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D.I.Y and D.I.T.

Fuck profit and rock stars

What is Post-Punk? Well The Post-Punk tree is huge and entails many branches Comprising genres as sundry as Gothic Rock, Bat Cave, Death Rock, Trad Goth, Positive Punk, Old school Industrial, Tribal punk, New Wave / New Romantic, Minimal Synth (and the list go on and on, not to mention in a wider scope a variety of more Pop and Indie sounding artists and types), Post Punk is in fact one of the most diverse and inspiring music universes that sprung from the nostalgic decades. To cut a long story short and embrace the spirit of what it represents for us, we can say then that mainly all the branches emerged from the punk roots can be considered post-punk. In the late 70's, early 80's, it was not a surprise to see together Goth, Wave, Industrial and Anarcho-Punk (and much to some peoples misery sorry, yes, hippies) etc in the same troupe of subversive youths who created a counter culture, a resistance base and a surprisingly refreshing tray serving aspiring food for thought and change. In the late 80's the fierce force of creativity that designed the years of the post punk zenith weakened as other fads and conditions shaped the path the music and youth culture was heading to. Popular and danceable sing-a-long mainstreamed sounds were created to entertain and project the newer wave of kids into a new decade where fast consuming images and ideas were created and an inner sense of struggle and individuality fell subdued and outdated The 90s saw a moving staircase leading to other directions in the musical approach the new acts diverged enormously from the previously stated post-Punk character new acts embraced defining traits focused on a lifestyle that impended a slowly forgetfulness of the roots of active resistance and struggle that favored an attitude turning inwards instead of outwards Unfortunately, this tendency is mostly felt nowadays Blame the zeitgeist but the sense of community and DIY spirit almost disappeared, and where bashed away by a new glorification of ego boosting, egoism and idolatry and profit. The whole Post-Punk legacy was brought to the forefront again and revived, but gradually it was twisted and turned as people pleased until it reached an appalling state of decadence (not a good one in fact) the main focus of this once subversive style was transformed into a status machine where it became a system inside of the system, obeying to rules and regulations and structures that contradict the whole community/solidarity/freedom/individuality character of the earlier years no more effort to work for a cause and pass messages and have fun, but to sell a shallow lifestyle where image and status and perhaps sadly money are the main focus and wet dreams. Therefore, and to cut the long story short as promised, our desire is to build a place where we can cherish and revive an equal, friendly and passionate spirit of Post-Punk/Positif-punk and all it represents in its true essence.

Mainly:Everything who was know as Post-Punk / Positive Punk and AnarchoPunk. Death Rock, Gothic Rock, Bat Cave, Post Punk, Peace-punk, Positive Punk ,Anarcho-punk, Goth-a-Billy, , Death Punk, Trad Goth, , Dark Punk,Grave, Death Disco, Old school Industrial, Tribal punk, Newwave, New Romantic, Minimal, Dark Cabaret, Synth Punk, Cold wave, NoWave, A bit of 80's Punk hard-core, Horror Punk, Psychobilly, Horror Surf, 77'S Punk Rock and other great stuff