"X-Mist started as a tape-label back in those days (called ExtremMist then - but almost noone got the pun within the double-M...) when it was popular doing home-tapeing and annoying other people with the weird shit you recorded on cassettes. Naturally not too many people outside of the hometaping-world would have bought that crap anyway, so cassettes were mostly traded. That's how our mailorder started... Sometime in the mid-80ies I found out that it was not impossible to manufacture vinyl-releases for a small label. And from that point on the empire of X-MIST grew into what it is now. Speaking of "growth", I must admit that along the way we've made a few mistakes (releasing records that we're not that proud of anymore...). And I've learned my lessons and realized that success is most often spelled s-u-c-k-c-e-s-s. But I'll cut this short, and just want to let you know that our motivation and inspiration is pretty much the same like it's always been right from the beginning! Also I feel like mentioning that I don't like our label and mailorder to be filed under "Punk and Hardcore". Simply coz "my definition of punk" could be pretty different from yours or anyone elses. While I can still esteem the importance of a band like (just for example) DISCHARGE back in the early 80ies, I'm completely bored to death by all those DIS-clones (or 77-style-retards, Oi-Punk-traditonalists, Hardcore-conservatives, etc. etc.