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Sold Date:
February 23, 2021
Start Date:
September 27, 2018
Final Price:
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Throbbing Gristle The Second Annual Report
Mission Of Dead Souls documents Throbbing Gristle’s last live
performance in San Francisco in 1981. It’s a given that
Throbbing
Gristle’s studio work was noisy and abstract, but more
was left to
chance during gigs like this, with primitive synthesizers
and other
electronics pitted against a band trying to keep some
semblance of
control. By this period, their early group solidity
had crumbled into
the two elements they were soon to finally
divide into: Chris Carter
& Cosey Fanni Tutti (soon to be known
as Chris & Cosey), with
their emphasis on synth manipulation
and electro-rhythms, and early
Psychic TV, with their focus
on Genesis P-Orridge & Peter “Sleazy”
Christopherson’s occult
interests and ghostly atmospherics. On stage in
San Fransisco,
Genesis’ presence leans the set’s seance-like atmosphere
in the l
atter direction, but recurring jackhammer blasts of rhythm and
spindly noise make sure that Chris’s presence and importance to
Throbbing Gristle doesn’t go unnoticed.
Taped voices introduce
“Spirits Flying,” before a shrieking swoop of the
synthesizer swirls
above a Can-like groove that proves that Throbbing
Gristle’s assault
never lacked talent or skill. “Vision and Voice,” like
many of the
tracks, builds and builds the noise, striking one blow
after another
against rhythm and melody. “Persuasion U.S.A.” presents
the song
with more of a creeping beat than usual, and “Discipline
(Reprise)”
gives listeners a rapid version of the song before the band
leaves the
stage to a Martin Denny tape. This Mission Of Dead Souls
is a limited white
vinyl LP edition
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