Cease & Resist Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk in the UK 1979-1986 Test Pressing
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This is an ULTRA advanced Test Pressing of Optimo Music’s - “Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979 - 86”, a 2 x vinyl compilation of some of the most radical music ever made, a musical force that changed lives. It has been lovingly compiled by JD Twitch and Anarcho legend Chris Low. This is a high quality 2 x vinyl Test Pressing pressed at Optimal in Germany. (see picture). Mint & unplayed!
*Please note that there are only 15 copies of this in the world! The compilers have 2 and 5 went to artists on the comp leaving 7 for sale. So this record couldn't get much rarer. Priced to keep but make me an offer I can't refuse! See below for tracklist and more about the record. The official release won't be in shops until 12/05/2023!
Tracklist:
1.
Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma
2.
Honey Bane - Girl On The Run
3.
Crass - Bloody Revolutions
4.
Annie Anxiety - Hello Horror
5.
Flux Of Pink Indians - Tube Disasters
6.
Andy T - Death Is Big Business
7.
Poison Girls - Underbitch
8.
Alternative - Anti-Christ
9.
The Cravats - Rub Me Out
10.
The Apostles - Mob Violence (unreleased original studio version)
11.
Lack Of Knowledge - We're Looking For People
12.
The Hit Parade - Here's What You Find In Any Prison
13.
Hagar The Womb - Idolisation
14.
Alternative TV - The Force Is Blind
15.
Chumbawamba - Revolution
16.
The Ex - Ay Carmela
17.
D&V - Conscious (Pilot)
18.
The Mob - No Doves Fly Here (unreleased original studio version)
This is a double vinyl retrospective compilation of some of the most radical music ever made, a musical force that changed lives. Covering the years 1979 - 86 and including classic tracks from Crass, Poison Girls, Flux Of Pink Indians, The Mob, Zounds, Annie Anxiety, The Ex, ATV plus 10 more, all newly remastered by iconic Punk mastering engineer Daniel Husayn. It has been lovingly compiled by JD Twitch and Anarcho legend Chris Low and was ten years in the making. There are also a couple of previously unreleased mixes included.
Anarcho Punk was the one sub-genre of Punk that emerged in isolation from the rock & roll establishment. During its pioneering days of the early 1980s it thrived in opposition to the music industry, existing as a fiercely underground alternative to the bands, labels and venues of the commercialised mainstream Punk scene. It continues to do so.
Anarcho Punk represented one of the last truly underground and autonomous music movements ever witnessed and remains a movement that has never sold out and has never gone away. The major differentiation between the Anarcho Punk acts and the more traditional Punk outfits was that for the former, albeit often more due to musical limitation than intent, the message was more important than the music. Standard song structures were often dispensed with in favour of a relentless lyrical polemic accompanied by a similarly uncompromising aural assault. As the scene grew, so did the diversity of records that emerged under the Anarcho Punk umbrella: from D & V (drums & vocals) to the proto-EBM synth-pop of Belfast’s one-man Hit Parade and the Dadaist Beefheart hybrid of The Cravats.
In later days the two biggest acts of the scene, Flux of Pink Indians and Crass themselves, both released LPs which had more in common with improv Jazz than hardcore punk. The resounding victory of Anarcho Punk is that it is now the unifying soundtrack to a culture of resistance that spans Scotland to Indonesia and remains without compromise. It is still as removed from mainstream music and oppositional to conventional culture as it was over forty years ago and shows no sign of changing. Quite the opposite: the more popular Anarcho Punk becomes the less it has to engage with the music establishment and the more control it can enjoy. In 2023, that message remains as uncompromising as ever.
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