MRR Feature - Supreme Echo Records

This is a feature article on my good friend Jason Flower. I know Jason as the singer from Mexican Power Authority which is a band from Victoria that I released a collection of their first three releases on. The travels that Jason talks about in this article took place after MPA went on hiatus and Third World Planet had broken up. Think of Jason as Canada's answer to Luk Haas. Jason came back and released the "Victim of a Safety Pin" compilation, the Jerk Ward 12", the "All Your Ears Can Hear" compilation and a few other releases mentioned herein and it sounds like he has a few things still in the cooker. You can read more about this piece in the November issue of MRR.

Various Artists "All Your Ears Can Hear" Double CD

This is a truly amazing compilation. It is one of those scene documentary pieces but instead of it being a film this is a comp. Jason Flower was the main person behind the project and as a result the comp needed to be on 2 CDs. An amazing book where each band participating gets a page that is used to help find out details on them. And the scene they document is their own which is in Victoria, BC. Vancouver is documented pretty well but the scene that NoMeansNo grew out of isn't. The Neos is probably the only other band really known from here and that is only by hardcore collectors. And being geographically isolated Victoria had a chance to develop on thier own more so than other scenes that were on touring routes. As a result you get a snapshot of just some collected highlights of Victoria. You can inquire at Supreme Echo about the availability of this comp but I doubt there is any left. The songs on here are:

Disc 1:

1. Infamous Bastards - Canada's Pissed

2. Pink Steel - Here We Go Again

3. Clix - Sidewalk Trot

4. Automatic Shock - Mushrooms

5. Sickfucks - Long Blink

6. Jerk Ward - Millions of Dead BMXers

7. Velox Strepitus - No Mind

8. Beaten Retards - Mutated

9. NoMeansNo - Almost Like Home

10. Red Tide - NATO Actionaut

11. Keys - Ups & Downs

12. Neos - Ripped off

13. Neos - Sexual Revolution

14. Censored Chaos - Dinner at McDonald's

15. Resistance - Amerika

16. Ascensions - She's Weird

17. Easy Money - No Stranger to Danger

18. Dioxyn - Free from Vice

19. Malcom Dew-Jones - Secret Agent 000

20. Infamous Scientists - CKDA

21. Dishrags - High Society Snob

22. Twisted Minds - Vancouver

23. Distortion - Leave Us Alone

24. Do-wops - Kill Mash Die

25. Do-wops - Butchart Gardens

26. Fake Dogs - Fuckin' Jerk

27. Purple City - Untitled

28. Squirrels in Bondage - Who Cares

29. Trouble Boys - Not So Bad

30. House of Commons - Low

31. Noise Generation - Breakdown

32. Nematodes - Down with the KKK

33. Nevar - Iran

34. Commodes - Bunyon

35. Dayglo Abortions - Whiter than Hitler

36. Ryvals - Floating

37. Suburban Menace - What's So Wrong

38. Jerk Ward - UFO

39. Harvest of Seaweed - The End

40. Mass Appeal - SS Social Service

Disc 2:

1. House of Commons - 1999

2. Red Tide - My Son is a Kuwahara

3. Neos - Destruct

4. Neos - Russian Folk Song

5. Infamous Scientists - Someone Else's Shoes

6. Sickfucks - P.O.W.

7. Ascenisions - The Stud

8. Dishrags - Bullshit

9. Keys - Lied To!

10. NoMeansNo - Too Much Dope

11. Twisted Minds - BC Tel

12. Malcolm Dew-Jones - Modern World

13. Easy Money - On the Edge

14. Da Jeep - Save Me

15. Velox Strepitus - Mutt

16. Fake Dogs - Bombs Away

17. Nematodes - Hatred

18. Nevar - Chorus

19. Sludge Confrontations - Slug Death

20. Sludge Confrontations - Astronomy

21. Tumours - It Hurts When I Think

22. Jerk Ward - Flesh & Bones

23. Nuclear Errors - We're Rebels

24. Red Tide - It's More a Feeling

25. Ray Luxemburg - Following

26. Dayglo Abortions - Nuclear Supremacy

27. Harvest of Seaweed - Accidental Exile

28. Surburabn Menace - Outta My Way

29. Beaten Retards - School

30. Nu-Lib - New Liberation

31. Censored Chaos - Violence in the Streets

32. Divine Right - Outta the Grave

33. NoMeansNo - NoMeansNo

34. Slivers - Black Hole

35. Disrupt - These are the 80s

36. Salty Seamen - CUFA

37. Sickfucks - Mother was a Man

38. Infamous Scientists - Baldwang Must Die

39. Purple City - Invisibility

Zine - EXD, VOLUME 7, ISSUE 4

This issue came out in September 2007. The issue featured an interview with U Lock Terror from Guelph. Jimmy Vapid lined up a chance for us to interview Sexhead from Montreal. Mark Rodenhizer interviewed Defect Defect from Portland. Aaron Brown interviewed Iron Cross. Craig Caron interviewed See You In Hell from the Czech Republic. there are also reviews, gossip, and show listings.