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06 March 2025

Forget the Fatherland. Don’t Mention the Motherland. Believe in the Babyland

On the same Cop Shoot Cop share, Friendsound shared a link to the band's Suck City EP & sez:
     "Loving the Cop Shoot Cop, lots of cool memories (some Babyland next?)". 

 



Babyland was an American performance-based independent electronic junk punk band from Los Angeles, California, featuring Dan Gatto performing vocals/electronics & Michael Smith on percussion. The band released six studio albums before disbanding in 2009:

Babyland's music is a blend of extremely fast, unwavering beat & creative, sometimes junk electronics, a crazy switch-back of varying structures & tempos. The punk joins the junk culture of bad synths, power tools, broken sequencers, & found noises in a shiny trashcan of style.

Live they are notorious for their "fire" shows. They would dump motor oil into steel drums, light it up, then play the drums with galvanized pipes. The venues filled with billowing, choaking black smoke & jumping flames dancing to crazy beats while Dan Gatto wailed out his crazy-energetic vocals.

Hot worms... Not everyone will survive, but if you can make it through their debut, then you'll be left wanting more.

 

Babyland -You Suck Crap, Flipside Records FLIP44CD, 1992.
all decryption codes in comments

Structure Fall    
Mask    
The Advance    
Increased Turnover    
Traffic    
Logan's Run    
Burning Up    
Arthur Jermyn    
Smrow-Toh
Don't You Feel Lost    
Mindfuck    
Under    
Fault    
Motor.Tool.Appliance    
Reality    
Thekadont
 
 
 

Their sophmore offering was a total letdown...
 
 
Babyland - A Total Letdown, Flipside Records FLIP57CD, 1994.

Plain Talk    
Worst Case Scenario    
Dismissal    
Pink Frost
Cop-Out    
(De)Pressing Plant    
The Next Day in the Course of Time    
Ramona Moraga    
Stomach    
Kill Bugs    
Suitable for Framing
 
 
 

The band released two more albums in the 90s. But in 2004 they finally gave everyone the finger. Oh, Gehry...
 
 
Babyland - The Finger, Mattress Recordings MAT010, 2004.

Loss Leader    
Defeated    
Fast Space    
Past Lives    
Reno Machine    
Guard Dogs    
Nowadays    
Cabrini Manor    
Startled by the Obvious    
Nativity    
Gehry    
LMYA
 
 

Enjoy,

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