20 Years of Dischord
| 20 Years of Dischord | |
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| Box set by various artists | |
| Released | October 1, 2002 |
| Recorded | 1980 – 2000 |
| Studio | Inner Ear |
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| Length | 3:11:15 |
| Language | English |
| Label | Dischord |
| Producer |
Don Zientara Guillaume Bernardeau Chris Mills |
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| AllMusic |   |
20 Years of Dischord is a 3-CD box set compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based record label Dischord Records to commemorate its 20th anniversary.
20 Years of Dischord is a concise but representative musical chronicle of the first two decades of the label originally created by teenagers Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson in 1980 just to release the only output of their former short-lived hardcore punk band, the Teen Idles, but that, over time, it went on to document the most part of the music coming out of the U.S. capital city's underground community, becoming highly influential.
The core of the collection are the first two discs, packaged together into a single CD case under the title Fifty Bands, which contains 50 songs, one track from each band that appeared on the label from 1980 to 2000, all of them previously released, featured in roughly chronological order showing the musical evolution of the scene.
"...the fascinating part [of 20 Years of Dischord ] is hearing the progression ... from a high-octane hardcore hotbed to a more arty, experimental, and wide-ranging purely musical scene..."
The third disc, an enhanced CD titled Unreleased and Rare, consists of a variety of outtakes, demos and live recordings from the Dischord vaults, also includes an early interview with MacKaye, as well as some video files of archival footage featuring performances by the Teen Idles, Untouchables, State of Alert, the Faith, Void, and Deadline. The songs that make up the disc were also released separately, as a collection, and individually, as downloadables digital audio files.
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