Deep Hit Music

  P unk as we know it has from its very origins been tinged with and derived from musical subculture and genre that appears on surface level to have no sort of tangible link. It’s true that the DIY punk subculture, spawning in the midst of the seventies and dying a commercial death just a number of years later, changed the face of contemporary music forever. Knowledge, however, surrounding the style’s accompanying sounds and ideals are confusingly misconstrued by the media as being hatched no earlier than the mid-seventies. In reality, ‘punk’ has been a slow moving, idea-accumulating vessel since the beginning of rock’n’roll, and perhaps even before that. Glam, or ‘proto-punk’ acts of the late-sixties and onward, most notably The Stooges, MC5, New York Dolls, take their unmatched energy from the grit and soul of Delta blues and gospel acts, drawing heavily also from rawness of early rockabilly records by the likes of The Seeds and The Sonics.  Take the syncopated drums of Dick Dale and