Name: Control I’m Here: Adventures On The Industrial Dance Floor 1983-1990
Brand: Various

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CRCD3BOX165

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-01-19

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Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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5013929116597

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CDx3

Artist

Various

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Cherry Red

<p>Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.</p>

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In the post post-punk aftermath, as electronic rhythms and synthesisers began to dominate the landscape, and with industrial godheads Throbbing Gristle now no more, artists across the UK, Europe and the US began to fuse minimal, emerging proto-house music, dark and Gothic tinged aesthetics and the noise and brutality of industrial music to create a hybrid which proved simultaneously cold, alienated and accessible. Taking it’s lead from the dark shadows of cold war politics, governmental control, medical gore and a brutalist futuristic vision, this industrial mutation slid comfortably onto dancefloors catering for those for whom Thatcherism, Reaganomics and Eastern Bloc ideologies provided no hope, producing the most unlikely of clubbing scenes.

Characterised by hard hitting and repetitive rhythms, distorted synthesisers and guitars, pounding bass, heavy samples and lyrics exploring a side of life unavailable in mainstream music, this new thing split, morphed and mutated as the decade progressed. From the coven-disco of Alien Sex Fiend to Sisters Of Mercy’s ice cold Gothic rock-techno, The Neon Judgement’s Electronic Body Music and the mutated synth pop of Ministry to future chart toppers’ The Shamen’s sampling of a psychedelic endorsing MP and Renegade Soundwave’s how-to guide to cocaine fuelled sex, this was music the invited outsiders inside. Terrifying and disturbing to those who weren’t living it, but everyday and real to those who were.

<i>Control I’m Here</i> provides a carefully curated overview of that time and place, the variety of forms this industrial machine took and the key artists who pushed this hard music into the fringes of the mainstream, giving no quarter in their full-frontal approach to both their sound and the package they presented it in. Intense, heavy and free from concession. If this doesn’t sound like music for you then it almost certainly isn’t.

1 RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE – COCAINE SEX (TURBO LUST MIX)

2 CONTROLLED BLEEDING – THE FODDER SONG

3 SEVERED HEADS – TWENTY DEADLY DISEASES (EXTENDED MIX)

6 NITZER EBB – CONTROL IM HERE (ZERO OPTION MIX)

8 ALIEN SEX FIEND – IGNORE THE MACHINE (ELECTRODE MIX)

10 THE DAVE HOWARD SINGERS – YON YONSON

12 THE SISTERS OF MERCY – LUCRETIA MY REFLECTION (12″ VERSION)

13 SON OF SAM and GOOD SHEPHERDS – CUTS ‘N BRUISES 

14 THE WEATHERMEN – POISON (12″ VERSION)

1 THE SHAMEN – CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW SAYS (7″ VERSION)

5 FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY – LURID SENSATION

6 THE FORCE DIMENSION – HIDDEN AMBUSH (RED VERSION)

9 THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX – BEYOND BELIEF

10 FRONT 242 – QUITE UNUSUAL (12″ VERSION)

12 DIE KRUPPS – GERMANIAC (ANALOGITAL CLIMIX)

1 MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO – I GOT THE FEAR (TITANIUM MIX)

3 DIE WARZAU – LAND OF THE FREE (MACHINE MIX)

4 BORGHESIA – NAKED, UNIFORMED, DEAD HOT TRASH MIX

7 ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO – COMISARIO DE LA LUZ III

Control I’m Here: Adventures On The Industrial Dance Floor 1983-1990

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Discover Control I’m Here: Adventures On The Industrial Dance Floor 1983-1990 by Various. A curated overview of the industrial music scene with hard-hitting rhythms and dark aesthetics. Available in various formats from Cherry Red.