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B.C.T.
B.C.T. is a DIY tape label that released a total of 27 cassette tapes covering mostly international and some domestic hardcore and punk released from 1983-1986. These tapes have stayed in print for 20+ years. All tapes have good to very good recording quality and are 60 minutes each except #6 which is 90 minutes. All tapes are $4 ppd. each. You can get any five tapes for $17 ppd. and any ten tapes for $32 ppd. Overseas orders: Add $2.00 for first tape, $1.00 each additional for postage. Most descriptions by Chris BCT.
B.C.T. (Borderless Countries Tapes/Bad Compilation Tapes)
P.O. Box 16205
San Diego, CA
92176
U.S.A.
chrisbct@hotmail.com
BCT #1: V/A - "First Strike" $4.00
Compilation of San Diego, California punk and hardcore bands originally released in October 1983 with Clit Boys, Vatican Commandos, Violation, Eat The Rich, Future Ruins, Mr Epp, Poison Center, Skoundrelz, and Cultural Breakthrough.
BCT #2: V/A - "Music On Fire" $4.00
Italian hardcore punk comp from 1983 with Wretched, Indigesti, Raw Power (from 1983), Rappresaaglia, 5° Braccio, Crash Box, Stazione Suicida.
BCT #4: V/A - "Ahhhh... Italian Punk" $4.00
An all Italian hardcore punk sampler with Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Peggio Punx, Eu's Arse, Nabat, Chelsea Hotel, Shockin TV, Tirituta Limitata, and Dark Ride. 32 tracks total, released in December of 1983.
BCT #5: Raw Power $4.00
A solo cassette from this great Italian punk band containing tracks recorded at Brown Studio, 1983, live tracks from 12/4/83, and three extra studio tracks from 1984. Some cuts in English, others translated. 45 songs total.
BCT #6: V/A - "Last White Christmas #1" $4.00
Fifty-six cuts over 90 minutes live in Pisa, Italy on 12/4/83 by Gran Ducato Hard Core (GDHC) for Johnny in Jail. Clear recording, some cuts in English. Contains Juggernaut, War Dogs, Useless Boys, Putrid Fever Dements, Auschlag, Brontosaur, Stato Di Polizia, and Raw Power. A split release between BCT and Cessophena Records.
BCT #7: V/A - "Last White Christmas #2" $4.00
Second volume in this collection also recorded on 12/4/83 in Pisa, Italy. This one features Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, I Refuse It!, and Traumatic. A split release between BCT and Cessophena Records. 32 songs.
BCT #8: Rattus $4.00
From Finland, Rattus put this tape together themselves, and it features twenty cuts translated, some in English of demos from 12/81, '82, and '83 as well as live in '83. "Rockabilly Reagan" is a great joke song, "Back In '78" is in '78 style but with power. Excellent alternative cuts. Thirty-four songs, a good Rattus sampler.
BCT #9: Terveet Kädet $4.00
Poor overall sound quality but okay as demos. Hearty Finnish hardcore. Great for Terveet Kädet fans. The band put the tape and sleeve together. This tape is dedicated to their drummer, Walde, who died in January, 1984. Contains studio and live cuts from 1982 to 1984.
BCT #10: V/A - "I'm Buck Naked" $4.00
Fifty-six cuts in 60 minutes from Drills (Washington, USA), Love Canal (California, USA), Psycho (Massachusetts, USA), Detention (New Jersey USA), No Response (Wisconsin), Eat The Rich (California, USA), Unexpected (New Jersey, USA), Raw Power (Italy), Disorderly Conduct (New York, USA), Akutt Innleggelse (Norway), Accelerators (New Jersey, USA), White Pride, and Suburban Decay (Ohio, USA). 56 tracks total.
BCT #12: V/A - "Hideous Freaks Search for Happiness" $4.00
All U.S.A. compilation with Happy World, Ministry Of Truth, Drills, Angry White Boys, Entropy, Catharsis, Hates, Born Without A Face, Toejam, ?, Useless Pieces Of Shit, Arcata Boys Choir, Psycho, Teenage Depression, US Distress, Sacred Denial, Self Inflicted Wounds, White Pigs, and State Of Confusion. The tape of many names: Break Slamming, May Cause Dependence On Laxatives, Not A Bunch Of Love Songs, Squeezing The Green Weenie, You Make Me Feel Ookie, Pure Erotic Fluff, I'm Taking A Drug -- It's Coming From These Speakers.
BCT #13: Stazione Suicida/Putrid Fever split $4.00
100% Italian Hardcore. Two of Italy's hottest bands of the time -- Mama mia, that's a spicy piece of plastic! Contains studio cuts plus all of Putrid Fever's live stuff from LWC #1. Weak recording for most of the Stazione Suicida, and the music slows occasionally. Putrid Fever has clean studio and a strong live recording.
BCT #14: V/A - "Tropical Viruses #1" $4.00
From Grito Suburbano (Suburban Scream) LP (first punk LP in Brazil): Olho Seco, Inocentes, Colera; Sub LP: Ratos De Porao, Colera, Psikoze, Fogo Cruzado; Lixomania "Violencia E Sobrevivencia" (Violence And Survival) EP. Compiled by Ricardo Lobo, Tropical Viruses #1 and #2 contain all Brazilian HC to make it to vinyl before '84. Shit-loads of Brazilian HC. Heartfelt. In Portuguese!
BCT #15: V/A - "Tropical Viruses #2" $4.00
Early '80s, very out of print HC records, with permission. Contains Fogo Cruzado continued from the Sub LP. From O Comeco Do Fim Do Mundo (The Beginning Of The End Of The World) festival (first Brazilian punk festival), Dose Brutal, M19, Estado De Coma, and sixteen other bands. Tape also contains Olho Seco "Botas, Fuzis E Capacetes" (Boots, Guns, And Helmets) EP and Inocentes "Miseria E Fome" EP.
BCT #16: V/A - "Senza Tregua" $4.00
Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, SDP, Wardogs, I Refuse It!, Traumatic, Juggernaut, Putrid Fever, Useless Boys. Great studio versions of LWC material. Well recorded. GDHC Studio Compilation, 60 minute version. Original version has one more track each of Juggernaut and Useless Boys. Write Andrea "Pippo" Penco, Via Tito Sperin. 3 57100 Livorno, Italy for that version.
BCT #17: Raw Power "Live In The USA '84" $4.00
True power from six U.S. shows during their '84 tour when "Screams..." LP was made. Forty-three unrelenting tunes.
BCT #18: V/A - "I Thrash, Therefore I Am" $4.00
The single best BCT tape. European hardcore compilation featuring Mob 47 (Sweden), Product Assar (Sweden), Moderat Likvidation (Sweden), Kuolema (Finland), Existenz (Sweden), Akutt Innleggelse (Norway), Groteska Taskar (Sweden), Xpozez (England), Anti-Cimex (Sweden), Raw Power (Italy), Enola Gay (Denmark), T.A.S.K. (Sweden), Rudolfs Rache (West Germany), Mottek (West Germany)
BCT #20: Injections $4.00
One of the earliest and best San Diego bands (now defunct). Contains studio and live cuts from '80 and '81. Includes two awesome single cuts. Music has a '79 sound because it's from '79, etc. This is the only non-HC BCT band, hard late '70s.
BCT #22: V/A - "Spanish HC" $4.00
Spanish hardcore punk compilation with MG 15 ('82-'83), IV Reich, R.I.P. (live 5/84), Frenopticss, Antidogmatics, Ultimo Resorte. Discharge influenced. Mostly in Spanish. Ultimo Resorte has a rare, (for BCT -- just a coincidence), female vocalist -- plus, she's good.
BCT #23: Funeral Oration/Gepøpel split $4.00
Two bands from Holland playing unique punk music. Too much uneven live and demo material recording quality. These bands are funny, unique, insistent, with bits of junk between tracks. It's hardcore on its own course. Will you like it? Who knows?!
BCT #24: V/A - "Car Crash Music" $4.00
Fear Itself, Uptight, Youth Quake, Utter Stench, Maggot Sandwich, Like A Horse, Bloodlake, 9/9, Challenger Crew (West Germany), and Subterranean Kids (Spain).
BCT #25: V/A "They Decide... You Pay!" $4.00
More Italian hardcore! Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Savage Circle, Vivisexione, P.S.A., Cani, I Refuse It!, London 77, Kina, Noise Noise Noise. Noisy music, clean recording (more clean than usual). Steps beyond standard hardcore with that touch of Italian HC jazz, but always hard strong, and very musical.
BCT #26: V/A - "Barabbas Records Comp" $4.00
Finnish comp with WDM, KTMK, TK, Varaus, Aparat, Aivoprotesti, Protesti, Tampere SS, and Fucking Finland.
BCT #27: V/A - "Experience The Freedom Of Total Control" $4.00
Contains Extrem, Emils (West Germany), Direct Action, the Sins, Brain Damage, Righteous Pigs, System Overload, and M.B.P.
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