Showing posts with label Glenn Michael Wallis. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Konstruktivits - Psykho Genetika (1995 expanded edition, orig. rel. 1983)

Perhaps the best-known release by Glenn Michael Wallis, krautrock fan, Throbbing Gristle assistant and occasional collaborator with Chris & Cosey and Whitehouse.  Using the band name Konstruktivists with interchangeable spellings like the one above, Wallis and collaborators (like Gary Levermore on this one) combined krautrock influences and the best of early 80s industrial to create ominous electronic drones, with tape manipulation, other noises and effects, and occasional eerie vocals - all the good stuff.

Psykho Genetika was one of the first releases (along with the Nurse With Wound compilation Ostranenie 1913) on the Third Mind label, and yep, that's Stapleton's artwork on the cover above.  The original LP release was apparently a bit of a compromise given the label's available resources - on its first digital reissue in 1995, Psykho Genetika included "the full, uncut version" of the album with 33 minutes of extra material, and improved sound.

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