ARTiST : Pig
ALBUM : Pigmata
LABEL : Metropolis Records
GENRE : Industrial
ENCODER : Lame 3.90 / APS
QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RELEASE : Oct-26-2005
STREET : Nov-08-2005
SOURCE : CDDA
TYPE : Album
PLAYTIME : 65:08 min
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
01. Suck Spit Shit 05:29
02. Here To Stay 03:31
03. Reject 03:52
04. Situation 03:39
05. Kundalini 05:46
06. Vitriol Vice And Virtue 05:15
07. Take 05:02
08. Arbor Vitate 04:33
09. Stage Slut 04:21
10. Junky 06:05
11. God Rod 05:28
12. On The Slaughterfront 06:46
13. Filth Healer 05:21
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In his past lives, PIG war lord Raymond Watts was known
variously as Raymond Scaballero in Foetus, an icy addition to
Psychic TV, a savage PA destroyer in Einsturzende Neubauten,
and a founding catalyst of KMFDM. Watts began his arrest
record in London where he was most likely pissed off about
something and doing sound manipulations, loops and live sound
for Psychic TV. He soon crashed into Einsturzende Neubauten
(probably in a strip bar) and escaped the smug complacency of
the English music scene by moving to Hamburg, Germany and
setting up his Building Site studio in a bunker of munitions
factory, where he invited in artists including Sprung Aus Den
Wolken, Die Haut, and Christiane F. In his pursuit of a
cutting edge music scene he sought out like-minded souls to
create terrorism instead of tonality. Playing on
European/American Neubauten tours, he quickly earned a
reputation for destroying PA systems -- the security guards
sent by the PA companies to protect the gear were not amused.
Between their security thugs and ones hired by Watts to
protect him from them, most nights ended up bloody, tense and
occasionally on fire. Burning the stage and blowing up the
PAs...you should have been there.
While collaborating with Neubauten's "gritter" twins: Blixa
Bargeld and FM Einheit, Watts lived in the red light district
next to a brothel, in amongst the sleaze of the Hamburg docks.
Watts heard about Sascha Konietzko who was doing bizarre work
with vacuum cleaners, and after drinking him into submission,
dragged him and his tall, pale cohort En Esch down the stairs
into the freezing Building Site studio, where they locked
themselves into Watts' "frozen cesspit" with 20' steel sheets
and other garbage, emerging with the KMFDM debut What Do You
Know Deutschland?
As one of the architects of the KMFDM sound, Watts went east
to plow through the entrails of the German avant garde,
planting the seed of his new experiment while KMFDM moved to
America. The mutant was born out of the blood and piss in a
basement studio opposite the Berlin Wall and became the 1988
debut PIG album A Poke In The Eye. In addition, Watts was
recruited by Foetus (Jim Thirwell) to be in his first live
band, and after a European tour which involved disappearances,
catholic school girls, and worms, Thirwell stayed on the
produce the PIG 12" "Shit for Brains." Watts said he'd buy the
next round and went to the US to record Steroid Maximus with
Thirwell, and also did sound for Crime & City Solution.
When the wall came down, Watts split his time between London
and Tokyo, looking for a new alien habitat after Berlin's
pleasure dome exploded. PIG is big in Japan. Well of course he
is. He's 6'3". PIG morphed with various collaborators and
Watts started working with Japanese musicians, turning his
attention to Shaft, which became a huge hit there. The Watts
system emerged as an elastic style of working with refuse and
collaborating with pariahs: one man's trash is another man's
treasure, darling.
Long-time PIG fan Trent Reznor came to see him around '91/'92
at a tiny club in Camden, England and introduced himself to
the unimpressed Watts who was surprised that this fellow knew
most of PIG's scattered discography. PIG was invited to open
Nine Inch Nail's European tour in '94 -- complete with real
pig heads on stage that were a load of fun after a few days'
decomposition. Later, in 1995, Reznor's Nothing label released
PIG's fourth album, Sinsation.
In the mid 1990's, Konietzko ran into Watts again and they
worked on the KMFDM vs. PIG EP, which led to Watts returning
to the fold for Nihil, the most successful KMFDM album to
date, which included the massive Watts-penned hit "Juke Joint
Jezebel." Watts also appeared on the band's Symbols album,
doing vocals on the delightfully-titled "Spit Sperm" and
"Unfit," while KMFDM's Gunter Schulz and Sascha Konietzko
appear on PIG's 1997 release Wrecked, furthering their
incestuous relationship.
Still bigger in Japan than the rest of the world, PIG released
his sixth album, Genuine American Monster, there in 1999.
Finally, in 2002, PIG found a new American home with the
Metropolis Records label, who had that year recently released
the KMFDM album ATTAK.
For 2005, Raymond Watts decided to make a change. Re-naming
his project to WATTS, he released Pigmartyr on the UK label
Grand Recordings. The label disappeared in under a year, which
left the WATTS record a hard to find commodity. Turning to
Metropolis, he took up the PIG name once again. Pigmartyr was
re-mastered by Isaac Glendening of Cesium _137 and three bonus
tracks were added along with new artwork to create Pigmata.
Slick cynical lyrics delivered with growling vocals on top of
a razor and nail mattress of driving guitars, heavy synths,
and aggressive beats to create this industrial-rock
accomplishment that no fan of KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails,
Ministry, Korn, Fear Factory, or Static-X should be without.