Sporco, by Sporco

Sporco

by Sporco

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12" Vinyl. Edition of 150 on pro printed color sleeves.

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1.	"In A Sick, Dark Room Having People Take Pictures of You Doing These Sick Things" 03:26	info	buy track
2.	The Crush of the Blow 04:04	info	buy track
3.	Everything Old Is New Again 05:22	info	buy track
4.	Good And Ill 03:17	info	buy track
5.	Mess Up (demo version) 05:05	info	buy track
6.	Kowtow To The Underground 02:34	info	buy track
7.	You Remind Me Of My Girlfriend, Boyfriend 01:54	info	buy track
8.	Reading You For Filth (campfire version – working demo) 03:39	info	buy track
9.	There Is The Ambush! 03:08	info	buy track
10.	Fireflies (demo) 02:32	info	buy track
11.	Ashamed, Being Alone 04:52	info	buy track
12.	Colombo Supremo 05:53	info	buy track

about

New York's Sporco are history - although the group's brief existence in no way reflects its significance in the scheme of things. The band found brief success in early 2003 when they released several singles, including the "In A Sick Dark Room/Colombo Supremo" single which offered a chaotic and incredibly inventive spectrum of genres – post-hardcore, indie rock, dance punk, programmed beats, noise, sampling and thrash metal – that had absolutely no precedence and would go on to inspire numerous bands in the mid-2000s.

A condensed two-piece formed by Fred Krai (ex-Stooprock, Girls In Love) and John Milano (ex-The Catastrophe, Blood Ocean), they self-recorded and released several series of albums, EPs, and singles which were released on tiny underground DIY labels from 2002 through 2006.

This retrospective is devoted to collecting some of the best songs from this long-gone outsider project and rising it out from its unwarranted obscurity. It was a dirty, labor-intensive mission... but time kills off precious bits of passed-over sound, story, and ephemera every day, and Sporco's material is something which we felt needed an immediate recall.

Sporco managed to compose songs so unintentionally gritty, strange, vicious, and catchy. They composed songs with a familiar, yet unclassifiable style - it is unfiltered experimental pop, drama, isolation, and flirty unpredictable mood-swings.

This retrospective is not a 'greatest hits': With over 100 songs in their catalogue, this is a comprehensive retrospective that includes the stronger tracks from their output to bridge along with a few unreleased demo extras and rarities to reel in the diehards. This is a compilation that strives to be a captivating collection of songs that just glistened with ideas.

Largely recorded when Milano and Krai were in their late teens, the album’s 12 songs were self-recorded in basements/garages/sheds on four- and eight-tracks before being filtered back through a makeshift masterboard for editing and “mixing”. The real highlight behind this retrospective is that - finally - these tracks have been re-mastered and we are offered the absolute best possible audio versions of these songs.

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, Il.

LP released on limited run of 150, pro-printed full color covers and includes coupon for free digital download, t-shirt, and glo-in-the-dark button in limited supplies. Additional release of 100 on professionally dup'ed CDRs in 4-panel digipaks. Full versions of "Ashamed, Being Alone" and "Colombo Supremo", as well as the track "You Remind Me of My Girlfriend, Boyfriend" are digital and CD exclusives.

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released July 9, 2013

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