Mellakka : Ei ... Original Debut Kaaos Cadgers Rattus Terveet Riistetyt KBD

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• Mellakka : Ei... (self released , 1984 )

• Mellakka was formed in a small Finnish
  coast/industrial town called Rauma in year 1983.
  During their relatively short career in the mid/late
  80's, the band visited the recording studio three times,
  resulting two ep's and a three-song demo

• Pete and Jappe were friends, and started the band at the age of fifteen (Pete) and sixteen (Jappe),
  after spending a couple of years banging on cardboard boxes and yelling into the cleaning brushes
  in Jappe's father's boiler room. They were also spending time together listening punk rock. Bands
  like the Ramones, Sex Pistols, U.K. Subs and Lama were the first big names, but the final kick for
  forming a punk band came when the guys got a hold of Discharge's "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say
  Nothing"-lp, and "Why?"-ep. That was the time when the first Propaganda Records' compilation album
  was released too, the new Finnish HC-punk bands on that record, like Riistetyt, Kaaos, Terveet Kadet all
  sounded awesome. Then they had the pleasure of seeing Appendix and Destrucktions playing live at
  their home town. That was a really influential HC-gig, especially Destrucktions. Without these bands it
  could have been a really different story.

  After getting their hands on some equipment, the guys started to practice in
  Jappe's parents garage. After practicing for a while, the band was named
  Mellakka, and the first real line-up was Pete (voc), Kapulainen (bass), Janne (guitar),
  Jappe (drums). The band was ready to make it's first gigs, and did, but quite soon the
  vocalist Pete left the band, and joined the other HC-band in Rauma punk scene, Pohjasakka, 
  as a bass player. In the meantime, Jappe met yet another bass player called Holkka. Kapulainen was ready to sing and Holkka naturally took the job of playing the bass. This change seemed to work, and the band sounded much better than before.

  Soon Mellakka had enough new songs and it was time to visit the studio. The first "Ei"-ep, was published in autumn '84 by the guys themselves, mainly because nobody else would do it. Almost all the records at that time were published by the Propaganda Records, but Mellakka thought that they should release it themselves. All the other new bands were doing the same, Sekaannus, Massacre and bands like that.

  The musical influences of the band can be spotted on the record. There was some disappointments after finishing the ep, it didn't sound nowhere near as great as "Hear Nothing", but at the end of the day the guys had to be more than pleased with the result. Everything in the studio went quite well, for being the first time. The place was called Laser-studio and it was built in an old barn. It was run by a religious fanatic fool, but the guy who did the actual recording/mixing was a hippie called Pertti Palonen and he really has quite a lot to do in how both of the ep's and the demo are sounding... a very nice guy. They have only good memories of him. He is probably the main reason why all of the Mellakka-recordings are made in that same place. The line-up for the "Ei"-ep was Kapulainen (voc), Janne (guitar), Jappe (drums), Holkka (bass). The guitarist Janne left the band right after the ep was released.

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