Bloody Fist - APC Magazine [August 2000]

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2008

Label: Bloody Fist Records

Free CD given to APC Magazine in August 2000
There is no covers but in Magazine is all site about tracks :

1 - Memetic is two guys from the south western suburbs of Newcastle, who have been writing material since the mid-'90s. They have two-and-a- half 12" releases on Bloody Fist, this track included on the 12" release, (FIST20) 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'. This track represents their unique take on industrial hardcore, incorporating huge buzzing kick drums with fiercely programmed breakbeats. The track also features on the 'NCL Trax' compilation CD released last year.

2 - Mr Michael Nynycz is the culprit here. He moved to Newcastle from Adelaide in the mid '90s to pursue a career in growing scruffy beards and upsetting hippies by playing hard acid music when DJing at their parties. He is also well into the dark drum and bass sound, as this track demonstrates. This is Subsonic's first track recorded for Bloody Fist, and he can usually be found drinking heavily and playing 'air drums' while DJing at Bloody Fist gigs in Newcastle.

3 - De-koder is one man, Justin Wolthers, who has been involved with electronic music for a decade or so, recording many different styles under a few different guises. Some of his hardcore output was showcased on early Bloody Fist releases. The track 'Knife' represents a well-produced ominous style of music known as 'doomcore'. Justin is incredibly well versed and highly experienced in the field of selling seafood to old people and single mothers.

4 - Xylocaine is Aaron Lubinski -- one-third of Nasenbluten. He has previously toured Europe with Nasenbluten, as a solo act, and worked for several years cleaning up after senile old people. His solo Amiga work is the result of being bombarded constantly with banal mass media and assorted bland pop culture, which is turned on its head, and spun back into the fray with no apologies. His list of releases includes work for Bloody Fist, as well as various German, UK and US labels.

5 - Mr Nigel Kibble accepts full responsibility for this track, which is a departure from the usual 'grindcore' outbursts he has been recording and releasing himself for many years. This is Nigel's first industrial hardcore track recorded for Bloody Fist, with a 12" release touted for sometime in 2001. He's obviously not too fond of Christianity, or palatable music, if this track is anything to go by.

6 - Aftermath consists of two individuals who write together: Fritz Cardozo and Ryan Leeman. Their solo projects are Guyver and Embolism, respectively. They are responsible for a lot of Bloody Fist's more extreme and darker output. Both have several solo 12" releases on Bloody Fist. Embolism's first 12" released when he was just 14. This track is from the most recent Bloody Fist 12", (FIST21) 'Aftermath', and was also included on last year's Bloody Fist compilation CD 'NCL Trax V1.0'. Brace yourself.

7 - Overcast is one man, who is also the owner and occupier of the Bloody Fist label. His name is Mark N and he also constitutes one-third of Newcastle's original Amiga terrorists Nasenbluten. He has been recording solo material ranging from rough, cut-up hip hop to dark industrial hardcore for many years. He is widely known in the 'industry' as extremely unpleasant, and his FIST16 release is the biggest selling 12" on the Bloody Fist label to date.

8 - This track showcases Fraughman's lo-fi style and is taken from his new CD '12 Gauge Double Barrelled Sawnoff Shotgun'. Most tracks on the CD release were mastered from cassette in order to maximize grain, hiss and low fidelity. Fraughman has one 12" release on Bloody Fist, containing broken beats and flat-out noise. He is also known to have once filled an old clothes dryer with nuts and bolts, before connecting contact mikes to it, switching it on, and completely obliterating the sound system. Police were called. http://www.bloodyfist.com.au

9 - Syndicate is two 2 brothers -- Warren and Gavin Burke -- who both utilise their crusty Amigas to produce rolling breakbeat tracks and hip hop laced electronic hardcore. The track included here, Mac-11, is from their 1998 12" release on Bloody Fist called Visions of Death. With a plethora of 12" releases and a UK tour under their belts, they will probably cobble together a CD release for Bloody Fist around the end of the year.

10 - This track from Newcastle's original Amiga terrorists Nasenbluten was recorded last year as a tribute to the closure of the BHP Steelworks in Newcastle. All sounds in the track were recorded at various parts of the steelworks in June 1999, and the kick drum is the only other sound added to this symphony of steel. All high hats and other percussion were constructed from the sounds of valves letting off steam at various parts of the steelworks. Just before the closure of the steelworks, many people including some of the workers were occupied with producing a visual record of the place, but it seems only Nasenbluten documented once and for all the sounds of Newcastle's 86-year steel manufacturing history.

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