Before I put this decrepit monster out of its misery, I've scavenged through its innards and collected some of the spooky tracks I spun at Zombi along with a few I dared not play. No tears from the creature of the night...

dr @ Zombi 11.1.08

Tracklisting
Signs ov Chaos - Thee Devils' Tongue
Kill Memory Crash - Come Alive
Polygamy Boys - Global Misanthropy
Creepy Autograph - Night Stalker
New York City Survivors - The Game
Decal - The Reaper
Le Syndicat Electronique - Blood & Flesh
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Zombie Nation - Cycles To Failure
Revolting Cocks - Stainless Steel Providers
MOTOR - 20 Volts Of Steel
Millimetric - No Escape
Mystic Letter K - Robot Pornography
Dynarec - Mind To Body

Of the past two decades, one of my personal favorite artists has been Greater Than One. Founded in 1985 by Michael Wells and Lee Newman after meeting at the Royal College of Art in London, Greater Than One started out as experimental artists, putting on multi-media art installations while dabbling in mutated cut-ups of found sounds and samples layered into Dadaist, soundtrack-like collages. Towards the end of the 80s the duo moved on into Industrial Dance before evolving into Techno and Gabber innovators in the early 90s. Operating as sonic terrorists, the duo released a slew of records under the names Tricky Disco [Bleep Techno], GTO [Techno/Rave], John + Julie [Hardcore Techno/Acid], Church of Extacy [Hardcore Techno/Acid], Signs of Chaos [Techno/Breakbeat], TD5 [Techno], The Salami Brothers [Gabber], Gangsta Trax [Gabber], Killout Squad [Gabber], 1000 Blinky Lights [Techno], and Technohead [Hardcore Techno/Gabber/Happy Hardcore], with each project bringing new elements into the equation while retaining certain sonic signatures that clued listeners in to the fact that they were listening to a GTO production.

In 1995 they scored their biggest hit, I Want To Be A Hippy, before Newman sadly passed away after a brief battle with cancer. Wells has continued to periodically release music under the names Signs of Chaos, S.O.L.O., and The Man, and more recently has resurrected the Tricky Disco and GTO monikers for a few digital-only releases.

Due for release September 1st, Brainwashed Archives is set to re-issue all of the Greater Than One output, some of it on CD for the first time. Included are their first full LP, All the Masters Licked Me together with their first recorded material, Trust. Also on offer are their WaxTrax! releases, London expanded to include Dance of the Cowards, Duty, rare compilation tracks and a bonus DVD of music videos, and G-Force, which comes with the I Don't Need Good and Utopia singles, 1991's Index EP, unreleased music from a Japanese-only VHS release, Video Drug 1, another hard-to-find compilation track and one unreleased track.

Head on over to Brainwashed Commerce to order these very reasonably priced multi-disc sets that are chock full of extras for even those die-hard collectors (like me) who religiously track down anything with >1's name on it.

For further enjoyment, download these mixes done in 1993 by DJ Nikadeemas:
GTO Mastermix 1
GTO Mastermix 2

Night Creatures, a post-Halloween mix of nightmarish proportions.

Tracklisting
1 Le Syndicat Electronique - Blood and Flesh
2 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
3 Until December - Bela Lugosi's Dead [dr™s 45 on 33 mix - for maximum spooky effect]
4 Berlin - Masquerade
5 Tones on Tail - Means of Escape [Blackstrobe Edit]
6 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Nervous Xians
7 Vital Ferox - Absolut
8 Detroit Grand Pubahs - "Dracula" in O Positive
9 Johannes Heil - Paranoid Dancer [DJ Hell Mix]
10 Gater - Exit
11 Romina Cohn - The Night

Okay, so I've been going a little crazy lately with record buying. That's one of the problems of living next to what Rolling Stone [not that I ever listen to anything they say] calls, "The Best Music Store In the World," Amoeba Records. Then you have eBay and online record stores. Makes it waaay too easy for me to spend most of my disposable cash on shiny plastic groove-laden discs.

Here is a list of what's made it into the shopping cart recently:
SebastiAn - Ross Ross Ross
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Black Matters
The Consumer - Financial Advisory
Dynarec - Body Sequencer
Huggotron - Glasshouses
LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex
Egyptian Lover - Dance
Dexter vs. Cosmic Force - Noordhollandsche Ghetto Tracks
8bit & The Calculators - Hound Dog
Dsico That No Talent Hack - City Stirs
Jor-El - Space Tracks
Scan X - Wasteland
Automat - Preludes
Cursor Miner - The 4 Guardians
Debasser - KLS
Si Begg - Revolution
Armand Van Helden - Koochy / Phreeknik
Hong Kong Counterfeit - Counterparts
Kansas City Prophets - Grim Dubs Vol. 3
LFO/AFX - 4 Track EP
Life Project - Present Random Chance