The Lasers - st CDr (2004) + "Nuclei" CDr (2007)

 THE FUCKING LASERS. I have prided myself for over a decade as the number one fan of this band, and listening to their stuff again for the first time in years confirms that my love is still real.

The Lasers were Providence's singular heroes of post-millenial Digital Hardcore, in the classic DHR style, but fully synthetic with not an Amen break or Slayer riff in sight. Short, sharp blasts of sputtering kickdrums and synth squelch backing dual boy-girl screaming vocals. And they could actually write songs. There's a shocking amount of catchiness in these 40-second blasts of shreiking energy and noise.

Mark Marine/Laser went on to play in a ton of other awesome bands, doing vocals in Bermuda (with members of Daughters and Fang Island), playing drums in Bellows and Worms in Women & Cattle, and most recently playing bass in In Heat and ALTARATLA (with Roby Newton of Milemarker on vox).

The first CDR featured the Lasers as a duo with Lauren Furtado, recorded by J Hockenberry at the Box of Knives, and released in 2004. The second, "Nuclei" found the Lasers stripped down to just Mark. It was recorded by Nick Sadler (of Daughters, Fang Island and Bermuda) and originally released in 2007 on CDR. "Nuclei" was rereleased on cassette a few years back by Mickey Zacchili's Price Tapes label.
Unfortunately I only still have the disc itself from "Nuclei", so I've included the insert art for the later cassette release in place of the original art (which will hopefully surface sooner or later for me to include here).

Here we've got both released zipped together for ya for maximum efficiency (and because they're each only 10 minutes long.)

 Mediafire link HERE