Like Charlie’,I suppose a Nihilist
surfin’ group ‘don’t surf’; and why should they? Its a crap pastime for
boys with no life skills who want to score some shallow chicks. Whereas,
a sure fire way to score with NO chicks at all is to be in an
industrial noise combo. Here you need life skills, like intelligence,
charm, and a skill for earning a meagre living, because you ain’t gonna
earn any dollar from making ‘music’ like this.
No-one
who works in an electricity generating power station wants to come home
and listen to it again on dolby-free cassette tape. Just like no-one
who works in any industrial environment actually makes industrial music.
Its created by pale, work shy ,college graduate dreamers, who were too
lazy to be bothered to learn an instrument, but fantasised about being
in a ‘band’.
There is nothing
wrong with this, in fact its a recommended short cut to achieving
something ‘different’ in the world of art; but as in so-called ‘art’
,you do need a grounding in the history of the subject to avoid
repeating past feats. This is where the Nihilist Surfin’ Group let
themselves down; because the electronically generated throbbing
machinations of the pieces here, merely reflect the earlier Industrial
Power electronics previously unleashed by the Come Organisation, again, 7
years earlier in the wonderful sceptred isles of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. But, this has that slightly softer American approach,
which I find quite charming, and I have to say, preferable. It doesn’t
try to be , or glorify , so-called ‘evil’; which can only have a
subjective definition, and perpetuates this mythical force as a means of
control. If you believe in evil, you believe in ‘God’, which
immediately removes a person from the category labelled as
‘Intelligent’. If you want Evil, read about the Christian God’s
behaviour in that favourite of medieval English literature, ‘The Bible’.
For
me, this stuff is less about the music, or non music, than it is about
the object of a tape containing an aural recreation of the modern world,
packaged in an attractive rectangular package, with a crudely printed
information card inside(including ,in this case,a classic androerotic
drawing by Tom of Finland!).
Basically its an art object, not really meant to be actually listened
to all the way through; even though I will admit to doing so, and
thoroughly enjoying it!
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BOTS CD sent Monday last week, got it yet?
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