But among my all-time favourites, for very different reasons, are: Klaus Schulze, Irrlicht; This Heat, This Heat; Nurse With Wound, Soliloquy for Lilith; Zoviet France, Mohnomishe and Egg, The Polite Force.
(, Mon 18 May 2009, 2:02, archived)
"This Heat", for its sheer stubborn eclecticism.
(, Mon 18 May 2009, 2:05, archived)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCtecNPQ2zw
I rest my case
(, Mon 18 May 2009, 2:07, archived)
It was such a rough, strange collection, and ran the whole gamut from quiet, creepy barely-music that had obviously been recorded at 3am in a dismal tenement ("Music Like Escaping Gas") to complex hi-tech proto-jungle masterpieces that startle even today ("24 Track Loop").
After the subsequent maxi-single ("Health and Efficiency") and their signing to Rough Trade, things went downhill rapidly - that gig is from their twilight.
(, Mon 18 May 2009, 2:14, archived)