the paper chase meets red worms’ farm – s/t (robotradio)

robotradio is a new label from italy and this is their first release. like many labels they begin with the intention to make something interesting using the weirdest gizmos you find at home while your imagination plays the biggest role of all. music, comics, cartoons and movies are some of the things that inspired the label owner, he also had an idea to start series of cds featuring some of the people whose creativity has influenced him over the years, so it was logical robotradio to become a label that will combine these things into something that would unite artists, comic drawers, designers, video artists together into series of cds in which every one of them can have a space of their own. in this first release that formula of releasing unreleased tracks from one italian and one band from abroad, couple of remixes and a couple of video clips (animation, computer graphic or photo works ) is realized. all digipack covers, as well as this one, are designed by comic drawer. on this, practically, split release the italian band is red worms’ farm and the one from abroad, in this case usa, is paper chase. if one song is by red worms’ farm then the next would be by paper chase, and so on… the sound of these bands is guitar oriented. red worms’ farm are balanced between post punk and noise, between fugazi’s punk attitude and sonic youth’s melodic vocals and guitars. the paper chase are somewhere around here despite being a bit harder, oriented to the old chicago/touch and go sound and the washington punk rock aesthetics. so in comparison here we can mention bands like shellac, fugazi, girls against boys, don caballero, uzeda… taking the hard bass from shellac, hard piano from girls against boys, sharp and guitars from rodan. just the remixes for two of their tracks are quite more calm or electronic. and of course two videos are included so that the concept is fully realized. one is for red worms’ track ‘pop song’ and other is for paper chase’s ‘i’m your doctor now’ both directed by founthead. all in all, this is an interesting conceptual release that combines music, comic and video art and with this intention it is completely successful.