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Throbbing Gristle

The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide To The Music Of Throbbing Gristle

Mute

Between 1975 and 1981 they troubled eardrums, shattered preconceptions and changed lives, and the repercussions of their sonic, ideological and industrial experiments are still being felt today. These repercussions were most recently highlighted by some of today's electronic peers paying homage to TG's pioneering experiments. "Mutant TG" was the first ever TG remix collection whereby contemporary producers such as Carl Craig, Two Lone Swordsmen and Simon Ratcliffe (Basement Jaxx) provide stunning reworks of classic TG. Now with "The Taste Of TG" you can sample their unadulterated majesty, a beginner's guide to the enigmatic and elusive Throbbing Gristle.

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Industrial Introduction
Distant Dreams - Part Two
Persuasion U.S.A.
Something Came Over Me
Dead On Arrival
Hot On The Heels Of Love
We Hate You (Little Girls)
United
Cabaret Voltaire (Live At Industrial Training College Wakefield 1st July 1978)
Exotic Functions
Zyklon B Zombie
Walkabout
Hamburger Lady
Almost A Kiss
His Arm Was Her Leg (Live At The Factory Manchester 18th May 1979 - Edit)

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Various Artists

The Laboratory Project - Taste Masters Vol 5

The Laboratory Project

Whilst the key institutions of the British music industry may be based largely in London it doesn't mean that the capital city has the monopoly when it comes to British music talent. The North West of England has an immense musical legacy, and having just spent the last few months putting this compilation together, it is absolutely clear that it has a great future ahead."

Taste Masters 5 features 19 tracks from 19 different bands, artists and ensembles based in Manchester and the surrounding areas. It offers an eclectic mix of music across a broad spectrum of genres and styles, from indie rock to ambient electronica and many things in between. Hence this album a good place to discover things that are happening in the North West Music scene right now, and maybe even encounter some of its future stars for the first time.

The album features talented new faces, contemporary artists on the rise, and some of the region’s time served, respected practitioners, bringing together old guard with the new.

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1. Levelz Rowdy Badd
2. Rum Thief Dirty Shoes
3. Fret Sector Aziiz
4. Dust Junkys Another Day
5. Death To The Strange Witches
6. Noir Noir Black Hats
7. Stillia Let You Know
8. Free Wize Men Live A Little
9. Massonix Harpopolis
10. Lynch So Low
11. Combination Head Consumer Fool
12. Elizabeth Vince Wake
13. No Hot Ashes Easy Peeler
14. Salford Jets Looking At The Squares
15. Paul (PASH) Hutchinson Taxi
16. MC Tunes Style Is Poetry
17. Re:tract You Leave It Behind
18. Five Days North Past Times
19. Liam Blake New Love, New World

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The Time And Space Machine

Taste The Lazer

Tirk

Following his dazzling single ‘Pill Party In India’, The Time And Space Machine rides straight out the gate to deliver his second studio album for Tirk, titled ‘Taste The Lazer’. For those new to the fray, The Time And Space Machine is the solo output of Richard Norris, founding member of 90s cult dance outfit The Grid, and one part of DJ / production duo Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve with Erol Alkan.

The album kicks off with ‘Hiding In The Light’, an incandescent organ-fuelled intro littered with splashes and live drums that drive forthright into ‘Black Rainbow’, a track of equal vivacity, but with loads more vigour and breathy vocal lines above another tasteful organ riff. Up next is the single ‘Pill Party In India’, a twanging, bubbling excursion into the realms of exotica that's simply sublime. ‘Studio 23’ follows, with a stomping bass heavy groove and smoldering string moods underneath clack-clack percussion. ‘Outta My Head’ starts off clean before diving deep into smoky vocal passages, crunching rhythm guitar effects, dirty basslines and trippy polyrhythmic hi-hats.

Stepping off the gas for ‘Threshold’, Norris allows for a bit of Eastern-kissed downtime with his selection of worldly stringed instruments taking turns to solo around contemplative pad washes. Up next, ‘Explosions In The Sky’ and its joyous vocal hook add a playful touch to some of the devilishly melancholic moods on the album. ‘Magic Mountain’ irons out the creases further for a pleasant air-filled journey in to the seemingly chilled (for now) mind of The Time And Space Machine. Before the final curtain, we're dealt ‘Flow River Flow’, a spaced out vocal powerhouse with swathes of tremolo guitar and a funked up lounge bassline that’s just right. To finish the album we're met with a glorious awakening in the form of ‘Good Morning’. Its sunny tones and easy-going swing are lovely touches at the end of a dynamic album.

STAFF COMMENTS

Philippa says: More cosmic-disco, Balearic-rock and psychedelic grooves from Richard Norris in his Time And Space Machine guise.

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The Taste

Hit The Hills

The Taste

Matt Eades formerly of the bands Brubaker and Performance (managed by Paul Gallagher) met Danny Cawley (Alf and Delia, Hector's House) in the Autumn of 2002 through a mutual friend. Danny had returned to Manchester after spending some time in London and Brighton, and brought back with him some songs and ideas he wanted to develop. Matt was also looking to get back into music after some time off, so the pair began writing and playing music together. "Hit The Hills" is their second album.

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RJAP

Taste The Whup At Oki Dog

Nilroy / Border

After fifteen years creating twangin' Scandinavian garage-punk rouser, aspiring rock'n'roll icon Robert Johnson and his band Punchdrunks, have let a bunch of friends - including Finland's Bangkok Impact, members of electro-vixens Rev19n and RJ's long-term contempories Bob Hund, remix the music, creating a long player of startling cinemascope surf-rock, sleek robotic disco and 21st century Krautrock, all under 'Bladerunner' skies.

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