPPER

artist: MARSHSTEPPER (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

venue: La Capsa

location: El Prat de Llobregat, Catalonia, SPAIN

date: 01 November 2014

length: 26 minutes

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More information about MARSHSTEPPER and related projects here.

THE CONTROL

artist: THE CONTROL (Buffalo, New York, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 12 January 2002
length: 19 minutes

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