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The Analogs

Genre:Street Punk,Punk Rock,Oi!




The Analogs is a Polish street punk band. They originated in Szczecin, and are quite successful on the local and international punk rock scene.
The band is widely regarded for making street punk music popular in Poland, and for their non-political stance, which had a novel feeling in the Polish punk rock scene of the 90s.In the early 1995 three members of a ska band Dr. Cycos came into a rehearsal hall situated in Bronx pub, Szczecin to work on several songs which were supposed to be in a traditional punk rock style. Those people were Marek Adamowicz (guitarist), Ziemowit Pawluk (drummer) and Paweł Czekała (bassist). The band did not have any name at that point.

After melody lines for the first few songs had been prepared the band started to look for a vocalist. The first candidate was Tomasz Iwanow, band members' old friend. However, Iwan was unsuccessful as a vocalist and another candidate for this position was Dominik Pyrzyna, an orthodox punk those days, who perfectly fit the vocalist role for the band.As the band had completed its line-up the time came to record the debut album entitled Oi! Młodzież. While recording it (in "Kakadu" studio, Szczecin), the band was simultaneously negotiating with Rock'n'roller productions, especially with its boss - Zdzisław Jodko. Being one of Czekała's long time friends, Jodko willingly agreed to release the album under Rock'n'roller label. Meanwhile, the band had just been able to give itself a name: The Analogs.
The album was recorded at the same time as an album of Dr. Cycos. On the first day both bands recorded music, and the second day was dedicated to vocals and mixing.
Just after the recording session had ended and the concert of both groups had been played, Czekała's troubles with justice started. In spring 1996 album had finally been released and was able to get a possitive response among local alternative music fans. During Czekała's absence bassist position was held by Szymon Gebel and later by Artur Szmit.Soon after the first album was released the band started playing numerous concerts, the most famous and controversial being a gig played together with a Canadian punk rock band DOA. It took place in Poznań and was mostly remembered for fights that broke out between the band's supporters and the rest of the audience.
From the very beginning of the band's activity, The Analogs stood in strong opposition to anarchist and feminist punks whose ideas were influential on the Polish punk scene of the day. This attitude combined with the DOA concert riots caused many Polish underground media to start an onslaught on the band, mostly counter-productive as calls for boycott significantly contributed to an increase in band's popularity.

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