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ETT - 038 - Ultra - "Bay Area Babylon" Mixtape
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I've never followed modern Oi! ( besides CRIMINAL DAMAGE ) very closely because so few current bands get anywhere close to giving me what I get from the classics. However, with bands like THE BRASS, CROWN COURT, and RIXE a little renaissance seems to be happening; in much the same way as the No Way generation of early 80s USHC-inspired bands reinvigorated the hardcore scene in the early and mid-00s, a new crop of Oi! bands is finally making music that can stand with the classics.

ULTRA have it down pat... gruff and tough, but with the hint of simple, terrace-chant melody that makes Oi! so immediate and memorable. If you're into bands like the ones i mentioned before... you won't be disappointed.

Shortly after the brilliant COLD CIRCUITS 12" my mate Paul, told me they‘re gonna start a more OI! influenced Band with members of SYNTHETIC ID, COLD CIRCUITS among many others and what should I say? They killed it again! The same old question, what is the secret ingredient of these guys? Whatever these Bay Area guys secretly mix in their drinks, it seems to bring out an endless flow of brilliant and catchy, yet distinctive songs – in each of their bands, again and again and again...

Anyway, it's pretty clear that the early UK Oi! sound is the primary inspiration here... not only is the general, rootsy pub rock / oi! approach largely the same, but a lot of the songs are built around the same kind of hammer-on rock and roll riffs that drove a lot of that early UK stuff. I would say this is a little more melodic than the first bands you get in mind when you are thinking of the first UK Oi! wave.

They build their songs around the same kinds of hyper-speed Rock n Roll riffs, and the singer has a brilliant melodic growl. I've never said it many times before in these descriptions, but I've always been a big fan of the bands that lie on the more melodic end of the Oi! spectrum, and ULTRA definitely hit that sweet spot, particularly with the title track, which is even more melodic than anything on the tape. The guitar line is downright poppy--almost giving it a punky power-pop edge a la the BOYS or something like that--and the vocals in the choruses gets me every time. But hey, it's not like ULTRA are shy about their influences anyway, right?

ULTRA are definitely up there with RIXE, THE BRASS and CROWN COURT as top-shelf modern Oi! , and if you've been following that sound this is pretty much an essential purchase.
So, if the description above moves you , I'd encourage you to check this out, as aside from THE BRASS it's probably the best-executed record in this style I've heard in a very long time.

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1.	To The Limit 02:04	lyrics	buy track
Nicky Crane! Nicky Crane! Patron Saint of Ubiquity Omnipresent Patron Saint Empower us with duality! See you at "Heaven" shinging bright Guide us 'neath the disco light Show us how to reach the sky And fill the void in our lives Your Leather Touch, O Nicky Crane Duplex spirit our Patron Saint Mi Jesus Malverde Be our light show us the way
2.	Frolic In Our Minds 02:21	lyrics	buy track
No Bollocking! Just Frolicking! Love and hate are in the air like pollen from a flower and summertime just ain't no time to be sour wash the skin off our hands get our bare feet on the land pawn our boots for some sun and a forage of edible plants grow our hair out long like Roi from Last Resort we'll be Tarzanettes and build a tree fort we got frolic in our minds frolic in our minds nights where fireflies glow sparkling dusks and glowing trails as an aura looms noctambulant silhouettes the scent of summer blooms spectral beneath the warmth of starlight we'll embrace we'll frolic into the night
3.	Perpetual Violence 01:31	lyrics	buy track
Architects in a game puppeteers they got names endless profits for bastards that should soon serve as marks nothing short of bloodshed nothing less than that so that every successor will hesitate to succeed as perpetual cycles uphold a never ending game only perpetual violence will do you'll get what's coming to you
4.	Spirit Of 3069 BC 01:32	lyrics	buy track
Sunset over Sumer and the proto-working class with spirit in captivity so raise your beveled rim glass escape tonight from the city-state on each canal and every channel jugs of wine and bowls of beer we'll be drinking flipping off the ziggurat and bovver's what we're thinking lookin' smart lookin' sharp lookin' for a fight now if you're working for the ensi we're stomping on your cuneiform drunk on sour gruel sumerian skin glistening from the tigris to the euphrates but a night stomping to the proper sound of lyres is just a night of respite from slavery to empire but you stand strong strong and proud
5.	College At Harwood 02:04	lyrics	buy track
we don’t need oceanariums we got slip n slides n tha streets what’s the point in lubricating? lubricoi! we’re swimming in your eyes tonight
6.	NC2U (A Reverie) 01:39	lyrics	buy track
from county dublin to my heart you're my warrior bird of prey in a sea of chelsea cuts i look to you always with you i cruise a reverie i want your hands on me with you i cruise a bedtime memory cuz nothing compares (2 u) you're standing tuff at purple rain but why the bovver kept restrained why it did not bring him pain why it did not leave your veins take me back to church, make it hurt since conception we've been 1 was there room in that womb 4 2 bc i've always been w/ u
7.	Baby Robocop's Prediction Of San Francisco 02:21	lyrics	buy track
All grown up still smashing faces
8.	Spitting Image 02:09	lyrics	buy track
Acronyms to dispel pretense but rigid roles under that defense it's all the same it's just inane just another mirror case- it's the same shit everywhere like redneck flag wavers patriotism as dumb as bonehead politics and on the other side it's just the same self righteous radicals black and white shit side pricks you're just a spitting image of those you claim to despise

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I've never followed modern Oi! ( besides CRIMINAL DAMAGE ) very closely because so few current bands get anywhere close to giving me what I get from the classics. However, with bands like THE BRASS, CROWN COURT, and RIXE a little renaissance seems to be happening; in much the same way as the No Way generation of early 80s USHC-inspired bands reinvigorated the hardcore scene in the early and mid-00s, a new crop of Oi! bands is finally making music that can stand with the classics.

ULTRA have it down pat... gruff and tough, but with the hint of simple, terrace-chant melody that makes Oi! so immediate and memorable. If you're into bands like the ones i mentioned before... you won't be disappointed.

Shortly after the brilliant COLD CIRCUITS 12" my mate Paul, told me they‘re gonna start a more OI! influenced Band with members of SYNTHETIC ID, COLD CIRCUITS among many others and what should I say? They killed it again! The same old question, what is the secret ingredient of these guys? Whatever these Bay Area guys secretly mix in their drinks, it seems to bring out an endless flow of brilliant and catchy, yet distinctive songs – in each of their bands, again and again and again...

Anyway, it's pretty clear that the early UK Oi! sound is the primary inspiration here... not only is the general, rootsy pub rock / oi! approach largely the same, but a lot of the songs are built around the same kind of hammer-on rock and roll riffs that drove a lot of that early UK stuff. I would say this is a little more melodic than the first bands you get in mind when you are thinking of the first UK Oi! wave.

They build their songs around the same kinds of hyper-speed Rock n Roll riffs, and the singer has a brilliant melodic growl. I've never said it many times before in these descriptions, but I've always been a big fan of the bands that lie on the more melodic end of the Oi! spectrum, and ULTRA definitely hit that sweet spot, particularly with the title track, which is even more melodic than anything on the tape. The guitar line is downright poppy--almost giving it a punky power-pop edge a la the BOYS or something like that--and the vocals in the choruses gets me every time. But hey, it's not like ULTRA are shy about their influences anyway, right?

ULTRA are definitely up there with RIXE, THE BRASS and CROWN COURT as top-shelf modern Oi! , and if you've been following that sound this is pretty much an essential purchase.
So, if the description above moves you , I'd encourage you to check this out, as aside from THE BRASS it's probably the best-executed record in this style I've heard in a very long time.

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