Bladder Flask - One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling

Sonaria, 2001 (re-release, originaly from 1981)

The album was released in 1981 in a numbered edition of 500 on the obscure Orgel Fesper Music (001) label , the album is comprised of two 25-minute side-long tracks of extended Dadaist reverie, a sublime mixage of musique concrete and instrumental collage. Bladder Flask and their ilk were spiritual forefathers to today's "Clicks & Cuts" generation. Incredibly, this sounds as fresh and startling today as it must have sounded 20 years ago.Bladder Flask was created by the Rupenus brothers, aka The New Blockaders. This is the CD version from 2001 that was released on Sonaria (SON 5.01) in Poland. Remastered from vinyl at Glistening Labs. Edition Of 500 Copies.

Tracklisting :
It Takes A Bliss
Musical Behind Head

LISTEN : Bladder Flask

The Leather Nun - Slow Death EP

(This is the original cover)
. originaly released on industrial records, 1979 .

The Leather Nun formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1979. Their first record is the 'Slow Death' 7" released on Industrial Records. It shows the bands more punky side as well as their experimental one which they would later abandon.
On this mini album, the first side is the 'Slow Death' 7" but 'Ensam I Natt' is featured in it's full version here. Only the intro of that song is featured on the original 7". 'Ensam I Natt' was also released as 7" on Sista Bussen in 1982.
The B side contains a 15+ minutes live version of 'Slow Death' taken from the 'Live At Scala Cinema' cassette also released on Industrial Records. On this track, the band got help from Genesis P-Orridge on violin and Monte Cazazza on synthesizer.
The band went on to release some decent singles and the 'Alive' album, but I lost interest in the band after these. Some people will remember their version of the ABBA classic 'Gimme,Gimme,Gimme'.
The 'Slow Death' MLP was originally issued on the Criminal Damage label in 1984 and was later reissued on Wire Records in 1986.

Tracklisting :
Slow Death
Ensam I Natt
No Rule
Death Threats
Slow Death (Live at The Scala Cinema) - bonus NOT on the original EP

LISTEN : The Leather Nun

Consumer Electronics - Leathersex

Iphar, 1982

Philip Best is the pioneer of power electronics who formed the trailblazing Consumer Electronics in 1982 at age 14.

He joined the group Whitehouse, led by William Bennett, in 1983.

After a nine-year hiatus starting in 1984, Best rejoined Whitehouse and has remained with the group ever since.

In the early 1980s Best also ran his own DIY label Iphar, releasing compilations of power electronics. Through the circulation of these controversial cassettes he succeeded in promoting the burgeoning extreme noise genre.

Here is a picture of Philip Best from 1983, when he was in Whitehouse:

Tracklisting:

(untitled side A of tape)
(untitled side B of tape)

LISTEN : (in 2 parts)
Consumer Electronics prt.1
Consumer Electronics prt. 2

Ramleh - The Hand of Glory

Broken Flag, 1983

Fuck the reissue... here it is in all of it's 7" single crackle and pop! The way it was meant to be! Well the least the way it sound after it's been played a few million times, lived through several moves, stored in the rafters and brought out and dusted off long after the cover turned to rat housing.

This was recorded during the youthful days of Ramleh. The following is from Mundy's liner notes to the BF boxset:

" 'The Hand of Glory' EP had been recorded prior to that Newcastle gig with Peter McGhee at IPS again. Jerome was getting very into reading about medieval torture and satanic rituals at this time. I was getting more interested in concepts of morality and freedom. My influence came through more in our next phase but Hand of Glory is more Jerome's subject-wise. Musically it was very much a joint effort. The vocals are less like the previous Ramleh records, they sound more desperate than angry. The talking on 'Prossneck' is Jerome. Most of the moaning is me, I think. It's a curious record. It's very uncomfortable listening without completely trying to blast you out of your chair. It was the last recording of ours that I would call 'power electronics'. The tape was probably better in many ways as the 7" version with around 10 minutes per side suffered slightly in terms of the sound but some people seemed to prefer it that way."

Sorry,your stuck with the vinyl here.

Track Listing :
Squassation
Prossneck
The Hand Of Glory I
The Hand Of Glory II

LISTEN : Ramleh

Vox Populi! - Myscitismes

Vox Man Records, 1985

Great first album of this french experimental band, founded in 1981 by Axel Kyrou, Vox Populi! marked the 80's with there album's (Ectoplasmies, Myscitismes, Aither...), its collaborations with artists like HNAS or Pacific 231, its label Vox Man, its participation's in a plethora of compilations and its attraction for a mystical and ludic approach of the music. Excellent blend of minimal experimental ambient. Myscitismes was released on vinyl by Vox Man Records (VM2) in 1985.

Tracklisting :
Trois Gouttes De Sang (3:00)
Guilane Djane (0:35)
Be Hedayat I (3:42)
Avaze Djodayi (2:40)
Gachtam (2:20)
Omid (2:31)
Shamgah (2:15)
Myscitisme I (2:12)
Delome (5:13)
Be Hedayat II (2:24)
Myscitisme II (2:49)
Gutta-Percha (5:35)

LISTEN : Vox Populi!

Pseudocode - Europa

Pseudo Records, 1981

Pseudo Code was a Belgian experimental - minimal synth band , active at least from 1979 - ?. Their mastermind Alain Neffe is also founder of Insane Music, one of the first great underground tape labels in Europe. Guy-Marc Hinan is one of the two guy's who made the "Sub Rosa" record label. Xavier S used to have a radio show on the Belgian national radio. The group had been temporarily shelved while Alain Neffe concentrated on his main project Bene Gesserit. "We play potlatch music which is emotional music, or more accurately emotional sounds, because we are not musicians".

Trackslisting :
She's Got Blue Eyes Wow
Addis Abeba
The Brightness Of Love And Illusion
Indian Copyright - The Dance
Europa
Worth Of The North
Les Microbes De Dieu
The Silent Hour
Holzwege
No More Groan
Simulation (To The Blue Eyed Boy)
Sub Rosa - The Last Hole

LISTEN : Pseudocode

Factrix - Scheintot

Adolescent Records, 1981

Factrix - was a pioneering experimental /Industrial music group from San Francisco (members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs) who formed in 1978 from another seminal post-punk act, Minimal Man (Patrick Miller). As Factrix, the group released a number of subversive and 'dangerous' recordings in the early '80s. Their incredible 'Scheintot' LP was a document of morbid, moody, and subtle experimental rock that is as eerily unsettling today as it must have been way back in 1981 when it was initially released. Scheintot was released on Adolescent Records (AR-TT-009) in 1981. This was also released on the "Artifact" 2xcd in 2003 on Storm ( STRM 08). A collection of both studio and rare live/unreleased material.

Tracklisting:
Eerie Lights
Heavy Breathing
Center Of The Doll
Thin Line
Anemone Housing
Over My Shoulder (And Out Of My Life)
Ballad Of The Grim Reaper
Snuff Box
Phantom Pain

LISTEN : Factrix

Bruno Cossano - Saffo's Pleasures

BloedvlagProdukt (Netherlands), 1986

Italian B.Cossano makes Harsh death industrial noise not unlike Mauthausen Orchestra, M.B., The Sodality, etc.

Tracklisting :
(untitled side A of the tape)
(untitled side B of the tape)

LISTEN : Bruno Cossano

Giancarlo Toniutti - La Mutazione

Broken Flag, 1985

Giancarlo Toniutti is born in Udine (friuli - italy), 21.3.1963 researcher in morphology and anthropology fields (linguistics, acoustics, material cultures etc.) and composer of experimental electroacoustic sound-works. Basically. The whole activity is centred on a basic notion, which is connected to an anthropologic view of the human activity in general, of its knowledge and the tools enabling and structuring such a knowledge. The sound activity is thus linked to a realm of sound we could simplistically define as electroacoustic or equally experimental, although these notions may have a meaning. The sound work, through the diverse natural developmental phases, is focused on some problems and notions both inherent to the nature of sounds and their structuring and articulation in sound forms. A research connected to the acoustics of materials, chosen as sound sources or generators, materials by now almost only of an acoustic kind (natural objects, custom-made objects and natural sound sources recorded on field). The work is thus strictly connected to the acoustic-morphologic nature of the sound sources, and the action is directed to allow and/or induce such sources to generate sound (microcompositional aspect), in the observance of the inner characters of the materials and their forms. At the same time a research on the notions of form linked to its functions of an anthropologic (and somehow biologic) character, on which a work related to the sound morphologies fits (macrocomposition), almost exclusively connected to analogic means of action onto sound (magnetic tape and equalization, for example). Has xollaborated with Andrew Chalk and Conrad Schnitzler.

Tracklisting :
The Tree
Nekrose

LISTEN : Giancarlo Toniutti

Various - The World, The Flesh and the Devil

Déviation Culturelle, 1986

Excellent compilation tape from France featuring Italian and Spanish bands. A musical range from experimental to minimal synth. Not much info to be found about the bands but they where all among the leading acts from 1986. The World, The Flesh And The Devil was released on Déviation Culturelle (D.C. 002) in 1986

Tracklisting:
Bruno Cossano - Ritual Du Plaisir
Avant-Dernières Pensées - I De Noviembre
T.A.C.- Tre Pezzi Giapponesi
Kino Glaz - White Death
Comando Bruno - Fenix 700
XX Century Zorro - La Grande Ruota
Zona Industriale - Metamorfosi Part 1 & 2
Linea Tactica - Palpito Y Bullicio En La Plaza Urdanibia
F:A.R. - Scarlet Prayer
Interaccion - Arquetipos
La 1919 Spontaneo - ?-10-1980
La Otra Cara De Un Jardín - Acedera
La Otra Cara De Un Jardín - Ahituz

LISTEN : The World, The Flesh and the Devil

Caroline K - Now Wait For Last Year

Earthly Delights, 1987

Caroline K. Walters, collaborator with UK-based Nocturnal Emissions an well known experimental/industrial music group in the 1980s. She co-founded Sterile Records with Nigel Ayers in London in 1979. "Now Wait for Last Year" is the only album she made in 1987 and the first release on the Earthly Delights label. The album's title taken from a Philip K. Dick book (Now Wait for Last Year). Married to Danny Ayers (Nigel's brother), and is currently living in Garfagnana, Italy. Caroline also used to performed under the alias SM Andrews. This is an excellent record with the awesome track "The Happening World" which is the whole A side, a display of hypnotic ambient. Very recommended.

Tracklisting :
The Happening World (20:18)
Animallattice (4:49)
Chearth (5:56)
Tracking With Close-Ups (4:39)
Leaving (2:32)

LISTEN : Caroline K

Sad News from Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emission), Monday, 14.July.2008 : I’m sorry to have to report that Caroline K (aka Caroline Kaye Walters) died during treatment for leukaemia in hospital in Pisa on Saturday evening. She was suddenly taken ill and diagnosed with leukaemia a very few days ago. The hospital did all they could for her. Caroline was a long term friend and co-founder of Nocturnal Emissions back in 1980. She married my brother Danny in 2001 and they moved together to Italy that year. They lived with numerous dogs, cats and chickens in a small friendly village in Tuscany. I last spoke to her on Friday and remained in email contact. Caroline was aware of the seriousness of her condition but remained extraordinarily positive and lucid. She chose to keep her illness private and spent her last few days in hospital painting and writing songs.

photo: Caroline K with Danny Ayers in Exeter, November 2007

The Nocturnal Emissions - Deathday

Sterile Records - 1981

Nocturnal Emissions has been one of the best kept secrets of the industrial genre since the 1970s. Led by Nigel Ayers, the band was one of the first to use tape cutting, avant-garde art, and underground video works to create a stage experience that was being cultivated by like-minded artists like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. The band moved on to using samplers and electronic noise in their early '80s work, creating a twisted funk sound that would go on to influence everyone from Foetus to Negativland. They still utilized their former tricks, upping the ante with extremist performance art and more professional video displays. The group avoided signing to a major label, instead focusing on releasing their own music more effectively. They followed this path into the '90s when they started earthlydelights, an incredibly detailed website that promotes their various ideologies (they are strongly against the British monarchy and believe that citizens should have unlimited access to space travel) and constant release schedule. The band has released countless tapes and CDs of their material, and continues to unleash their noise through their website. Deathday was released on Sterile Records (SRC 03) in 1981. Recorded live 23 May 1981 at the Cave, Corsham, Wiltshire.

Tracklisting :
untitled

LISTEN : The Nocturnal Emissions

Zero Kama - The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H.

( This cover is of the tape version )
Nekrophile Rekords 1984

Zero Kama was a ritual experimental project of Michael DeWitt the founder of Nekrophile Records.. This is a awesome record and one of my favorites on Nekrophile Records.

"All instruments to be heard on this album were exclusively made from human bones and skulls by the hand of Zero Kama. They never have been used since the time of its recording, which took place at the Secret Temple of Laylah from 5th to 28th of May 1984 . Remixed at Psychonaut Studio Vienna in November 1987.

The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H. was original released on tape in 1984 by Nekrophile Records (NRC 07). Rereleased on lp in 1988 by Permis De Construire (PER 009) and on cd by the same label in 1991 (PER 023). This is the lp version.

Tracklisting :
Death Posture
Atavism Dream
Night Of Matter
Inaguration Of The Pleasure Dome
Love Alway Yieldeth
Azure-Lidded Woman (Pregnant Womb Of Non)
Hassan | Sabbah
Starlit Mire
Winged Eye Hadit
Love Alway Hardeneth
Town Of Pyramids (Night Of Pan)

LISTEN : Zero Kama

Sleep Chamber - Submit to Desire

Inner-X-muisc, 1985

here's Sleep Chamber's second album "Submit To Desire". An excellent album of dark rhythmic songs on side Mood One, songs who have been reissued on other Sleep Chamber albums, but manly in remix versions. Side Mood Two is the more experimental side of Sleep Chamber, to be compared with Satanic Sanction and Sexmagic Ritual, as far as I know the tracks 5, 6 and 8 have never been reissued. Mood Two was recorded at various radio broadcasts, 1985.

( Mood One )
Fetish
Subterranean Subhuman
Kum Kleopatra
Submit To Desire

( Mood Two )
Priestess
The Empress
Oral Maze
Erotik Apparition

LISTEN : Sleep Chamber

Étant Donnés - Ceux Que J'Aime / Ce Que Je Hais

Bain Total, 1983

Here's one of their very first releases on Bain Total label. Excellent dark experimental electronics as always.

Tracklisting :
( side A of the tape included 2 untitled tracks, and side B included 9, so here it's a total of 11 untitled tracks )

LISTEN : Étant Donnés

Vivenza - Réalités Servo Mécaniques

Electro Institut, 1984

Jean-Marc Vivenza, sound artist and writer, born 1957 in Vinay, Isère, France.

Tracklisting :

Prolétariat Et Industrie
Mécanisme Du Bruit
Automatisme Concrets
Matérialité Objective
Unité Des Machines
Réalités Servo Mécaniques

LISTEN : Vivenza

Various - Dry Lungs

Placebo Records, 1985

Paul Lemos of Controlled Bleeding compiled this album, and put his own band on the first side, first track. This album contains all the more well-known industrial music makers from the 80s, with half US acts and one half European, plus of course Merzbow.

Tracklisting :
Controlled Bleeding . Scourge Tides
Étant Donnés . Le Coeur Sert Le Corps
Neo Zalanda . A Presto
Esplendor Geométrico . Untitled
Toll . Brute Freeze Featuring Controlled Bleeding
Vivenza . Unite Concrete Un Bruit
HNAS*/ Mieses Gegonge . Ein Winter Ohne Hautprobleme
Jarboe . Walls Are Bleeding
Merzbow . Vermin With Carcass
P16D4 . Swimming Behavior Of The
Human Infant . No! No!
Maybe Mental . Premystery
Le Syndicat . Full Of Shit
Sleep Chamber . The Beast 666
John Duncan . Hanoi
P231* / Ankh (2) Untitled
Dog As Master . Disastrous Consequences
Problemist . Crisis

LISTEN : Dry Lungs

Various - Registro De Voces

IEP, 1987

The registration of voices, a compilation released by Spanish IEP tapes and all of the musicians deal with the sound of voices. Not as 'industrial' as some of this may suggest. It came with a booklet.

Tracklisting :
Giancarlo Toniutti . Trakheîa) A-Phoné
Audiopeste . Untitled
Juan Teruel . Dios Bendiga A La Niña
Rafael Flores . Oh, Laurie
Lieutenant Caramel . Draps De L'Armoire
M.T.T.F. - Voice Out Of The Tomb
Kapotte Muziek . De Stem
Francisco Felipe . Ein Mensch Muss Ein Instrument Spielen
Luis Mesa . Paisaje En Cuatro Voces
Non Sterile . Sin Coxis
Randy Greif / Alva Svoboda . Deep In The Mess Of Night
Ejumboeke . Canción De Navidad
Pacific 231 . Thélème
Abstract Belief . The End Justifies The Means (Pt.2)
Esplendor Geométrico . Neuridrina (Fragmento, Live 24/3/86)
Marcelo Exposito . Eco De La Tierra

LISTEN : Registro De Voces

Cabaret Voltaire - Three Mantras

Rough Trade, 1980

It would actually be more accurate to call this album 'Two Mantras,' given that it consists of two sidelong pieces, "Eastern Mantra" and "Western Mantra," which gives the still-then-a-trio a chance to expand its avant-electronic-grunge into trancier realms. "Western Mantra" has the basic trio, plus guests on percussion and found-sound tapes, doing something far more outre. A heavily-treated vocal loop underlaid by a subtle keyboard drone starts the song, interspersed with samples of Arabic and Israeli pop music and various bell sounds. The occasional bursts of low, clattering pounding, with cymbals if not with drums in the background, combined with the continuing series of song samples, Arabic wind instruments and snippets recorded in a Jerusalem market, heightens the enveloping, striking feel of the piece and release as a whole.

Tracklisting :
Western Mantra
Eastern Mantra

LISTEN : Cabaret Voltaire

Miguel A. Ruiz & Francisco López - Rumor De Materia Vol. 1

IEP, 1987 ( ? )

This is one of F.López early works, on one side while on the other we have Miguel A. Ruiz. Both explore lengthy experimental and electronics works here on this tape released by IEP Tapes, Luis Mesa's label. There is one more volume in this series with music by Frans de Waard and Micheal Wurzer.

Tracklisting :
Miguel A. Ruiz Batan Bruits (Partes I, II, III)
Francisco López Concierto Para Las Aranas Texmumediterraneas

LISTEN : Miguel A. Ruiz & Francisco López

Diseño Corbusier - El Alma De La Estrella

Auxilio De Cientos, 1986

Geographical and musically speaking, in Granada concretely, Javier G. Marín and Ani Zinc were always directing the record company Auxilio de Cientos(Help of Hundreds), perhaps the one that enjoyed major commercial projection thanks to the distribution of record company Nuevos Medios and the biggest accessibility, dentros of the parameters of the electronic avant-garde, of which they were making a show bent star of the house: Design Corbusier Marín and Zinc, which two LP's would publish, Pérfido encanto(Perfidious delight) and El alma de la estrella(The soul of the star)Twilight Ritual, Bene Gesserit and Neo Zealand (Ani Zinc in solitary), which only LP, Mix zelanea, would not manage to overcome the impact of his historical single Spent famine. The more emphasized from Andalusia along with Rafael Flores.

Tracklisting :
Golpe De Amistad
Ritmo 21
El Alma De La Estrella
Club Del Ruido
Avanti
Lamento Testamento
Sendero Luminoso
Chiquillo
Plegaria
Malinconia

LISTEN : Diseño Corbusier

M.B. - Atomique Tape

(self released), 1980 ( ? )

This is another early MB release, one of his first after discarding the Sacher-Pelz pseudonym and continues the experiments under that name quite successfully, though it's less raw and the sound is clearer (the earlier tapes were undoubtedly intentionally bad quality though). As far as I know this hasn't been reissued yet.

. tracklist not available .

LISTEN : Atomique Tape

M.B. - Mectpyo Blut

(self released), 1979 or 1980 ( ? )

Here's the very first release of the legendary Mauricio Bianchi,under the name M.B.,from 1979.N ot that harsh industrial noise outputs that can be heard in other releases ,but electronic experimental music, claustrophobic in the vein of Asmus Tiechens, early 80s recordings.Was re-released by Slaughter Productions in Italy ,in the early 90s in limited edition of 30 copies.

Tracklisting :
Maidanek Bakterium
Muzique Belzec
Mutant Brain
Mord Bahnhof

LISTEN : (in 2 parts)
Mectpyo Blut prt.1
Mectpyo Blut prt. 2

Non Toxique Lost - live video

Non Toxique Lost live at Belin Atonal 2, 1983

Die Form - Die Form 1

Bain Total, 1978

Die Form is the primary project of the French electronic musician and multimedia artist Phillipe Fichot. He began by recording a number of experimental cassette releases in the late 1970s, with the first Die Form album proper ('Die Puppe') appearing in 1982. Whilst the project was still in its infancy, the underlying concepts were still evident - a combination of esoteric electronic experiments with an underlying theme of erotism, death and other 'taboo' subjects, apparent in both the music and the album artwork, which Phillpe also produces.

Tracklisting :
Tension/Base
Toys 1
Blister 1
Andenken 2
Editorial
Jazz
Oper No. 1
Pyromaniac Tragik
Switch On
First Talks
Anesthesia
Toys 2
Tropicallmarch
Wistfull Acid (Eva-Johanna Reichstag)
Divertissement
Speedwash
Großmutter Traum
Scaffhold 23
Swinging Cakes
Childish Room 1-2
Ludwig's
Please

LINKS : (in 2 parts)
Die Form prt. 1
Die Form prt.2

Mauthausen Orchestra - Bloodyminded

Aquilifer Sodality, 1984

One of the early Italian power-electronics projects, Mauthausen Orchestra, in the person of Pierpaolo Zoppo, started in 1982, releasing tapes on his own label Aquilifer Sodality. His work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex, perversion, tortures and disease, and the sound was a brutal collage of noise, electronics distortions and inhuman vocals. Mauthausen Orchestra stopped in 1986, some recordings from 1988 were published ten years later by Xn Recordings. In 1997 Zoppo resurrected the project and released some new material, while a series of reissues of the early cassettes was published by Slaughter Productions.

Tracklisting :
(untitled side A of the tape)
(untitled side B of the tape)

LISTEN : Mauthausen Orchestra

Various - Sinn & Form

Datenverarbeitung, 1982

Here's another early compilation tape on Datenverarbeitung (DATA 0015) from 1982. The tape is split up in two sections side A being Sinn and is the industrial side of the tape, and Side B being Form the experimental side.

Esplendor Geométrico : We would have to go back to 1978 to find the origins of one of the most innovative and risky proposals of the Spanish electronic - industrial scene, and one of the few with international repercussion. In those days, a History student (Arturo Lanz), a prison officer (Gabriel Riaza) and a graphic designer (Juan Carlos Sastre) were forming part of a weird band called El Aviador Dro y sus Obreros Especializados whose, with a look near to Devo, a corporative - futuristic - revolutionary ideology and a music influenced by Kraftwerk, Pere Ubu,The Residents, the synth-pop of the moment and some industrial drops, would become one of the milestones of the Spanish movida madrileña in the early 80's, and the first Spanish tecno-pop band, founding one of the first indie labels. But before they would become famous in the country, Lanz, Riaza and Sastre left the band in 1980 after releasing two 7'', due to the serious internal discrepancies with the rest of the collective, and quickly organized their own band, which they baptized with a name taken from a futuristic poem: Esplendor Geométrico.

Nocturnal Emissions : Influential and uncompromising, Nigel Ayers chooses to remain underground even as his ideas are continuously appropriated by ambitious pop culture surface dwellers. Since founding the UK art music ensemble Nocturnal Emissions in 1980, Nigel has established an incredible discography of music that is as diverse as Nocturnal Emissions is durable.

M.B. : Born : December 04, 1955 // Pomponesco, Mantua, Italy
Maurizio Bianchi from Milano, Italy, started working in 1979 using pre-recorded filtered sounds and in 1980 bought his own electronic equipment to "produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence".

P16.D4 : Was a German band whose music bordered on the industrial and on the cacophonous. On their debut album "Kühe In 1/2 Trauer" (Selektion, 1982) they managed to fuse the playful irrationality of dadaism and the oppressive tones of expressionism. Roger Schönauer and Ewald Weber focused on an austere art and technique of loop and tape manipulation. Stefan E. Schmidt joined the ensemble on Distruct (Selektion,1995), a deconstructing remix of sound sources provided by friends of the industrial scene. The double album Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie (1985) delved into musique concrete and electronic improvisation but, like the previous ones, ended up sounding more theoretical than emotional stuff. Tionchor (Sonoris, 1987) collects revised rarities, and is probably their most successful albums, precisely because it offers a variety of ideas instead of an obsessive analysis of one idea. Acrid Acme (Selektion, 1989).

Kopf/Kurz : Anyone any info ?

Ptôse Production : Is Ptôse aka the French Residents.

Pseudo Code : Belgian industrial-band, active at least from 1979 - 1996.
Their mastermind Alain Neffe is also founder of Insane Music (Trazegnies, Belgium), one of the first great underground tape labels in Europe. Guy-Marc Hinan is one of the two guy who made the label "Sub Rosa". Xavier S have a radio show on the Belgian national radio. The group had been temporarily shelved while Alain Neffe concentrated on his main project Bene Gesserit.
"We play potlatch music which is emotional music, or more accurately emotional sounds, because we are not musicians."

Metadrive : Anyone any info ?

Human Flesh : Another project of Alain Neffe with Nadine Bal, similar to Pseudo Code.

Creative Technology Institute : In short CTI, side project of Chris & Cosey .

Tracklisting :

Sinn :
Esplendor Geométrico - Sin Titulo
Esplendor Geométrico - Fungus Cerebri
Nocturnal Emissions - Recorded Live At The Whiskey A Gogo
M.B.- Extract From Muunh
P16.D4 - Neue Muster
Kopf/Kurz - B.R.'s Experiment

Form :
Ptôse Production - Ecraser La Vermine
Pseudo Code - Wondering Why (Pseudo Product 14)
Metadrive - Sverige
Human Flesh - Harmonie (4th Human Attempt)
Creative Technology Institute - City Of Spirits

LISTEN : Sinn & Form

Controlled Bleeding - Controlled Bleeding

Inner-X-Musick, 1984

One of the most prolific and versatile bands in experimental music, Controlled Bleeding were founded in 1979 by Paul Lemos and Chris Moriarty. They started experimenting a strange kind of pshychedelic music, but soon turned to the most violent and uncompromising industrial noise, using metal percussions, real pneumatic hammers and concrete mixers as sound sources.

Tracklisting :

Wounded - But Welding The Flesh Of A Clown With A Lead Penis (26:14)
After The Removing Of The Fingernails - Paper Cuts Are Applyed To The Exposed Skin (24:05)

LISTEN : (in 2 parts)
Controlled Bleeding prt. 1
Controlled Bleeding prt. 2

Sutcliffe Jugend - We Spit On Their Graves

Come Organisation, 1982

Sutcliffe Jugend began in early 1982, and instantly gained notoriety as one of the harshest exponents of the original Power Electronics scene.

Extreme both musically and lyrically, the sheer brutality of Sutcliffe Jugend's music has rarely been equalled.

This is a 10 tape set , it lasts about 10 hours.
Uploaded as one BIG (742mb) file for convenience.

Tracklisting :

Each tape is released in a standard snap-case with identical front-cover.

Each tape-side is dedicated to a different victim of Peter Sutcliffe:

Side 1: Anna Rouglsky (Lustmord)
Side 2: Olive Smelt (The New Breed)
Side 3: Wilma Mc Cann (Meanns)
Side 4: Emily Jackson (for Reinhard Heydrich)
Side 5: Marcella Claxton (Necro-Sadism)
Side 6: Irene Richardson (Hammer Deaths)
Side 7: Patricia Atkinson (Ejaculation Centre)
Side 8: Jayne Mac Donald (KZ)
Side 9: Maureen Long (Seven Tortures)
Side 10: Jean Jordan (Assault)
Side 11: Maralyn Moore (Sex Attack 1)
Side 12: Yvonne Peason (Sex Attack 2)
Side 13: Helen Rytka (Vachers Way)
Side 14: Vera Millward (From Hell)
Side 15: Josephine Whittaker (L.C.A.)
Side 16: Barbara Leech (Eighties Porn)
Side 17: Marquerite Walls (Bringing Down The Whip)
Side 18: Upaghya Barbara (Ten Hours)
Side 19: Teresa Sykes (National Force)
Side 20: Jacquline Hill (In The Face)

A1		Kill, Kill, Kill!
A2		Keighlet Alleyway
A3		Whores Endlosung
A4		Sutcliffe Youth
A5		Lustmord (Filthy Whores)
B1		Unite
B2		Sex Beast
B3		Pleasure Corpse
B4		Entfernung
B5		The New Breed
C1		Strangulation
C2		Electric Tool (Filthy Whores 2)
C3		Poison
C4		Sexual Abuse (L.C.A.)
C5		Screwdriver
C6		Ballpen Hammer (Ripper Attack)
D1		Schutzstaffelkill
D2		Reinhard Heydrich
D3		Selektion
D4		Dictator Rule
E1		Necro-Sadism
E2		The Fuckery
E3		Severed Cock
E4		Ejaculation Centre
E5		L.C.A.
F1		Wilma Mc Cann
F2		Emily Jackson
F3		Irene Richardson
F4		Patrica Atkinson
F5		Jayne Mc Donald
F6		Jaen Jordan
F7		Helen Rytka
F8		Yvonne Pearson
F9		Vera Millward
F10		Josephine Whitaker
F11		Barbara Leach
F12		Marguerite Walls
F13		Jaqueline Hils
G1		Erection Centre
G2		Sex Master
G3		Coprolagnia
G4		Untitled
H1		Slaughterhouse
H2		F.P.S.C.
H3		Sodomy
H4		KZ 1
H5		KZ 2
H6		KZ 3
I1		Seven Tortures
J1		Edmund Kemper
J2		Assult
J3		Degradation
J4		The Sex
J5		P.H.L.
J6		New Solution
K1		Whores Death
K2		Male Supremecy
K3		Cock Dominant
K4		Battered Corpse
K5		Exersise Your Will
K6		Sex Attack 1
L1		Death Squad
L2		Family Scum
L3		Metal Pump
L4		PHL
L5		Sex Attack II
L6		The New Killings
L7		Wombaphillia
M1		Fetches
M2		Vachers Way
M3		Human Disregard
M4		Forward
M5		King Lan
M6		Storm Detachment Hitler
M7		The Dominant Force
M8		Anal Canibalism (For Albert Ash)
N1		Anti
N2		Less Than Nothing
N3		Argyll Square
N4		Foetos Death
N5		Sodomy
N6		Dominator
N7		I Came Only To See Your Death
O1		Queen Myra
O2		New Camps
O3		L.C.A.
O4		Broadmoor
O5		This Is Pommerenkke
O6		Psychopath
O7		SS 1982
O8		Headwounds
P1		Peadophillia
P2		Sex Submissive
P3		Corpse Fuck
P4		In The Face
P5		Bring Down The Whip
Q1		Paedophillia II
Q2		Sex Submissive II
Q3		Ten Hours (For Paul Corrigan)
R1		Faulklands National
R2		Military Force
R3		Energy Man
R4		Buggery
R5		Mantal
R6		The Shit
R7		Psychopath
R8		Now .!
R9		Self Mutilation
S1		S.D.
S2		More Deaths
S3		Trained To Murder
S4		Body Battering

LISTEN

Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella

United Dairies, 1979

Nurse With Wound is the recording vehicle driven by londoner Steve Stapleton and together with many other projects, have been released on his own United Dairies label. This debut release begins it's tale in the latter half of 1978. Stapleton was going about his daily buisness working as a signwriter and and found himself working at a central london recording studio. Legend has it that he got into a lengthy conversation about avant-garde and experimental musics with the in-house engineer, one Nicky Rogers. Their talk got around to Rogers commenting something along the lines of- "if you know of any groups or people who want to record some of that stuff then let me know". Stapleton, blinded by satori and possessing enough youthful savvy- replied that HE had an 'experimental group' together and asked if the offer was still open, Rogers then repying that the next weekend would be fine. Of Course, he hadn't made any music before (having been a "deep listener" and vinyl junkie) and hastily got in touch with his two friends John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak, telling them to get hold of some musical instruments...ANYTHING! Sure enough, they scurried around in the next couple of days having bought and aquired cheap guitars, ring modulators, effects pedals, a lumbering Keyboard, toys, tools, household appliances and entered the studio as arranged.Without having a 'practise' as such, other than a level soundcheck, they drew in their breath and recorded their first album in six hours, totally improvised apart from a few overdubs, one being the 'commercial guitar' laid down by engineer Nicky Rogers, which was part of the cut-price deal!The album was released in the summer of 1979 and together with it's striking S&M themed artwork (by Stapleton), it soon shifted the initial 500 pressings in a matter of weeks.

Tracklisting :
Two Mock Projections (6:20)
The Six Buttons Of Sex Appeal (13:13)
Blank Capsules Of Embroidered Cellophane (28:19)

LISTEN : Nurse With Wound

Esplendor Geométrico - El Acero Del Partido / Héroe Del Trabajo

Tic Tac, 1982

Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro y Sus Obreros Especializados.

Tracklisting :
El Acero Del Partido I
El Acero Del Partido II
El Acero Del Partido III
El Acero Del Partido IV

Héroe Del Trabajo I
Héroe Del Trabajo II
Héroe Del Trabajo III

LISTEN : Esplendor Geométrico

Whitehouse - Birthdeath Experience

Come Organisation, 1980

Whitehouse specialise in what they call "extreme electronic music". They are known for their controversial lyrics and imagery, which portray sadistic sex, misogyny, serial murder, eating disorders, child abuse, and other forms of violence and abjection.

Whitehouse emerged as earlier U.K. "industrial" acts such as Throbbing Gristle and SPK were pulling back from noise and extreme sounds and making their music more conventional. In opposition to this trend, Whitehouse wanted to take these earlier groups' sounds and fascination with extreme subject matter even farther. In doing so, they drew inspiration from some earlier experimental musicians and artists such as Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, and Yoko Ono as well as writers such as Marquis de Sade.

The signature sonic elements on their early recordings are simple, pulverizing electronic bass tones twinned with needling high frequencies, sometimes combined with ferocious washes of white noise, with or without vocals (usually barked orders, sinister whispers, and high-pitched screams).

Here is a picture of William Bennett from 1983:

Tracklisting :
On Top
Mindphaser
Rock And Roll
The Second Coming
Coitus
Birthdeath Experience

LISTEN : Whitehouse

Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report

Industrial Records, 1977

Throbbing Gristle's confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps, gave the group a notorious reputation. However the group always maintained that their mission was to challenge and explore the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition rather than to make attractive music. Throbbing Gristle pioneered the use of pre-recorded tape-based 'samples', and made extensive use of special effects to produce a distinctive, highly distorted background, usually accompanied by lyrics or spoken-word performances by Genesis P-Orridge. Though they asserted they wanted to provoke their audience into thinking for themselves rather than pushing any specific agenda (as evidenced by the song "Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think" on Heathen Earth), Throbbing Gristle also frequently associated with the anarchist punk scene. They even appeared on the infamous Crass pamphlet Toxic Grafity, with a condensation of their own propaganda parody series, Industrial News.

In 1977 they released their debut recording, The Second Annual Report. Although pressed in a limited initial run of 786 copies on the band's own Industrial Records label, it was later re-released due to high demand on Mute records, however this later release was reversed with all tracks playing backwards and in reverse order. This was followed by a series of albums, singles and live performances over a four year period.

Tracklisting :
Industrial Introduction (1:04)
Slug Bait - ICA (4:20)
Slug Bait - Live At Southampton (2:45)
Slug Bait - Live At Brighton (1:10)
Maggot Death - Live At Rat Club (2:59)
Maggot Death - Studio (4:34)
Maggot Death - Southampton (1:37)
Maggot Death - Brighton (0:57)
After Cease To Exist - The Original Soundtrack Of The Coum Transmissions Film (20:19)

LISTEN : Throbbing Gristle

Some of the most relevant labels :

Industrial Records (UK)
Starting 1976, it stopped in 1981 due to the split of Throbbing Gristle, who ran the label. In 2004, the label was started up again, as were Throbbing Gristle.
Throbbing Gristle
Cabaret Voltaire
Monte Cazzaza
Clock DVA
Leather Nun


Bain Total (France)
Label run by Phillipe Fichot (Die Form) since 1977.
Die Form
Etant Dones
The Legendary Pink Dots


Club Moral (Belgium)
Label run by the members of Club Moral. Released numerous limited edition tapes.
Club Moral
DDAA
Etat Brut


Inner-X-Musick (USA)
Starting in 1979, the name of this label began as Triple-X (or sometimes XXX Organisation). Sometimes it was also called Innersleeve. The name Inner-X did not solidify as the main name for this label until around 1986.
Sleep Chamber
Coup De Grace
Women of the SS


Nekrophile Rekords (Austria)
Austrian cassette label run by Michael DeWitt from 1983 to 1987 as part of his Church of 2CR11. Specializing in occult/ritual industrial music (self-described as "Martial Music for the New Aeon"), Nekrophile Rekords released eight cassettes and some printed materials.
Korpses Katatonik
Zero Kama
Zos Kia / Coil


Aquilifier Sodality (Italy)
Italian industrial and power-electronics label run by Pierpaolo Zoppo. Though primarily an outlet for his Mauthausen Orchestra material, the label also released records by some related projects and friends.
Mauthausen Orchestra
The Sodality
The New Sadism


Discos Esplendor Geometrico (Spain)
Spanish industrial label set up by Gabriel Riaza and Andrés Noarbe. A total of 22 LP was released between 1985-1990. Now defunct.
Esplendor Geometrico
Macromasa
Comando Bruno


Lowest Music & Arts
(JapanJapanese tape label, run by Masami Akita (Merzbow), between 1980-83, later became ZSF Produkt.
Merzbow


Banned Production (USA)
American experimental/noise label formed by AMK.
AMK
The Haters
Incapacitants


Come Organisation (UK)
The Come Organisation was a record label founded in London in 1979, initially as a vehicle for the group Come. ICome ceased to exist in 1980 (even though the I'm Jack LP was released in 1981) as the band morphed into Whitehouse. Come Organisation would become known as a specialisist label in extreme electronic music,The label ceased to exist in 1985.
Whitehouse
Sutcliffe Jügend
Leibstandarte SS MB


Broken Flag (UK)
Defunct UK Power Electronics / Industrial label, founded by Gary Mundy from Ramleh in 1982. In addition to cassettes and vinyl, Broken Flag published a few magazines including King Krown and Kountry and Even When It Makes No Sense.
Ramleh
M.B.
Thee Un-Kommuniti


L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords (UK)
This now-defunct Belgian label released early work from several renowed industrial/experimental artists such as Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, etc. L.A.Y.L.A.H. operated as a sub-label of Les Disques du Crepuscule for manufacturing & distribution but A&R was independent of Crepuscule.
Current 93
Nurse with Wound
23 Skidoo


United Dairies (UK)
Nurse With Wound's personal label, releasing odd and difficult experimental and industrial music. Active since 1979.
Nurse with Wound
Musique Concrete
Lemon Kittens


Mute Records Ltd. (UK)
Founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller, Mute Records releases various forms of music, with an emphasis on electronic and experimental pop. In May 2002, Mute Records was acquired by EMI.
NON
Fad Gadget
Deutsche Amerikanisceh Freundschaft

Bienvenidos . Welcome

Bienvenidos . Welcome

La intención de este blog es promover este tipo de ‘música’ de finales de los 70’s a principios de los 80´s que se conocía como industrial, power electronics, noise, etc.

En este blog tendré links para descargar de forma gratuita grabaciones completas que durante mucho tiempo eran muy difíciles de conseguir o en muchos casos se volvieron prácticamente imposibles de conseguir por el tiraje muy limitado en el formato ahora casi obsoleto del cassette por sellos que ahora ya no existen.

Por diferentes circunstancias mucha de esta música ha sido casi olvidada, pero eso esta por cambiar.

Saludos.