Nocturnal Emissions – Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages [LP] (1985, Sterile Records)

 

Nocturnal Emissions has been one of the best kept secrets of the industrial genre since the 1970s. Led by Nigel Ayers, the band was one of the first to use tape cutting, avant-garde art, and underground video works to create a stage experience that was being cultivated by like-minded artists like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. The band moved on to using samplers and electronic noise in their early '80s work, creating a twisted funk sound that would go on to influence everyone from Foetus to Negativland. They still utilized their former tricks, upping the ante with extremist performance art and more professional video displays. The group avoided signing to a major label, instead focusing on releasing their own music more effectively. They followed this path into the '90s when they started www.earthlydelights.co.uk, an incredibly detailed website that promotes their various ideologies (they are strongly against the British monarchy and believe that citizens should have unlimited access to space travel) and constant release schedule. The band has released countless tapes and CDs of their material, and continues to unleash their noise through their website. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]

 

Label: Sterile Records – SR9 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: UK 

Released: 1985 

Style: Industrial, Synth-pop, Experimental, Noise

 

Tracklist:

A1 Metal Frames 

A2 Rusting Shells 

A3 In Our Time A4 Effra Barricade 

B1 Let The Bad Times Roll 

B2 Tanks In Gdansk 

B3 Fat Slimey Parasites 

B4 Bring Power To Its Knees 

B5 No Sack (The Meltdown Version) 

 

Notes:

Side A recorded in the studios of the Emission Control during November 1984. 

Side B recorded live at the Ambulance Station, London 24 November 1984. 

 

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