In a message dated 5/24/00 1:24:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <<AO, what have you got to say about old industrial stuff from way back when? >>
I used to love industrial. Every summer in the mid-80's during the big Chicago Comicon (this was when I was a comic artist), we'd drive out to the old Wax Trax record shop in Chicago to get the new industrial wax. I was into Ministry, Front 242, Revolting Cocks, all of the Jourgensen/Barker side projects (Lead Into Gold, 1000 Homo DJs, etc.) My radio station got sent all the Wax Trax stuff too, so I kept up with all of it. Nettwerk was big with me too, with Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads and Moev (their first album). I interviewed Severed Heads. Nerds ! I used to play Single Gun Theory every week on my show, that was a fave. Those Stephen R. Gilmore album covers ! Every so often, I'd find the original European/Australian label copies of most of this stuff in different record shops. It was exciting because the track listings and art differed from territory to territory. For instance, the Red Rhino version of Front 242's "Official Version" was different from the Wax Trax pressing, which was different from the final Sony repress. Now with the EU and FedEx/DHL/UPS, and the advent of CDs all records are the same, everywhere. And with the Net, you can find anything. Aside: Does anyone have a copy of Baby Ford "Ford Trax" 2x12" on Rhythm King they wanna sell me ? I was a big fan of Factory, too, they were known for that. There are like a zillion different versions of "Unknown Pleasures" by Joy Division. I still have Section 25 "Looking From a Hilltop" (UK pressing), woefully out-of-print. A Certain Ratio's back catalogue was repressed a few years back by the late Creation label though. Front 242 was the direct influence for Underground Resistance. I was the opening DJ when they came to St. Andrews on their "Front by Front" tour, and Mills was there. They were straight-up terroriSoon after, "Riot" EP. Anybody remember Code Industry, the Black industrialists from Detroit who were on Antler-Subway back in '90 ? Well, before that, they were Code Assault, and they were on my label, Technika. That's how they got that deal. It was the first time I got fucked over in the music business, but not the last. Jeff did a b-side industrial remix on them for me that was the shit in its day. I haven't listened to it in ages. Blah Blah Blah. Alan
