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Nocturnal Emissions

Viral Shedding

Mannequin (MNQ 132)

Release date: Apr 13, 2019, Germany

"Originally released on Illuminated Records in 1983, "Viral Shedding" is surely one of the most important references for the industrial/funk dance music.

Between pure noise and electronic beats, 'Viral Shedding' is creating a twisted and percussive rhythmic urge, a funky disco sound permeated by digital industrial beats. Nigel Ayers and Caroline K take their inaccessible best and thrown it into the melting pot with a set of pumping rhythms. The result is the frustrated son of mutant disco, swimming in the same waters of Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto and Hula.

As Nigel Ayers recalls, "Popular music picked up on what we were doing 1983-1984, which helps explain why records such as -Viral Shedding- sound clubbier today than they did at the time, but the technology of music making locked in a seat of aesthetics in those days that shaped pop as a whole more than industrial music itself did. Whether by synthesizer manufacturers' musical design or through engineering limitations, the more automated a band allowed their music to become, the dancer it was likely to be."

Features the classics 'Suffering Stinks', 'Going Under' and 'No Separation'."

A1

Delgado Monkey Torture

A2

Too Many Wounded

A3

Body Count

A4

Wee Wee Wee

A5

Suffering Stinks

A6

No Separation

B1

No Magic

B2

Going Under

B3

Suffering Still Stinks

B4

Haldol Shuffle

B5

Theme Music

B6

Bloodbath