Sucked Off In Suomi 1980-2017 - Discographies, Demos, Rehearsals, Live: Eristetyt, Kauneus & Terveys, Klimax, Raygun, Saaste, Sabotasi, Sekaannus, SOS, Traitor, Valtiokolhoosi (320 / Mid-Bit)


Sekaannus write-up (the other bands aren't listed on Finnipedia yet) - "Confusion was a punk band from Pirkanmaa. They operated from 1983 to 1989 and again in 2008. Confusion played with lyrics that took on a slow hardcore punk. They were initially known as Sekasorto. The band was formed by four high school students in 1983, but soon the ensemble formed a bass-free trio (Ari - vocals, Hate - guitar, Sam - drums), with which the first gigs were also played. New singer Juha soon joined the band and Ari switched to bass.

Members of Confusion became acquainted with the like-minded Massacre, which was devoid of a drummer. The bands decided to combine their money and started making records in the spring and winter of 1984. The recordings were made in one day at the Pro studio in Ruutana, Kangasala. Each band recorded three songs. The recordings were made under the watchful eye of Vellu from Rattus. Sami also played drums on Massacre tracks. The result was a quicker hardcore punk with limited playing skills. The album was released in early 1984 in an edition of 300 copies, with a repress soon after.

Around 1984–1985, Sami and Harri exchanged instruments. Samin switched to guitar and Hate to drums. In the summer of 1985, the second EP was recorded at the Urjala Laser Studio, where six songs were recorded during the day, the first three of which ended up on a one-sided 7 "EP released the same year. On the record, the band took a step towards a slower, slightly post-punk style. In the same year, Hate left the lineup and was replaced by Mikko on drums. With this ensemble, the band released the three-track Eksyneet, recorded in Tampere by JJ-Studio and released through Saligainen Stigma, in 1986. The album included the songs Jääkaappi, Häkkinen, and Enemy Of Violence. Of these, Häkkinen is perhaps the band's best-known song.

In 1987, the singer changed from Juha to Hate, and at the turn of the year 1987–1988, the band recorded about 10 songs in the same JJ studio, resulting in a 12" MLP which was also released through Stigman. Remaining songs from the session were released on a compilation album in 1989 and an additional EP. In 1988, the lineup changed again. Sami switched to drums, in addition to Hate singing on guitar, Mikko moved away. Ari continued on the bass. The band decided to make their expression simpler and the result was a tape of straight HC-punk, which was recorded in Salo in 1989. The tape is still unreleased. During its six-year history, the band played 30–40 gigs, the last of which was a gig in Puntala in the summer of 1989.

The band reactivated in 2008 and released a new split EP with Massacre that included a Finnish version of a song by The Mob. In the new line-up Ari played bass, Hate went to backup vocals and guitar, Juha did main vocals, Mikko drummed and Sami played 2nd guitar. Confusion also played some gigs after the release of the EP at Tampere's Vastavirta Club and in Helsinki's Darkside."

Voluminous Aggregation: Ten Aural Anthologies 1983-2010

Heal For Unality Touhoku CD 2011


Curing tsunamis with a tsunami of noisecore, raw crust, and parasoicial clout chasing, with Death Dust Extractor, Stagnation, Isterismo, The P.O.P., Persevere, Unarm, System Fucker, Last Sentence, Raw Distractions, Asocial Terror Fabrication, Tantrum, Reject, Massgrave, D-Clone, Framtid, People, Filthy Hate, Akka, Folkeiis, Contrast Attitude, Last, Zenocide, Zyanose, Bad Dirty Hate, Proletariart, Skizophrenia, and Chaotix....

Kerrang Britcore Special '87






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John Duncan - "Pleasure Escape" Tape 1984/1985 (With Complete Booklet Scans)



"John Duncan is a multi-media artist currently living in Bologna (Italy). His body of work includes performance art, installations, contemporary music, video art and experimental film, often involving the extensive use of sound. His music is composed mainly from shortwave radio, field recordings, and voice. He was born in Wichita, Kansas to parents of English and Scottish ancestry. He was raised with a strict Calvinist upbringing where self-reliance, hard work and the suppression of emotional suffering were considered virtues. Questioning authority was severely punished. In his teens he studied figure drawing and painting together with psychology and the physics of light. His first contact with experimental music was the Jacques Lasry LP 'Chronophagie', discovered in the record bins of the Wichita Public Library. At 19 he left for Los Angeles to attend CalArts, where he studied under Allan Kaprow.

Duncan left the United States for Tokyo in 1982, where he continued his performance work, and expanded his experiments with shortwave broadcasts and film. The music he produced in this period led to collaborations with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter, and a number of Japanese noise music artists, including Masami Akita, Keiji Haino and Hijokaidan. His solo recordings and live concerts from this period establish him as one of the early pioneers of Japanese noise, the first non-Japanese to work in the genre. It was also here that he began to deliberately limit the exhibition of his visual art to public arenas, such as men and women's public toilets, combining graphic war images with commercial pornography to emphasize links between them (some of these stalls were frequented by men from government offices, the banking sector, and the fashion industry).

In the mid-1980s he began pirate radio and television broadcasts with portable custom-made transmitters he built himself, operating illegally from apartment block roofs in central Tokyo and an abandoned US Army hospital near Sagamihara, as well as periodic broadcasts made from his own home. Radio Code broadcasts featured the early live work of musician Keiji Haino and Butoh soloist Hisako Horikawa, which were also relayed throughout Tokyo via other pirate radio stations, particularly Radio Homerun in Shimokitazawa. Television broadcasts were transmitted from central Tokyo rooftops over the frequency assigned to NHK 1 after the station had concluded its broadcast day, limited to 12 minutes in order to avoid contact with Tokyo police."

Kotsen - "Attack Of The Savage Hoard" Demo 1985 (With Scans)


Swiss Sekunda covering an ambient Brigado Do Odio.
Menthol sherm sticks are less fucked up than this tape...


Lama - Discography, Demo, & Live 1980-1983


"Lama (Recession) is a punk rock band that was founded in Helsinki's 'Puotila' in 1977 and was active until 1983. The original line-up was Jari Kronholm, Timo Eno, Timo Peräniitty, and Jarkko Hämäläinen (Jarko was soon replaced by Jusa Ranta). Rane Raitsikka was also in the final stage of the group. Their rehearsal facilities were in Helsinki's 'Bat', and their records were released by the Johanna Company. Lama managed to release four seven-inch singles and two LPs in the 1980s, their most famous song is on the same-titled single 'Truth can be found in oatmeal'. This song ended up in a TV commercial for an oatmeal brand, but covered by a different band."