This lack of research surprised me when I first began looking into the phenomenon I did not expect my experiments to be groundbreaking merely by dint of being the first ones performed in a proper, thorough, scientific manner. We see this occur in various guises throughout the animal kingdom, but it has not been extensively studied. Moreover, their attempts will intensify, the number of attempts rapidly increasing for a short period of time in a last-gasp attempt to maintain the pattern. But still they'll cling on to what might be called, for the lack of a better term, hope. There may be a dearth of food, or water, or air. But others will persist, following through on the same pattern even when it is not being rewarded, or even, I should say, when the situation might demand that they break the habit. I have no time for a species that gives up the first time it encounters failure, or pain, or lack of reward. This is, quite honestly, a good thing for evolution.
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In most cases these new conditions progressively alter and eliminate that behavioral pattern, but you'd be amazed at how desperately some animals will maintain their old habits before finally letting them die off for good. It has to do with the more granular exhibition of learned behavior, when that behavior is met by adverse conditions never before experienced, and with the reactions subsequently exhibited by the afflicted organism. I'm still fencing with the problem working on the edges, trying to find a way in.Īn extinction burst is not the extinction of a species, though that would be a marvel to engineer. But lifelong habits run deep, and the development of an all-encompassing methodological framework that can demonstrably break even the most stringent of these remains, unfortunately, beyond my abilities. Everything can eventually be exposed expulsed exterminated. While most people – including a few scientists, even – believe that certain behavioral patterns cannot be forcibly deteriorated, I am of the opinion that we simply have not developed the correct methodology. We have to do it all ourselves – all of it – hidden away like criminals.Īgainst completely nonsensical prejudices, I should add, held by a species composed almost solely of unexamined habits and chiseled thoughts, a species whose worldview has been set since childhood, with room for nothing new or exciting, and to whom the suggestion that there might be something worthwhile to be found on the edges is so repulsive as to be anathema to the trembling cores of their very moral fiber. Not enough research has been undertaken in this area, and those who engage in it do so under a dark cloud of superstition and mistrust, suffering a woeful lack of support from the public. That tone was created out of necessity and urgency, for then as much as for today.The type of behavior that presents the greatest potential for scientific study, I find, is that which is exhibited under duress. When you hear it, you’ll ask what the kids asked back then: "How do you get that tone?" That’s not something you can just get. Roberto has a signature bass tone that so many bands today try to get. Musically speaking, if you wanna geek out, listen closely to this record and its colors and tones. The drums hit like a marching snare, a call to rise up and confront racism and fascism, which in case you haven’t noticed is alive and well in 2020 as it was for these border youth twenty years ago.
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Eight tracks of wake-the-f-up Latinx hardcore in Spanish. This is the final Emma Navajas Records release, twenty years in the making.
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You should have picked this up when it was a demo tape back in 2000, but you didn’t. Latinx youth from the streets of Laredo pumping out tracks to smash border walls. If the Bad Brains were from the US-Mexico borderlands they would’ve sounded like Vicio.
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Important, urgent and relevant, you need this in your arsenal now. Extinction Burst felt this release was so important to the history of Latinx punk, that we've designed a Curatorial Sounds insert to go with it. Although only four releases on the label, Emma Navajas was very selective to what it released and wouldn't release bands just for the sake of releasing punk music, but rather release four urgent records that they felt needed to be heard and documented. Imagine the rawness of Los Saicos thrown in with the urgency of the Bad Brains and you would hold in your hand the Vicio 7". and now after 20 years, VICIO has received a proper vinyl release. The Emma Navajas label has brought us the DESCARADOS 12" e.p., SIN ORDEN's "Arte, Cultura Y Resistencia" LP and VENGANZA's "Tus Heroes No Son Los Mios" e.p. For vinyl purchase visit Extinction Burst (link in bio)Īlthough this is not an Extinction Burst release, being the distributor of this final Emma Navajas record is the next best thing.