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• Throbbing Gristle In 1976, Industrial Records was founded by Throbbing Gristle specifically to explore the psychological, visual and aural territory suggested by the term "Industrial." What follows are interviews with Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter summarizing the intentions, means and achievements of Throbbing Gristle, as well as some words on Coum Transmissions, the performance art group Genesis and Cosey directed from 1969-1976.
• Mark Pauline The most exalted values and hazards of assembly-line civilization are paid tribute in Mark Pauline's cargo cult-like celebrations. In a theater of simulated warfare, machines run amok in all directions, expressing very specific ideas of destruction and confusion. All details of construction are supervised and implemented by Survival Research Laboratories. In these interviews, Mr. Pauline recounts events directing him toward his present state of obsessive morbid inventiveness.
• Cabaret Voltaire are a band of genuine outsiders isolated from London by choice. Over 20 years ago, Richard Kirk, Stephen "Mal" Malinder and Chris Watson began exploring electronic sound territory with ideas and attitudes inspired by the Dadaists and William Burroughs. In this interview Richard, his girlfriend Lynn, and Mal converse about motivations and meanings.
• Non Since 1977 Non (Boyd Rice) has systematically set out to destroy every assumption held sacred in the recording or performance of music. Early interview with Rice about his music and perfomances.
• Monte Cazazza The most underground artist in this handbook is Monte Cazazza from San Francisco. His notoriety stems from an erratic history of insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events, beginning in the early 1970s through the present future. Mr. Cazazza's work has given a new and deeper forensic significance to the term "hardcore."
• Sordide Sentimental (literally sentimental sordidness) is more than a small avante-garde record company--their personal creativity saturates everything they have released. They issued the first records by Throbbing Gristle and Joy Division. In this interview, it's founders Jean-Pierre and Yves reveal some motives and insights.
• SPK The name of SPK (Socialist Patients Kollektiv) derives from a group of mental patients in West Germany who, inspired by the Baader-Meinhof, set up their own terrorist unit with the slogan Kill Kill Kill for Inner Peace and Mental Health. Since 1978, SPK has been the nom-en-hommage of an Australian entity revolving around one person. What follows is an interview with Graeme Revell, plus Dominic Guerin, James Pinker and Karel van Bergen, an aggregate for SPK's 1982 U.S. tour.
• Z'ev, a constant world traveler, is a percussionist whose performances include assembled kinetic sculptures, metal and plastic tubes, tubs, pans, bottles, sheets, springs, strung together or not, hurtled around the stage, beat upon with mallets or sticks, in an athletic/dance feat dangerous to performer and audience alike.
• Johanna Went The constant theme in Johanna Went's performance art is transformation from birth (or abortion) to death. Out of dreams and endless foraging in thrift stores and garbage bins, Ms. Went has created the vivid props and dolls for her shows by sewing, gluing, collaging, and painting--all of which involve sex, food, liquids, meat, meat-by-products, and destruction.

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