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8/27/06
Jack Endino's
Twelve Most Memorable Recording Experiences
(full descriptions to come later)

 1. First Nirvana demos, January 1988.
 2. Thrown Ups, "Eat My Dump" single (Amphetamine Reptile), Valentine's Day, 1988.
 3. Mudhoney, "Touch Me I'm Sick" single (Sub Pop), early 1988.
 4. Mark Lanegan, The Winding Sheet (Sub Pop), December 1989.
 5. Blue Cheer, Highlights and Low Lives (Nibelung), 1990.
 6. The Accused, Grinning Like an Undertaker (Nastymix), 1990.
 7. Rein Sanction, Mariposa (Sub Pop), 1992.
 8. Titas, Titanomaquia (Warner Brazil), 1993.
 9. Helios Creed, The Last Laugh (Amphetamine Reptile), 1989.
10. Guillotina, Guillotina (Warner Mexico), 1994.
11. Kerbdog, Kerbdog (Mercury), 1994.
12. Skin Yard/Jack Endino, any of five albums, 1986 to 1992.

from> http://cycletheory.tripod.com/noise/endino12.html

12/05/2005
From: andee, aQuarius records (www.aquariusrecords.org), SF, CA

"...just wanted to say hi. i run a record store called aQuarius records in san francisco. thought i would drop you a note and let you know that recently we decided to review your two records (two of my all time favorite records EVER!!!) and post them on our website to sell. people were super excited and i thought you might enjoy seeing the reviews."

BROC'S CABIN

Say what you will about Sub Pop, but as a label, they have never been afraid to take chances. They've gotten way to much grief for
launching grunge, and while the socical and retail affects of grunge left a bad taste in everyone's mouths, you gotta admit, we all loved and still love Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Green River, all that stuff. Today, it's hard to think of a more diverse label, from bluegrass to new wave to sixties style psych to garage rock to punk to electronic noise. They're pretty tough to pin down, which makes them one of the cooler labels around. Back in the day, they were still pretty weird in their choice of acts, you just had to dig a little deeper. Sure Nirvana and Soundgarden were paying the bills, but lots of us were digging the stranger sounds of the Hardship Post, Pond, Earth, Codeine, Come, the Dwarves and of course Florida's Rein Sanction. While the competition would be pretty stiff (Nirvana's Bleach, Codeine's Frigid Stars, Pond's The Practice Of Joy Before Death, Earth 2) we would definitely have to nominate Rein Sanction's first album, Broc's Cabin (originally released in 1991) as one of the all time best Sub Pop records EVER. In fact we had a massive (and massively enjoyable) debate when Andee suggested that this was in fact THE all time best Sub Pop record. Strong words for sure, but Broc's Cabin is just such a gorgeous and strange record. And it seems to have been unfairly and almost completely overlooked.

It's hard to describe a record that's always been with me, for almost 15 years now, cassette in the car, tracks on mix tapes. It never occurred to me to question the fact that this was just one of THOSE records. Essential and totally totally amazing. This is first and foremost a guitar record. Easily one of the best guitar sounds EVER. Simultaneously sun baked and rain soaked, thick and rich, swirling and slithering, like Hendrix and Crazy Horse and J. Mascis and the Meat Puppets and Husker Du, all dumped into a pot and brought to a boil.

The riffs are lazy and lugubrious, glacier thick and flowing like
lava. All druggy and fuzzy, a dense cloud of sound that gets so thick you can amost climb into it or wrap it around you. So rich and evocative. The sound is foresty, swampy, backwoodsy. A rock band that most definitely rocks, but at the same time somehow blends into the trees, and the streams and the sky. Like a way more druggy Dinosaur Jr., complete with drawled Neil Young like vocals, that perfectly intertwine with the serpentine guitar riffs. With the sound of Broc's Cabin in your ears, close your eyes and the pictures in you head become a constantly shifting tableau of skies hung with dark clouds, branches waving in the wind and plains and fields rushing by through the streaked glass of your windshield. Definitely heavy, but not in the metal sense, more of a dense and dark, druggy and dreary moodiness, heavy with the weight of the world, an abstract hopelessness, a lonley emptiness. Sad for sure, minor key and gorgeously miserable. As if Rein Sanction were a band at the end of the world, set up on a rickety porch, playing long into the night, from across miles of parched fields and dank swamps, the sound of their guitars, like thick plumes of smoke, drifting lazily across a blackening sky, while loves are lost, friends fade away, memories become indistinct blurs and the whole world slips into darkness.

MARIPOSA

A few lists back we raved wildly about a long lost Sub Pop artifact, a record called Broc's Cabin, from a relatively unknown Floridian rock combo called Rein Sanction. A record that got lost in the grunge rock shuffle of the early nineties, being overshadowed by groups like Soundgarden and Mudhoney and of course Nirvana. Broc's Cabin was a gorgeously depressive dirge rock gem, a minor key swirl of fuzzy serpentine riffs and drawled Neil Young like vocals, the whole thing doused in cough syrup and dirty swamp water. One of our all time favorite Sub Pop records EVER. But several different things can happen to a band after they put their heart and soul and sweat and blood into a record, only to find it forgotten and ignored and totally misunderstood. They can hang it up, give up the ghost, move on to other things. They can change dramatically, caving into the desire to be popular, turning their unique idiosyncratic music into something new and shiny, the sound that 'regular' people want to hear. Or they can seethe and scowl and marinate in anger and bitterness, loneliness and sadness, and they can make another record, taking their already dark and depressive sound and plunging even further into the bleak blackened recesses of their musical soul. And that's precisely what Mariposa is. A gorgeously bleak and bitter, minor key missive, a sludgy and weirdly melodic, ultra personal final will and testament. Present still are the strangely slippery riffs, Hendrixian waves of fuzzed out distortion, slithering and churning into dense knots of warm warbly melancholia, pounding tribal drumming, and pulsing subterranean basslines, weaving in and out of the tangled riffscapes. But the vocals are much more of a focal point this time around, imbued with misery and sadness, somewhere between a mournful croon and a lonely moan, not quite melodic, a bit atonal,
but with just the right measure of hopelessness that they fit
perfectly into Mariposa's swooning saddened soundscapes of grungy
jangle and fuzzy thud. The sounds on Mariposa are also a bit more
varied, incorporating lots of acoustic guitar, swooping backwards
melodies, even some horns. But as a whole, this is one of those rare records, that literally makes you sad, gives you chills, makes you want to turn off all the lights, drink yourself into a stupor and turn the stereo up as loud as it'll go, figuring you might not wake up in the morning anyway. You can feel the darkness coming out of the speakers like a fog, it's almost palpable, almost like the band were playing for their lives, a desperate attempt to keep the devil at bay, a music rife with broken dreams and broken hearts, towns boarded up and long abandoned, souls aimless and adrift. But that sort of darkness and misery is the only thing that is capable of spawning music this beautiful, music that is lovely on the inside, it's not shiny or sparkly, sitting ignored on the side of the road for ages, cracked and covered in dust, but every song is suffused with a warm, barely there glow, barely visible through each song's twisting squirming crown of thorns, every cobwebbed tendril and rusty joint humming with hope, trembling with a hidden lust for life, dreams of what still might be, a light that never burns out, even when the
music finally does.

-andee 

5/11/05
I just wanted to thank you for this site, and the tribute to one of the most talented and creative bands in my music collection!...I cannot pic a favorite song by them. I am glad that they live on!

Regards
Aftab

4/9/05
I don't know how many times I have been looking for these songs. I can't express how thankful I am.

-Michael

2/20/05
A long time ago, in Cleveland, Ohio I had the honor of seeing the  mighty Rein Sanction (on the Mariposa tour). Truly it was incredible. The Gentry boys tore the Euclid Tavern to pieces, with their crushing volume, and dead on chops. I could be mistaken, but I believe it was Mr. Ian Chase on bass that night, and even he was a monster. Unfortunately, due to the reasonable beer prices, the memories are a bit fuzzed, but I remember enough of the event that I know it was one of the most unbelievable shows I have ever witnessed. Cheers to the mighty Rein Sanction and here's to many more years of creativity! Thanks for the music, it has stood the test of time.

-Bob from Ohio

11/4/04
Hi heres Martin from Poland. Im total crazy about Rein Sanction! Thanks for site and thanks for early mp3 files!

-Martin (from Blue Raincoat - http://www.europeans-records.com/plyty_er003.htm)

11/2/04
"I have added a "Rein Sanction" category to the "MusicMoz" open music project. [I also like your site a lot as well]. You can have a look here:" http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/R/Rein_Sanction/

-Knud, Ireland

10/31/04
"Here is the setlist of songs for the show in Vancouver at the Cruel Elephant.

Loaded Des, Nada Brama, Deep Ellis, Offal, Deeper Road, F-train, Cross Creek, Almost lost, This town, Every color, Creel, Aint no tellin, R.K, Willow Branch, Do you Rem., Low B, Mariposa, Sasquatch.

Alot of my favorite songs. I had to wear a ripped in half earplugs to make sense of the music sometimes, it was that loud! I swear the drummer used his elbows and hands or something.

-Colin

10/30/04
"I would really like to thank you for keeping the Rein Sanction Legacy going. I am a huge fan of them. I remember watching them play in vancouver and was totally blown away! I still have the setlist and listen to them regularly. I lost my copyo f BlueMen, another thanks for posting the songs..."

-Colin