TWISTED RED CROSS

TWISTED RED CROSS

If you are the child of the 80s here in MANILA you will definitely know this Indepedent Record label called TWISTED RED CROSS or better known as T.R.C. I haven't read yet any comprehensive review of this Legendary and Controversial Underground Philippine Record Label in the Internet so I decided to make a blogpost about it. My own way of giving tribute to TRC. The Legendary Twisted Record Cross Indie Label was the brain child of TOMMY TANCHANCO, son of Marcos-era cabinet member Jesus Tanchanco. Who wouldn't forget his father's name especially during those times at school I remember as a student this popular Newspaper called "Current Events Digest" which was popularly known back then as C.E.D. wherein we have to memorize some names of government officials as part of our Social Studies Class Quizes. Of course that included names like Cesar Virata, Blas Ople...etc. Wheeeew!! Tough luck ah!! TWISTED RED CROSS record label was formed during the last quarter of 1984 by TOMMY TANCHANCO from his entrepreneural company PARALYZED BODY INC. which would be the prime mover for the Local Underground Scene here in MANILA. Good thing I was able to find a picture of Tommy in my own Vaults which I used here in my special blogpost. He He He!! Tommy was also responsible for the famous Underground Publication HERALD X which would be their promotional arm for TRC's music releases. I made a blogspost about HERALD X last year check it out by clicking the logo:

PHILTRADE at Roxas Boulevard was the main location for the "BRAVE NEW WORLD" concert series organized by Tommy in order to discover and meet other bands with no major label offerings. He decided back then that It was the right time to offer these groups to join TRC and record their compositions. That's really very supportive of him I may say!! According to him he produced these bands with his little savings and came up with TRC's first official release which was a compilation entitled "RESCUE LADDERS AND HUMAN BARRICADES" that showcased the bands he signed up for the label like BETRAYED who I personally consider as "The Grand Daddy Of Pinoy Punk". Urban Bandits, Wuds, Private Stock and others were also included on the bandlist. Definitely, a great start for this Underground Label which was only released on Cassette Tape format that would be the main type of TRC's succeeding releases. Amidst the pop-dominated FM radio dial here in MANILA, TRC releases became a stand-out among the Pinoy Underground Scene which was reflected by the harsh reality of Politics and Rebellion during those times. YUP!! These were the times of SENATOR NINOY AQUINO's assasination, The FEBRUARY SNAP ELECTIONS and the historic PHILIPPINE EDSA PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION of 1986. Tough times indeed!!

Who would forget P.O. BOX 2304 Manila wherein bands submitted their demos for TWISTED RED CROSS? Tommy was very successful in motivating these Underground Bands to make their own compositions that would be release on the label so that they will progress on their own.

Twisted Red Cross' appeal was mainly being non-corformist to go against the norm which I think has paid off since they officially released 17 cassette tapes under their label. Though, THIRD WORLD CHAOS and THE PRIVATE STOCK were considered as coming from their list too, the discography TRC numbering was not indicated on their release. . Who would forget TRC's ordeal with the International Red Cross because of molesting the Red Cross Logo.

I wonder what ROSA ROSAL's opinion about this issue. Btw, to those who aren't familiar with Rosa Rosal she is an award winning Filipino Actress who joined the Philippine Red Cross and became Board of Governors of the said institution. Well, for me, ROSA ROSAL is the symbol of the PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RED CROSS.

Rosa Rosal with the Philippine National Red Cross Logo

I was able to buy four cassette tapes from the series back then and regretted swapping two of them just to get some materials but the deal didn't push through because I was hoping to get a copy of RP's second album but to no avail. Nevertheless, I was able to complete the digitized TRC Series last 2004 with some help from people from the underground. He He He!! I was also able to borrow some original TRC tapes so that I could have a colored photocopy of the their covers.

Well, here it goes TWISTED RED CROSS' releases back in the 80s. Some of them were re-issued in the early 90s.

I personally wanted to preserve the original tracklisting and so I decided to divide them into Side A and B, or Side 1 and 2, or what was just indicated on these cassette tapes.

TWISTED RED CROSS

DISCOGRAPHY :


VARIOUS ARTISTS
RESCUE LADDERS AND HUMAN BARRICADES
TRC-01
Release Date: 1985
SIDE A
1. URBAN BANDITS "Modern Fishballs" (first version)
2. WUDS "No Excuses"
3. BETRAYED "Betrayed By You" (first version)
4. DEAD BEAT "I'm Gonna Get Your Girl"
5. PRIVATE STOCK "Rock N Roll Machine"
6. SEX MILITANTS "Bloody Nutter"

SIDE B
1. PUBLIC SCANDAL "Guilty To Interupt"
2. BETRAYED "Urban Assault" (first version)
3. DEADBEAT "I Won't... (Swindle No.2)"
4. URBAN BANDITS "Hoy" (first Version)
5. SEX MILITANTS "You Made A Mistake"
6. WUDS "We" (Just Like Before)
7. PRIVATE STOCK "Future Generation"

VARIOUS ARTISTS
BRAVE NEW WORLD - LIVE!
TRC-02
Release Date: 1985
SIDE 1
1. WUDS "Teachers & Cheaters"
2. WUDS "Peace Be With You"
3. TRASH "Teenage Anger"
4. DEAD ENDS "Complaints"
5. SEX MILITANTS "No Need To Exalt"
6. BETRAYED "It Was Never Meant To Be This Way"
7. ZOOT SUIT "Rockabilly Boogie"
8. ETHNIC FACES "Love"

SIDE 2
1. ETHNIC FACES "Within Tribes"
2. DEAD BEAT "Dead Beat Revolutionary War Cry"
3. URBAN BANDITS "Do You Rebel Rebel"
4. URBAN BANDITS "nagpapansin"
5. PRIVATE STOCK "Have More Fun"
6. EXCOMMUNICATE "CCCP"
7. EXCOMMUNICATE "Miss Bitch, Fuck Off!"
8. PUBLIC SCANDAL "Traitor and Depressed"

Click the BNW photo to enter my BRAVE NEW WORLD blogpost:

DEAD ENDS
COMPLAINTS tape
TRC-03
Release Date:1985
SIDE A
1. Complaints
2. No Stopping Us
3. This World
4. Rage
5. Don't Want No War
6. Nightmare

SIDE B
1. Neurotic Tendencies
2. Dreamer
3. Lies
4. Morons (Like You)
5. The User
6. Hedonist

URBAN BANDITS
INDEPENDENCE DAY
TRC-04,
Release Date: 1985
SIDE A
1. Modern Fishballs
2. Never
3. Breaking The Wall
4. Manila Girl
5. Nagpapa-Pansin Pansinin
6. Hoy!

SIDE B
1. No Future Sa Pader
2. Blood In Every Heart
3. I Don't Like Your School
4. We Don't Belong To The Stars
5. Machine To Mark
6. Do You Rebel Rebel

THE WUDS
ARMS TALK
TRC-05

Release Date: 1985
SIDE A
1. Stupid People
2. Man in The Mirror
3. Teachers & Cheaters
4. Seen But Ignored
5. Sa Katulad Mo
6. Peace Be With You

SIDE B
1. Pera
2. Tahimik Hindi Magulo
3. Murder
4. Jail
5. Ang Mga Bata
6. Sana Hindi Minsan Mo Lang Akong Tingan

VARIOUS ARTISTS
FATAL RESPONSE

(RESCUE LADDERS & HUMAN BARRICADES2)
TRC-06

Release Date: 1986
SIDE ONE
1. DEAD ENDS "New Life"
2. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "Broken Lineage"
3. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "Nine Years In Service"
4. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "The Flag"
5. WUDS "Patay Buhay"
6. WUDS "Inocente Lang Ang Nagtataka"

SIDE TWO
1. URBAN BANDITS "News Of The World"
2. URBAN BANDITS "Battle Of Mendiola"
3. ZOOT SUIT "Take A Look At That Boy"
4. ZOOT SUIT "Suit Yourself"
5. DEAD ENDS "Don't Drop Your Guns"

Here's the MTV of RIVERMAYA's rendition of WUDS' "Inocente Lang Ang Nagtataka".

GREAT VIDEO!!

DEAD ENDS
SECOND COMING
TRC-07

Release Date:1986
SIDE A
1. Second Coming
2. Sorry
3. Won't Fool Me Again
4. Nothing I Can Do
5. Insanity
6. New Life

SIDE B
1. Propaganda
2. Lap Dogs
3. Whispers
4. Vixen
5. City
6. Guns
7. Noise Barrage

BETRAYED
TRC-08
Release Date:1986
NOW (SIDE ONE)
1. Kids Will Unite
2. Caught In The Crossfire
3. Urban Assault
4. Hardcore Rules
5. Where Has Love Gone
6. Military Rule
7. Fight! Fight!
8. Betrayed By You

AND THEN (SIDE B)
1. Never Meant To Be This Way
2.When I Met You
3. Roots Reggae
4. To Jamming
5. Love Song
6. Punk Reigns

GEORGE IMBECILE AND THE IDIOTS
FACINATING WORLD OF GARBAGE
TRC-09
Release Date: 1986
SIDE A
1. We Can't Get Along
2. This Time For Real
3. Broken Lineage
4. Scratch For Bugs To Eat
5. Garbage Again
6. Born Against
7. Damn You People
8. Uncivilized

SIDE B
1. Bury Yourself
2. Buy My Right
3. Charged
4. Cunts For Rent
5. Where Are You Going Boys?
6. Nine Years In Service
7. The Flag
8. Question Of Growing Up

VARIOUS ARTISTS
3rd BOMBARDMENT
TRC-10

Release Date: 1986
SIDE A
1. PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS "Freedom"
2. PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS "Who Needs Society"
3. PRIVATE STOCK "Strange Boy In A Secret Sevice"
4. PRIVATE STOCK "Hype's Cool"
5. I.O.V. "My Song"
6. I.O.V. "Yankees"

SIDE B
1. CHAOS "Culture Shock"
2. CHAOS "Tools & Fools"
3. R.D.A. "Violent Dispersal"
4. R.D.A. "Nuclear"
5. DECEASED "Abandoned Youth"
6. BETRAYED "I Ain't Gonna Fight For You"
7. BETRAYED "Never Again"

VARIOUS ARTIST
KATRINA’S LIVE (TAMANA AWAY)
TRC-11
Release Date: 1986
SIDE ONE
BETRAYED
1. Caught in The Crossfire
2. Punk Reigns
3. Miltary Rules
4. Urban Assualt
5. Never Meant to be this Way
6. When I Met You
7. Kids Will Unite
8. Hardcore Rules
9. Betrayed By You
PRIVATE STOCK
10. Have More Fun
11. Future Generation

SIDE TWO
G.I. AND THE IDIOTS
1.Bury Yourself
2 Broken Lineage
3.The Flag"
4. Nine Years In Service
5. This Time For Real

WUDS
6. Peace Be With You
7. Teachers and Cheaters
8. Just Like Before
9. Sana Di Minsan Mo Lang Akong Tingan
10.Inosente Lang Ang Nag-tataka



I.O.V. (INTOXICATION OF VIOLENCE)
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE CENTURY
TRC-12
Release Date: 1987
SIDE ONE
1. Lebanese Child
2. Vagrnacy
3. IOV
4. Gorvachev Attack
5. My Song
6. Guilt
7. Snap Election
8. Yankees
9. Stinking Bad Attitude

SIDE TWO
1. Another Destructive Century
2. Demoralized Ideas
3. You
4. Social Cancer
5. Doing Good Things
6. Stop Being An Ass
7. Total Annihilation
8. Statements

DEAD ENDS
DAMNED NATION
TRC-13
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. System
2. Still Alive
3. Flush The Attitude
4. Look At Me
5. Between Him And Me
6. Same Shit
7. Fags In Mags
8. Lights Are Out

SIDE B
1. College Degree
2. President
3. Promises
4. Damned Nations
5. Reminiscing The Future
6. Johnny Loves Hardcore
7. Sore Loosers

R.D.A. (REFORMED DESTRUCTION & ANNIHILATION)
BRAVE UNITED IN TRUST

TRC-14

Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. Everybody's Date
2. Man In Uniform
3. Things We Hate
4. Paralized Action
5. Lesson For
6. Brave United In Trust
7. Violent Dispersal

SIDE B
1. It Must Exist
2. Into The End
3. If You're Dead
4. Do It In Your Own
5. Nuclear
6. Survive And Stay Alive

PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS
AT LARGE
TRC-15
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. My Generation
2. School Violence
3. Can't Stand Being Exploited
4. Freedom
5. Dead Chickens
6. Tired Of Life
7. Yesterday

SIDE B
1. Stupid Faith
2. Children Sick
3. Wonderful World Of Trash
4. Cruelty Even After Death
5. Tomorrow's Test
6. Who Needs Society
7. St. Vicious
8. Leave Me Alone

Click the photo to enter my PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS blogpost before:

DECEASED
NEVER REST IN PEACE
TRC-16
Release Date: 1988
SIDE t
1. Religion
2. The Jeanx
3. Paranoia
4. Romantic Death
5. Her Father's Filth
6. Never Rest In Peace
7. Abused By Authorities

SIDE tt
8. Too Fanatic
9. Noel's Wrath
10. Shoot You Down
11. Frustrated Sperm
12. Abandoned Youth
13. Damn You People
14. Pretender
15. Mr. Robbert

The B-side indicated it as Tracks 8-15

VARIOUS ARTISTS
PHILIPPINES: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
TRC-17
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. DISCANT X "Depression and Suicide"
2. DISCANT X "Voices From the Grave"
3. INFERNAL WRATH "Back to Basic"
4. INFERNAL WRATH "Puppetry"
5. M.A.D. "Blasphemania"
6. M.A.D. "Fear Tomorrow"
7. BANNED "Reebok Gang"

SIDE B
1. BANNED "Green Money"

2. VALLEY OF DEATH "Valley of Death"

3. VALLEY OF DEATH "Reasons to Fight"

4. DEATH THREAT "Suicide"

5. DEATH THREAT "Dangerous Life"

6. FATAL DISGUISE "Where Do We Go?"

7. FATAL DISGUISE "Drowning Dreams"

8. DISTORTED MINDS "War Cry"

9. DISTORTED MINDS "Oi!"

10. UdK "I Rule"

11. UdK "Working Class"

OTHERS:

CASSETTE TAPE

VINYL RECORD
THIRD WORLD CHAOS.

NEW MOVE FOR ERROR

Release Date:1983

TC-TWR

THIS SIDE
1. Sophisticated Brat
2. Rebel Rockers
3. No Rule
4. Don't Cha Try To Stop Me
5. You
6. We Are The One

OTHER SIDE

1. Lost Dinosaur
2. Opinions
3. Quitter
4. Insult The Useless People
5. You Won't Anymore
6. New Move For Error

This was the first and only album from the first Filipino punk band ever which was released both on VINYL and CASSETTE TAPE formats.Tommy Tanchanco of the TRC label and the "Brave New World" movement was the band's guitarist. Their LP is considered as the only PINOY PUNK Vinyl Record ever issued here in the PHILIPPINES. Recently this LP was sold at e-bay with a wapping cost of Php 15,000.00. WOW!!

PRIVATE STOCK.

HYPE'S COOL!

Release Date:1986

PY-001

BLACK SIDE

1. Have More Fun
2. Rock N' Roll Machine
3. Spider's Web
4. It's What I Want
5. Whatta Girl
6. As You've Said Before

YELLOW SIDE
1. High Volt For Revolt
2. Chaos of the Bandits
3. Girls In My School
4. Class Villains
5. Future Generation

WheeW!!! Finally I finished my Blogpost!!

As much as I would like to share all these tapes in Digital Format here in my little blog there are some restrictions because of this DMCA music copyright infringement thing so I can't do that right now. I seldom upload music files here in my little blog yet these guys monitor my blog. Huh? I hope you guys like my own tribute to this Legendary Pinoy Independent Record Label. THANKS FOR READING MY BLOGPOST!! Even though It's a litttle bit difficult to make. HE HE HE!! All those pictures and tracklistings made it hard for me to publish it at once.

I MADE THE TRACKLIST VERY UNIQUE WHICH IS VERY EXCLUSIVE FOR MY BLOGPOST. DIVISIONS OF TWO SIDES OF THE TAPES ARE STATED. THIS IS MY OWN LITTLE WAY TO SALUTE TWISTED RED CROSS!!

Here's a photo of the COMPLETE TWISTED RED CROSS cassette tapes!!



Here's the Classic TRC Tapes Ad on HERALD X!!




WHAT CAN I SAY?
Tommy Really Cares!!

MABUHAY T.R.C.!!

-DR. STIRRING RHOD-