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play.list 2.5 [11.23.08]

CLASSIC TRAX
One of my favorite periods in modern electronic music history that i experience first hand, while it was happening, was spawned by the chicago based WAX TRAX! For me, the label's classic heyday period was from 1986-1992. Recently, i've been revisiting many of these classic albums from my collection. Some of them didn't age too well and while it kicked ass at the time, sounds pretty cheesy by today's standards (early Front 242, In The Nursery and a few A Split Seccond tracks for instance are pretty funny.) On the other hand, I was equally surprised at how much of this material STILL sounds pretty modern. There was nothing that sounded quite like the cold electronic dissonance that many of the WAX TRAX! bands created and nothing has really come close since then. In a fit of nostalgia I decided to compile a playlist for this months blog.cast of some of my favorite WAX TRAX! moments.

Be sure to check out Chris Connelly's new book: Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock published last year.
This was a REALLY enjoyable book. I recommend it for anyone that was even remotely into the underground electronic music scene in the US and Europe in the 80's and 90's.

play.list [HOUR ONE]
Revolting Cocks: No Devotion [1986]
A Split Second: Rigor Mortis [1986]
Finitribe: EyeBall [1989]
Suicide: Wild In Blue [1989]
1000 Homo DJs: Better Ways [12" Mix] [1990]
Ajax: Fast Car [1989]
TGT: REVO [The Eon Mix] [1988]
Chris Connelly: Stowaway [1991]
Coil: Further Back and Faster [1991]
Front 242: Controversey Between [1987]
Revolting Cocks: Stainless Steel Providers [1990]

play.list [HOUR TWO]
Front Line Assembly: Shutdown [1989]
KMFDM: Seutsche Schuld [1986]
Lead Into Gold: Age Of Reason [1990]
Greater Than One: Everybody's Crazy [1988]
Revolting Cocks: Cattle Grind [studio version]
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan [Acid & Flowers Mix] [1990]
Pailhead: Man Should Surrender [1990]
Psychic TV: IC Water [1988]
PTP: Show Me Your Spine [1989]
Revolting Cocks: Physical [Rare Banned Version] [1990]
A Split Second: Colonial Discharge [1988]
Controlled Bleeding: Fodder Song [1989]


[classic WAX TRAX mail order catalog. scanned from the inside sleeve of of the TGT: REVO 12"]

REVOLTING COCKS: CATTLE GRIND
[LIVE FROM THEIR DEBUT PERFORMANCE AT THE METRO IN CHICAGO 1987]

Labels: 80's 90's, chicago, dance music, electronic music, finitribe, industrial, industrial music, jason sloan, jim nash, revolting cocks, slo.bor media, wax trax

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