quoted 5 lines Sherwood is truly a master. Everyone here should pick up the two> Sherwood is truly a master. Everyone here should pick up the two
> Tackhead CD compilations _Power_Inc._ (vols 1 and 2) and the two discs
> (Mark Stewart and Ministry) that Jon mentioned, they are pure
> brilliance. "The Wrong Name And The Wrong Number" still scares me to
> death. :-)
I was just going to post about this, tying this together with the TORQUE
2CD by Ed Rush/Nico and Panacea on Force Inc... I flipped through both of
them, and decided on TORQUE. Both are kinda over-the-top, but I thought
Panacea resorted to too many louder-than-thou cliches, substituting
vanilla distortion for other freaky sound treatments that I think would
have made the tracks much more effective. I may still pick this up at
some point, but 2CDs of new jungle is enough to hold me for a week ;-)
If you like Panacea, or Alec Empire's _The Destroyer_, track down a copy
of _As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade_., by Mark Stewart, on Mute.
It's the Fats Comet singles run through the mangling machine, with Mark
Stewart's ultra-paranoid, and quite effective vocals. Keith LeBlanc said
in an interview that Tackhead basically gave him a bunch of music which,
in LeBlanc's opinion, he wrecked by literally recording on cassette,
cutting with scissors, and pulling bits out of a bag.
"The Wrong Name and The Wrong Number" is sort of a megamix of the tracks
from the album. That track appears in it's full length (about 13 mins) on
the CD of the 1st Mark Stewart album _Learning to Cope With Cowardice_
(more reggae-oriented, but nearly as frightening as _As the Veneer of
Democracy Starts to Fade_). The track also appears in a shorter form on a
Myths compilation, and I think also on one of the Pay It All Back comps
from ONUSound. One of my roommates in college said he had to leave or risk
brain damage. Not to be missed.
--Mark