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''No Pasaran''


A Stateless Society
Sleeve - Front
Sleeve - Back
Vinyl - A & B sides. Some have pure white labels, others have cream-coloured labels. One of each is shown here. 
Poster / Insert - Front
Poster / Insert - Reverse: Republican Posters and Photos + Lyrics




Three Insert Variants:

Above: Big & Small on glossy paper
Above: Big and small glossy again - the small one is single-sided
Xerox insert





Flyers: Some copies have a small flyer advertising Deranged Records Releases - two examples are shown above, the bottom one has the label-owners 'want list'.






Stats:

General:
Tracks: No Pasaran B/W Circling The Drain
Released: 2002
Label: Deranged Records D-030
Matrix A: DERANGED YOUTH-30-A
Matrix B: DERANGED YOUTH-30-B

Pressing Info:
First Press of 900 or maybe 1100 (Out of press)
Approx 50 with colour photocopied sleeves
Approx 20 with large spindle hole
7 Test Presses.

Inserts:
Three different inserts. 1.Gloss, double sided poster ('Regular' insert). 2.Xerox, double sided poster (same as gloss) 3. Small single sided Xerox paper. (1)
Some also have Deranged Records flyer advertising contemporary releases (various designs)
    Variants:
    Regular sleeve
    Xerox sleeve
    Large spindle hole



    Xerox Sleeve (RHS): Image is cropped a little differently and is more xeroxy. Also the "B/W" text band in the top right corner of the xerox version is all white, rather than white with black patches.





    Notes 1: No Pasaran

    ''The clip is from the movie Land and Freedom, the 2nd best movie about the Spanish Civil War, and is supposed to be a really stirring intro to the song about the same topic. We've played this song less than 10 times ever, the last being in Barcelona, where we thought it would be appropriate, but was actually just kind of tacky....we generally have weird feelings about this track now.'' (2)


    No Pasaran Documentary:

    No Pasaran / They Shall Not Pass from Yoav Segal on Vimeo.

    (Spoiler: Franco prevailed and replaced the democratically elected government with dictatorship, began executing his opponents and carried on doing so until his death in 1975, by which point Spain's economy had integrated into the western capitalist framework).


    Francoist Spain (Cropped from Wikipedia)Francoist Spain, also historically known as Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, refers to the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975 when the authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco took control of Spain from the government of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War.
    The coup had the support of most factions sympathetic to the right-wing cause in Spain including the majority of Spain's Catholic clergy, the fascist-inclined Falange, and the Alfonsine and Carlist monarchists. The coup escalated into a civil war lasting for three years once Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany agreed to support Franco starting with airlifting of the africanistas onto the mainland. Other supporters included Portugal under Antonio Salazar, while the presentation of the Civil War as a "crusade" or renewed reconquista…

    The Francoists took control of Spain through a comprehensive and methodical war of attrition which involved the imprisonment and executions of Spaniards found guilty of supporting the values promoted (at least in theory) by the Republic - regional autonomy, liberal or social democracy, free elections and women's rights. The rightists considered these "enemy elements" to comprise an "anti-Spain" that was the product of a "Judeo-Masonic" conspiracy, along with Bolsheviks, which had evolved after the reconquista of Spain from the Islamic Moors, a reconquista that had been declared formally over with the Alhambra decree of 1492 expelling the Jews from Spain.

    For nearly twenty years after the war Francoist Spain presented the conflict as a crusade against Bolshevism in defence of Christian civilization. In Francoist narrative, authoritarianism had defeated anarchy and overseen the elimination of "agitators", those without God and the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy… This discourse obscured the social roots of the war and analysis of its origins. Many Spanish children grew up believing the war was fought against foreigners; the painter Julian Grau Santos has said "it was instilled in me and I always believed that Spain had won the war against foreign enemies of our historic greatness. (3)


    Notes 2: Circling The Drain

    From 2001 Interview:
    What is your favourite song from a lyrical standpoint and why?
    Mike: Mine is ''Circling The Drain'', which is a theme that developed from the summer I had. I just had the worst summer ever and whatever could go wrong did go wrong and things kept getting worse. (4)

    From March 2010:
    This song stood out for us because it was not fast. That's pretty much it. Also we still play this song almost 10 years later. (5)


    Sleeve Notes:

    Front Cover: Original photo-montage by John Heartfield.

    John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a pioneer in the use of
    art as a political weapon.

    While living in Berlin, in 1917, he anglicized his name from "Helmut Herzfeld" to "John Heartfield," an English name to protest against the anti-British fervor sweeping Germany. In 1916, crowds in the street were shouting, "Gott strafe England!" ("May God punish England!"). (3)



    "No pasarĂ¡n. Pasaremos." (They shall not pass. We will pass) Two Nationalist vultures (i.e. condors), one with a swastika and the other with the Falangist symbol look out over Madrid. Republican bayonets point at them from below.







































    Heartfield's photo-montages satirising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis often subverted Nazi symbols such as the swastika, in order to undermine their propaganda message. (3)
    ''The Cross Was Not Heavy Enough''. Positive Christianity. Nothing to do with the ''No Pasaran'' 7", but included because it might be topical...




    More Heartfield images HERE.


    No Pasaran's reproduction of Heartfield in monochrome is also a nod to seminal UK band Discharge

    ''After the total disaster known as the first Fucked Up 7" which was a black and white mess, Mike has really improved his layout skills''
    (Damian speaking in interview with NOT A GAME Fanzine)











    Commodity Fetishism:


    Cassette - more info HERE


    Approx 20 were 'accidentally' made with large spindle holes.

    Test Press - blank labels + xerox sleeve

    Test Press - hand-written (misspelt) labels


    (1) Discogs
    (2) Notes from Fucked Up ''Couple Tracks'' LP
    (3) Wikipedia
    (4) Equalizing x Distort Zine Issue 1
    (5) Looking For Gold Blog

    ''Dance of Death''



    THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED
    (Message on reverse of sleeve)

    Sleeve - Front

    Vinyl - Side A: Repress on Left, Original Press on right - Repress has larger text

    Vinyl - Side B: Repress on Left, Original Press on right - Repress has larger text




    Sleeve Folded Out - Front

    Sleeve Folded Out - Back
    Flyer: 
    Some copies have a small flyer advertising Deranged Records Releases, the above picture shows 3 examples.


    Stats:

    General:
    Tracks: Dance of Death B/W Zezose
    Released: 2004
    Label: Deranged Records DER-52 (1st Press) DER-52 RE (Represses)
    1st Press Matrix A: DERANGED YOUTH-52-A
    1st Press Matrix B: DERANGED YOUTH-52-B
    Repress Matrix A: DY#52-A    GOLDEN
    Repress Matrix B: DY#52-A    GOLDEN

    Pressing Info:
    First Press of 1000 Nov 2003
    Second Press of 500 Jan 2005
    Third Press of 1000 Nov 2005 (same plates as above)
    *8 Test Pressings for first press in manilla sleeve/numbered (1)
    10 Test Pressings for repress
    *Probably actually 7 - see pics at end.

    Inserts:
    Some (usually 1st press) also have Deranged Records flyer advertising contemporary releases (various designs)
      Variants:
      First Press
      Repress (Slightly different labels and matrix, see above)



      Notes:

      From promotional info:
      The title track features guest vocals by Ben Cook from NO WARNING, and VIOLENT MINDS (2)


      From Epics in Minutes CD notes:
      We wrote this at the same tome as ''Police'' but let it just incubate for a year and a half until Iron Maiden released an album of the same name. We went back to Audiolab and got Ben Cook From No Warning to come in and do back ups at 2am.


      Extract From MRR Interview with David Eliade (2004):
      OK switching gears, what is Dance of Death about?
      Well that song sort of deals with the same shit – its about like the imperialist lifestyle and how its been perfect and reproduced to such a dazzling extent, that people within it are convinced that it is the best way, and that they love it. Its like Stockholm Syndrome, when a captive begins to love and revered the captor. The Harbinger’s spiders laid their eggs inside all of our heads, and convinced us to keep dancing in the muck, because we love it. We love smoking and eating non-food, so we love cancer. We love making money and cheating, so we love crime. We love TV and novels, so we love being stupid. We love war and punishment so we love pain. We love life, so we love death. (3)


      Extract From Scene Point Blank interview (2006):
      It seems like a lot of your lyrics use a classic rhetorical strategy where you talk over an audience's head in hopes that they'll educate themselves. This is fairly uncommon in the broad world of punk, which is usually much more didactic; what's the rationale behind this and what kind of responses have you seen?
      10,000 Marbles: I just write how I'd like lyrics to appear. We don't want to tell anyone what to think, really, I just like my lyrics to rhyme, use interesting imagery and words, and be about interesting topics. I'm not in this to spread any particular worldview. And yeah, when we do have particularly objective topics, they're usually tucked inside a metaphor, so the song is more interesting and you aren't hit upside the head with rhetoric. I had militarism in mind when I wrote "Triumph of Life," and smoking when I did "Dance of Death," but I like being discreet, you know? (4)

      Sleeve Notes:

      Sleeve - Front: 
      From Essay by Evan Blanco: The cover is the Alfred Kubin sketch “Sterbendes Mädchen” [“Dying Girl”] from his Dance of Death series of sketches.14 The sketch shows a girl sitting in a chair with a downward glance as the spectre of death looms over her right shoulder. As death reaches out to clutch the left wrist of the girl, she offers no recourse nor wanting. She is totally complicit with the end of her own life. This relates to the message conveyed by “Dance of Death” in the sense that the individual is complicit with the death of their individuality or ability to self-determine. (5)

      Sleeve - Reverse: 'The Calavera of Don Quixote' by  Jose Posada 

      Jose Posada (1852-1913)

      Posada, Jose Guadalupe - Mexican engraver and illustrator. Born into a peasant family in Aguascalientes, he was an apprentice lithographer at the print shop of Trinidad Pedrozo. His first illustrations were for Pedrozo's radical weekly El Jicote (The Wasp, 1871), but after 11 issues the magazine was closed down by the authorities and Posada was forced to flee with his employer to Leon in Guanajato. Here he taught and published lithographs, and in 1888 was able to set up his own print shop in Mexico City. He began to illustrate Antonio Vanegas Arroyo's broadsheets of sensational news stories (accidents, executions and natural disasters) and urban myths (women giving birth to animals or turning into fireballs). In 1895 he began to etch on zinc, which became his preferred rnediurn. Despite a vast popularity; he died in poverty in Mexico City.

      Posada was a model for the Mexican muralists as a popular artist producing vivid and simple images in a distinctively non-European mode with strong elements of political satire. He is best known for his calaveras, witty images of skeletons performing the rituals and pleasures of everyday life. Often dressed in bourgeois finery, they mock the pretensions and vanity of the living. (6)



      Commodity Fetishism:

      Test Press 5/7 (First Press)
      Note 'Pickering Dot' below spindle hole, indicating these were probably pressed at the Pickering Plant in Canada
      Test Press 7/7 (First Press)

      Test Press (Re-press) 6/10
      Pressed by United, probably following closure of Canadian pressing plant



      (1) Looking For Gold Blog
      (2) Deranged 
      (3) MRR Interview - on Looking For Gold Blog
      (4) Scene point Blank Interview - on Looking For Gold Blog
      (5) 'The Hidden World: The Visual Culture of Fucked Up' Essay by Evan Blaco
      (6) The Bullfinch Guide to Art History

      ''Black Army''



      The Struggle Against The State
      (Title of insert)

      Sleeve - Front
      Sleeve - Back
      Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
      Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
      Insert 1: (Lyric sheet) Front and back
      Insert 2: (Nestor Makhno) Front and back

      Stats:

      General:
      Tracks: Baiting The Public B/W Circling The Drain / Municipal Prick
      Released: 2005
      Label: Burning Sensation Records BSC-BS001
      Matrix A: 59452 1A BS 001
      Matrix B: 59452 1B BS 001

      Pressing Info:
      First Press 1000 (Out of press)
      *175 white labels. here were actually 300 white labels.
      9 Test Presses

      *Above info from LFG site, but believed to be incorrect, should be:
      15 Test Pressings.
      First Press of 1000, comprising 700 with printed labels and 300 blank with white labels. Some of the white labels have hand-witten messages. (According to a Maarten - a friend of the label owner).

      Inserts:
      Lyric sheet with 4 images on reverse
      Portrait of Nestor Makhno with précis of the Black Army & Black Cross on reverse.

      Variants:
      Printed labels
      Blank white labels: some of these have handwritten messages on and were sold on the European Tour.



      This is the Sandy of Records
      Image borrowed from Kyle Whitlow's site - check it out.








      Notes: 
      Black Army & Black Cross often come as a pair and are a compilation of older releases, put together for the European Market (for want of a better term), as the earlier releases were not so readily available outside of North America.

      The two records have different images on the front of the sleeves and the reverse of the lyric sheet, but otherwise share the same the artwork.


      Sleeve Notes:

      Front Cover: (To follow). Actually, probably not. This will have to go down as 'unidentified' for the time-being. The feathered bicorn hats and red? uniforms suggest knights, but could alternatively be military or diplomats. Looks like they're in a car and being followed by soldiers with bayonets on foot. Probably has something to do with the state, or God, or something...





      Back Cover: The compilation theme is followed through in the artwork: The band shot is from the ''Epics in Minutes'' CD, The 'Twin Dragon' image was used in sketch form on ''Looking For Gold'' and would be used again for the labels of ''Two Snakes''. The 'Big Fish / Little Fish' was used on''Baiting The Public''. Similarly some of the insert images are reused - the art nouveau swans from the ''Litany'' insert and one of the 'soldier' images from a ''Generation'' insert.




      Commodity Fetishism:

      Test Presses: Black Army (White sleeve, white labels)
      & Black Cross (White sleeve, white labels)...






      ''Black Cross''


      The Struggle Against The State
      (Title of insert)

      Sleeve - Front
      Sleeve - Back 
      Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
      Vinyl - Side B: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
      Insert 1:  (Lyric sheet) Front and back


      Insert 2: (Nestor Makhno) Front and back



      Stats:

      General:
      Tracks: Police / Zezozose BW Dance of Death / Last Man Standing
      Released: 2005
      Label: Burning Sensation Records BSC-BS002
      Matrix A: 59457 1A BS 002
      Matrix B: 59457 1B BS 002

      Pressing Info:
      First Press 1000 (Out of press)
      *175 have blank white labels
      9 Test Presses

      *Above info from LFG site, but believed to be incorrect, should be:
      15 Test Pressings.
      First Press of 1000, comprising 700 with printed labels and 300 blank with white labels. Some of the white labels have hand-witten messages. (According to a Maarten - a friend of the label owner).

      Inserts:
      Lyric sheet with 4 images on reverse
      Portrait of Nestor Makhno with précis of the Black Army & Black Cross on reverse.

      Variants:
      Printed labels
      Blank white labels: some of these have handwritten messages on and were sold on the European Tour.



      Image borrowed from Kyle Whitlow's site - check it out. 





      Lover boy is better than SSD
      Above two pictures are the same disk (Thanks Philip!)



      Notes: 
      Black Cross & Black Army often come as a pair and are a compilation of older releases, put together for the European Market (for want of a better term), as the earlier releases were not so readily available outside of North America.

      The two records have different images on the front of the sleeves and the reverse of the lyric sheet, but otherwise share the same the artwork.


      Sleeve Notes:

      Front Cover: Original photo by Josef Koudelka, taken during the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The invasion was carried out to reaffirm Soviet control and was in response to the liberalising reforms of the Prague Spring.

      More of Koudelka's pictures of the invasion HERE.

      Back Cover: The compilation theme is followed through in the artwork: The band shot is from the ''Epics in Minutes'' CD, The 'Twin Dragon' image was used in sketch form on ''Looking For Gold'' and would be used again for the labels of ''Two Snakes''. The 'Big Fish / Little Fish' was used on''Baiting The Public''. Similarly some of the insert images are reused - the art nouveau swans from the ''Litany'' insert and one of the 'soldier' images from a ''Generation'' insert.





      Weird
      Synchronicity or misfiling of LFG-related inserts #1: This pair came with two artwork clippings in each sleeve.









      Commodity Fetishism:

      Test Presses: Black Army (White sleeve, white labels)
      & Black Cross (White sleeve, white labels)...