bacteria sour. sour 24 / 4 tracks / 1998

 Tons of different versions: #1 - Purple film sleeve, light-sensitive (changing to brown). Plain white vinyl, stamped A side label, stamped inner sleeve. File contains poster, black floppy disc with purple foil printing, RP logo sheet with sticker, two lyric sheets, carbon paper with lineup info. #2 - Mustard color film sleeve, light insensitive (or it is already the changed color?). White vinyl with black veins, labels and inner sleeve as #1. File has the same contents as #1, but the foil printing on the disc is green, and there is an extra logo sheet without sticker. #3 - Green color film sleeve, light-sensitive (changing to dark green). Record and inserts as in #2, but the extra logo sheet is missing. #4 - Light green color film sleeve, light insensitive. Inserts like for #2, but the disk is red w/ green foil printing, and the logo sheet is stamped with a star and numbered (mine has “$015”). #5 - “Red Mirror Sleeve” - 13 made, white vinyl with black veins, sleeve printed on red mirror foil. Same inserts as for #4 (red disk), also a stamped logo sheet which has a red star stamp and a number (mine is “0X13”). #6 - Brown film sleeve, white vinyl with black veins, includes file. #7 - Black and white sleeve printed on paper, no file. White vinyl with black veins. #8 - Version for Japanese Comic festival in 2003, 98 made, hand numbered and signed inside the sleeve. Black and white sleeve printed on paper with the band logo hand colored in blue. Blue swirly vinyl. + lyric sheet, no file.

Whoa - insert overkill! One of the craziest Pushead releases; for some copies, the outer sleeve is printed on old photographic film, so it gets darker if exposed to light (so keep it in an envelope!). Inside, you get a white vinyl record and a little “file” with “secret papers”, a floppy disk (!), carbon paper, a poster etc. Crazy! The packaging is so overwhelming that it's easy to forget about the music; fast & brutal hardcore with a screaming singer, well-produced, well-played and a little bit more diverse than your usual crust core massacre. This is almost a piece of art. [8]  

Pushead  hat ja in seinem langen Künstlerleben schon einiges fabriziert, aber dies ist nun wirklich der Insert-Overkill: Eingewickelt ist das gute Stück in altes Filmmaterial, das am Licht oder nach längerer Lagerung dunkler wird; als Beilage gibt es eine Art Akte mit verschiedenen “Geheimpapieren”, einer Diskette(!), Kohlepapier, Poster usw. Irre. Ach ja, Musik gibt es auch noch, schneller, brutaler Hardcore mit Kreischstimme, gut produziert & gespielt. Im Gegensatz zu diversen Kollegen pflegen RP auch die Abwechslung, weshalb man sich die Platte nicht nur ansehen, sondern auch diverse Male anhören kann. Prima.

Tracks: maggots + lies = you / fanboy crush // more than a hero / less than a human