Ultra scarce compilation tape released by Geoff Rushton whilst producing his fanzine 'Stabmental' in 1981.
Produced by Chris Watson in May/June 1981, it includes two rare tracks from the long forgotten enigma that was Rema Rema.A droning bass driven dirge call "Why Ask Why", and 8 minutes of stacatto Bass twanging with Kenny Morris drumming that is called simply,"Christopher". Rema Rema were famed for the excellent "Wheel In The Roses" ep on 4AD, and more so for containing the infamous,or rather the Not famous,'Dorothy' in its ranks; the co-creator of the sublime 
Dorothy single on Industrial Records. Also contained within this group was one Marco Pironi,late of the Banshees and the Models, and later to find fame in Adam and the Ants.(Also credited with some stupid statement about how he lost interest in 'punk rock' when his little clique was infiltrated by 'us', and ruined it for him......ahhhh diddums; and heres me thinking it was elitism that ruined punk rock'....well, that and all the main bands selling out to the 'man!!)
There are two impossibly rare solo tracks from Cabaret Voltaire's Chris Watson and Richard H. Kirk. Watson's 'News Cut up 2/5/81 is an almost danceable industrial disco number, with relentless 808 deprogramming,and bubbling electronics, which point towards "2x45" era Cabs.
Whereas Richard H. Kirk's "Powermad" looks back to the proto-cabs sound of "Disposable Half-Truths", swapping clarinet for alto sax,improv-ing over a fuzzy rythm-scape.
Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter makes a rare solo appearance as well, with a rather creepy number called "climbing",complete with 'gristlised' electronics, merged with Diamanda Galas style screeching,and disembodied drum fondling.
Eyeless In Gaza go 'Industrial' with their track "Pale Saints",which sounds not unlike a combination of the Chris Carter and Richard H. Kirk numbers.
Culturcide, the crazily monikered M A Peacock and A House, all tread the same turf, with plenty of found sound cut up techniques a-plenty.
In all, a highly consistent compilation, full of lovely early industrial electronic experimentation.
If ever there was a K-Tel compilation of Industrial Music, it would have sounded like this. Mmmmmmm......nice.
Track Listing:
A1 Christopher R Watson – News Cut-Up 2/5/81 3:02
A2 Rema Rema – Why Ask Why? 8:25
A3 Eyeless In Gaza – Pale Saints 5:37
A4 Culturcide – Land Of Birds 4:32
B1 Chris Carter – Climbing 5:44
B2 Rema Rema – Christopher 4:28
B3 A House – Words From A Radio 4:46
B4 Richard H Kirk – Powermad 4:29
B5 M A Peacock – Voices 2:56
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9 comments:
HEHEH hope Marco's ears are burning..or even better he reads it for himself! Great post - thanks alot ;))
Most of the 'punk clique' who expressed these, 'they ruined my club',opinions were either at some point in the Banshees ,or in the god awful Bromley Fucking Contingent. Some of us had other things than middle class boredom to fight against. Many thanks Pink Press for your continued support.
Nick
No mention of Rema Rema containing the roots of Mass, Wolfgang Press and Renegade Soundwave as well?
Because I knew you would mention it naturally. Mass in particular we a very agreeable combo.Thanks for pulling me up. I am humbled sir!
What's the date of the Rema Rema recording with kenny Morris on it? And wasn't John McKay's girlfriend, Linda Clarke, the manager of Rema Rema?
...Hey, Nick, thanks for the post. this is fantastic, esp. the Rema Rema tracks.
However, trying to find more info on this comp, i found that the discogs page for it lists different time indexes for each track, implying that the tracks you have listed here are actually different. For instance, the opening track, Chris Watson's "News Cut-Up 2/5/81" is listed as 3:02, suggesting that it is actually the track you have listed as "Words From a Radio." Equally, Rema Rema's 8min+ track is "Why Ask Why?", not "Christopher."
I certainly don't take discogs as gospel. However, I am curious where you got the track listing you have, and if there is a chance discogs is right.
thanks.
seth.
...Hi. A follow-up to my previous comment. I used the discogs page to re-order and re-name the tracks on the album. I'll be honest; it makes much more sense the discogs way. This means that Watson's "cut-up of the news" is actually that, "land of birds" has bird sounds, and "Words from a Radio" and "Voices" are both clearly their titles.
I can give you the new order, if you're interested.
Seth. (smulliken@hotmail.com).
please re-up!
I'll re-up it sometime this week.Its just that the files have been spread all over my hard drive 'cus i failed to tick the compilation box.What a drag!
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