Urban Waste - EP

Mad At The World Records

 

Recorded in 1982 and officially released first in 1983, its original pressing has pretty much become unaffordable for us average Joe’s. Luckily enough both bootlegged and reissued countless of times already, one of NYHC’s founders Urban Waste needs no further introduction.  Mad At The World Records reissued this classic EP before in 2003 (1,000 copies, black vinyl), 2006 (500 copies, red vinyl) and 2011 (1,000 copies, marble vinyl), but continues to keep it in press with another run of black vinyl!

 

Although this lo-fi rage is best served analogue, the newest pressing includes a card for a free digital download making you able to listen to timeless tracks like “Police Brutality”, “Public Opinion”, “Wasted Life”, “Ignorant” and “Reject” wherever and whenever, who would have thought 34 years ago? Then again, who would have thought 34 years ago that bands in a future far, far away, would still recreate, or at least try to,  the New York City hardcore-punk sound of the early 80’s bands like The Mob, early Beastie Boys, Kraut, Bad Brains and many others, Urban Waste included, are responsible for? Probably no one.

 

“People say I’m a reject, because of the clothes I wear and the music I like. But you and I both know, that they’re really the rejects for liking music from the past...”

 

Therefor Urban Waste’s debut EP is still relevant and mandatory until this day. Production and budgets might have gone up throughout the years, but what is essential has been the same for decades; play fast, be loud and have something to say! Get this now, if you haven’t already!