Go Fight is pro-sex and anti war, with limited dynamic range and an overarching sense of wistful penis envy.

In 1984, people were talking about the “new wave” in rock music. Talking about those hairdressers. A bunch of guys named “Taylor.” That blonde woman. 

And of course, Sid Luscious. 

Sid Luscious and The Pants had the look and the sound the world didn’t know it craved. Teenage prodigies, they quickly rose to prominence in 1983 – barely able to drive themselves to rehearsal! 

Showcase performances around the world followed, as did a recording contract. Sid Luscious and The Pants were primed for great success. The press machine had geared up to prepare everyone for what the band called “Maximum New Wave”.

And then the bottom fell out of their world. Holed up in various studios for almost a year, they struggled with technology, the record business, and each other. For reasons unknown, their record company decided not to release the completed record and dropped the band from their contract. 

Sid disappeared shortly thereafter and the band went their separate ways.

And just as suddenly as they had been headliners, 1984’s “next big thing” became an all-but-forgotten footnote. 

We didn’t talk much for the next 20 years. One of the guys became an accountant. One became a lawyer. Our original keyboard player developed a mental illness and retired. And so on. Sort of like high school – everybody just…grew up. The usual things happen: marriages, kids, happy and unhappy lives, successes and failures, comedy, tragedy, triumph. You know how it is.

Now, 20 years later, the band has re-formed, minus a few original members and plus some new folks: a local musician once famous for performing with a dancing steak, a punk rock escapee, and a hot new keyboard player.

Null Device is an electronic pop quartet that, on their last tour, came home with an unheard-of $16 in profit, so they're clearly doing something right.


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Mute was founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, and since then has signed and developed some of the world’s most influential recording artists – including Goldfrapp, Liars, Moby, M83, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Laibach, Yeasayer and Richard Hawley – and become home to a crop of emerging talent and recent signings such as Cold Specks, Polly Scattergood, Big Deal, Beth Jeans Houghton, Josh T. Pearson and Apparat.

Whilst maintaining a firmly eclectic roster, from the earliest days of The Normal, Fad Gadget and DAF through to the techno era with artists such as Plastikman / Richie Hawtin and Speedy J, and to the present day with electronic artists such as Diamond Version and Maps, the label has always been a champion of electronic music.

Mute is also home to the catalogue of a host of seminal artists such as Can and Cabaret Voltaire.

As a child, I recorded myself making rhythms with my parents' Realistic cassette recorder and microphone. Around 8 years old, I remember banging the microphone on different surfaces to produce different timbres for the rhythms I was making. As a teenager, I listened to anything I could find that was made with electronic instruments. At the time, that was Newcleus, Ice-T & The Glove, Run-D.M.C., Depeche Mode, New Order, and Christian rock artists Steve Taylor, Petra, Daniel Amos, and Simon Adahl. In the early 1990s, I was composing "chill trax" (my own description) and a friend introduced me to the ambient genre starting with Brian Eno. In the mean time, I discovered Cocteau Twins, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Slowdive, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, and more. Today, my music is influenced by all these artists. The songs are my children.

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