Portion Control - Archive

Label:
Catalog#:
none
Format:
4 x CD, Compilation
CD, CD-ROM, Compilation, Limited Edition
Box Set
Country:
UK
Released:
19 May 2006
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Electro, Industrial

Tracklist

  I Staggered Mentally
CD1-01   He Is Patriotic
CD1-02   Out Of Order
CD1-03   Plateau Stage
CD1-04   All Present And Correct
CD1-05   Karsic
CD1-06   Sex Crimes
CD1-07   Sure Is Kinda Spooky
CD1-08   Mass Disorder
CD1-09   Fiends
CD1-10   Sort Out
  Hit The Pulse
CD1-11   Chew You To Bits (Version)
CD1-12   Discord
CD1-13   Crash Weight Gain
CD1-14   Eat Your Heart
CD1-15   Thrust Angle
CD1-16   Death By Venom (Ricochet Mix)
CD1-17   Abbo Dabbo
  Step Forward
CD2-01   Refugee
CD2-02   Under The Skin
CD2-03   Mutie
CD2-04   Tex~Mex
CD2-05   Tongue Beat
CD2-06   Micro Box
CD2-07   Micro Box 2
CD2-08   Real Estate Cult
CD2-09   Tin
CD2-10   Havoc Man
CD2-11   319
CD2-12   Scramble
CD2-13   Son Of Go Talk
  Psycho Bod Saves The World
CD2-14   Brain Scraper Death Dive
CD2-15   Siren City
CD2-16   Breaker Breaker
CD2-17   Danger Zone
CD2-18   Screen Of Death
CD2-19   Coming For You Baby
CD2-20   Fistful Of Creds
CD2-21   Trashville Baby
CD2-22   Cut And Thrust
CD2-23   H.O.T. Matter
CD2-24   Soap Distant
  Purge
CD3-01   Raise The Pulse
CD3-02   Go-Talk
CD3-03   The Great Divide
CD3-04   Karateka
  Simulate Sensual
CD3-05   Simulate Sensual
CD3-06   Bombay Cid
CD3-07   Elektrotechnik
CD3-08   Moving Towards A Waste
CD3-09   The Pressure Is High
CD3-10   New Phaze
CD3-11   Le Crunch
CD3-12   If I Could Spit
CD3-13   Return To Situation
CD3-14   He Is Patriotic
CD3-15   Come Alive
CD3-16   He Is A Barbarian
  Surface And Be Seen
CD4-01   Spinola (Blotch)
CD4-02   Terror Leads To Better Days
CD4-03   Simple As ABC
CD4-04   Monstrous Bulk
CD4-05   He Is A Barbarian
  Raise The Pulse
CD4-06   Raise The Pulse
CD4-07   Collapse
CD4-08   Bite My Head
  Rough Justice
CD4-09   Rough Justice
CD4-10   Justice
CD4-11   The Man Who Did Backwards Somersaults
  Go-Talk
CD4-12   Go-Talk
CD4-13   Upsidedown
CD4-14   Dragdown
  The Great Divide
CD4-15   The Great Divide
CD4-16   Divided
CD4-17   Bolt It Down
  -
CD-ROM-MP3-01   Abbo Daddo
CD-ROM-MP3-02   All Present And Correct
CD-ROM-MP3-03   Chew You To Bits
CD-ROM-MP3-04   Crash Weight
CD-ROM-MP3-05   Death By Venom
CD-ROM-MP3-06   Discord
CD-ROM-MP3-07   Eat You Heart
CD-ROM-MP3-08   Fiends
CD-ROM-MP3-09   He Is Patriotic
CD-ROM-MP3-10   Karsic
CD-ROM-MP3-11   Mass Disorder
CD-ROM-MP3-12   Out Of Order
CD-ROM-MP3-13   Plateau Stage
CD-ROM-MP3-14   Sex Crimes
CD-ROM-MP3-15   Sort Out
CD-ROM-MP3-16   Sure Is Kinda Spooky
CD-ROM-MP3-17   Thrust Angel
CD-ROM-MP3-18   319
CD-ROM-MP3-19   Brain Scraper Death Dive
CD-ROM-MP3-20   Breaker Breaker
CD-ROM-MP3-21   Coming For You
CD-ROM-MP3-22   Cut And Thrust
CD-ROM-MP3-23   Danger Zone
CD-ROM-MP3-24   Fistful Of Creds
CD-ROM-MP3-25   H.O.T. Matter
CD-ROM-MP3-26   Havoc Man
CD-ROM-MP3-27   Micro Box 2
CD-ROM-MP3-28   Micro Box
CD-ROM-MP3-29   Mutie
CD-ROM-MP3-30   Real Estate Cult
CD-ROM-MP3-31   Refugee
CD-ROM-MP3-32   Scramble
CD-ROM-MP3-33   Screen Of Death
CD-ROM-MP3-34   Siren City
CD-ROM-MP3-35   Soap Distant
CD-ROM-MP3-36   Son Of Go-Talk
CD-ROM-MP3-37   Tex~Mex
CD-ROM-MP3-38   Tin
CD-ROM-MP3-39   Tongue Beat
CD-ROM-MP3-40   Trashville Baby
CD-ROM-MP3-41   Under The Skin
CD-ROM-MP3-42   Bombay Cid
CD-ROM-MP3-43   Come Alive
CD-ROM-MP3-44   Elektroechnik
CD-ROM-MP3-45   He Is A Barbarian
CD-ROM-MP3-46   He Is Patriotic
CD-ROM-MP3-47   If I Could Spit
CD-ROM-MP3-48   Karateka
CD-ROM-MP3-49   Le Crunch
CD-ROM-MP3-50   Moving Towards A Waste
CD-ROM-MP3-51   Raise The Pulse
CD-ROM-MP3-52   Return To Situation
CD-ROM-MP3-53   Simulate Sensual
CD-ROM-MP3-54   The Great Divide
CD-ROM-MP3-55   The Pressure Is High
CD-ROM-MP3-56   Bite My Head
CD-ROM-MP3-57   Bolt It Down
CD-ROM-MP3-58   Collapse
CD-ROM-MP3-59   Divided
CD-ROM-MP3-60   Dragdown
CD-ROM-MP3-61   Go Talk
CD-ROM-MP3-62   He Is A Barbarian
CD-ROM-MP3-63   Justice
CD-ROM-MP3-64   Monstrous Bulk
CD-ROM-MP3-65   Raise The Pulse
CD-ROM-MP3-66   Rough Justice
CD-ROM-MP3-67   Simple As ABC
CD-ROM-MP3-68   Spinola (Blotch)
CD-ROM-MP3-69   Terror Leads To Better Days
CD-ROM-MP3-70   The Great Divide
CD-ROM-MP3-71   The Man Who Did Backwards Somersaults
CD-ROM-MP3-72   Upsidedown
CD-ROM-WAV   Refugee (Rebuild) (WAV)
    Remix - Rhys Fulber

Notes

A bonus high quality MP3 disc includes all tracks from the 4 CDs and a collection of 135 screen images from 1980-1990 and 2003-2006.
Also exclusive to the bonus MP3 disc is Rhys Fulber's "Refugee (Rebuild)".
This bonus MP3 disc comes with the first pressing of 1000 copies.
For mail order customers who ordered directly from Portion Control, a set of 3 buttons was also included.

All contained in a high visibility box.

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Reviews & Discussion

Review by iceolate Oct 06, 2007
It took me awhile to save up for this mammoth collection, but it was well worth every pain. This is a must-have for every electronic music fan who missed on out Portion Control the first time around. Every release they put out on vinyl from 1981-1988 is remastered here. Aside from the collection that came out in the mid-90s called "The Man Who Did Backward Somersaults", 90% of these tracks have never been released on CD before. For fans of the newer Portion Control, this release is an excellent starting point to the music of their youth and, without a doubt, a virtual history guide to electronic music in the 1980s.
Rated 5/5
Review by marks Apr 22, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)
Never before has so much electronic music history been contained in such a tidy and well-constructed box. If you've ever been curious as to who or what Portion Control are about, here's your chance. Almost everything from their first run (1980-86) can be found within "Archive's" vast scope. Classic albums such as 1982's "I Staggered Mentally" are finally available to a wider audience. An entire disc is dedicated to their singles, which include the seminal cuts "Raise The Pulse" and, of course, "Chew You to Bits".

Upon purchasing this thing, you may find your faith in a lot of the so-called "innovators" of electronic music faultering. Only Cabaret Voltaire's "Attic Tapes" set comes close to this monster of a release.

Equally impressive are the posters which come with this set and interestingly enough amalgamate several PC designs into their layout. This is immaculately planned out and will further demonstrate how Portion Control are more vital than ever. No collection should be without this.

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