A public access television show called How to Operate Your Brain, hosted by Timothy Leary from 1993, with Genesis P. Orridge.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Genesis and Douglas Rushkoff comment on the 2000 aol/time warner merger...
from disinformation.com
aol and the culturati
by Ashley Crawford (crawdada1@yahoo.com)
- November 19, 2000
In 1995 the outspoken American author Kathy Acker was taken offline by America On-Line. Acker's charged fiction first appeared in the 1970s in underground, alternative publications. By the mid-1980s she had established a huge audience and was hitting out at the mainstream, attacking everything from government and the education system, to religion and social values.
Her turbo-charged writing made her a natural denizen of the Net. Taking an account with AOL, Acker built a reputation as an outspoken member of the Internet community. However AOL took a dim view of her anarchistic approach and Acker's account was deleted.
America On-Line has an extremely bad reputation amongst the culturati on the Internet for its intense censorship in on-line forums. Now its merger with Time Warner makes it quite possibly the most powerful player on the wires. Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown points to the plethora of anti-AOL sites on the Net such as AOL Watch, anti-aol.org and aoltimewarnersucks.com. Douglas Rushkoff, author of Cyberia and Media Virus, hopes that people will rapidly tire of the content offered by the gigantic merger.
"I've always thought of AOL as training wheels for the real Internet. But a lot of people consciously choose pre-digested media, and these people, perhaps a majority, they'll get what they ask for.
"The size of AOL/Time Warner in itself won't change the opportunities for alternative viewpoints. If anything does, it will be the structure and functioning of our information infrastructure. AOL and Time Warner are both entertainment companies. They are simply looking for new ways to push their content. People who are genuinely interested in communicating, organising, educating and networking, well, they can get a taste through AOL, and if they get frustrated enough, they'll venture out onto the Internet or whatever else is around."
If anything, says Rushkoff, "this merger promises only to limit what people might be exposed to, but not necessarily what they can get ahold of."
"It's pretty clear that variety ain't gonna be the spice of life for much longer on the Web," says the author of Memory Trade; A Prehistory of Cyberculture, Darren Tofts. "There is a growing uniformity and homogeneity which is all based on free web hosting, product placement and a pervasive parasitical approach to linking; one big in crowd really. I suspect what will happen with AOL will be an intensification and consolidation of these features."
"The real issue in the merger is who controls broadband," says Sydney media-theorist McKenzie Wark.
"The cable systems are going to get broadband up before the phone companies do, and so the Internet/TV merger will happen first on cable systems. AOL Time Warner are positioning themselves to control cable access, Internet subscribers and content. It may be the usual messy merger that bogs a company down for years, or it might provide the kind of monopolistic leverage that the shareholders want and that the rest of us should fear."
According to R.U. Sirius, the founder of the cyber magazine Mondo 2000, there is a real danger of people being seduced by the giant body, but, he says, given the changing nature of media it will be a short term problem.
"There is a very real chance that there will be a substantial pocket of clueless people for whom AOL will BE the Internet," says Sirius. "They won't know the difference between the two. But in the cultural and business environments we have now, how long can that last? Less than a single generation certainly."
Richard Metzger, the Creative Director of the New York-based on-line magazine Disinformation believes the Internet is already overly crowded with cultural detritus. "Well, look at the current state of the Internet . . . it's a vast wasteland . . . cultural landfill.
"I think that all of the punditry chattering about the AOL Time Warner deal neglect to ask themselves: 'Do I care about this content?' and I think most people will answer 'No, I pay it no mind, I only use e-mail.' Beyond the MGM movie catalogue and CNN, the value of this stuff, content wise is, to my mind, fairly negligible to AOL."
Metzger points to the failure of Time Warner's Pathfinder site and asks why anyone would "want to look at the same exact stuff with a different URL?"
"With the amount of sheer white noise going on with all these newly minted dotcoms spending millions of dollars on primetime advertising campaigns where their product or service is only distinguished by whether it's Whoopie Goldberg, or Geena Davis advertising their product, what chance do these businesses have anyway?
"The Internet was always just a delivery service, a better conduit than a fanzine . . . Anyone thinking that they can start on the WWW now and garner an audience is dead wrong. It's a way too crowded field and let's face it, turn on the TV and see just how thin the talent pool has been spread! The herd has been thinned, already, and it's all gonna be downhill from here for the foreseeable future . . ."
Even the technology editor for Salon.com, an AOL content partner, saw the merger as a disastrous precedent, writing that, "AOL Time Warner's interests are now aligned opposite those of a freewheeling, independent Internet."
With its substantial music and cinema holdings, Time Warner will inevitably gain greater access to new markets. The fear many express is that this will allow the mainstream to dominate the Internet. Music that might be defined as alternative will be crowded out.
"I don't fear the mainstream," says David Thomas, the lead singer of US band Pere Ubu. "I fear the people who fear the mainstream. Media, politicians and generic do-gooders have dedicated themselves to retraining the ignorant mass of ordinary people. The internet is an exciting tool. History can be rewritten, science invented, political thought channelled, morality redefined. These are the people who succeed in companies like Time Warner and AOL.
"It's hardly surprising that corporate policy is to marginalize protestantism. So the real danger is not to pornographers and social renegades, but to the mainstream by means of a process in which the authorized reference sources become a handful of anodyne Internet sites rewriting history to tickle the market and contorting truth to avoid offense."
Genesis P. Orridge, whose bands Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle are renowned in alternative circles, is even more apocalyptic. "Financially we are in the throes of hottest passion," says Orridge. "Everyone is doing everyone else in a corporate parody of a bacchanalian orgy, complete with intrigues and perversions.
"We would do well to recall the last daze of Rome when everything was possible and the sacred and profane unified in power.
"What we are witnessing is the copulation of gargantuan entities whose tendrils probe into and feed off almost every living being on earth. It should come as no surprise that these various entities occasionally absorb each other like amoeba. What once were corporations are now sentient beings a little like feudal warlords in the Middle Ages. They have their ikonagraphic banners, their heraldic crests, and they wage wars of consuming attrition until new territories succumb to their power.
"A great, and ironic difference from the previous Middle Ages is that in years of old, soldiers and camp followers were paid for their services. Now the grunts, serfs and strap-hangers pay their Feudal Lords for the privilege of wearing their Lord's ikon in return for their services.
"AOL and Time Warner merging is part of this catastrophic process, as is the ethnic neo-tribalism upsurging everywhere. We are entering a New Dark Ages, where these corporate super-entities will wage Jihad upon each other until one blue micro-chip bond conglomerate is pivotally positioned to encompass omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence and digital infallibility on behalf of all remaining human beings.
"We are watching an anti-intellectual coup of a willingly servile Homo Sapiens by entities we imagined we created, but which really are independently sentient at this point with their own agendas and megalomaniac cravings."
However the Internet is an inherently anarchic environment. Individuals have already claimed the domain names anti-aol.org and aoltimewarnersucks.com, and they've even installed a pornography page at aolwebmaster.com with the slogan "So sleazy, no wonder I'm number one."
AOL's power play may have met its match in Georgia resident Christopher Alan. He claimed the domain stephencase.com (Stephen Case is the chairman of the new entity) and then composed an on-line rockabilly song about it.
"When you bought Time-Warner we were all impressed."How come you didn't buy your web address?""You may be a big-shot down at AOL,"but I'm the one that got your URL!"
aol and the culturati
by Ashley Crawford (crawdada1@yahoo.com)
- November 19, 2000
In 1995 the outspoken American author Kathy Acker was taken offline by America On-Line. Acker's charged fiction first appeared in the 1970s in underground, alternative publications. By the mid-1980s she had established a huge audience and was hitting out at the mainstream, attacking everything from government and the education system, to religion and social values.
Her turbo-charged writing made her a natural denizen of the Net. Taking an account with AOL, Acker built a reputation as an outspoken member of the Internet community. However AOL took a dim view of her anarchistic approach and Acker's account was deleted.
America On-Line has an extremely bad reputation amongst the culturati on the Internet for its intense censorship in on-line forums. Now its merger with Time Warner makes it quite possibly the most powerful player on the wires. Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown points to the plethora of anti-AOL sites on the Net such as AOL Watch, anti-aol.org and aoltimewarnersucks.com. Douglas Rushkoff, author of Cyberia and Media Virus, hopes that people will rapidly tire of the content offered by the gigantic merger.
"I've always thought of AOL as training wheels for the real Internet. But a lot of people consciously choose pre-digested media, and these people, perhaps a majority, they'll get what they ask for.
"The size of AOL/Time Warner in itself won't change the opportunities for alternative viewpoints. If anything does, it will be the structure and functioning of our information infrastructure. AOL and Time Warner are both entertainment companies. They are simply looking for new ways to push their content. People who are genuinely interested in communicating, organising, educating and networking, well, they can get a taste through AOL, and if they get frustrated enough, they'll venture out onto the Internet or whatever else is around."
If anything, says Rushkoff, "this merger promises only to limit what people might be exposed to, but not necessarily what they can get ahold of."
"It's pretty clear that variety ain't gonna be the spice of life for much longer on the Web," says the author of Memory Trade; A Prehistory of Cyberculture, Darren Tofts. "There is a growing uniformity and homogeneity which is all based on free web hosting, product placement and a pervasive parasitical approach to linking; one big in crowd really. I suspect what will happen with AOL will be an intensification and consolidation of these features."
"The real issue in the merger is who controls broadband," says Sydney media-theorist McKenzie Wark.
"The cable systems are going to get broadband up before the phone companies do, and so the Internet/TV merger will happen first on cable systems. AOL Time Warner are positioning themselves to control cable access, Internet subscribers and content. It may be the usual messy merger that bogs a company down for years, or it might provide the kind of monopolistic leverage that the shareholders want and that the rest of us should fear."
According to R.U. Sirius, the founder of the cyber magazine Mondo 2000, there is a real danger of people being seduced by the giant body, but, he says, given the changing nature of media it will be a short term problem.
"There is a very real chance that there will be a substantial pocket of clueless people for whom AOL will BE the Internet," says Sirius. "They won't know the difference between the two. But in the cultural and business environments we have now, how long can that last? Less than a single generation certainly."
Richard Metzger, the Creative Director of the New York-based on-line magazine Disinformation believes the Internet is already overly crowded with cultural detritus. "Well, look at the current state of the Internet . . . it's a vast wasteland . . . cultural landfill.
"I think that all of the punditry chattering about the AOL Time Warner deal neglect to ask themselves: 'Do I care about this content?' and I think most people will answer 'No, I pay it no mind, I only use e-mail.' Beyond the MGM movie catalogue and CNN, the value of this stuff, content wise is, to my mind, fairly negligible to AOL."
Metzger points to the failure of Time Warner's Pathfinder site and asks why anyone would "want to look at the same exact stuff with a different URL?"
"With the amount of sheer white noise going on with all these newly minted dotcoms spending millions of dollars on primetime advertising campaigns where their product or service is only distinguished by whether it's Whoopie Goldberg, or Geena Davis advertising their product, what chance do these businesses have anyway?
"The Internet was always just a delivery service, a better conduit than a fanzine . . . Anyone thinking that they can start on the WWW now and garner an audience is dead wrong. It's a way too crowded field and let's face it, turn on the TV and see just how thin the talent pool has been spread! The herd has been thinned, already, and it's all gonna be downhill from here for the foreseeable future . . ."
Even the technology editor for Salon.com, an AOL content partner, saw the merger as a disastrous precedent, writing that, "AOL Time Warner's interests are now aligned opposite those of a freewheeling, independent Internet."
With its substantial music and cinema holdings, Time Warner will inevitably gain greater access to new markets. The fear many express is that this will allow the mainstream to dominate the Internet. Music that might be defined as alternative will be crowded out.
"I don't fear the mainstream," says David Thomas, the lead singer of US band Pere Ubu. "I fear the people who fear the mainstream. Media, politicians and generic do-gooders have dedicated themselves to retraining the ignorant mass of ordinary people. The internet is an exciting tool. History can be rewritten, science invented, political thought channelled, morality redefined. These are the people who succeed in companies like Time Warner and AOL.
"It's hardly surprising that corporate policy is to marginalize protestantism. So the real danger is not to pornographers and social renegades, but to the mainstream by means of a process in which the authorized reference sources become a handful of anodyne Internet sites rewriting history to tickle the market and contorting truth to avoid offense."
Genesis P. Orridge, whose bands Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle are renowned in alternative circles, is even more apocalyptic. "Financially we are in the throes of hottest passion," says Orridge. "Everyone is doing everyone else in a corporate parody of a bacchanalian orgy, complete with intrigues and perversions.
"We would do well to recall the last daze of Rome when everything was possible and the sacred and profane unified in power.
"What we are witnessing is the copulation of gargantuan entities whose tendrils probe into and feed off almost every living being on earth. It should come as no surprise that these various entities occasionally absorb each other like amoeba. What once were corporations are now sentient beings a little like feudal warlords in the Middle Ages. They have their ikonagraphic banners, their heraldic crests, and they wage wars of consuming attrition until new territories succumb to their power.
"A great, and ironic difference from the previous Middle Ages is that in years of old, soldiers and camp followers were paid for their services. Now the grunts, serfs and strap-hangers pay their Feudal Lords for the privilege of wearing their Lord's ikon in return for their services.
"AOL and Time Warner merging is part of this catastrophic process, as is the ethnic neo-tribalism upsurging everywhere. We are entering a New Dark Ages, where these corporate super-entities will wage Jihad upon each other until one blue micro-chip bond conglomerate is pivotally positioned to encompass omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence and digital infallibility on behalf of all remaining human beings.
"We are watching an anti-intellectual coup of a willingly servile Homo Sapiens by entities we imagined we created, but which really are independently sentient at this point with their own agendas and megalomaniac cravings."
However the Internet is an inherently anarchic environment. Individuals have already claimed the domain names anti-aol.org and aoltimewarnersucks.com, and they've even installed a pornography page at aolwebmaster.com with the slogan "So sleazy, no wonder I'm number one."
AOL's power play may have met its match in Georgia resident Christopher Alan. He claimed the domain stephencase.com (Stephen Case is the chairman of the new entity) and then composed an on-line rockabilly song about it.
"When you bought Time-Warner we were all impressed."How come you didn't buy your web address?""You may be a big-shot down at AOL,"but I'm the one that got your URL!"
spoken word performances....
2001
Location: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. Genesis P-Orridge will be giving a special illustrated lecture on Saturday 25th April 2001 during the afternoon on the subject of "Directed Sex, Ritual Art and Magick". He will be accompanied by Baba Raul Canizares the Onirisha of the Orisha Consciousness Movement (see links). In the evening there will be a concert by THEE MAJESTY featuring Genesis, Bryin Dall and Larry Thrasher. JAH WOBBLE's new musical project will also be performing that evening
Relocating the Sacred in Contemporary Performance Practice A Five Day International Conference at the University of Central LancashirePreston, Lancashire. ENGLANDIn partnership with the Charter Theatre & Guild Hall, Preston25th - 29th April 2001 Are we still in search of the "....deepest layers of human existence - the depth's of one's inner, spiritual environment, where creative silence reigns and where the experience of sacrum occurs"? (Grotowski) How is this relevant today? How do we relocate the language of the sacred in our performance practice? How do we recolonise ancient performance practice without becoming 'tourists'? This conference event, with its mixture of practical workshops, academic papers, guest speakers, and performance, hopes to confront and engage with some of the issues surrounding the re-location of a boardly humanistic spirituality within contemporary performance practices.The conference will feature the work of a number of eminent and highly respected exponents of contemporary performance practice such as Phillip Zarrilli author of ‘Acting (RE)considered’ who has studied and taught kalarippayattu and t'ai chi ch'uan for over twenty years and Nicolás Núñez Founder and Director of the Taller de Investigación Teatral (Theatre Research Workshop) from Mexico and former pupil of Jerzy Grotowski. One off workshops will be led by Enrique Pardo - director of Pantheatre (Paris) and director of the international Myth & Theatre Festival, and Bode Lawal, artistic director of Sakoba Dance Theatre. Sakoba will be performing ‘Night Songs’ at the Charter Theatre on the Friday evening.Conference events run from 9am in the morning (training and workshop sessions) with paper sessions, guest speakers, one off workshops and forums through the afternoon. The evenings are filled with a variety of performance events; The Beckett Project is a long-term collaborative process exploring a psychophysical approach to the performance of Samuel Beckett's shorter plays that began in 1994 between Phillip Zarrilli and Patricia Boyette. This project applies a psychophysical approach to the 'interiority' demanded by Beckett's theatrical minimalism through intensive training in Asian martial/meditation arts. The performance events come to a climax on the Saturday night with a double bill featuring Jah Wobble and his band/project Deep Space, and Genesis P-Orridge with his latest incarnation Thee Majesty. Wobble's music has increasingly attempted to induce states of biorhythmic sanctity by focusing on the simple wonder of the bass pulse. In keeping with this, much of the music developed within the project Deep Space is a form of meditation which focuses and channels these incredibly tight and astonishingly talented group of musicians. Genesis P-Orridge with his latest project Thee Majesty is a fusion of spoken work, vast industrial guitar landscapes trace inducing rhythms and words.
Various incarnations of http://genesisp-orridge.com/
I spoke in the first message about my intention to create the genesis archive after seeing so much great material lost from sites like fopi.net as well as the official genesis p-orridge site which has gone thru many incarnations and periods of inactivity.
This message appeared at the bottom of the news section on the "next new way on" era of http://genesisp-orridge.com/ from around 2000 t0 2003
PERMANENT EXPLANATION and "APOLOGIA"
Genesis P-Orridge writes :
Dear website visitors. First we must apologize for having been "virtually" absent in the news realm for a few weeks. Because here at the Next New Way On project we are working on so many fronts at once sometimes we fall behind. The scope of what we are hoping to upload is huge. First there is an actual museum quantity of recordings, correspondence and artworks documenting the journey through popular culture of Genesis P-Orridge. The more we look at in the archives, the more daunting and complex it seems. There is substantial material relating to interactions with the Beats; Jajouka; 1970's Performance Art and Actionism; Mail Art and Fluxus; the origins of Industrial Music; to some extent the origins of "rave & techno" culture and then many remarkable people who have been met along the way. As if that isn't enough, there are several ongoing and new projects evolving simultaneously and parallel upon which the same few dedicated volunteers are applying all their skills.
One way we try to activate some of the ideas and speculations inherent in this search for metaphysical truth and worldly peace of mind, body and soul is to co-operate as often as we can with the makers of films and documentaries and the authors of books. That way the maximum people can access the works if they so chose and to some degree the work is preserved for a future and even effective, relevant and culturally energized for a whole new generation of seekers after the grail of expression, art and divinity.
So do please remember that in our silence is probably the germination of another special perception of this ongoing mystery of being alive, on this planet, within linear time, in the so-called (Western) year 2000.
Each month we shall try to tell you everything that is happening here. Various releases, live events, significant momeants in our lives and thoughts. In the end we shall have a unique journal of what it is like to be inside and outside of the mind of a creative and dedicated group of Cultural Engineers.
Thank You from all at the N.N.W.O.
2003
Here is genesis speaking in 2003 on the "Next New Way On" version of http://genesisp-orridge.com/ about some issues with the site and a new direction.
For almost a y-era our Next New Way On website was in limbo. Despite its flash and dazzle it became cumbersome to maintain. We rely upon the generosity of interns and volunteers to catalogue our archives, support our ongoing projects, and to develop collaborative models that allow our idealistic philosophies to co-exist practically with the internet. It had become apparent that each Individual who helped had personal digital idiosyncracies that led to a gradual build up of glitches and burrows, dead ends and breakdowns that were inoperable and unwieldy. On top of these accumulating weaknesses, as each new webmaster became fluent with the site and began to add their own new structural codes and designs they would leave. Some were poached by large corporations, others were re-MINDed they were still required socially by lovers, and still others were inevitably forced to find gainful employment to survive. Behind all those reasons lurked another more terrifying realization. Unlike most sites that are scrambling for meagre portions of content, our archives ( "THEE LAST MUSEUM") can supply almost infinite content! Stretching back to the late 50's and early 60's to the present they are not passive, but continue to grow and expand as our contemporary and future activities unfold and new people make contact with us or collaborate with us on more art, literature, and cultural engineering. This left even the most dogged and loyal inner circles simply burned out by the immensity of the infinitely pen-ultimate task. Overwhelmed and baffled as to where to begin and how to organize all this information they would amicably surrender and be forced to move on. We found ourselves having to search once more for a new whiz-ard to train up and orientate before another version of the whole, mutually frustrating loop happened again.
IF IT'S BROKE - DON'T FIX IT!
So welcome back to our world, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge invite you to visit awhile, maybe pop in to see us on a regular basis, and we shall try our best to be charming and entertaining hosts. Not always as easy as it might sound.
As 2003 unfolded we realized that, rather than keep treading virtual water trying to manifest our complex and futuristic website dreams, we should should be radical, do the obvious, and scrap the whole site and start all over again. This time designing a siple, multi-computer spec' friendly and easily readable website. Keeping it simple will give the maximum number of people a chance to access and, hopefully, enjoy the site.
We have chosen to make this site one that we ourselves can upload content onto wherever possible thereby leaving our new super-maestro DAN MOBIUSTRIP to work on an efficient, and logical, structure and the more difficult but, for him, rewarding assignments such as adding MP3's of tracks (eventually) from ALL our official CD and record releases. A gigantic task as there are around 300 CD's that we know of that include the music and/or lyrics of Genesis P-Orridge (aka Breyer P-Orridge). DAN will also upload streaming video clips, at last! and supervise Thee Last Museum exhibitions as they begin once more.
For those of you who were regular visitors to this, the ONLY official Genesis P-Orridge; Breyer P-Orridge; COUM Transmissions; Psychic TV; Thee Majesty; Thee Howler; Next New Way On and any and all other incarnations and collaborations of the person formerly known as Genesis P-Orridge website; who have been following the developments of this person, this inevitably fictional being that has now morphed with is other half LADY JAYE BREYER P-ORRIDGE to become a new, third gender, pandrogenous entity and hermaphroditic artist and creative spirit to be known henceforth as BREYER P-ORRIDGE. For those loyal and longterm allies of our explorations so far, we intend to keep the old site as part of the archives of this new site for the time being. New visitors can go and see it and realize more adroitly why we have streamlined, but oh what fun we had! It is our plan in the near future to burn the old site onto a CD and sell it through our Fee/mail order shoppe for a nominal sum both for collectors who are completists and as an art curio.
Talking of Thee Fee/Mail Shoppe! AT LAST...we have developed a shopping cart system that will utilize PayPal for payments. This means that during September, and thereafter, we will upload pictures and details of various memorabilia and limited editions, items from our extensive archives and entirely new products for sale. Regular visits to Thee Shoppe and the site will pay off for any people collecting any aspect of our body of work as we shall be selling extremely rare items, both from our past like one of a kind Test Pressings; collages; posters and other mail art, fluxshoe;a few rare T.O.P.Y. publications; PTV ephemera and also entirely NEW art multiples and prints resulting from our 21st Century manifestation and exploration process "BREAKING SEX - WE ARE BUT ONE...BITCH!"
This message appeared at the bottom of the news section on the "next new way on" era of http://genesisp-orridge.com/ from around 2000 t0 2003
PERMANENT EXPLANATION and "APOLOGIA"
Genesis P-Orridge writes :
Dear website visitors. First we must apologize for having been "virtually" absent in the news realm for a few weeks. Because here at the Next New Way On project we are working on so many fronts at once sometimes we fall behind. The scope of what we are hoping to upload is huge. First there is an actual museum quantity of recordings, correspondence and artworks documenting the journey through popular culture of Genesis P-Orridge. The more we look at in the archives, the more daunting and complex it seems. There is substantial material relating to interactions with the Beats; Jajouka; 1970's Performance Art and Actionism; Mail Art and Fluxus; the origins of Industrial Music; to some extent the origins of "rave & techno" culture and then many remarkable people who have been met along the way. As if that isn't enough, there are several ongoing and new projects evolving simultaneously and parallel upon which the same few dedicated volunteers are applying all their skills.
One way we try to activate some of the ideas and speculations inherent in this search for metaphysical truth and worldly peace of mind, body and soul is to co-operate as often as we can with the makers of films and documentaries and the authors of books. That way the maximum people can access the works if they so chose and to some degree the work is preserved for a future and even effective, relevant and culturally energized for a whole new generation of seekers after the grail of expression, art and divinity.
So do please remember that in our silence is probably the germination of another special perception of this ongoing mystery of being alive, on this planet, within linear time, in the so-called (Western) year 2000.
Each month we shall try to tell you everything that is happening here. Various releases, live events, significant momeants in our lives and thoughts. In the end we shall have a unique journal of what it is like to be inside and outside of the mind of a creative and dedicated group of Cultural Engineers.
Thank You from all at the N.N.W.O.
2003
Here is genesis speaking in 2003 on the "Next New Way On" version of http://genesisp-orridge.com/ about some issues with the site and a new direction.
For almost a y-era our Next New Way On website was in limbo. Despite its flash and dazzle it became cumbersome to maintain. We rely upon the generosity of interns and volunteers to catalogue our archives, support our ongoing projects, and to develop collaborative models that allow our idealistic philosophies to co-exist practically with the internet. It had become apparent that each Individual who helped had personal digital idiosyncracies that led to a gradual build up of glitches and burrows, dead ends and breakdowns that were inoperable and unwieldy. On top of these accumulating weaknesses, as each new webmaster became fluent with the site and began to add their own new structural codes and designs they would leave. Some were poached by large corporations, others were re-MINDed they were still required socially by lovers, and still others were inevitably forced to find gainful employment to survive. Behind all those reasons lurked another more terrifying realization. Unlike most sites that are scrambling for meagre portions of content, our archives ( "THEE LAST MUSEUM") can supply almost infinite content! Stretching back to the late 50's and early 60's to the present they are not passive, but continue to grow and expand as our contemporary and future activities unfold and new people make contact with us or collaborate with us on more art, literature, and cultural engineering. This left even the most dogged and loyal inner circles simply burned out by the immensity of the infinitely pen-ultimate task. Overwhelmed and baffled as to where to begin and how to organize all this information they would amicably surrender and be forced to move on. We found ourselves having to search once more for a new whiz-ard to train up and orientate before another version of the whole, mutually frustrating loop happened again.
IF IT'S BROKE - DON'T FIX IT!
So welcome back to our world, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge invite you to visit awhile, maybe pop in to see us on a regular basis, and we shall try our best to be charming and entertaining hosts. Not always as easy as it might sound.
As 2003 unfolded we realized that, rather than keep treading virtual water trying to manifest our complex and futuristic website dreams, we should should be radical, do the obvious, and scrap the whole site and start all over again. This time designing a siple, multi-computer spec' friendly and easily readable website. Keeping it simple will give the maximum number of people a chance to access and, hopefully, enjoy the site.
We have chosen to make this site one that we ourselves can upload content onto wherever possible thereby leaving our new super-maestro DAN MOBIUSTRIP to work on an efficient, and logical, structure and the more difficult but, for him, rewarding assignments such as adding MP3's of tracks (eventually) from ALL our official CD and record releases. A gigantic task as there are around 300 CD's that we know of that include the music and/or lyrics of Genesis P-Orridge (aka Breyer P-Orridge). DAN will also upload streaming video clips, at last! and supervise Thee Last Museum exhibitions as they begin once more.
For those of you who were regular visitors to this, the ONLY official Genesis P-Orridge; Breyer P-Orridge; COUM Transmissions; Psychic TV; Thee Majesty; Thee Howler; Next New Way On and any and all other incarnations and collaborations of the person formerly known as Genesis P-Orridge website; who have been following the developments of this person, this inevitably fictional being that has now morphed with is other half LADY JAYE BREYER P-ORRIDGE to become a new, third gender, pandrogenous entity and hermaphroditic artist and creative spirit to be known henceforth as BREYER P-ORRIDGE. For those loyal and longterm allies of our explorations so far, we intend to keep the old site as part of the archives of this new site for the time being. New visitors can go and see it and realize more adroitly why we have streamlined, but oh what fun we had! It is our plan in the near future to burn the old site onto a CD and sell it through our Fee/mail order shoppe for a nominal sum both for collectors who are completists and as an art curio.
Talking of Thee Fee/Mail Shoppe! AT LAST...we have developed a shopping cart system that will utilize PayPal for payments. This means that during September, and thereafter, we will upload pictures and details of various memorabilia and limited editions, items from our extensive archives and entirely new products for sale. Regular visits to Thee Shoppe and the site will pay off for any people collecting any aspect of our body of work as we shall be selling extremely rare items, both from our past like one of a kind Test Pressings; collages; posters and other mail art, fluxshoe;a few rare T.O.P.Y. publications; PTV ephemera and also entirely NEW art multiples and prints resulting from our 21st Century manifestation and exploration process "BREAKING SEX - WE ARE BUT ONE...BITCH!"
Written by Genesis P-orridge...articles,books, book introductions...
BOOKS INCLUDING TEXTS/ESSAYS BY OR ON GENESIS P-ORRIDGE
+ RE/SEARCH: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS/BRION GYSIN/THROBBING GRISTLE – includes contributions by G.P-O for Burroughs and Gysin sections as well as a complete section on the project that invented the term Industrial Music, TG which he co-founded in 1975. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, san francisco, U.S.A. 1982.
+ THE FINAL ACADEMY DOCUMENTS: STATEMENTS OF A KIND – catalogue of the multi-media events of the same name celebrating Gysin/Burroughs and the Beats profound influence conceived by G. P-O and co-organised with David Dawson and Roger Ely. Published by The Final Academy, London, England, 1982.
+ RE/SEARCH :INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK – Anthology including Genesis P-Orridge; Monte Cazazza; Z’Ev; SRL and others. Exploring the Industrial Culture genre as it began. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, San Francisco, U.S.A. 1983.
+ DECODER HANDBUCH – Book accompanying cult German post-beatnik corporate satire film “Decoder”, with essays on control, muzak and cultural indoctrination. ”. Edited by Klaus Maeck/Volker Schafer/Genesis P-Orridge/Muscha. Published by Trikont, Duisburg, Germany, 1984.
+ TAPE DELAY – By Charles Neal. Includes long astorical interview with Genesis P-Orridge about Throbbing Gristle. Published by SAF Books, London, England, 1987.
+ RE/SEARCH:MODERN PRIMITIVES – Includes long interview section by/on Genesis P-Orridge. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, San Francisco, U.S.A.,1989.
+ BLISSED OUT: THE RAPTURES OF ROCK – By Simon Reynolds. Includes interview with Genesis P-Orridge. Published by Serpent’s Tail Press, London, England, 1990.
+ RAPID EYE: VOLUME ONE – Includes essay by G.P-O on Brion Gysin “HIS NAME WAS MASTER” and 90 page biography on G.P-O by Simon Dwyer (still the only bio extant) “FROM ATAVISM TO ZYKLON B..”. Edited by Simon Dwyer. Published by Rapid Eye, Brighton, England 1989. Re-published by Creation Books, London, England 1993.
+ RAPID EYE: VOLUME TWO – Includes essay by G.P-O, “Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick”. Edited by Simon Dwyer. Published by Creation Books, London, England, 1992.
+ RATIO:3 – TRANSMEDIATORS – Z’Ev/Andrew MacKenzie/Genesis P-Orridge edition. Conceptual art and literary texts. G.P-O section is a collection of his COUM statemeants from the 70’s. Edited by Paul Cecil. Published by Temple Press, Brighton, England, 1992.
+ THE WILD PALMS READER - Companion book to the Oliver Stone sci-fi TV mini-series. Genesis P-Orridge wrote all the fictional texts attributed to a key character, Senator Kreuzer. Edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Sweezey. Published by St. Martins Press, New York, U.S.A., 1992.
+ FLICKERS OF THE DREAMACHINE – Anthology of writings about Brion Gysin and his Dreamachine. Includes 2 texts by G. P-O. Edited by Paul Cecil. Published by Codex Books, Brighton, England, 1996.
+ NAKED LENS: BEAT CINEMA – Includes a full chapter by G.P-O on his involvement with the rescue and restoration of rare Beat films by Burroughs/Gysin/Balch and the story of his concept of The Final Academy. Edited by Jack Sergeant. Published by Creation Books, London, England, 1997.
+ WRECKERS OF CIVILIZATION: THE STORY OF COUM TRANSMISSIONS AND THROBBING GRISTLE - Seminal monograph about the creative vision of COUM Transmissions, by Genesis P-Orridge and its notorious unfolding later with collaborators Chris Carter; Cosey Fanni Tutti; Peter Christopherson. And the story of their follow up musical project TG and the controversial activities resulting from these globally influential and modern performance art and Industrial music conceptions. Written by Simon Ford. Published by Black Dog Press, London, England, 1999.
+ PAINFUL BUT FABULOUS: THE LIVES AND ART OF GENESIS
P-ORRIDGE…to be continued…all ways…
VERY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY of BREYER P-ORRIDGE
(n.b.: The artist BREYER P-ORRIDGE have had articles on them/by them published in literally thousands of magazines and periodicals, and an extremely numerous number of books worldwide in their many guises. This list is brutally short)
+ 30 YEARS OF BEING CUT-UP 100 full color reproductions of mail art and collages. Published by Invisible-Exports, New York, 2009. Edited by Benjamin Tischer & Risa Needleman.
+ THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Published by Feral House Press, Port Townsend, Washington State, U.S.A. 2009.
+ WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION by Simon Ford. The official story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle. Published by Black Dog Publishing, London, U.K. 1999.
+ RE/SEARCH #4/5- William S. Burroughs/Brion Gysin/Throbbing Gristle edited by V. Vale. Published by RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1979.
+ RE/SERCH #6/7- Industrial Culture Handbook Edited by V. Vale. Published by RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1983.
+ ESOTERRORIST – Selected Essays 1980-1988 by Genesis P-Orridge. Published by OVA Press, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. 1989. (3 printings). Republished by MediaKaos/Alecto Enterprises, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1994.
PORTABLE DARKNESS: ALEISTER CROWLEY READER...FOREWARD BY GEN
http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Darkness-Aleister-Crowley-Reader/dp/0971457875
2003
Genesis post from 2003 on the "Next New Way On" era of http://genesisp-orridge.com/
discussing the release of Disinformation:"The book of lies"
THE BOOK OF LIES IS OUT!
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Lies-Disinformation-Magick-Occult/dp/097139427X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281257229&sr=1-3
A nice big fat large format anthology centered around the concept of being a guide to the occult in the 21st century edited by our friend RICHARD METZGER of Disinformation has just been published. It contains dozens of essays and speculative texts by or concerned with such luminaries as William S, Burroughs; Brion Gysin; Timothy Leary; Grant Morrison; Hakim Bey; Daniel Pinchbeck; Terence McKenna; Robert Anton Wilson; Joe Coleman and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. In fact there are THREE essays by G.B.P-O in the book. A version of "Thee Splinter Test", "Virtual Mirrors In Solid Time", and an entirely new 16 page text on Burroughs and Gysin as conscious practising shaman/magickians called "MAGICK SQUARES AND FUTURE BEATS".
The book is heavily illustrated all the way through, a great many photographs are published for the very first time through the generosity of Thee Last Museum project and our personal archives. We feel this is the most useful manual around for getting a grounding in contemporary occultural strategies and speculations. Having said that, there is a very glaring lack of women authors and artists. Patriarchy has a habit of being self-referential, self-reverential and self perpetuating. It's a pity. There are women in Astory who have contributed to our understanding of the other dimensions and possibilities of reality. Madame Blavatsky for example. In recent years there has been un upsurge of post-psychedlic feminine exploration of magick both in more neo-native american, ethno-botanical ( Kat McKenna for eg.), intuitive synthetic magick ritual practised by people like the Women's Red Circle of Ratio 3 T.O.P.Y. before it was terminated in 1991. Of course it takes longer to expose and bring to light the work of women pioneers in any field. Magick in particular often saw women (Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons could fall into this category) as a little too literally "VESSELS". Almost an extra magickal tool to use in occult work, rather than work WITH. So the ommission of groundbreaking new research focussed on the female lineages is a weakness. There's also a preponderance of Western Ritual magick practice. We feel there could have been some trimming of nazi occultism in favour of including a text on YORUBA ORISHA worship traditions, which is the fastest growing religion in the United States at present due to its prevelance in the Latino community. The occult is an huge area of humanE endeavor so no one envies Richard's task in deciding on what to include. Suffice it to say that we don't get any Tibettan "Bon Po" sorcery, or HOPI and other Native American secret traditions, no New Guinea sorcery, no Aboriginal mysteries. The Book Of Lies is extremely Euro-centric.
Nevertheless, it is packed full of thinking and wondering and some good precis of key Western figures and events. We are happy to discover that the essay on "The Magickal Processes and Methods of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin" has been singled out for very positive praise several times as a new perspective upon their body of work and previously undocumented motivation for many collaborations.
Richard...how about a SISTER volume on The Astory of Women and the Occult, and maybe, magickal systems and sorceries from around the world?
2008
Genesis written introduction to Steven Johnson Leyba's "Last american painter"
purchase the book here http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/the-last-american-painter/3739400
read the intro here at thee archive
http://genesisporridgearchive.blogspot.com/2010/07/gens-intro-to-steven-johnson-leybas.html
2009
LIFE, DEATH, LETTERS AND NUMBERS
October 28th, 2009
This book is a collection of ink and watercolor paintings from the last 3 years from tattooist, Daniel Albrigo.
All works are on paper.
Introduction by the lovely Genesis Breyer P. Orridge.
Contributions by Thomas Hooper and Sam Friedman. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/916829
Daniel will be presenting new work with Breyer P-Orridge for the show, PUTTING YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, at Renwick Gallery (NYC) February 1 – 22, 2010. http://www.renwickgallery.com/
+ RE/SEARCH: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS/BRION GYSIN/THROBBING GRISTLE – includes contributions by G.P-O for Burroughs and Gysin sections as well as a complete section on the project that invented the term Industrial Music, TG which he co-founded in 1975. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, san francisco, U.S.A. 1982.
+ THE FINAL ACADEMY DOCUMENTS: STATEMENTS OF A KIND – catalogue of the multi-media events of the same name celebrating Gysin/Burroughs and the Beats profound influence conceived by G. P-O and co-organised with David Dawson and Roger Ely. Published by The Final Academy, London, England, 1982.
+ RE/SEARCH :INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK – Anthology including Genesis P-Orridge; Monte Cazazza; Z’Ev; SRL and others. Exploring the Industrial Culture genre as it began. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, San Francisco, U.S.A. 1983.
+ DECODER HANDBUCH – Book accompanying cult German post-beatnik corporate satire film “Decoder”, with essays on control, muzak and cultural indoctrination. ”. Edited by Klaus Maeck/Volker Schafer/Genesis P-Orridge/Muscha. Published by Trikont, Duisburg, Germany, 1984.
+ TAPE DELAY – By Charles Neal. Includes long astorical interview with Genesis P-Orridge about Throbbing Gristle. Published by SAF Books, London, England, 1987.
+ RE/SEARCH:MODERN PRIMITIVES – Includes long interview section by/on Genesis P-Orridge. Edited by Vale. Published by Re/Search, San Francisco, U.S.A.,1989.
+ BLISSED OUT: THE RAPTURES OF ROCK – By Simon Reynolds. Includes interview with Genesis P-Orridge. Published by Serpent’s Tail Press, London, England, 1990.
+ RAPID EYE: VOLUME ONE – Includes essay by G.P-O on Brion Gysin “HIS NAME WAS MASTER” and 90 page biography on G.P-O by Simon Dwyer (still the only bio extant) “FROM ATAVISM TO ZYKLON B..”. Edited by Simon Dwyer. Published by Rapid Eye, Brighton, England 1989. Re-published by Creation Books, London, England 1993.
+ RAPID EYE: VOLUME TWO – Includes essay by G.P-O, “Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick”. Edited by Simon Dwyer. Published by Creation Books, London, England, 1992.
+ RATIO:3 – TRANSMEDIATORS – Z’Ev/Andrew MacKenzie/Genesis P-Orridge edition. Conceptual art and literary texts. G.P-O section is a collection of his COUM statemeants from the 70’s. Edited by Paul Cecil. Published by Temple Press, Brighton, England, 1992.
+ THE WILD PALMS READER - Companion book to the Oliver Stone sci-fi TV mini-series. Genesis P-Orridge wrote all the fictional texts attributed to a key character, Senator Kreuzer. Edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Sweezey. Published by St. Martins Press, New York, U.S.A., 1992.
+ FLICKERS OF THE DREAMACHINE – Anthology of writings about Brion Gysin and his Dreamachine. Includes 2 texts by G. P-O. Edited by Paul Cecil. Published by Codex Books, Brighton, England, 1996.
+ NAKED LENS: BEAT CINEMA – Includes a full chapter by G.P-O on his involvement with the rescue and restoration of rare Beat films by Burroughs/Gysin/Balch and the story of his concept of The Final Academy. Edited by Jack Sergeant. Published by Creation Books, London, England, 1997.
+ WRECKERS OF CIVILIZATION: THE STORY OF COUM TRANSMISSIONS AND THROBBING GRISTLE - Seminal monograph about the creative vision of COUM Transmissions, by Genesis P-Orridge and its notorious unfolding later with collaborators Chris Carter; Cosey Fanni Tutti; Peter Christopherson. And the story of their follow up musical project TG and the controversial activities resulting from these globally influential and modern performance art and Industrial music conceptions. Written by Simon Ford. Published by Black Dog Press, London, England, 1999.
+ PAINFUL BUT FABULOUS: THE LIVES AND ART OF GENESIS
P-ORRIDGE…to be continued…all ways…
VERY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY of BREYER P-ORRIDGE
(n.b.: The artist BREYER P-ORRIDGE have had articles on them/by them published in literally thousands of magazines and periodicals, and an extremely numerous number of books worldwide in their many guises. This list is brutally short)
+ 30 YEARS OF BEING CUT-UP 100 full color reproductions of mail art and collages. Published by Invisible-Exports, New York, 2009. Edited by Benjamin Tischer & Risa Needleman.
+ THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Published by Feral House Press, Port Townsend, Washington State, U.S.A. 2009.
+ WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION by Simon Ford. The official story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle. Published by Black Dog Publishing, London, U.K. 1999.
+ RE/SEARCH #4/5- William S. Burroughs/Brion Gysin/Throbbing Gristle edited by V. Vale. Published by RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1979.
+ RE/SERCH #6/7- Industrial Culture Handbook Edited by V. Vale. Published by RE/Search Publications, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1983.
+ ESOTERRORIST – Selected Essays 1980-1988 by Genesis P-Orridge. Published by OVA Press, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. 1989. (3 printings). Republished by MediaKaos/Alecto Enterprises, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1994.
PORTABLE DARKNESS: ALEISTER CROWLEY READER...FOREWARD BY GEN
2003
Genesis post from 2003 on the "Next New Way On" era of http://genesisp-orridge.com/
discussing the release of Disinformation:"The book of lies"
THE BOOK OF LIES IS OUT!
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Lies-Disinformation-Magick-Occult/dp/097139427X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281257229&sr=1-3
A nice big fat large format anthology centered around the concept of being a guide to the occult in the 21st century edited by our friend RICHARD METZGER of Disinformation has just been published. It contains dozens of essays and speculative texts by or concerned with such luminaries as William S, Burroughs; Brion Gysin; Timothy Leary; Grant Morrison; Hakim Bey; Daniel Pinchbeck; Terence McKenna; Robert Anton Wilson; Joe Coleman and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. In fact there are THREE essays by G.B.P-O in the book. A version of "Thee Splinter Test", "Virtual Mirrors In Solid Time", and an entirely new 16 page text on Burroughs and Gysin as conscious practising shaman/magickians called "MAGICK SQUARES AND FUTURE BEATS".
The book is heavily illustrated all the way through, a great many photographs are published for the very first time through the generosity of Thee Last Museum project and our personal archives. We feel this is the most useful manual around for getting a grounding in contemporary occultural strategies and speculations. Having said that, there is a very glaring lack of women authors and artists. Patriarchy has a habit of being self-referential, self-reverential and self perpetuating. It's a pity. There are women in Astory who have contributed to our understanding of the other dimensions and possibilities of reality. Madame Blavatsky for example. In recent years there has been un upsurge of post-psychedlic feminine exploration of magick both in more neo-native american, ethno-botanical ( Kat McKenna for eg.), intuitive synthetic magick ritual practised by people like the Women's Red Circle of Ratio 3 T.O.P.Y. before it was terminated in 1991. Of course it takes longer to expose and bring to light the work of women pioneers in any field. Magick in particular often saw women (Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons could fall into this category) as a little too literally "VESSELS". Almost an extra magickal tool to use in occult work, rather than work WITH. So the ommission of groundbreaking new research focussed on the female lineages is a weakness. There's also a preponderance of Western Ritual magick practice. We feel there could have been some trimming of nazi occultism in favour of including a text on YORUBA ORISHA worship traditions, which is the fastest growing religion in the United States at present due to its prevelance in the Latino community. The occult is an huge area of humanE endeavor so no one envies Richard's task in deciding on what to include. Suffice it to say that we don't get any Tibettan "Bon Po" sorcery, or HOPI and other Native American secret traditions, no New Guinea sorcery, no Aboriginal mysteries. The Book Of Lies is extremely Euro-centric.
Nevertheless, it is packed full of thinking and wondering and some good precis of key Western figures and events. We are happy to discover that the essay on "The Magickal Processes and Methods of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin" has been singled out for very positive praise several times as a new perspective upon their body of work and previously undocumented motivation for many collaborations.
Richard...how about a SISTER volume on The Astory of Women and the Occult, and maybe, magickal systems and sorceries from around the world?
2008
purchase the book here http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/the-last-american-painter/3739400
read the intro here at thee archive
http://genesisporridgearchive.blogspot.com/2010/07/gens-intro-to-steven-johnson-leybas.html
2009
LIFE, DEATH, LETTERS AND NUMBERS
October 28th, 2009
This book is a collection of ink and watercolor paintings from the last 3 years from tattooist, Daniel Albrigo.
All works are on paper.
Introduction by the lovely Genesis Breyer P. Orridge.
Contributions by Thomas Hooper and Sam Friedman. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/916829
Daniel will be presenting new work with Breyer P-Orridge for the show, PUTTING YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, at Renwick Gallery (NYC) February 1 – 22, 2010. http://www.renwickgallery.com/
The 23 live series ...
The live 23 series was intended as a series of 23 official albums on Temple Records.During a time of 23 months each 23rd of the month a new album was announced to be released.For some reason the series was never completed.
The first 9 albums of the live 23 series contained a "voucher".
Album no. 10 ("psychedelic violence") was only available for sending in all 9 vouchers.
voucher 1 from live in tokyo"
voucher 2 from live in paris"
voucher 3 from "live in heaven"
voucher 4 from "live in glasgow"
voucher 5 from "live in reykjavik"
LIVE 23 SERIES NUMBER ONE
PSYCHIC TV are
Matthew Best
Philip Erb
Alex Fergusson
Mouse
Paula P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
tracks:
Supermale
I Like You
Japan Boy
Riot In Thee Eye
Just Relax
E L-OV-E U
2003 RERELEASES
in 2003 genesis had This to say about the 23 series and the 10th album, on "The-Next New-Way-On" Genesis P-Orridge website
PSYCHIC TV LIVE SERIES on VOICEPRINT RECORDS:
During the 1980's a lot of bootlegs began appearing of PTV live, especially in Europe. In the end, to try and stop the pirates and funnel a little of the money generated back into our ongoing creative projects we decided to release 23 (at that time vinyl) albums of PSYCHIC TV live. It enabled us to try and ensure the best possible quality of sound, although BE WARNED many are still just from cassette tapes and very much for the serious enthusiast. It also meant we could design a graphic unity and publish thoughtful, or informative texts on the sleeves. Each of the first 9 records had a voucher inside. Any Individual who collected all 9 vouchers could send them in to us at our own label, Temple records and receive a free 10th album of new studio recordings that was a yellow picture disc. The nickname of that free, very limited album was "Psychedlic Violence"...
BY THE WAY, we here at The-Next New-Way-On Genesis P-Orridge website do not even have a copy of the original 10th album. We'd LOVE to have one donated to Thee Last Museum archives to help complete our collection. If you have one to spare for us, please send it carefully packed to: Breyer P-Orridge, P.O.Box 1400, New York City, NY. 10009, USA. Ta!
WOW! BRUCE LA FONTAINE of SWORD VOLCANO COMPLEX has sent us a copy of the yellow album
Thank you Bruce. It is so nice to know our sense of chosen famille, and generosity of spirit as a way of being are not just empty theories, but are manifest in and by action.
ANYWAY...this y-era we have arranged with VOICEPRINT RECORDS in England to gradually re-release the live series on CD. (The original series imploded at about record #16(?), see even we're not sure!) The first 6 CD's were simply duplicated from old CD's. But from #7 onwards each CD is to be re-mastered. So far Bryin Dall of Thee Majesty has undertaken this task, donating huge amounts of hours late at night on his computer. The sleeve notes so far (#1-#12) are excerpts from the journals Genesis kept at the time. Deliberately intimate and vulnerable, an honest attempt to share how it feels to want to create music and ideas that in some way might inspire or console other humane beings, and possibly even help us become a more compassionate and divinely touched species.
Eddie O'Dowd, an amazing designer has developed the original designs to give a more perfect rendering of the documentary aspects of the project.
Every CD is numbered. Limited to 1000 copies ONLY. No exceptions! To date, the following twelve dis-concerts listed below have been released. Your best bet, if you wish to order them is to go directly to
www.voiceprint.co.uk
and find the new Temple Records, Psychic TV sector of their website and order them online. Keep checking back because we hope to eventually, over the coming y-eras, release anything up to 60 CD's from the earliest, to the most recent incarnations of PTV.
PSYCHIC TV - THEE LIVE SERIES #'s 1-12 :-
LIVE IN ASTORIA
LIVE IN BERLIN (Part 1)
LIVE IN BERLIN (Part 2)
LIVE IN BREGENZ
LIVE IN EUROPA (Vol.1)
LIVE IN GLASGOW Plus
LIVE IN GOTTINGEN
LIVE IN PARIS
LIVE IN THEE EAST VILLAGE
LIVE IN THEE MEAN FIDDLER
LIVE IN THEE SUBTERRANIA
LIVE IN TORONTO
The first 9 albums of the live 23 series contained a "voucher".
Album no. 10 ("psychedelic violence") was only available for sending in all 9 vouchers.
voucher 1 from live in tokyo"
voucher 2 from live in paris"
voucher 3 from "live in heaven"
voucher 4 from "live in glasgow"
voucher 5 from "live in reykjavik"
LIVE 23 SERIES NUMBER ONE
"Live In Tokyo"
1986-Temple Records TOPY 015
(January 18/1986 in Tokyo, Japan)
1986-Temple Records TOPY 015
(January 18/1986 in Tokyo, Japan)
Limited Edition 5000 with voucher #1.
PSYCHIC TV are
Matthew Best
Philip Erb
Alex Fergusson
Mouse
Paula P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
tracks:
Supermale
I Like You
Japan Boy
Riot In Thee Eye
Just Relax
E L-OV-E U
2003 RERELEASES
in 2003 genesis had This to say about the 23 series and the 10th album, on "The-Next New-Way-On" Genesis P-Orridge website
PSYCHIC TV LIVE SERIES on VOICEPRINT RECORDS:
During the 1980's a lot of bootlegs began appearing of PTV live, especially in Europe. In the end, to try and stop the pirates and funnel a little of the money generated back into our ongoing creative projects we decided to release 23 (at that time vinyl) albums of PSYCHIC TV live. It enabled us to try and ensure the best possible quality of sound, although BE WARNED many are still just from cassette tapes and very much for the serious enthusiast. It also meant we could design a graphic unity and publish thoughtful, or informative texts on the sleeves. Each of the first 9 records had a voucher inside. Any Individual who collected all 9 vouchers could send them in to us at our own label, Temple records and receive a free 10th album of new studio recordings that was a yellow picture disc. The nickname of that free, very limited album was "Psychedlic Violence"...
BY THE WAY, we here at The-Next New-Way-On Genesis P-Orridge website do not even have a copy of the original 10th album. We'd LOVE to have one donated to Thee Last Museum archives to help complete our collection. If you have one to spare for us, please send it carefully packed to: Breyer P-Orridge, P.O.Box 1400, New York City, NY. 10009, USA. Ta!
WOW! BRUCE LA FONTAINE of SWORD VOLCANO COMPLEX has sent us a copy of the yellow album
Thank you Bruce. It is so nice to know our sense of chosen famille, and generosity of spirit as a way of being are not just empty theories, but are manifest in and by action.
ANYWAY...this y-era we have arranged with VOICEPRINT RECORDS in England to gradually re-release the live series on CD. (The original series imploded at about record #16(?), see even we're not sure!) The first 6 CD's were simply duplicated from old CD's. But from #7 onwards each CD is to be re-mastered. So far Bryin Dall of Thee Majesty has undertaken this task, donating huge amounts of hours late at night on his computer. The sleeve notes so far (#1-#12) are excerpts from the journals Genesis kept at the time. Deliberately intimate and vulnerable, an honest attempt to share how it feels to want to create music and ideas that in some way might inspire or console other humane beings, and possibly even help us become a more compassionate and divinely touched species.
Eddie O'Dowd, an amazing designer has developed the original designs to give a more perfect rendering of the documentary aspects of the project.
Every CD is numbered. Limited to 1000 copies ONLY. No exceptions! To date, the following twelve dis-concerts listed below have been released. Your best bet, if you wish to order them is to go directly to
www.voiceprint.co.uk
and find the new Temple Records, Psychic TV sector of their website and order them online. Keep checking back because we hope to eventually, over the coming y-eras, release anything up to 60 CD's from the earliest, to the most recent incarnations of PTV.
PSYCHIC TV - THEE LIVE SERIES #'s 1-12 :-
LIVE IN ASTORIA
LIVE IN BERLIN (Part 1)
LIVE IN BERLIN (Part 2)
LIVE IN BREGENZ
LIVE IN EUROPA (Vol.1)
LIVE IN GLASGOW Plus
LIVE IN GOTTINGEN
LIVE IN PARIS
LIVE IN THEE EAST VILLAGE
LIVE IN THEE MEAN FIDDLER
LIVE IN THEE SUBTERRANIA
LIVE IN TORONTO
PTV4UNE digizine ISSUE 1 - January 23, 1995
This digizine was originally published by transmedia foundation. The original zip-file came with the text file below and a additional dream machine stimulator program.
January 23, 1995
Greetings and welcome to the first and introductory
installment of our "Electronic Zine" dedicated to the musics
and happenings of PSYCHIC TV. This issue will basically be
devoted to telling you about what we hope to offer in the
future as well as other little bits of (dis)information
designed to make your life that much more enjoyable.
As said before, this zine is dedicated to PSYCHIC TV.
This means that we will try to bring you such things as
discographies, gig dates, release schedules, etc. As you can
imagine, it would be rather difficult to have a PTV zine
without touching on the philosophies that are so prevalent.
We would, however, hope to keep this as open-minded and as
critical as possible in order to stimulate interesting and
intelligent discussion (we all hate to read the same spiel
over and over again, don't we?). Some of you may object to
this type of forum, but we would like to keep it as that...a
FORUM- for people of all (un)beliefs and (un)faiths. If you
disagree with something that is said, write in and bitch
about it (so long as it is constructive bitching!)
This project has the co-operation and support of
Brother Genesis P-Orridge and the Transmedia Foundation, so
we hope to be able to bring you first hand info on things
such as concert dates and new record releases as well as
rants and other writings that will be exclusive to us.
Something we would like to feature prominently is an address
network of PTV fans and Processians worldwide, E-Mail or
otherwise, so that we can more easily communicate with each
other. With each issue we hope to include a complete address
list of our subscribers. Record and tape trading is highly
encouraged, especially through this address, as the editors
are in desperate search of more recordings (your list gets
ours).
This issue is bound to be rather short because as of
now, we don't really have too much material to give you. This
is why we need your support. Write to us and tell us what you
think of a PTV zine, what you would like to see, and how you
would like to become involved. The possibility that this
could become boring and redundant has been raised, but we
will do our best to keep it from being so. Again, we need
your help. Tell people you know of our existence. Put up a
flier at your local cool record store (assuming you have
one). Run a copy off and photo-copy it for people without
access to a computer (everything is public domain as long as
credit is given where credit is due {unless otherwise
stated}).
The PSYCHOSPHERE is yours-take it.
Right now, this zine is limited to an E-mail format. As
time progresses however, we will add certain qualities
(hopefully, we will be able to bring you files, both music
and art). If there is enough support and interest, perhaps a
BBS will result...who knows?
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Did you receive your copy of the Autumnal Equinox 1994
newsletter from the Transmedia Foundation? Presumably that is
how you got our address. If this is not the case, then you
will be interested in some of the information that was
contained within its pages. Firstly, recent and upcoming PTV
releases...
"Ecstasy In The U.K." Track on SHAMANARCHY IN THE U.K.
CD EVOCD2
"Acidosis" Track on 50 YEARS OF SUNSHINE CD Silent
Records SR9333
"Completion 4A" Track on FROM HERE TO TRANQUILITY
SR9336
"Godstar 94" Track on MYSTERIOUS ENCOUNTERS CD
CLEO 68082
"A Star Too Far (Lullaby For Syd) Track on SPACE DAZE
(Double CD) A companion book is also available)
CLEO 7616
KONDOLE 1,2,3 CD SR9332
HEX SEX-The Singles Pt. 1 CD CLEO 65082
PAGAN DAY CD CLEO 94692
ALLEGORY AND SELF CD CLEO 94912
PEAK HOUR TOPYCD 068 (essential-get it!)
TRIBAL CD TOPYCD 077 (Remixes of Peak Hour song by Drum
Club)
TEMPORARY TEMPLE/ATONAL CD on Dossier records DCD 9041
MEIN GOeTT*IN*GEN CD DCD 9046
AL-OR-AL CD DCD9054
SPLINTER TEST 2x3 CD Box Set on Caroline records:
BOX 1-Elipse Ov Flowers
-Tarot Ov Abomination
-Stained By Dead Horses
BOX 2-Mouth Ov Thee Knight
-Sugarmorphoses
-Cold Dark Matter
TOWARDS THEE INFINITE BEAT Re-release
ULTRADRUG Remixed, remastered version of ULTRAHOUSE
"A Star Too Far" Track on SPACE DAYS Cleopatra comp.
(Nov. 94)
A HOLLOW COST Visionary records (Sept. 94)
BREATHE CD I.T.C. release (more about them later)
SIRENS "Sequel" to ULTRADRUG Visionary (late 94)
EXILE Processed "soundtrack" to EXHILE AND
EXHILERATION video
LISTEN...TODAY Re-issue of CDVideo by Sordide
Sentimental
DESCENDING Re-issue by Sordide Sentimental
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With this issue of PTV4UNE, we have included a program that
apparently simulates an actual DREAMACHINE. it is strongly
recommended that you read the instructions and warnings that
come with the program itself as it may be dangerous for those
with epilepsy or similar conditions. Otherwise...N-JOY!!!
The following is considered (by me) to be found material.
Many thanks to the originator...whoever you may be.
PSYCHIC TV
ALBUMS:
"Force The Hand Of Chance" (1982-Some Bizarre Record/WEA)
"Themes" (1982-Some Bizarre Records/WEA-Limited Edition,
came with "Force..." album [first 5000 copies only
and also a poster of Gen and Paula])
"Dreams Less Sweet" (1983-Some Bizarre Records/CBS)
"Those Who Do Not" (1984-Gramm Records-Iceland-Double
album)(Limited Edition 5000)
"N.Y. Scum Haters" (1984-Temple Records TOPY 002)(Limited
Edition 5000)
"25 December 1984-A Pagan Day (Pages From A Notebook)"
(1984-Temple Records TOPY 003)(Picture Disc-Limited
Edition 999)(Reprinted in black vinyl and different
cover in 1986, reissued on CD in 1994 by Cleopatra
Records)
"Themes 2" (1985-Temple Records TOPY 004)
"Descending" (1985-Sordide Sentimental CD-France)(First
5000 come with 16 pg. booklet)
"Mouth Ov Thee Night" (1985-Temple Records TOPY 10 + TOPIC
10)(Also available in CD {TOPY 034 CD}[with four
extra and uncredited tracks] and Picture Disc)(Also
reissued in 1993 as SPLINTER TEST D)
"Hashashins" (Temple Records TOPY 012)
"Themes 3" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 019)
"Thee Yellow Album" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 032)
"Allegory and Self" (1988-Temple Records)(Black vinyl
[TOPY 038] and Picture Disc [TOPY 035])
"Allegory and Self" (1988-Fundamental Records)(CD,
cassette, Limited Edition 666 [on pink marble
vinyl])(Temple copies come with 14 pg. book and
Fundamental copies come with 12 pg. book)[Re-issued
by Cleopatra 1994]
"Jack The Tab Vol.1" (1988-Castalia Records)(CD, LP,
Picture Disc. Sold under Various Artists, although
it is Psychic TV [mostly Genesis] just not telling
anyone)
"Tekno Acid Beat" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 039)(CD
[TOPYCD 041] includes extra tracks)
"Kondole/Dead Cat" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 046)(Each
track is longer on CD pressing [TOPY 046CD])
"Towards Thee Infinite Beat" (1990-Temple Records TOPY
049/Midnight Music/Wax Trax)(Wax Trax covers
slightly different, CD [TOPY 049CD]includes two
extra tracks and three tracks are remixed)[Re-
issued by Visionary 1994)
"Beyond Thee Infinite Beat" (1990-Temple Records TOPY
051DJ/Midnight Music/Wax Trax)(CD [TOPY 051CD] and
cassette have extra track. All tracks are remixes
of "Towards..." tracks)[Re-issued by Visionary
1994]
"High Jack-Politics Of Ecstacy" (1990-Wax Trax Records,
remixes and sampler of "Jack The Tab")
"Live At The Berlin Wall-Part One" (1990-Temple Records
TOPY 052CD/Midnight Music) (CD only)
"Live At The Berlin Wall-Part Two" (1990-Temple Records
TOPY 053CD/Midnight Music) (CD only)
"At Stockholm" (1990-Psychick Release PCP-Sweden)(CD only)
"Rare And Alive" (19??-Label unknown [TIB CD 10], possibly
a bootleg)
"Direction Ov Travel" (1991-TOPY 059CD, Megs'on [A.K.A.
G.P.O.] & Z'ev
"Psychic TV Presents Ultrahouse-The LA connection" (1991-
Wax Trax, another various artists type deal)
"Peak Hour" (1993-Temple Records)
"Elipse Ov Flowers" (1993-SPLINTER TEST A, soundtracks to
films by Derek Jarman)
"Tarot Ov Abomination" (1993-SPLINTER TEST B, soundtrack
to the film, "The Wanderer" plus piece with White
Stains)
"Stained By Dead Horses" (1993-SPLINTER TEST C,
soundtracks to films by Derek Jarman and G.P.O.)
"Sugarmorphoses" (1993-SPLINTER TEST E, soundtracks and
tonal pieces dating back to 1965)
"Cold Dark Matter" (199?-reissued as SPLINTER TEST F,
album with "primitive" instruments, lengthy message
from TOPI spokesman)
"Al-Or-Al" (1994-Dossier Records, collaboration with XKP,
intended to be an aural piece of devotion to
Alaura, steps 1-12 of 13 step programme)
"Hex Sex-The Singles-Pt. 1" (1994-Cleopatra Records, a
"best of" PTV singles collection)
SINGLES:
"Just Drifting/Breakthrough" (1982-Some Bizarre
Records/WEA 7")
"Just Drifting/Just Drifting (midnight)/Ov Power" (1982-
Some Bizarre Records/WEA 12")
"Roman P (short version)/Neurology (double groove)"
(1984-Sordide Sentimental-France 7")(B side by TOPY
specifically, includes 16 pg. book)
"Unclean/Mirror" (1984-Temple Records 12" TOPY 001)
"Godstar/Godstar (BJ Mix)" (1985-Temple Records 7" TOPY
009)
"Godstar/Godstar (BJ Mix)/Discopravity (Fish Mix)/Yes
It's The B Side" (1985-Temple Records Double 7"
TOPYS 009)
"Godstar (Hyperdelic Mix)/Godstar (California Mix)"
(1985-Temple Records 12" TOPIC 009)(Also available
as a Picture Disc)
"Godstar/Godstar" (Temple Records 12" TOPYH 009)
"Magick Defends Itself" (1986-Temple Records 12" TOPY
022)
"Listen Today..." (1987-Sordide Sentimental-France
CDV)(Includes 16 pg. book, Limited Edition 10,000
(5000 with video in PAL, 5000 with video in NTSC
formats)
"Tune in (Turn On The Acid House)" (1988-Temple Records
12" TOPY 037)
"Joy/Thee Politics Ov Ecstacy" (1988-Temple Records 12"
TOPY 040)
"Acid Voodoo Sound" (1988-Fundamental Records 7")(Limited
Edition Radio DJ Promo)
"Godscar" 1988-USA Records 7" one-sided single)
"Love War Riot/Eve Ov Destruction" (1989-Temple Records
12" TOPY 048)
"Love War Riot (Dogon-Nogod Vocoder Message Mix)/Love War
Riot (Priestly Intervention Mix)/Love War Riot
(Untitled Version)" (1989-Temple Records 10" TOP
048T)(Limited Edition [number unspecified])
"Je T'Aime" (1989-Temple Records 12" TOPY 050)
"I.C. Water (Radio version)/I.C. Water (CD version)/Alien
Be-in" (1990-Temple Records TOPY 058T/Midnight
Music 12")(Also available as CD single and special
limited edition one-sided 7" TOPY 058)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7" TOPY 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 12" TOPYT 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7" Twin Pack TOPYD 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7"+ Poster TOPY 023 P)
EPs:
"The Full Pack/The Mad Organist/Catalan" (1983-Some
Bizarre/CBS)(Free with first 5000 copies of
"Dreams..." album only)
"The Magickal Mystery D Tour E.P." (1986-Temple Records)
(Available in four formats: A)7" with four tracks
B)A version, but includes a poster C)Gatefold
double 7" pack with photo inlay and extra 7" with
two tracks D)12"with same tracks as A&B although
12" mixes exclusively)
"Ultrahouse Remixes" (1991-Wax Trax, WAXCD 7179, remixes
of some songs from "Ultrahouse..." album)
"Tribal (Drum Club Mixes)" (1994-Temple Records)(Remixes
from "Peak Hour" by the Drum Club)
LIVE 23:
"Live In Tokyo" (1986-Temple Records TOPY 015-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #1 (January 18/86 in Tokyo,
Japan)
"Live In Paris" (1986-Temple Records TOPY 014-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #2 (June 8/86 in Paris
France)
"Live In Heaven" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 018-Limited
Edition 3000 with Tab #3 (December 23/86 in London,
England)
"Live In Glasgow" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 016-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #4 (February 18/86 in
Glasgow, Scotland)
"Live In Reykjavik" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 026-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #5 (November 83 in Reykjavik,
Iceland)(An edited down version of the album,
"Those Who Do Not" with one extra track)
"Live En Suisse" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 027-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #6 (February 86 in
Switzerland)
"Live In Gottingen" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 029-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #7 (May 17/84 in Gottingen,
West Germany, re-released on Dossier with part of
"Atonal")(Available on video)
"Live In Toronto" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 028-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #8 (August 86 in Toronto,
Canada)
"Temporary Temple" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 030-Limited
Edition 2300 with Tab #9 (July 28/84 in London,
England, re-released on Dossier [1993] with part of
"Atonal")
"Psychedelic Violence (Album 10)" (1988-Temple Records-
Limited Edition 1000)(Available to people who send
in tabs 1-9. This offer is now closed!)
"Live At Thee Mardi Gras" (1988-Temple Records-Limited
Edition 5000)(Nottingham, 1987)
"Live At Thee Circus" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 042-
Limited Edition 5000)(London 1987-1988)
"Live At Thee Ritz" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 045-Limited
Edition 5000)(Manchester, November 1983)
"Live At Thee Pyramid" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 047-
Limited Edition 5000 [2000 in Picture Disc {TOPIC
047}with message printed in vinyl discussing 1989's
current TOPY and PTV happenings])(New York City,
1988)
"Live In Bregenz" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 020-Limited
Edition 5000)(Austria, 1985)
"A Real Swedish Live Show" (1989-TOPYSCAN Records-Sweden-
Limited Edition 5000)(December 6/84 in Stockholm,
Sweden)
"City Ov New York/City Ov Tokyo" (Temple Records TOPY
054CD)
"City Ov Paris" (Temple Records TOPY 055CD)
BOOTLEGS:
"Ov Power" (LP, no label or catalogue number, live, black
cover with golden psychick cross, no track listing,
venue unknown) 1984
"Live Transmission" (Cassette, RSB, Italy R'SAA1,
Authorized limited edition of live show in London,
August 17/84) 1985
"Southern Comfort" (LP, no label or catalogue number,
live, violet vinyl, recorded December 13/85 at the
Arena in Rotterdam)(Limited Edition 1000) 1986
"Live at Final War$" (LP, Transrecords TRANS06, live in
Tokyo, January 16-18/86 [includes "I Like You" and
"Japan Boy/Japan Girl" from LIVE01, but the rest is
new and exclusive, separate recording], comes with
8 pg. book in fantastic colour with tons of live
shots and a Japanese interview) 198?
"Ambient Indoctrination" (Cassette, authorized release by
the ITC, consists of a live show in Eugene, Oregon,
October 14/93, by PTV and XKP, first 100 of edition
are signed by Genesis and Craig Ellenwood of XKP,
first 23 of 100 has artwork signed by artist)
"Stations Ov Thee Cross" (Cassette , same as above,
April/94)
COMPILATIONS ETC.:
"23 Drifts To Guestling" (1983 Cassette, Nanavash,
contains demo of "Stolen Kisses" by Alex Fergusson
and a talk by GPO, "The First Outing Of The
Psychick Youth")(Reprinted in 1985 by Catfood
Press)
"Nice Tracks" (1983 LP Sampler, Nice, Italy, contains PTV
Rally recordings and GPO and Sleazy talking)
"Sex And Beastiality" (1984 Boxed Set of 4 Cassettes,
Bain Total, France, contains the PTV track, "La
Edad de Oro [Red Ritual Film]")
"Berlin Atonal Vol. 1" (1984 LP, Atonal, West Germany,
contains two PTV live tracks: "Nursery Times" and
"Skinhead Moonstomp 84")
"Berlin Atonal Vol. 2" (1984 LP, Atonal, West Germany,
contains one side of PTV live tracks: "Papacy",
"Unclean", "God's Blood", and "New Will")
"Better An Old Demon Than A New God" (1984 Sampler LP,
Giorno Poetry Systems, USA, contains PTV's
"Unclean" (Giorno Mix) which is the most complete
version to date. Also on the album is Lydia Lunch,
Nurroughs, Giorno, Jim Carroll and Meredith
Monk)
"Pinpoints On A Nation" (1984 Cassette and poster in
baggie, Fifth Column, USA, Limited Edition 500,
contains an untitled live track by PTV/TempleUS)
"If You Can"t Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your
Soul" (1985 Sampler LP, Some Bizarre Records/CBS,
contains "Twisted by PTV)
"Gunfire And Pianos" (1986 Sampler LP, Situation Two,
contains "Baby's Gone Away")
"Captured Music" (1989 LP, Selektion, West Germany,
contains Gen, Paula, and Hafler Trio live tracks
from Captured Music Festival [February 87 in
Karlsruhe] cut-up and reworked by other artists)
"The Bridge: A Tribute To Neil Young" (1989 Sampler LP
[for charity], Caroline, USA, contains PTV doing N.
Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart")
"Fifty Years Of Sunshine" (1993-Silent Records, doulble
album celebrating the discovery of L.S.D., the
limited edition vinyl is highly sought after,
features the PTV song "Acidosis" as well as some
other appearances of Genesis)
"From Here To Tranquility" (199?-Silent Records, contains
PTV's "Completion 4A", which is the 13th step in
programme [see Al-Or-Al])
"Industrial Revolution II" (1994-Cleopatra Records,
double CD, contains PTV doing "United '94",
features the Throbbing Gristle lineup)
"Mysterious Encounters" (1994-Cleopatra Records, contains
PTV's "Godstar '94" [PTV, in this case, being the
members of Throbbing Gristle])
"Space Daze" (1994-Cleopatra Records, contains a track by
Psychic TV and thee Angels Ov Light entitled, "A
Star Too Far (Lullaby For Sid)"
GENESIS P.ORRIDGE:
Genesis P.Orridge/Stan Bingo-"What's History" (1982
Cassette, Nekrophile Rekords, Austria, instrumental
music, a blueprint for PTV)
Dave Ball-"In Strict Tempo" (1983 LP, Some Bizarre, text
and voice in a few tracks)
Various Artists-"Decoder Soundtrack" (1985 Soundtrack,
What's So Funny About Records, West Gemany,
contains soundtrack music by GPO/Dave Ball, as well
as E. Neubauten, Matt Johnson, Bur roughs, and
more)
Genesis P.Orridge & The Angels Of Light-"Je T'Aime"
/"Supermale" (1986 12" single, Sub Rosa, Belgium,
reprinted in 1989 under PTV's name)
Genesis P.Orridge-"M.E.S.H.:Meet Every Situation Head-
On" (1988 12"single, Castalia Records, two
different mixes, under Gen's name, but really PTV)
The Hafler Trio & Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth-"Brion
Gysin's Dreamachine" (1989 Cassette, CD [with extra
track] or LP, 72 pg. book and cardboard poster
which folds out into a dreamachine replica, Limited
Edition, contains the tracks "Sound To Enhance The
Effect of Brion Gysin's Dreamachine-Part I & II"
[The CD includes part III])
Genesis & Alaura P.Orridge (1989 Cassette , Psychick
Release PCP, Sweden, documentation of Scandinavian
Poetry Tour of December 1989)
VIDEOS:
"Time Zones" (35 minutes, Jettisounds, UK, 1990,
includes three films by Derek Jarman [shorts]:
"Home Movies", "The Art Of Mirrors", and "The Dream
Machine (1984)" which have music by Dave Ball/GPO,
T.G., and PTV)
"The First Transmission" (240 minutes, TOPY, UK, 1982,
advertised in the first edition of Thee Grey Book
and sold at a minimum donation of P.23 (requesting
a signed declaration to absolve TOPY of all legal
responsibilities)(Very limited edition, now
extinct, police didn't like what they saw on it
much at all [say no more], comes in black sleeve
with grey outline and psychick cross, contents:
TOPY Spokesman, lengthy TOPY ritual, misdeeds of a
San Diego Medical Detective, views of Gysin's
Dreamachine, Jim Jones footage, SXXX-80 [Cazazza/E
mollo], PTV interview on BBC2, ritual porn with
Thee Temple)(In US, this is distrubuted on NTSC
format in three volumes: "Eden3", "Ritual Cuttings"
and "[volume three, title unknown]")
"TV Wipeout" (Doublevision Video, UK, 1983, includes
"Terminus" video)
"Morgana-Flowers From The Underground" (Kartell Video,
1984, includes "Terminus")
"PTV Live In Berlin 1983" (Studio K7, Germany, 1990,
video taken from the Atonal Video sampler, "Berlin
Atonal 1 & 2" [2x90 minutes, West Germany, 1984])
"Decoder" (235 minutes, West Germany, 1985, company
unknown but is out there, a movie starring W.S.
Burroughs, E. Neubauten, Christian F., F.M.Einheit,
Matt Johnson and Genesis P.Or ridge [Gen plays a
high priest fighting the Muzak Corporation].
Directed by Muscha and Klaus Maeck)
"Body Shocks" (90 minutes, Dragon Video, UK, 1986,
includes music by PTV, a half-live remix of
"Unclean" video and Mr. Sebastian in action
piercing Gen, Paula and Sleazy)
"Black" (?? minutes, Cleopatra, US, 1994, mostly live
footage spliced together with various images from
other videos)
"8Transmissions8" (50 minutes, TOPY, UK, contains videos
for "Godstar", "Unclean", and "Terminus", among
others)
"Exhile and Exhileration (A Video Meme From Genesis
P.Orridge)" (45 minutes, TOPY, UK)
"Joy" (56 minutes, Jettisoundz Video [available from
Visionary] Mostly live footage from 1988. R.U.
Xperienced is the stand-out)
"Maple Syrup" (60 minutes, Jettisoundz Video [available
from Visionary] Rather low quality footage shot in
Toronto, Canada in 1987/89.)
"Thee Films 1950's-1960's" (120 minutes, TOPY [available
from Visionary] Features films by Burroughs, Gysin,
and Somerville. Heavy PTV influence.)
==>If you know of anything not appearing in the above
discography, please let us know.
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A HOLLOW COST.
No fear, except thee fear of leaving. Death is like each
other. Life has only dreams to recommend it, and thee
security of being inside. To be part of a group, to be
INSIDE, is to enter thee body and partake of sex. We
therefore thrive on this violation. We attempt to recreate
thee excitement of a first moment's intensity by deceptive
means. Happiness can give you fear. Of course thee fear of it
ending. Thee only real fear is fear of ending, and thee only
joy is violation. Unhappiness gives insight cruelly,
happiness makes a death threat. As time passes thee addiction
dwindles. Always a jolt of steel. Always. Thee orchid, thee
metal. Muscles, no longer as loose as childhood, ache in
memorium, stiffening with age before beauty. Age before lust.
Age before love. Demand outstrips supply, we congeal, fixed
in parables and fantasies. Thee past controls through people.
Little girls become young ladies. Proper. They attract by
their lack of experience, unaware of thee spell, more
concerned with being inside than observation. They accept
thee host. They create a ghost that haunts forever. Thee
ache for reclamation. Perhaps, thee story goes, if you
recreate that first moment, passed; you can travel back in
time. Or by creating a stranger, replenish lust. This
violation then is a form of breaking thee rules: a necessary
act to exist. Conscious self- deception and threat of oneself
and one's security affirms existence, makes real. Sexuality,
getting inside, makes real, makes really real, and once
inside we can make anything happen. Eyes shut in a coffin, a
world of darkness, we travel that darkness to reconvene our
emotions and listening hard we see every detail of every
sexual act. Little girls masturbating about tomorrow. Little
boys masturbating. Every second losing intensity, creating
thee need forever to go back inside and feel safe, to travel
back and feel alive. It really is so difficult. What we have
creates our need. Restrictions are removed like school
uniforms, we discover eroticism in both manners. And manners
maketh man, woman and star . We enter our bodies. Inside
isquiet, scarcely a solution in sight. Sharing a body is
nothing. Sharing insight is everything. A fine balance
maintained by neurosis. When we break rules, we become
fools, driven by a desperate grasping of hope for ignorance.
Thee rules are created by a wound. We never escape them. We
descend into them. Brats in a trap. All paranoia comes from
thee past. It takes us like a rape and damages. Like a rape
and damages. Like a rape. Damages. But in thee mourning,
after thee night, we fall in love with thee light. The
solution is, to touch skin, and stay safe, deep inside. Thee
first step towards control is ownership. Thee foundation of
ownership is meme-control. Ownership of information is thee
real system of control. To know a thing is to possess it. To
possess a thing is to be able to manipulate it. Search
continues. Control needs time like a junkie needs junk. If
only it were all a matter of time. Takes all kinds. Time is.
Time is passed on. Turning over thee ancient symbols used to
weigh gold in Egypt we terminate dreams. Regular trips to
thee undercurrent display confusion in precise detail. Thee
effect is one of accuracy of purpose and description. Images
sequenced to define thee exact nature of time and place. New
York. Skeletal myth jaded and scarred. Know, self-respect
breeds cynical self-abuse. Never never return to thee
previous character. Always create a new one. What do you see
from thee faded telephone box? Two sides of one street un-re-
joining each other like worms? Visions convicted and
betrayed. We become what we once wrote, thought better of,
and since despised. We eat what starves us. We defecate what
we once took to be our Selves, to be what we once were. A
litany common to all, but Deities. Designed by spirits dead
and erect. Projections making light of surface. The
alternative is Enless, endless sadness. Thee consumption of
guilt threatens guilt. Inside a shelter. Old men pissing on
trees. Dogs turning 'circles of animals'. Thee black sickly
powder of fear. Speaking thee incantations aloud trapped in a
lump of skin. Instinct breeding the final moves, thee
infinite lovers. We accept them on our shoulders and leave
you for free. Then time ends. Eyes burn and close. Wounded. I
wandered that land. Making plans. Building strange
concoctions of hope. Thee charm. Thee TV. Thee whiskey. Thee
fur cellar as indecent as a beard. From cool to indifference.
Visions convicted and betrayed. Looking from zero point
there's all kinds of illusions. Zero point. It takes all
kinds of illusions, this, this, death. Thee pains don't ease
as you get older. Thee hatred doesn't melt. E thought the
hatred would melt. Thee brains get blocked. Thee drains stray
across to bare flesh, groaning at Nature's tricks, and not
even caring for thee moment. Some daze are like friendship.
Routines pulling you away from thee burden of vision. Good
friends that step in and destroy thee direction of youth.
Thee apotheosis of desire is to outclass death. We are
sentimental and quite capable of finding laughter. No iceberg
this tension. Thee averted eyes of youth. And now it's
finished. Process complete. Only thee corpse to sacrifice
like a gangster. Thee special forces where agape meets
thelema. Nietsche never had a cushier b-earth. Here we see a
principle, here we see a subject. Endless twigs on thee fire.
Axle cracked by frost. Resting. Snow has crushed my
camouflage. Snow has killed my garden. Thee shelter is still
there. Time is. Time is passed on. Thee dogs are now dogs.
Just dogs. Still turning circles. Thee eyes still burn.
Choice as hard as tooth, as cold as knowing. And yet, agains
my will, another dream coming into focus. Ice on soil. Dog
resting at my back. Daylight of friendship cracked with
shadow. In this dream it begins and ends at the dogs fucking
in circles park I remember from my childhood and now call
zero point. Pointless passover. In heat, breathing as a
bloody door shuts. (The deities must think I'm affirming my
existence this way.) In they come. 23 visions of light. Thee
small room. Memories of blood and urine by thee medical box.
Links of old senses in rope.... (Do the dieties think I can't
navigate the meanings here?) There were shadows pulling
scales from young flesh. Quiet and hooded. Thee small hands
played patterns on thee window. Fog in living rooms. Several
old, old pages curling as dog barks spewed across night time
light. Rope tightened making furrows. (I know what 's going
on here.) No sound. In the essential nature of legends. Thee
Dissident Watchers nefeling liquid secret distopias from long
sought distant utopias. Like alchemists siphoning mind from
chemical, for there once were stones in a sexual cathedral
now drained of steel by the endless shadows of a Pyhrric
cloister of bureaucracy. Down thee foockin' alley is where he
went. Body shifting on wood, dog outside thee door. Is there
only the smell of blood? There is both truth and history,
projection and dream. Flickering memories as trains
manoeuvre in old men's eyes. (Did they not think we'd know?)
Rope lashing marks back hard. It's all a matter of counting,
tic, tic. Betrayal of simple fertility. Tic. Thee lack of
wild explosions a code to rebuild every life. Tic. This time
tic thee victim is desired and wet. Tic. These lives are
stones tic, assembled in ancient dreams of slick young flesh.
Tic. Quiet and hooded. Tic. Rituals of male. Tic. Many
shapes tattooed in old buildings. Tic. Tattoos. Tic. Old
keys. Tic. Flesh. Resting. Slight shifting. Feet deepening
red. No sound. Across thee way a boy was grinning. Hard-on
obvious in old torn gray trousers. Inherited from an earlier
victim of plague. Uniform remnants. Light of night filtering
through where roof tiles slipped their tail and buggered old
senile books across dreams. Nothing salvaging code. Tic.
Thee same city we all used to pass away time in. Crippled
compacts, flesh bound. Each ritual makes its demand. Slipping
a wooden coil of expensive death under all those derelict
lines. No engines anymore. No green and pleasant ghosts of
death playing in thee grass. Just simple and banal. As you
would expect. Terminus. Final flaw. If one could truly
describe that light, of course it's gray, but, that light
images tumble, only eyes hurt from lack of focus. No physical
sensations here. Limbo of stone. Men separated from
brickwork. No polarity visible. Similes of love from pitted
carriages. Semen as thee corpse evolves into alchemy. (That
was someone else.) Liquid sings of old religions. Hand
smearing juice on cock, squeezing tight as it glides into,
into, unfaithfulness. Vanity of accounting. Tic. Pride of
hindsight. Tic. Crinkling of skin against worn eyes. There is
no need for more light. Scanning ripples of boyish flesh
used to pass away time in. Car crumpled, rain on moss. Crack
of wood. Only a few see this code. Tic. Gray suit draped
across street. Feet derelict. Looking from zero point
there's all kinds of truth. Tic. In thee wrong camouflage.
Not 1984. Taxi making waves from red lights and green
visions. Tic. A green magician perhaps. Takes all kinds. So
there it was. From school to outhouse to dream to thee boy's
grin across thee line. Thee old theories. Many an alchemist
died for less, or so they say. And we have thee fragments.
Pillars and razors and comfortable settings. Takes all kinds.
Leaves falling, sometimes snow. Collapsed my camouflage net
this year. We sit with thee lights on, eyes closed. Thumbing
through dictionaries. What makes this difficult? Is there
madness in this method? There is no god where I am. Steroids
lead to addictive joys and elective death. How the hell did
we get to Bill Haley? Does shame lurk like physical weapons
waiting to mug us no matter how late. It's AL a matter of
time. Visions without affirmations destroy our guts. Thee
irony of nature's game. Content without content. We play it
both ways. Weighing up thee results on ancient Egyptian coin.
Did you know you killed thee strongest boy with hopelessness
alone? Old myths die soft. "Bad advice," says Father Jesse,
always focussed on essence and suffering. Thee victim
relaxes. Caring is blood. Thereby hangs a thread. This is
not about one thing. Tic. Does not belong to one person. Tic.
One subject. These words belong to anything we think. Tic.
And it's not thee name anymore. No set piece battles. Tic. No
solution turning acid. Tic. There is a system evolving
whereby all these words apply to every situation. Tic.
(Isn't that rather arrogant?) No. It takes all kinds of
words, this life. "Is this thee white path?" asks Sister
Sibyl. No. Don't be mistaken. Tic. All these marvelous words,
teasing us close to existence. Then. Time ends. It's all a
matter of time. Blurred self-image corrupting. Dangerous.
"During a conference on tactics it was decided to terminate
this mission with extreme prejudice," from when E was really
young. It originates in thee dark side of history. This
mission never existed. Getting thinner all thee time. Subject
limited to a strip of one. A circle of animals. Motives
replace products in our minds. Object d'art to camouflage our
own commodification. It takes all kinds. Tic. Philosophy
separates thee person from thee Mass. Exit all legends. Enter
thee laws of magick. In this world we entertain not audiences
but fantasies. We complete thee self-image, blurred or not.
Tic. Search continues for correct process. "Proclaim present
time over," says Father Robert, somewhere in thee secret
cathedral of small stony movements. Old movies dream
conflict. Thee old, old area in sheets of snow, reversible,
lacking truth fades. Truth is a bad word to use. Breathing
short as spunk coats the bloody arm. Part of thee text on
thee wall. Whenever thee dog turned thee night trembled.
Tremble died of auld lang syne. Shimmered like water moved by
piss in a forest. Shadow moved in thee light. Peace of
history. Marks of cold spray as thee material fades. Our
appetite for miracles May King traps of time. Daze go by.
Viciousness is not enough. Wooden pricks lubricated against
dawn. Slow motion of exact formulae edging fear into spectres
f old death. Tic. Key twists causing rivulets of blood and
piss. Floor stained with patience and precision. Tic. Only
animals remain. No focus. "What do you want next time?" thee
dream whimpered. Who thee fuck was coming back? Back? Back?
Back of hand on kidneys. No need to define victims. Tic.
Where do you hide terminus? Routine dreaming. Mirages that
exist. Affirmations wax of fur and bullet. In one dark corner
thee exact dimensions were long ago concealed. And thee
entrance danced to relive old histories, plunging through
flesh to saw, sore eyes. Source,arise.Lost in light of night,
into that darkness. Always watched, all ways. Relying on thee
slim movement of thee least action. Key. Always easy in this
room. Tic. Small room. Chamber of conscience. Plaster
flaking like love. (How Victorian; English Victorian at
that.) Dreams contained in liquid. Sperm rages in formulas.
Drinking rain even as trees cough out thee empty bairn of
history. Thee way of thee formulas. Thee wisdom of breath.
Thee temple of light. But he sees you. As he waits. He does
not need thee light of night, thee serene dream of time, thee
sweet flesh ideas are heir to. He is above you and in you.
His joy is in your joy. When all movement and thought stops
we are awake. We are awake because we are empty and Anything
at all merely serves to fill us again. Did you hear us? E
said we were awake. Sad, E saw that game. On one side near
thee old house. Movement of rat in corner. Rustle of scales.
Rubble crunching like snow, kicked aside like tin. He was
grinning before he jumped. Oh, nothing in particular. Dog
shifting and sleeping. Oxygen short in thee air. Sound of
breathing louder than old stone. Light of night twisted
fading. Sound playing across skin like fingers. Prickling
hairs on thee cock. No way to identify. No key. Tic. Empty as
flesh. Inside thee box papers inscribed with time. Several
days past. Thee gate remained closed. Shadows at attention
marking time. Tic. Orders to thee last as vigils of death
ponder flesh and all thee dogs crawl away. Car passes. Tic.
Phone rings. Glass cracks. Tic. Did you see that? Black
fingernails strapped to linen. Sound of steel beneath flesh,
perhaps not deep enough still. Tic. Direction gone. Mangle
us. Tic. Septic from piss. Tic. Line around heel. Lack of
nails cracked. Tic. Glass crimson as thee doctor fell.
Hiding his face they say. Shame. A blunt instrument in
surgeon's hands. Dry noise in throat washing across winter as
trains drift by. Counting. Tic. Noise of dreams at thee
door. Tic. Huge carved monoliths, ivory curved around thee
illusory gates. "Open, open!" For know reason. For just a
small map, an old routine frozen before. Before time passed
on. Leaving spirals bouncing against spirals. Wherever we
observe, it is all ways thee same place. Thee traces remain.
To me. To me. Thee sex scene over for now. Last night thee
flesh came. Open arms, strong, empty pale. A volunteer. Light
behind in thee doorway. Fading fresco. Let dreams slide
across thee floor of winter, splinters in foot. Gasps of
little boy who didn't want to bleed.All ready. Blood. Feet
stamping. Fingers jabbing in groin. Tic. Already empty.
Drifting in story: no detail forgotten. No fact erased. No
one watched. Trapped in small room. Tic. Looking up at thee
ceiling there were thee usual number of tiles laid out. Tic.
Gray as photographs. Thee same cathedral we all used to pass
a way in. Small baby smiled. Kicked. Such simple structures
cascade from box to corner. Kicked. Fear of lust of
destruction. Kicked. Results not uncommon. Stolen trusts.
Cold. Just a very, very small game. Lights of night twisted
overhead. Tic. Exactly several days passed. Tic. Sick dogs
slouch away. Tic. Knives flared in little boy hands. Tic.
Fortunes slumping in corners wrestling. Tic. Thee car dumped
near piles of earth. Tic. To flicker of moon on knife in
stream of icy breath. Tic. Wondering. Tic. Wondering. Zero
point. Responsibilities cracked like frostbitten flesh. (How
Victorian.) A window slammed shut. Awake, all ways. Here we
are. No thing recovers. Still drinking rain as patchwork
leaves sleazily cover deep, deep, deep dreams. Eassau, e'
did. Our favorite snow defined tree just peters away and is
off or something. From thee window, just lumps of flesh
moving near water. A ction of wall flaking like thee bedbug-
ridden plaster of "daath". (How very, very Victorian.) Ex-
dreams contained in fertile liquid. Thee ectoplasmic
thoughts made ritual gestures and parted with no messages
spoken, an emptiness of this story. Thee serene time merely
serves to spill, then dies like poison spiders stamped
needfully underfoot. A spark of will before thee cold draught
and damp "would" of future, placed near dying trees. Severe
rot. Tic. Uncouth sounds playing across skin like light
erotic fingers. Tic. Yes, odd steel needles buried in needy
images. Tic. Hard, no sounds. Tic. Next ache is a
continuation of the first ache. Tic or breath or pulse or
waft. Tic. Begorah, always thee same numbers. Tic. Good dew
ladels sweat on the body knowingly tensed. Tic. [sic] By
night laced in stomach, expression traced in nails basked in
victims blood. Tic. Choke, my Knight. Tic. Get her Inside
thee boxed papers inscribed with meaningless maps,
intersections. Remember? Eying sophisticates from under the
trees of guilt, of shame. Paralysing. Eyes useless. Regret
useless. Heat of tracks counted like withered grass. Twisted
in old hair. Throat washing across winter as an old routine
drifts by. No dream forgotten. Links of old senses in rope.
Knots of divinity. Aware of floor on flesh, tubes of water.
Raging mud lightens it up. No thoughts, thee best type of
mind. Empty vessels make thee most alchemically pure
cathedral stones. Life is moving, Charlie. Time gripping
tight like a lover's orgasm. Tied trees bending. Quiet and
hooded. Thea sins too small noises of rats next door. Cable,
craw, celibate. Roar. Fur trembling like light.. Pulling
scales clear of rustling menses in thee essential nature of
legends. Shadows steal from endless counting. Thee rest left
open. Roar. Not enough. Knot. Tide goes out.
genesis p-orridge
Cazadero, California, Feb 1994
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Reviews
PSYCHIC TV Towards Thee Infinite Beat (Visionary re-issue
[VICD002]
It's very fitting that this recording be one of the
first PTV discs for Visionary to release, simply because this
is very likely PTV's most "accessible" album to date. By that
term I don't mean that it is tame in any way, just that it is
the album most people happen to stumble upon first (due
largely to the fact that it was previously released by
WaxTrax in The U.S.).
Upon first listen of this album (several years ago, for
myself), one may be relatively unimpressed. The dance beats,
rave influences, and overall "pop" feel tends to suggest
ordinariness. Further and closer examinations of the album,
however, eventually reveal an extremely diverse and
intelligent assortment of sounds as well as subject matter.
This record is certainly home to a few classics. I.C.
Water, the Ian Curtis tribute, is likely the most well known
tune, while Horror House has become legendary in its own
right with a terrific piano line and samples from Apocalypse
Now. The only disappointment with this re-release is the
lack of new/different artwork. The front section's
artwork and layout is identical to that of the copies
originally released in Europe on TEMPLE RECORDS. The back
cover only differs in that it bares Visionary's markings.
As always, Towards Thee Infinite Beat is an essential
part of any PTV fan's collection, be he an old-timer or a new
comer. en-JOY. -MB
(Visionary\28-30 The Square, St.Annes\Lytham
St.Annes\FY8 1RF\U.K.)
PSYCHIC TV Ultradrug (Visionary- VICD 001)
Ultrahouse was originally released in 1991 in the U.S.
by Wax Trax Records. This recording isn't just a re-release-
it has been re-mastered, re-edited, and re-mixed to achieve
what I consider to be a far better final product. This
release contains new tracks from Genesis and Larry Thrasher,
who seems to be a new member or PTV.
This disc is what it claims to be-a trip. If you listen
carefully or even just read the song titles, you can see how
the album is structured to represent a psychedelic
experience.
This record will especially appeal to those of you who
like PTV's dance/rave music (circa Jack The Tab). -MB
(Visionary/28-30 The Square, St. Annes/Lytham St.
Annes/FY81RF/U.K.)
BOYD RICE Ragnarok Rune (World Serpent- WSBCD 013)
Well...I've finally found a disc that I absolutely
cannot listen to all the way through. In fact, I haven't
listened to it for more than five minutes without starting to
go a bit mental.
The reason why this disc is so damn irritating is
because the tracks consist of one sustained (dis)chord with a
bit of subtle ambient noodling in the far background. One
track is the same as the next, only the main noise is of a
higher or lower pitch.
I find that when this tactic is used in noise music, the
result is an extreme increase in my own personal tension
level- you keep waiting for the actual climax and denouement,
but they never come. This makes for an extremely long and
uncomfortable listening session.
Masochists need only apply. -MB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
COSEY FANNI TUTTI Time To Tell (Conspiracy Intl.-CTI93 004)
There is much to be learned of Cosey here. Upon viewing
the Twenty-six post-card-style photos included in this set, I
found myself going into the reading and listening material
with a preset opinion of how I was going to feel about this
woman's solo work. This preset opinion was soon diminished to
a cautious appreciation.
This soft spoken woman has much to relish in her
chosen fields as a musician, performance artist and stripper.
Understanding of her reasons for entering these fields was a
learning experience for this feminist. She expresses her need
to do exactly what she wants in a way that is inarguable,
even by the most right wing conservatives.
The reading material in this set is both intelligent and
informative. It describes the true nature of this woman and
her work. The many descriptions of her performances/actions,
alone and with Genesis P. Orridge, are both intriguing and
disturbing. But she reminds us that Horror is something that
needs to be put back in it's place.
The musical content of this set is sensuous and
relaxing, reflecting the message in the written material. I
highly recommend this to the avid collector, or anyone who is
interested in counter-culture realities.
All-in-all it is safe to say that whether you agree with
her choices or not, this woman's work will make you sit up
and take notice. -JB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
COIL The Angelic Conversation
Poetic and beautiful. This soundtrack to the 1985 Derek
Jarman film is entirely tranquil. The mixtures of sounds,
music and poetry make it a truly enjoyable listening
experience. Coil once again has proven their mastery of
creating emotion through sound. If you enjoyed Hellraiser
Themes this is a guaranteed pleaser.
When listening to this CD one can not help but long to
view the movie for which it was written, myself included.
-JB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
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ADDRESS LISTINGS
I.T.C.- Institute for Thelemic Culture
1430 Williamette Box 23
Eugene, OR. U.S.A.
97401
Group in Oregon that promotes Thelemic events, people,
ideas and products. Have put on two PTV shows (that I know
of) and intend to do it again every six months. Recordings of
those events are available through them. Write for more info.
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P.O. Box 232
Nanaimo B.C. CANADA
V9R 5K9
mbali@island.net
Quarterly "fan-zine" distributed via the PSYCHOSPHERE.
Source of PTV info as well as new album reviews, addresses,
contacts, etc. The official fan-zine of PSYCHIC TV.
Transmedia Foundation
P.O. Box 1034
Occidental, CA U.S.A.
95465
Send some I.R.C.'s to get the latest newsletter.
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CLOSING NOTES-
We wish to thank everyone who helped bring this issue of
PTV4UNE together. Genesis P-Orridge, The Transmedia
Foundation, the staff of Visionary Communications, and
everyone else... THANK-YOU! If you have anything you would
like to contribute (reviews, poetry, comments, whatever...),
send it to us.
See you next time (April 23, 1995)
January 23, 1995
Greetings and welcome to the first and introductory
installment of our "Electronic Zine" dedicated to the musics
and happenings of PSYCHIC TV. This issue will basically be
devoted to telling you about what we hope to offer in the
future as well as other little bits of (dis)information
designed to make your life that much more enjoyable.
As said before, this zine is dedicated to PSYCHIC TV.
This means that we will try to bring you such things as
discographies, gig dates, release schedules, etc. As you can
imagine, it would be rather difficult to have a PTV zine
without touching on the philosophies that are so prevalent.
We would, however, hope to keep this as open-minded and as
critical as possible in order to stimulate interesting and
intelligent discussion (we all hate to read the same spiel
over and over again, don't we?). Some of you may object to
this type of forum, but we would like to keep it as that...a
FORUM- for people of all (un)beliefs and (un)faiths. If you
disagree with something that is said, write in and bitch
about it (so long as it is constructive bitching!)
This project has the co-operation and support of
Brother Genesis P-Orridge and the Transmedia Foundation, so
we hope to be able to bring you first hand info on things
such as concert dates and new record releases as well as
rants and other writings that will be exclusive to us.
Something we would like to feature prominently is an address
network of PTV fans and Processians worldwide, E-Mail or
otherwise, so that we can more easily communicate with each
other. With each issue we hope to include a complete address
list of our subscribers. Record and tape trading is highly
encouraged, especially through this address, as the editors
are in desperate search of more recordings (your list gets
ours).
This issue is bound to be rather short because as of
now, we don't really have too much material to give you. This
is why we need your support. Write to us and tell us what you
think of a PTV zine, what you would like to see, and how you
would like to become involved. The possibility that this
could become boring and redundant has been raised, but we
will do our best to keep it from being so. Again, we need
your help. Tell people you know of our existence. Put up a
flier at your local cool record store (assuming you have
one). Run a copy off and photo-copy it for people without
access to a computer (everything is public domain as long as
credit is given where credit is due {unless otherwise
stated}).
The PSYCHOSPHERE is yours-take it.
Right now, this zine is limited to an E-mail format. As
time progresses however, we will add certain qualities
(hopefully, we will be able to bring you files, both music
and art). If there is enough support and interest, perhaps a
BBS will result...who knows?
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Did you receive your copy of the Autumnal Equinox 1994
newsletter from the Transmedia Foundation? Presumably that is
how you got our address. If this is not the case, then you
will be interested in some of the information that was
contained within its pages. Firstly, recent and upcoming PTV
releases...
"Ecstasy In The U.K." Track on SHAMANARCHY IN THE U.K.
CD EVOCD2
"Acidosis" Track on 50 YEARS OF SUNSHINE CD Silent
Records SR9333
"Completion 4A" Track on FROM HERE TO TRANQUILITY
SR9336
"Godstar 94" Track on MYSTERIOUS ENCOUNTERS CD
CLEO 68082
"A Star Too Far (Lullaby For Syd) Track on SPACE DAZE
(Double CD) A companion book is also available)
CLEO 7616
KONDOLE 1,2,3 CD SR9332
HEX SEX-The Singles Pt. 1 CD CLEO 65082
PAGAN DAY CD CLEO 94692
ALLEGORY AND SELF CD CLEO 94912
PEAK HOUR TOPYCD 068 (essential-get it!)
TRIBAL CD TOPYCD 077 (Remixes of Peak Hour song by Drum
Club)
TEMPORARY TEMPLE/ATONAL CD on Dossier records DCD 9041
MEIN GOeTT*IN*GEN CD DCD 9046
AL-OR-AL CD DCD9054
SPLINTER TEST 2x3 CD Box Set on Caroline records:
BOX 1-Elipse Ov Flowers
-Tarot Ov Abomination
-Stained By Dead Horses
BOX 2-Mouth Ov Thee Knight
-Sugarmorphoses
-Cold Dark Matter
TOWARDS THEE INFINITE BEAT Re-release
ULTRADRUG Remixed, remastered version of ULTRAHOUSE
"A Star Too Far" Track on SPACE DAYS Cleopatra comp.
(Nov. 94)
A HOLLOW COST Visionary records (Sept. 94)
BREATHE CD I.T.C. release (more about them later)
SIRENS "Sequel" to ULTRADRUG Visionary (late 94)
EXILE Processed "soundtrack" to EXHILE AND
EXHILERATION video
LISTEN...TODAY Re-issue of CDVideo by Sordide
Sentimental
DESCENDING Re-issue by Sordide Sentimental
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With this issue of PTV4UNE, we have included a program that
apparently simulates an actual DREAMACHINE. it is strongly
recommended that you read the instructions and warnings that
come with the program itself as it may be dangerous for those
with epilepsy or similar conditions. Otherwise...N-JOY!!!
The following is considered (by me) to be found material.
Many thanks to the originator...whoever you may be.
PSYCHIC TV
ALBUMS:
"Force The Hand Of Chance" (1982-Some Bizarre Record/WEA)
"Themes" (1982-Some Bizarre Records/WEA-Limited Edition,
came with "Force..." album [first 5000 copies only
and also a poster of Gen and Paula])
"Dreams Less Sweet" (1983-Some Bizarre Records/CBS)
"Those Who Do Not" (1984-Gramm Records-Iceland-Double
album)(Limited Edition 5000)
"N.Y. Scum Haters" (1984-Temple Records TOPY 002)(Limited
Edition 5000)
"25 December 1984-A Pagan Day (Pages From A Notebook)"
(1984-Temple Records TOPY 003)(Picture Disc-Limited
Edition 999)(Reprinted in black vinyl and different
cover in 1986, reissued on CD in 1994 by Cleopatra
Records)
"Themes 2" (1985-Temple Records TOPY 004)
"Descending" (1985-Sordide Sentimental CD-France)(First
5000 come with 16 pg. booklet)
"Mouth Ov Thee Night" (1985-Temple Records TOPY 10 + TOPIC
10)(Also available in CD {TOPY 034 CD}[with four
extra and uncredited tracks] and Picture Disc)(Also
reissued in 1993 as SPLINTER TEST D)
"Hashashins" (Temple Records TOPY 012)
"Themes 3" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 019)
"Thee Yellow Album" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 032)
"Allegory and Self" (1988-Temple Records)(Black vinyl
[TOPY 038] and Picture Disc [TOPY 035])
"Allegory and Self" (1988-Fundamental Records)(CD,
cassette, Limited Edition 666 [on pink marble
vinyl])(Temple copies come with 14 pg. book and
Fundamental copies come with 12 pg. book)[Re-issued
by Cleopatra 1994]
"Jack The Tab Vol.1" (1988-Castalia Records)(CD, LP,
Picture Disc. Sold under Various Artists, although
it is Psychic TV [mostly Genesis] just not telling
anyone)
"Tekno Acid Beat" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 039)(CD
[TOPYCD 041] includes extra tracks)
"Kondole/Dead Cat" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 046)(Each
track is longer on CD pressing [TOPY 046CD])
"Towards Thee Infinite Beat" (1990-Temple Records TOPY
049/Midnight Music/Wax Trax)(Wax Trax covers
slightly different, CD [TOPY 049CD]includes two
extra tracks and three tracks are remixed)[Re-
issued by Visionary 1994)
"Beyond Thee Infinite Beat" (1990-Temple Records TOPY
051DJ/Midnight Music/Wax Trax)(CD [TOPY 051CD] and
cassette have extra track. All tracks are remixes
of "Towards..." tracks)[Re-issued by Visionary
1994]
"High Jack-Politics Of Ecstacy" (1990-Wax Trax Records,
remixes and sampler of "Jack The Tab")
"Live At The Berlin Wall-Part One" (1990-Temple Records
TOPY 052CD/Midnight Music) (CD only)
"Live At The Berlin Wall-Part Two" (1990-Temple Records
TOPY 053CD/Midnight Music) (CD only)
"At Stockholm" (1990-Psychick Release PCP-Sweden)(CD only)
"Rare And Alive" (19??-Label unknown [TIB CD 10], possibly
a bootleg)
"Direction Ov Travel" (1991-TOPY 059CD, Megs'on [A.K.A.
G.P.O.] & Z'ev
"Psychic TV Presents Ultrahouse-The LA connection" (1991-
Wax Trax, another various artists type deal)
"Peak Hour" (1993-Temple Records)
"Elipse Ov Flowers" (1993-SPLINTER TEST A, soundtracks to
films by Derek Jarman)
"Tarot Ov Abomination" (1993-SPLINTER TEST B, soundtrack
to the film, "The Wanderer" plus piece with White
Stains)
"Stained By Dead Horses" (1993-SPLINTER TEST C,
soundtracks to films by Derek Jarman and G.P.O.)
"Sugarmorphoses" (1993-SPLINTER TEST E, soundtracks and
tonal pieces dating back to 1965)
"Cold Dark Matter" (199?-reissued as SPLINTER TEST F,
album with "primitive" instruments, lengthy message
from TOPI spokesman)
"Al-Or-Al" (1994-Dossier Records, collaboration with XKP,
intended to be an aural piece of devotion to
Alaura, steps 1-12 of 13 step programme)
"Hex Sex-The Singles-Pt. 1" (1994-Cleopatra Records, a
"best of" PTV singles collection)
SINGLES:
"Just Drifting/Breakthrough" (1982-Some Bizarre
Records/WEA 7")
"Just Drifting/Just Drifting (midnight)/Ov Power" (1982-
Some Bizarre Records/WEA 12")
"Roman P (short version)/Neurology (double groove)"
(1984-Sordide Sentimental-France 7")(B side by TOPY
specifically, includes 16 pg. book)
"Unclean/Mirror" (1984-Temple Records 12" TOPY 001)
"Godstar/Godstar (BJ Mix)" (1985-Temple Records 7" TOPY
009)
"Godstar/Godstar (BJ Mix)/Discopravity (Fish Mix)/Yes
It's The B Side" (1985-Temple Records Double 7"
TOPYS 009)
"Godstar (Hyperdelic Mix)/Godstar (California Mix)"
(1985-Temple Records 12" TOPIC 009)(Also available
as a Picture Disc)
"Godstar/Godstar" (Temple Records 12" TOPYH 009)
"Magick Defends Itself" (1986-Temple Records 12" TOPY
022)
"Listen Today..." (1987-Sordide Sentimental-France
CDV)(Includes 16 pg. book, Limited Edition 10,000
(5000 with video in PAL, 5000 with video in NTSC
formats)
"Tune in (Turn On The Acid House)" (1988-Temple Records
12" TOPY 037)
"Joy/Thee Politics Ov Ecstacy" (1988-Temple Records 12"
TOPY 040)
"Acid Voodoo Sound" (1988-Fundamental Records 7")(Limited
Edition Radio DJ Promo)
"Godscar" 1988-USA Records 7" one-sided single)
"Love War Riot/Eve Ov Destruction" (1989-Temple Records
12" TOPY 048)
"Love War Riot (Dogon-Nogod Vocoder Message Mix)/Love War
Riot (Priestly Intervention Mix)/Love War Riot
(Untitled Version)" (1989-Temple Records 10" TOP
048T)(Limited Edition [number unspecified])
"Je T'Aime" (1989-Temple Records 12" TOPY 050)
"I.C. Water (Radio version)/I.C. Water (CD version)/Alien
Be-in" (1990-Temple Records TOPY 058T/Midnight
Music 12")(Also available as CD single and special
limited edition one-sided 7" TOPY 058)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7" TOPY 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 12" TOPYT 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7" Twin Pack TOPYD 023)
"Good Vibrations" (Temple Records 7"+ Poster TOPY 023 P)
EPs:
"The Full Pack/The Mad Organist/Catalan" (1983-Some
Bizarre/CBS)(Free with first 5000 copies of
"Dreams..." album only)
"The Magickal Mystery D Tour E.P." (1986-Temple Records)
(Available in four formats: A)7" with four tracks
B)A version, but includes a poster C)Gatefold
double 7" pack with photo inlay and extra 7" with
two tracks D)12"with same tracks as A&B although
12" mixes exclusively)
"Ultrahouse Remixes" (1991-Wax Trax, WAXCD 7179, remixes
of some songs from "Ultrahouse..." album)
"Tribal (Drum Club Mixes)" (1994-Temple Records)(Remixes
from "Peak Hour" by the Drum Club)
LIVE 23:
"Live In Tokyo" (1986-Temple Records TOPY 015-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #1 (January 18/86 in Tokyo,
Japan)
"Live In Paris" (1986-Temple Records TOPY 014-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #2 (June 8/86 in Paris
France)
"Live In Heaven" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 018-Limited
Edition 3000 with Tab #3 (December 23/86 in London,
England)
"Live In Glasgow" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 016-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #4 (February 18/86 in
Glasgow, Scotland)
"Live In Reykjavik" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 026-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #5 (November 83 in Reykjavik,
Iceland)(An edited down version of the album,
"Those Who Do Not" with one extra track)
"Live En Suisse" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 027-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #6 (February 86 in
Switzerland)
"Live In Gottingen" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 029-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #7 (May 17/84 in Gottingen,
West Germany, re-released on Dossier with part of
"Atonal")(Available on video)
"Live In Toronto" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 028-Limited
Edition 5000 with Tab #8 (August 86 in Toronto,
Canada)
"Temporary Temple" (1987-Temple Records TOPY 030-Limited
Edition 2300 with Tab #9 (July 28/84 in London,
England, re-released on Dossier [1993] with part of
"Atonal")
"Psychedelic Violence (Album 10)" (1988-Temple Records-
Limited Edition 1000)(Available to people who send
in tabs 1-9. This offer is now closed!)
"Live At Thee Mardi Gras" (1988-Temple Records-Limited
Edition 5000)(Nottingham, 1987)
"Live At Thee Circus" (1988-Temple Records TOPY 042-
Limited Edition 5000)(London 1987-1988)
"Live At Thee Ritz" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 045-Limited
Edition 5000)(Manchester, November 1983)
"Live At Thee Pyramid" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 047-
Limited Edition 5000 [2000 in Picture Disc {TOPIC
047}with message printed in vinyl discussing 1989's
current TOPY and PTV happenings])(New York City,
1988)
"Live In Bregenz" (1989-Temple Records TOPY 020-Limited
Edition 5000)(Austria, 1985)
"A Real Swedish Live Show" (1989-TOPYSCAN Records-Sweden-
Limited Edition 5000)(December 6/84 in Stockholm,
Sweden)
"City Ov New York/City Ov Tokyo" (Temple Records TOPY
054CD)
"City Ov Paris" (Temple Records TOPY 055CD)
BOOTLEGS:
"Ov Power" (LP, no label or catalogue number, live, black
cover with golden psychick cross, no track listing,
venue unknown) 1984
"Live Transmission" (Cassette, RSB, Italy R'SAA1,
Authorized limited edition of live show in London,
August 17/84) 1985
"Southern Comfort" (LP, no label or catalogue number,
live, violet vinyl, recorded December 13/85 at the
Arena in Rotterdam)(Limited Edition 1000) 1986
"Live at Final War$" (LP, Transrecords TRANS06, live in
Tokyo, January 16-18/86 [includes "I Like You" and
"Japan Boy/Japan Girl" from LIVE01, but the rest is
new and exclusive, separate recording], comes with
8 pg. book in fantastic colour with tons of live
shots and a Japanese interview) 198?
"Ambient Indoctrination" (Cassette, authorized release by
the ITC, consists of a live show in Eugene, Oregon,
October 14/93, by PTV and XKP, first 100 of edition
are signed by Genesis and Craig Ellenwood of XKP,
first 23 of 100 has artwork signed by artist)
"Stations Ov Thee Cross" (Cassette , same as above,
April/94)
COMPILATIONS ETC.:
"23 Drifts To Guestling" (1983 Cassette, Nanavash,
contains demo of "Stolen Kisses" by Alex Fergusson
and a talk by GPO, "The First Outing Of The
Psychick Youth")(Reprinted in 1985 by Catfood
Press)
"Nice Tracks" (1983 LP Sampler, Nice, Italy, contains PTV
Rally recordings and GPO and Sleazy talking)
"Sex And Beastiality" (1984 Boxed Set of 4 Cassettes,
Bain Total, France, contains the PTV track, "La
Edad de Oro [Red Ritual Film]")
"Berlin Atonal Vol. 1" (1984 LP, Atonal, West Germany,
contains two PTV live tracks: "Nursery Times" and
"Skinhead Moonstomp 84")
"Berlin Atonal Vol. 2" (1984 LP, Atonal, West Germany,
contains one side of PTV live tracks: "Papacy",
"Unclean", "God's Blood", and "New Will")
"Better An Old Demon Than A New God" (1984 Sampler LP,
Giorno Poetry Systems, USA, contains PTV's
"Unclean" (Giorno Mix) which is the most complete
version to date. Also on the album is Lydia Lunch,
Nurroughs, Giorno, Jim Carroll and Meredith
Monk)
"Pinpoints On A Nation" (1984 Cassette and poster in
baggie, Fifth Column, USA, Limited Edition 500,
contains an untitled live track by PTV/TempleUS)
"If You Can"t Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your
Soul" (1985 Sampler LP, Some Bizarre Records/CBS,
contains "Twisted by PTV)
"Gunfire And Pianos" (1986 Sampler LP, Situation Two,
contains "Baby's Gone Away")
"Captured Music" (1989 LP, Selektion, West Germany,
contains Gen, Paula, and Hafler Trio live tracks
from Captured Music Festival [February 87 in
Karlsruhe] cut-up and reworked by other artists)
"The Bridge: A Tribute To Neil Young" (1989 Sampler LP
[for charity], Caroline, USA, contains PTV doing N.
Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart")
"Fifty Years Of Sunshine" (1993-Silent Records, doulble
album celebrating the discovery of L.S.D., the
limited edition vinyl is highly sought after,
features the PTV song "Acidosis" as well as some
other appearances of Genesis)
"From Here To Tranquility" (199?-Silent Records, contains
PTV's "Completion 4A", which is the 13th step in
programme [see Al-Or-Al])
"Industrial Revolution II" (1994-Cleopatra Records,
double CD, contains PTV doing "United '94",
features the Throbbing Gristle lineup)
"Mysterious Encounters" (1994-Cleopatra Records, contains
PTV's "Godstar '94" [PTV, in this case, being the
members of Throbbing Gristle])
"Space Daze" (1994-Cleopatra Records, contains a track by
Psychic TV and thee Angels Ov Light entitled, "A
Star Too Far (Lullaby For Sid)"
GENESIS P.ORRIDGE:
Genesis P.Orridge/Stan Bingo-"What's History" (1982
Cassette, Nekrophile Rekords, Austria, instrumental
music, a blueprint for PTV)
Dave Ball-"In Strict Tempo" (1983 LP, Some Bizarre, text
and voice in a few tracks)
Various Artists-"Decoder Soundtrack" (1985 Soundtrack,
What's So Funny About Records, West Gemany,
contains soundtrack music by GPO/Dave Ball, as well
as E. Neubauten, Matt Johnson, Bur roughs, and
more)
Genesis P.Orridge & The Angels Of Light-"Je T'Aime"
/"Supermale" (1986 12" single, Sub Rosa, Belgium,
reprinted in 1989 under PTV's name)
Genesis P.Orridge-"M.E.S.H.:Meet Every Situation Head-
On" (1988 12"single, Castalia Records, two
different mixes, under Gen's name, but really PTV)
The Hafler Trio & Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth-"Brion
Gysin's Dreamachine" (1989 Cassette, CD [with extra
track] or LP, 72 pg. book and cardboard poster
which folds out into a dreamachine replica, Limited
Edition, contains the tracks "Sound To Enhance The
Effect of Brion Gysin's Dreamachine-Part I & II"
[The CD includes part III])
Genesis & Alaura P.Orridge (1989 Cassette , Psychick
Release PCP, Sweden, documentation of Scandinavian
Poetry Tour of December 1989)
VIDEOS:
"Time Zones" (35 minutes, Jettisounds, UK, 1990,
includes three films by Derek Jarman [shorts]:
"Home Movies", "The Art Of Mirrors", and "The Dream
Machine (1984)" which have music by Dave Ball/GPO,
T.G., and PTV)
"The First Transmission" (240 minutes, TOPY, UK, 1982,
advertised in the first edition of Thee Grey Book
and sold at a minimum donation of P.23 (requesting
a signed declaration to absolve TOPY of all legal
responsibilities)(Very limited edition, now
extinct, police didn't like what they saw on it
much at all [say no more], comes in black sleeve
with grey outline and psychick cross, contents:
TOPY Spokesman, lengthy TOPY ritual, misdeeds of a
San Diego Medical Detective, views of Gysin's
Dreamachine, Jim Jones footage, SXXX-80 [Cazazza/E
mollo], PTV interview on BBC2, ritual porn with
Thee Temple)(In US, this is distrubuted on NTSC
format in three volumes: "Eden3", "Ritual Cuttings"
and "[volume three, title unknown]")
"TV Wipeout" (Doublevision Video, UK, 1983, includes
"Terminus" video)
"Morgana-Flowers From The Underground" (Kartell Video,
1984, includes "Terminus")
"PTV Live In Berlin 1983" (Studio K7, Germany, 1990,
video taken from the Atonal Video sampler, "Berlin
Atonal 1 & 2" [2x90 minutes, West Germany, 1984])
"Decoder" (235 minutes, West Germany, 1985, company
unknown but is out there, a movie starring W.S.
Burroughs, E. Neubauten, Christian F., F.M.Einheit,
Matt Johnson and Genesis P.Or ridge [Gen plays a
high priest fighting the Muzak Corporation].
Directed by Muscha and Klaus Maeck)
"Body Shocks" (90 minutes, Dragon Video, UK, 1986,
includes music by PTV, a half-live remix of
"Unclean" video and Mr. Sebastian in action
piercing Gen, Paula and Sleazy)
"Black" (?? minutes, Cleopatra, US, 1994, mostly live
footage spliced together with various images from
other videos)
"8Transmissions8" (50 minutes, TOPY, UK, contains videos
for "Godstar", "Unclean", and "Terminus", among
others)
"Exhile and Exhileration (A Video Meme From Genesis
P.Orridge)" (45 minutes, TOPY, UK)
"Joy" (56 minutes, Jettisoundz Video [available from
Visionary] Mostly live footage from 1988. R.U.
Xperienced is the stand-out)
"Maple Syrup" (60 minutes, Jettisoundz Video [available
from Visionary] Rather low quality footage shot in
Toronto, Canada in 1987/89.)
"Thee Films 1950's-1960's" (120 minutes, TOPY [available
from Visionary] Features films by Burroughs, Gysin,
and Somerville. Heavy PTV influence.)
==>If you know of anything not appearing in the above
discography, please let us know.
PTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4UNEPTV4U
A HOLLOW COST.
No fear, except thee fear of leaving. Death is like each
other. Life has only dreams to recommend it, and thee
security of being inside. To be part of a group, to be
INSIDE, is to enter thee body and partake of sex. We
therefore thrive on this violation. We attempt to recreate
thee excitement of a first moment's intensity by deceptive
means. Happiness can give you fear. Of course thee fear of it
ending. Thee only real fear is fear of ending, and thee only
joy is violation. Unhappiness gives insight cruelly,
happiness makes a death threat. As time passes thee addiction
dwindles. Always a jolt of steel. Always. Thee orchid, thee
metal. Muscles, no longer as loose as childhood, ache in
memorium, stiffening with age before beauty. Age before lust.
Age before love. Demand outstrips supply, we congeal, fixed
in parables and fantasies. Thee past controls through people.
Little girls become young ladies. Proper. They attract by
their lack of experience, unaware of thee spell, more
concerned with being inside than observation. They accept
thee host. They create a ghost that haunts forever. Thee
ache for reclamation. Perhaps, thee story goes, if you
recreate that first moment, passed; you can travel back in
time. Or by creating a stranger, replenish lust. This
violation then is a form of breaking thee rules: a necessary
act to exist. Conscious self- deception and threat of oneself
and one's security affirms existence, makes real. Sexuality,
getting inside, makes real, makes really real, and once
inside we can make anything happen. Eyes shut in a coffin, a
world of darkness, we travel that darkness to reconvene our
emotions and listening hard we see every detail of every
sexual act. Little girls masturbating about tomorrow. Little
boys masturbating. Every second losing intensity, creating
thee need forever to go back inside and feel safe, to travel
back and feel alive. It really is so difficult. What we have
creates our need. Restrictions are removed like school
uniforms, we discover eroticism in both manners. And manners
maketh man, woman and star . We enter our bodies. Inside
isquiet, scarcely a solution in sight. Sharing a body is
nothing. Sharing insight is everything. A fine balance
maintained by neurosis. When we break rules, we become
fools, driven by a desperate grasping of hope for ignorance.
Thee rules are created by a wound. We never escape them. We
descend into them. Brats in a trap. All paranoia comes from
thee past. It takes us like a rape and damages. Like a rape
and damages. Like a rape. Damages. But in thee mourning,
after thee night, we fall in love with thee light. The
solution is, to touch skin, and stay safe, deep inside. Thee
first step towards control is ownership. Thee foundation of
ownership is meme-control. Ownership of information is thee
real system of control. To know a thing is to possess it. To
possess a thing is to be able to manipulate it. Search
continues. Control needs time like a junkie needs junk. If
only it were all a matter of time. Takes all kinds. Time is.
Time is passed on. Turning over thee ancient symbols used to
weigh gold in Egypt we terminate dreams. Regular trips to
thee undercurrent display confusion in precise detail. Thee
effect is one of accuracy of purpose and description. Images
sequenced to define thee exact nature of time and place. New
York. Skeletal myth jaded and scarred. Know, self-respect
breeds cynical self-abuse. Never never return to thee
previous character. Always create a new one. What do you see
from thee faded telephone box? Two sides of one street un-re-
joining each other like worms? Visions convicted and
betrayed. We become what we once wrote, thought better of,
and since despised. We eat what starves us. We defecate what
we once took to be our Selves, to be what we once were. A
litany common to all, but Deities. Designed by spirits dead
and erect. Projections making light of surface. The
alternative is Enless, endless sadness. Thee consumption of
guilt threatens guilt. Inside a shelter. Old men pissing on
trees. Dogs turning 'circles of animals'. Thee black sickly
powder of fear. Speaking thee incantations aloud trapped in a
lump of skin. Instinct breeding the final moves, thee
infinite lovers. We accept them on our shoulders and leave
you for free. Then time ends. Eyes burn and close. Wounded. I
wandered that land. Making plans. Building strange
concoctions of hope. Thee charm. Thee TV. Thee whiskey. Thee
fur cellar as indecent as a beard. From cool to indifference.
Visions convicted and betrayed. Looking from zero point
there's all kinds of illusions. Zero point. It takes all
kinds of illusions, this, this, death. Thee pains don't ease
as you get older. Thee hatred doesn't melt. E thought the
hatred would melt. Thee brains get blocked. Thee drains stray
across to bare flesh, groaning at Nature's tricks, and not
even caring for thee moment. Some daze are like friendship.
Routines pulling you away from thee burden of vision. Good
friends that step in and destroy thee direction of youth.
Thee apotheosis of desire is to outclass death. We are
sentimental and quite capable of finding laughter. No iceberg
this tension. Thee averted eyes of youth. And now it's
finished. Process complete. Only thee corpse to sacrifice
like a gangster. Thee special forces where agape meets
thelema. Nietsche never had a cushier b-earth. Here we see a
principle, here we see a subject. Endless twigs on thee fire.
Axle cracked by frost. Resting. Snow has crushed my
camouflage. Snow has killed my garden. Thee shelter is still
there. Time is. Time is passed on. Thee dogs are now dogs.
Just dogs. Still turning circles. Thee eyes still burn.
Choice as hard as tooth, as cold as knowing. And yet, agains
my will, another dream coming into focus. Ice on soil. Dog
resting at my back. Daylight of friendship cracked with
shadow. In this dream it begins and ends at the dogs fucking
in circles park I remember from my childhood and now call
zero point. Pointless passover. In heat, breathing as a
bloody door shuts. (The deities must think I'm affirming my
existence this way.) In they come. 23 visions of light. Thee
small room. Memories of blood and urine by thee medical box.
Links of old senses in rope.... (Do the dieties think I can't
navigate the meanings here?) There were shadows pulling
scales from young flesh. Quiet and hooded. Thee small hands
played patterns on thee window. Fog in living rooms. Several
old, old pages curling as dog barks spewed across night time
light. Rope tightened making furrows. (I know what 's going
on here.) No sound. In the essential nature of legends. Thee
Dissident Watchers nefeling liquid secret distopias from long
sought distant utopias. Like alchemists siphoning mind from
chemical, for there once were stones in a sexual cathedral
now drained of steel by the endless shadows of a Pyhrric
cloister of bureaucracy. Down thee foockin' alley is where he
went. Body shifting on wood, dog outside thee door. Is there
only the smell of blood? There is both truth and history,
projection and dream. Flickering memories as trains
manoeuvre in old men's eyes. (Did they not think we'd know?)
Rope lashing marks back hard. It's all a matter of counting,
tic, tic. Betrayal of simple fertility. Tic. Thee lack of
wild explosions a code to rebuild every life. Tic. This time
tic thee victim is desired and wet. Tic. These lives are
stones tic, assembled in ancient dreams of slick young flesh.
Tic. Quiet and hooded. Tic. Rituals of male. Tic. Many
shapes tattooed in old buildings. Tic. Tattoos. Tic. Old
keys. Tic. Flesh. Resting. Slight shifting. Feet deepening
red. No sound. Across thee way a boy was grinning. Hard-on
obvious in old torn gray trousers. Inherited from an earlier
victim of plague. Uniform remnants. Light of night filtering
through where roof tiles slipped their tail and buggered old
senile books across dreams. Nothing salvaging code. Tic.
Thee same city we all used to pass away time in. Crippled
compacts, flesh bound. Each ritual makes its demand. Slipping
a wooden coil of expensive death under all those derelict
lines. No engines anymore. No green and pleasant ghosts of
death playing in thee grass. Just simple and banal. As you
would expect. Terminus. Final flaw. If one could truly
describe that light, of course it's gray, but, that light
images tumble, only eyes hurt from lack of focus. No physical
sensations here. Limbo of stone. Men separated from
brickwork. No polarity visible. Similes of love from pitted
carriages. Semen as thee corpse evolves into alchemy. (That
was someone else.) Liquid sings of old religions. Hand
smearing juice on cock, squeezing tight as it glides into,
into, unfaithfulness. Vanity of accounting. Tic. Pride of
hindsight. Tic. Crinkling of skin against worn eyes. There is
no need for more light. Scanning ripples of boyish flesh
used to pass away time in. Car crumpled, rain on moss. Crack
of wood. Only a few see this code. Tic. Gray suit draped
across street. Feet derelict. Looking from zero point
there's all kinds of truth. Tic. In thee wrong camouflage.
Not 1984. Taxi making waves from red lights and green
visions. Tic. A green magician perhaps. Takes all kinds. So
there it was. From school to outhouse to dream to thee boy's
grin across thee line. Thee old theories. Many an alchemist
died for less, or so they say. And we have thee fragments.
Pillars and razors and comfortable settings. Takes all kinds.
Leaves falling, sometimes snow. Collapsed my camouflage net
this year. We sit with thee lights on, eyes closed. Thumbing
through dictionaries. What makes this difficult? Is there
madness in this method? There is no god where I am. Steroids
lead to addictive joys and elective death. How the hell did
we get to Bill Haley? Does shame lurk like physical weapons
waiting to mug us no matter how late. It's AL a matter of
time. Visions without affirmations destroy our guts. Thee
irony of nature's game. Content without content. We play it
both ways. Weighing up thee results on ancient Egyptian coin.
Did you know you killed thee strongest boy with hopelessness
alone? Old myths die soft. "Bad advice," says Father Jesse,
always focussed on essence and suffering. Thee victim
relaxes. Caring is blood. Thereby hangs a thread. This is
not about one thing. Tic. Does not belong to one person. Tic.
One subject. These words belong to anything we think. Tic.
And it's not thee name anymore. No set piece battles. Tic. No
solution turning acid. Tic. There is a system evolving
whereby all these words apply to every situation. Tic.
(Isn't that rather arrogant?) No. It takes all kinds of
words, this life. "Is this thee white path?" asks Sister
Sibyl. No. Don't be mistaken. Tic. All these marvelous words,
teasing us close to existence. Then. Time ends. It's all a
matter of time. Blurred self-image corrupting. Dangerous.
"During a conference on tactics it was decided to terminate
this mission with extreme prejudice," from when E was really
young. It originates in thee dark side of history. This
mission never existed. Getting thinner all thee time. Subject
limited to a strip of one. A circle of animals. Motives
replace products in our minds. Object d'art to camouflage our
own commodification. It takes all kinds. Tic. Philosophy
separates thee person from thee Mass. Exit all legends. Enter
thee laws of magick. In this world we entertain not audiences
but fantasies. We complete thee self-image, blurred or not.
Tic. Search continues for correct process. "Proclaim present
time over," says Father Robert, somewhere in thee secret
cathedral of small stony movements. Old movies dream
conflict. Thee old, old area in sheets of snow, reversible,
lacking truth fades. Truth is a bad word to use. Breathing
short as spunk coats the bloody arm. Part of thee text on
thee wall. Whenever thee dog turned thee night trembled.
Tremble died of auld lang syne. Shimmered like water moved by
piss in a forest. Shadow moved in thee light. Peace of
history. Marks of cold spray as thee material fades. Our
appetite for miracles May King traps of time. Daze go by.
Viciousness is not enough. Wooden pricks lubricated against
dawn. Slow motion of exact formulae edging fear into spectres
f old death. Tic. Key twists causing rivulets of blood and
piss. Floor stained with patience and precision. Tic. Only
animals remain. No focus. "What do you want next time?" thee
dream whimpered. Who thee fuck was coming back? Back? Back?
Back of hand on kidneys. No need to define victims. Tic.
Where do you hide terminus? Routine dreaming. Mirages that
exist. Affirmations wax of fur and bullet. In one dark corner
thee exact dimensions were long ago concealed. And thee
entrance danced to relive old histories, plunging through
flesh to saw, sore eyes. Source,arise.Lost in light of night,
into that darkness. Always watched, all ways. Relying on thee
slim movement of thee least action. Key. Always easy in this
room. Tic. Small room. Chamber of conscience. Plaster
flaking like love. (How Victorian; English Victorian at
that.) Dreams contained in liquid. Sperm rages in formulas.
Drinking rain even as trees cough out thee empty bairn of
history. Thee way of thee formulas. Thee wisdom of breath.
Thee temple of light. But he sees you. As he waits. He does
not need thee light of night, thee serene dream of time, thee
sweet flesh ideas are heir to. He is above you and in you.
His joy is in your joy. When all movement and thought stops
we are awake. We are awake because we are empty and Anything
at all merely serves to fill us again. Did you hear us? E
said we were awake. Sad, E saw that game. On one side near
thee old house. Movement of rat in corner. Rustle of scales.
Rubble crunching like snow, kicked aside like tin. He was
grinning before he jumped. Oh, nothing in particular. Dog
shifting and sleeping. Oxygen short in thee air. Sound of
breathing louder than old stone. Light of night twisted
fading. Sound playing across skin like fingers. Prickling
hairs on thee cock. No way to identify. No key. Tic. Empty as
flesh. Inside thee box papers inscribed with time. Several
days past. Thee gate remained closed. Shadows at attention
marking time. Tic. Orders to thee last as vigils of death
ponder flesh and all thee dogs crawl away. Car passes. Tic.
Phone rings. Glass cracks. Tic. Did you see that? Black
fingernails strapped to linen. Sound of steel beneath flesh,
perhaps not deep enough still. Tic. Direction gone. Mangle
us. Tic. Septic from piss. Tic. Line around heel. Lack of
nails cracked. Tic. Glass crimson as thee doctor fell.
Hiding his face they say. Shame. A blunt instrument in
surgeon's hands. Dry noise in throat washing across winter as
trains drift by. Counting. Tic. Noise of dreams at thee
door. Tic. Huge carved monoliths, ivory curved around thee
illusory gates. "Open, open!" For know reason. For just a
small map, an old routine frozen before. Before time passed
on. Leaving spirals bouncing against spirals. Wherever we
observe, it is all ways thee same place. Thee traces remain.
To me. To me. Thee sex scene over for now. Last night thee
flesh came. Open arms, strong, empty pale. A volunteer. Light
behind in thee doorway. Fading fresco. Let dreams slide
across thee floor of winter, splinters in foot. Gasps of
little boy who didn't want to bleed.All ready. Blood. Feet
stamping. Fingers jabbing in groin. Tic. Already empty.
Drifting in story: no detail forgotten. No fact erased. No
one watched. Trapped in small room. Tic. Looking up at thee
ceiling there were thee usual number of tiles laid out. Tic.
Gray as photographs. Thee same cathedral we all used to pass
a way in. Small baby smiled. Kicked. Such simple structures
cascade from box to corner. Kicked. Fear of lust of
destruction. Kicked. Results not uncommon. Stolen trusts.
Cold. Just a very, very small game. Lights of night twisted
overhead. Tic. Exactly several days passed. Tic. Sick dogs
slouch away. Tic. Knives flared in little boy hands. Tic.
Fortunes slumping in corners wrestling. Tic. Thee car dumped
near piles of earth. Tic. To flicker of moon on knife in
stream of icy breath. Tic. Wondering. Tic. Wondering. Zero
point. Responsibilities cracked like frostbitten flesh. (How
Victorian.) A window slammed shut. Awake, all ways. Here we
are. No thing recovers. Still drinking rain as patchwork
leaves sleazily cover deep, deep, deep dreams. Eassau, e'
did. Our favorite snow defined tree just peters away and is
off or something. From thee window, just lumps of flesh
moving near water. A ction of wall flaking like thee bedbug-
ridden plaster of "daath". (How very, very Victorian.) Ex-
dreams contained in fertile liquid. Thee ectoplasmic
thoughts made ritual gestures and parted with no messages
spoken, an emptiness of this story. Thee serene time merely
serves to spill, then dies like poison spiders stamped
needfully underfoot. A spark of will before thee cold draught
and damp "would" of future, placed near dying trees. Severe
rot. Tic. Uncouth sounds playing across skin like light
erotic fingers. Tic. Yes, odd steel needles buried in needy
images. Tic. Hard, no sounds. Tic. Next ache is a
continuation of the first ache. Tic or breath or pulse or
waft. Tic. Begorah, always thee same numbers. Tic. Good dew
ladels sweat on the body knowingly tensed. Tic. [sic] By
night laced in stomach, expression traced in nails basked in
victims blood. Tic. Choke, my Knight. Tic. Get her Inside
thee boxed papers inscribed with meaningless maps,
intersections. Remember? Eying sophisticates from under the
trees of guilt, of shame. Paralysing. Eyes useless. Regret
useless. Heat of tracks counted like withered grass. Twisted
in old hair. Throat washing across winter as an old routine
drifts by. No dream forgotten. Links of old senses in rope.
Knots of divinity. Aware of floor on flesh, tubes of water.
Raging mud lightens it up. No thoughts, thee best type of
mind. Empty vessels make thee most alchemically pure
cathedral stones. Life is moving, Charlie. Time gripping
tight like a lover's orgasm. Tied trees bending. Quiet and
hooded. Thea sins too small noises of rats next door. Cable,
craw, celibate. Roar. Fur trembling like light.. Pulling
scales clear of rustling menses in thee essential nature of
legends. Shadows steal from endless counting. Thee rest left
open. Roar. Not enough. Knot. Tide goes out.
genesis p-orridge
Cazadero, California, Feb 1994
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Reviews
PSYCHIC TV Towards Thee Infinite Beat (Visionary re-issue
[VICD002]
It's very fitting that this recording be one of the
first PTV discs for Visionary to release, simply because this
is very likely PTV's most "accessible" album to date. By that
term I don't mean that it is tame in any way, just that it is
the album most people happen to stumble upon first (due
largely to the fact that it was previously released by
WaxTrax in The U.S.).
Upon first listen of this album (several years ago, for
myself), one may be relatively unimpressed. The dance beats,
rave influences, and overall "pop" feel tends to suggest
ordinariness. Further and closer examinations of the album,
however, eventually reveal an extremely diverse and
intelligent assortment of sounds as well as subject matter.
This record is certainly home to a few classics. I.C.
Water, the Ian Curtis tribute, is likely the most well known
tune, while Horror House has become legendary in its own
right with a terrific piano line and samples from Apocalypse
Now. The only disappointment with this re-release is the
lack of new/different artwork. The front section's
artwork and layout is identical to that of the copies
originally released in Europe on TEMPLE RECORDS. The back
cover only differs in that it bares Visionary's markings.
As always, Towards Thee Infinite Beat is an essential
part of any PTV fan's collection, be he an old-timer or a new
comer. en-JOY. -MB
(Visionary\28-30 The Square, St.Annes\Lytham
St.Annes\FY8 1RF\U.K.)
PSYCHIC TV Ultradrug (Visionary- VICD 001)
Ultrahouse was originally released in 1991 in the U.S.
by Wax Trax Records. This recording isn't just a re-release-
it has been re-mastered, re-edited, and re-mixed to achieve
what I consider to be a far better final product. This
release contains new tracks from Genesis and Larry Thrasher,
who seems to be a new member or PTV.
This disc is what it claims to be-a trip. If you listen
carefully or even just read the song titles, you can see how
the album is structured to represent a psychedelic
experience.
This record will especially appeal to those of you who
like PTV's dance/rave music (circa Jack The Tab). -MB
(Visionary/28-30 The Square, St. Annes/Lytham St.
Annes/FY81RF/U.K.)
BOYD RICE Ragnarok Rune (World Serpent- WSBCD 013)
Well...I've finally found a disc that I absolutely
cannot listen to all the way through. In fact, I haven't
listened to it for more than five minutes without starting to
go a bit mental.
The reason why this disc is so damn irritating is
because the tracks consist of one sustained (dis)chord with a
bit of subtle ambient noodling in the far background. One
track is the same as the next, only the main noise is of a
higher or lower pitch.
I find that when this tactic is used in noise music, the
result is an extreme increase in my own personal tension
level- you keep waiting for the actual climax and denouement,
but they never come. This makes for an extremely long and
uncomfortable listening session.
Masochists need only apply. -MB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
COSEY FANNI TUTTI Time To Tell (Conspiracy Intl.-CTI93 004)
There is much to be learned of Cosey here. Upon viewing
the Twenty-six post-card-style photos included in this set, I
found myself going into the reading and listening material
with a preset opinion of how I was going to feel about this
woman's solo work. This preset opinion was soon diminished to
a cautious appreciation.
This soft spoken woman has much to relish in her
chosen fields as a musician, performance artist and stripper.
Understanding of her reasons for entering these fields was a
learning experience for this feminist. She expresses her need
to do exactly what she wants in a way that is inarguable,
even by the most right wing conservatives.
The reading material in this set is both intelligent and
informative. It describes the true nature of this woman and
her work. The many descriptions of her performances/actions,
alone and with Genesis P. Orridge, are both intriguing and
disturbing. But she reminds us that Horror is something that
needs to be put back in it's place.
The musical content of this set is sensuous and
relaxing, reflecting the message in the written material. I
highly recommend this to the avid collector, or anyone who is
interested in counter-culture realities.
All-in-all it is safe to say that whether you agree with
her choices or not, this woman's work will make you sit up
and take notice. -JB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
COIL The Angelic Conversation
Poetic and beautiful. This soundtrack to the 1985 Derek
Jarman film is entirely tranquil. The mixtures of sounds,
music and poetry make it a truly enjoyable listening
experience. Coil once again has proven their mastery of
creating emotion through sound. If you enjoyed Hellraiser
Themes this is a guaranteed pleaser.
When listening to this CD one can not help but long to
view the movie for which it was written, myself included.
-JB
(World Serpent/Unit 717 Seager Buildings/Brookmill
Road/London/SE8 4HL/U.K.)
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ADDRESS LISTINGS
I.T.C.- Institute for Thelemic Culture
1430 Williamette Box 23
Eugene, OR. U.S.A.
97401
Group in Oregon that promotes Thelemic events, people,
ideas and products. Have put on two PTV shows (that I know
of) and intend to do it again every six months. Recordings of
those events are available through them. Write for more info.
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Nanaimo B.C. CANADA
V9R 5K9
mbali@island.net
Quarterly "fan-zine" distributed via the PSYCHOSPHERE.
Source of PTV info as well as new album reviews, addresses,
contacts, etc. The official fan-zine of PSYCHIC TV.
Transmedia Foundation
P.O. Box 1034
Occidental, CA U.S.A.
95465
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CLOSING NOTES-
We wish to thank everyone who helped bring this issue of
PTV4UNE together. Genesis P-Orridge, The Transmedia
Foundation, the staff of Visionary Communications, and
everyone else... THANK-YOU! If you have anything you would
like to contribute (reviews, poetry, comments, whatever...),
send it to us.
See you next time (April 23, 1995)
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