Miscast

Miscast were formed around September 1983 by people in and around Olten, at a time when American Hardcore swept into Switzerland. Back then I was working with Felix Fischer at Jamming Distribution and we were probably the first in Switzerland who were trying to sell stuff like This is Boston Not L.A. and Flex Your Head comps, 7"ers and 12"ers by SS Decontrol, Negative Approach, Minutemen, White Cross, Minor Threat and the like. Miscast played somewhere around 13 shows in Switzerland, among them one supporting Toxic Reasons and another playing after Toten Hosen. There were several smaller gigs too, one of them they did along with Haine Brigade at an anarchist meeting in Lamastre (France) on July 13th, 1984. It was a time bereft of enthusiasm (the "Youth Movements" had been crushed*), various gangs of fascist skins kept attacking gigs, Punks beat up on each other, and so forth. There wasn't very much happening in the way of bands either, most of them were musically and ideologically still rooted in '77, except for a few... GKH for example, from Baden, who were very young (average age: 15) and therefore had quite a devil-may-care approach (meaning guitars with strings missing etc.). Still, they managed to get one song on the second Flipside compilation LP. One of them also published the first Swiss Hardcore fanzine before he changed sides and became a nazi-skin (with all but the drummer and their later bassplayer doing likewise... The drummer is now in Jaywalker). Brutal Menekken, Decontrol, Attax and Kosili too were early, moderate (and tame!) attempts at Hardcore. None of them, however, were quite as fast, original and hard as Miscast. But sometime in Autumn 1984 the story had already come to an end, about half a year after the Miscast demotape was released on Stechapfel-vertrieb.

First Demo (1983)

01 - Skins

02 - Swiss'N'Pigs

03 - Kranks

04 - Maedchen

05 - 117

06 - Die Norm

07 - Miri's Song

08 - Hass

09 - z'Fride

10 - Say No

11 - John Wayne

12 - Olte

Miscast 7'' (1990)

01 - Kranks

02 - Norm

03 - John Wayne

04 - Say No

05 - Z'friede

06 - Swiss 'N' Pigs

07 - Mädchen

VA - World Unite (1986)

01 - Harry Manfredini - Intro

02 - Zündelländer - Todesfalle Westerwald

03 - Zündelländer - Middleclass Blues

04 - Pax Helvetia - Silly Thing

05 - Pax Helvetia - Pork Fucker

06 - Pax Helvetia - Pretty Baby

07 - Wild Youth - Record Companies

08 - Wild Youth - So Messed Up

09 - Wild Youth - Radio Youth

10 - La Sours Deglinguee - Fais Pas le Con II.

11 - La Sours Deglinguee - Rien Que Sa

12 - La Sours Deglinguee - Pourquoi

13 - La Sours Deglinguee - Aujordhui Et Demain

14 - Sperrfeuer - Mode

15 - Sperrfeuer - Amerika

16 - Sperrfeuer - Ahoi

17 - Sperrfeuer - Bild

18 - Miscast - Kranks

19 - Miscast - Swiss 'N' Pigs

20 - Miscast - Say No

21 - Miscast - 117

22 - De Press - Ostawind

23 - De Press - Kiss Me Russia

24 - De Press - Kalholz

25 - Warspike - Terrorist Attack

26 - Warspike - Is This Your Own Life

27 - S.V.D.B. - Melt Down

28 - S.V.D.B. - Chain Reaction

29 - Bullwix - Angst Und Träume

30 - Bullwix - Barbies

31 - 4 Kopnietych I Fred - Grey Man

32 - The Squirt - In The Name Of God

33 - The Squirt - Scool Days

34 - The Squirt - Stupid Punks

35 - Bu-Kollegas - Beraber

36 - Bu-Kollegas - Zerreiß Mir Die Farblose Haut

37 - Svart Framtid - Disiplin

38 - Svart Framtid - Religios Terror

39 - Gnat - Punkverarschung

40 - Gnat - Punk Not Dead

41 - Paranoia - Mädchen Für Eine Nacht

42 - Paranoia - Kidpunx Verpisst Euch

43 - Paranoia - Fragezeichen

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