- F.P.O. 7" out now!
- News
- Clearance
- Changes on the Commitment website
New Adress
Commitment Records will move to a new address.
From 14 July 2008 on, the adress will be:
Commitment Records
Ridderspoor 42
1689 TG Zwaag
The Netherlands
New Releases
At the second to last day of May, Commitment put out the welfare record of F.P.O., the band that put Macedonia on the hardcore map. 6 songs of hardcore punk with an emphasis on punk! Watch out for F.P.O. on tour at the end of the Summer of 2008.!
In March, the first Commitment releases of 2008 have been released: the second 7" of Birds Of A Feather and the debut 7" of Take Control!
And just before Christmas, the debut 7" of Resolve was released.
Older news
Commitment Records released two new records in August, 2007.
The first was the debut-7" of Up Rights, a straight edge band from Toulouse, France. Uprights is not exactly new on the scene, as they played their first show in October 1996, being formed that same year after the break-up of Conform Choice. Mainly inspired by the late 1990s wave of European straight edge bands, Up Rights play fast, energetic and melodic old school hardcore and couple it with a message of drugfree pride and positivity, while taking a stand against the evils of today?s hardcore scene, like violent attitudes, fashion slavery and MySpace addicts.
The second was the debut-7" of Turn The Tide. Turn The Tide started out as a project in October 2006, when people involved in several other Finish hardcore bands, decided it was time for a straight edge band playing traditional hardcore in Finland again, as such a band had been lacking since the breakup of On A Solid Rock. Although Turn The Tide take the inspiration for their sound clearly from the classic youthcrew bands, their sound also contains elements of melodic punkrock and even classic rock, with raw production adding an extra sting. Shouted by a voice that sometimes brings Ian MacKaye to mind, the lyrics on their debut-7? are reflections of everyday life and relations with other people: greed, love, self-confidence and personal choices and growth.
The debut 7" of Hamburg's positive straight edgers Hoods Up was released on March, 2nd, 2007 and presented
on the annual Light The Fuse fest in Hengelo, The Netherlands, one day later. The 7" was recorded in the weekend
of 20 and 21 January, 2007, at Bunt Studio's in Utrecht, with Menno Bakker on the desk. Six songs of powerful
and energetic straight edge hardcore.
For more information about Hoods Up, check their website www.hoodsxup.com or their
MySpace site here. There you can
also listen to the title track of the EP, Arms Still Open.
On October, 24, 2006, two other Commitment releases have seen the light of day.
First, the long awaited new record of Malaysian youthcrew straight edge veterans Second Combat. Six songs of
old school straight edge hardcore, with an original twist. Check out some songs of the EP on the Second Combat
MySpace site here. Second Combat will tour Europe in July 2007!
Second, the debut 7" of When Seasons Change from Italy. When Seasons Change started in 2004 as Nothing To Hide
and changed their name in 2005 to When Seasons Change. After two demo's (one as Nothing To Hide and one as When Seasons
Change) their first official release is out: a six song EP on Commitment. To listen to some songs, go to the When Seasons
Change MySpace site here. When Seasons Change will do a European tour
in April 2007.
My Space Page
Commitment can now also be found at MySpace: www.myspace.com/commitmentrecords
For people that want to check out my personal page - it can be found here.
If you want to add me to your friends, you're more than welcome!
The clearance action is still on!
Also I again updated the Distro part of the website with some new records
for your listening pleasure!
Clearance
As I've got loads of records around my house collecting dust, I decided to do a clearance action.
If you do a order, I will check how many extra records I can add to your order, without having to pay
more postage. That's the number of records you will get for free. I will choose the records, but will try
to take your taste into account.
As for Commitment releases, I will apply the following rule - for every 2 Commitment releases you'll order,
you can choose one Commitment release for free - you can choose any from the following releases:
COM 5, COM 7, COM 8, COM 11, COM 13, COM 14, COM 15, COM 16, COM 18, COM 19, COM 20, COM 22, COM 23 and COM 24.
Changes on the Commitment website:
July, 12, 2008
News updated
Mailorder catalogue updated
Reviews added to COM 35
June, 6, 2008
News updated
Mailorder catalogue updated
Releases: COM 38 updated. Reviews added to COM 33, COM 34, COM 35, COM 36 and COM 37
January, 19th, 2008
Releases: reviews added to COM 30 and COM 31.
December, 23rd, 2007
Releases: reviews added to COM 33 and COM 34. COM 35 added