A rather eclectic mix of music that we just happen to like.
From jazz (BIRTH) to grindcore (DON KNOTTS)
to emo (JAMESEN) to electronic (SUPERWOW)
and everywhere in between this CD covers
quite a bit of musical ground. Featuring
ENON doing a cover of the ROLLING STONES "off the hook"
The best part is it's really cheap.

fric-006 FRICTION RECORDS Volume 1 Compilation CD $4.00 Add to Cart

Featuring: 01. ENON - off the hook* 02. HALOS FOR MARTYRS -------------- driving heavy eyes* 03. TWO STARS BURNING SUN -------------- broken heart remedy 04. JAMESEN -------------- broken window 05. DON KNOTTS -------------- untitled #1* 06. WHIRLWIND HEAT -------------- disco dust* 07. BIRTH -------------- seek* 08. 1984 -------------- rock drill* 09. NORTH LINCOLN -------------- bandages* 10. MOMMY WON'T WAKE UP -------------- cu*t and paste (remix)* 11. SUPERWOW -------------- bagatelle* 12. HUNTER ROSE -------------- through the lens* 13. DURESS -------------- chrysalis 14. E.S.P. -------------- stretching out* 15. WITH ARMS STILL EMPTY -------------- we need heroes* 16. WRECKER -------------- my own 17. GAVIN BLACK -------------- crawl through 18. SEWING TERRORISTS -------------- body baby* 19. NIGHT DOCTORS -------------- sick of being sorry* 20. MECHANIK -------------- mechanikal breakdown* *previously unreleased track

Friction Records Vol. 1 CD
From emo to indie to hardcore to experimental,
the diversity of sound make a groovy sampler.
Bands like WRECKER, JAMESEN, NORTH LINCOLN, 1984,
amd THE SEWING TERRORISTS rise to the top. There
are 20 tracks and almost all of them are unreleased.
I'm keeping this one. (JG)
-Punk Planet #49

Grand Rapids has never had a local music scene worth mentioning. For the most part, the last decade has produced Mustard Plug and a thousand hippie rock bands - everything else seems to go unheard or unappreciated, espescially since the Replite House went under. Finally, someone with organizational skills is attempting to round up actual talent, local and otherwise, and market interesting music in Grand Rapids. Friction Records is the rarest of the indies - dealing in everything from hardcore to freejazz to electrofunk to avant pop. ENON, one of the few national acts, starts things of in a delicious fashion. Their cover of the ROLLING STONES "Off the Hook" is beautifully languid synth funk - somewhat a departure from their typicallt rambunctious pop/punk fusion. More rewarding, however, are some of the local contributions. SUPERWOW's "bagatelle" is an absolutely mesmerizing three and a half minutes of man-made(!) drum and bass, while BIRTH'S "Seek" reinvents the free jazz experimentations of Ornette Coleman or Eric Dolphy. There is, of course, some rock stuff, too. HALOS FOR MARTYRS play theie emo role rather well, and GAVIN BLACK shows up to represent the heavy heads with the rather frightening "Crawl Through." MOMMY WON'T WAKE UP's "C*nt and Paste (Remix)" sounds inhuman, like a nervous breakdown of savagely digital proportions. It's like nothing you'll hear anywhere else. Kudos to Jeff VandenBerg and the rest at Friction for taking the time, making the effort, and improving life a bit in out tired little town.
-Andrew Watson (Recoil Magazine)