100 copies. C60 cassette with improved master and fullcolor print on the cassette but original printwork. Los Angeles, September 1987. Savage Republic are in the middle of their first European tour when they land at Amsterdam's legendary Melkweg. What gets captured on eight-track tape that night is pure alchemy: tribal post-punk, cosmic surf, oil drum industrial and guitars droning like desert prayers.

Founded in 1981 by Bruce Licher and Mark Erskine in the underground parking garages of UCLA - where concrete walls provided infinite reverb - Savage Republic created a sound like nothing else. Imagine Keith Levene-era Public Image Ltd meeting Ennio Morricone in a Düsseldorf industrial shed. Or Can scoring film noirs that were never made. Tribal drumming, 55-gallon oil drums beaten like ritual gongs, guitars tuned in impossible ways.

This live recording captures the band at full power. Material from Tragic Figures and Ceremonial - "Film Noir", "O Andonis" (the Mikis Theodorakis cover), the epic "Year of Exile", down to the ironic introduction of "Ivory Coast": "we're a California band, so here's a surf song."

Originally released as part of Staalplaat's Documentatie Serie in an edition of 1000 copies, with handsome letterpress packaging designed by Licher's Independent Project Press in earthy shades of gold, copper and burgundy.

Now available in the last 100 copies: improved master, full-color print on cassette, original artwork intact. An essential document of American post-punk on European soil.