Some very early hardhouse/techno, and one of the most intense uses of that 'Hoover' sound made famous by Joey Beltram. I remember hearing this at the Spaceclub in Cologne in 1991 and going nuts with everyone else there. The dawn of a new era of techno noisier than the 'warp' style that had dominated up to then. Very buzzy and frantic.

One of the more extreme Controlled Bleeding records. For those who may not have had the experience, extreme in the Controlled Bleeding realm means crazed impenetrable walls of noise. Swirling and suffocating masses of screeching, blasting madness. Really it has to be heard to be believed. Very rare LP of course. Play Loud.

Very rare of course. Oversize cardboard packaging of cd (about 16cm x 14cm) came with a booklet with text by the filmaker Peter Greenaway. I suspect this was originally a work of performance art, as the credits list such things as sets and lighting. Wonderfully odd stuff as usual from The Hafler Trio.

I have an "advanced limited edition DJ color vinyl" version. It is a very dark clear purple. Catalog# still appears to Sex-006. This record had a very long life for me and was used in my sets for many years.

These tracks weren't taken from actual movies, just made to seem as if they were. Part of the style of the thing.

Came with very attractive cover design that had - very unusually for a dance 12" - an inner picture sleeve that said "don't walk, boogie".

If you have ever managed to look at a copy of this you'll have noticed the crazy colour scheme of the sleeve. Something about the way the particular red and blue they used for the design interact. The red text seems to swim on the blue backgound, don't look at it too long you might get dizzy...

The epitome of frightening electronic industrial music. Extremely dark collages of drones, metal percussion, and creepy samples that include interviews with mental patients and instructions how to make napalm. The distorted black and white photograph of masked musicians on the back only increases the disturbing atmosphere this record creates. A classic of its genre. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Who could have imagined Hall and Oats could ever be sampled for a dance track? This one can be added to the history of creative use of unusual samples in dance music.

Another important release for the history of techno. This record was more frenzied and wild than much of the techno that had come before, with a slow but steady increase in intensity as the track progesses. It is an early record in the career of both Richie Hawtin and Joey Beltram, and is also notable in that its structure has snare drums between the kicks and not on every second beat as was almost always the case at the time.