A fuzzy rumbling noise fest wasn't attention seeking enough for William Bennett,he of Essential Logic, Whitehouse and the Come Organisation. So why not overdub a load of speeches by the higher echelons of the National Socialist and German Workers Party? The logic was essentially to create notoriety, but creatively a pretty uninspiring recipe.
MB (Maurizio Bianchi) had delivered two of his usual noisy symphonies for Come Org to release; but Bennett decided to firstly overdub speeches by Goebbels and uncle Adolf,and then add Leibstandarte SS to MB's name. Which I understand was Hitlers personal SS bodyguard unit. This kind of thing could muddy one's reputation! Largely, it has been seen basically as a bad publicity stunt,and has gone to reside in the bad taste draw.
Personally, I would have preferred the noise to have been mixed higher and the speeches a lot lower....in fact not there at all. I never play this record ,because it just sounds like a record of Nazi Speeches,rather than Industrial noise. A bit of a half-arsed hatchet job if you ask me.
Tracklist:
A -Triumph Of The Will (18:32 )
B - To Birkenau (18:44)
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More Whitehouse related Noise terrorism, with Kevin Tomkins' Sutcliffe Jügend's
early cassette "Campaign". And you can bet its refers to murder
campaign rather than the Political, or Military, versions of the word.
The clues are in the song titles, although all you have to know is its a
Come Org release to know, A/ What it sounds like, and B/ what the
subject matter will be about. Yep, more extreme sex, murder icon
worship, and Sade-isms. Pretty tiresome and quite silly really; but I do
love the catharsis of extreme noise to cleanse ones mind of
interference. Also it STILL has the ability to make Henry Normal
uncomfortable, maybe even angry; this is a rare commodity in the modern
'seen it all, heard it all' society. There will be people who would
disagree, and think this is tame ,boring rubbish, but they are liars; to
themselves and others, and are part of the problem. Ignore them.
Ladies and Gentleman: Sutcliffe Jügend; uninspired but very effective.
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Back in 1980, the general population were relatively free from choice
and information overload. Horror movies were still frightening, and one
had to actively search out music such as this. Consequently music wasn't
as devalued as it today, with the advent of the everything now culture
of the post-internet world.
Murderers were generally seen as horrific figures, but with the torrent
of information, and understanding of Human behaviour, we now see these
people as pathetic rather than just psychopathic. This lessens the
impact of this record for the modern ears somewhat.
Having said that, play this record to the most of the population of the
iPhone miniverse, and you would still get disturbed looks of classic
incomprehension. Yes, musically, it still has the ability to fuck up
people's worlds, and make them wanna smash this cassette in fits of
ignorant anger.
Which is the main aim of Whitehouse's ear piercing noise.
Most of the tracks are introduced by some eastern bloc sounding Psycho
expert; probably Dr.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing*. I dunno if it is he, or Mr Bennett who didn't
know the real name of the Boston Strangler(Albert de Salvo). All the
other killers get their birth names, except he?!
Plenty of Wasp frying synth abuse permeates this tape, accompanying the
standard crazed screeching from W. Bennett. There are plenty of
uncomfortable moments, and room clearing cacophony;- guaranteed to form
the ice at parties, or even better, start a fight amongst the
Townies/chavs at the local discothéque.
They don't make 'em like this anymore.........no, wait a minute,
Whitehouse still make 'em like this. in fact so do, Ramleh, Consumer
Electronics, and many many more do; not available in shops.
*'Psychopathia Sexualis' is based on the classic medical work by Dr.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, but inspired by the '120 Days of Sodom' by the
Marquis de Sade, whose spirit lives on…?
Trainspotters corner: Glen Michael Wallis of Konstrukivits is on this
recording as a member of the group.
A2 and A5 recorded Live Action 5.
A6 recorded recorded Live Action 2.
Track Listing:
A1
Peter Kurten
A2
Edward Paisnel
A3
Boston Strangler
A4
Peter Sutcliffe
A5
Fritz Haarmann
A6
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
A7
Graham Young
B1
Vulcan Air Attack Mission
B2
Pleazure Fur Frauen
B3
Live Action 4 (Complete)
B4
Genesis Of The New Weapons
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