Tons of new arrivels

Folks. Its christmas time here in the store - we got tons of new releases for the mailorder/ shop like the new ELECTRIC WIZARD, more ANTI MATTER books, the new OM LP, tons of Southern Lord shirts, more NICK DRAKE fruit tree box sets etc etc. Just check out the new stock here http://bisaufsmesser.com/store/index.php?main_page=products_new

We also wait for the B.SON/ CROWSKIN split LP that left the pressing plant this week - so we can ship all pre order. Also the booklets for the DAITRO/ SED NON SATIATA split LP should be here next week. So I hope we can ship those also before the year is over.

Have a good one and merry christmas :)

The Knife

SOLD OUT

We just sold out on some things

Gone for good

l'antietam LP
birds are spies they report to the trees 7"
catena collapse rai rai rai 12"
tar feathers - make way for the ocean floor 12" (white)


almost gone (which means 10 or less left)

funeral diner - doors open 12"
ghostlimb s/t 12"
bullets in- trashed and burned 7"
haram s/t lp
die emperor die - acoustic 7"

www.adagio830.de

Thanxxx

DAITRO/ SED NON SATIATA split LP

We have some news concerning the DAITRO/ SED NON SATIATA split LP. We got some covers from Daitro yesterday - but they couldn't bring all since there Van has been to small. The booklets are still not done and get printed next week. So I hope we have it FINALLY OUT IN DECEMBER. Thanx for all your patiences - its totally worthy

Naechste woche

Mit grosser spannung werden wir am montag auf die palette mit den neuen releases warten - zum einen die MINION "out of the carnage let me back in" LP (limitiert auf 100 stk in weiss und 400 in schwarz) und dann die DAITRO/ SED NON SATIATA split LP (600 in schwarz als split release mit Puzzle records).

almost OOP

FUNERAL DINER doors open 12"
BULLETS IN trashed and burned 7"
GHOSTLIMB same 12"


OOP

BIRDS ARE SPIES THE REPORT TO THE TREES 7"
CATENA COLLAPSE second 12"

www.adagio830.de
www.vendettarecords.com

ZANN on the road

ZANN gonna play some shows before the year is over

23.11. Wolfbsurg/ OST (w/ just went black)
24.11. B - Ostende/ OHK
25.11. NL - Utrecht/ ACU (w/ patterns etc...) MATINEE

06.12. Berlin/ Cassiopeia (w/ Coliseum, Moenster)
07.12. Jena/ Wagner
08.12. Tuebingen/ Epplehaus - Hardcore Fest 4

28.12. Leisnig/ AJZ fest
29.12. Hannover/ Coreclub (w/ final prayer)

www.myspace.com/zann

HARAM drescher LP OUT NOW

ADAGIO830 is proud to release also the second full length by our friends of HARAM. we got the HARAM drescher LP right in time for there euro tour.

check them out live

01.11.2007 GER, Frankfurt, Elfer Music Club
02.11.2007 NL, Amsterdam, OCCII
03.11.2007 NL, Groningen, Vera
04.11.2007 B, Ghent, Frontline
05.11.2007 F, Paris, Le Klub
06.11.2007 F, Caen (Ranville), Sanchez Garage
08.11.2007 ESP, tba
09.11.2007 ESP, Vidreres, Sala El Casino
10.11.2007 ESP, Barcelona, Sala Be Cool
11.11.2007 ESP, Terrassa, Sala Faktoria D Arts
12.11.2007 F, Clermont-Ferrand, Atout a Zart
13.11.2007 F, Lyon, Sonic
15.11.2007 IT, Genova, Lab. Burrida
16.11.2007 IT, Livorno, The Cage
17.11.2007 IT, Imola, Peacemaker
18.11.2007 IT, Udine, Whiskey A Gogo
19.11.2007 HU, Budapest, Kultiplex
20.11.2007 CZ, Brno, Yacht Club
21.11.2007 GER, Munich, Kafe Kult
22.11.2007 GER, Goettingen, Juzi
23.11.2007 GER, Dresden, AZ Conni
24.11.2007 GER, Wuerzburg, Immerhin

Get your copy here www.bisaufsmesser.com/store

"This is Haram's second full length and features the new expanded lineup. Few current acts can match the intensity and vibrancy of Haram. Unrelenting and forward, "Drescher" shows a group possessing a mature, tempered confidence that only comes with experience and do-it-yourself resolve."

we also repressed the 1st LP by HARAM w/ limited silk screen covers

The CATENA COLLAPSE/ LA QUIETE split 7inch is also repressed. Get it while you can.

Thanx a lot
robert

TOWNCRAFT over europe

yep - wir wollen eine film tour machen (eventl. mit band) zum gerade erschienen TOWNCRAFT MOVIE (vielleicht erinnert ihr euch noch an File13 und die ganze Little Rock scene?)

Hat wer lust? Wir checken gerade wieviel leute interesse haben und dann kann man die länge der tour usw festlegen. Soll im Frühjahr 2008 passieren.

"In the late 80s and early 90s a vibrant underground music scene emerged in Little Rock. Unlike other towns, Little Rock's scene was composed almost entirely of kids. 14-18 year-olds were booking their own shows, starting record labels, opening record stores and playing with large national acts. In the process they would build a tight-knit, flourishing underground community that existed completely outside of the High School norm and was all their own. The film focuses on the roots of the Little Rock scene, how it changed the lives of those involved, the enormous DIY ethos that has shaped the scene for the past 20 years and how the scene continues to thrive as its pioneers hit their mid-30s."

http://www.towncraftmovie.com/

wer nicht warten - wir haben den film auch im laden :)

und hier ein trailer

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FUNERAL DINER doors open 12" OUT NOW

The second XMESSERX installment is out now!

This is the final FUNERAL DINER recording that came out as a limited CD for the JAPAN tour this spring. Funeral Diner get back to their roots. The songs on this EP may not be as epic as the material on The Underdark but for the first time Funeral Diner have created some new sounds to this band that are fresh to the ears. 5 songs w/ wonderful melodies on the A side and a beautiful etching on the B-side. Some of their best songs that got ever written

This 12" is limited to 600 copies and don´t get repressed

LESUNG im BIS AUFS MESSER am 29.9. mit AL BURIAN

Yep - am Samstag den 29.9.2007 haben wir mal wieder nen Lesung im Bis Aufs Messer (Marchlewski Strasse 107 - 10243 Berlin - Friedrichshain) - Al wird aus seinem neuen Buch lesen und los geht es 20°°



Al Burian is a writer and musician currently residing in Chicago, IL. He is best known for the personal zine Burn Collector, now in its 13th issue, as well writing columns for HeartattaCk and Punk Planet. He also plays bass in the band Milemarker and sings and plays guitar in the band Challenger. More recently Al has published two issues of a travel zine called Natural Disasters.

www.bisaufsmesser.com
www.myspace.com/xmesserx

interview w/ robert (adagio830, bis aufs messer & zann)

The 2 vinyl kings of Germany. Robert and Nikita are involved in the hc scene through multiple projects: label, bands, mailorder, etc... I though it would be a fun and interesting idea to put those two together and get different perspectives on the same things. Music, and being your own boss.

Hi Robert! Could you tell us your name, location, and age ?

Robert: I'm Robert and I'm 28 years old. My headquarter is in Berlin/ Germany.
Nikita: Nikita, 31 years old, Cologne, Germany

Having been part of the scene for quite some time, you had to have a hc/punk record which started it all. What was the first record you've bought ?

Robert: It's maybe boring and lame - but it has been the Minor Threat out of step LP and the GRAY MATTER food for thought LP.
Nikita: Well, i am not sure anymore, my first HC CD was RYKERS "brother against brother", a german HC band on lost and found :), when i first started to buy vinyl, i think the first record was JAWBREAKER - unfun LP.

For most folks who run a distro, it's the result of starting a label. Can you tell us about the beginning of the label ? What made you decide to do it ?

Robert: I started the distro around in 1997 when I moved out from my parents place and my friend Benni Serious released the PEACE OF MIND LP w/ some other dudes ... so I helped him w/ selling them in my town at shows. It got more and more - mostly just friends releases and fanzines. Then another friend asked me to help w/ releasing the COLE QUINTET LP ... so the label got started ... It has been really exciting and then I started trading and so on ... yeah.
Nikita: I started the label in 1998 to release the first yage 7" and kept releasing stuff by friends and people i knew which music i enjoyed. As most of the distribution went through trading, i started a small mailorder as well and sold stuff at shows, this is how it started. The motivation to start a label was a result of wanting to express myself and share the music and ideas which i found important with the rest of the world.

Nikita, in the meantime, you stopped the label or put it on hold at least. What was the reason behind that ?

Nikita: The label is on hold since 2004 as i was less and less excited by bands, at least not as much to want to put out their records, plus the records the sales got worse and worse and i just did not feel like i can carry it anymore on the financial side. I can imagine though to release something again, but i am not sure when it will be, i just want it to keep it spontaneous, so if a band blows me a way and would like to do a record, i'd be up to that, but it needs to happen still : )

You guys are some busy dudes... label, mailorder, tour booker, etc... and recently you opened a shop. Seems a bit much for one person. Do you handle it all by yourself, or do you actually have employees ?

Robert: I'm got lucky and found a partner w/ Stefan Vendetta ... We know each other for ages and somehow the idea came up w/ opening the store together after I tried to find places in Leipzig for a while. Yeah I'm glad we are two persons since its sometimes tons of work ...
Nikita: I used to get a lot of help from Elena, my partner, but she got busier and busier with the university so i kept on doing stuff by myself. it's hard to keep the balance from time to time, but i can not imagine to have someone working for me, firstly for money reasons and secondly cause i like to have control over things and have weird approach to some stuff which i want to keep, so i am not an easy person to work with :)

How were the responses from the local scene, your neighbourhood, etc.. towards the shop ? Do you get a lot of folks visiting the place ?

Robert: When we started the shop last year some other recordstores have been really pissed - like they put posters all around our store and had a "street team" etc etc etc ... I mean some of them found out that our store is much different then their locations - but I think they still have the impression hardcore is hardcore if you know what i mean ... whatever. The kids in town seem to like us and our neighbours too :-) We have local artists here showing their stuff, readings, try to help local bands w/ selling their stuff, do some shows etc ... and since Berlin is a tourist town a lot of people from other cities/countries come over and have a cup of coffee or a cola w/ us ... Yep. So we can be just thankful for the support from all the people.
Nikita: The responses have been pretty sparse. We had a great opening last november, but after that it's been going on a pretty low level. It seems that people buy less and less records and Cologne has already several really good record stores, so it's hard to compete. So mostly i work here in the store office and do the mailorder stuff and booking from here.i sell enough records to pay the rent in the store, but that's it already. i am not sure what the reason for the lacking support is, but it seems there are several factors involved here.

Did you ever through the course of your life, think about doing something else than being involved with music ?

Robert: I tried to became a teacher and I really had the plan to teach - but since the music (specially the band) "stole" so much time I didn't took the university too serious ... so after a while I recognized that music will be the thing I enjoy the most. I mean I'm involved since 1994 and it has been always a big (maybe the biggest part) of my life. I got socialized throught the music etc - so I think I will be a part of it for the rest of my life. Hahahaha - I mean I could be worse then that. We will see in the next 10 years. Hahahaha
Nikita: Well, to be honest i could not have imagined that still a couple of months ago. But my perspective changed a bit. I've been doing the whole punk-related stuff for a long time now and it has been a great time. But i feel that i am loosing touch with something that could be called a "scene" or a "community", a lot of recent bands and releases do not grab me anymore, be it punk/hc/screamo or anything related so i feel like i have less and less relation to the music i am selling and lack motivation lately. It's getting harder and harder to get excited over stuff, so if the whole thing turns out to be just another job, i'll stop doing it in the near future, as it's not something i want to do. So, to answer your question, yes, i can imagine to do different stuff than music related things, but still, music will remain one of the most important things in my life and i do not want to ruin my relationship to it by becoming it a commodity and routine. Plus there is a financial issue as well, i' ve been broke for at least 5 years straight, spending the last cent to get new records in stock and keep things moving. A couple of months ago i needed to get a part-time job again which makes the whole situation more stressfull, so if it stays like this, i am pretty sure that i will have to reduce or probably stop my music activities pretty soon as i do not think that i can keep the balance for a longer time.

You've just been to japan with Zann, how was the tour ?

The tour has been great. It has been our second time and we kinda know what to expect. It was much fun. Of course there have been still problems w/ vegan food and its still a totally different mentality. But I would say that we always would go back there. Birushanah & their friends did their best to organize a kick ass tour and since Funeral Diner came w/ us it has been even better.

And Nikita, you used to play in Yage, but the band isn't active anymore. Do you miss playing music, or is there already a new band we (read: i) don't know about ?

There have been several projects since Yage broke up, but none of them evolved to something serious and at the moment i can not imagine to play in a band anymore. Although i miss touring and playing live very much. But having tried to start something new and failed again and again for various reasons made me a bit frustrated about playing music at the moment. Maybe i still need to meet the right people and things will take off again or maybe i'll do some stuff on my own, who knows :)

Where do you see yourself in 5 years ? I mean, in what direction can things go ? You're already doing most of the things imaginable concerning DIY music. Bigger shop ? Bigger Mailorder ? ...?

Robert: I hope we will be still here and not get killed by MP3s. we will have evem more grey hair, get bitter and grumpy, loosing teeth while drinking too much coffee and tell you "how good it has been back in the days". hahaha - I hope I will be still excited about music like I have been in the last years. We are satisfied w/ the size of the store - so I hope we can stay here. If we grow I wouldn't have a problem w/ it - but if it stays like it is - I'm more then Happy. SO THANX SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!
Nikita: Well, i hate making plans. I really do not know where i will be in the next 5 years. That's an interesting thing about life, you never know how the future looks like, even if you try to lay it out. I really do not care about having a bigger shop, mailorder, etc., i just want to have an enjoyable life with some time for things i love and want to do, i want to see as many places as possible and experience as much as possible, otherwise it's pretty open.

Any last shout outs ?

Robert:Black vinyl sounds better then colored vinyl :)
www.bisaufsmesser.com/store
Nikita: Thanks for the interview!

Another Artshow

The new Artshow w/ sam mcpheeters & neil Burke started last friday. Thanx to the people that came out and checked out stuff while it was raining like hell.

The stuff will be in town til september 6th - so get your asses over here and check out the amazing shit we got

new releases

hi folks - it gonna be a busy summer. VENDETTA & ADAGIO830 team up for the first split release - it will be the debut release by our friends GHOSTLIMB



GHOSTLIMB one sided 12" (which is the vinyl version of their self released CD - the LP comes w/ an etching and screenprinted covers - limited to 500 copies) it should be out on June 20th

Then Waking & Adagio830 team up for a split release -



the BULLETS IN final 7" (the cover is preview - will be done soon)

there is one rough mix of one of the 4 songs

http://dons.usfca.edu/sgrangitsch/fifthcolumn.mp3

enjoy

sooner or later

CONSTANTINE SANKATHI discography LP
DAITRO/ SED NON SAETIA benefit split LP
FUNERAL DINER doors open one sided 12"
ZANN/ BURIAL YEAR split 10"

www.adagio830.de
www.bisaufsmesser.com


Vendetta releases in the meantime

B.SON debut LP (some heavy as shit doom) www.blackshapofnexus.com
MINION LP (kids from mörser steal swedish metal)
B.SON/ CROWSKIN split LP (ready for their tour in september!)
CHAINBREAKER debut LP (w/ 3 different screenprinted covers)

New art show at Bis Aufs Messer

Yep - we are proud to announce another fine artshow at the Bis Aufs Messer Recordstore in Berlin w/ Sam MçPheeters & Neil Burke

We gonna have a little opening party on July 6th at 20:30 - so you are welcome if you are in town. Marchlewski Strasse 107 - 10243 Berlin - Germany

http://www.myspace.com/sammcpheeters
http://www.sammcpheeters.com
http://www.bisaufsmesser.com
http://www.myspace.com/xmesserx

watch out for future shows and YES THE ART IS ALWAYS FOR SALE