Big Sexy Land [Bonus Track] [PA] [Remaster]

Performer: Revolting Cocks
Engineer: Al Jourgensen; Jon Mathias; Alain Jourgensen
Producer: Al Jourgensen; Alain Jourgensen
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Revolting Cocks: Chris Connelly, Al Jourgensen, Luc Van Acker, Paul Barker, Bill Rieflin, Richard 23. Personnel: Luc Van Acker, Richard 23 (vocals, programming); Al Jourgensen (guitar, programming); Patrick Codenys (keyboards). Additional personnel: Patrick Codenys. Recording information: Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, IL; Southern Studios, London, England. Helping to establish the Midwestern tradition of prolific industrial cross-pollination, Chicago industrial-dance supergroup Revolting Cocks released their debut Big Sexy Land appropriately enough on Wax Trax! in 1986. Featuring Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Chris Connelly (Fini Tribe/KMFDM) among others, the group produced an electronic grind that fans of Wax Trax! artists from this era will find very familiar. Plenty of slap bass and contorted samples abound on highlight cuts like "We Shall Cleanse the World," "No Devotions," and the most house-influenced track, "TV Mind." Fine dance music with plenty of cool synth and sample trickery, Big Sexy Land is a distinguished debut from a "side project" that occasionally surpasses the day-job work that its members became famous for. ~ Vincent Jeffries In 2004 Rykodisc reissued a series of early, Al Jourgensen-related projects, including his work with irreverent industrialists Revolting Cocks. Big Sexy Land, the project's 1986 debut, featured Jourgensen, Luc Van Acker, and Front 242's Richard 23. It was primal and artificial, dominated by the incessant click of the drum machine and laced together with manipulated samples, hissing keyboards, and the occasional blurp of thick bass guitar. The more memorable tracks -- "We Shall Cleanse the World," "Attack Ships on Fire," "TV Mind" -- combined these elements with suitably detached and/or frightening vocals from Van Acker to create an overall sense of stark, clashing nihilism. There was no statement in Revolting Cocks' music, only anti-culture and apathy, amplified by the choking vocals, relentless sample triggers, and clattering drum programs. Ryko's 2004 version of Big Sexy Land is newly mastered, and augmented with a series of mixes. There are 12" versions of "Attack Ships," "No Devotion," and "You Often Forget [Malignant]," as well as alternate mixes of "Union Carbide" and "TV Mind." Additional liner information with comments from the principals would've been a nice touch, to help place Big Sexy and the Cocks into the context of industrial at the time. But as it is, the 2004 reissue is a nice set for completists, who will undoubtedly like having the 12" content on disc. ~ Johnny Loftus

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