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01 - Jason Adams 02 - SK8 Void 03 - BREAKfAST EAT RICE 04 - Speed Freaks 05 - American Wino 06 - Rock, Rock 07 - Jason Adams 08 - True Do Me? 09 - Day Dreamer 10 - Oneweek #2 11 - Spit Fire 12 - Child's Heart 13 - Happens In Easy TV 14 - Raining Rage 15 - One Grown Up's Mind 16 - Speed Freaks 17 - Kagami 18 - BREAKfAST ? Eat Rice |
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Eighteen songs. Sixteen minutes. Screaming. Cardboard production. Skateboards. Yes, dear friends, it's another album from BREAKfAST, the most consistently fresh presence in the international hardcore scene. BREAKfAST's unique amalgam of skate-thrash and jazzy Minutemen-funk fulfills both one's desire to violently spazz out and one's desire to boogie down. The intricacies of their sound make it quite clear that they aren't your average hardcore meatheads. Classic 6 Packs, released by American label 625 Thrashcore, collects BREAKfAST's first demo tape and two out of print 7-inches from 1999 to 2000 for the first time on CD. Given the medium in which these songs were first presented, these aren't exactly the glossiest of tunes. In particular, the first six tracks taken from the demo tape sound heavily muffled and lacking in dynamics. Some of these songs reappear on later records in improved forms, such as the thrash-blues "American Wino" which can be found on their Vertigo album. "Jason Adams", an ode to their skate hero, and "BREAKfAST ? Eat Rice", a nod to the Minutemen's "Viet Nam", appear much more accessibly later on in this album among the tracks from the two 7-inches. While these versions are hardly hi-fi, the dark and raw recordings give songs like "Kagami" and "True Do Me?" an undeniably frightening energy. Lyrically, "Raining Rage," "True Do Me?" and "Happens In Easy TV" touch upon the unpleasant topics of war and the media, but other songs like "Spit Fire" and "Speed Freaks" are almost child-like in describing the simple joy of skateboarding: "Speed freaks, pass through unchanging streets, leaving a trail of streetlights." In fact, singer Morimoto Zakkan is known for brandishing a skateboard on stage at all times, and is captured on the cover of the record ollieing in mid-air during a performance. Jun Saitou, then of an earlier Dischord-esque emo incarnation of Your Song Is Good, is featured in the liner notes, having laid out glowing praises for BREAKfAST in the insert of their second 7-inch. While BREAKfAST has collaborated with and maintains connections with many of Japan's indie elite they're also one of the few Japanese bands participating in truly DIY tours abroad, playing in basements, warehouses, and dirty hole-in-the-wall dives. BREAKfAST have even turned down potential record deals from labels they believed to be too big for their modest aims. Classic 6 Packs is a look at one band's modest beginnings, who will hopefully continue to modestly pump out the skate punk hits of the future. |
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