1 minute excerpt Rasta Hunden: Mina Polare, Real Audio
This local reggae-punk-pop group existed for only one year, hardly played outside Sundsvall and released only one album and broke up shortly after, but still is one of Massproduktions bigsellers. Their humorous lyrics, with a whole gallery of short portraits of local figures and singalong tunes is still finding new audiences. The CD also includes two previously unreleased live tracks.
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KRUNCH: Expressen
Another of Massproduktions bigsellers. Krunch from Timrå, a small municipal town close to Sundsvall, was one on the most important Swedish punkband of the mid-eighties and met a large international interest. They toured Europe twice but at that time interest for punk in Sweden was at it´s lowest level. Which did not stop them from having a small but very devoted following. High speed punk with neckbreaking turns and lyrics who could have been written with by Majakovski on lust gas made them to something special. Not to mention their liveshows...This CD includes all their recordings, except for the first Hello Bob EP. The band also finished the six tracks that would have been their last miniLP where they ended in 1989. So the album includes four previously unreleased tracks and two remixes.
To really understand what these weirdos really are doing you must understand Swedish and have a large potion of somewhat perverted humor. The Kristet Utseende is created from the belief that just in the outskirts of Gnarp there is a Christian sect, totally devoted to perverted sexgames, drugs and scandalous living in general. From this beliefs, all of their lyrics origin from and mixed with their punk and metal influences it makes a blend that don't have a comparison in Sweden. Massproduktion have re-released their classical debut - Sug & Fräls - from 1994 and will release an compilation spring 2000 with some of their early recordings.
Punk från provinserna 1978-82
The birth of Swedish punk have been documented in both Stockholm and Gothenburg but nothing outside these cities.
The labels Birdnest and Massproduktion joined forces and gathered all the known and unknown hits from this period that come out of the vibrant punk/new wave scene that flourished outside these big cities during 1978 to 1982. The first CD contains these brilliant tracks:
P-NISSARNA-Benzin, PROBLEM - Kroppsvisit, URBAN SLÄKE - Så djävla svensk, MISSBRUKARNA - Du ä inte du, NOICE - Tror du, BRÜLBÅJS - EAP, PIZZOAR - Guds Barn, DAGENS UNGDOM - En villa i utkanten av New York, RUNE STRUTZ - En bracka från Gottsunda, LOLITA POP - Guld här?, PF COMMANDO - Raggare, MIZZ NOBODY - Smittad, BESÖKARNA - Anna Greta Leijons Ögon, IQ 55 - Ensamma pojkar, DISTORTION - En tjej, SHIT KIDS - Köttmarknad, BRÄNDA BARN - Andra behov, SVART - Jag är inte din syster, FIENDENS MUSIK - En spark rätt i skallen, MACKT - En kristen lärare, MASSMEDIA - Das Jazz.
Punk från provinserna 1978-82
A new collection of old brilliant punkhits from the early days of Swedish punk. Some of them banned from the radio but played anyway by Ny Våg - the black sheep of the national radio and a must for those who were interested in what was happening around in Sweden at that time. Vol. II contains:
ASTA KASK - Ringhals brinner, TRASTE & SUPERSTARARNA - Pengar, BAD BOO BAND - Knulla i Bangkok, N-LINERS - Återfall i farten, THE SAME - Kuken i styret, TST - Väktarnas värld, KRIMINELLA GITARRER - Silvias unge, SARAH COFFMANN - Fri energi, ETIQUETTE MONA - Amsterdam, EPIDEMI - Häftig brud, RASTA HUNDEN - Mina Polare, TT-REUTER - Hör inte till, BLITZEN - Dömd, BUGS - Uniformerade män, CYKLON B - En grogg till, SVETTENS SÖNER - Fahlmans fik, VACUM - Maskerad, ONBIRDS - Pompeji, DIESTINCT - Ett gevär i min hand.