Buenos Aires Hardcore

BAHC With Buenos Aires Hardcore, abbreviated, the hardcore scene in Buenos Aires and their protagonists are called. The musicians are largely influenced by the likes of the New York School such as Agnostic Front, Madball or Sick of It All.

History

The scene in Buenos Aires developed in the late 1980s. First bands that are members of the Buenos Aires Hardcore and were fun people and No Demuestra interests. First, however, has become detached from the movement. Among the most important representatives of the Buenos Aires Hardcore include the bands Minoria Activa, Otra Salida, Enferma Sociedad, Diferentes Actitudes Juveniles, Existencia de Odio and Eco Violento. Musician of the BAHC mixed to start times often elements from the punk and the metal together. Sometimes even hip-hop elements found again in the music of bands. According to Matthias Leuschner, author of the Worldwide hardcore work, the group Massacre Palestina, the first band in Argentina, which played hardcore punk.

Especially in the 1990s experienced the hardcore scene, especially in Buenos Aires an upswing. Concerts were part played by more than 1,000 visitors. Groups like No Demuestra Interès, Diferentes Actitudes Juveniles and Buscando Otra Diversion justified the second wave of Buenos Aires Hardcore. However, no Demuestras Interès apply with the release of their LP in 1991, Frost Records. The scene witnessed in the 1990s and first dips. With the group Confort Supremo who tried to mediate the first band of the country the values ​​of the straight-edge lifestyle, the scene began to share. Mid -90s managed the hardcore jump from the capital to other cities of the country. However, the scene is the only still active hardcore movement in Buenos Aires, after other scenes in the country fragmented in the course of militarization and the rise of racism. Bands such as Nueva Ética, El Eterno Enemigo, Reminder, Dar la Vida, Las Palabras Queman, Orientation, disc Arne, El Camino Mas Dificil and Enquirer, which are described, among other things, the third wave of Buenos Aires Hardcore not only nationally successful but enjoy partially also better known in Europe and Japan.

Many of today's groups in Buenos Aires Hardcore also represent the straight-edge lifestyle and handle the issues in their texts. In addition, it said in an interview with the band Reconcile that straight-edge hardcore bands from all over South America in Europe would find more and more followers. Just as the band was founded in 1998 Nueva Ética which at Alveran Records were temporarily under contract and has repeatedly been shown in Europe were. Labels that are today dominate the scene, which was founded in 2005 Vegan Records, Waking the Dead and Records Varsity Records. The latter has published several fanzines and organizes the Varsity hard. The scene in Buenos Aires is strongly linked with scenes in the neighboring countries of Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

2008, a documentary was titled Buenos Aires Hardcore Punk, which dealt with the hardcore punk scene in Buenos Aires.

Bands (selection)

This list shows a selection of bands from Buenos Aires, which play hardcore punk or have played. This is both to pioneer bands as well as to groups that have been established around the 2000s. In Argentina, there has also been a growing metalcore and post-hardcore scene, where these groups are active but in the underground. Best known representatives include DENY, Melian and Interior Valor, which already played with big names and have completed shows in neighboring countries.

• No Demuestra interests
• Minoria Activation
• Otra Salida
• Enferma Sociedad
• Diferentes Actitudes Juveniles
• Existencia de Odio
• Eco Violento
• Reconcile
• Buscando Otra Diversión
• Auto Control
• Buenos Intenciones
• Psicotracción
• Alternativa Positiva
• Confort Supremo
• Ideas Totalmente Adolescentes
• Fun People
• Amoeba

• Eterna Fuerza Natural
• Propia Decisión
• Funny Funnerals
• Despojados
• Raiz
• Indiverencia
• Cosas Claras
• Inminente Destrucción Social
• Nueva Ética
• Sudarshana
• Diferent
• Los Caidos
• Calma
• Shaila
• Hermanxs de la Mente Furiosa
• Mil Caras

Labels

• Sniffin Records
• Vegan Records
• Pinhead Records
• Actitud Mental Positiva
• X el Cambio Records
• Utopia Records

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