{"id":190,"date":"2009-04-09T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-07-25T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T05:09:23","slug":"babyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Babyland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who’s Sorry Now? <\/em>LP
\nFlipside Records, 1995<\/p>\n

\"\"Back in 1995 when about 85% of the music released on punk labels was Buzzcocks<\/strong> or Green Day<\/strong>-inspired pop-punk, Flipside<\/em> magazine’s record label released a second helping of Babyland’s electrojunk punk, which promptly ended up in cutout bins by the dozens. It’s a damn shame too, because what Babyland brought to the turntable was co-opted in the later ’90s by a punk scene that shifted away from the safe confines of pop-punk to the wild possibilities of Screamers<\/strong> and Suicide<\/strong>-inspired synthpunk of the later nineties in bands like Subtonix<\/strong>, The Vanishing<\/strong>, Replikants<\/strong>, ADULT<\/strong>, Black Ice<\/strong>, Sixteens<\/strong>,\u00a0The Lack<\/strong>, and\u00a0the whole Digital Hardcore scene that came to light with the popularity of Atari Teenage Riot \u2014 <\/strong>not to mention the overall acceptance of synth elements in punk with early 2000s groups like\u00a0xbxrx<\/strong>, Lost Sounds<\/strong>, Digital Leather<\/strong>, Phantom Limbs<\/strong>, etc.\u00a0I think a lot of punks\u00a0were wary of Babyland’s big drumbeats almost sounded like techno, which was justifiably loathed at the time. But digging deeper, Babyland supported those huge beats with a scrappy and abrasive barrage of samples and textures, paring the experimental clang of <\/span>Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten<\/strong> with the manic percussive fits of <\/span>Crash Worship<\/strong>. While Babyland’s later releases\u00a0smoothed the edges into more of an industrial-style punk, and their grating, but excellent debut LP You Suck Crap<\/em> is heavier on the 8-bit bleeps, Who’s Sorry Now?<\/em> has a full, seductive sound with a darkwave edge that has made it an unsung winner in my book.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Babyland – “Slow News Day<\/a>”
\nBabyland – “Form 95B”<\/a>
\nBabyland – “Cancer Beat”<\/a><\/p>\n

LINK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Babyland website<\/a><\/p>\n

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