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Bunker Records

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Set up in 1992 by three white and Eurasian middle-class nerd punks who had just moved into the squat zone of central The Hague from the suburban newtowns of Zoetermeer and Alphen a/d Rijn (where Rude 66 also hails from). Since no label was interested to release the music of Unit Moebius, their (now legendary) 'acid planet' squat parties in The Hague, with twelve hours of non-stop comatose acid-house music, no lights but heavy strobes and a very freaked out audience (partially due to the strong and pure LSD sold by one of the Unit Moebius members) of punks, squatters, junkies and patients from two nearby psychiatric institutes, made it possible to release Bunker 001 and 002. The next two releases were paid for with money made from selling LSD (silver surfers!). Soon the fucked up standards for The Hague's hard, dark and crazy industrial techno music were set and the acid scene exploded.
More freaks, more drugs, more artists, more music, so Bunker started to release records by other musicians to support the local scene. Many records, CD's, tapes, comics and videos followed. Despite the downfall of Unit Moebius (a soap opera about drugs (speed!), sex, money, psychoses and depressions) in 1997, the decline of The Hague's acid scene (more speed!, ketamin, heroin, crack, hospital admissions, overdoses, suicides and other unnatural causes of death, mind fucking, paranoia and all kinds of psychiatric ailments) and the financial bankruptcy of the label in early 1998 (due to non-paying distributors).

Bunker records has risen from it's own ashes with the new 3000 series (as the last 'old' Bunker was 029) to bring you the latest La Haia Bass/electro funk, Industrial planet rock, new wave techno-pop and La Haia coca disco from The Hague's electronic freak scene. Can you still dig it?

Sublabels:

Acid Planet, Atlantik Wall Records, Panzerkreuz Records, Space Trac

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Bandcamp , web.archive.org

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  • TrackDaniels's avatar
    TrackDaniels
    is there no BUNKER 008 & 009 existing?
    • dsyn2spin's avatar
      dsyn2spin
      Probably the single most prolific label
      to release the best music from the dark electro,acid, underground scene of
      Den Hague. Almost all of their releases
      contain at least some interesting material and many are so good that they
      still sound great even after hundreds of plays. complete brilliance from the intro groove on the first side to the extro groove on the flip. I used to buy everything I could find on Bunker in my local shops, however they have taken up the practice of only pressing ultra limited quantities
      (i.e.-100/200)on colored vinyl. This means that they don't ever make it into the shops anymore. Sure, I can order them online from Godspill but add the cost of international shipping
      to an already overpriced record and what it amounts to for me is having to pay $45-$60 for one of their current releases. All I can say is fuck that shit! I am to poor to afford
      myself $50 records. "Bunker Records-exclusive label of the rich man who likes undergrounds music"!
      • genet's avatar
        genet
        Labels such as Bunker and Viewlexx far from being 'new jacks' in the 'electro revival', never <i>stopped</i> making electro. I-F (Ferenc) and the growing number of artists around his scene in The Hague absorbed Cybotron, Planet Patrol, Pretty Tony, Adonis, Steve Poindexter etc., etc. and refashioned it in an entirely distinctive way, even during a period when electro had become the laughing stock of dance music enthusiasts. And what elevates the Bunker stuff above its lesser imitators is that none of the artists take themselves too seriously. There's a great sense of humor in the artwork, project names, track names, and their website. But, they make <i>ripping</i> electro<b>funk</b> tracks.