blimey bit of a surprise reading this after coming back from a sweaty dubstep rave!
Just a shed a little light on the background of the label:
1. the label manager yours truly is from singapore and of oriental background, resident in brixton for 4 years.
2. the stars on the record's artwork are, as Martin rightly pointed, vectorised images of shuriken, ninja throwing stars. The images were found via google, on a martial arts website.
You'll find shuriken of different shapes on our website which has been up for 3 years.
http://www.combatrecordings.com/identity.htm
3. the original swastika has origins in tibet / buddhism, and was later turned to face the opposite way when it got
adopted by the nazis. Being a chinese person it's more then a little unlikely I'd be the latter sort of character or support the kind of bullshit they peddle
4. White Boi (co producer for track A) is of sicilian/hungarian/welsh origin. I have no idea why he adopted that production title, he's a funny lad so I don't really care cos it's probably a little in-joke. His music's awesome so it gets released, simple as.
5. Samurai clans have existed for centuries before skinhead groups. Check wikipedia.
6. we were gonna skip over release number 18 anyway, so there.
scorn's got no problem with the name or imagery, he sees it for what it is - samurai battlefield stuff. you might even spot him on stage in a combat shirt during a gig this summer.