'This Is Our Punk Rock...'
: A Mix by Crow Versus Crow for Basic FM and their TUSK Festival 2013 Broadcast.
This is a 120 minute mix of tracks that I feel represents a small and specific cross-section of the many manifestations of 'Punk Rock' over the last 43 years. All the tracks here give a nod to the 'This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band'-mentality in some way or other. Some more than others.
The question of the contemporary significance of Punk Rock, as an idea or an ethos, an approach to functioning within a community and society, is one I am constantly working through. For me, Punk/Punk Rock escapes linguistic and aesthetic definition, which is an intrinsic part of it's existence. It should be fluid, in flux. Maybe that's bloated and maybe I'm romanticising something - maybe it all means shit?! But the records I own and the records I love, the people I have met and the experiences I have shared lead me to believe otherwise.
A massive 'Thank You' to Joe for the opportunity to put these tracks together, and for playing them over the airwaves.
1. Boredoms – Shock City
(Chocolate Synthesizer / WEA Japan, 1994)
2. Peter J Taylor – Banded Lie
(Vilification / Fortissimo Records, 2013)
3. Nope – Porous Spile
(Revision / Obscene Baby Auction, The Audacious Art Experiment, 2012)
4. The Ex – Confusion Error
(Turn / Ex Records, 2004)
5. Divorce – Pencils Giant Pencils
(Divorce / Night School, 2012)
6. Etai Keshiki – Grey Lie
(split w/ Amorous Dialogues / Hypnowave, The Audacious Art Experiment, 2013)
7. No Coast – Heels
(split w/ Jackals / Dog Knights Productions, 2011)
8. Brutes – Head
(Punishment / Not on Label, 2012)
9. Black Flag – Spray Paint
(Damaged / Unicorn, SST Records, 1981)
10. Exhaustion – Inessential
(Demo / Not on Label, 2013)
11. Slint – Carol
(Tweez / Jennifer Hartman Records, 1989)
12. PJ Harvey – Me-Jane
(Rid of Me / Island Records, 1993)
13. The Stooges – 1970
(Fun House / Elektra, 1970)
14. Rudimentary Peni – American Anglophile in the World Turned Upside-Down
(Cacophony / Outer Himalayan Records, 1988)
15. Group Inerane – Ano Nagarus
(Guitars from Agadez (Music of Niger) / Sublime Frequencies, 2007)
16. This Heat – Paper Hats
(Deceit / Rough Trade, 1981)
17. Theoretical Girls – Theoretical Girls
(Theoretical Girls / Acute Records, 2002)
18. Mission of Burma – New Nails
(Vs / Ace of Hearts Records, 1982)
19. Greg Sage – Your Empathy
(Straight Ahead / Enigma Records, 1985)
20. Lungfish – Sex War (Versions)
(A.C.R 1999 / Dischord Records, 2012)
21. Hired Muscle – These Claws
(The Last Minute / Fortissimo Records, 2011)
22. Shellac – Paco
(Excellent Italian Greyhound / Touch & Go Records, 2007)
23. Nisennenmondai – Itkyokume
(Neji/Tori / Smalltown Supersound, 2008)
24. Fugazi – 23 Beats Off
(In on the Kill Taker / Dischord Records, 1993)
25. Nirvana – MV
(All Apologies single/ Geffen Records, 1993)
26. Silent Front – Veil
(Veil single / Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company, 2013)
27. Nitkowski – Harbours
(Stay in the Home You Love / Function Records, 2011)
28. Kogumaza – Swang
(Kogumaza / Low Point, 2011)
29. Jealousy Mountain Duo – Latino Heaven
(No.2: The Home of Easy Credit / Blunoise Records, 2012)
30. Mogwai – Punk Rock
(Come on Die Young / Chemikal Underground, 1998)
Thank You.
