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smartz records - label & distro

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smartz records
is an indie (diy and no-profit) label & distro active since 1995
here’s the list of smartz - still available - productions: for more stuff (lyrics, mp3...) and for the full distro list with thousand of records, zines and gadgets visit the official smartz page
available on smartz:

x-mary - a tavola con il principe

OUT NOW!!!
Assolutamente matti, e chi li ha visti dal vivo sa di cosa parlo! Ristampone del loro secondo cd: IL disco del 2007.
[smartz 40] - cd 2008 - buy it!

x-mary - x-mary al circo

OUT NOW!!!
Luca Carboni and Darby Crash meets Minutemen in Toquihno’s house. X-Mary are crazy! 3rd album, 14 tx in italian, no comment.
[smartz 39] - cd 2008 - buy it!

i treni all’alba - folk destroyers

OUT NOW!!!
Instrumental postrock / folk / core / prog / ex-Belli Cosi and Encore Fou. Great!!!
[smartz 38] - cd 2008 - buy it!

bob corn - we don’t need the outside

"A great cat named Bob Corn opens up the show on solo acoustic guitar and singing - he does some beautiful tunes that are very soulful, dancing skips w/his feet to accompany him" (Mike Watt/Minutement, the Stooges)
[smartz 37] - 12"LP 2007 - buy it!

agatha - getting dressed for a death metal party

Devastating all-girls trio from Milan playing like "Sleater Kinney on anphetamine, or Shellak jamming Girls Against Boys" (Freakout mag). Great bikini artwork: use your imagination to dress them!
[smartz 36] - 7"EP / mCD 2007" - buy it!

sumo - surrogati

The Bologna based punk quintet Sumo offers some great emo lines, political lyrics, unexpected catchy melodies combined with a explosive punk attitude. If you loved Rits of Spring, this is your cup of coffee.
[smartz 35] - cd 2007 - buy it!

bava - l’ostile di vita

1st full lenght. A gloomy, impatient, radical, blasphemous, irriverent and ironic anticlerical proclama for the ex- Less Than Zero from Milan. Carmelo Bene lives here! Not recommended to fine palates.
[smartz 34] - cd 2007 - buy it!

frontiera - sulle impronte dei giganti

3 years after "Strana corsa", 2/3 of the legendary punk band Kina are back with 5 new songs recorded @ Acqualuce studio sound, with the cullaboration of Fabiano Riz, Mario Congiu and other friends. it(a) rocks!
[smartz 33] - cd 2006 - buy it!

isobel - fioca?

Post core a là Fugazi, sometimes more pop and sometimes more psycho. It’s the second issue for Isobel, that’s also the band into I play bass. 5 tracks for about 15 minutes, coproduced with Fooltribe.
[smartz 32] - cd 2006 - buy it!

big member - s/t

If you love Evan Dando’s Lemonheads don’t miss the Big Member. 2/4 of Spacciatori di musica stupefacente play here, 12 tracks, carefreeness & retrò design for pop homesicks...
[smartz 31] - cd 2006 - buy it!

laghetto / violent breakfast

Laghetto, mad post-pocapocalyptic heroes from Bologna, split this 7" with young emoviolence guys from Pisa called Violent Breakfast. Green transparent vinyl.
[smartz 30] - split 7"ep 2005 - buy it!

crime gang bang - i giorni della merla

Italian old school hardcore played by old school people. Contains 6 songs + 3 video. And the hit Brucia Imperia brucia. A big coproduction between 16 diy reality.
[smartz 29] - cd 2005 - buy it!

laghetto - pocapocalisse

If Sonate in bu minore is not enough for you... Pocapocalisse! Eleven new songs (di cui una palindroma). It comes into a digipack tartufato cd with a 16 pages full color booklet & different crazy sticker on each cover.
[smartz 28] - digipack cd 2005 - buy it!

sumo / ed

Sumo: guitar, drum, vocal and 2 basses. On stage they remember me Altro but more punk. Ed also come from Bologna and play a rawer and direct hardcore a là Indigesti of the early 80’s. Split-vinyl, few copies.
[smartz 27] - split 7"ep 2005 - buy it!

isobel - s/t

Debut ep. Ex-BelliCosi and parallel project of 3eem. they love certain hardcore but also Fugazi, Motorpsycho, Sonic Youth, Inzirli and Kina. Post-rock? Psycho-core? 3 songs and a no-end vurtula.
[smartz 26] - 7"ep 2005 - buy it!

hobophobic - i sogni a naufragare

Best melodic hardcore band from the South of Italy. Nine tracks spitting blood, sweat and sincerity. Play fast or die!
[smartz 25] - cd 2005 - buy it!

roid - riepilogo della fine

Roid doesn’t exist anymore. They played great old school hardcore until a pair of years ago and now are in La Quiete and Le Tormenta. These are just their last songs, in a niceful package with cool graphix.
[smartz 23] - cd 2004 - buy it!

arsenico - forti di incomprensioni instabili

Personal pop-hardcore from Turin. Nine tracks in which the classic motorcity core meets old Assalti Frontali, Arturo and Subsonica grooves. BIG recording and coproduction of 16 diy labels from Italy and Europe.
[smartz 22] - cd 2004 - buy it!

kafka / defdump

Kafka = powerful and screamish hc from Genoa since 10 years! They seem a bit Refused singing in italian. Defdump are from Lux and play caothic emocore. Reprint ep (500 copies on transparent orange vinyl).
[smartz 21] - split 7"ep 2003 - buy it!

spacciatori di musica stupefacente - dove ti sei perso

Spacciatori di musica stupefacente play old school but melodic hardcore in the vein of Kina, Husker Du e Dag Nasty. Ten songs with italian lyrics, played with the heart. Bonus cd rom data track with video and pics...
[smartz 20] - cd 2003 - buy it!

threat of riot - seasons

New cd for the ex-Brigate Rozze from Rome: ultrafast old school HC with double male/female screaming vocals. 9 songs, in english. They kick asses!
[smartz 18] - cd 2002 - buy it!

belli cosi - torino rock’n’roll starz

The last powerful album for the great turin band. Into your stereo 11 songs of italian hc. But into your pc also the complete website + the past eps in mp3 format (high quality) + a video + many many more. A must.
[smartz 16] - cd 2001 - buy it!

Concerts
Agatha w/ Death Before Work!
25.04 vienna (au) @ ekh
26.04 ostrava (cz)
27.04 dresden (de) tbc
28.04 wroclaw (pol) @ crk
29.04 ruda slaska (pol)
30.04 warsaw (pol) noc walpurgii 2008
01.05 berlin (de) @subversiv
02.05 munster (de) tbc
03.05 offenburg (de) @ kessel
25.05 reggio emilia @ igloo fest
Bob Corn
02.04 berlin (d) @ zu moebel fabrik
03.04 rostock (d) @ stubnitz
05.04 leipzig (d) @ noch besser leben
06.04 berlin (d) @ intersoup
09.04 frankfurt a.m. (d) @ cafè andrea doria
11.04 nijmegen @ de onderbroke
12.04 rotterdam (nl) @ motel mozaique festival
13.04 utrecht (nl) @ db’s
14.04 groningen (nl) @ house show at theblackatlantic’s
15.04 amsterdam (nl) @ vpro radio show
15.04 leiden (nl) @ sub 071
16.04 brussel (b) @ tba
17.04 paris (f) @ tba
18.04 niort (f) @ tba
19.04 mont de marsan (f) @ l’aficion
20.04 bordeaux (f) @ inca
22.04 reims (f) @ l’appart cafè
23.04 strasbourg (f) @ stimultania
24.04 dudingen (ch) @ badbonn
25.04 stuttgart (d) @ f.f.u.s.
26.04 vicenza @ presidio NO dal molin
27.04 bologna @ foolfest c/o locomotiv club
28.04 cremona @ antica osteria del fico
30.04 finale emilia (mo) @ giardini pubblici
07.05 sondrio @ la smagia
08.05 bolzano @ circolo masetti
09.05 senigallia (an) @ tba
10.05 lucera (fg) @ arci sonica
11.05 copertino (le) @ i sotterranei
12.05 fasano (br) @ house show at fernando’s
13.05 matera @ in strada !
19.05 roma @ fanfulla 101
20.05 marina di massa (ms) @ tago mago
21.05 sansepolcro (ar) @ house show
22.05 arezzo @ libreria leggere
03.07 zanè (vi) @ cascina irma
Frontiera
18.04 tba
19.04 pisa @ newroz
Isobel last shows!
15.03 rovato @ csa 28 maggio w/ altro
29.03 bologna @ atlantide
14.04 torino @ united club
17.05 ciriè (to) @ taurus - LAST PARTY!
I Treni all’Alba
05.04 torino @ spazio 211
24.04 torino @ fattore k (acoustic set)
25.04 milano @ la casa 139
01.05 dijon (f) @ aux tanneries
03.05 lyon (f) @ le boulon
09.05 ciriè (to) @ taurus
28.06 alpette (to) @ rockfree festival preview
X-Mary
25.04 lugano @ tra l’altro biblio bar
26.04 fano (pu) @ crazy house
24.05 cesena, forlì (fc) @ vesparaduno
29.05 caserta (ce) @ tba
31.05 poggibonsi (si) @ tba
01.06 roma @ zksquatt
21.06 ponti sul mincio (mn) @ perfect dayz fest
22.06 senna lodigiana (lo) @ festa della birra
20.07 ospedaletto (lo) @ motoraduno

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Member Since: 1/5/2007
Band Website: smartzrecords.org
Band Members: here's the list of our past (sold out) productions:

affranti - ciò che rimane

great band. A big connubio between words (very distressing lyrics) and music (old school hc in the vein of Kina and Negazione, but more dark and metallic). It comes with a cool b/w booklet full full full of words. Bravi!

[smartz 24] - cd 2005 - sold out

laghetto - sonate in bu minore per 400 scimmiette urlanti

Laghetto extralux digipack CD, new school HC for psychiatric institutions from Bologna, Italy. 10 tracks with thousands of (screaming) vocals and ninja turtles. Esagerato. Provare per credere.

[smartz 19] - digipack cd 2003 - sold out

spacciatori di musica stupefacente - ancora una volta

These 4 guys have old HC in the heart! 4 tx playing like Husker Du, Kina and old italian HC of Negazione. extra limited edition 400 copies.

[smartz 17] - 7"ep 2002 - sold out

arturo - conversazioni

Torino HC meets No Means No, featuring QuintoPiano and the hashish core of the new vocalist Gigio from Church of Violence. 18 incredible new songs that really kick ass, try it!

[smartz 15] - cd 2001 - sold out

cornflakes freaks - nora's room

25 minutes of hot melodic HC with an emo touch. singed in english, played with the heart. now (2006) 2/4 of c.f.f. plays into crime gang bang.

[smartz 14] - cd 2001 - sold out

belli cosi - zwolf rock songs - mc/cdr

A preview of the Torino R'n'R Starz cd: 5 new tx with a raw diy recording + 7 tx from the old eps. special limited edition for the deutschland tour 2ooo-2oo1.

[smartz 13] - mc/cdr 2000 - sold out

suburban noise / room 104

Hot hot hot split on vinyl! melodic and melancholic HC from Salento in 4 tracks. Room 104 revelation of the year!

[smartz 12] - split 7"ep 2000 - sold out

altro

Their 2nd ep. 5 songs of ultra lo-fi italian melancholic emocore, coming in a cool opening package.

[smartz 11] - 7"ep 1999 - sold out

cornflakes freaks - suck my worm

Their 2nd ep. melodic HC from the south coast. 6 songs with intelligent lyrics and the orriblest cover-paint of the year.

[smartz 10] - 7"ep 1999 - sold out

belli cosi - nuovo rock italiano

Their second ep, 7 tracks of ironic, original, fast & crast but melodic italian hardcore! Include hits like Today & Einstein...

[smartz 09] - 7"ep 1999 - sold out

less than zero - frattaglie

Original & political punkcore with a lot of things to say: this is not a cd for listening only, but reading and thinking too.

[smartz 08] - cd 1998 - sold out

meat for dogs - s/t

Italian ultra melodic punk core in 8 tx.

[smartz 07] - cd 1998 - sold out

stinking polecats / home alone

Split pop-punk rock. 9 tx. Now Home Alone are the Retarded, while the Polecats continue to kick asses!

[smartz 06] - split 7"ep 1998 - sold out

kirsch - spirito di ciliegia

Melodic punk core with female voice. Split up.

[smartz 05] - mc 1997 - sold out

manges - the manges

Las Pezia Rockers! Their third ep, 4 new songs.

[smartz 04] - 7"ep 1997 - sold out

c.o.v. / distruzione - storie dalla grande pera

"Fugazi meets Husker Du" sound vs. the kings of Turin's hashish core Church of Violence.

[smartz 03] - double split 7"ep 1997 - sold out

manges - i was a teenage rocker

Best of italian pop punk rock! Their second ep. 6 tx.

[smartz 02] - 7"ep 1996 - sold out

g.a.s. - demo + live - mc

Young, fast and angry drunk core.

[smartz 01] - mc 1995 - sold out


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Record Label: smartz records
Type of Label: Indie