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Revision as of 02:33, 12 March 2007 by 68.193.213.90 (talk) (→Influence)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Martin Munsch is a record producer, sound engineer, talent manager, photographer, videographer and the principal owner of Punkrockrecords.
He was born in Essex County, raised in the towns of Franklin Lakes & Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey. Graduated from Ramapo High School.
He was also responsible for production many influential punk albums as well as duplication masters and final quality control of many albums as well as dozens of other Wax Trax releases of the period along with literally hundreds of other recordings that had been quality controlled and sequenced by him in the studio during the years 1989-1992. With multiple inclusions in internationally acclaimed independent films Punks Not Dead The Movie and Andrea Witting's All Grown Up
Discography
- Above All Hope 2004
- The Big Wheels 1995
- Basic Skills 1994-1997
- The Blood 2002
- Bomb Squadron 1996-1997
- The Broken Heroes 2004
- Bullet Proof 1998
- Dean Dean & The Sex Machines (members of Blanks 77, Bristles, Nines, Yuppicide) 2002
- The Dead Heroes 2003, 2004
- The Deceptacons 1994
- Dizzy Dizzy 2002
- Dysfunctional Youth 2004, 2005
- Guiloteens 1999
- Hallowteens 1998
- Heft 1994-1995
- Holy Rape 1984-1993
- Infant Mortality 1993
- L.E.S. Stitches 1998
- Ministry -
- With Sympathy (1983)
- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)
- The Mishaps
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
- The Narcotics 1982-1984
- The NY Rel-X 2002
- One Way System 1998
- Peter & The Test Tube Babies
- The Rash 1996-1998
- The Rejected 1986
- The Sex Machines 2001-2002
- The Sex Pistols -
- Statch And The Rapes 2001-2002
- The Suspects 1996
- The Suspects (DC) 1996, 2002
- The Tantraumaniaks 1996
- Tarabithia 1997
- Traumaschool Dropouts 1996, 1997, 1998
- Tribe Thirteen 1994
- U.K. Subs
- U.S.CHAOS 1996-1998, 1998-2005 (Current)
- Urban Riot 1995
- Violent Society 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
- East Coast Assholes 6 song split 7" EP w/ Infant Mortality (1994, Punkrock Records)
- When In Roam (Vioent Society Mick-X)
Other
- Martin Munsch was the engineer who rendered duplication masters and quality control aspects for all Sugarhill Gang's music from 1989 to 1991 in Hillsdale, New Jersey. He was also responsible for KLF and a multitude of other final QC for recordings of that era.
- Marty Munsch had met the punk band Violent Society at the prominent underground club The Pipeline in Newark, New Jersey in 1993 while he was resident sound engineer. By the time he was 17 he was known as the Phil Spector of punk rock.
- Marty Munsch had a beer with the New Jersey Oi! band Turnpike Wrecks at Fitzgerald's Harp'n Bard in the summer of 2006. This may have possibly lead to them possibly working with him in the studio with him to release Turnpike Wrecks Smash Hits
Influence
- Marty Munsch coined the widely used sarcastic term East Coast Assholes, While working with musicians from the band '''Violent Society''' in 1994. the term is often used to describe, the vitrification and coherency of most eastern seaboard punk musicians whom are direct comparison and contrast to the west coast musicans, that are considered to be more liberal and less aggressive in performances that refuse to play Pop-Punk or Emo sub-graded punk music styles, often considered inferior to the older generaton of punk enthusiasts. The opposing styles and groups have been met with a considerable ammount of violence, as did the Mods and Rockers of the 1960's.
- He also currently manages first-wave hardcore punk band U.S. Chaos along with a consistant stream of groups that make up the roster of his label.