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Vinyl too? Excellent, that's another one to add to the list...

-- Ian

n.p. Throbbing Gristle, Assume Power Focus
 
Yep, I was deeply into what I suppose has to be called industrial music in the early 80s. Nowadays I don't listen to much of it, apart from TG and Nurse With Wound. TG are definitely one of my favourite groups ever. I sort of lost touch with PTV after Force The Hand of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet, kept hearing them in the background, saw them live a couple of times, but never really kept up with the records. I keep meaning to explore some of their later stuff.

-- Ian
 
Hi Ian,
Never really listened to TG I'm afraid, though I may buy some on your recommendation. I got the 'Englands Hidden Reverse' book btw thanks for recommending it.
The PT live series are a set of 30 official bootlegs. They are a limited edition of 1000 copies. Only the first 6 are out at the moment. I got Berlin (volume 1) in HMV it's from 1989. In the sleevenote G.P-O describes it as Hard Acid Rock Dance music which is probably a fair description.

Andrew
 
I think I've seen some of those PTV live albums, will pick a couple up.

The best place to start with TG is probably 20 Jazz Funk Greats (not jazz funk at all, of course), and the live Heathen Earth. 2nd Annual Report (their first album) and D.O.A. are also well worth having. The best live stuff is all collected on 2 box sets on Mute: TG24 (24 concerts, 24 hours) and TG+ (10 concerts, 10 hours), but that's a very expensive way in. Assume Power Focus (a semi-official bootleg from 1982 that did get a CD release a few years ago) is fantastic if you can find it, as is Thee Psychick Sacrifice, a live double album released by Illuminated that I don't think has ever been reissued on CD outside the TG24 box.

Mute are about to release an album of hip young remixes called Mutant TG, which will either be a travesty or not, who knows:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...4441/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/202-0303483-7949419

-- Ian
 
Forgot to mention, there's a very good book about the history of G.P.O/Coum Transmissions/TG, called Wreckers of Civilisation, by Simon Ford. Lots of interesting stuff, and unlike most of these things, well written.

-- Ian
 
Being distracted from studying by sorting out some mp3s.

Currently have Boards of Canada "Twoism" playing.
 
Hmm... Nils.....

I used to have a tape of a great Radio 1 concert he did but most of the studio stuff I've heard seemed to lack a bit of life but the materials good ;)
 
Natural Blues

An album that was released about the same time as MOby's "Play". Has a lot of the tracks he sampled in their original form. 26 tracks of blues how it should be :)

1. Sometimes - Bessie Jones
2. Joe's Lee Rock - Boy Blue, Wille Jones
3. Boll Weevil Holler - Vera Hall
4. Shae 'Em Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell
5. Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson
6. First Time I Met The Blues - Buddy Guy
7. Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
8. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
9. Searchin' For A Woman - Albert King
10. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fusion
11. Death Have Mercy - Vera Hall
12. You Got To Love Me - Billy boy Arnold
13. Go To Sleep Little Baby - Bessie Jones
14. Boogie Children - Boy Blue
15. Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
16. My Babe - Little Walter
17. I'm In The Mood - John Lee Hooker
18. Trouble So Hard - Vera Hall
19. Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
20. High Heeled Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
21. Walkin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
22. I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
23. Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
24. Slow Down - Louis Jordan
25. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
26. The Thrill Is Gone - BB King

amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...62935/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_9_1/202-2691773-1707814

As it says on one of the reviews, it's a shame the original of "Run on" isn't featured.
 
Originally posted by badchamp
Hmm... Nils.....

I used to have a tape of a great Radio 1 concert he did but most of the studio stuff I've heard seemed to lack a bit of life but the materials good ;)
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The acoustic live cd is exactly that, a live recording at a gig, not studio. Anyway, his speed and accuracy on the guitar is quite an eye opener to my mind, its also one of the best quality live recordings I've heard for a while, apart from "Clapton, live at the Albert hall", which I recomend also.
 
Lenine - Falange Cannibal
Nilda Fernandez - Innu Nikamu
Ju'hoansi Bushmen - Instrumental Music (special request by the cats :D )
 
La Poeme Harmonique - Nova Metamorfosi, sacred music from 17th century Milan mainly pices by Ruffini and Monteverdi. One of the most beautiful albums I own. And one of the most beautifully recorded.
 

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