BABYLAND - The Advance

Babyland was formed in 1989 by vocalist and programmer Dan Gatto and percussionist Michael Smith out of Los Angeles, California. They were advocates of the DIY punk ethic and part of the musical underground culture and well regarded in Industrial music, punk rock, indie rock and electronic music communities. In 1991, the band released their debut EP 1991 and later that year the single Reality Under Smrow-Toh on the Los Angeles Punk rock label Flipside.[1] In 1992 the song "Mindfuck" was provided to the If It Moves... compilation The Cyberflesh Conspiracy[2] and the following year the band produced a cover of Madonna's "Burning Up" for the Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation by Re-Constriction Records.[3]

Recordings prior to 1996 continued to be released by Flipside, including the band's first three albums: You Suck Crap (1992), A Total Letdown (1994) and Who's Sorry Now (1995).[4][5][6] These albums were positively received by critics, with Alternative Press crediting the band with embodying "all the confusion, resentment, anger, and frustration felt by an entire generation."[7] The band released their fourth studio album Outlive Your Enemies on Mattress Recordings in 1998.[8][9] The band also participated in several of Flipside's Mojave Desert events. Subsequent material has been released by the band's own label, Mattress.

The fifth full length The Finger and a compilation of earlier songs Decade One was released in Europe by dependent. Most recently, a deal with Metropolis Records has resulted in the wider commercial release of the sixth album Cavecraft.[10] A post to the band's Myspace site on October 9, 2009, confirmed the long-lived group's breakup. In 2013 the live album LIVE EXECUTION was released and documented a live performance made on January 1, 2009 at The Smell in Los Angeles.