The first release,a C-30 Cassette, from Coventry's Attrition(as seen on the Last Supper compilation from Adventures in Reality).
An exercise in electronic industrial minimalism, with a couple of synth's and a wellused echo machine. There's even an industrial disco track,'Shrinkwrap', which was a popular direction for many formerly industrial groups; and generally one to be avoided. If you close your eyes you can just imagine a sparse gathering of Goths dancing jerkily to this on a dark dancefloor in some awful club called the spiderweb ,or something just as naff, back in '83.
But the rest of the tape is most acceptable,if a tad over reliant on echo's for weirdness.
Many thanks goes to Alan Rider of Adventures in Reality for this tape.
Track Listing:
A1 Vigil
A2 Onslaught
A3 Shrinkwrap
B1 Tones In Black
B2 First Onslaught
DOWNLOAD Onslaught HERE!
A2 Onslaught
A3 Shrinkwrap
B1 Tones In Black
B2 First Onslaught
DOWNLOAD Onslaught HERE!
Hello mate, tried to download this but when I unzip it it's 'dead house' not 'onslaught'.
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Bizarre,I didn't think I had Dead House?
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I d/l'ed this hoping it'd sound like "Dream Sleep" from ELEPHANT TABLE, as that is the only Attrition I can recall hearing. I was surprised to hear how different this is. Was "Dream Sleep" a one-off for Attrition or are there other recordings more in line with it rather than with ONSLAUGHT?
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