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ªª▓              Ripper      : D2H Army               Genre        : Industrial                      ▓ªª
ªª▓              Supplier    : D2H Army               Release Date : 16-05-2012                      ▓ªª
ªª▓              Source      : CDDA                   Year         : 2011                            ▓ªª
ªª▓              Type        : Album                  Tracks       : 18                              ▓ªª
ªª▓              Encoder     : Lame 3.98.4            Quality      : VBRkbps/44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo    ▓ªª
ªª▓              Label       : Industrial Records Ltd Catalog #    : IRLCD001                        ▓ªª
ªª▓              Url         : www.throbbing-gristle.com                                             ▓ªª
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ªª▓   01   Industrial Introduction                                                      (01:04)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   02   Slug Bait, Live at the I.C.A. London                                         (04:20)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   03   Live at Southampton                                                          (02:45)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   04   Live at Brighton                                                             (01:19)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   05   Maggot Death, Studio Recording                                               (02:50)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   06   Live at Rat Club London                                                      (04:33)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   07   Live at Southampton                                                          (01:37)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   08   Live at Brighton                                                             (00:59)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   09   The original soundtrack of Coum Transmissions film of ''After Cease To       (20:10)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   Exist''                                                                                        ▓ªª
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ªª▓   CD2 - 1976-1977 Bonus CD                                                                       ▓ªª
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ªª▓   01   No Two Ways-Hat Fair Winchester 1976                                         (04:04)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   02   Last Exit-Brighton Poly 1977                                                 (06:12)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   03   Forced Entry-Nuffield 1977                                                   (05:01)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   04   Tesco Disco-Rat Club, London 1977                                            (05:18)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   05   Feeling Critical-ArtCollege Winchester 1977                                  (06:30)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   06   National Affront-Nuffield 1977                                               (04:31)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   07   Urge To Kill-Rat Club, London 1977                                           (07:25)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   08   Zyklon B Zombie 7'' B Side                                                   (03:53)      ▓ªª
ªª▓   09   United 7'' A Side                                                            (04:04)      ▓ªª
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ªª▓   "Yea yea twist again better than we did last summer, laughing in the face of all rock and      ▓ªª
ªª▓   roll historians collectors revivalists purists inquisition members puritans bores creeps and   ▓ªª
ªª▓   not forgetting the fussy midgets with obscene hairdos." So wrote Claude Bessy in the liner     ▓ªª
ªª▓   notes to Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits, one of the five classic Throbbing Gristle albums   ▓ªª
ªª▓   Industrial Records have just reissued, and which now sit upon my desk, uncanny and             ▓ªª
ªª▓   accusatory, over 30 years after that pre-emptive fit of snark. Throbbing Gristle were never    ▓ªª
ªª▓   meant to be reliable, but here they come again, ready to be harvested by the very culture      ▓ªª
ªª▓   industry they alternately solicited and spat upon so long ago.                                 ▓ªª
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ªª▓   While the rest of the Class of '77 pogoed steadily, Throbbing Gristle blew hot and cold, a     ▓ªª
ªª▓   passive-aggressive tug of war between the sharp and the slimy: The formal elegance of Chris    ▓ªª
ªª▓   Carter's synthesizers are scrawled upon by Genesis P-Orridge's bass riffs and Cosey Fanni      ▓ªª
ªª▓   Tutti's fuzz guitar freakouts, spiced with violin and dubby honks of cornet. This already      ▓ªª
ªª▓   pungent stew is spiked with taped material selected by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson--         ▓ªª
ªª▓   excerpts of everyday intimacy and true crime veritΘ-- and the arsenic tang of Genesis'         ▓ªª
ªª▓   vocals, either sung in a soft sort of sprechstimme or howled into effects. On their debut,     ▓ªª
ªª▓   The Second Annual Report, the music alternately chugged along like a squelchy, crude cop of    ▓ªª
ªª▓   the Velvet Underground, or stretched out into malingering new age, like a syphilitic           ▓ªª
ªª▓   Tangerine Dream. But they got both more virulent and more ambitious with time, upping the      ▓ªª
ªª▓   hostility and dread on D.O.A, taking a kitsch detour toward mutant disco on 20 Jazz Funk       ▓ªª
ªª▓   Greats, auto-cannibalizing their catalog in the live-in-the-studio ritual recording of         ▓ªª
ªª▓   Heathen Earth, and reasserting a strangely forceful collection of avant garde anti-pop for a   ▓ªª
ªª▓   Greatest Hits package revealingly subtitled Entertainment Through Pain, which collates their   ▓ªª
ªª▓   singles output as a quiver of tense stabs at accessibility.                                    ▓ªª
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ªª▓   In time for Christmas 2011, a revived Industrial Records has just re-released all five of      ▓ªª
ªª▓   these classic albums, lovingly repackaged in deluxe gatefolded 2xCD editions. In each case,    ▓ªª
ªª▓   the original album is (wisely) preserved intact on one CD, while a second CD collects period   ▓ªª
ªª▓   singles, live performances, and a smattering of alternate mixes and unreleased material.       ▓ªª
ªª▓   Artwork is supplemented with alternate takes from photo-sessions, and it's a jarring           ▓ªª
ªª▓   experience for collector scum like myself to see and hear these goofy blooper reels and        ▓ªª
ªª▓   deleted scenes, in which the avatars of colder-than-thou aesthetics stand on one foot or       ▓ªª
ªª▓   giggle. Savvily recognizing the waning moment of the CD as such, there are vinyl editions of   ▓ªª
ªª▓   the albums too, which faithfully reprint the original artwork at full size and format. While   ▓ªª
ªª▓   so far I've only checked out the vinyl for 20 Jazz, it looks drool-worthy and sounds far       ▓ªª
ªª▓   stronger than any other pressing that this fussy midget has encountered.                       ▓ªª
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ªª▓   Given that these albums have stayed continuously in print for years through arrangements       ▓ªª
ªª▓   with Fetish Records, and later Mute, one must ask: Why bother paying attention to these        ▓ªª
ªª▓   reissues? In a triumphant vindication of sound over image, the real motivation for this re-    ▓ªª
ªª▓   presentation of a back catalog is that all five of these five albums have been remastered by   ▓ªª
ªª▓   Chris Carter himself, a labor of obsessive-compulsive love whose consequences I intend to      ▓ªª
ªª▓   unpack, album-by-album, below. On the face of it, the idea of an "audiophile TG" makes for a   ▓ªª
ªª▓   jarring proposition: The band always seemed weirdly proud of the dismal fidelity of its        ▓ªª
ªª▓   early recordings, and its stated objective was to be repellent and un-assimilable. As an       ▓ªª
ªª▓   early Coum Transmisions slogan put it, "We Guarantee Disappointment." However off-message,     ▓ªª
ªª▓   the immersive experience of these new versions redeems what might sound gratuitous, or         ▓ªª
ªª▓   merely greedy, about this gambit. It's the audio equivalent of a "director's cut" edition of   ▓ªª
ªª▓   a beloved series of seedy cult movies, something to file between your Kenneth Anger boxset     ▓ªª
ªª▓   and a Hermann Nitsch coffee-table tome.                                                        ▓ªª
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ªª▓   "Second Annual Report" recorded in their rehearsal space and at various grubby gigs onto a     ▓ªª
ªª▓   Sony cassette recorder in a defiantly lo-fi manner in 1977, Second Annual Report makes an      ▓ªª
ªª▓   oddly recalcitrant candidate for a remastering job. Music this deliberately weedy was never    ▓ªª
ªª▓   going to please audiophiles, and the wags at Industrial Records know that even today this      ▓ªª
ªª▓   record is a tough sell. For sheer sangfroid, it's hard to beat a press sheet that boasts,      ▓ªª
ªª▓   "Contains three different versions of 'Slug Bait', a song about eating a baby." Talking        ▓ªª
ªª▓   about killing people isn't necessarily interesting (hello, Foster the People), but when        ▓ªª
ªª▓   someone hears Genesis P-Orridge describe a businesslike psychopath butchering a family ("I     ▓ªª
ªª▓   cut his balls off with my knife (KNIFE); I make him eat them right there in front of his       ▓ªª
ªª▓   pregnant wife (WIFE)"), someone still blinks and twitches a little. The creeping dread "Slug   ▓ªª
ªª▓   Bait" achieves lies not in the lyrical body count but in the hiccupping repetition of          ▓ªª
ªª▓   trigger words as Gen's vocal longjumps from a casual speaking voice to a garbled shriek, and   ▓ªª
ªª▓   in the deliberate misfit between the vocal's desperation and the detuned pastoral synths       ▓ªª
ªª▓   smeared underneath.                                                                            ▓ªª
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ªª▓   It's hard to say whether this was a raising or a lowering of the bar, but the bunker           ▓ªª
ªª▓   mentality of "Industrial" subculture as a power-obsessed stance of aesthetic nihilism wedded   ▓ªª
ªª▓   to nasty, lo-fi noise was born on this record, leaving a bloody trail for Wolf Eyes,           ▓ªª
ªª▓   Brainbombs, Prurient, and others to follow into the present moment. As if that were not        ▓ªª
ªª▓   prescient enough, Second Annual Report counterbalances the bloodthirsty yang of its first      ▓ªª
ªª▓   eight songs with the yin of its long, brooding final track, the gauzy, scuttling, 20-minute    ▓ªª
ªª▓   soundtrack to the Coum Transmissions film "After Cease to Exist". Which is to say that, in     ▓ªª
ªª▓   1977, TG already forecasted the ongoing migration of noise dudes toward new age (take a bow,   ▓ªª
ªª▓   James Ferraro), a sea-change which has been recursively washing over the underground for the   ▓ªª
ªª▓   past several years.                                                                            ▓ªª
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ªª▓   In the wake of Sleazy's startling death in 2010, a kind of melancholic asymmetry has settled   ▓ªª
ªª▓   into place: the archive as mausoleum. The band can no longer re-unite and tour, though         ▓ªª
ªª▓   rumors and speculation continue to circulate about the ultimate fate of the extended           ▓ªª
ªª▓   recording sessions that the band tracked in London at the ICA for an extended deconstructive   ▓ªª
ªª▓   cover of the entirety of Nico's Desertshore album. In the wake of the decline of the CD and    ▓ªª
ªª▓   the seemingly inevitable slide downward in fidelity as the new brigade of information          ▓ªª
ªª▓   hunter-gatherers settle for the lossy, filed-shared free-for-all of torrents over the          ▓ªª
ªª▓   material culture of collectables, it's a perhaps deliberately out-of-step gesture to decide    ▓ªª
ªª▓   at precisely this point to remaster, repackage, and represent these Mosaic tablets of noise    ▓ªª
ªª▓   into upscale commodities memorializing a vanished moment of rebellion. So much for laughing    ▓ªª
ªª▓   in the face of historians, collectors, and revivalists.                                        ▓ªª
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ªª▓   Having the last laugh while seemingly anticipating this bittersweet outcome, Throbbing         ▓ªª
ªª▓   Gristle still don't add up: These albums are perversely inconclusive, by turns drably ugly     ▓ªª
ªª▓   and beautifully vital. However much Chris Carter has clarified their sound and stabilized      ▓ªª
ªª▓   their canon, the work itself remains as profoundly self-differential as ever. To cite a        ▓ªª
ªª▓   phrase the band used for its LP of the cut-ups of their icon and friend William S.             ▓ªª
ªª▓   Burroughs, there is "Nothing here now but the recordings." But those recordings have a funny   ▓ªª
ªª▓   way of coming to life. In 1981 in the NME, Paul Morley prophesized that "one day TG's music    ▓ªª
ªª▓   will sound rich and sweet." Thanks to Chris Carter's remastering and the necromancy of         ▓ªª
ªª▓   Industrial Records, that day has arrived.                                                      ▓ªª
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ªª▓   Helljoy it, buy it or D2H!                                                                     ▓ªª
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