Various Artists – "Eat The Rich : A Benefit Tape For War On Want" (Anal Probe – 003) 1984

There's a certain Nazi's care about the impoverished kinda of vibe going down here. I'm certain there was little or no funds raised from this lo-fi mish mash of dark bedsit land dwelling noise-niks. Its like those geezers who prowl the streets on 'Children In Need' Day with a Bucket collecting donations,then pop down the pub to spend the 'winnings'; but i have strong reservations whether this so-called benefit 'War tape for 'War on Want'raised enough for half a lager,never mind helping Kids with Cancer. Its probably a not so clever attempt to make the Industrial artists on here look more acceptable to decent society. Just what War On Want need is a Charity record on 'Anal Probe' records...especially on Children In Need Night? What is acceptable to these ears,is the cotton wool in the ears muffled sound quality so beloved in the offices of 'Die or DIY?'.The ferric Oxide coated playback heads of your cassette player will love you for it. Especially enhancing the terrible UK82 contributions from Society's Victims, making it even crapper than it was in 1984. There's a few pretty ordinary but dull and dampened industrial droning soundscapes that please the ear,even with the ear plugs out, and the traditional appearance of BBC sound Effects volume 2,"Marching Soldiers(120bpm)"...yes the exact same one that was used on "Holidays In The Sun".Only outscored by " Breaking Glass",also on volume 2. A favourite for DIY Industrial acts everywhere. UnKommuniti had some chap from geek miesters Stereo Lab as a member,if you're interested, which you're probably not.Just filling up the space with meaningless factoids. Mass In Black sounded quite good anyway. Finishing on a comforting note: We will get our chance to Eat The Rich soon enough,when they are dragged out of their Bunkers by their own security staff,and turned over, Alive, to the baying mob. ENJOY!

Tracklist:

A1 Un-Kommuniti – Yog Introduction
A2 Geschlekt Akt– The Slave
A3 Brides Of Christ II – The Tongues Of Boys And Girls
A4 Societys Victims – Reject Religion
A5 Opera For Infantry– Self Discipline
A6 Cause For Concern– Psyckick Pillocks
A7 Dark Party – Night Nurse
A8 Mass Of Black– Invision
A9 Berlinerluft– Point 1
B1 Societys Victims– Army
B2 Dark Party – The Edge
B3 Kteis Sekret– Fleischhaken
B4 A-Void– Necropolis
B5 Opera For Infantry– Laughter For Drowned Men
B6 Mass Of Black– Overseer
B7 Un-Kommuniti– On The Washington Monument
B8 Pacific 231 – Useless Weapon (Extract)
B9 A-Void– God Is Dead

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Various Artists - "Cultural Terror Volume 1 and 2 (" a Zeal SS Sampler) (Zeal SS – .77) 1986

Well, i've never been more insulted in my life!?...these chaps seem to think Nazi's are great blokes, shocking. I've a good mind to phone the bizzies * (*a collective scouse noun for the police in Liverpool". The one man Power Electronics band, Con-Dom, used to grope female members of the ,admittedly very small, audience....until attitudes on such behaviour changed in recent years. His act would now result in serious jail time for sexual assault,all in the name of Shock Value......but that's Rock'n'Roll innit?

Most of the acts on this patience testing double C-60, spend most of their time being Whitehouse for five minutes or so,with seemingly very little interest in doing otherwise; ironic as William Bennett (the bloke in Whitehouse) himself has very little time for a few of the acts/bands featured on this exceedingly nasty compilation.

What my mother must have thought when she brought a cup of Tea up to my bedroom in the early 80's I'll never know. She seemed oblivious to the 'orrible racket emanating from these tapes,and other similar recordings of the time.Not as shocking as one may think.Similarly, my father seemed equally disinterested in the scraping and rumbling upstairs,even when one of Hitlers speeches blasted out of the noise and echoed down the street. No-one else seemed to give a Fuck either.....and y'know what I think they were right.

In the desperate struggle to achieve shock value ,the creators of this non-musicianly cacophony forgot one thing,'avoid being boring'.

I'm desensitized to noise in general,so for me,a subtle splash of melody here and there could only add to the Horror,like in a John Carpenter film......admittedly there are a couple of tracks which do have these qualities on here,but another thirty or so that certainly do not.

Don't let this put you off if you haven't yet been numbed to shock values.....exposure to such oscilloscope breaking phenomena is essential if you want to advance oneself in the subtler arts of music,and put the Roland space-echo and Hitlers' Speeches LP out to pasture.

Yeah,that's Right, I Like this tape.....a-lot.

I just wanna hear something I haven't heard before.
 

Tracklist:

Volume 1:

A1 ESP Kinetic– The Message Is No Message 4:21
A2 Stasis– Blurrb 2:14
A3 Der Verboten and Tabu – Untitled 3:01
A4 Ashenden– Corrosion 2:00
A5 -– A Return To Hohta 2:08
A6 Con-Dom– The Coming Of Christ 2:44
A7 Human Trapped Rhythms– And To Z With Human Trapped Rhythms 4:42
A8 Pax Romana– Songs Of The Distorted Mind 2:51
A9 The Grey Wolves– No New Jerusalem 3:48
A10 The Unkommunity– Sense Of Unmaking 3:54
B1 Irritant– The Disaster Area 4:00
B2 Ashenden– Catamite 2:45
B3 Con-Dom– Live Assault 1 & 4 3:15
B4 The Unkommunity– Dhol Chants 3:28
B5 La Otra Cara De Un Jardin– Brikolage 1:59
B6 White Hand– 2nd Edition 3:03
B7 Do Easy– Death In A Milan Square 3:30
B8 Ramleh And Irritant– Tomorrow We Live 9:57Volume 2:

 

Ramleh And Irritant– Tomorrow We Live 9:57
C1 C,llaaps– Plenty Of Pricks 3:53
C2 Comando Bruno– Clise Hermetico 2:10
C3 Bomb The Daynursery– William Bennett... 5:04
C4 Face In The Crowd - New 7th Music– Glider 2:25
C5 Adventures Of Twizzle– Krafty Whank 2:34
C6 Con-Dom– Calling All Aryans 2:04
C7 No Lie G.I.– Sin Loi Victor Charlie 3:40
C8 Aspisis– The Glory Of Punishment 1:10
C9 Apostles and Mesh – Visions Of The End 2:45
C10 The Unkommunity– Ex-Oblivione 2:14
C11 The Grey Wolves And Con-Dom– Intolerable 1:28
D1 Nails Ov Christ– Beat Of The Blood 4:42
D2 Con-Dom– Our Pleasure In The Pain 2:30
D3 Final– Inheritance 4:15
D4 Opera For Infantry– 20th Century Genocide 4:31
D5 Blacksirt Orch – Ode To The Young Men 4:03
D6 Kapotte Muziek– Gematria 1:01
D7 Nails Ov Christ– Dark Night Of The Soul 2:50
D8 Final– Execution Of The Will 6:22
D9 The Alternative – How Dare You 1:52

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Various Artists ‎– "Trial By Ordeal" (Broken Flag ‎– BF 31) 1983

Trial by Ordeal was the preferred method of finding out if that old hag from the shitty end of the village really was a witch. If she survived being held underwater for an inordinate length of time she was obviously a Witch and would therefore have to be burnt at the Stake...which apparently witches could not survive.
This tape is something similar, and if you survive sixty minutes of MORE Industrial sameness then you should probably self-immolate yourself before the Witchfinder general,or the Police, ring your novelty doorbell.
That said, probably the best way to listen to Industrial Noise is in the form of a compilation.Even in the Industrial corner that many acts have painted themselves into, there are subtly different shades of conformity available.Luckily we have Giancarlos Toniutti to provide some pretentious avant garde noise in between the balls to the wall stuff from fellow I-tie  Mauthausen Orchestra and Whitehouse copyists Ramleh. The other Italian act on the list LXSS (or Laxative Souls), also provide some welcome respite with some gentle echo laden Industrial Percussion. 
So, all-in-all, as Industrial comps go,this is a less dull one. 

Tracklist:

A1 –Giancarlo Toniutti - Some Fibres 5:55
A2 –Ramleh - Emaciator [1982] 3:58
A3 –This Body I Mutilate - Carnal Direction 1:10
A4 –Depilate - Corps Assault 3:06
A5 –Mauthausen Orchestra - Bloodyminded 5:58
A6 –Thee Un-Kommuniti - Live 30-11-83 8:13
B1 –Assailer - Annihilation 8:57
B2 –Giancarlo Toniutti - Neocortex 3:39
B3 –LXSS - U.I.K. [Pt.1] 5:31
B4 –The New Blockaders - Live 12-10-1983 2:16
B5 –Thee Un-Kommuniti - Spurt White/Cut Black 4:58

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Unkommuniti ‎– "Ex-Oblivione" (Black Dwarf W‎rekordings – BDC 017) 1983.

Harsh noise industrial outfit that included a future member of Stereolab, Tim Gane. Not a bad racket this is too, and not a hint of Esquivel and Elevator jazz influences to be seen(although I think that would have made it even better). What an eclectic career this young man pursued eh? This is one of the self-financed C-60's released on their own Black Dwarf imprint, along with fellow Unkommuniti members The Kallous Boys. In fact it's surprisingly not too generic for an industrial recording,has some interestingly sinister moments, and some nasty noise. What more would a depressed loner require? Anyone who encourages the listener to attack McDonalds with a sledgehammer is a star in my world, and should be in yours!  

Track Listing:

A1 N.A.G. 2:06
A2 Black Goat 2:39
A3 The Hand Behind 3:18
A4 Rats Above Scientists 2:10
A5 Out And Out 2:16
A6 Turn The Inner Eye 4:32
A7 Attack MacDonalds With A Sledgehammer Please 1:26
A8 Odour Of Sanctity 2:39
A9 Wormline 2:34
A10 Truthtrance 5:08

B1 Black Suggestion 3:20
B2 Eidolon 2:59
B3 No Longer An Inch 3:01
B4 Condition-Ut-Extremis 3:06
B5 New Awareness 2:36
B6 Ex-Nihilo Nihil Fit 5:05
B7 Ex-Oblivione 1:24

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Unkommuniti ‎–"Brutality Of Fact" (Black Dwarf Wreckordings bdbg1) 1984

Unkommuniti released a 'proper' record too, on 7inch black vinyl. Just as they were late coming to the Industrial Noise party, they managed to release an Industrial Percussion single at about the time everyone got sick of metal banging. But with the advantage of a 30 year distance between us and the industrial fashionista's of 1984, we can judge this record objectively. The title track, includes said Urban percussion, along with a sea of fuzz accompanying wobbly classical records; producing a rather attractive melange. The B-sides are a more subtle, percussion-less, dark ambient version of this over populated genre. Much more in the Konstruktivits strain of things. Nicely doomy.

Track Listing: 

A Brutality Of Fact
B1 Wall Of Sleep [Soundtrack]
B2 The Price Of Your Entry Is Sin

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Various Artists ‎– "Faith Will Never Die..." ( Black Dwarf ‎Wreckordings – bdc5) 1983

A Black Dwarf wreckordings compilation tape from the golden year for Industrial music,and its Zenith, 1983.Just before it got reeeeeeeeeeally boring and repetitive. Here we have a veritable rainbow of the Industrial Clichés; from nasty Noise, to some minimal synth and drum box work outs.(has anyone made an Industrial fitness work-out DVD yet? Maybe that lovely little old lady Genesis P.orridge cold knock one out for us?) There could be various Unkommuniti members lurking here under different pseudonyms I wager. An old DIY trick to make your label look more popular. I assume that Kallous Kinema is actually The Kallous Boys.....but I could be wrong.

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