The 45th anniversary edition of this timeless Industrial masterpiece by System Planning Korporation (SPK). Originally released in 1981 (Side Effects), Graeme Revell has written an exclusive Information Overload Unit / Tribute for this re-release. Those writings are integrated into the cover notes to introduce the new (2024) listener to this important release.

"Rather than treating noise as formless, confusing or threatening, elevating the complexity of transmission in music and art can force the receiver into creative interpretations. This process functions as preparation for a vastly more complex future with an extraordinary multiplicity of possible articulations of meaning and emotion. There is no pure white noise. Or black noise for that matter. There is however a rawness which can lacerate and distort old habits of body and mind, primitive inputs producing complex outputs. Information Overload as a positive rather than a negative.

The album was created in a squat in South London immediately beside a railway line in a derelict building with an unreliable power supply. It was recorded with practically no budget on 2-track and 4-track tape and mixed on PA speakers. The rhythms were from a Latin American drum machine processed through guitar pedals and re-recorded post PA speakers. The synthesiser was an EMS VCS3, purchased deliberately without a keyboard. It was the beginning of the way I have always worked with technology - try to make it do something beyond that for which it was designed" (Graeme Revell).

An absolute highlight in Industrial culture and muzak! 6-panel digipak with 12pp booklet.

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