Libido Blume

post punk / new wave band from athens, Greece. "The band was formed from the ashes of Cpt.Nefos. Libido Blume's music was a mix of garage nostalgia, electro-pop, electro-funk and post-punk. They released 2 Lp's and one ep. Jon Langford (of The Mekons and The Three Johns) was the producer of their final LP in 1987." Here their first lp Colours melting and their Brilliant names and dames ep. Libido Blume myspace

Libido Blume - colours melting lp 1986
Libido Blume - Brilliant names and dames 5 track ep

Cpt.Nefos

Cpt.Nefos were a post punk new wave band, formed in Athens, Greece in 1982. They gave their first concert in '82 with some punk bands. The concert stopped with the intervention of the police. They released their first and only album in 1984 called "Silence Interrupted"
For more from greek post punk scene check here
Listen a song from Cpt.nefos here

Cpt.Nefos - Silence Interrupted

According to the ministry of justice, the Malandrino prisoners have now returned to their cells, ending their three-day revolt. Anarchist prisoners (in korydalos prison in athens) Nikos Kountardas and Vasilis Stergiou have both been put in isolation following the revolt. More info athens indymedia

Prisoners revolt around Greece

In the morning of Monday 23/4, prisoners at the prison of Malandrino in Fokida, mainland Greece, revolted. The spark igniting the revolt was the beating of anarchist prisoner Yiannis Dimitrakis as well as the vicious, violent response of the guards to the protests staged by his co-prisoners.

Disgraceful holding conditions, lack of water, regular beatings, electronic surveillance and the extremely short times allowed at the yard comprise a grim reality for the Malandrino prisoners. The prison has seen plenty of revolts in the past...



The latest information from Malandrino says that the prisoners are in full control of the prison.

Meantime, information coming in right now (12:30pm GMT, April 24) indicates that prisoners at the Ayios Stefanos prison of Patras have also revolted two hundred of them abstain from their daily meal. 340 prisoners at the prison of Tripoli have gone on hunger strike.


(this text distributed in Thessaloniki)
THE DICTATORSHIP OF DETENTION IS A REFLECTION OF DEMOCRACY

A revolt is taking place at two wings of the Malandrino Prison, following the beating of anarchist Yiannis Dimitrakis by prison guards earlier on the day.
Democracy beats up, tortures, murders and degrades the hostages in its inferno-like prisons.
Exterminating detention conditions lack of water regular beatings, surveillance cameras, architecture of violence, inhumanely short time allowed in the outside yards are all regular features of the Malandrino Prison, only temporarily broken thanks to the il-legal break offered by revolt.

Nothing has been offered to us by the humanitarian façade of democracy's executioners everything has been won by the screams of those in revolt, those standing on the rooftops of their prisons.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE REVOLTED PRISONERS OF MALANDRINO
SOLIDARITY WITH THE IMPRISONED HOSTAGES OF DEMOCRACY

from athens indymedia

Diatribe

a post punk band from the mid 80's from england. They released this 12" ep on criminal damage records. Sorry no other info. There isn't any insert in the record i have...

Diatribe - 12" ep (1985)


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Smash Racism

West Athens,Greece - Past Sunday an Albanian immigrant was found dead at his cell in a police department while being kept under suspicion for some minor thefts.The police said that he committed suicide by hanging himself in the cell. His relatives gathered late that night outside the police station shouting and coursing the cops for his murder.

Being an immigrant and especially an Albanian in Greece means that you become target to a racism vastly spread among all the aspects of life and socializing, from your work where you are being fully exploited to your whole life in the Greek society.His story is just another part of the chain of exploitation and racism on immigrants,or it isn't?

Some 300 anarchists marched today(20/4/2007)and smashed the police department , while confronting with the riot police expressing their anger and their will to not accept for longer this barbarity which is an attack towards humanity and society. Marching with confidence, fully aware of their goals and well organized they managed to make the attack without having serious injuries or arrests.

The march began from a central square in that part of Athens (a really poor area of the working class) , passed through the neighborhood of his family, so as to express their solidarity and the went straight ahead to the police station followed by riot policemen. There they began throwing paints and stones (loads of them) at the police station and the police attacked back with gasses back didn't manage to break the bloc which was very united. The people marched back to the square shouting at top of their lungs that these crimes shall not remain unpunished. (athens indymedia)

Conflict

Conflict is an anarcho-punk band originally based around Eltham in South London. Formed in 1981. Their first release was the ep "The House That Man Built" on Crass Records. (Check Hangover Heart Attack for more conflict's records). They released their debut album It's Time to See Who's Who on Corpus Christi Records. Conflict later set up their own Mortarhate label, which put out releases by other artists including Hagar the Womb, Icons of Filth, Lost Cherrees, The Apostles, Admit Your Shit and others.
(wikipedia)

Conflict - it's time to see who is who Lp - 1983 (not the reissue)
Conflict - ep's
(to a nation of animals lovers ep, this is not enough, the serenade is dead ep, the battle continues)

Mittageisen

Swiss underground synth wave band. "The group was initiated in 1981 after several Punk-activities (...) Besides various concerts also with other bands like Liliput, Blue China, Vyllies and Propaganda, mittageisen became one of the most shaped Swiss-Wave bands. Mittageisen means iron-meal and based on a photographic layout made by John Heartfield in 1934. Heartfield was an early member of Club Dada, which started 1916 as Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich." from (mittageisen site)

Mittageisen - alles ist anders ... nichts hat sich geändert compilation

Slow Motion

...and now something from my country which i really like a lot. Slow Motion. Unfortunately just because they are greeks the band weren't known outside greece. But in my opinion were much better than many electro wave bands of the 80's. For fans of synth wave, experimental ,electro punk bands."Slow Motion is a Greek band formed in 1985.Since then, one trait continues for them: The need for a background of spiritual architecture behind each song, visualising a conscious, theoretical method of communication. An energy of self - transcendence behind an important and weighty musical investment, which is abstracted like a ceremonial litany – an invocation of a self-destructive religion" slow motion official site. Here their first lp (this slow motion) + some extra tracks

Slow Motion - this slow motion

Berlin Blondes

a late 70's minimal synth wave band from Glasgow, Scotland. "The first single was released early in 1980, so that was before the phrase 'New Romantic' had been coined. I guess they would have been called 'Futurists'. Something I've noticed from looking in old copies of Sounds mag from 1980 is they often used term "New Musik" for anything weird that used synths". from ( berlin blondes fan page). Many thanks to Karlos who reccomended this band in a previous post. Yes they were good :)
Berlin Blondes - selftitled lp 1980

Religion is the opium of the people

"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self
consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx


Karl Marx: Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

God and the State by Michael Bakunin

Misery

early crust punk band formed in 1987 in Minneapolis."Misery formed and provided a nucleus for what was has become an internationally envied crust punk scene in Minneapolis. Taking their influence from UK bands like Discharge and Amebix Misery blended dark and heavy hardcore with an anti authority political stand that was very influential on the future development of the genre." (wikipedia). Check 7inch Crust for their born feds laughtered 7" and Children of War 7"
Misery - demo 1988

Leitmotiv

a forgotten post punk band from england and the mid 80's. Here some of their discography. ("carress and curse" mlp + to the suffering 7'', say remain ep - 1985 and 2 more tracks, silent run and living in a tin (different version) from "Daffodils to the Daffodils, Here's the Daffodils" compilation. Thanks for the info Phoenix Hairpins

Leitmotiv - almost complete discography :)

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Smartpils

80's anarcho punk band from uk (Formed in 1979, Disbanded in 1989).
Ex members of the band and ex members of Amebix formed Zygote
Smartpils - demo '83,'84
Smartpils - No Good, No Evil 1987 Lp


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The Ex

The Ex a band from the dutch squat scene. "After their start in 1979 The Ex developed over the years into a melting-pot of divergent musical styles: noise, rock, jazz, improvisation, and ethnic music have been interweaved under one unique umbrella: ‘Ex-music’. Discordant, highly rhythmic guitars and the rolling, almost African drumming style give the music of The Ex its special character. Now, is it punk, is it rock, is it jazz, is it dance... is it sloggabrogg? Or whatchamacallit? Maybe it’s some kind of experimental trance-dance avant-punky improv... Anyway, anyhow,The Ex is an autonomous band, living in the here and now." more info www.theex.nl
You can download their 1st lp (Disturbing Domestic Peace) from Maikoholic and also the video below with this download tool

The Ex
download here - history is what's happening -
download here - Gonna Rob The Spermbank -