CD MESSTHETICS 108 - DIY..

Popis - MESSTHETICS 108 - DIY..:
'DIY AND (VERY) INDIE POST PUNK FROM THE SOUTH COAST 1977: VOL. 1 BOURNEMOUTH-TO-BRIGHTON'. Throughout the age of punk and post punk the English music press, the major labels, and the established indies ignored the South Coast with surprising thoroughness. Their neglect blurred lines between potential chart acts, Rough Trade prospects, and deliberate DIY, so that the South Coast scenes (while still insular) remained highly varied, while "DIY" became less a choice than a necessity. Except for the Mods, hardly anyone put out records on their own, so instead the best documents of South Coast postpunk were a handful of excellent local compilations -and a raft of barely-circulated tapes- that account for a majority of the tracks here. 24 songs, 10 bonus MP3s, video and a 28-page booklet. Artists include The Chimes, Bloated Toads, Vitamins, Renaldo And The Loaf, Relatives, Thought Police and many other delightful discoveries from South Britain's punkness past.