NO RACISM, NO AUTHORITY!

A cooperative effort released in 1997 benefitting Dare To Care (a human/animal rights collective from Philippines) and Callus Collective (an...

PARVEROTTI

Anarcho punk, hardcore, crust and chaotic art punk are all represented on this 1994 compilation from Israel. The quality level is exceptiona...

LAST CALL FOR LOST SCENES

Released in '98 by our friends at Tian An Men '89 , this is the second volume in a series of comps featuring bands the far corners o...

TWENTY YEARS ON - THE SUMMER OF LOVE?

45 minutes of varied material from one side of this compilation cassette (the flip side was destroyed well beyond listenability).  An acoust...

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

I've been putting this one off for ages - a killer comp of noisy hardcore and punk from the Northeast, but the track listing is confusin...

LET THEM EAT PASTAS! LET THEM EAT SHIT!

Mid-90's international comp from the folks at Spock Productions. A few acts you are likely familiar with (WAT TYLER and THE GR'UPS d...

BEATS

There is no sense in me pretending that I am anything approaching an expert on these sounds. Just three acts make up the A side of this mix ...

OORWORMER

Three cheers for bored teenagers copying records onto cassette for their friends. Oorwormer is an essential 1982 anarcho/post punk comp fro...

BREATHLESS: THE HARDCORE COMPILATION

Six band Indonesian hardcore comp from 1999. Two songs from each band, covering all the bases: DEADLY GROUND steal the show with their UNIFO...

PVC H.EX (002)

A collection of bands and misfits (or bands of misfits, if you will) from Grand Rapids, Michigan laying waste to all assortments of genre de...

POVERTY RECORDS SAMPLER

It was the 1990s, and the idea of starting a label with two bands a roster made up of drug addled savants from the neighborhood, your aspiri...

THE LAST MIX

Not actually the last Friday mix tape (though I have debated ending the weekly tradition), but a relic from the Milwaukee Mix Tape Exchange ...

LATINOCORE

I've toured a lot. I've played shows in places that many people might consider weird or off the beaten path, and I consider myself v...

SOLO SE OYE PUNK VOL. 1

Wanna know one way to make a scene? Make mix tapes. Wanna know one reason why so many killer bands keep cropping up from the overlooked encl...

THE WILD BUNCH

As went the musical tastes of a large part of the underground in the mid '80s, so went the progression of cassette releases from seminal...

WORLD CLASS PUNK

Jakke handed this gem off to me when I was in New York a few weeks back, a brilliant picture of international early '80s hardcore and pu...

UG-IT

I wasn't initially sure if this was a compilation packaged for actual release, or if it was just a mix tape of bands that Dan Riffe play...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING LAW! // WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING WAR!

Terminal Escape turns 900 today. 900 cassettes lovingly converted into a soulless barrage of 00s and 01s just so you can enjoy the music on ...

NORTHERN SOUL FLOORSHAKERS

Motown. '60s R&B. Hundreds of undeniably brilliant songs that we all know inside and out (even if we don't know it - the shit is...

EXTREME HARDCORE

Leaning more towards the DIY metal that was floating around the underground tape trading world and concentrating on bands from the South, Ex...