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45TH ANNIVERSARY RELEASE. INFORMATION OVERLOAD UNIT by “System Planning Korporation / << SPK >>” is simply essential.
A reference and absolute highlight in Industrial culture and muzak!
GRAEME REVELL wrote in 2024 for this special anniversary an exclusive Information Overload Unit / Tribute for this re-release.
Those writings are integrated into cover notes to introduce new (2024) listeners to this classic recording:
…Rather than treating noise as formless, confusing or threatening, elevating the complexity of transmission in music and art can force the receiver into creative interpretations. This process functions as preparation for a vastly more complex future with an extraordinary multiplicity of possible articulations of meaning and emotion.
There is no pure white noise. Or black noise for that matter. There is however a rawness which can lacerate and distort old habits of body and mind, primitive inputs producing complex outputs. Information Overload as a positive rather than a negative.
And there was another side of IOU – that had to do with the circumstances under which it was produced. It was a promise to those who were fans of our work that I owed them both for their support but also that the next releases would be better produced. The album was created in a ‘squat’ in South London immediately beside a railway line in a derelict building with unreliable power supply. It was recorded with practically no budget on 2-track and 4-track tape and mixed on PA speakers. The rhythms were from a Latin American drum machine processed through guitar pedals and re-recorded post PA speakers. The synthesiser was an EMS VCS3, purchased deliberately without a keyboard. It was the beginning of the way I have always worked with technology – try to make it do something beyond that for which it was designed….
— Graeme Revell, 2024.
Comes in 6 Panels Digipak + 12 Pages Booklet.
Tracklist:
1 Emanation Machine R. Gie 1916 5:23
2 Suture Obsession 5:06
3 Macht Schrecken 5:19
4 Beruftverböt 5:30
5 Ground Zero: Infinity Dose 4:18
6 Stammheim Torturkammer 4:33
7 Retard 4:25
8 Epilept: Convulse 2:32
9 Kaltbruchig Acideath 4:32
