New Race

A fascinating one-time-only music group, New Competition was evidence that great music may appear when “instructors” and “learners” gather. In this situation, the “instructors” had been ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who became a member of makes with “learners” Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, the last mentioned three members from the seminal Australian punk music group Radio Birdman. Tek was a Michigan indigenous who’d emigrated to Australia in the first ’70s, getting his like of high-energy Detroit proto-punk with him. After Birdman’s demise, he approached Asheton and Thompson to come quickly to Australia and type this ad-hoc touring clothing. New Competition toured Australia once in 1981, playing mainly little halls and launching one legit live LP and some lo-fi bootlegs. As the ensuing record, THE VERY FIRST as well as the Last, advantages from a significant quantity of in-studio sweetening (support vocals are added, electric guitar solos overdubbed), it’s still a thrilling, guitar-fueled rave-up. Enthusiasts from the early-’70s Electric motor Town sound or early Aussie punk wouldn’t desire to be without it.