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Severed Heads – Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past

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Label:Ink Records – INK 16D
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:UK
Released:
Genre:Electronic
Style:Industrial, Synth-pop, Experimental

Tracklist

A1Advertisement
A2Prototype Pop
A3Exiles Excerpt
Guitar, Written-By – John Laidler
A4A Day In The Country
A5Elephant Decibels
A6Power Circles
B1Alaskan Polar Bear Heater
B2Umbrella
B3J. Edgar Hoover
B4Blame
B5Meanwhile, Back At Exiles...
Guitar, Written-By – John Laidler
B6Dance
C1Saturday Night
C2Man Dat Hip
C3An American In Paris
C4Tarzan's Grip
C5That That Revolves
C6Special Day
D1Malt Duck
D2Never Fall In Love
D3Nazi Beach Party
D4A Relic Of The Empire No. 2
D5Tiny Fingers
D6Sydney Quads & The Megascope Space Probe
D7Play It Again
D8Carry My Books
D9Nightsong
D10Car Ad
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Credits

  • Artwork [Sleeve Image] – Stephen Jones (3), Tom Ellard
  • Computer [Home Computer], Keyboards, Loops [4 & 8 Track Loops], Turntables, Piano [Toy], Effects [Noise Gates], Voice, Drum Machine [Rhythm Machines] – Tom Ellard
  • Loops, Instruments [Toy], Turntables – Richard Fielding
  • Loops, Turntables, Noises [Noise Generators, F111 Fighter/bomber], Sequenced By [Sequencers], Voice, Loops [4 & 8 Track Loops] – Garry Bradbury
  • Mastered By – Porky (5)
  • Mastered By [Digital Remaster] – Bradbury*, Ellard*, Keevil*
  • Written-By – GB* (tracks: A1, A5, B1 to B3, C3 to C6, D6), RF* (tracks: A3, B5, D1 to D4, D7 to D9), Severed Heads, TE* (tracks: A2 to C6, D3, D5, D9, D10)

Notes

Obscure snippets recorded 1979-1983.
Source tapes reprocessed onto digital master at Terse Tapes September 1985.

B6, D6 to D8: 79
D3 (recorded live at I.C.E. 17.9.80), D10: 80
A2, A3 (recorded live at Exiles 7.8.81), A4, D5, D9 (recorded live at I.C.E. 3.1.81): 81
A1, A5 (recorded live at Stranded 4.7.82), B1, B2, B3 (recorded live at the Kilayoni Club March 82), C1 to C6, D1, D2, D4: 82
A6, B4: 83

Red Flame Music / Virgin Music Ltd.
℗ & © Ink Records 1985.
Ink. P.O. Box 927, London W3 6VB
Ink is a division of Red Flame

Includes an 11" square insert with credits printed on one side.

Sides B and D each have a side-long locked groove, so the tracks B6 and D10 both end with a loop that repeats endlessly.

Track B5 is listed on the sleeve & centre labels without a comma, and track D4 is listed on the sleeve & labels without the "No. 2". The insert shows the full titles.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): MPO INK 16D A¹ A PORKY PRIME CUT.
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): MPO INK 16D B¹ A PORKY PRIME CUT.
  • Matrix / Runout (Side C, etched): MPO INK 16D C¹ PORKY.
  • Matrix / Runout (Side D, etched): MPO INK 16D D¹ A PORKY PRIME CUT.

Other Versions (3)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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Clifford Darling Please Don't Live In The Past (2×LP, Album, Test Pressing)Ink RecordsINK 16DUK1985
Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past (2×CDr, )SevcomnoneAustralia1998
Recently Edited
Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past (2×LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered)Dark EntriesDE-105US2015

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  • phaks's avatar
    phaks
    Edited 3 years ago
    Surely one of the masterpieces of experimental Sample&Loop music. I saw them live with this music in Aachen, Germany, in a big disco that presented an 'EBM' night. Two guys with slim keyboards, only silhouettes against the videoscreen in the back. Very hard, very straight, very tough. Fantastic sound, hypnotic rhythms, not necessarily 4/4. In the local papers they were described as electronic musicians using 'a universe of loops'. Right. This 2xLP contains the studio versions to my live experience, the pure thing. A wild and intense collection of early electronics.
    • incuswetrust's avatar
      incuswetrust
      Just---odd. Tuxedo Moon meets The Residents meets synth pop like Depeche Mode. Sounds good to me!
      • djmushroom's avatar
        djmushroom
        "Dance" (B6) leads into one of the most brilliant and nerve-wracking endless loops since "Sgt. Pepper".
        Groovy in a perverted way.
        You don't want it to stop.
        And it won't.

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