Negative Charge Preorder
LP version
Cassette version
IN BIG NEWS:
The time is finally upon us and we’re rolling out the Preorder for the Negative Charge LP. This Preorder launches tomorrow, Friday June 6th when I wake up or before I go to bed tonight. Depends on how the wine tastes I guess.
”What we have here is a 12" slice of abject ferocity. Filled out with members of every good Winnipeg Punk band from the last 2 decades, Negative Charge have concocted one hell of a debut. This masterclass of Hardcore Punk has Frankensteined the sinew, spit and muscle from some of the most monstrous entities of the genre that walked before it. You'll recognize the octopus tentacles that provided the impossible drumming on Is This My World. You'll freeze in awe with the quality of riffing that culminated in War All The Time. You'll recognize that same hunched silhouette dragging bloody knuckles down the alleyways of the Bowery in 1983. This is the same quality of heart and energy that hardened the steel in steel city circa 2015.
But this is Winnipeg 2025 and the monster she created will not be contained.
Know that this is no cash-in sequel to those aforementioned greats. This is no hyperbolic blow-hard bullshit. I dare you to try and prove me wrong. One of us will die on this hill and if Negative Charge is my soundtrack it won't be me. Winnipeg Hardcore Now. Winnipeg Hardcore Forever.”
This should be shipping mid-July but the date already got moved around a little due to pressing plant constraints. We’ve got some projects that are due out before the end of the year and I want to get everything rolling as soon as possible so even though this preorder is a little bit earlier than I’d like, we’re looking forward. We’ve also increased our capacity to do proper merch runs which was just inaccessible due to cost, logistics and cashflow. We’re stoked to have these ready to ship with the LPs. This might make it look like we’re fuckin’ Bridge Nine or something but we’re not even if I was very tempted to do a run of shorts here too.
You can just search up Negative Charge in the store tomorrow and these will turn up. Alternatively you can always hit the bandcamp. We’re also dropping a new track off the LP too. This is one my favourite records I’ll ever have the privilege of doing and there are only 300 of the first pressing. Sure to sell out fast.
SSIK and Sistema Obsoleto 7”s
Everyone that ordered Sistema Obsoleto and SSIK 7”s should have them by now. The SSIK 7” was a shared pressing between the band, Slow Death Records out in Victoria and we’re down to under 10 copies. As much as I wanted to get copies out to distros because it is such a shredder we just don’t have the numbers. From the same camp - we’ve got dudes from SSIK doing a cool new band called Ozempic that you’ll want to keep in your frontal lobe. They dropped a demo recently on Slow Death and though I like it just fine, the new material they are working with is phenomenal. They’ll be blown’ your hair back real soon. The Sistema Obsoleto 7” is just scathing if you’ve not heard it and the vinyl version is so fucking loud and punishing it reminds me of classic moments from Reality Crisis debut LP. I can only imagine how fucking savage they are live.
Inventory issues
It’s obvious that there are massive issues with the website and inventory. I spent a few hours today siphoning out old, obsolete product and inventory errors and streamlining it so that I can run a new system that will be separate but different. I’m finally excited about it. The bad thing is that the website has about 10 percent of the product it did have but I must necessitate the physical store inventory over the mailorder. Many people have reached out over instagram to ask about specific products that i’m hyping there, keep doing that! I will sell anything over instagram with a simple special order function here. That being said, we’re slightly more stable than we were and will be building out the inventory online again in a much more careful way. There will ALWAYS be more in stock via the physical store but we’ll build it out. We ain’t going’ anywhere.
Physical Store Relocation
In closing, we’ve long been out of space here at the physical location of Neon Taste. We’re currently located in suite 111 at Opulence enter in Chinatown but will soon be moving to a space TWICE the size in the same Chinatown mall. Just a few doors down. We’re exceedingly excited about this because though it is still extremely meagre as far as what we’re making in here, this will be exceptionally easier to fill this space and also not be incredibly cramped. You’ll be stoked. Stay tuned for some special events in the space as well. Get stoked. We’re fucking stoked.
Let me also say, today was the first day that I experienced the tariff blowback affecting an order and it is devastating. It’s incredibly important to support your home-grown DIY Punk. Pay to go the gigs. Buy the records that are coming out. Get involved. Start that zine. Organize that benefit.
THANK YOU FOR YOU SUPPORT.