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30 em 3 midsummer madness - Volume 1

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    Volume 1 of our 79-bands-in-3-parts-compilation.

    Vinyl features 12 of the 79 bands. Altogether with the double CD (Volume 2, with 40 bands) and 90-minute-cassette (Volume 3, with 17 bands) this compilation groups some of the 120+ bands that were released by midsummer madness in the last 3 decades.

    All purchases come with a 36-page fanzine with some of our stories and part of our history (Portuguese-only, sorry!)

    Buy the double CD: midsummermadness.bandcamp.com/album/30-em-3-midsummer-madness- volume-2
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    Tracklist:
    “30 em 3 midsummer madness Volume 1″ (vinil – mmlp67)
    A
    Pelvs | Trippy – do mmcd02 Members to Sunna, 1997
    Stellar | Titanium White – da mm11 Thrumming Soothingly, 1995
    Loomer | Then You Go – do mmcd52 Deserter, 2017
    Pin Ups | Mexican Tale – do mmlp65 Long Time No See, 2019
    Lava Divers | Tearsfall – do mmcd53 Plush, 2017
    Iorigun | Fight to Forget – do ep mm155 Skin, 2018

    B
    Low Dream | These Little Things Touch Me Every Time – do mmcd16 Reaching for Balloons, 2004
    Macintushie | Need Sometime – do ep mm159 Stillwitchu, 2019
    Devilish Dear | These Sunny Days – do mm145 These Sunny Days, 2017
    The Cigarettes | The Beauty of the Day – do mmcd01 Bingo, 1997
    Sleepwalkers | (Scandal) Not My Cup of Tea – da mm19 Waiting for Santa Claus, 1996
    The Gilbertos | Everywhere – do mmcd03 Os Eurosambas 1992 – 1998, 1999

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And as you come In through the front door You find yourself Between two large halls 
 And if you stay You’ll stay insane It makes you run around It makes you run away 
 So he’s going up today Not to fade it all away And I think he wouldn’t try Just to bring you down 
 And it’s hard to make you stay Since you’re feeling not OK
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NO LIMITS NO BOUNDARIES THE WORLD IS OURS LET´S PLAY SOME MUSIC AND DANCE LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW LET'S RUN AWAY TO MEXICO MUST DO IT BEFORE THEY BUILD THE WALL I HEARD THEM SAYING ON THE RADIO MUST RUN BEFORE THEY BLOW IT ALL
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I’m in a lack of joy And there is nothing I can do I’m trading days for nights
And I can feel my tears fall Fall I can’t go-ahead I can’t get away I just wanna stay here right now
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I can feel my heart
I can tell I'm not in love again Guess I'll fight to forget 
Rewind my days in disarray
Trying to escape I forgot
Face near the door, footsteps in the way
You came under my skin
No need to break in, just need to obey
Through the shadow I see
Your eyes tell me, you'll blow me away I can feel my heart
I can tell I'm not in love again I can feel my heart
I can tell I'm not in love again
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Step over and release it  keep me up at night  my feet are hanging through the ceiling  your chest is bursting out with fire  I'm gonna need sometime  I'm gonna need some time (2x)  sometime...  Anxious hesitations  oversleeping in the daytime  cracking all my pavements  leave my things outside and cry  
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It cannot be this way Can't you see the beauty of the day? It's really gonna be a shame To end a love this way To end a love this way To end a love this way To end a love this way We have so much in common All those nights we spent alone And all the talkings we have done Can't be forgotten as you said One day before As a matter of fact, we still are so young And we need to have some fun We need to have all the world's fun So much to drink, so much to hide So much to get high We have to take all the drugs that we can't deny But it's all gone wrong Always going wrong But it's all gone wrong Always going wrong
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Life grows up Everywhere The stuff we're made of Everywhere Orange, violet and blue Everywhere Music in the underground Everywhere Comes and goes an injured cupid Everywhere Blossomed cherry trees and flowers Everywhere Love that fades away Everywhere A samba for the radio Everywhere I'm ready to go Everywhere

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30 em 3 midsummer madness Volume 1

[texto parte 1]
Em outros tempos, podia-se dizer que a história do midsummer madness– assim mesmo, com minúsculas - daria um filme. Um filme independente, claro, dirigido por Jim Jarmush e rodado em p&b porque, afinal, sonhos doces são feitos assim.

Mas atualizar os lugares comuns é preciso. Hoje, é mais fácil imaginar que a trajetória do selo criado por Rodrigo Lariú em 1989, inicialmente como um fanzine – celebrada agora em três partes, “30 em 3”, com o lançamento de um vinil, um CD duplo e uma fita cassete, com patrocínio de Natura Musical - daria uma bela e singela série, dessas que temos que lutar contra os algoritmos para encontrar.

Uma série sobre música, acima de tudo, mas também sobre amizades, sobre paixões, sobre desencontros, sobre autonomia, sobre negócios, sobre fazer você mesmo e sobre o doce e o amargo da passagem da adolescência para a chamada vida adulta. Quanto ao título, como Cameron Crowe, outro bom nome para a direção, já usou “Quase famosos”, teríamos que pensar em uma alternativa.

Ah, o roteiro não teria nenhum herói.

Porque mesmo os mais angustiados heróis – como, por exemplo, o existencialista Surfista Prateado – fazem feitos extraordinários e transitam em universos de superlativos. Tudo em torno deles é grandioso, é monumental. E apesar de a trajetória do midsummer madness ter lá suas pujanças – nas contas “por alto” do próprio Lariú, foram 340 “produtos” (entre álbuns, EPs, singles e coletâneas), 113 bandas e 2500 músicas lançadas -, tudo o que cerca o selo parece simples e espartano, coisa de gente despojada, que usa All-Star e tem timidez até de fazer air-guitar em frente ao espelho.

E, na real, na real mesmo, a história dessa efeméride – meio torta, mas absolutamente memorável - não tem nada a ver com personagens impávidos e infalíveis.
“Era para ter saído (tudo isso) em 2019 quando completamos 30 anos. Mas eu calculei mal o tempo para pedir autorização de todas as bandas”, admite Lariú, com cativante sinceridade, no zine de 35 páginas que acompanha o lançamento. “Quando finalmente consegui, veio a pandemia.

Mas aqui estamos, com 32 ou 33 anos de existência, atrasados apenas nas comemorações de 30 anos”. A existência do midsummer madness começa, ironicamente, num dia chuvoso de inverno, em Niterói, quando Lariú, então com 16 anos, impossibilitado de sair para jogar bola, decide criar um fanzine. Naquele momento, a década dos yuppies, dos mullets e das ombreiras começava a chegar ao fim. Madonna dominava as paradas de sucesso com “Like a prayer”, seguida de perto por Phil Collins com “Another day in paradise” e Roxette com “The look”. 1989 foi também o ano do escandaloso sucesso da dupla Milli Vanilli com “Girl you know it´s true”.

No Brasil do cruzado novo, Xuxa era a campeã de vendas. As grandes gravadoras nadavam em piscinas de dinheiro e o compact-disc era a maior aposta para manter aquele status. Tudo isso era notícia nos grandes jornais, que concentravam o fluxo da informação. E o midsummer madness começava a trilhar um caminho não indiferente, mas independente ao mundo ao seu redor.

[por Carlos Albuquerque]
[continua no Volume 2]

[ENGLISH]
[text part 1]
At other times, one could say that the story of midsummer madness -just like that, lowercase - would make a movie. An independent film, of course, directed by Jim Jarmush and shot in b&w because, after all, sweet dreams are made that way.

But updating the commonplace is necessary. Today, it is easier to imagine that the trajectory of the label created by Rodrigo Lariú in 1989, initially as a fanzine - now celebrated in three parts, "30 in 3", with the release of a vinyl, a double CD and a cassette tape, sponsored by Natura Musical - would make a beautiful and simple series, one of those that we have to fight against algorithms to find.

A series about music, above all, but also about friendships, about falling in love, about missing each other, about autonomy, about business, about doing it yourself, and about the sweet and the bitter of the passage from adolescence to the so-called adult life. As for the title, since Cameron Crowe, another good name for the direction, has already used "Almost Famous", we would have to think of an alternative.

Ah, the script wouldn't have any heroes.

Because even the most angst-ridden heroes - such as, for example, the existentialist Silver Surfer - do extraordinary feats and transit in universes of superlatives. Everything around them is grand, is monumental. And although the trajectory of midsummer madness has its strengths - according to Lariú's own "rough" accounts, there were 340 "products" (among albums, EPs, singles, and compilations), 113 bands, and 2500 songs released -, everything that surrounds the label seems simple and spartan, a thing of stripped-down people who wear All-Star and are even shy to air-guitar in front of the mirror.

And, really, really, the story of this ephemeris - a bit crooked, but absolutely memorable - has nothing to do with staunch and infallible characters.

"The compilation was supposed to come out in 2019 when we turned 30. But I miscalculated the time to ask for permission from all the bands," Lariú admits, with captivating sincerity, in the 36-page zine that accompanies the release. "When I finally got it, the pandemic came. But here we are, with 32 or 33 years of existence, just late in the 30th-anniversary celebrations."

The existence of midsummer madness begins, ironically, on a rainy winter day in Niterói (a town close to Rio de Janeiro), when Lariú, then 16 years old, unable to go out to play football, decides to create a fanzine.

At that moment, the decade of yuppies, mullets and shoulder pads was coming to an end. Madonna dominated the charts with "Like a Prayer", closely followed by Phil Collins with "Another day in paradise" and Roxette with "The look". 1989 was also the year of the scandalous success of the duo Milli Vanilli with "Girl you know it's true".

Big record companies were swimming in pools of money and the compact disc was the biggest bet to maintain that status. All this was news in the big media, which concentrated the flow of information. And midsummer madness was starting to walk a path that was not indifferent, but independent from the world around it.

[by Carlos Albuquerque]
[continues in Volume 2]

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released November 26, 2021

project design and cover art by Beatriz Lamego
mastering by Eduardo Ramos
executive production by Rodrigo Lariú

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