Chris Carter - Archival 1973 to 1977 '2019

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The one you were waiting for: some of Chris Carter’s earliest home studio
productions appear on ‘Archival Recordings 1973-1977’, which was
previously part of the ‘Miscellany’ boxset, and now available as
standalone vinyl release.

For fans of Carter, his CTI and Chris & Cosey duo with Cosey Fanni Tutti, or
indeed his crucial role in Throbbing Gristle, these ‘Archival Recordings
1973-1977’ scan the relatively serene roots of what would become
Industrial Music, and a seismic shift in underground experimental musicks.

Predating both his work in COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, and his
zinging debt LP ‘The Spaces Between’, the ‘Archival
Recordings’ disc is perhaps of greatest interest, historically and
artistically to long term fans of Carter’s musick. Spanning 1973-77, it
covers the years just before, and after, Throbbing Gristle’s conception,
when Carter was clearly in thrall to kosmische and psychedelia, but not beholden
to them. Across 13 parts, Carter’s take on space music and pulsing early
electronics is definitely less whimsical, much darker than other music of that
period, progressing chronologically over the LP to reveal a full embrace of
electronic music’s dark allure by the time we get to the hellish miasma
of ‘See Sick’ [1977].

01. Chris Carter - Nodes - 1973 (2:23)
02. Chris Carter - Head Less - 1974 (3:07)
03. Chris Carter - Hegel Vogt - 1974 (2:32)
04. Chris Carter - Null - 1974 (2:23)
05. Chris Carter - Runclodler - 1974 (3:16)
06. Chris Carter - Hexfoil - 1975 (3:50)
07. Chris Carter - Jet Age - 1975 (2:42)
08. Chris Carter - Warm Hair - 1975 (2:56)
09. Chris Carter - Variables - 1976 (2:48)
10. Chris Carter - Wybbel - 1976 (4:05)
11. Chris Carter - Black Powder - 1977 (1:49)
12. Chris Carter - Ghost Trains - 1977 (4:40)
13. Chris Carter - See Sick - 1977 (4:05)

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