Description
Rare 1991 Industrial, Drone, Experimental noise compilation album in cloth bag with insert
Debt of Nature was an ensemble lead by Brad Laner of Steaming Coils. This piece is actually a collage of studio and live recordings from a 90 minute tape of unreleased tracks Brad had. Debt of Nature had existed many years played a large number of shows and recorded a fair amount of material, though never had appeared on record except for a few random compilation appearances. There were a few cassette releases with very limited distribution, though mostly it seemed material just circulated among friends.
Genocide Organ’s track Search A Place To Die have a nice creepy sound and the band also had some special visual ideas for the booklet. A hand painted rectangle that had to be glued into each booklets, some rectangles also featured a razor or needles.
Blackhumour was the time living in Vancouver, B.C. (since relocated to Seattle) and known for his pieces made entirely with human vocal sounds, up till that point only available on cassettes. The track added here is very different from what he have done before (largely looped and layer fragments) being a collage of many sources. Blackhumour was also an avid writer, and went on to start publishing a quarterly pamphlet with the same name as the track here.
Asmus Tietchens is a rather well known German composer with a large discography ranging from Residents-like instrumental synthesizer music to industrial soundscape and many points in between. His works are now documented very well in a book published by Auf Abwegen. His track here processes the voice of Iris Pompesius, whose picture is also featured on his page of the booklet.
Crash Worship evolved into the chaotic and aggressive act that quickly becoming one of the best live acts around. Their record never really seemed to truly represent their live sound, especially as they often thought of the studio as a different situation which called for different results. Still they produced some very nice recordings. This piece was named after a terrorist group, and later was included on their “Asesinos” CD on Cold Spring Records (England).
Premature Ejaculation is hear with a short and less industrial sounding piece then much of the other stuff they have done. The audio was done entirely by Chuck, while the collage in the booklet was done by Rozz.
Cranioclast is a mysterious German act that are featured here with one of the best tracks on the album, and they were the only group to have two pages of the booklet.
Arcane Device had released some singles at the time and would go on to do many other releases after this but only for a short time as he then just decided to complete stop. One less known aspect of his creative output was drawing, which is represented nicely in the booklet. It’s this track that helped impress upon me how well this record was cut.
Hirsch Quadrat was a short lived project of Christoph and Andreas Heemann from H.N.A.S. The track here is one of only two tracks by this project to surface, the other being a companion piece to this one release on a split single with D.D.A.A. on the Belgian Electrip label. A short fragment of raw material by Hirsch Quadrat was also used on the Schimpfluch LP “Stuhlgangblockade N!”.
The Haters are the great masters destroyed noise and come from nowhere in particular. In addition to the track, G.X. wrote the essay “Explained” by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, which is in the booklet.
Mimir was a collaborative project by the members of Hirsch Quadrat and Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman of The Legendary Pink Dots. From the title, this would seem to be an outtake from their debut album on Flabbergast, although “December…Whatever” was later included on the CD version of “Mimyriad”.
Plecid was David Woodard from Santa Barbara. He had made some impressive cassette releases and performances blending together the sound of early Cure and Durutti Column with altogether sinister and subliminal undertones of his literary influences William S. Burroughs and “Maldoror”.
Track list:
1. Debt Of Nature -30 Fathoms Under Hamper
2. Genocide Organ -Search A Place To Die
3. Blackhumour -Tab to Black Bicuspid
4. Asmus Tietchens -Mehr Luft
5. Crash Worship -Sendero Luminoso
6. Premature Ejaculation -Superficial Pulse
7. Cranioclast -Through The Tunnel Of Perception
8. Arcane Device -Feedback Variations No. 143
9. Hirsch Quadrat -Die Zwei Arten Der Fettsucht (1. Art)
10. The Haters -Udemo
11. Mimir -December…Whatever
12. Plecid -Living Loving Man