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The Broken Flag box yeah...I can't wait for the Ramleh Awake! box to come out

rizzx, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

rizz, you could find a copy of the broken flag box relatively easily if you hunt around on the net.

resolved, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i know...no $$ though

rizzx, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

do a couple medical experiments at your local hospital or university! they pay well for a few hours work.

ian, Friday, 8 February 2008 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...


(AVAILABLE IN SHOP BY END MARCH)

VOD49: Severed Heads - ADENOIDS 1977-1985 5-lp-Box w. 16-page Booklet and w. or w/o. T-Shirt (for members with printed pillowcase and T-Shirt)

VOD50: S.P.K. - DOKUMENT IIIO 6-Lp-woodenbox with T-Shirt and 36-page Booklet (for Members with add. 3x7"Box and option to buy one more with wooden 3x7"Box)

VOD51: Experimental Products - PROTOTYPE plus GARAGE TRACKS Lp-2 (for members with Bonus 7")

VOD52: GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA - 181-1987 Lp-2 with DVD in Armee-boot-bag (for Members with Bonus 7")

PRIPUZZI 02: GOZ MONGO / INYURMANIA Split Lp with Booklet

sleeve, Thursday, 13 March 2008 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

for those interested in Storm Bugs, some mp3s at http://www.stormbugs.co.uk

Storm Bugs, Saturday, 15 March 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Storm Bugs!!
Great interview in Sound Projector; love both the LPs on VoD and the Fusetron one.

ian, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

we aim to please :)

Storm Bugs, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

Just signed up for the '08 industrial set. Now i've got $35 to live off of for the next week, thx VOD. Just couldn't pass it up, last years releases were tempting, but this year they've outdone themselves. I don't see what they could possibly do in '09 to top this.

I guess now we wait... $530 poorer and wait wait wait.

Citizen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

are there tracklistings for the severed heads and spk? i can't seem to find them. would like to know before i buy.

stirmonster, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

nothing yet. I was curious as well. 6lp's+3x7"s of pre'83 spk is all i had to hear.

Citizen, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Printed pillowcase!!? Fuck the merzcar!

gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

6lp's+3x7"s of pre'83 spk is all i had to hear.

Yeah, me too. It says "1979-1983" on the box.

sleeve, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

btw mp3 blog dualtrack has a mindboggling assortment of live SPK gigs.

sleeve, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yea i discovered that entire webring of industrial/etc. blogs last year. Found tons of new (read old) wonderful stuff. It inspired me to start a couple of my own (white ward and shock corridor).

Citizen, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

VOD finally updated the shop. Here's the spk info:

"Besides the official Tape-Releases such as Wars of Islam, From Science to Ritual, at The Crypt, and Last Attempt at Paradise, this Box-Set also includes Live recordings from their first concert in Sydney in 79, the Heaven Concert London in 80, the Brickwerkz-Concert in 82, the SO36 Concert in Berlin plus a few more live-documents. Members will recieve their edition with a limited 3x7“wooden Box-Set containing their first 3 Side Effect 7“ from 1979 plus a Post-card-Set with photographies by SPK-Member Sinan Revell"

Interesting. can't wait to see the box and shirt. Unless someone beats me to it i'll probably do the discogs entry and take a bunch of pictures.

Citizen, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

it's the 3x7" box that would clinch it for me but sadly i have missed this ear's membership allocation.

sinan revell = swoon! i have been in awe of her since i saw them in '84.

stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

omg just what I was hoping for

sleeve, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

extra bonus points for the "From Science To Ritual" tape, all studio stuff.

sleeve, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

stirmonster, you can generally get the subscription extras on an individual basis as a non-subscriber if you get in early (at a small extra cost). you should email the label.

resolved, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

do a couple medical experiments at your local hospital or university! they pay well for a few hours work.

-- ian, Friday, February 8, 2008 2:17 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I should take my own advice.

ian, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

waiting waiting waiting argh, didn't reckon how painful it would be to wait for these things to show up.

from the VOD site, lol:

5 NEW RELEASES OUT BY END APRIL (30th of APRIL, NOT MID APRIL!!)

PLEASE NOTE: IT TAKES 2-3 WEEKS TO HANDLE ALL ORDERS AND PACKAGES SO DO NOT WRITE MAILS ABOUT TRACKINGNUMBER OR DELIVERY-STATUS, I WILL NOT ANSWER THOSE TIME-INTENSIVE MAILS IN ORDER TO SPEED-UP THE PACKAGE-MAILOUT.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

also stirmonster, apparently the subscriber edition comes with an offer for me to be able to buy another whole box set (with the 7" box), so email me if you still want/need one.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

amazing

sleeve, Saturday, 24 May 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

just noticed your earlier post, sleeve. am i too late?????

stirmonster, Sunday, 25 May 2008 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

did you get the SPK box sleeve?

rizzx, Sunday, 25 May 2008 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

yes

hi folks! this thread is gonna be a lot quieter without ian :(

Stir feel free to email me, I am a little unclear on how it'll work with VOD but it says that 250 copies of the singles box are for distribution. I'll email Frank and ask him. I think you have to buy the whole 6LP box to get it though.

the box does not include From Science To Ritual, all material is live. It DOES have the complete Last Attempt At Paradise tape and (I think) all of the Crypt tape. Only some of the Al's Bar gig. The box is huge and imposing. Large glossy book with a lotta amazing photos, essays, and discography/gigography for the era. The singles come with exact replicas of the original covers as inner sleeves and a VOD design with SPK graphics for the outer sleeves. I can't fit everything into the small wooden box so I had to leave the outer sleeves in the big box.

An unannounced bonus - a small black box called DoppelgANGER by Sinan Revell, containing a series (maybe 40) of glossy photos some of which she appears to have taken, some definitely not. Some are disturbing and they definitely make a point.

Also, a T-shirt.

I wonder who they have do their mastering - these are the only records I've ever head that fit 32-33 minutes on a side and don't sound like shit towards the end.

Haven't dived into the Gerechtigkeits Liga 2LP beyond a couple of tracks.

sleeve, Sunday, 25 May 2008 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

oh now I see the photo box was announced, I missed that before.

sleeve, Sunday, 25 May 2008 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is gonna be a lot quieter without ian :(

I rest my case.

bump for stirmonster

sleeve, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

VOD 53: Etant Donnes Tapes 1977-1983 6-Lp-leather-Box with DVD 87,99 €

The Box provides all of Etant Donnes avantgarde-tapes released between 1977 and 1983 on the famous french BainTotal-Label Recordings include in specific: LA VUE, L’OPPOSITION, L'ETOILE AU FRONT, CEUX QU'ON AIME - CE QUE JE HAIS , CINQ PORTES SOUDEES, LES CENTS JOURS CLAIRS. The release also contains a DVD with Live-Peformances of Etant Donnes of the last 3 decades. The music of this Etant Donnés’s first period (1977/1983) boxset describes a rite of passage from mortality to divinity ,a powerful but hidden passion craving beauty and burning love that can be conquered only by another form of secret pain ,that of losing yourself in the cosmos and becoming part of the muddy streams of distant stars .Their soundworks are constructed through the manipulation of natural sounds ,using the variation of velocity and intensity of the recordings ,the cutting and splicing of tape . Etant Donnes ‘s compositions are passionate and brutally communicative ,their music and words are minimalist just like the writings and chants of the religious mystics sufi ,trying to recover the virginity of the words and sounds ,they map new territories and establisch their own personal rules.These first tracks contains all the brutal collages of found sounds investigating nuances of sounds that at times verges upon silence ,the inspired and enraptured meeting with earth’s natural forces ,an hommage to the shadow of night ,to the vineyard and the golden door. In these six first vinyls Etant donnés create their own brand of total audio expression using belches and punches ,their attention is concentrated on the symphonic cacophonie organisation of disorganized found sounds ,using magical rythms only directed by cosmic rules . A perfect way of organising natural sounds that obeys to fundamental principles that everyone wishes to convey ,a music able to tear down walls and to build a universal comprehension ,a cosmic law of beauty ,a magical and alchemical act of poetry.

sleeve, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

I don't see what they could possibly do in '09 to top this.

new schedule for '09 AND '10 out now!!! And yeah, they didn´t top '08.

We have 2009-confirmations by:

For the Industrial-Subscription:

Nurse With Wound (3Lp), Vidna Obmana (3Lp), Andrew Liles (3Lp),
Giancarlo Toniutti (3Lp), DDAA (4Lp), Smegma (5Lp)

for the Wave/Minimal-Subscritption: Norma Loy (1Lp), Polyphonic Size
(4Lp) Konstruktvists (1Lp). Die Form/Bain Total (5-Lp), Crash Course
in Science (3Lp), M-Squared-5Lp-Box (Systematics, Scattered Order,
Makers of Dead Travel Fast, ,

Schedule for 2010 is also set with! Programm für 2010 steht auch
schon! Sleep Chamber (4Lp), Rapoon (3Lp), Laibach (5Lp), Voice of Eye
(2Lp), Hunting Lodge (3Lp), Spanish Industrial Box (4Lp), The
Grief(2Lp), Neon (5Lp), Mark Lane(1), GermanWave Box (4Lp) & with
Portion Control (5Lp-Box)

who the hell are Neon? Looks like my bank account will be saved this time around, although the 2010 Industrial looks tasty and I like Portion Control a lot. I'm probably just going to buy the NWW set separately this next year and pass on the rest. Smegma have to be the most overrated of all these bands, I sure don't need 5 LPs worth.

sleeve, Saturday, 13 December 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

also I would like to say that while the Etant Donnes box LPs were not all that great, the DVD that came with it is super, most of it from the later Touch era that I love unconditionally.

The Nocturnal Emissions is hit and miss, two great records, one poor-sound-quality LP's worth of noisy live gigs, one side of earlier Pump stuff that's OK, and one side of "outtakes" that sound much more like their later work post-Caroline K.

sleeve, Saturday, 13 December 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

I have 2 Neon mp3s downloaded on those old virtual bootleg comps, New Wave Complex Vo. 4 and A Tribute to Flexipop 09. Not my favorite. The M-Squared/Australian one looks cool.

dan selzer, Saturday, 13 December 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I got the new NWW box. It's one of the most incredible artefacts I've ever seen. Worth every penny.

anagram, Saturday, 24 October 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

NWW box sounds amazing - I'm drooling over the Giancarlo Toniutti box mayself - early cassettes and unrealeased. Also includes notes and data.

sknybrg, Sunday, 25 October 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

2009 stuff is on the way, I'll talk about it when it gets here but I am really psyched about owning a Nurse With Wound greeting card.

I never got around to talking about the last installment of Industrial 2008. The Hermann Nitsch sounded good on paper, but it was a letdown when it arrived for a few reasons. First, it was a reissue of a tape that I already had (Orgelkonzert). Second, the DVD (no doubt hotly anticipated by all Nitsch fans) is a straight shot of his back playing the huge pipe organ for 50+ minutes. Almost a Sex Pistols level "joke's on you" there, augmented by the DVD including TWO TAKES, the rehearsal and the actual performance.

That said, the organ drone pieces are really something and well worth checking out if you like e.g. the Harmoniumwerk series. And the only other released example of this style is the Komposition Fuer Orgel CD from the late 90's.

Third Door From The Left LP has great packaging as usual, the music is pretty obviously an early example of UK people being inspired by TG and Cabaret Voltaire. Not bad, but not memorable either.

sleeve, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, the NWW greeting card is really something. It made me jump out of my skin when I first opened it b/c there's this sound chip inside that plays a (short) track when you open it.

I got the Nitsch box as well, the fact it was a reissue wasn't a letdown for me as I didn't have the original tape. Anyway even if I had had it I would have bought this monster anyway. Agree the DVD is somewhat underwhelming but it's worth it just to see Nitsch's little legs dangling from the piano stool.

Two (count 'em) Current 93 boxes coming next year, so I'd better start saving now.

anagram, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

can someone explain this to me? i can't make heads or tails of their web site, with the small print and obscure band names.

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

If the band names are that obscure it's probably not really something that caters to you...

But, it's a small run record label that puts out deluxe box sets of (for want of a better word) 'underground' artists.

Cosmic Ugg (S-), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 06:05 (sixteen years ago)

Oh and the NWW set is sublime. Have to get a friend to set up some really nice mics in a quiet studio to record the greeting card. Also the first time a box set tshirt is in my size!

Cosmic Ugg (S-), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 06:07 (sixteen years ago)

i know NWW. are they boxed sets of previously released material?

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 06:09 (sixteen years ago)

From the website:

Two hours of their official tape-releases Scrag, Nylon Coverin and Mi Mort, more than one hour of compilation-tracks only released on tape-compilations and not available as Vinyl and more than one hour of their first 2 live performances in 1984 plus a 37 minute 10“ with unreleased material from 1983 plus a one exclusive NWW Track on a Soundchip/Greetingcard

anagram, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:14 (sixteen years ago)

Oh sorry are you asking about the content of the box sets in general or just the NWW one? In general I think the website is pretty clear as to what's in each box. But many of the early ones are sold out now (click the Releases section to see them all, then the Shop section, and if you can't find the one you want in the latter then it's sold out).

anagram, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:18 (sixteen years ago)

I'm interested in the Giancarlo Toniutti box. He's one of those names that I know from various noise/experimental compilations but never quite got round to investigating further. His contribution to the G edition of the recent Zelphabet series is totally absorbing though, so I think I'll have to bite.

gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 10:50 (sixteen years ago)

if u live in the States I will sell you my near-mint copy of that Toniutti box for a sweet deal, send me a mail thru ILX if you're interested. I'd ship international also but it might add up.

the greeting card track is also included on the bonus 5" single so I will be recording it, fyi (xp).

sleeve, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

bah.... I'm in the UK. Is it more of a miss anyhow?

gnarly sceptre, Friday, 4 December 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, it hasn't come yet! I used to have his LP La Mutazione way back in the day.

We might be able to make it work, I'll send you a shipping estimate if it turns out I'm selling.

sleeve, Friday, 4 December 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

OK, been working my way through 2009. DDAA cancelled (sounds like they just didn't get back in touch) so instead there will be a 4LP O Yuki Conjugate box which is just about the best thing I can imagine.

Polyphonic Size was a real surprise, don't know how I missed this band. They even had a U.S. EP release! The early (79-80) tracks that showed up on Flexi-Pop comps aren't anywhere near as good as their LP proper from 1982 and the 1981 singles. Lots of duplicate demo versions round it out, but overall a really nice treat, hitting the same sweet spot for me as early Legendary Pink Dots (except from Belgium).

Norma Loy... seems more like Joy Division wannabes than "cold wave", but what do I know. 3 sides only, with some dubious later material. Early stuff is interesting enough though, more aggressive and raw.

I am not a big Andrew Liles fan (no quality control) so I'm not convinced I should listen to that one (as opposed to selling it in mint).

Also haven't gotten to the M Squared box but man do I love The Systematics. Over on the aussie postpunk reissue thread there was high praise.

Vidna Obmana box is killer in the 3LP version, totally different than his later stuff. Very noisy grinding stuff like Esplendor Geometrico with a dash of Whitehouse (sound, not lyrics). Maybe my favorite of the industrial ones aside from the NWW.

Other people have mentioned the staggering greatness of the NWW box and yeah it is quite something. Still going through the 1st 3 tapes which are familiar to me, looking forward to the comp tracks and the unreleased live. The live stuff that was on the Mi-Mort LP is so so good, Stapleton disavows it for some reason and I have no idea why. Hearing that in non-RRR-bootleg-tape quality will be nice. The ten inch is fantastic as well, solo piano twisted and folded.

Here is the first track from the 5" subscriber record, same as the greeting card but obv. better quality.

I am a diehard Konstruktivits/Konstruktivists fan although I think he's lost a bit of edge over time, this double LP is a nice look at his early years. Most of this was taken from tiny self-run tapes from before the 1st LP, but side 4 was released on the Audiofile label as a tape in 1989 I think. I think it's from the same period, regardless.

Giancarlo Toniutti was another nice surprise, I guess I should have given La Mutazione another listen back in the day. Some of it almost reminded me of field recordings. Very primal, dense sense of texture going on in these works. Comes with a gorgeous full color 4x6 (?) softcover book like an exhibit catalog, a first for VOD as far as I know. Still, I gotta sell it to help get the 2010 stuff.

Also haven't gotten to the Crash Course In Science box but it looks awesome and those two EPs are really great. I'm glad they're releasing more stuff that was previously on OOP vinyl, as opposed to just tape reissues.

2010, finalized:

NDUSTRIAL: appr. 20 Records / 20 Schallplatten
Current 93 Vol.1 (3LP), Rapoon (3Lp), Laibach (4Lp), Voice of Eye (2Lp), Hunting Lodge (4Lp), Psychic TV (w. White Stains) (4Lp)

MINIMALSYNTH/WAVE: appr. 24 records / 24 Schallplatten
Current 93 Vol.2 (4Lp), Portion Control (8Lp-Box), Sleep Chamber (4Lp), Experimental Products (1Lp), Mark Lane (2Lp), GermanWave Box (5Lp)

sleeve, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

Why split the C93?

Cosmic Ugg (S-), Thursday, 31 December 2009 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

So people have to buy both subscriptions - the NWW box was going for more than the whole Industrial subscription for 2009 and I think he's trying to discourage speculation by making it harder to get both C93 sets in the collector-scum subscription versions.

sleeve, Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:49 (sixteen years ago)

Too much!

stirmonster, Monday, 1 February 2021 15:19 (five years ago)

three years pass...

we're behind! bunch of stuff released since the last post. I guess the last vinyl box will be a Monte Cazazza set.

1st VOD festival and opening of the shop is planned for July 18-19 of 2025.

pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Friday, 16 August 2024 17:45 (one year ago)

one month passes...

festival now for July 18-20

Bands so far that showed interest to perform and have sent technical riders, hospitality riders, fees, travel expenses etc are (in alphabetical order)
Absolute Body Control
Attrition
Asmus Tietchens
Clock DVA
Crash Course in Science
Esplendor Geometrico
Etant Donnes
Final Program
Giancarlo Toniutti
Graeme Revell (SPK)
John Duncan
Laibach
Legendary Pink Dots
Nocturnal Emissions
Portion Control
Ramleh
Rapoon
Severed Heads
Zero Kama
Zoviet France

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 15:46 (one year ago)

:O

ionjusit (P. Flick), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 22:10 (one year ago)

None yet confirmed though? Even if hypothetical, it's an astounding list.

sawdust lagoon, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 23:14 (one year ago)

Yeah we'll have to wait a bit for the dust to settle, Seeing as Final Program is the only one of these artists I don't know and like/love I am happy with whatever turns out, pretty sure I am going to this.

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 19 September 2024 00:15 (one year ago)

four weeks pass...

anyone else get onto the reserved ticket list? or the waitlist?

looks like I will be doing this

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Friday, 18 October 2024 18:44 (one year ago)

i would have loved to but have a family wedding that weekend. bah!

stirmonster, Friday, 18 October 2024 20:05 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

we're going, I'm getting super excited. I did not realize that Attrition had reunited with the original lineup, omfg.

sleeve, Saturday, 21 June 2025 04:22 (eleven months ago)

two weeks pass...

am I the only ILXor going to this? schedule still looks the same as above, more or less.

sleeve, Sunday, 6 July 2025 16:14 (eleven months ago)

Enjoy! Can you bootleg the Severed Heads?

The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 6 July 2025 16:22 (eleven months ago)

they are doing a pro recording at the venue fwiw

sleeve, Sunday, 6 July 2025 16:23 (eleven months ago)

I'm seeing the Severed Heads in 2 weeks in London but I'm v jealous you're going to this sleeve, especially Attrition as I was listening to them a lot earlier this year

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 6 July 2025 22:25 (eleven months ago)

It would've made a fantastic summer destination but the family commitments here were too great. Really glad that you're going, sleeve. Please post your thoughts.

jeff bezoar (sawdust lagoon), Monday, 7 July 2025 09:17 (eleven months ago)

I will! super excited abt Attrition

sleeve, Monday, 7 July 2025 14:34 (eleven months ago)

two weeks pass...

Hey sleeve, so how was VOD fest? Any highlights?

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 22 July 2025 02:19 (ten months ago)

haha hi all

I updated Zing on my phone, it immediately crashed, and I couldn't remember my ILX login so I have been unable to post since 7/10

more later! unbelievably great event.

sleeve, Monday, 28 July 2025 16:47 (ten months ago)

ok here's my writeup

There were two stages, the indoor one and the outdoor one, each day the 3rd and 5th artists played outside so there were no real breaks between sets. All the inside bands had a huge video screen behind them with their own video/projections. There were booths for food and drinks as well as merch tables in a nice outside patio with lots of seating where you could hear everything going on inside quite well. The artists all mingled with the crowd of 450, and were very approachable. I talked w/Nigel Ayers and swapped stories about odd radio telescope interference issues before I knew it was him! He was wearing a radio telescope shirt so we just started chatting on Friday.

DAY 1

Attrition - Lots of incense. For some reason Martin’s vocals weren’t very loud, but Julia sounded great. They only played two “older” songs and nothing before 1987 I think, but I liked it all.

Portion Control - EBM! They still sound the same. Did an oldie as their last tune “Chew Ya To Bits” and dedicated it to Frank

Asmus Tietchens - Outside set. The first genuinely mindblowing set, he was probably also the oldest person there at age 78. I love his vocal manipulations like on Aus Freude Am Elend and the Von Mund Zu Mund series, this set had a lot of that. Immersive and utterly unique. One long set/piece.

Legendary Pink Dots - I think this is the 6th time I’ve seen them, no surprises, good set. I wish they had thrown in a few genuine oldies, but oh well.

Final Program - Outside set, idk about this one. They recreated all their original synth sounds digitally, there was only one of the two original members. Probably the least memorable for me. Minimal synth style.

Zero Kama - This was awesome as well, ritualistic and immersive with FANTASTIC sound. At some point on the 2nd say I talked to a Dutch guy who was a retired sound engineer and he said the system/equipment was like the 2nd or 3rd best quality you could get in terms of brand/components. Another one that was just one long piece. I was unfamiliar with her work before, now I want to hear more. I bought a fancy metal pin from their merch table.

DAY 2

Absolute Body Control - Wow these guys are popular in Europe! Biggest crowd indoors so far. More EBM in a Portion Control style, very energetic singer, almost a party.

Graeme Revell - This was billed as a solo set but it was full on SPK insanity from the get-go. They started with an early single (Slogun I think) and then into a track from Leichenschrei (!!!!). His (adult) son was on stage with him! Very intense video montage of Palestinian hardship, fascist rallies, etc. At one point Revell yelled “IT’S FUCKING GENOCIDE” - he was PISSED OFF. They chopped up a pig’s head with an axe and beat the shit out of a 55-gallon metal barrel. VERY noisy and utterly amazing, another highlight. Apparently SPK is active again and actually played under that name in Italy recently, look out world. Last time I saw them was 1987 with SInan! He swung a big chain around back then too, lol.

John Duncan - Outside set, one long piece again. Dense, full-frequency noise bath. I had a blast chatting with him about solar power the day before. He was quietly worried about the sound (“I’m just not sure it will work with what I do”) but seemed happy during the performance (which sounded incredible, like pretty much all the sets).

Laibach - Holy moly this was great. I swear they did “Brat Moj”, a personal favorite. ALL very old stuff, like Rekapitulacija era, not even anything from Nova Akropola. Lots of impenetrable Slovenian grumbling, also the only actual drumset of the festival.

Nocturnal Emissions - Outside set. The festival’s biggest surprise. this was basically political stand-up comedy with backing music and audience participation and singalongs, plus a version of “Bring Power To Its Knees”. Wild and memorable, also very funny in parts.

"I saw sweet Jean down at the rave, she was there with gloomy Dave...
I was on the door, and I was pissed...
I said, "Are you on the guest list?"
....
[[You can join in with me]]
...
I said:
"Are you on the guest list?"

Zoviet France - Super mellow/ambient, with a static video backdrop of an idyllic country view. From Ben:

“You might have noticed the sound of running water a couple of times during our set on Saturday night. This wasn't a random field recording we used, it was recordings we made the night before of water running below this vent outside the Ibis hotel across the road from the venue. We believe there's a culverted stream running underground there so you were hearing the sound of a hidden water course flowing below where we all were. We have a few of these in Newcastle and the burial of streams here is part of the secret history of the growth of the city. If anyone local knows anything about this one's history, we'd like to know more.
Thanks for the great response, it was one of our favourite gigs in recent years and we hope you all got home without any problems, especially if you were travelling with Deutsche Bahn and Air France.
:sophie & franz:”

Day 3

Clock DVA - Had to play first because of some scheduling issue with Adi. His voice is so distinctive! I am not really familiar with their post-Advantage work but this was cool, rad video projections as well.

Severed Heads - My most pleasant and unexpected surprise of the weekend, I am only familiar with the early experimental stuff and a little bit of the Wax Trax era, I had no idea they did stuff like what is (apparently) on the Bulkhead album, absolutely in my sweet spot of trippy/pretty synth lines and sweet vocal melodies. Apparently this was their last show ever?

Giancarlo Toniutti - Outside set, another mindbender. If you stood in the right spot between the speakers you could hear all this crazy stereo imaging, sounds flying all around the stereo field, at one point I literally jumped because things sounded like they were coming from behind me. Fascinating sound manipulation, very detailed. Another long unbroken set.

Esplendor Geometrico - Utterly awesome and mindblowing. These guys have not lost one iota of their drive, vision, or sound throughout 45 years. Like being at a rave on another planet, so much energy. Crunchy, pummeling, loud as hell, relentless, hypnotic. Another favorite. Can’t wait to hear this one in full quality board sound.

Alex Fergusson - Outside set, but as they were setting up it started pouring down rain and it had to be moved inside. Appropriate for an event that was being referred to as “Woodstock for black t-shirt wearers”. Unexpectedly moving and beautiful, I actually teared up at one point. Video backdrop was casual home movies of the PTV crew back in the day. Set list:

(on a gorgeous acoustic 12-string)
Breakthrough (!!!)
Just Drifting
Caresse
The Orchids
Black Moon (!!)
White Nights (yes I cried)
Godstar (the whole audience sang along, congrats whoever y’all were who were hitting those high harmonies)
Just Like Arcadia

then he picked up an electric guitar, started up a rhythm track, and did a great version of “Unclean” with lots of noisy guitar shredding.

and back on acoustic for the closer, “Stolen Kisses”

Ramleh - Pretty harsh noise, impressive and probably a good ending set for the weekend, but not really my thing. SPK was better and noisier.

Met lots of awesome folks from all over, a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience and I am so glad I went into debt to go.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 12:19 (ten months ago)

sounds amazing. don't feel so bad about missing Attrition if they didn't play any old stuff though

I saw Edward Ka-Spel a couple of months ago at Watching Trees festival, he was great, not sure if he did any Legendary Pink Dots stuff as the songs I remembered were solo ones.

re Severed Heads "last show ever" - at the London gig a couple of weeks ago he said he might come back in 2030

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 12:31 (ten months ago)

What a lineup!

Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 12:36 (ten months ago)

Yeah, wow. Hadn’t realized this was happening at all!

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 12:55 (ten months ago)

Boring I thought of you during the Severed Heads set! I have a smidgen of audio to post later.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 13:01 (ten months ago)

Thanks!!!!!

Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 13:31 (ten months ago)

Ok just ordered a US copy of Bulkhead on Doscogs, weirdly it's not on their Bandcamp page.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 14:17 (ten months ago)

for those interested, here's a link to photos and video - some photos and all video by me, some other photos taken from the group FB page for the fest.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/64odta2rtopho5kphu5ht/VOD-Fest-copy.zip?rlkey=gkrp53fh4701x18f2vcf7t0bi&dl=0

I'll keep this up for a day or two, please don't put the videos on youtube or anything.

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 20:28 (ten months ago)

minor correction: Fergusson didn't do "Caresse", he played the acoustic song-y part at the end of "Terminus" from the 1st album

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 23:22 (ten months ago)

Frank is also posting some pro video edits of various songs on the VOD Facebook page, but they are not linkable/downloadable

sleeve, Tuesday, 29 July 2025 23:37 (ten months ago)

Wow, many thanks sleeve, for sharing your reviews and especially the video clips. It looks like it was a fantastic weekend. I was curious how the Nocturnal Emissions set would proceed (ambient? dub reggae? noise?) but will admit that political standup singalong was not on my bingo card. Day 3 looks to have been the most amazing. Closing it out with EG and then an Alex Fergusson PTV acoustic set would have been perfect for me.

jeff bezoar (sawdust lagoon), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 13:30 (ten months ago)

haha a significant chunk was indeed dub reggae, including the call-and-response part quoted above!

sleeve, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 15:36 (ten months ago)

and yeah I said it upthread but EG absolutely fried my mind, just amazing trance rhythm crunch - great video backdrops too, lots of shots of old cassette tape designs

sleeve, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 15:37 (ten months ago)

Did EG do “Moscu esta helado!”

Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 16:13 (ten months ago)

pretty sure they did not, somebody in the FB group asked abt the setlist and the reply was "Arturo says he can't remember"

sleeve, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 16:40 (ten months ago)

five months pass...

VOD-Fest #2 (the final one) is on for July 17-19 this year, 21 bands but I don't have a text list handy. Rapoon, Zoskia, Etant Donnes, Anti-Group, lots more.

vague facial gymnastics (sleeve), Thursday, 22 January 2026 20:30 (four months ago)


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