Equalizing Distort: September 2023

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Radio : EXD 1270 - Sunday September 24, 2023

On this episode, a feature interview with Josh Nickels about his label Neon Taste. We also have Mopa Dean giving us a primer on number stations. There will be lots of new release segments featuring new bands like the FRUIT TONES or STINGRAY or CRUELLE. There will be a crate digging oldies set. And the demo feature is a new Toronto band called Workers Comp.

FASHIONISM - Back in the Day (Neon Taste)

Oldies (Stephen)
BARBIE ARMY - Girls of Slender Means (No Plan)
THE SHOWBIZ KIDS - She Goes To Finos (Top Secret)
NUCLEAR SOCKETTS - Spy In My Brain (Subversive)
222's - Hold Up (Rave Up)
THE MODERN MINDS - Girl Crazy (Ugly Pop)

Neon Taste - label profile (Andre)
Andre spoke with Josh Nickel about a few things. Josh has been in a ton of bands and so that will be part of next week's interview. But Josh started up a label called Neon Taste which has been releasing so many great things since 2017. So part 1 of the interview is about Neon Taste Records.

EVIL THREE - Swamp Funeral (Neon Taste) -
SICK THOUGHTS - Sick Thoughts (Neon Taste)
LAFFFBOX - Master (Neon Taste)

New releases (Rob)
WONDER BREAD - My Dad is in a Hardcore Band (Discontinuous Innovation Inc.)
CUT PIECE - Accept Defeat, Don’t Sabotage Me (Dirt Cult)
FRUIT TONES - Back in the Night (Alien Snatch)
PUZZLED PANTHER - Fake Ass Freedom Fighters (Self-Released)
BRAIN ITCH - Barbed Wire Disease (Self-Released)

New Releases (Chris)
A.T.E.R. - Putrefacto (Self-released)
DEPOPULATION DEPARTMENT - Firebomb (Crust As Fuck / Loner Cult) -
DEFORMED EXISTENCE - Massacre for Dominion (Systema Mortal)
WARKRUSHER - Sea of Suffering (Agipunk)
VISIONS OF CHAOS - Escapar (Systema Mortal)
STINGRAY - Trench Demon (LVEUM)

Newbs (Stephen)
CONSERVATIVE MILITARY IMAGE - Oliver Kahn (with Liberty & Justice)
BOOTS ON THE TABLE - Rinse Lather Repeat
THE UPPERS - Don't Start (Wanda)
PRIVATE LIVES - Dead Hand (Feel It)
CRUELLE - Un Monde en Décombre (A World Divided)

Number Stations
A while back when the G-MEN were in to do a studio 3 session Mopa started talking to me about Number Stations which occupy a frequency on the short wave band and are usually run by governments as a way of communicating code to agents in the field. But the mics weren't recording because this was one of those after interview conversations. But I never forgot about them. So a few weeks ago when I was catching up with Mopa Dean about Armed and Hammered, I had him explain to me what number stations are. Here's a primer on that subject.

Interview with Mopa Dean (CIUT)
G-MEN - Piece Talks (Unreleased)
Interview with Mopa Dean (CIUT)
Number Station example - Russian Man signoff
Interview with Mopa Dean (CIUT)
Example of the Lincoln Poacher
Interview with Mopa Dean (CIUT)
Example of a Cuban Number Station
Interview with Mopa Dean (CIUT)

Demo Feature (Chris)
New local anarchist band named after a worker injury program in Ontario. You can find their demo on bandcamp.

WORKERS COMP - Blue and Red (Self-Released)
WORKERS COMP - Corner Lot (Self-Released)
WORKERS COMP - Heat-Seeking Missile (Self-Released)
WORKERS COMP - Dehydration (Self-Released)

BOOZE AND GLORY - Leave The Kids Alone (Contra / Longshot / Pirates Press)

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Radio : EXD 1269 - Sunday September 17, 2023

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On this episode of EXD, Greg D did a feature interview with Ivan Julian, the guiatrist from Richard Hell and the Voidoids. The interview has been edited down but the full interview can be found here. The stories in the feature length interview run together and follow a trajectory arc that is chronological and insightful and fascinating.

Also on tonight’s show. lots of new releases which include ABISM, HEAVY DISCIPLINE, LOTHARIO and DELCO MFs. Rob does a mini profile on Goodbye Boozy Records. The demo feature is a new band out of Halifax called Redacted.