Artist description Bass, drums, non-screechy vocals, no guitar, and a penchant for weirdness all add up to this debut outing from San Francisco's newest lovechild comprised of Chris Dodge (SPAZZ bassist), Roland O'Raitt, and Lydia Dodge (from SPAZZ to M.D.C. to ABBA - you name it, she's done it). "Caveat Emptor" is hard to pin down, but easy to get into. It's got it all: high-speed blender-core power violence attacks; meathead mosh tunes suitable for trouncing to; tape loops and cartoonish weirdness that would please even the staunchest noise fanatic. It's the new wave of extreme music.

Music Style Experimental Extreme Hardcore

Group Members Chris Dodge (SPAZZ bassist), Roland O'Raitt, and Lydia Dodge (from SPAZZ to M.D.C. to ABBA - you name it, she's done it).

Instruments bass, drums, vox, tape loops, weirdness

Albums "Caveat Emptor" on Slap A Ham Records

Press Reviews "This gets points for originality. The music is on the minimalist side of things, with mostly distorted bass, drums and vocals splattering at you. Throughout the album, they insert strange sounds, which helps out in spiking the instrumental punch. Really, this defies neat, nice and tidy labels and compartmentalization. Sometimes the music gets quiet and slow, other times its sputtering herky-jerky and then it's speeding full-steam ahead. Although I can see that this would annoy the pants off of traditionalists or the Philistine majority in punk land, Ancient Chinese Secret seem to be creating music for the sake of creativity. They need to tell some other bands that secret." - PUNK PLANET "What we have here is one of the most exciting forays into the fringe of extreme hardcore in a long time. The result is an adventurous and experimental hardcore album that captures the imagination, revels in eclecticism, and still manages to rock your pathetic world. With only bass guitar, drums, vocals, and various key and tape loop embellishments A.C.S. do things with their music that I guarantee you've never heard the likes of before. Folks who gravitate towards bands that reject the norm (M.I.T.B., Gasp, etc.) will find their new gods in A.C.S." - CRASS MENAGERIE

Location Alhambra, California - USA

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