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I'll draw a scene upon Dying Earth starring its red sun soon hopefully but have a colorful Embelyon one for now because I really enjoyed this first tale n-n

- Shizuka Miura (三浦静香) interview notes from two years before her death; included in the Black Edition release of her album Heavenly Persona (天界のペルソナ) translated to English by Taketo Shimada.

1977. belinda carlise (of the go-gos) and alice bag (of the bags) for a fashion shoot by jenny lens.

Industrial News (issue #3) YEAR: 1979 CREATED BY: Terry Gold LOCATION: London SIZE: A5 WHAT’S INSIDE…. Industrial News was the official newsletter of Industrial Records - the label founded in 1976 by the band Throbbing Gristle, to release records and cassettes by themselves and affiliated artists with whom they pioneered the industrial music genre. Inside there’s plenty of information about the band, which includes a profile of each band member, lyrics to both tracks on Throbbing Gristle’s first single (“United” and “Zyklon B Zombie”) as well as other early TG classics, Genesis P Orridge’s thoughts about Charles Manson (taken from an interview with David George of Dirt fanzine), a gigography and a map showing from which countries people were sending correspondence to TG HQ. There’s also a long list of artists who had submitted demo tapes to Industrial Records: SPK, The Urinating Tripods, Autopilot, Methods Of Execution, Rema Rema, Taliesin, Chain Of Dots, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Metabolist, Deleted Records Worst Compilation, Matt Johnson, Electrodub, Mike Jennings, Vice Versa, Christopher Connelly, Glenn Wallis. Michae Leverton, The Destructors, Experimental Urban Band, The Field, Instant Automatons, Kable Truth, Lemon Kittens, Storm Bugs, CCD, The Tapes, X______X, No Paine, Ballet Parisienne, Albrecht D, Vote Police, Roger Stephens, Zyklon B Zombie, Richard Stenlake, Brain Police, The Double, Paul Kelday, Leonard Vice, Counterdance, Jonas A. A few of them went on to make great music that I actually bought, but the majority either weren’t very interesting or (like the beautifully named Urinating Tripods) never emerged from obscurity…. Other fascinating stuff includes a page dedicated to “outrage artist” and kindred spirit Monte Cazazza (whose early recordings were released by Industrial Records), a feature about “The Third Mind” (a book by Brion Gysin and William S Burroughs), some information about the biological and metabolic effects of infrasound, a brief fanzine round up featuring three English zines (Aura, Modern Noise and NMX) and two from West Germany (TS4 and The 80s), some ads (including one for the first issue of Stabmental fanzine), a few collages, some artwork and a “TG Contact Page” (which includes a submission by The Lemon Kittens who were looking for “a young lady to vocalise” - it would be nice to think that they found Danielle Dax via Industrial News). An order form for various Industrial releases and merchandise came with the newsletter. I’m not sure how many people were sufficiently curious to send off for Throbbing Gristle’s “24 Hours” (recordings of all their gigs to date and other early material in a special presentation box of C60 cassettes, plus some inserts that were signed by the band) let alone listen to it. The set was limited to 200 copies and each one was personalised for the individual buyer, and therefore unique. It cost £77 (which was well out of my price range at the time) and must be worth a fortune now. Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine’s pages…. my box of 1970s fanzines flickr

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