(Not so) Unknown caller

Wrapped in plastic

Public transport (Interlude)

i'll be fine

2024 felt like a bad dream, even shittier than the one before. When my mum got taken into care in 2023 it was like her worst nightmare finally  coming true, and there was nothing I could do about it. Then my wee brothers illnesses and self-blame took him away. Damage was done when he woke up next to one of his best pals dead a couple years before, even tho he managed to convince the people that initially blamed him otherwise (the same people that made me n mum have to leave her home the first time) I don't think he ever got round to forgiving himself (i don't think it was anything to do w him, they were on different trips and what happened could have happened to most anyone and we are def all lucky it hasn't happened more to all of us). 

2024 just kept swinging between horror and defiant bursts of joy, il be damned if I can't use something as an excuse for a silver lining. For every moment of peace and happiness there was something else upsetting, and that's not even getting into world events, which I know weigh heavy over all of us. It's like that bad dream we all woke up to in 2020 keeps shifting the goalposts and saying 'ha, you thought I was gone, wait til you see this!' And I have no doubt 25 will have it's cards up its sleeve ready to play just when we get complacent. 

So here's another of those grim grotty but hopefully cathartic mixes to flush out the negative energy a bit. I'm gonna keep pushing this year to be more creative, more helpful, more present and hopefully I won't have to do another one this time next year . . .

Tobe Hooper / Wayne Bell - Texas Chainsaw Massacre Intro
Revoling Cocks - You Goddamn Son Of A Bitch (live)
Unknown Fate - Unknown Fate
Himukalt - Study 110 (Throbbing Gristle cover)
Corvax - Do You Wanna Change Me
Nine Inch Nails - The Line Begins To Blur
Dis Fig + The Body - Coils Of Kaa
Trace Amount + Qual - Death Match
Orphx + JK Flesh - Demagogue (live)
Wvalaam Klous - INTRO
Persher - Desiccated Forgettables
Statiqbloom - Talon's Tail (live)
Cervello Elettronico - Cannibal (Survival Mix)
Soj - SB01
Gum Takes Tooth - Tannkjøtt
ШТАДТ (STADT) - Half-way Ticket
Foetus - Aladdin Reverse
Machines Of Loving Grace - The Soft Collision
Author & Punisher - Body Dome Light (Godflesh cover)
Pharmakon - Splendid Isolation

fcuk 2024 (industrial, techno, EBM, noise)

Punch A Nazi

Rhizomes

BEHEMOTH (Intro)

"I'm an individualist." The Throbbing Gristle co-founder  on extreme experimentation, difficult women and her new album, 2t2.

As long as underground culture has existed, there have been pockets of resistance—people at the fringes who challenge societal expectations and create work that pushes against societal norms. Cosey Fanni Tutti is one of them. She's a founding member of the defunct British band Throbbing Gristle, a visual artist, pornographic model, solo musician and writer. 

Tutti, now 73, grew up in the English city of Hull, where she met like-minded performer Genesis P-Orridge. Together, they formed Throbbing Gristle and the collective COUM. Their activations and installations were, unequivocally, shocking. In one show, Tutti urinated on the audience as she swung naked across the stage. In another, the band performed alongside framed displays of her used menstrual pads. 

Throbbing Gristle's extreme experimentations flirted with the erotic and the grotesque, pushing the limits of sound and frequency. Their outsider approach to making music—and their erasure of the boundary that separates life and art—went on to influence a generation of creatives across genres, especially in early techno. 

After Throbbing Gristle disbanded, Tutti performed as synth pop duo Chris & Cosey with her husband and ex-band member, Chris Carter. Her work as a solo artist has blossomed in recent years. She published her memoir, Art Sex Music, in 2017. After turning 66, she also wrote two full-length albums and wrote another book, Re:Sisters, which explores the life and legacy of the late composer Delia Derbyshire who faced adversity as a woman in a male-dominated world, like Tutti herself.

In this Exchange with with Chloe Lula, Tutti discusses her dedication to living alternatively, expressing herself by any means possible and her forthcoming album, 2t2, composed during a time of extreme difficulty in her personal life. The underground icon also talks about mastering Mongolian throat singing and her upcoming solo art exhibition in New York, which will display the pornographic photos she took as a model in her 20s. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.767 Cosey Fanny Tutti

"I'm an individualist." The Throbbing Gristle co-founder on extreme experimentation, difficult women and her new album, 2t2.

As long as underground culture has existed, there have been pockets of resistance—people at the fringes who challenge societal expectations and create work that pushes against societal norms. Cosey Fanni Tutti is one of them. She's a founding member of the defunct British band Throbbing Gristle, a visual artist, pornographic model, solo musician and writer.

Tutti, now 73, grew up in the English city of Hull, where she met like-minded performer Genesis P-Orridge. Together, they formed Throbbing Gristle and the collective COUM. Their activations and installations were, unequivocally, shocking. In one show, Tutti urinated on the audience as she swung naked across the stage. In another, the band performed alongside framed displays of her used menstrual pads.

Throbbing Gristle's extreme experimentations flirted with the erotic and the grotesque, pushing the limits of sound and frequency. Their outsider approach to making music—and their erasure of the boundary that separates life and art—went on to influence a generation of creatives across genres, especially in early techno.

After Throbbing Gristle disbanded, Tutti performed as synth pop duo Chris & Cosey with her husband and ex-band member, Chris Carter. Her work as a solo artist has blossomed in recent years. She published her memoir, Art Sex Music, in 2017. After turning 66, she also wrote two full-length albums and wrote another book, Re:Sisters, which explores the life and legacy of the late composer Delia Derbyshire who faced adversity as a woman in a male-dominated world, like Tutti herself.

In this Exchange with with Chloe Lula, Tutti discusses her dedication to living alternatively, expressing herself by any means possible and her forthcoming album, 2t2, composed during a time of extreme difficulty in her personal life. The underground icon also talks about mastering Mongolian throat singing and her upcoming solo art exhibition in New York, which will display the pornographic photos she took as a model in her 20s. Listen to the episode in full.

billy gets the credit for the name, lov u billy

(ex-)guitarist/singer at Mythical Echo

Glasgow-based DJ, has played alongside the likes of Keepsakes, Christina Sealey of Orphx, DJ Andi of Synthicide (NYC) and JD Twitch of Optimo, and put on international live guests such as Multiple Man, Celldod, Autumns, and Qual.

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