Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Jiraltan99

Translating literally to "Mad Bullet 99," which is the Korean term for a gas grenade, Jiraltan99 is a name that stirs up weird feelings in Korean people. Once while at work my boss caught me with a Korean dictionary translating the song "바보처럼 살련다" ("Live Like Idiots"), and he simply said "Don't listen to that song." He was simultaneously offended by the band name, the song title's implication, and the disrespectful verb tense of the song. It doesn't take a lot to offend people in South Korea.

These guys were the flagship skinhead band of Korea in 2003 and 2004, when Captain Bootbois vocalist Donghyun was in the army. They were a great live band, partly for their preference of vocals in their native tongue and partly because everyone who saw them play tended to know all the vocals themselves.




Their vocalist, Seungpa, was basically the Korean Joe Hawkins--he was wild, unpredictable, and always up for either verbal or physical sparring.



He had a, uh, special relationship with me, and would always taunt me by reminding me that my name, Jon, is a popular Korean name for pet dogs. In retaliation, I named a kitten after him:



In retaliation, he nicknamed my then girlfriend (now wife) "Mongol Mary."



Unfortunately he was one of those guys who would be all skinhead as fuck one year, and then the next year he'd sober up and try to stop being a jerk. When I first saw Jiraltan99, Seungpa was sporting a pompadour, and a tattoo I'm sure he regrets by now:



Still, it never kept him from taking his shirt off on stage. A few months after that picture, he shaved in again for a year or so, then he officially went into the Skinhead Retirement Plan: rockabilly.



At that point, he gave up the band, and never got back on stage, not even for his new genre of choice. Jiraltan99 was finished, without leaving us a quintessential recording--except for one song on the Skunk Label compilation, and one poorly recorded split album with a band I've never heard of.

The remaining members, Seokyoon and Jongwook, started their own band, Dirty Small Town, who will be spotlighted on this site in the near future. However, Dirty Small Town lacked a good frontman, with the guitarist and bassist switching off vocals a little too frequently to follow along with and leading to the feeling that they're just backup vocalists and their lead singer is offstage. To their credit, they released a good EP with some well-produced songs. Still, their only good shows were when Seungpa jumped back on stage and sang "바보처럼 살련다."

Download the one good Jiraltan99 song, and their half of the split album here.

Friday, January 23, 2009

V.A. - Rescue Ladders & Human Barricades Vol.1 Tape (1985)(TCR 01)

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Classic Filipino punk comp.

V.A. - Rescue Ladders & Human Barricades Vol.1 Tape (1985)(TCR 01)
01 - Modern Fishballs - Urban Bandits
02 - No Excuses - Wuds
03 - Betrayed By You - Betrayed
04 - I'm Gonna Get Your Girl - Dead Beat
05 - Rock-N-Roll Machine - Private Stock
06 - Bloody Nutter - Sex Militants
07 - Guilty To Interupt - Public Scandal
08 - Urban Assault - Betrayed
09 - I Won't.. - Dead Beat
10 - Hoy - Urban Bandits
11 - You Made A Mistake - Sex Militants
12 - We (Just Like Before) - Wuds
13 - Future Generation - Private Stock
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Punkutopia Sale!


Rock'N'Oi! is no more, Vulture Rock's Store has bitten the dust and Anti-Unlimited is now only selling old inventory off on ebay. Who's next? Punkutopia, Punk Core Record's Online Store is now having a huge Clearance Sale. This is a bittersweet event but they are selling a huge amount of brand new sealed CDs,EPs, and LPs for under 10 dollars. Pick up all those old punk and Oi! cds you have been meaning to get for super cheap prices!
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Monday, January 19, 2009

V.A. - Up The Oi!

This is the Up The Oi! - Japanese Skinhead Compilation Album. It has alot of well known Japanese Oi! bands each doing one of their own songs and one classic cover. Being looking for this one for a while.

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V.A. - Up The Oi!
01 - Youth - Booted Cocks
02 - Music For The Bootboys - United We Stand
03 - Oppressed Youth - The Solution
04 - All Your Life - Oi! Valcans
05 - Skinheads - Strong Crowd
06 - I Never, You Never - Raise A Flag
07 - Rip Off - Raise A Flag (Sham 69)
08 - The Trooper - Strong Crowd (Iron Maiden)
09 - Little Bitch - Oi! Valcans (The Specials)
10 - Skinhead Times - The Solution (The Oppressed)
11 - Razors In The Night - United We Stand (Blitz)
12 - Dirty Old Town - Booted Cocks (The Pogues)
Download

Finished Updating

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I updated all of my links so they should all be working now. If you find one that doesn't comment so I'll notice. Now I'll start on new stuff again. Cheers!!

The Gags

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The Gags are a anarcho/streetpunk band from Jakarta. They formed on June 6th, 1999 and are heavily influenced by both the newer streetpunk style bands (i.e. casualties,the virus) and the older full on anarcho bands(i.e. crass, conflict). I've been following them for a long time and still don't have a proper release. I'm giving you guys some assorted tracks by them and if you would like to share, please do.

http://www.myspace.com/thegagstreetpunk

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The Gags
01 - Die for Freedom
02 - Stay Punk Stay Free
03 - All Nation Death
04 - Fuck Government
05 - Gags Anthems
06 - Kawan
07 - Komunitas Bendera Hitam
08 - We're the Punk

Download

Monday, January 12, 2009

Turtles Jr

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Turtles JR is a older hardcore punk band from Bandung. They've been around since 1992 and spew noise along the likes of The Exploited, The Varukers,... etc. They have also recently released a new album entitled, "Bintang Mati"

www.myspace.com/turtlesjr

Line Up:
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Discography:
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Turtles Jr Tracks
01 - Norma Tua
02 - Married
03 - Get A Life
04 - Fuck Your Friends
05 - Die My Girl
06 - Bakar
07 - Anjing Goblog Tai Babi
08 - Turtle Jr
09 - Terbelakang
10 - Police F.O.
11 - Kuyangora
12 - Kuya Ngora
13 - Keparat
14 - Gila
15 - Get A life (Window)
16 - Diet To Fuck
17 - Bunuh Dirimu
18 - Anarchist Pray

Download

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Friday, January 9, 2009

Re-uploading

A few of my links got some malware shit or something in them so I took them all offline until I can re-upload them. I don't know which ones got fucked up so I took them all off just in case. Apparently I shouldn't look at pron and post stuff on the same comp. Thanks for pointing it out to me, Nestor Makhno. Anyways the stuff from the other authors wasn't removed and hopefully I can start reuploading my stuff soon.
Cheers

*EDIT
I've been reuploading stuff. All links I put up have now been switched to mediafire, 7zip format and have been scanned for any stupid shit. I'm kind of jumping around when I update but any links that you see will work and are ready to go.