AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL EDITION ON THE MIGHTY DUAL PLOVER LABEL, CONSISTING OF 10 TRACKS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE DEATHBOMB ARC DIGITAL VERSION!!! Ahoy Clubbers get ready to rumble as Los Angeles’ godlike Captain Ahab return with the Australian red edition of End of Irony. Seamen of the highest order team Ahab are part machine, part dance savant, who spout post club raveploitation music riddled with estranging misogynistic lyrics with a thoroughly homoerotic aftertaste.
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02/15/2011
***CD, VINYL and DIGITAL versions all contain different tracks “Do you love Powermetal even though it is just for thirty-something LARPers? Well, good for you! Shout it to the sky! Do you like shaking your ass to some Electro-Clash even though your neighbor scoffs because you forgot it's called Nu-Rave now. Well fuck names! Do you want to cuddle in the morning sunlight to some ‘70s Soft Rock, but your sweetie-pie thinks you're making fun of him/her? Dude, making love is awesome, and sometimes being sappy isn't a bad thing! CAPTAIN AHAB knows how you feel. They love all these criminalized sounds and many more, and they combine them in a way that irony would never permit. There is serious commitment going on here. Commitment to making epic songs that defy expectation, trends, and any sort of cool-factor. But we're not talking about some lazy mash-up album, here. They have composed these songs from scratch. The album creates a meticulous and sweeping cosmology that would satisfy even the headiest of ‘70s prog heshers. Captain Ahab is fucking committed to freeing your soul! No short cuts on this album. Is that a live guitar player? Yeah, duh! Every band has one of those. So what do you think of this live orchestra then? How about this master sitar player flown out from India to play in a room next to a guy with a modular synthesizer the size of the WOPR. These songs are the real deal, passionate and unafraid. They're...
CD $12.25
04/06/2010
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04/06/2010
***Long unavailable except at the band’s live shows, Deathbomb Arc has dug up this important and unique Los Angeles underground artifact for the world to hear. With all this talk of Ravesploitation being the LA phenomenon where punk kids make house music for other punk kids to mosh too, it may seem strange that CAPTAIN AHAB’s more recent output ventures into even naughtier territory such as rap-metal pseudo-satire. But now you can hear that album the created all the hype. Conceived as a top-40 house/anthem techno album with believable production, but unbelievable vocals and subject matter, The Sex Is Next transformed the LA indie-punk scene completely. It was everything catchy, fun, and epic about dance music but sympathetic to your punk needs and not some club bunny who got lipo earlier that day. Along with acts like Anavan (GSL), Totally Radd! (Retard Disco), and Explogasm, LA kids learned to dance the night away. For fans of breakcore, Tigerbeat6, Baltimore Club, ghettotech, and LA's rich history of punk (Germs, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies... you know), this and all Ravesploitation albums are for you.
CD $12.00
09/04/2006
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09/04/2006
***IN STOCK!!! WINNERS OF THE SNAKES ON A PLANE SOUNDTRACK CONTEST!!! The band will have a song featured in the upcoming cult sensation film Snakes On A Plane. The leader of LA's current Ravesploitation scene (where punks mosh to house and rave music at seedy warehouses like the Smell and Il Coral), CAPTAIN AHAB (members of ROSE FOR BOHDAN, EXPLOGASM, GABBERTREE, and UNNECESSARY SURGERY) is here to confuse all. Combining incredibly sophisticated arrangements and compositions with a black and lewd sense of humor, Captain Ahab's music is too fucked up to be confused for real rave music. Captain Ahab's early efforts were pure noise, and things mutated from there. Over the past few years the band has mutated the minds of punk audiences in LA and beyond. An insane phenomenon, Captain Ahab and the genre of Ravesploitation is getting noise kids, punk kids, hardcore kids, and ravers alike all dancing... er, moshing, to dance beats.
CD $12.00
04/24/2006
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04/24/2006