i said this several times before but in the light of events i'll tell the story again. there are a handful of nineties hardcore records that were passed to me by my uncle in my early days, where i began to evolve real interest in music. the albums were the following: biohazard - urban discipline, sick of it all - scratch the surface, life of agony - river runs red, madball - set it off and ryker's - payback time. very crucial stuff in my humble opinion. in the mean time i managed to get a lot of these on vinyl. except the latter two.
as you can see with this post here, i crossed another one from the list. ryker's 'payback time' ep. i never really listed this on my want list, because to this point there simply wasn't a vinyl version of this release in existence. the 'payback time' ep was actually released in 1994 by lost & found records on cd only. it compiles the 'kickback' 7" on strike records from early 1993 and the songs from the split 7" with pitbull on lost & found records also from 1993. check out my favourite 'nothing to regret'.
cupcake did the job again. and the outcome looks superb. as it's usual for their ryker's represses, they changed the cover art. this time most drastically, as there seems nothing left of the actual look of the original. not that this would be a bad thing. the new lay out looks way better than its original counterpart. crisp and clean, just the right thing for a hardcore classic. the same five colours that are/were available for the 'first blood' lp, can be ordered for the 'payback time' lp. i opted for the white vinyl to match the cover aesthetics. a lot of traces of other colours in the white. looks nice! 100 made. cupcake records. 2014.
