We’ve gotten some new stuff in our distro! First and foremost, we finally have the AGE OF COLLAPSE Burden of Beast LPs in, and limited editions are ready to ship!  The screens came out rad on these, so grab one before they’re all gone, we only did 50 of ‘em.  Due to delays in the cassette plant, we are going to be shipping the cassette version that accompanies the Limited Editions separately, so as not to make people who pre-ordered wait any further.  We apologize for that, but it’s kind of out of our hands as what was supposed to be ready in mid December is going to press only now.  If anyone has a great recommendation for a cassette duplication vendor other than NAC we are all ears .

We will be running a sale from now until the end of January as we gear up for some new stuff.  Use the promo code “JAN2012” during checkout at our store and receive 15% off any order over $25.00. 

We’ve taken over distribution of the NUX VOMICA – President is Dead 7″ (color vinyl) and the ORDER OF THE VULTURE – Death Mask 7″ from Defector Records.  We have limited quantities of these on hand, but they weren’t heavily distro’ed at the time, so pick em up!  Distros and stores get in touch for wholesale rates.  We are almost out of the NUX VOMICA – Embrace the Cycles EP and the ORDER OF THE VULTURE – Martyr for Nothing EPs are moving fast!  The MURDERESS LP is officially sold out and we will be repressing this year along with their forthcoming LP.  We also got in AGE OF COLLAPSE shirts and patches, MURDERESS patches, and ORDER OF THE VULTURE t-shirts!  All shirts are available in limited qtys of style and size, so check em out below!

Other distro items recently added:

BONEBLACK – s/t LP – crushing dark d-beat crust from Montreal with scathing female vox.  Reccomended!
KALASHNIKOV – Living in a Psycho-Caos Era LP – Restock of this amazing anarcho punk record from Milan, Italy.  On constant play!
MUNDO MUERTO – Entre El Kaos LP – Fast paced, 80′s influenced HC punk from this So Cal powerhouse.  A must have.
PIPSQUEAK – Fowl Hymns LP – Debut LP from this Seattle acoustic duo.  Awesome artwork by Jen Meyers!

AGE OF COLLAPSE patches
AGE OF COLLAPSE t-shirts
MURDERESS patches
ORDER OF THE VULTURE t-shirts

Coming up next:
ABSOC 022 – FUTURE RUINS – s/t LP – crushing d-beat crust from Sweden!  Check out a track on our media player!
MURDERESS “The Last Thing…” LP repress
NUX VOMICA “A Civilized World?” LP repress
ORDER OF THE VULTURE Cassette releases
new MURDERESS LP
new NUX VOMICA LP
new ADELIT@S LP
new COUNTDOWN TO ARMAGEDDON LP

Keep posted as we will be adding a ton of Second Hand/Used items in the distro this week!

Cheers!  XOXO ABSOC

We have deployed all of the submissions we have received thus far to a drop point location, from which the mixtapes and discs will be transported to the punks in Aceh.  If you are wishing to send something directly, please email us at abortedsociety [at] hotmail [dot] com and we will let you know.  For those of you who have recently found out about the project and would like to continue to submit, we will accept further submissions until January 20th.  One caveat though, please don’t use this as an excuse to clear out your dusty tape collection.  We’d like to keep this personal if possible, and while it’s great you may have found a new home for that disheveled heap of tangled cassettes, it would be nice if these were intended for their recipients. First and foremost we’d like to personally thank each and every one of you who took the time to enter a submission.  We don’t have time to email all of you, but we have documented every single submission, and you can find images on this post or the one right before it to find yours to make sure it came in.  We had absolutely no idea how much support this would create, and were completely blown away by the massive amounts of email and messages we received.  People from Sweden, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, Mexico, Australia, UK, Germany — and several US States all sent submissions!  Also, for those of you kind enough to donate towards postage, it is extremely appreciated — you have no idea how much!  This is one of the first times I’ve ever witnessed the punk community come together on a global scale like this, and it was amazing seeing the amount of effort and love put into many of these mixes.  This is DIY culture at it’s apex, and it would be great to see more endeavors like this, even if not as a response/reaction to an adverse event such as what happened to the punks in Aceh.

Can one mixtape change the world?  Certainly not, but we personally can say that mixtapes have more than changed our lives, and we hope that this small token can show the punks in Aceh and the punks around the world that there is a global underground network ready and able to support one another.  Cheers to you all, and here’s to a new year of the punk underground!

xoxo ABSOC