Peach Pit - Live in KSET 2004

Picture taken at same venue, but five years later; stolen from terapija.net

A high-quality live recording of Croatian math-rock masters Peach Pit playing the KSET club in Zagreb. For fans of Don Caballero and similar bands, which are to my ears usually more "interesting" than "enjoyable". Peach Pit have lost a guitar player since this recording, and this actually made them more... let's say understandable to me, but if you're a fan of the genre, you should be impressed by what they are doing here.

Track listing:

1. 4x100m (10:30)
2. #2 (7:19)
3. Vertigo (5:40)
4. O biciklizmu (4:03)
5. RU-Fruitcake 2 (3:35)
6. Sonata (3:18)
7. Moj mikro (3:34)
8. Bonus (7:27)

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Labija majora - Kastracioni kompleks

Labija majora from Baska on the island of Krk are another one in the line of interesting Croatian noise/alternative bands from the early Nineties whose material was released by the wonderful cassette label Kekere Aquarium. This is their only release, a five song tape from 1995, featuring four great catchy tunes and a throwaway "experiment" to finish it off. I have no idea what happened to them later, but I still enjoy this tape.

Track listing:

1. Refleks (1:51)
2. Brain (2:22)
3. Gorim (1:46)
4. Now (2:13)
5. Jela (1:02)

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Why stakla - Live

Here are four live recordings by the amazing Why stakla, the greatest "ekstreme guitar noise" rock band from Osijek, whose debut "Daj, dodji!" is one of my favourite albums of all time. Among these recordings is the complete show they played with Hammerhead in Ilirska Bistrica in 1995, and this is now my second favourite recording of theirs. It features a great cover of Big Black's "Fists of Love" (shame the channels get mixed up towards the end of the song but you can't have everything - where would you put it?). There are also three otherwise unreleased songs here, the sound quality is good to excellent, and all in all it's a great hour of music. Oh and by the way, the 1995 recording is their supporting show for the wonderful Hammerhead. They have also played with Killdozer and the Melvins so that should give you an idea of where they were coming from musically. Geographically they were coming from a place where people are much more likely to be Killdozer subject matter than Killdozer fans. I know, I grew up there. :D 

Track listing:

1. Struja (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (2:46)
2. Vrag (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (0:56)
3. Nemas (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (3:37)
4. Stara obecanja (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:58)
5. Udi (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:27)
6. Dodji (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:40)
7. Kratko i jasno (STUC Osijek 1993.) (0:28)
8. Anal Boys (STUC Osijek 1993.) (3:02)
9. Konj macka magarac (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:59)
10. Sah (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (2:16)
11. nepoznata (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (2:27)
12. Hrpa (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (3:38)
13. Nemas (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:54)
14. Rekla si (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:15)
15. Dan poslije (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:04)
16. Pas je alkohol (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:04)
17. Britva (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:07)
18. Autopusenje (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (3:24)
19. Farewell (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:16)
20. Cist sam (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:37)
21. Sah (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (1:56)
22. Anal Boys (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:37)
23. Dodji (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (4:20)
24. Fists of Love (Big Black) (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (3:57)
25. Vrag (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (1:15)

Tracks 13.-25. have been removed from the archive as they will be officially released by this nice label, hopefully soon.

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Kvaka 22 - Kvaka 22

Kvaka 22 ("Catch 22" in Croatian) were a noise rock band from Zagreb who released this tape on the great "Kekere Aquarium" label back in 1994. I don't know anything else about them, and don't even like this tape very much, but maybe someone will be happy to have this - I don't think it's available anywhere else on the Web, and the transfer from tape was done by me a long time ago. The sound quality of the tape I had wasn't great (who knows what generation the dub was), so it's not great in MP3 either. Sounds similar to Santiago Durango's post-Big Black "Arsenal" project, if memory serves me right.

Track listing:

1. Suti (2:43)
2. (P)osveta (5:30)
3. Rupa (3:01)
4. Moj dan (3:49)

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