Radio - Sunday, May 8th, 2022

Pinoy punk 

Tonight’s show is co-hosted by Jim Agapito from Winnipeg. Jim does a podcast on the CBC called “Recovering Filipino” but more importantly, Jim is in a punk band from there and has been part of the Winnipeg punk scene for a few decades. 

Tonight’s show is similar to other features we have done on other countries in that we will be looking at the origins of the punk scene from the Philippines. But there are some differences like we will look at Filipino punks in diaspora with a focus on the US and Canada. But we are going to start at the beginning with Third World Chaos and Twisted Red Cross. Download the show here. 

THIRD WORLD CHAOS - Rebel Rockers (Twisted Red Cross) 

The Twisted Red Cross years 
So technically the next band may have pre-dated THIRD WORLD CHAOS in terms of starting up as the formed in 1980 but they formed in Queens, NY so the recording you are going to hear is a lot more amped up in a NYHC way as that scene had already started. The band members go to start going to university in the Philippines in 1982 and form a couple of bands that eventually becomes that BETRAYED. This recording comes out with the turmoil of the last year of Ferdinand Marcos’ brutal regime which was marked by military intervention.  

BETRAYED - Military Rule (Twisted Red Cross) 
DEAD ENDS - Not Stopping Us (Twisted Red Cross)
URBAN BANDITS - Hoy (Twisted Red Cross) 
I.O.V. - Vagrancy (Twisted Red Cross)
PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS - School Violence (Twisted Red Cross)
R.D.A. - Lesson For (Twisted Red Cross) 

Young Angry Bands / United Hate era
A scene grew up around a band called DRASTIC NOISE. DRASTIC NOISE released a cassette called “Combatants of Anarchy” on their own label called United Hate. Then they proceeded to release two compilations of other bands from the Philippines called “Young Angry Bands”. Vocalist John John Serna worked with a major label called Aquarius to put these out which produced and got them distributed.

DRASTIC NOISE - Lumaban Ka (United Hate)
TRIBAL FISH - Huwag Kang Baboy (United Hate)
H.I.V. - Tigilan Ang Paghihilaan (United Hate)
BATINGAW - Fight For (United Hate)
SUBLIMINAL - Hardcore Rules (United Hate)
DISABUSE - Mistaken Identity (Self-Released) 

2000’s 
PARACONFLICT - Reality (Where's Your Anger) 
FEUD - We Can't Get Along (Take Four Collective / Hell on Earth / 625 Thrashcore / Where’s Your Anger / Boisleve)
HALF THE BATTLE - Article (Take Four Collective)
ANTI-SUCK SYSTEM - Fictional Reality (Crazy Don’t Collective) 

THE EXSENADORS - Limang Taon (Mutilated Noise)
MINORITY BLOCKS - Wake Up Call (Struggle for Radical Action)
ISTUKAS OVER DISNEYLAND - Emuku Iduluhan (Still Ill)
FLASH ELORDE - The Anarkicks (Still Ill) 

Pinoy Punk in Diaspora - United States
ESKAPO - Mamamatay Ang Mundo (Dirty Shoes) 
DIGMA - Development Diplomacy Deathsquads (Self-Released)
NAMATAY SA INGAY - Madaling Sabihin, Mahirap Gawin (Self-Released) 
MATERIAL SUPPORT - Solidarity (Aklasan) 
ANINOKO - Donate to Twisted Red Cross (Self-Released) 
KANTA KANTA - V.F.A. (Self-Released)

Pinoy Punk in diaspora - Canada

Pinoy punk also had an influence on a number of Canadian scenes. We’re going to start off with a band that I was in in the 90’s called One Blood. The band featured another singer by the name of Melanya Aguila. Melanya was good friend’s with my sister and stayed in the punk scene becoming one of our singer’s. Melanya would go on to start a record label called Fans of Bad Productions, start a super influential zine called Femzine, and then start doing video documentaries. I had chance to catch up with Melanya to ask her about these projects and her experience growing up in the scene. 

ONE BLOOD - Laying It Out on the Kitchen Table (Self-Released)
DANKO JONES - Rock and Roll is Black and Blue (Bad Taste)
THE SORELS - She’s in the Gang (Surfin’ Ki / Reta)
THE SQUAREHEADS - Sweet Sherry (Eat 'em Up)
AGAPITO - Debacle (Self-Released)

Contemporary scene - Know Your Enemy compilation
BACK AT THE JUNKYARD - System Decay (Know Your Enemy)
BURIAL SUCKS - Victims of Drugs (Know Your Enemy)
ARMAS NI JUAN - The Lies of COVID-19  (Know Your Enemy)
CHOKE COCOI - Pacifist (Know Your Enemy)