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34 years of DIY … and just getting started

by Tuffy Brazil of STROMBLE FIX

STROMBLE FIX


It all started in 1990 when five teenagers formed a new punk band. In fact, STROMBLE FIX was a merger of two bands that rehearsed door-to-door in the local youth center in the Ruhr area of Germany.

We played many shows in the early 90s and recorded our songs on 8-track or 16-track tape machines in a friend’s studio whenever we could afford to spend a weekend. The music was published on compact cassettes, and there was a culture of sharing tapes with other bands or even taping tapes to get the music heard. Mail orders these days worked so that you requested a printed catalog first and then ordered your vinyl or cassettes by writing a letter.

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Fresh alternative music that references the golden age of the genre.

by James

Fresh alternative music that references the golden age of the genre. by James of The Slow Cooked Bears
As Miles Davis said

“Music is the space between notes. It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t”.

We love space and time in songs which gives the music a chance to breathe. You will feel this across all of our music but most of all in the title song Eclipse, a song about having faith, not in religion but science. There are many nuances in the tracks that the average listener may not pick up on, but they are there, and there are few hidden meanings that hopefully transcend. 

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