NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS : Viral Shedding

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Format: LP [MNQ132]
Shipping Weight: 0.49lbs
Label: Mannequin Records

3,238円

'RSD 2019 release. Mannequin Records start a series of re-presses dedicated to the legendary Nocturnal Emissions, one of the best kept secrets of the industrial genre since the 1970s. Led by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K, the band was one of the first to use tape cutting, avant-garde art, and underground video works to create a stage experience that was being cultivated by like-minded artists like Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire. Originally released on Illuminated Records in 1983, Viral Shedding is surely one of the most important references for the industrial/funk dance music. Between pure noise and electronic beats, Viral Shedding is creating a twisted and percussive rhythmic urge, a funky disco sound permeated by digital industrial beats. Nigel Ayers and Caroline K take their inaccessible best and thrown it into the melting pot with a set of pumping rhythms. The result is the frustrated son of mutant disco, swimming in the same waters of Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Hula. As Nigel Ayers recalls, "Popular music picked up on what we were doing 1983-1984, which helps explain why records such as Viral Shedding sound clubbier today than they did at the time, but the technology of music making locked in a seat of aesthetics in those days that shaped pop as a whole more than industrial music itself did. Whether by synthesizer manufacturers' musical design or through engineering limitations, the more automated a band allowed their music to become, the dancer it was likely to be." Features the classics "Suffering Stinks", "Going Under", and "No Separation".'

Tracklist
A1 Delgado Monkey Torture
A2 Too Many Wounded
A3 Body Count
A4 Wee Wee Wee
A5 Suffering Stinks
A6 No Separation
B1 No Magic
B2 Going Under
B3 Suffering Still Stinks
B4 Haldol Shuffle
B5 Theme Music
B6 Bloodbath

Credits
Mastered By ? Graeme
Producer ? Nocturnal Emissions

Notes
Recorded at Emission Control, London, except for B6 which was recorded live at Rhinterrassen, Bonn, 22nd, July 1983. Record store day 2019 reissue.