Marty Munsch

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Marty Munsch
Marty Munsch in NYC 2002
Marty Munsch in NYC 2002
Background information
Birth name Martin John Munsch
Also known as Marty Munsch
Born August 21, 1967(1967-08-21)
Summit, New Jersey, United States
Origin New Jersey, United States
Genre(s) Punk rock
Rock and Roll
Dub
Rocksteady
world music
Ska
Occupation(s) producer-songwriter, photographer, rhythm guitarist, electrician, actor
Instrument(s) vocals, guitar
Years active 1982 – Present
Label(s) Atlantic Records (1985 Asst. Eng. –1987 Asst. A&R)
Punk Rock Records (1988–2007)
Punk Rock Records (1999–2002)
Website www.punkrockrecords.com

Martin Munsch is an American music producer, born August 1967 in Union County, New Jersey raised in the towns of Franklin Lakes & Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey. He is a record producer, sound engineer, talent manager, photographer, videographer and the principal owner of Punk Rock Records.

Highly involved with production of many influential underground and punk albums, as well as duplication masters and post production of many albums and dozens of other seminal acid house or industrial style music, on many record labels and companies. Many releases of the period, along with literally hundreds of other ancillary or unrelated recordings, that had been quality controlled and mastered by him. Most of these releases were for worldwide release assoiated with top 40 charting on Billboard Magazine Munsch directs the overall sound of his recordings, with a hands off approach during studio production.

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[edit] Early Career and Influences

His influences by the early Joe Meek or Phil Spector who he was an assistant to in his early beginnings. He also attributes some to Sandy Pearlman and guitarist Chris Spedding. Starting as an assistant live engineer in the late 1980s at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. During the 1990s Munsch had pressed further into recording and produceing many well known punk, hardcore punk or Oi! groups.

During the early to mid 1990s; the artist Violent Society, who released the single East Coast Assholes E.P, (1993) and Not Enjoyin' It[1] LPCD released in 1994, was quoted by Maximum RocknRoll Magazine as being one of the top 10 best albums of the 1990s.''[2]. In 1997 while in New York City, he had briefly worked with noted producer Lee Perry on a significant amount of remixed Clash and 101'ers reissue dub material[3][2] He currently boasts a roster of over 300 major album compilation inclusions, 13 full LP productions, 16 full EP productions and a few dozen full production 45 RPM singles, by national as well as internationally acclaimed artists. His recent interests were drawn to Roots Rock artists The Stun Gunz. Led by Ryan Switzer; whom have billed the Vans Warped Tour as well as large sold out venues, such as The Starland Ballroom in Sayville NJ. Marty (Martin) Munsch is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment.

[edit] Full Production Discography LP's, EP's, 45's & CD's

    • The Freeze, Cape Cod / Dr. Strange Records 2008 Studio Date Unreleased[4]
  • The Big Wheels 1995 (self titled)[5]
  • Basic Skills 1994-1997 And Out Come the Real Wolves )[6]
  • The Blood 2002 Compilation
  • Bomb Squadron 1996-1997 Pepsi Generation
  • The Broken Heroes 2004 I Told Ya Once[7][8]
  • Bullet Proof 1998 (Self Titled)
  • Dean Dean & The Sex Machines, DDSM (members of Blanks 77, Bristles, Nines, Yuppicide) Ref. 2002
  • The Dead Heroes 2003, 2004 Dead Heroes [9]
  • The Deceptacons Ref. 1994 )[10]
  • Dizzy Dizzy 2002 Ref. Sean Epstein
  • Dysfunctional Youth 2004, Ref. 2005)[11]
  • Sex Pistols
  • Guiloteens 1999 Crawl Into Your Nightmare[13]
  • Heft 1994-1995 Anthems for Arbor Day)[14]
  • Holy Rape 1984-1993 self titled
  • Infant Mortality 1993 brick face
  • (LES) Lower East Side, NYC, Stitches 1998, New York City's Dead[15]
  • Ministry
  • The Mishaps Thulsa doom
  • My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult[18]
  • The Narcotics 1982-1984
  • The NY Rel-X 2002 [19]
  • One Way System 1998 Live Pipeline
  • Joe Strummer 1999 (Self) Dub Sessions
  • Peter & The Test Tube Babies (Live At CBGB 2004)
  • The Rash 1996-1998 Your A Slave’’, Stink Box Records.
  • The Rejected 1986
  • The Sex Machines 2001-2002
  • Statch and the Rapes 2001-2002 Jailbait Love[20]
  • The Suspects 1996 New Dawn in the 21 St. Century[21]
  • The Suspects (DC) 1996, 2002 Death to False Oi
  • The Tantraumaniaks 1996 More Lies From The Underground, Stink Box Records, NJ, 1995
  • Terabithia 1997 76.2 Rec. Chart, CMJ #10, 1997
  • Traumaschool Dropouts [22]
  • Tribe Thirteen 1994
  • U.K. Subs 1997 Pipeline, Newark NJ, USA
  • U.S. Chaos 1996-1998
  • U.S. Chaos We've Got the Weapons / Complete Chaos CDLP[23]
  • U.S. Chaos 1996 Punkrock Records/Punk Core Co-Re-release.[24] Suicide B/w "Kill the killers 45 Single.
  • U.S. Chaos Video interview series 1.0, 2000
  • U.S. Chaos Video interview series 1.1, 2005
  • U.S. Chaos Video series 1.2.a, 2007 Studio Production
  • Urban Riot 1995 Last Call For Alcohol[25]
  • Violent Society[26] 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
    • East Coast Assholes 6 song split 7" EP w/ Infant Mortality (1994, Punk rock Records)
  • Violent Society The Rise Of Punk[27]
  • When In Roam 2003 All Things Considered, (Former member Violent Society Mick-X)
  • T.S.O.L. Live 2003 CBGB's Live WFMU [28]
  • Above All Hope 2004 Fuck Ufc & Addict.
  • The Pinheads 2006
  • The Flare Up's 2006-2007
  • Hellfire Boys Club 2006
  • The Facials 2006 Save Rock n Roll
  • The Rilladiks 2007 Test
  • The Stun Gunz 'Only American Cover of the Boys', First Time 2007

[edit] Studio post-production manufacturing

[edit] Motion Picture

His involvement with independent films such as Punk's Not Dead. [29] Other noted films include: The Pariah (1998).[30] Marty Munsch also had an extensive appearance in All Grown Up the Movie[31]Early on, Munsch had worked as a television commercial production assistant, then as a Panavision camera operator on various assignments.

[edit] Live Sound Engineer

Joe Strummer, X, Skatalites, Melvins, The Mentors, Coffin Break, Youth Brigade [disambiguation needed], Anti-Heroes, DOA, The Unseen, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphy’s, The Boils, The Sub humans (Uk), Citizen Fish, Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, The Misfits, GBH, The Exploited, The Business, Black Train Jack, Anti-Nowhere League, The Fiendz, The Casualties, Total Chaos, Battalion of Saints, UK Subs, Special Duties, Blanks 77, U.S. Chaos, Violent Society, The Wretched Ones, Broken Heroes, Murphy's Law, D-Generation, The Bristles, Dean Dean & The Sex Machines, E-town Concrete, Funeral Dress, as well as a plethora of other lesser known acts, in well known clubs such as CBGB, The Showplace, The Ritz, City Gardens, Rock Against Racism 1986, Central Park NY, Webster Hall, 1018 Club, The Rock Hotel, Newark New Jersey Symphony Hall, The Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey and Madison Square Garden in NYC as well as key note conferences for National Security Symposium, Bilderberg Conference and Security and Exchange Commission.

[edit] Photography

Martin Munsch has been an accomplished photographer and owner of 'Flash Photographic[3]. Since 1985 he has captured thousands of images, of the New York rock and roll underground, as well as mainstream news media, political figures, and other events on 70mm as well as some large format film. He was forced to curtail his artistic efforts, from the years 1989 until 1990, due to an accident that involved eye surgery to remove metal fragments and an infection that almost left him blind but since has recovered.

[edit] 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 at Master Duplications Inc. (RIAA 1991) Munsch also coins the new genre mockingly as Trailer Metal, the term takes on its own life, due to his severe hatred for the new music syle. It is soon to be called called 'death metal'. It later turns up years later as very popular form of Jazz influenced Speed Metal.
  • IMDB Listing for films 1990-2007[32]
  • He was also responsible for KLF recording QC; "What Time Is Love?". Einstürzende Neubauten and a multitude of other final Master QC for recordings, as well as a massive catalog of that era. He was also known for inside QC master work, for over 100 selections for Musical Heritage Society classical compositions under the same agency. RIAA, ASCAP, BMI
  • 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 employed as a regular sound engineer.
  • Marty Munsch coined the term East Coast Assholes a term associated with the title of a Violent Society record that used his picture as the cover.
  • He also currently manages first-wave hardcore punk band U.S. Chaos along with a consistently new stream of groups, which include The Rilladiks, The Flare Ups, The Pinheads, as well as future work with warped tour hopefuls The Stun Gunz. Who are known for their Roots Rock approach to punk. These groups make up the current and contiguous roster of his label.
  • Martin Munsch, American producer, talent manager and owner of Punk Rock Records, had worked with Joe Strummer; on a final dub version mix of Revolution Rock. The mechanical version was acknowledged in 2002.
  • Records first ever American band version, of England's top 40 charting punk group The Boys, "Fist Time" played and recorded by The Stun Gunz.

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ East Coast Assholes E.P, 1993 'Not Enjoyin' It L.P. (1994) that was quoted by MaximumRocknRoll Magazine as being one of the top 10 best albums of the 1990's
  3. ^ Joe Strummer info accessed
  4. ^ The Freeze, Cape Cod / Dr. Strange Records 2008 Studio Date Unreleased
  5. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch, Eng. M. Caslenova, Clearcut Studios,Media Resources, Saddle Brook, NJ
  6. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch, Eng. M. Caslenova, Clearcut Studios,Media Resources, Saddle Brook, NJ
  7. ^ Bob Both Eng. & Marty Munsch Producer engineer.
  8. ^ TJ Blank of Blanks 77
  9. ^ Bob Both Eng. & Marty Munsch Producer engineer,Single, Rel. Headache Records, Midland Park, NJ, 2004
  10. ^ Producer Marty Munsch; Split 33 rpm. Maximumrocknroll Top ten, Eng. M. Caslenova, Clearcut Studios,Media Resources, Saddle Brook, NJ
  11. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch, Eng. Bob Both, Twain Studios,W. Milford, NJ
  12. ^ 1989,Compilation production mastering, dup.
  13. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch, Eng. Bob Both, Twain Studios,W. Milford, NJ
  14. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch, Eng. Bob Both, Twain Studios,W. Milford, NJ
  15. ^ Appears with Murphy's Law B/side 45.
  16. ^ Post production mastering, re-release dup.
  17. ^ Post production mastering, dup.
  18. ^ Post production mastering, dup.
  19. ^ She's Got a Gun L.P. (TKO Records 2002)
  20. ^ Produced by Marty Munsch at Jackpot Studios, Portland OR, with eng. Larry Crane
  21. ^ Produced By Marty Munsch at Inner ear Studios, Arlington, VA 1996,Eng. M. Munsch & Mike Davis
  22. ^ (NY),England Belongs To Me,Cover, Cocksparrer, 1979, Bang Bang Lu-Lu LPCD, 1996, Punk Dwelling, New York's Finest, Comp., Indican Films Ind., Identity Crisis LPCD 1996, Shit For Brains, This City Sucks, Cacaphone Recs.
  23. ^ We've got the Weapons / Complete Chaos LPCD, Released, GMM Records Atlanta, 1999. Accessed Dec 01, 2000, Compilation Produced, Mastered By Marty Munsch, Spec. selections re-mixed at Twain Studios, W. Milford, NJ.
  24. ^ U.S. Chaos Suicide / Kill the Killers 45 RPM, Re-Release, 1996 Punk core Records. Mastered By Marty Munsch
  25. ^ Appears on From The Ground Up,,Compilation Eyeball Records, NYC, 1997
  26. ^ Not Enjoyin' It CD, Motherbox Records, Produced by Marty Munsch, 1995 Accessed 12-10-2007
  27. ^ Produced By Marty Munsch & Violent Society 1996, Eng., Arik Victor, Creep Recording Studio, Westchester PA
  28. ^ Segment Recorded for The Pat Duncan Show
  29. ^ Punk's Not Dead premiered at the 2006 Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival and went on to screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, AFI/Dallas, the Cleveland International Film Festival, The film opened theatrically in 2007.
  30. ^ The Pariah at the Internet Movie Database
  31. ^ All Grown Up the Movie website
  32. ^ IMDB, Martin Munsch; Marty Munsch Listing for films 1990- 2007 Various
  • PunksnotdeadTheMovie [4] The Movie. Retrieved on 2007-08-06.
  • NY REL-X [5] She's got a Gun Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  • Violent Society, East Coast Assholes East Coast Assholes 6 song split 7" w/ Infant Mortality, accessed 2007-005-07.
  • Violent Society, Not Enjoyin' It L.P., Released,(1993) Motherbox Records.
  • Violent Society, Youth Culture E.P., Release, 1995, PunkKrock Records.
  • U.S. Chaos We've got the Weapons L.P. Release, GMM Records Atlanta, 1999. Accessed Dec 01, 2004.
  • U.S. Chaos, You Can't Hear A Picture L.P. Release, Punk Rock Records US, Razorwire Records EU. 2002. Accessed Apr 07, 2003.
  • The KLF What time Is Love, Top 100 Billboard charting 1989. What Time Is Love? (A Pure Trance Original).


The sources of the discographical information, are slightly questionable on their own, all the information found from these sources were only included if they could be confirmed by two or more sources. co

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