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Here’s another early compilation tape on Datenverarbeitung (DATA 0015) from 1982. The tape is split up in two sections side A being Sinn and is the industrial side of the tape, and Side B being Form the experimental side. Esplendor Geométrico : We would have to go back to 1978 to find the origins of one of the most innovative and risky proposals of the Spanish electronic – industrial scene, and one of the few with international repercussion. In those days, a History student (Arturo Lanz), a prison officer (Gabriel Riaza) and a graphic designer (Juan Carlos Sastre) were forming part of a weird band called El Aviador Dro y sus Obreros Especializados whose, with a look near to Devo, a corporative – futuristic – revolutionary ideology and a music influenced by Kraftwerk, Pere Ubu,The Residents, the synth-pop of the moment and some industrial drops, would become one of the milestones of the Spanish movida madrileña in the early 80′s, and the first Spanish tecno-pop band, founding one of the first indie labels. But before they would become famous in the country, Lanz, Riaza and Sastre left the band in 1980 after releasing two 7”, due to the serious internal discrepancies with the rest of the collective, and quickly organized their own band, which they baptized with a name taken from a futuristic poem: Esplendor Geométrico. Nocturnal Emissions : Influential and uncompromising, Nigel Ayers chooses to remain underground even as his ideas are continuously appropriated by ambitious pop culture surface dwellers. Since founding the UK art music ensemble Nocturnal Emissions in 1980, Nigel has established an incredible discography of music that is as diverse as Nocturnal Emissions is durable. M.B. : Born : December 04, 1955 // Pomponesco, Mantua, Italy. Maurizio Bianchi from Milano, Italy, started working in 1979 using pre-recorded filtered sounds and in 1980 bought his own electronic equipment to “produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence”. P16.D4 : Was a German band whose music bordered on the industrial and on the cacophonous. On their debut album “Kühe In 1/2 Trauer” (Selektion, 1982) they managed to fuse the playful irrationality of dadaism and the oppressive tones of expressionism. Roger Schönauer and Ewald Weber focused on an austere art and technique of loop and tape manipulation. Stefan E. Schmidt joined the ensemble on Distruct (Selektion,1995), a deconstructing remix of sound sources provided by friends of the industrial scene. The double album Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie (1985) delved into musique concrete and electronic improvisation but, like the previous ones, ended up sounding more theoretical than emotional stuff. Tionchor (Sonoris, 1987) collects revised rarities, and is probably their most successful albums, precisely because it offers a variety of ideas instead of an obsessive analysis of one idea. Acrid Acme (Selektion, 1989). Kopf/Kurz : Anyone any info ? Ptôse Production : Is Ptôse aka the French Residents. Pseudo Code : Belgian industrial-band, active at least from 1979 – 1996. Their mastermind Alain Neffe is also founder of Insane Music (Trazegnies, Belgium), one of the first great underground tape labels in Europe. Guy-Marc Hinan is one of the two guy who made the label “Sub Rosa”. Xavier S have a radio show on the Belgian national radio. The group had been temporarily shelved while Alain Neffe concentrated on his main project Bene Gesserit. “We play potlatch music which is emotional music, or more accurately emotional sounds, because we are not musicians.” Metadrive : Anyone any info ? Human Flesh : Another project of Alain Neffe with Nadine Bal, similar to Pseudo Code. Creative Technology Institute : In short CTI, side project of Chris & Cosey.

Tracks:

1. Esplendor Geométrico – Sin Titulo
2. Esplendor Geométrico – Fungus Cerebri
3. Nocturnal Emissions – Recorded Live At The Whiskey A Gogo
4. M.B.- Extract From Muunh
5. P16.D4 – Neue Muster
6. Kopf/Kurz – B.R.’s Experiment
7. Ptôse Production – Ecraser La Vermine
8. Pseudo Code – Wondering Why (Pseudo Product 14)
9. Metadrive – Sverige
10. Human Flesh – Harmonie (4th Human Attempt)
11. Creative Technology Institute – City Of Spirits

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