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Hi lads! Recently you have been told about a blog where me and mates are posting both obscured (but quite impressing!) and not so bands. You have been advised to download stuff via variety of browser plugins though you must feel a bit uncomfortable.

Well, henceforth you are able to download all the albums from the MEGA's folder. And VK blog will be there if you want to preview album before download.

Enjoy.

Inside – 516 - A Long Island Hardcore Compilation (1996)

 

Tracklist:

11. Absence

12. Radio Flyer

Inside – 516 - A Long Island Hardcore Compilation (1996) 320kbps

Various Artist – In-Flight Program - Revelation Records Collection '97 (1997)

 

Tracklist:

1. Sense Field - Building (1:35)
2. Texas Is The Reason - Back And To The Left (3:55)
3. Farside - Audience (3:37)
4. The Iceburn Collective - Sphinx (4:36)
5. Shades Apart - Fearless (2:53)
6. Chain Of Strength - True Till Death (2:22)
7. Whirlpool - Wasteland (2:37)
8. Chinchilla - Decoder (4:26)
9. Bodyjar - Glossy Books (3:51)
10. Ignite - Embrace (2:22)
11. Sparkmarker - Chrysanthemum (3:15)
12. Youth Of Today - Break Down The Walls (2:05)
13. No Fun At All - Master Celebrator (2:53)
14. Gorilla Biscuits - New Direction (2:13)
15. State Of The Nation - A Piece (2:48)
16. Beta Minus Mechanic - Sandcastles (2:57)
17. Quicksand - Omission (2:24)
18. Underdog - Say It To My Face (2:12)
19. Judge - Bringin' It Down (1:50)
20. Supertouch - Vendor (2:54)
21. Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender (2:57)
22. Shelter - Enough (1:54)
23. Burn - Shall Be Judged (2:18)
24. Into Another - To Be Free (3:15)
25. Bold - Looking Back (2:13)
26. Engine Kid - Windshield (3:23)

Various Artist – In-Flight Program - Revelation Records Collection '97 (1997) 320kbps

M.I.J. - Single & Rarities

1993 - Demo Tape

1. Distraction
2. Wait
3. My Seed
4. Relay
5. Graflin
6. Loss

320kbps

1995 - Chewed Smooth Center

1. Distilled

2. With Time Badderlocks

3. Whistle On Lackaday

4. Algia Butterfly

5. First Water

6. Propelled Soft Skies

7. Leafy Green

8. Running

9. Sand Path

320kbps

1996 - 300 Miles 7"

1. Do You Miss?

2. Lamp Light

3. 300 Miles

4. Untitled

256kbps

Various Artist ‎– Bread: The Edible Napkin (1997)

This compilation came with '"No Idea'" fanzine #12.

I'm not sure whether it was necessary to post this compilation here, but anyway - it's a rare compilation, moreover, there is a Christie Front Drive, Braid, Hot Water Music, Still Life, Sideshow, Moonraker and many others.

Listen, drink tea and enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. Hot Water Music - Floor (2:14)

2. Floor - Who Are You? (1:52)

3. No Empathy - Daddy's Got A Problem (1:36)

4. Ash County Sluggers - Achiever 9 (3:42)

5. Brutal Truth - Eggshells (2:42)

6. Christie Front Drive - Bag (4:08)

7. Cavity - Wounded (1:12)

8. Pung - Anthem For The Youth (2:33)

9. V-Card - Strap Me Down (2:41)

10. Floodgate - The Pessimist (1:44)

11. Against All Authority - Corporate Takeover (1:52)

12. Serpico - Double Negative (2:19)

13. Elmer - Let's Get In A Fistfight (2:10)

14. Gus (Canada) - Sinister Acts In Bright Sunshine (3:07)

15. Moonraker - Friendly Fire (3:46)

16. The Bruce Lee Band - Calling For Me (1:55)

17. Horace Pinker - Sloth (1:55)

18. Car Vs. Driver - Generis (1:50)

19. Locust - Inbred America (1:07)

20. Hope Springs Eternal - Loneliness Equals Coldness (3:41)

21. Jack With Killer - Stupid Heavy Metal 2 - Restriction (1:50)

22. King Friday - Lonnie (2:19)

23. Braid - Katy Cat (3:25)

24. The Lisa Killers - No One Gets Through (0:42)

25. Rhythm Collision - Jack (3:03)

26. Sideshow - Soar (5:03)

27. Skankin' Pickle - $13,000 Is A Lot Of Food (Live) (1:56)

28. Crunch - Furioso Zapping (1:00)

29. Threadbare - Sunstroke (3:15)

30. The End Of The Century Party - Doozer La, Doozer Do (1:25)

31. Still Life - Someone Stole My Bike (4:42)

32. Bombs Of Cheese - White People In The Park (0:53)

33. No Idea Fanzine - Nothing (0:04)

Various Artist ‎– Bread: The Edible Napkin (1997) 320kbps

Sense Field ‎– Building (1996)

On Building, Sense Field sound more like an emo band than on the jangly Sense Field; this time around, the tunes are shorter, harder, and more derivative of post-hardcore, featuring less-predictable arrangements. 

The group's calling card is vocalist Jonathan Bunch, who at times sounds like a serious, more sensitive Dexter Holland. The band succeed most when they combine their energy with memorable melodic ideas and arrangements, as they do on the concise "Different Times," the inventive "Shallow Grave," and the driving title track. Andy Wallace's mix adds punch and definition to the proceedings.

Sense Field ‎– Building (1996) 320kbps

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Sense Field ‎– Sense Field (1994)

Sense Field have been pegged as an emo band, and, to their credit, they avoid most of the clichés that plague other bands in the genre; Sense Field's emotionally resonant songs employ the spare, driving urgency of emo bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, but combine it with the tunefulness of more straightforward power pop bands like the Plimsouls. Musically, Sense Field is fairly conventional — a jangly, textured mix of electric and acoustic guitars washing over mid-tempo beats — but Jonathan Bunch's strident and frequently off-key vocals add the raw, keening tension that makes the "emo" tag appropriate.

allmusic.com

Here's your chance to hear the first two, pre "Killed for Less," self-released demos on one record, plus two unreleased tracks.

Sense Field ‎– Sense Field (1994) VBR V0

Sense Field ‎– Killed For Less (1994)

California's Sense Field originally consisted of vocalist Jonathan Bunch, guitarist Chris Evenson, guitarist Rodney Sellars, bassist John Stockberger, and drummer Scott McPherson. They began playing together in 1990, forming from the ashes of Evenson, Stockberger, andBunch's prior group Reason to Believe. The following year the group released their self-titled EP on their own record label, Run H2O. Based on the EP's success and the group's consistent touring, Revelation Records distributed their 1993 mini-album Premonitions and released their full-length debut Killed for Less the following year. The group's first national and international tours preceded their second album, 1996's Building. A shift in bandmembers, however, plagued the band at the height of it all. McPhersonleft to play drums for Elliott Smith's band in 1999, allowing Rob Pfeiffer to step in. Several EPs and 7" singles — the Part of the Deal EP on the Grape OS label and a split release with Onelinedrawing — appeared before the decade's end. The year 2001 began on an up note, though. Tonight and Forever,Sense Field's fourth full-length, was issued on Nettwerk in summer 2001. While touring in support of the album the following summer, guitarist Rodney Sellars' daughter was seriously injured in a car accident and ended up in a coma, forcing Sellars to take a temporary break from the band. The remaining members of the band continued on, recording songs for a fifth effort. Living Outside, which appeared in July 2003, was produced by Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate).

On this album, Sense Field accomplish what few other emo band accomplish: They successfully create an emotional and understandable musical message. The amazing thing about Sense Field is that they truly understand dynamics and don't just thrash around on full-throttle. Using dynamics allows the listener to truly appreciate the impact of the full-on rock. "Found You" and "Heather" are perfect examples of their musical abilities.

allmusic.com

Sense Field ‎– Killed For Less (1994) 320kbps

Texas Is The Reason – If It's Here When We Get Back It's Ours (1995)

Texas Is the Reason is a musical group founded by former Shelter guitarist Norm Arenas and 108 drummer Chris Daly. A foundational quartet in the post-Sunny Day Real Estate movement of emo or emocore music, Texas Is the Reason played melodious but forceful rock music before disbanding in 1997.

Norm Arenas (guitar), guitarist for the hardcore Hare Krishna band Shelter, formed Texas Is the Reason with friend and then fellow Hare Krishna devotee Chris Daly (drums), formerly of the band 108, which played music of a similar kind to Shelter's, some time in the early 1990s in New York City. They both desired to leave the macho attitude and religious preaching of their former projects. With former Fountainhead bassist Scott Winegard (bass), the three recruited one-time bassist for Buffalo's Copper, Garret Klahn (guitar/vocals), to round out the quartet.

The name "Texas Is the Reason" is lifted from a Misfits song, entitled "Bullet". It also makes reference to a conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in which the president was killed in a plot arranged by Texas Democrats in order to give Lyndon B. Johnson control of the White House. Releasing three songs on an EP, Texas Is the Reason became an underground smash and helped rein in an era of similarly motivated and styled emo bands. They then released a split single with The Promise Ring through Jade Tree Records. The following year, 1995, they released another split single with Samuel, through British record label Simba.

What followed was their first and only full-length album, Do You Know Who You Are?, named after the last statement John Lennon supposedly heard. Produced by Jawbox's J.Robbins and released on Revelation Records , Do You Know Who You Are? brought a lot of major-label courtship to Texas Is the Reason, who were being hailed as the "next big thing" in the growing punk explosion on MTV. Song titles from this album, such as "The Magic Bullet Theory" and "Back and To the Left", continue the allusion to one of the Kennedy assassination theories.

On the eve of signing with one of the major labels in 1997, intra-band tensions arising from the major label attention caused the band to break up. The members headed to various different musical projects, with Garret Klahn to New Rising Sons and Daly to indie outfit Jets to Brazil. Winegard started putting out other bands' records through an imprint he co-owns called GrapeOS, while playing with other musicians in a band called the Americans. The only member to go inactive in the world of indie rock was guitarist Norm Arenas, living in Chicago and DJing for almost three years.

Winegard and Arenas joined Charlie Walker of Chamberlain and Jonah Matranga of Far and Onelinedrawing to form the band New End Original, which lasted from 2000 to 2003. Klahn's New Rising Sons released two EPs through GrapeOS, were dropped by Virgin Records, and then disbanded; he now plays in the band Solea. Daly left the now-defunct Jets to Brazil sometime after their 2002 release, Perfecting Loneliness.

punknews.org

This is their first EP. Listen and enjoy.

Texas Is The Reason – If It's Here When We Get Back It's Ours (1995) 320kbps

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