Attrition - Fear / Devoid

Formed in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Waller in Coventry, England, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics, they emerged as part of the early '80's UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Test Department, Coil, Legendary Pink dots, In The Nursery, Portion Control et al. Their music is an undefinable marriage of dark and light...of futures and pasts...probing unexplored sonic landscapes with an eclectic marriage of experimental and traditional sound, of electronics and acoustics, of male and female.... Fear/Devoid - two early home recordings appear as a flexi disc with Adventures in Reality 'zine - run by the bands live visuals engineer Alan Rider...also of synth/wave band Stress... Fear/Devoid wes released as a single sided flexi by Adventures in Reality (ARR 002) in 1982. Later in 1983 both tracks appeared on the Deux Demo's cassette release by Rabbit Records (R.R. 003/83).




Track:


01.Fear
02.Devoid


Fear/Devoid


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Various - The Last Supper

An excellent compilation tape from the 80's, a very fine mix of industrial, ndw, ambient, art-rock and experimental artists. Could not find much information about the tape, the edition I have seems to be the second one witch does not contain the booklet of the first, or the (to me) unknown bands , Audio Leter (USA), Tex Mirror H, Autentisk Film (Norway). The first edition came out on Adventures In Reality in 1983, the second edition, same label (ARR 007) in 1984.


Tracks :

1. SPK - Ich Klage An
2. SPK - Satori
3. Gorilla Aktiv - Spiegelbild
4. Gorilla Aktiv - Ottos Pronos
5. Autentisk Film - Polaroid
6. Smersh - X, X, X Going On L
7. Bourbonese Qualk - In The Flesh
8. Test Dept. - Forward
9. Audio Leter - A 'Lot' Of Time
10. Muslimgauze - Metropolis
11. Muslimgauze - Trans / Time
12. Tex Mirror H - Sister
13. Attrition - Mr. Toma



The Last

Supper



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Life At The Top

Fantastic UK compilation album on Third Mind Records ( TMLP 07) from 1984. This release was a co production between Abstract Magazine (Issue 4) and Third Mind Records. Alas my edition is without the magazine. All the artist are from the UK, and they cover a wide range of experimental sounds. The most notable artists on this compilation are Nagamatzu, Stress, The Loved One and Possession the solo project of Coil member Stephen Thrower. At almost the same time as this post my friend mister Curious Guy of Phoenix Hairpins is going to post another fantastic Third Mind Compilation album called "Could You Walk On The Waters", so have a look at his wonderful blog, and he has also posted the fantastic album of The Loved One don't miss it.

Tracks :


1. A Primary Industry - Perversion
2. Pornosect - Disinformation
3. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Lifesucker
4. Attrition - The Last Refuge
5. The Loved One- A Diet Of Nitro-Gycerine
6. Bushido - Extract From Beyond The Great Wall
7. Coil - Homage To Sewage
8. Stress - The Prayer Clock
9. Nagamatzu - Muslim
10. Muslimgauze - Dissidents
11. Possession - Performance Parts 1-3




Life At The Top



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The Elephant Table Album

This album was compiled by Sounds music journalist Dave Henderson to accompany his "Wild Planet" series of articles promoting the industrial and new experimental music scenes. The art was done by Steven Stapleton. The Elephant Table Album was released in 1983 on X Tract Records (XX 001) and was re-issued on CD in 1989 also on X Tract Records (XX CD1) with new liner notes. The thing about the CD was: this is not a remastered version but a plain vinyl to CD copy. One can hear the pops and clicks from the Vinyl. The CD version has 4 tracks less than the original 2xLP. Not on the CD are:

Paul Kelday - Birth Of Planetesimals (Extract)
New 7th Music - New Humanity Switchboard (Extract)
We Be Echo - Alleycat
Muslimgauze - Milena Jesenska (Extract)

So here you have the complete 2 record set. The bands highlighted in the track index are the one's who have a website ore a fan website. This is a fine sampler of industrial and experimental artists from 1983 in the UK. Some things I can ad are:

On the Bourbonese Qualk site you can download there complete catalog and a rare split tape. Bushido was the brainchild of Gary Levermore the founder of Third Mind Records. My friend at Phoenix Hairpins has posted the PUMP album "The Decoration Of The Duma Continues" witch are former members of MFH (great album). This was the first Attrition release on vinyl.


Tracks:


Part 1


1 Portion Control - Chew You To Bits
2 Chris & Cosey - Raining Tears of Blood
3 Metamorphosis - Musak from Hawthorne Court
4 Coil - S Is for Sleep
5 Nurse With Wound - Nana or a Thing of Uncertain Nonsense
6 400 Blows - Beat the Devil
7 Konstruktivits - Andropov '84
8 Lustmord- The Boning of Men
9 Muslimgauze - Milena Jasenska (Extract)
10 David Jackman - Edge of Nothing

Part 2

11 SPK - Despair
12 MFH - Vox Humana
13 Nocturnal Emissions - Suffering Stinks
14 Attrition - Dream Sleep
15 Legendary Pink Dots - Surprise, Surprise
16 Paul Kelday - Birth of Planitesimals (extract)
17 Bourbonese Qualk - Under the City
18 Sirius B - Build Your Children
19 New 7th Music - New Humanity Switchboard (excerpt)
20 We Be Echo - Alleycat
21 Bushido - Modelwerk


Part 1

Part 2


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Rising From The Red Sand Volume Four

And here we go with another fine mix of artists.

So here's volume four :

1 Chris & Cosey - Jink Jive (Version)
2 Nocturnal Emissions - Going Under
3 Scram Ju Ju - Face Of An Angel
4 Human Flesh - Hself Namuh
5 Aeolian String Ensemble - Ingemisco
6 Ian Boddy - At Set Points
7 Attrition - Pendulum Turns
8 Muslimgauze - Icon Screen
9 Cultural Amnesia - Rest Home (The Man Who Worked With Tourists)
10 Two - Till Five Weeks
11 Nexda - Untitled
12 Test Dept. - Extract From Exercise Of Will
13 Lustmord - Of Bones Of Men


Volume Four


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Rising From The Red Sand Volume Two

O.k. Here's volume 2 , a wider spectrum of bands, from the noise of Lustmord and Nocturnal Emissions to the tribal sound of Metamorphosis to the somewhat post-punk sound of Scram Ju Ju and Section 25 to the jazz experiment of Un Departement.In other words something for everyone. (I have also included a complete coverscan of volume one, as it got lost somewhere during the previous post.)

Tracks :

1 Metamorphosis - Fire Gates
2 Fan Tan - Dress Up
3 Test Dept. - Gdansk
4 Nocturnal Emissions - Smear Campaign
5 Portion Control - Bite My Head
6 Lustmord - At Thee Mountain Of Madness
7 Tone Death - Song Of The Flame
8 Un Département - A La Surface
9 Scram Ju Ju - Big Beyond
10 Section 25 - Cry
11 Attrition - Black Death
12 Five Or Six - Aroma
13 Chris & Cosey - Lock Down
14 Nurse With Wound - Someone Others Garden



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Rising From The Red Sand Volume One

A nice edition of experimental electronic,industrial,noise artist original released on Third Mind in 1982 and re-released on Statutory tape/co RRRrecords. The editions I have are the Statutory ones from somewhere round 19? . It's a fine document of the industrial -experimental scene around 1982.The other 4 editions will be posted at a later date.

Tracks :

1 Chris & Cosey - Yes Know
2 Attrition - The Visitor
3 Legendary Pink Dots - Premonition 5
4 Konstruktivists - Black On Black
5 Pseudo Code - Missing Persons
6 Nurse With Wound - The Strange Play Of The Mouth
7 Sutcliffe Jügend - Slut Meat
8 DDAA - King Deebo Is Six Tracks For A Kit
9 Human Flesh - Accident
10 John Hurst - Untitled
11 Section 25 - In The Garden Of Eden


Rising From The Red Sand Volume One



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