London's Soul Jazz label has already Britain some very interesting compilations containing singles from proto punk / punk / post-punk / wave bands and publishes the United States, with BURN RUBBER CITY, BURN! dedicated now to exclusively one city, namely Akron / Ohio in the US Midwest ... background & driving force of the local underground music scene were two main events: on the one hand the gradual decline of the regional economy (AKRON was once headquarters of the American rubber / auto tire industry, from the mid-1970s, but it went steadily downhill), on the other hand the massacre at the nearby, left-liberal Kent State University, where on May 4 1970, the National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at an anti-war demonstration, 4 of they killed and injured many others - a tragedy that almost logically led to further political and artistic radicalization ... In this climate of decay, depression, rebellion and art then was an extremely vital and complex musical landscape, which creatively not behind a punk-metropolis like New York hide needed and also before vividly eyes (bzw.ohren) leads, as eclectic and bizarre it but walked partially under the large banner PUNK - clearly you will also find many raw forwards rumbling high energy rock bands like The Bizarros, HAMMER DAMAGE and RUBER CITY REBELS or the playful proto-wave of The Waitresses (whose ingenious line of text I LIKE THE GIRLS THAT DANCE WITH THE GIRLS THAT THE BOYS WILL NOT DANCE me the way eternally no longer went out of his head), but you can still much Discover more: about TIN HUEY with her freejazzig inked holperpunk including much getröte, the mixed trio CHI PIG post punk with his hectic flickering, dub-infected or JANE AIRE & THE Belvedere that sound suspiciously like a cool 60s-beat / pop, addition experimentell- electronic bubbling & gewaber (DENIS DEFRANGE, DENIS DEFRANGE & MARK FRAZIER), humorous & rhythmically ArtSchool-weirdness (RALPH CARNEY) and the hypnotic endless blues boogie 15 60 75 THE NUMBERS BAND ... Oh, and then there's of course still DEVO - the delightfully crazy artist collective with its avant-garde art-wave plus de-evolution concept had always been very self-quality in style and which also show his two represented here early pieces from 1978: Mechanical Man sounds a bit like oblique power plant with humor & eggs, AUTO MODOWN comes minimalistic -funky fine wummerbass therefore ... 12 bands / artists, 18 songs, 57: 34min. - Absolutely great music that even in 2015 still pretty fresh and exciting sounds, plus a mega thick booklet with lots of text, illuminating background information & send photos ... a thoroughly enjoyable package So, just like all the other PUNK 45 editions ...
