Part Two: Endless Not

Performer: Throbbing Gristle
Producer: Chris Carter
Distributor: Caroline Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Genesis P-Orridge (vocals, violin, bass guitar); Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitar, cornet, sampler); Chris Carter (synthesizer, programming, sampler); Peter Christopherson (sampler). By the time industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle decided to call it quits in 1981, their provocative use of sound and imagery had influenced a generation of musical malcontents to follow in their footsteps. Re-forming for their creative second act with the album ENDLESS NOT, the quartet remains as boundary defining and subversive as ever. Glibly combining blood-curdling noise electronics with elements of lounge jazz, Hawkwind-like space-rock, and abstract electronica, the album works its magic not by bludgeoning the listener with half-baked clich�s of "extreme" music, but by offering TG's own artful, highly idiosyncratic songwriting and psychodramatic soundscapes.

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Throbbing Gristle combined primitive electronics, tape loops, avant-garde techniques, and post-punk energy to create a dark, experimental sound that was a tremendous influence on industrial and electronic music from the 1980s on. They evolved from a mid-'70s London performance-art group, but by 1977 they were committing acts of sonic terrorism on vinyl. After disbanding in the early '80s, they splintered off into Psychic TV and Chris And Cosey, but reunited for a 2004 festival that was put together to pay tribute to Throbbing Gristle's long-lasting influence.

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