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Pacifiction Records

Alien Rarities
and Beyond!

About Me

If you like the songs above,
buy them now!

Pacifiction Records is an online CD shop specializing in rare and independent Asian music. The store was founded by Martian Shane (a.k.a. Martian Radical) who spent over a year in Taiwan going to rock shows and fests at every chance. Upon returning to NY in 2005, he documented what he saw in a website called Island of Sound . While working at the independent punk label Radical Records in NYC, Marty got the idea to go into business for himself selling unheard and rare music from Asia to the rest of the world.

UPDATE:

The no-wave influenced poetry rock group FLIGHT OF IDEA is coming to NYC next week. Please take a look at their schedule and google the venue names for more information!
PS. We are still looking for a venue for the October 19th!


HALLOWEEN UPDATES:
We're getting ready for Halloween here at Pacifiction Records! Listen to some of the darker songs on our playlist and keep an eye out for some Halloween sales!

For some new Taiwan punk CDs, please visit the page below. Pacifiction Records now co-operates with the new youth punk label ZMN Records which has recently released several pop punk EPs by SEMI-CON, DUCT TAPE and STAY GOLD. We also got one of Taiwan's favorite taike punk bands the wild CHILDREN SUCKER as well as the Japanese/Taiwanese psychobilly, rockabilly and surf combo FULLHOUSE. Several expat punk outfits such as CONSIDER THE MEEK and THE DEPORTED make appearances on a split CD and anti-materialist SELLING US EVERYTHING brave the saccharine Asian pop culture with their new full length album Product Jingles. And it's all coming off a tiny pirate island in the Pacific!

CLICK HERE
for TAIWAN PUNK!


We have several new post-rock CDs from Taiwan. Please visit and take a look at these experimental sounds!

CLICK HERE
for TAIWAN POST-ROCK!


New USED CD SHOP is online! I am collecting used Japanese stuff at flea markets around Japan! I will be adding new J-pop, J-rock, punk and anything else interesting I may find. Feel free to look around!


Featured Video:
BRACES- "Tell Me"


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/23/2006
Band Website: pacifictionrecords.com
Band Members: These bands are now available from Pacifiction Records! Check them out on the Pacifiction website. You can order using a major credit card securely and safely via PayPal! Just click the "Add to Cart" button!

Or email me at order(at)pacifictionrecords.com if you would like to order by mail with a check or money order!

Hot from TAIWAN:
Varo (Taiwan)



VARIOUS ARTISTS
Grass Festival 2007
(Taiwan/Hong Kong)



Nylas (Taiwan)



B.B. Bomb (Taiwan)



Radiobear (Taiwan)



Orangegrass (Taiwan)



KbN (Taiwan)



Fullhouse (Taiwan/ Japan)



Consider the Meek
(Taiwan/ Australia)



Hot from the USA:
Wolfgang Bang (USA)



Love Cinema Vol. 6 (USA)



Armedalite Rifles (USA)



Armed Suspects (USA)



Hot from the PHILIPPINES:
The Itsukas Over Disneyland (Philippines)



Hot from AUSTRALIA:
Baseball (Australia)



Hot from JAPAN:
The Vickers (Japan)



The Vickers (Japan)



Flight of Idea (Japan)



Six O'minus (Japan)



ELMOC (Japan)



CLIONE-INDEX (Japan)



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Influences:
" target="_blank"Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era compiled by Jac Holzman and Lenny Kaye

Nuggets, Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire & Beyond compiled by Rhino Records

The Anthology of American Folk Music edited by Harry Smith

Alan Lomax

John Peel

Island of Sound: Taiwan Underground Scene Documentation

Rock of Japan

Giant Robot

Petite Mort

Indizoo

Benten Label

Asian Man Records

Pass Out Record Shop

Radical Records

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin

Anyone with a strong love for music, the arts and culture; Anyone with a love for the international independent music community; Anyone who has gone out on a limb, taken a risk for something they believe in.
Sounds Like: experimental indie punk world rhythms girl bands guitars drums laptops loops and anything to make you happy sometimes make you cry.
Record Label: Pacifiction Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

What is Pacifiction Records?

Now I'd Like to explain a little about what Pacifiction Records is all about. For now it's simply an online CD store that will start carrying several indie titles from Taiwan within the next few month...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:05:00 PST

Why Pacifiction Records?

Just to clear up a few things, I thought I should post a blog about my main motivations and expectations from this new venture called Pacifiction Records.Most of you know that I spent some time in Tai...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:59:00 PST

Radio Radio

I wanto to list some of my favorite radio stations as well as some of the staions and DJs that have included PACIFICTION material in their rotations. First off is a couple stations that I kept on tune...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:14:00 PST

Free Burma

The recent protests in Burma have caused a backlash of violence by the unjust junta lead by the deluded Senior General Than Shwe while the nation's rightful and democratically elected leader Aung San ...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:58:00 PST

VARO

VAROhttp://www.7inchvinyl.com/varoindex.htmlhttp://www.myspa ce.com/varohardcorebeachVARO was formed in 2004 by Wan Ting, a founding member of the seminal Taiwanese girl punk band Ladybug, who teamed u...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:26:00 PST

WOLFGANG BANG

WOLFGANG BANGhttp://www.wolfgangbang.comhttp://www.myspace.com/wolfga ngbangThis Japanese/ American combo from L.A. has the 60's beat of garage rock band, the Jett Rock n' Roll sound of Guitar Wolf and...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:26:00 PST

BASEBALL

BASEBALLhttp://www.geocities.com/baseballtheband/http://www. myspace.com/baseballthebandHere we have one of Australia's newest bands working in the vein of Nick Cave, Gallon Drunk and the Dirty Three. ...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:19:00 PST

LOVE CINEMA VOL. 6

LOVE CINEMA VOL. 6(Love Cinema Vol. 6 w/ Mike Mistake)www.lovecinemavol6.comwww.myspace.com/lovecinemavol6 Jersey trash punk by way of Takashi Miike, Love Cinema Vol. 6 formed in 2004 on a mission to s...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:12:00 PST

ARMEDALITE RIFLES

Armedalite Rifleshttp://www.frontiernet.net/~lorubbio/www.myspace.com/a rmedaliteriflesThe Armedalite Rifles were born in Pinebush, NY out of a love for the old days when punks jammed to reggae, listen...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:25:00 PST

Japanese Band List

Ok, I'm going to try to list all the Japanese bands I have seen in my travels. This is just a list, none of these bands has any affiliation with Pacifiction Records, although I plan on carrying some J...
Posted by Pacifiction Records on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:12:00 PST