Mind / Body (1992)
In its earliest days, the Internet consisted of bulletin boards and email. The Internet was text-based back then. Monitoring Usenet newsgroups and participating in bulletin board discussions felt like being part of a community. While there is still some discussion today, Usenet has mostly become a dumping ground for binary files. The rec.music.industrial newsgroup was teeming with engaging dialogue about the many forms of "industrial" music. Almost anything fit in: electronic, ambient, prog/krautrock, harsher industrial music, gothic rock and various forms of alternative dance music. It was exciting to be online in the early to mid-1990s; I was exposed to so much new and old music. I think in many ways, the various full album music blogs provide a similar function today.
Nowhere is this early spirit of community more evident than in the DIY indie release Mind /Body. Ben Cox had the idea to compile a collection of music created by members of the RMI (rec.music.industrial) community. This eventually became the two-disc compilation released as Mind / Body. Released in 1992 under the imprint Atomic Novelties, almost all of the tracks are copyright 1991. The concept here is that disc one (tracks 1-14) contains music that feeds the mind, with disc two (tracks 15-31) providing music to fuel the body. Consequently, the first half of this compilation tends toward ambient music, with cut-up dialogue and samples. Early "isolationism," I suppose. The second half is more "industrial dance" sounding. More beat-oriented and generally more aggressive, with distorted vocals. There's a lot of music here covering a wide range of electronica from a very specific time period by a collection of mostly obscure artists. How about that for a run-on sentence!
If you're interested in reading some of the posts from way back when, check out the Google Groups rec.music.industrial archive. If I remember correctly, this set was limited to 1000 numbered copies. For what it's worth, mine is #0674.
Mind / Body (1992)
1. Grae.Com - New Age Love Song (4:07)
2. Urban Ambience - Drug Dilemma (4:12)
3. Killed by a Blöw in the Heäd - Mysteries of Pakistan (For Phil) (5:36)
4. D.A.C. Crowell - The Fall of Shartoa (9:58)
5. Macronympha - Masturbation Mantra (8:11)
6. Trance - Vicious Circle (4:51)
7. Crazy Ivan - My Ass Is Ivory (2:31)
8. John Grigsby - Sequence (3:53)
9. John Eichenseer - Down at the Blue Café (11:13)
10. Total Harmonic Distortion - The Messiah (4:31)
11. The Unit Circle - Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net (4:59)
12. Thad Donovan - Dogma (4:29)
13. Corpses Last Contact Half-Served - The Whales and Dolphins (5:18)
14. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers - The Star-Spangled Banner (2:52)
15. Insult - Gee (2:17)
16. Speakeasy - One of Woody's Women (4:29)
17. Dresden - Detraction (4:32)
18. Scott A. Lukas - Revolution in My Mind (10:00)
19. Soma Holiday - Burning Chrome (2:34)
20. Surgery Tomorrow - Shit All over You (6:20)
21. Users of the Wicked Gravity - You Shall All Decay (Heroin in a Dress) (4:34)
22. Slur - Singular (4:02)
23. Snog - Born to Be Mild (3:21)
24. Smothered Hope - Bloodletting (4:25)
25. Mary on Trial - Success (3:58)
26. BlackMan - Solace (4:08)
27. Six Sigma - Killer Bees (3:27)
28. Naram Sin - Nighthammer (6:02)
29. Who Mournes - Holiday (3:55)
30. Acme Disco Machines - Piss Christ (3:54)
31. The Evolution Control Committee - The Industrial Polka (3:04)
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9 comments:
Awesome post Kevin! I have to agree too, the early 90's was a great time online for music, etc. Blogs today, like yours, definitely have that same feel. Noone can ever listen to all the music there is, but with blogs like yours, I'm hearing much more of it. :)
There were 2 more volumes done after this. I was on those. Any chance you might post those? Perhaps I could provide them to you. There was a lot of interesting music there and it's nice to see it around again.
Aww, the links is not available anymore :(
Download link was expired/deleted. Re-uploaded and available for download again!
Naram Sin has some old videos online:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/VideoGriff/videos/2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxphruQYL8
Nice! Thanks for the links!
I'd love to find Vol 2. I have rmi mind/body vol 3 (though I've lost the CD "body", so finding that would also be nice).
I can't believe you made this post! I heard this compilation in its entirety on a college radio station. I remember the whole rec.music.industrial story, but couldn't remember the details. I ran and grabbed a cassette tape, and got most of the set taped, but all the talk was gone. I couldn't remember the name of the usenet, or of the compilation. I listened to the tape until it fell apart. ZIA's Pagan Goddess is one of the best songs EVER. Since then, and it's been a very, very long time, I've been regularly searching the internet for copies. The only time I found any thing was from a spacemusic link. I didn't have much money at the time, and while I was saving up enough to order the CD set, the link broke. My search started again. Now, it's what, 15 years later, and the internet is a bigger place. I hoped if I just kept looking, I would eventually find it. I'd look once every couple of years. Here you are. Thank you. My search has ended. This is such a great moment for me, I'd like to link you to my site. Again, thank you. You've made history in my life!
Adding to my previous comment; there are a lot of folks here with volume 3. I'd really really really like to have a copy of volume 3, again, I just love "Pagan Goddess". Please post or email me at my website. Thanks
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