Genesis P-Orridge
English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist, born 22 February 1950 in Manchester, England, UK. Neil Andrew Megson legally changed his name by deed poll to Genesis P-Orridge on 5 January 1971. With COUM Transmissions, s/he challenged social boundaries with art; with Throbbing Gristle, s/he played a part in fundamentally redefining music; as the core of Psychic TV, s/he brought this challenge to the mainstream, becoming influential on the dance music sub-culture in the UK
English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist, born 22 February 1950 in Manchester, England, UK. Neil Andrew Megson legally changed his name by deed poll to Genesis P-Orridge on 5 January 1971. With COUM Transmissions, s/he challenged social boundaries with art; with Throbbing Gristle, s/he played a part in fundamentally redefining music; as the core of Psychic TV, s/he brought this challenge to the mainstream, becoming influential on the dance music sub-culture in the UK
Member of: Throbbing Gristle
The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle
**few copies back in stock** Special edition white vinyl reissue to celebrate 40 years of TG! Includes stickers, inserts and download code with additional audio.Restored and remastered by Chris Carter from 24bit 'baked tape' digital transfers of the original first generation analogue master tapes. Originally released in 1977, TG's Second Annual Report features various recordings of "Slug Bait" and "Maggot Death," plus the 20-minute soundtrack to After Cease To Exist, a short film featuring a cas…
Live At Donau Festival, Krems, Austria, 2012
In a rare performance at Donau Festival in Krems, Austria in May of 2012, Tony Conrad (member of the Dream Syndicate project by La Monte Young), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle...) and Edley ODowd (Psychic TV / Toilet Boys...) collaborate to create a unique, completely improvisational soundtrack that is at once transcendental & visceral. Consisting mainly of 2 violins, orchestral percussion and sparse electronics, quiet droning gives way to volcanic crescendos a…
Another Evening at Logos 1974/79/81
Previously-unreleased recordings from live sessions at the Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium, recorded in 1974, 1979, and 1981. This double LP, the first release in a vinyl-only series, includes the following recordings: a 1979 performance by Max Eastley and Logos Ensemble (Max Eastley, Godfried-Willem Raes, Moniek Darge, and Rob Keymeulen playing xylophone bars, Aeolian flutes, springboard, sanzas); a 1974 performance by Feminist Improvising Group (Georgie Born: cello, bass guitar; Lindsay Coope…
Music for stocking top, swing and staircase
'Music for Stocking Top, Swing and Staircase' is a spellbinding archival discovery documenting a performance by one of the missing links in experimental electronic and prototypical industrial music. John Lacey is one of the background players in British electronic music and conceptual performance art. He was an early collaborator with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti and a crucial member of COUM Transmissions alongside Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge. Lacey contributed technical directio…
She Loves
**500 copies, coloured vinyl** Enter thee psychedelic world ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV / Thee Majesty ...) and Bryin Dall (4th Sign of the Apocalypse / Hospitality on Parade / Hirsute Pursuit / Thee Majesty ...) Thee landscape that they live in transcends both time and space. A land that will be both fascinate and confuse. Where thee war ov thee sexes is simply a mirage that transforms into unconditional love.Fall into thee majesty ov it all. Joined by family mem…
Home Aged & The 18 Month Hope
The most recent installment of the rare & unheard archival recordings from the transgressive 70′s performance art group COUM Transmissions. Founded in late 1969 by Genesis P-Orridge, COUM Transmissions’s provocative performances mixed with visual art solidified the group as one of the most forward thinking breakthroughs within the 70′s conceptual art scene. Between 1969 and 1976, with a rotating membership including John Shapiro, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Spydeee Gasmantell, COUM Transmissions …
G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A chronicle of mail art on trial
G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A chronicle of mail art on trial is a publication of Genesis P-Orridge’s collection of materials surrounding Great Britain’s General Post Office’s case against him for disseminating pornographic material through the mail in 1975. These postcards incorporated confrontational images with images of the Queen. When the Post Office made their case against P-Orridge, it became an opportunity to turn the case into another performance. G.P.O. versus G.P-O collects ephemera, legal do…
What's History
Originally released as a cassette on the cryptic Austrian tape label, Nekrophile, in 1981, this simplistic experimental recording was a industrial classic ahead of it’s time. Recorded in 1981 in the Hackney bedroom of Genesis P-Orridge, who at this point was romping through his final months in seminal industrial act Throbbing Gristle. Done as a spur of the ‘improvisational’ moment, Genesis was accompanied by then TG documentarian Stan Bingo (a.k.a. director Dan Landin) to try out some ne…
Sugarmorphoses
Made in 1974 by P.Orridge in COUM’s Hull commune/headquarters, The Ho Ho Funhouse, it’s comprised of scratchy recordings of the young actionist improvising on piano and messing around on reel-to-reel with years of accumulated field recordings and homework dictations (This recording consists of Genesis's candid kitchen recordings of solo broken piano improvisations accompanied by P-Orridge's own reel to reel experiments using old tape dating back to 1965, from which a young Neil Megson made co…
Taking Issue
"An exclusive vinyl release of the live violin collaboration between avant-garde legends Tony Conrad and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge featuring percussion by Morrison Edley. Presented by filmmaker Marie Losier and recording live in January, 2009 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. " - Dais.
United (the 7\" Singles)
"United" collects the 4 long out of print and rare Throbbing Gristle 7"s issued between 1979-1980, plus a version of "United" by Marc Almond as bonus, originally found on a 1984 flexi-disc. Only a few copies available.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
In the Shadow of the Sun is an improvised "score" created by Throbbing Gristle for the Derek Jarman 1980 super-8 film bearing the same title. It is an example of what Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis P-Orridge called "Ambient video", used to "enhance or complete an environment."
D.o.A. The Third And Final Report
1991 CD reissue of the 2nd TG album, originally issued in 1978; digitally remastered by Chris Carter. Adds 2 bonus tracks from the legendary Sordide Sentimental 7" ("We Hate You (Little Girls)" & "Five Knuckle Shuffle". Breaking from the live sound of the previous Second Annual Report, D.O.A. finds the group assembling collages of computer noise, cassette tapes on fast forward, looped feedback and tape hiss, surreptitiously recorded conversation, threatening phone calls, and much more, all to a …
The Story of COUM Transmissions and THROBBING GRISTLE
Wreckers of Civilisation tells the story of two interconnected groups: the performance art group COUM Transmissions and the music group Throbbing Gristle, focusing on their key protagonists – Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. "These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exlaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. Hs outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Chr…
TGV
THE VIDEO ARCHIVE OF THROBBING GRISTLE - Numbered Limited Edition of 2000. This Deluxe 7 disc DVD Collection showcases the phenomenon that was, and is now, Throbbing Gristle Live in Performance. Featuring 10 full shows, most never-before-seen, ranging from the fascinating beginnings in 1979, by way of the classic videos of Oundle and Heathen Earth, and including the notorious RE-TG "re-grouping" 23 years later at London's Astoria Theatre in Spring 2004, as well as three more recent remarkable co…
Live in Paris
Live In Paris is a live album by Psychic TV. The album was recorded live at Elysee, Monmarte, Paris June 08, 1986.