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Hello, last week i dozed you with some alternative Wobble, this week things get even more out-there with a group with several faces and to honour this multiple personality group we get 3 very different postings coming up. Ov Power to the People ! N'Joy

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After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohorts Peter Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti, plus Geoff Rushton, formed Psychic TV in 1979 as a means of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented approach to music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic TV draws much of its inspiration from the literary underground, including situationist philosophy, William Burroughs (a professed fan), the Marquis de Sade, and Philip K. Dick. The group also claims to be the mouthpiece for its own quasi-religious group, the Temple Ov Psychick Youth.

Psychic TV was formed with the core membership of GP-O, and Alex Fergusson in 1981. Alexander Fergusson was a member of the punk outfit Alternative TV, upon whose 1978 album Vibing Up The Senile Man (Part One) had played percussion, and contributed the latter half of the name Psychic TV .Peter Christopherson got involved in 1982 and claimed that the 'TV' component of the name was intended to focus on the visual elements of the outfit.

In the earliest live performances, Psychic TV maintained much of the noisy atmosphere as Genesis' previous band, Throbbing Gristle, although now with an increased use of exotic acoustic drums and other instruments. Psychic TV were signed to WEA Records and subsequently CBS based on the infamy of Throbbing Gristle. Their first albums Force The Hand Of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Fergusson (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance - foreshadowing the pair's later work as Coil.

The live shows continued to be improvised noise until Peter Christopherson left the group and Fergusson implemented musicians capable of improvisational pop music, known as hyperdelic, such as that featured on the singles Godstar and Roman P. This led to a series of 23 live show recordings being released, which dominated most of Psychic TV's output until 1988. Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allegory and Self: Thee Starlit Mire....to be continued


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Originally released on vinyl in 1985 as DECEMBER 24, 1984--A PAGAN DAY, this 1994 CD reissue finds Psychic TV in the same sort of live improv setting that leader Genesis P. Orridge favored in his previous band, Throbbing Gristle. Indeed, PAGAN DAY was originally released during Psychic TV's first '84-'85 burst of live albums, just before their infamous barrage of 23 live albums released on the 23rd of each month between 1985 and 1987, each titled after the city where the performance was located.

Pagan Day is less extreme than some of those albums. Song structure is observed, and Orridge and cohort Alex Ferguson keep a fairly tight rein on things. The 14 songs include two untitled fragments originally released as a seven-inch single with early copies of the album, and most of them have a clearly defined musical logic and progression. Fans of Psychic TV's more out-there work might find this distressingly restrained, but it's a remarkable performance nonetheless.

Psychic TV - A Pagan Day (flac 331mb)

01 Cadaques 3:44
02 We Kiss 2:47
03 Opium 3:12
04 Cold Steel 2:55
05 Lost Angeles 2:22
06 Iceland 2:11
07 Translucent Carriages 3:21
08 Paris 3:51
09 Baby's Gone Away 2:16
10 Alice 4:32
11 New Sexuality 4:54
12 Farewell 3:42
13 Unclean 8:15
14 Pirates 21:49

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More of a Czukay album I suppose, this album is in fact an extended version of the suddessful How Much Are They EP, the rest of my Jah Wobble eighties releases i have on vinyl Bedroom album and Neon Moon but I'm unable to rip that at the moment , still if you don't have Full Circle it's well worth the attention.

Psychic TV - Mouth Of The Night (flac 261mb)

01 Dawn
02 Ordeal Of Innocence
03 The Wedding
04 Rebis
05 Separation & Undressing
06 Discopravity
07 The Immune Zone
08 Climax

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Beginning with "Godstar," Psychic TV's tribute to Brian Jones complete with Stonesy guitar licks, Allegory and Self balances surprisingly straight-ahead alternative pop with more experimental tracks using tape cut-ups or extended synthesizer freeforms. P-Orridge makes for quite an ambitious frontman, crooning like Love and Rockets' Daniel Ash on "We Kiss" and producing a series of guttural roars for "Southern Comfort." "She Was Surprised" even bears the first fruits of Psychic TV's fixation with sampladelic acid-house. It may not be characteristic Psychic TV (if such an animal exists), but Allegory and Self may well be the best introduction for beginners.

Psychic TV - Allegory and Self (  flac 363mb)

01 Godstar 3:42
02 Just Like Arcadia 4:00
03 Southern Comfort 3:45
04 We Kiss 3:37
05 She Was Surprised 5:06
06 Caresse Song 2:13
07 Starlit Mire 5:36
08 Thee Dweller 6:41
09 Being Lost 3:53
10 Baby's Gone Away 2:48
11 Ballet Disco 4:51

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previously re-rip-up

Psychic TV - Force The Hand Of Chance (  ogg 179mb)

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