Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Perennial Divide - Purge



Keep'em coming with the short posts, I think this one is quite difficult to find in this version these days.
Perennial Divide were a short living five lads group hailing from Swindon, active for about only two years before dissolving. They managed to release two 12"s and a great full length in 1986 by Sweatbox.
What I meant by "this version" is that it was re-mixed instrumentally in 1988, version which stayed unreleased up until 2007, when it was given to the world as a second cd for a compilation called Archive Things / Purged by Meat Beat Manifesto.
What do MBM have to do with this ? well, MBM started as a side project for two PD man, John Corrigan (aka Jack Dangers) and Jonny Stephens, and for some reason Corrigan thought this album sounds better in it's instrumental version... Well I very disagree on that, vocals are a major upgrade for that one, so uploaded it here.

l-r: Ward, Stephens, Corrigan, Freegard, Searly
(though am not really sure, so if anyone can confirm)




Among the two I've mentioned, were also Paul Freegard, Andrew Ward and I don't know his first name Searly. Even though this is usually referred as proto-MBM, musically, it's more similar to a link that no one looked for between the aforementioned and seminal experimental industrial/post punk groups reigning England that decade. Album of pure distinctive british sound, upbeat rhytm, noises, dub vibes.. everything from 23 Skidoo, Hula, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil and on and on, to the fully electronics sounds of early MBM.

YOU TO TUGGY TOO TOO / AW VS CARPETS

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