"10 years later" is Antilav's (dark electronic) musical version of Beauty and the Beast. The Beast remains, but the Beauty leaves. A fairytale without the happy ending.
All tracks are looking back to memories in the last 10 years, telling tales about love, despair and sadness.
On this day, 41 years ago John Peel broadcasted Joy Division's 2nd Peel Sessions!
Today it’s been 41 years since Joy Division’s second Peel Session was broadcasted for the first time by John Peel on BBC radio (December 10th, 1979).
All tracks, previously unreleased at that time, were recorded in the London BBC studios on November 26th, 1979.
The EP of this recording was released in 1986 by Strange Fruit records and spent seventeen weeks in the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 3!
Joy Division - The Peel Sessions (II)
A1. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:20
A2. 24 Hours 4:05
B1. Colony 4:08
B2. Sound of Music 4:20
A real gem for the synth-lovers... Notstandskomitee is more than just raw and harsh noise sounds.
Here is what they say about it:
"After the 1995 CD 731 I sensed a need for an antithesis to the harsh sound and gritty topic of violence of that album. So I came up with the idea to create retro futuristic songs which are more on the uplifting side, done with modern, mainly digital sounds courtesy of the FZ-1 sampler and TG77 FM synthesizer which was the latest entry that time in the block 4 studio. The TG77 was already dominating the sound on 731 and later the Betriebssystem album by Das Kombinat. Hardiskrecording had not arrived nor been affordable for us so everything was mixed in one go and cut directly to DAT.
Post mastering was technical not possible in the block 4 studio and the label had no budget to give it to a mastering studio so the CD is a bit rough and uneven. Fast forward some decades, now its easy to treat everything in the computer with modern tools and so I could bring Strom closer to its original vision.
While Strom was 1997 the antithesis, the tracks on the 1999 album Y2K, which was released as a split CD with the Brazil act Cyberthreat, was the synthesis and blueprint of the Notstandskomitee style today."
This December, 41 ago, Throbing Gristle released the album 20 Jazz Funk Greats. It was released in December 1979 by the band's own label Industrial Records. It is regarded as the band's best work, with music magazines naming it the best album of the 1970s, and the best industrial album of all time.
Actually it is the band's first real full studio album, as prior albums contained both live and studio recordings. The album was recorded on a 16-track tape recorder borrowed from Paul McCartney after Peter Christopherson had worked on some artwork for McCartney.
The album was produced meanly using effects units and instruments from Roland and Boss.
The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the South coast of England known as one of the world's most notorious suicide spots.
In a 2012 interview, Cosey explained the album cover and tongue-in-cheek title:
“We did the cover so it was a pastiche of something you would find in a Woolworth’s bargain bin. We took the photograph at the most famous suicide spot in England, called Beachy Head. So, the picture is not what it seems, it is not so nicey nicey at all, and neither is the music once you take it home and buy it. We had this idea in mind that someone quite innocently would come along to a record store and see [the record] and think they would be getting 20 really good jazz/funk greats, and then they would put it on at home and they would just get decimated.”
The 1981 issue of the album released on Fetish Records featured an alternate version of the cover art in which an apparently dead and naked male body is seen lying in front of the band. In 2013, Radiohead graphic designer Stanley Donwood selected the artwork as his favorite album cover.
20 Jazz Funk Greats
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"20 Jazz Funk Greats" |
2:51 |
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A2. |
"Beachy Head" |
3:42 |
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A3. |
"Still Walking" |
4:56 |
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A4. |
"Tanith" |
2:20 |
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A5. |
"Convincing People" |
4:54 |
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A6. |
"Exotica" |
2:53 |
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B1. |
"Hot on the Heels of Love" |
4:24 |
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B2. |
"Persuasion" |
6:36 |
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B3. |
"Walkabout" |
3:04 |
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B4. |
"What a Day" |
4:38 |
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B5. |
"Six Six Sixties"
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All tracks were written by Throbbing Gristle:
- Genesis P-Orridge – vocals, bass guitar, violin, vibraphone, synthesizer
- Cosey Fanni Tutti – guitar, synthesizer, cornet, vocals
- Chris Carter – synthesizer, album sequencing, drum programming, vocals
- Peter Christopherson – tape, vibraphone, cornet, vocals
The SCANNER-label celebrates its 20th anniversary with a great and extended review of their catalogue: A Human Scan(ner): a 26-track sampler full of goodies by e.g. Autodafeh, :S.I.T.D.:, Spetsnaz, Straftanz and many others.
Released December 4th, just in time for the holidays!
scanner-dd.bandcamp.com/album/a-human-scanner-the-20th-anniversary-compilation
