Tag: Camden

Nightcrawlers

The Nightcrawlers were an electronic trio from Camden, New Jersey who recorded many of their early albums live in band member Tom Gulch’s garage. Their can-do spirit endeared them to many in the underground electronic music scene, and they were featured often in fanzines and underground publications at the time. The band put out three proper LP’s and over 35 self-released cassettes during the ’80s, most of which could be had for $4 at the time.
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I was introduced to Nightcrawlers by a roommate when I was living in the KDU house on Woodland Ave. Syd did a show that was mostly experimental and psychedelic music. At the time I wasn’t that much into that kind of music but there was something about the Nightcrawlers that I really liked and it broadened my interest in  more experimental stuff. I wish I had gone to see them live and would have bought at least some of their self released tapes. (Of course to buy all their tapes I would have had to spend a lot more time in the Ivy Labs whirlpool testing sunscreens.) I did manage to record the lps from KDU and they are below. Also included is a recent comp release made up from those tapes that is available on Bandcamp. Plus a youtube verison of their live tape from St Marys.

Nightcrawlers – Space Ritual at St Mary’s (1986)

The Biophonic Boombox Recordings

Nightcrawlers LP Cover
Nightcrawlers Back LP Cover

Nightcrawlers LP (1984)

01 – Traveling Backwards
02 – Tanzwut
03 – Modulus Four
04 – Spring Torsion

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Nightcrawlers Spacewalk cover
Nightcrawlers Spacewalk Back cover

Spacewalk LP (1985)

01 – Digitalis
02 – Ombra
03 – November Evening
04 – Spacewalk Parts 1-3
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Nightcrawlers Shadows of Light Cover
Nightcrawlers Shadows of Light Back Cover

Shadows Of Light LP (1987)

01 – In a Distant Corridor / Interlude I / Glimmer
02 – Particle Dance / Interlude II / Shadows of Light
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F.O.D. (Flag Of Democracy) Videos

If you don’t know who F.O.D. are then I’m not sure how you got to this site. But just in case here is an article about them by Yoni from the Key.  This post has  two early videos one from the CEC and the other opening for the Dead Kennedys in Camden. Both videos are courtesy of the very much missed Lenny Crunch. Plus,  a slideshow of some show flyers below.

F.O.D. CEC Philadelphia 2/18/84

F.O.D. – Camden NJ April 20, 1985 (full show)

F.O.D. new and re-releases are on SRA Records

Their most recent album NO SCHOOL, NO CORE

Flyers

SS Decontrol – Buff Hall, Camden 11-20-82

Buff Hall Flyer

Happy Belated Buff Hall Day (11-20) to all the people lucky enough to have been at that show. I saw lots of fb posts about the anniversary of that show and since I recently got these files (Thanks Brett) I wanted to get this up as soon as I could. So here they are- Boston’s SSD (Society System Decontrol) Live at the famously insane Buff Hall show in Camden. It was an amazing lineup – Minor Threat, SS Decontrol, Agnostic Front, along with Crib Death and F.O.D. from Philly. Added to all that it was F.O.D.’s first show ever. It was before my time in Philly and big of my list of shows I regret not being at. Scroll down for links to some great books with first hand stories from the show.

01 – No Reply
02 – Get it Away
03 – Boiling Point
04 – Police Beat
05 – Nothing Done
06 – Glue
07 – Under the Influence
08 – Whos to Judge
09 – How Much Art
10 – Force Down Your Throat
11 – Fight Them
12 – Headed Straight
13 – X – Claim
14 – Fun to You
15 – The End

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Books

For first hand stories about this show and much more get Nancy Barile’s book “I’m Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion” and George Hurchalla’s Going Underground: American Punk 1979–1989.

Also more on the show, including an interview with Ian MacKaye, from the Double Cross online fanzine.

Dead Kennedys – Rutgers Camden NJ – April 20, 1985

Crunch Productions show with the Dead Kennedys from Rutgers Camden on April 20, 1985. Another show from within a year of my moving to Philly but at least I got to see them later at Blue Horizon. What a great lineup this show had – opening for the Dk’s was Articles of Faith, COC, Decontrol & FOD. At the time the largest independent punk show in the area Rutgers put the total attendance at 3,100.
Really Huge THANKS to Lenny Crunch for letting me transfer this video and put it up.

Audio files

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Die Kreuzen – Number Three Videos

I always thought that The Mighty Die Kreuzen were Heavier than Black Sabbath & More Fierce than Minor Threat. When you were at one of their shows & they started to play, Your Soul was lifted Upward, Your Arms Raised & Your Whole Entire Body Swayed with the Intensity of a Tornado Swirling about & taking Whoever got in your Way with You into the Frenzied Pits of _______ .

When they played, it wasn’t a hardcore show, it wasn’t a rock concert, It was a Gathering of the DK Family to groove & support these Incredible Musicians, Friends & Brothers from the beer capital Milwaukee and we did gather. In Philadelphia, DC, NY, Atlantic City, Camden, You might think Deadheads were loyal but Die Kreuzen drew crowds who traveled thru whatever elements because we had to be there…

In July 1988 the band released Century Days & this song entitled Number Three was filmed live at J C Dobbs in Philadelphia. It was filmed & edited by the West Side Club. “From this view my thoughts are all so clear/ I’ll always be right here away from you” And now Number Three…… – Lenny Crunch

 

Die Keuzen – Number Three (Live audio Version)

 

DieKeuzen – Number Three (Recorded Audio Version)

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