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Multimedia Disorder, Episode 15

1. SMOKEHOUSE ROUND MIDNIGHT - Intro
2. LOS CUNOS ELECTRICAS (UK) - Lunacy InL'Orcy
3. SMD (Pico Rivera, CA) - Patience
4. MELEE (Allston, MA) - Life Is What You Make Of It
5. ZERO CONTENT (New York City, NY) - Head Skin
6. ASTRID OTO (Asheville, NC) - El Sob
7. SHITLOADSOFFUCKALL (Canada) - Your God
8. SLOWDEATH (San Diego, CA) - You'd Look Good In A Coffin
9. URKO (UK) - You're A Cunt
10. SOCIAL INFESTATION (Georgia) - Helpless Hopeless
11. MEDICATION TIME (Oakland, CA) - Sorely Resentful
12. GRIMPLE (Oakland, CA) - System Fuckers
13. ZERO CONTENT (New York City, NY) - Viva Zapatos
14. LOS CUNOS ELECTRICAS (UK) - Piss Stain
15. LEMUR MUTATION (Castro Valley, CA)
16. HEAD HITS CONCRETE (Canada) - You Came Searching
17. CATHETER (Denver, CO) - Sit Back And Look
18. CRUDE (Japan) - Stand And Fight Again
19. FRACAS (Alameda / Oakland, CA) -Rats
20. LEMUR MUTATION (Castro Valley, CA)
21. EXITWOUND (Oakland, CA) - Friend Indeed
22. BEWARE (El Monte, CA) - Five-O
23. ANTIWORLD (Portland, OR) - The Day It All Went Wrong
24. DISCORDIA (Mexico) - Vida en Cadenas
25. LANA DAGALES (Oakland, CA) - Fish And Game
26. BRAINBLOODVOLUME (Oakland, CA) - Destroy Fear
27. LAST SUPPER AT RICH'S POTSTICKER HOUSE - Outro

Multimedia Disorder, Episode 15 (download)

This episode of Multimedia Disorder features the first UGZ aka Urban Guerrilla Zine compilation ever released. We put this out back in 2000 as a companion piece to issue ten of Urban Guerrilla Zine. There was also a photocopied booklet that we called Urban Guerrilla Zine ten point five, a half issue that was mainly included as an extra through mailorder. The front cover of Urban Guerrilla Zine number ten featured artwork by Judd Hawk back before anyone other than REINA AVEJA (his wife's band) was using it, and on the back cover we had a skate photo of Dave Chavez, who we profiled in the zine. An interesting side note to that front cover is that the band COACCION used that same artwork for the cover of one of their CDs, and I'm pretty sure they took it directly from the zine. I always meant to ask Manuel about that.

Urban Guerrilla Zine compilation number one was originally comprised of bands whose members had contributed to the zine, no matter how small that contribution might have been. Aaron from ASTRID OTO had written column, Pat from GRIMPLE contributed poetry, Jake from EXITWOUND wrote reviews, and later Ruben (Exitwound, Cruevo) became a UGZ columnist as well. Paul from MEDICATION TIME and CRUEVO contributed an article or two as the "Unknown Controller", and so did Joe from FRACAS. Greg from LANA DAGALES, and later BRAINOIL, did all the mastering for the CD. LANA DAGALES has one track on the compilation, but Greg is also responsible for the LEMUR MUTATION tracks. The list goes on and on. Some of the other bands that didn't have direct links to UGZ until the compilation came out were BRAINBLOODVOLUME, who kind of evolved into LAUDANUM. I ended up booking a majority of LAUDANUM's shows for the next several years after that, especially their non-bar shows. Another band along those lines was DISCORDIA who I didn't really know at the time we (Jake, Greg from Lana Dagales, and myself) were compiling the comp, but soon after it came out I began to bring all the bands that featured ex-members of DISCORDIA (who had already broken up by then) up to the Bay Area for shows, bands like BUMBKLAATT, COACCION, and MASSAKRO. Jake introduced me to SMD, BEWARE, and SHITLOADSOFFUCKALL. Those were bands that he met back when he was in OPPRESSED LOGIC. I eventually convinced BEWARE to make the drive north a couple of times, and I booked a bunch of big shows for SMD after the comp came out. CRUDE from Japan appear on the compilation because I was a big fan at that time, and recently I was finally able to book a show for CRUDE at Gilman, so it was like things had come full circle. In the case of the CRUDE anyway. Jas (R.I.P.) from URKO was a contributor to the zine, and he appears on the comp as a member of URKO and LOS CUNOS ELECTRONICAS (it's supposed to mean The Electric Cunts).

So on and so on, etc., etc., cheers!

-Jay Unidos

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