Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Various Artists - Ad Vice



Artist: Various Artists
Title: Ad Vice
Year: 2000
Label: Mangrove Records
Tracks: Firestarter 1.) Slum Rock, 2.) Trashy Dreams, 3.) Johnny Moped Was Right; Intimate Fags 4.) Talking In My Head, 5.) We Are The Thorough Cheap Boys, 6.) Shoot Craps; Radio Shanghai 7.) (You Look Out Through) Instant Emotion, 8.) Artificial Life, 9.) Frustrated Town; Zymotics 10.) (Oh My) Tic, 11.) Dirty Punk Man, 12.) I Wanna Go To Play School; Private Ways 13.) Information Disk, 14.) She's Gone Again, 15.) I'm In Safety

I previously mentioned the Chloroform comp that introduced a lot of people to the lesser known Japanese bands of the mid-90s. Ad Vice is sort of a follow up with a bunch of new bands from the next mini era of the early 2000s. This comp was of particular interest because I believe it has the first recordings from Firestarter with Fifi, Fink, and Sammy reunited for the first time since Teengenerate. 


After that you get Intimate Fags, which were kind of a continuation from Cock Scratch, who had a run of domestic releases on Rip Off Records. Radio Shanghai has its fans and pushed things in the pop/wave direction. Zymotics were a continuation of Bou Sou Nezumi, who had a well-regarded scuzz garage 7" from 1996 and were also on the A World Full Of Friends comp LP on Repent Records from 1997. Lastly is Private Ways, which continues in the pop/wave direction with Radio Shanghai. 

Sample: here

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