Honored and courageous to reinvent with roots
In search of the inner voice
Fly Shit
DDT-In My Heart Empire, 2014
The work of the Bergara Fly Shit Group has long seemed to me to be very deserving of applause. I remember some of the mocos were RKL, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Bap! In the subterranean, Kids and in general, from the 1980s on, made efforts to maintain the legacy of the groups donated by the hardcore scene. At that time, in some generations, we liked this musical style and this vital attitude, but in our valley, in the Upper Must, there were hardly any groups that worked that line. And Fly Shit was working so that the light wouldn't turn off. From making versions, they began to write their own songs, always in Basque, and in the year 2000 they published a work with the same name of the group: a classic hardcore, but with the burden of entering the study for the first time.
The group continued to do concerts and grow, fine-tuning what they wanted to do: thus, the Life published in 2005… but how to live? The self-produced album showed that, while maintaining the strength and attitude of hardcore, it had also elegantly penetrated the post-hardcore strokes that Fugazi had opened long ago. By then the group was no longer just a witness to Debagoiena’s hardcore, it was much more than that.
The actions carried out in their habitat – the gaztetxes – surprised the public and we were not surprised that Harrobia Lantzen and Entzunezkoak chose the album Respirando each of the best in Euskal Herria in 2010. In addition to preserving the character and strength of the old school hardcore, other styles were opened with great security.
In 2012 they produced the documentary Bidetxurri, which explained the group’s trajectory since 1996; and this year, achieving a certain balance with family work, they have published a long-term work In search of the inner voice – in a vinyl with built-in CDs – in collaboration with DDT Distributions and In My Heart Empire.
I would say that on this occasion the group has moved a little further from the approach that in the past it had made towards post-hardcore and has smoothed this trend; and that at the same time they have returned to the hardcore of the old school, from the beginnings. But, despite this, it is clear that the team has grown very large and have a well-rounded and instrumental result.
As in recent works, the autonomy and freedom of the human being are referents in their words. In the song Barne ahotsak bila, which names the album, besides looking inwards, they work a hardcore with a very characteristic guitar riff, which also has a post-hardcore tone. Discretion is faster than what is known as a shoe. The songs of Iratzarri and Utopia are masterfully merged with hardcore and melody. The free radio has pieces with very rich melodies and rhythms, darker and more open. Dancing with devils is very playful, with a very different rhythm change. In the pyramid it's fast, it cuts the air and it also does it from the post-hardcore, but reinventing itself. It's my favorite. Finally, Desikasi brings differential melodies and rock together. A hit.
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