It all started in 1990, when SFT Records was found by Udo Meixner and Markus Heinisch in the suburbs Bayreuth and Oberkotzau/Germany. Initially, SFT was in contact with several bands, mostly from the US of A, and in the end, it was a bunch of kids from Massachussettes, that became number 01 in the SFT-catalogue: Our first record was an EP ("Habit Of Thought") by Intent To Injure from Boston in 1992, followed by the "Black"-7" of Headfirst (California) and a repress of the rare "X Marks The Spot"-compilation.After that, we did two EPs along with Without A Cause and Stick Figure from NYC and Kevin Gill - former singer of Stick Figure and manager of WAC - was very interested to become a member of the SFT-family, too. Udo and Kevin met each other for the first time in New York City in summer 1993. It was Jimmy Gestapos' (Murphys Law-shouter) birthday-party at the legendary "Continental"-club near St. Marks Place, where the glorious future of SFT took its rise from. Beside Murphys Law and Madball a newcomer-band performed at Jimmys party, and just a few guests saw them performing while most of the people were standing outside the club. It was a band called 25 Ta Life, that should very soon become one of the biggest acts out of NYC. They were the next signing on SFT and their 4-track-EP ("Short Fuse"; later released with some bonussongs) was the top SFT-seller so far. In the beginning, 25 Ta Life didn't want to record "Inside Knowledge" for that EP, though it was obvious, that this tune was and still is an HC-anthem... But in the end, the song was performed in the studio and found its way on the record.The two releases before 25 Ta Life were recordings by UpFront (NY), Choose X (Germany). After SFT 7 (Choose X), Markus left SFT for personal reasons and Udo and Kevin continued as a two-piece. Udo did SFT Europe and Kev did SFT USA.In early 1995, SFT released its first CD: The "It's All Good"-compilation, featuring our first 4 sold-out EPs. Followed by the EPs from Vision Of Disorder (VOD, from Long Island, SFT 10) and District 9 outta South Bronx. The very succesful 25 Ta Life-EP was now re-released as an MCD with two live-bonustrax, followed by the Roguish Armament-CD, which so far was one of the craziest SFT-records. Roguis Armament show Hip-Hop in a broad and diverse experimental view, as well as serving the Rock/Alternative audience with the same. Roguish Armament had a proven track record of successfully touring with such groups as The Goats, The Deftones, Hagfish, Beatnuts, and the legendary Bad Brains, opening for them during four U.S./Canadian tours (including the main stage at Woodstock '94). Roguish has also explored alternative Hardcore audiences while playing with Dog Eat Dog, Murphy's Law, Cro Mags or Luscious Jackson.Next to come: the "X-Mas Pigs"-MCD from Six And Violence, the No Redeeming Social Value/Six And Violence-split-EP, the No Redeeming Social Value-CD "Rocks The Party" (1996, SFT 12), the "NYHC - Documentary Soundtrack"-CD (1996, SFT 13) and the Fahrenheit 451-MCD "The Thought Of It" (1997, SFT 14). Further there was the Shutdown-MCD "Turning The Tide" (1997, SFT 15), the NRSV-CD "Hardcore Your Lousy Ass Off" (1997) and a CD called "Petty Staycheck" by The Six And Violence (SFT 17).In 1998, SFT put the new generation of NYHC on the map: Neck from Long Island. What a blast! A perfect balance of the most brutal intense hard tuned down extremity you've ever heard, to sudden mind bending twists of melody and jazz precise musicianship. Vocals so intense it will make satanists cry. This was fucking high art. The way of the future. Only SFT, the label that opened the world up to VOD and 25 Ta Life had the balls to put the Neck full length out, and beat everyone to the punch. Their self-titled debut-CD (SFT 18) made Sepultura look like Mary Poppins.During all those years, NRSV had been the closest members of the huge SFT-family. So it wasn't just a lucky chance, that they were involved in the last 2 SFT-releases before the break: first the compilation "3-Way-Dance" (SFT 19) , that - besides NRSV - features The Six & Violence from NYC and Romantic Gorilla from Japan. And second the "THC"-CD by NRSV themselves. But "THC" was only released in Europe thru SFT. In the US, Triple Crown Records did the job. After that, SFT Records called it quits. For the moment. Not because of the fact, that nobody wanted to listen to the releases any more. In contrast: SFT had become too huge to be done just by 2 people. So both partys involved, Udo and Kevin, agreed that now, after 10 years, time was ripe to let their baby go.But not forever! About 2 years later founding-member Markus decided, that there is more than enough great music out there worth to be released...the battle continues
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