Anyway, I was looking through some of my old MiniDiscs and copying some of the music on there and came across this oddity: a Reality Control? tape titled “Children of Terra.” I don’t have the actual tape with me, so unfortunately I cannot tell you who was on this tape (I know John was not) nor can I tell you what the song titles are. If anyone else has this tape, maybe they can pass the information on.

Here’s the music:

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You might also want to check out Ryan’s post of A Fool’s Paradise which not only has songs by Reality Control? but also songs by Suckerpunch (the song’s on the 10″ also, but this is a different recording), Downcast, and others.

Excerpts from the 1990s

I don’t know what much I can say about David Hanna. As I mentioned on the page I created for him at So, sue me already, he would be one person I would love to have in a DWAB live band if there ever were one….

I remember David had moved away after recording the songs for One Final Episode in Our Attempts at Persistence 10″ and during the time he was gone, he took a course in music recording. When he came back to Santa Barbara for a short visit, he also lent me a tape with some of the stuff he had been doing.

It’s a pretty cool collection of random “songs” (they’re not really songs–they’re quite often more like “snippets” or samples that you could imagine layering to create some actual songs). I didn’t get any titles from him (I doubt he had any), so it’s somewhat tough to tell you my favorite songs, but be sure to scan through all of them and find the advertisement for “Liqui Socks”–it’s pretty damn cool….

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Although, I guess that by posting this here for free, maybe I’m now giving away my hardcore soul. Hmm. Not sure.

Anyway, here are two cool hardcore comps: Give Me Back and Toxic Waste on Yer Plate. The first is from an LP put out by Ebullition, and was one of the first records that got me into the hardcore scene way back when. The second is from some tape I got from (I think) Green Earth Tapes or something like that and had lots of cool crusty/pogo stuff to listen to. (Read on for the downloads….)

Give Me Back

1. Amenity – Machine
2. Desiderata – Upon a Man Looking at a Woman
3. Seein’ Red – Bigot
4. Spitboy – Seriously
5. End of the Line – Burning Down
6. Manliftingbanner – Sister
7. Born Against – Body Counts
8. Econochrist – Seek to Use
9. Profax – Patience
10. Profax – Bona Fide
11. Suckerpunch – Religious Phallos
12. Sawhorse – Spoke
13. Sawhorse – Farther
14. Struggle – Culture of Rape
15. Bikini Kill – Daddy’s Lil’ Girl
16. Downcast – For in Love

Toxic Waste on Yer Plate

• Neuroleprosy: Give me Death | Animallide | Tears in their Eyes
• Huasipungo: Let’s Save a Cow Today | Asco
• Misery: Screw You | Legion of the Hopeless
• Sairrat Mielet: Pilessa Vaiko Taivaassa | Pornoteollisuus | Tasa Arvoa
• Social Outcast: World Wars | Wake the Sleeping Giant
• Blanks 77: She’s Gone | Try to Understand | Spirit of ’77
• Apryk: Back | Death Play | Revolution | Sand Dream
• Hiszteria: Dog | London | Encs Rank Cz A Volvos
• Screaming Holocaust: Greed and Power | War | Children and Innocence
• Hacesja: Wieloryb | Mamusia