Worshipping japanese hardcore since the day before yesterday!
This 90s LP is a re-release of the More Fuck demo from 1985, when Gai had just mutated into The Swankys. The recording is raw and dirty in a good way, so you good 9 tracks of extremely snotty punk rock that makes you want to hawk a loogie in your teacher’s face (sorry for this awkward use of outdated slang!).
After changing their name back from Gai in 1985, and releasing their first tape as The Swankys, this is their first vinyl, also released in 1985. These songs are still pretty close to Gai’s style of ultra distorted and fuzzy raw punk, in fact several songs were lifted straight off Gai’s Damnation cassette.
My version is not the original, but a pretty recent bootleg.
Gai (Outsider/outside or maybe harm/injury) from Kyūshū were one the original japanese noise-core/raw punk bands. Together with bands like Confuse and ジイク ハイル they developed their own style by completely dropping musical ability and songwriting, ignoring production values, and replacing them all with lots of distortion and fuzz. In their time they recorded several tapes before releasing their first flexi 7″ called “Extermination” in 1984. Later they changed their name to “Swankys” and kept going for a couple more years. This bootleg 2×7″ includes Gai’s Extermination 7″, The Swankys’ Lifestyle 7″ plus a couple more tracks.
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