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The Grey Area (Mute)
The Grey Area is a Mute Records division founded in 1990 to restore and reissue the catalogue of artists who influenced Daniel Miller, head of Mute Records, and to reissue previous recordings of Mute artists. In 1983, Mute had to partner with Industrial Records for the reissue of Throbbing Gristle albums. This division was created following the partnerships signed with Can and Cabaret Voltaire. Throbbing Gristle / Industrial Records * TGCD 1 - '' CD 1'' (1988) * TGCD 2 - '' The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle'' (re-released 1991) * TGCD 3 - '' D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle'' (re-released 1991) * TGCD 4 - '' 20 Jazz Funk Greats'' (re-released 1991) * TGCD 5 - ''Heathen Earth'' (re-released 1991) * TGCD 6 - '' Mission of Dead Souls - The Last Live Performance of Throbbing Gristle`'' (re-released 1991) * TGCD 7 - '' Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits'' (re-released 1990) * TGCD 8 - ''Journey Through A Body'' (re-released 1993) * TGCD 9 - '' In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller (music producer), Daniel Miller. It has featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure (duo), Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Arca (musician), Arca, Inspiral Carpets, Moby, New Order (band), New Order, Laibach, Nitzer Ebb, Yann Tiersen, Wire (band), Wire, Yeasayer, Fever Ray, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yazoo (band), Yazoo, and M83 (band), M83. History Beginnings During 1978, Daniel Miller (music producer), Daniel Miller began recording music, using synthesisers, under the name The Normal.Mute – Documentary Evidence – Biba Kopf 1986 He recorded the tracks "T.V.O.D." and "Warm Leatherette" and distributed them through Rough Trade Shops under the label name Mute Records. The label was formed initially just to release the one single.Muted Response – Daniel Miller Interview – E&MM 1984 "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worst Of Monte Cazazza
Monte Cazazza (January 23, 1949 – June 27, 2023) was an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s. Career Cazazza, based primarily in San Francisco during his early career, is credited with coining the phrase "Industrial Music for Industrial People". This was later used to encapsulate the Industrial Records label and the artists representing it. Later, the noise collages and experimental sound manipulation coming out of Industrial Records came to be known as industrial music. Cazazza had built up an underground reputation as a particularly volatile performer with a potentially dangerous and antisocial aesthetic. Re/Search Magazine's ''Industrial Culture Handbook'' described his work as "insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events". The Futurist Sintesi show near the end of 1975 was heralded on a promo flier as "Sex - religious show; giant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rental
Robert Donnachie (1952–2000), known under the stage name of Robert Rental, was a Scottish pioneer of the post-punk DIY industrial electronic music scene in the United Kingdom. Biography Originally from Port Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music, preferring to collaborate with Thomas Leer, as well as with Daniel Miller (as The Normal). The only commercially-released solo recording from the 1970s is the 7-inch single "Paralysis" first released on the homemade ''Regular Records'', then re-released on Company Records in 1978. "Paralysis" was recorded at home on a 4 track Tascam tape recorder which he hired in collaboration with Leer. The single features the distorted sound of a Stylophone. Another distinctive sound that Rental used was that of the EDP Wasp Synthesizer, which he introduced to Chris Carter of Throbbing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Leer
Thomas Leer (born Thomas Wishart, 1953) is a Scottish musician. He has released a number of albums and singles as a solo artist, and was also one half (the other being Claudia Brücken) of the 1980s electropop band Act. Biography Born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, Leer played in several local experimental pop groups in the early to mid-1970s, moving to London when the punk rock scene was at its height.Strong. Martin C. (2003) "Thomas Leer", in ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, He formed the punk band Pressure, but by 1978 had moved on to music influenced by synthpop and Krautrock bands such as Can. That year, he self-financed his debut single, "Private Plane". Although it was recorded in his own flat and was only issued in 650 copies on his own label, it gained significant attention, with ''NME'' naming it "Single of the Week". In 1979, he released the album ''The Bridge'' in collaboration with Robert Rental. In 1981, he signed to Cherry Red, his first release for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Carter (British Musician)
Chris Carter (born 28 January 1953) is an English musician, best known for being a member of Throbbing Gristle and the duo Chris & Cosey, both with his longtime partner Cosey Fanni Tutti. Background Carter was born 28 January 1953 in Islington, North London and educated at Friern Barnet Grammar School. He began his career in the late 1960s working for various UK TV stations (Thames, Granada and LWT) as a sound engineer on numerous TV shows and documentaries. This gave him an invaluable grounding in audio techniques and theories. He also found himself getting more involved in the visual side of entertainment, which eventually progressed into designing and presenting light shows and visual effects for numerous festivals, events and gigs, including for bands as diverse as Yes and Hawkwind. This led to commissions for the BBC Television shows '' Colour Me Pop'' and ''The Old Grey Whistle Test''. By the early 1970s Carter was touring universities and colleges with a solo multimedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission Of Dead Souls
''Mission of Dead Souls'' is a recording of the final performance of Throbbing Gristle before their initial breakup. The concert took place at the Kezar Pavilion in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on the evening of May 29th, 1981. The album was originally released as part of the ''Fetish'' box set, consisting of four old albums and this album that was exclusive to the box, but when Mute Records picked up the Throbbing Gristle catalogue, this was one of the albums that was picked up, making this one of the most common Throbbing Gristle albums. An official Betamax and VHS VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s. Ma ... of this performance was recorded and released by Target Video on in the US on NTSC format in 1983. This was later issued on DVD in the ''TGV'' box set. Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live December 2004 A Souvenir Of Camber Sands
''Live December 2004 A Souvenir of Camber Sands'' is a live album by Throbbing Gristle released on the night of the performance. The performance and CD are both dedicated to John Balance Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder ..., who died in November 2004. The CD-R set was on sale minutes after Throbbing Gristle finished performing. Leftovers were available from Mute Records. The CD 1/CD 2 split differs on some of the CD-Rs. Track listing CD 1: Part One #P-A D/What a Day/Greasy Spoon/Live-Ray/Hamburger Lady/Almost Like This/The Cigar That Smoked Itself - 55:33 *All songs appear on a single track. CD 2: Part Two #poem/Splitting Sky/Convincing People/Fed Up/Wall of Sound - 36:08 *All songs appear on a single track. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Live December 2004 A Souveni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TG Now
''TG Now'' is an album by English industrial band Throbbing Gristle. It was released in 2004 through the band's own record label Industrial Records and was their first album of original material since 1982's '' Journey Through a Body''. Release The album's 12" vinyl version was limited to 500 copies and the CD version was limited to 3,000 copies. Critical reception ''PopMatters'' called the album "an appetizing return from a band that had toyed significantly with the idea of what an artistically valid record release might be." Track listing Personnel ; Throbbing Gristle * Genesis P-Orridge – uncredited performance, recording * Cosey Fanni Tutti – uncredited performance, recording * Peter Christopherson Peter Martin Christopherson (also known as Sleazy; 27 February 1955 – 25 November 2010) was an English musician, video director, commercial artist, designer and photographer, who was at one time a member of design agency Hipgnosis. He also ... – u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TG24
''TG24'' is a box set by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. Cassette set TG24 was originally released as a cassette boxed set in 1980. The set contained the first of Throbbing Gristle's 24 shows in addition to two C90 cassettes taken from a Throbbing Gristle radio interview. The set was presented in a small attache case with a personalised handmade collage and various autographed pictures. CD set The box set originally was planned to be released with 24 CDs, however orders from Mute.com included an extra CD. The set contains a total of 26 Throbbing Gristle live performances (IRCD03 has two shows on it). The follow-up boxset, '' TG+'' contains an additional 10 live performances. Box set includes the following items: certificate of authenticity, wax sealed envelope, two patches, three stickers, four pictures of Throbbing Gristle, four collage prints (1 of 2 made by each member of the band specifically for this release), three button badges and a newsletter with a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TGV (Throbbing Gristle DVD Set)
''TGV'' is a limited edition 7 DVD set of archival footage of the English industrial band Throbbing Gristle. Included in this set were some of Throbbing Gristle's live performances, as well as rehearsals and short films. The release was limited to 2,000 copies and was initially only available direct from the band's website, but later some sellers were offering it online. Contents From 1979–81 shows at: *Oundle School *Recording Heathen Earth at the Industrial Records Studios, Martello St. London *Sheffield University * Rafters Club, Manchester *The Lyceum, London *Kezar Pavilion, San Francisco From 2004–05: *A short film of the Cabinet Gallery Exhibition "TG24" by Andrew Wheatley *Rare footage of TG rehearsing at Mute Studios in February 2004. *The band's performance at the Astoria Theatre 2004 *All Tomorrow’s Parties performance at Camber Sands 2004 *Both performances from Turin, Italy 2005 Also: *Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |