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>>Before The Light Stops<< (various) compilation (1987)

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This one is from the collection of ‘Pik’ (‘The Dirty Scums’)…

Uwe Mindrup from Hasbergen (near Osnabrück, Germany) released plenty of compilations through Durchbruch tapes (84-87). He also did the fanzine Der Durchbruch (“the breakthrough“) and released some vinyl. This tape has 69 songs by 27 bands (3 C60 tapes in a videotape-box). Most tracks come from tapes/records released in/around 1987.

side 1: Hole III (‘Gary Slip’) / I Understand (‘Double Faith’) / Dummer Junge (‘F.F.F.’) / Optimismus (‘Messer’) / No More Pain (‘Stand To Fall’) / It’s My Life (‘The Dirty Scums’) / Atonement (‘Gary Slip’) / Before That (‘Double Faith’) / Innocence’s Lost (‘Messer’) / Missunderstandings (‘Stand To Fall’)

side 2: Song For Rudi (‘The Dirty Scums’) / What Is Better (‘Double Faith’) / Destitution (‘Destitution’) / Insanity (‘Hoax’) / New Start (‘Stand To Fall’) / At Least I Try (‘Scoundrels’) / Lucy (‘Messer) / A Provocation Of The State (‘The Dirty Scums’) / Is It Real? (‘Destitution’) / Choice Of Pain (‘Stand To Fall’) / Ugly Barons (‘Hoax’)

side 3: Daydreamer (‘Scoundrels’) / Symptoms Gone (‘Storemage’) / A Cloud Was Hanging In Your Room (‘Animal Crackers’) / Nightmare On Elm Street (‘Bloodfeast A.D.’) / Kill Ourselves (‘Trendy Complain’) / Sick Brain In A Sick Body (‘Bad Attitude’) / Propaganda Girls (‘Storemage’) / Der Exorzist (‘Hoax’) / Drug Addict (‘Bloodfeast A.D.’)

side 4: Kada Ostanem Sam (‘Vrisak Generacije’) / Say No (‘Scoundrels’) / Lovers In Fire, Lovers In Rain (‘Animal Crackers’) / Surf’s Up (‘M.D.L.’) / Another Day (‘Crimpshrine’) / My Brain (‘Cat-O’-Nine Tails’) / Der Tod (‘Deliverance’) / ΚΑΜΜΊΑ ΕΛΠιΔΑ [Campaign Of Hope] (‘Γένια Του Τσάους‘) / Too Tightly Bound (‘M.D.L.’) / Your Mind (‘Cat-O’-Nine Tails’)

side 5: Adaption Or Resistance (‘Bad Attitude’) / Over The Years (‘Crimpshrine’) / Die Kraft (‘Deliverance’) / ΤΑ ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟΥ [The Fairy Tales Of Tradition] (‘Γένια Του Τσάους‘) / Lost In Myself (‘M.D.L.’) / Blasphemy (‘President Fetch’) / Öfter Mal Was Neuses (‘Suspence’) / Sensation & Tod (‘Anastasis’) / Myself (‘Dissent’) / Terror At Vatican (‘The Dead Ones’) / A Besser’s Leben (‘Extrem’) / ??? (‘Cat-O’-Nine Tails’) / Mutation (‘The Dead Ones’)

side 6: All Right (‘President Fetch’) / Prolo Action (‘Suspence’) / 1000 Nazis (‘Anastasis’) / Shut My Eyes (‘Dissent’) / Tod Vor Augen (‘Extrem’) / Bestial – Ill Dog (‘President Fetch’) / Käptn Iglo Part III (‘Suspence’) / Somewhere (‘Dissent’) / Habitual Offender – Genetic Mutation (‘M.D.L.’) / ΜΑΥΡΟ – ΤΟ ΧΡΩΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΤΕΡΗΣΗΣ [Black – The Colour Of Deprivation] (‘Γένια Του Τσάους‘) / Police Crime (‘President Fetch’) / Nitbarn 1 – Allt Eller Inget – Dumheter (’16 B.U.H.’)

Gary Slip (Osnabrück, Ger): Thomas Wübker (guitar), Ansgar (vocals), Willi (drums), Jürgen (bass)

Double Faith (Westerkappeln, Ger): Micha(el) Hins (drums/guitar/vocals), JJ (guitar/bass), Tom (guitar)

F.F.F. (Bonn, Ger): Vladimiro Olavarria (guitar), Dominik Schetting (drums; ex-guitarist ‘Canal Terror’, later ‘Molotow Soda’), Andreas ‘Andi’ Gohlke, Dolly Enzenberger (vocals/electric violin)

Messer (Osnabrück, Ger): Peter Siebert (drums), Michael Hensel (bass), Friedel Kantaut (vocals), Rudel Cacek (guitar), Thomas Wübker (guitar)

Stand To Fall (Linz, Öst): Andi Ehrenberger (bass), Albino Leitner (drums), Heli Bacher (guitar), ‘Joschi’ Joshua Viteka (vocals)

The Dirty Scums (Tielt, Bel): ‘Pik’ Bart D’ooghe (guitar/vocals), Jan ‘Zjantie’ Den Baes (drums), Chris ‘Jenz’ Lannoo (bass; later Tom ‘Keez’ De Kesel)

Destitution (Wörth am Rhein, Ger): ‘Gicht’ Thomas Reiss (vocals), Christian Gröger (guitar), Stefan ‘Fessi’ Fessler (drums), Simon Cubasch (bass; later Thorsten)

Hoax (Groß-Oesingen, Ger): ‘Hüni Banane’ Heiko Menzendorf (drums), ‘Magic Banane’ Hernot Tetzlaff (bass/vocals), ‘Münki Banane’ Holger Münckenwarf (guitar), ‘Salli Banane’ (guitar), ‘Vincent Banane’ Boris Neubrandt (vocals)

Scoundrels (Zundert, Ned – HC/punk): Patrick Delabie (guitar/vocals; later ‘The Acorns’, ‘Betty Ford Clinic’, etc.), Frank ‘Zappa’ de Hoon (bass/vocals) & Guus Goossens/‘Bootsie’ Geert Budts (drums). Later Luc Proost (ex ‘Wulpse Varkens’ on second guitar)

Storemage (Hannover, Ger): Dirk ‘Morgenstern’ Lankenau (bass/vocals), Andreas ‘Kürsche’ Kürschner (guitar/vocals), Toni Fontanella (drums/vocals)

Animal Crackers (Jetzendorf, Ger): Lorenz ‘Lenz’ Lehmair (guitar/keyboards), Peter Scherbanowitz (bass), Ralf ‘Ralph’ Nickolaus (drums), Reiner Sladek (vocals)

Bloodfeast A.D. (Bremen, Ger): Tom ‘Lunk’ Nenzinger (bass; later Michael), Jörg ‘Jockel’/’Big Jim’ Rohlfing (drums), Olli ‘Salmo’ Laffi/Olaf ‘Dr. Rogg’ Rogge (guitar), Ingo ‘Don Giovanni’ Neuhaus (vocals)

Trendy Complain (Rheine/Duisburg, Ger): Markus Heessel ‘Hazil’ (vocals), ‘Belta’ Michael Belter (guitar), Arendt Lizt (bass; R.I.P.), ‘Uffy’ Michael Uffermann (drums)

Bad Attitude (Peine, Ger – HC): Curt Bodenstedt (vocals), ‘Quirl’ (guitar), ‘Pogo’/Thomas Lenz (bass), ‘Olli’/Oliver (drums).

Vrisak Generacije [Scream Of The Generation] (Novi Sad, Yug): Bukan (), Vanja (), ‘Gaga’ Predrag Jandrić ()

M.D.L. (Ellensburg, Washington, USA): ‘Baf Lenin’ Brian Kooser (vocals), ‘Biff Lenin’ Paul Yarnold (bass), ‘Blare Lenin’ Anderson (guitar), ‘Bash Lenin’ Dave Frazzini (drums)

Crimpshrine (Berkeley, California, USA): Aaron ‘Cometbus’ Elliott (drums), Jeff Ott (guitar/vocals), Pete Ryans (bass/vocals)

Cat-O’-Nine Tails (Schrobenhausen, Ger): Gerhard ‘Solo’ Zimmermann (bass), Rolf/Rolph Bayer (drums; also ‘Inferno’)/Franz Raßhofer , Marc/Mark von Sukow (guitar), Michael ‘Semme’ Simon (vocals)

Deliverance (Waldtann, Ger): Egbert Landes (bass), Christina Messner (violin), Claudius Zott (guitar/vocals), Heiko Eser (drums/vocals), Jens Teichmann (vocals)

Γένια Του Τσάους/ Génia Tou Tsáous [Chaos Generation] (Athens, Gre): Akis Abrazis (bass; later ‘Parkinson Square’), Constantinos Chatzopoulos (guitar), Theodoros Iliakopoulos (drums/vocals)

President Fetch (Kopenhagen, Den): Chris ‘Ant’ Juris (vocals), Anderz Nielsen (bass), Per Eriksen (guitar), Martin ‘Morgengrim’ Larsen (drums)

Suspence (Bad Dürkheim, Ger): Manfred ‘Fast Freddy’ Hopf (vocals), Jens Wagner (bass; later ‘Abolition’), P. Potschinger (drums), Martin ‘Jeff’ Tanner (guitar)

Anastasis (Duisburg, Ger): Maikel (guitar/vocals), ‘Prillo’ Stephan Prill (guitar), Lemmy (drums), Gonzo (bass), Frank (vocals)

Dissent (Rapid City, South-Dakota, USA): Todd Smith (drums/vocals), Robert ‘Bob’ Baker (guitar/vocals), Les Nelson (bass; later Tim Popa/Tanja Bjork), Troy Zoller (vocals; later ‘Skip’ Sean Nagel)

The Dead Ones (Hannover, Ger): L.K. (guitar), H.B. (drums)

Extrem (Vienna, Öst): Dieter Hauptmann/Claudio Delise (guitar/vocals), Daniela Delise/Dierk Rossiwall (bass), Peter Zinner (drums), Helmut ‘Heiland’ Hejtmanek (guitar)

16 B.U.H. (Tranås, Swe): Mikael ‘Löken’ Karlsson (guitar), Jimmy Karlsson (bass), Frank Bergsten (drums), Magnus Grehn (vocals)

Destitution (Ger) Times Have Changed; tape (1988)

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Frank Babel from Ludwigshafen who released it on his tape-label Burntout Youth sent this to me. We would cooperate a bunch of times when he booked tours and I distributed some of his records (Blasting Youth recs in the 90s)… ‘Destitution’ (from Wörth am Rhein, Germany) consisted of ‘Gicht’ Thomas Reiss (vocals), Christian Gröger (guitar), Stefan ‘Fessi’ Fessler (drums) and Simon Cubasch (bass; later Thorsten). This was their second tape and they also did a split-LP with the French band ‘Infected Youth’ in 1989. I reviewed Times Have Changed briefly in Tilt! #5: >>Simple but decent HC. Enough variation and hooks to be interesting. Personal lyrics.<<

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