Thank you for everything Genesis P. Orridge! If it was not for you, Gordon Sharp, Wendy Carlos or Terre Thaemlitz... I wouldn't feel like there are a few that make me feel so comfortable as a proud Trans Female. Thank You, Talkhouse Podcast.

Genesis Survivors is a comedy page and UR thee joke !!!

Paula P-Orridge (remember how you wiped her name from all the Psychic TV live CD reissues ???)

A great show. I agree we are just concousness, people don't want us to be aware and so we are controlled by fear.

Absolutely loved this conversation! Thank you Genesis and Laura!

Meetsysteem, Victor De Roo - Ampersand

Rest Proof Clockwork

Last Remembered Thing

Throbbing Gristle tracks previously available on MySpace.

TG - How Do You Deal (Wire Mix 2007)

03 Voltaggio Solitario

02 Sonno

“Transsexuals are the stormtroopers of the future.” So says Genesis P-Orridge, the iconic, visionary musician who has fronted influential bands like Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle. While P-Orridge isn’t transgender — they* call themselves a pandrogyne — their partner in this Talkhouse Music Podcast, Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace, came out as transgender in 2012. Still, as P-Orridge points out, both musicians have done something very brave: they’ve transitioned, in one way or another, in front of their audience. And it was P-Orridge who paved the way. As Grace says here, “Someone like yourself is so important to me.”

P-Orridge and Grace might hail from different generations, countries and musical communities, but they found plenty to talk about: what it was like to transition in public, the mind-body duality, paranormal phenomena, the perennial bathroom problem, the perennnial airport screening problem, courage, death, Caitlyn Jenner, a hilarious exchange about what to wear on stage, dealing with photographers who want you to show your boobs, and what P-Orridge calls “a gradual shift in the way that gender and sexuality are perceived in our species.”

This is one of the more fascinating and potentially visionary exchanges we’ve ever had on the Talkhouse Podcast. It’s also one of the more risqué, so if you’re easily offended, maybe you’ll want to check out one of our other podcasts.

* A word about pronouns: P-Orridge call themselves “we” because they feel at one with their late wife Lady Jaye. Much more about that in the podcast.

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle) Talks with Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!)

an excerpt from the second track on Robert Turman's "Flux" 2xLP, a reissue of his debut solo work from 1981. Due at Forced Exposure first week of February

Excerpt from "Flux" by Robert Turman

Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Limpid as the Solitudes
Out on Nov. 9, 2018 on Shelter Press
SP101 — LP / DL

Preorder: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/limpid-as-the-solitudes

Distribution: Boomkat EU / UK / ROW
Distribution: Forced Exposure USA

Limpid as the Solitudes

INDEFATIGABLE PURPLE

FELICIA ATKINSON & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA 'INDEFATIGABLE PURPLE' (SP101)

01 Utuba - Beaumont Hannant

The latest liminal low-end odyssey from French shape-shifter Maxime Primault’s BZMC entity swaps the screwed alien dancehall of past outings in favor of miasmic subterranean ritual, with compelling results. Born of “a few very intense sessions, in altered states of consciousness,” the three sprawling compositions comprising Voyage Sacrifice ooze in slow, smoke-choked darkness, awash with dungeon groans, insectoid noise, reverbed bells, molten bass, and distant demonic mumblings. Primault speaks of recent creative strategies attempting to “delete time, or escape time,” at which these pieces certainly succeed, entrancing the listener in their spiral sinkhole infinity: beatless, lightless, limitless. 

Occasionally a rusted, lurching metronome emerges, infusing a drugged sense of forward motion, but the essence of Voyage Sacrifice is textural and tantric – “almost like some kind of prayer.” Chants are chanted; the zone is black. The specter of dub still looms in the disorienting fog of FX and negative space but ultimately these sides exist outside (and deep beneath) any recognizable sonic lineage. This is cultic, questing music, deprivation chamber hallucinations “beyond good and evil, beyond sense and non-sense.” 

This Rorschach enigma dimension is foundational, as Primault admits: “It’s a mental journey. I handled the sacrifice; the voyage is yours.”

BZMC — Incineration of thoughts (SP109)

"STYX" is a 7 track collaborative album by Alex Zhang Hungtai and Pavel Milyakov. The record fuses acoustic instruments such as guitar, saxophone, organ with voice and field recordings, warping and mixing them to create unpredictably wandering soundscapes.

buy physical and digital here: psyx.bandcamp.com/album/styx

Styx

Pavel Milyakov & Alex Zhang Hungtai — Why Do I (vocals by Yana Pavlova)

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