DOMINACIÓN - Punks Ganan EP
What changed recently in Barcelona? A new breed of bands have appeared suddenly in the last three years creating an insane experiment of raw sounds. I will talk about the whole scene in the future, but one of the most extreme and interesting cases are DOMINACIÓN, a band created to satisfy the most intense feelings for the noisy music we all like. Blending members of another thousand bands (LUMPEN, IRREAL, ASPRE, SAYÓN... the list could be too long) their love for the Japanese bands like FRAMTID is more than evident here. The kind of band you can't play on your phone because the speakers are shitty so it sounds like white noise, but once you put on your headphones and close your eyes, a whole experience of direct action anarchist music explodes like an Orsini bomb in your brain.
This EP that features seven songs is called Punks Ganan, and to answer other reviewers, Barcelona punks are not going to win anything, this means that punks rule and it's impossible that anyone can disagree with this title. The fierce music that appears after this short title/statement is everything you can expect from such a minimum concept: an ode to the old d-beat but modernized with a 90s filter. Sometimes you will think they are going for a crust riff but it is still raw punk and pure energy in the form of a Barcelona punk band. In the first moment I thought Punks Ganan was sounding too digital, but I have to admit I'm playing this EP so much more than I though I would, even seeing them live every month, and probably the mix is one of the reasons.
The lyrics are honestly so good and harsh, the song "Israel" was supposed to ban them in Germany while they were on tour (the ones trying to ban them don't know what they are saying!! but anyways, fuck these pro zionist punks) so already accomplished the goal of confronting ideas. Another one that I like a lot is "Asesinados en las cárceles españolas" (Murdered in the Spanish prisons), that does not talk only about prisons but also CIEs (unofficial jails for migrants, where there have been tortures and attacks of all kinds to the people trapped there), police stations, reformatories... the power of the state that crushes innocent lives in reclusion. There's tons of cases of tortures, attacks and murders (and unknown suicides) in these spaces, but of course no one want to look at it. In this scenario that is not dystopic at all, it's our reality, what can we expect from our world? Well, they know the answer: "Resistencia y vida punk" (resistance and punk life). Fuck the penitentiary system, and listen to what DOMINACIÓN are saying!
Punks Ganan is a short introduction to the potential of this band that are already playing 20min of set in their last shows, so we can expect more music soon I guess, way more refined and still sounding extreme.
Listen here: https://discosenfermospunk.bandcamp.com/album/de-130-dominacion-punks-ganan-7
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