Current 93 et al: reissues, reissues, reissues

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anyone else noticed that current 93 and nurse with wound don't actually produce much new music anymore: just endless repackagings older albums with new bonus tracks or collections of outtakes and alternate studio versions. annoying.... i guess that have to support themselves.

― equinox, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

well, there are the endless current 93 live albums and eps with four or five versions of the same song.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

whatchutalkinbout? NWW just released four albums of new material. one a double. and if you're going to play the "alternate versions aren't 'new'" card, i'll remind you that most of NWW's catalog consists of the same riffs and raw material, endlessly rejigged and re-fucked with.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really enjoying "Angry Eelectric Finger", personally. I bought the Irr.App.(Ext.) one first, and then sprang for the Jim O'Rourke one and the Cyclobe one. I'm glad I did, it's a great triptych and makes for a really good through-composed-by-accident listen.
His last big aesthetic statement was "Salt Marie Celeste", which at first struck me as a bit too empty but I've come round to really digging it. How about those NWW "hip hop album" rumours, eh?
Who's ready?

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's distributing them anyway now that World Serpent bit the big one?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link

The AEF trilogy is on beta-lactam-ring so it's a US label, I just got it at Aquarius. I think there may be something getting set up with Revolver, but I don't know if that's true or not.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link

*nods* That's cool, I'll keep it in mind. They're a good label.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The new NWW Shipwreck Radio 2cd is staggering. Potter/Stapleton basically dropped off on arctic circle isle north of Norway -- no instruments, just minimal tools to recycle the sounds of the fishermen, birds etc. into hallucinatory mindfuck then rebroadcast over the island's radio station to freaked out residents daily. There's one heavy-rain segment seguing into a loop of a foreign-tongue babbling child that is just amazing.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

oh man I didn't know that world serpent was gone, I should turn in my goth card.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

HERETIC. Begone you false worshipper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah...Salt Marie does grow on you.

A hip-hop album???
Is that why he was compiling old girl-rap tracks???

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep. I met him really briefly in Aquarius Records. Jim Haynes introduced us, and we talked exclusively about JJ Fad, LeShaun, MC Lyte, Foxy Brown, Bahamadia, LinQue, Lil Kim, The Real Roxanne, YoYo, Sister Souljah, Missy, Truth Hurts, Sarai, etc. I was about to melt into a little fanboy puddle but I tried to just chill out and brainstorm an impromptu roll call of female hip hop MCs. It was certainly surreal, but not in a Victorian top hat / Max Ernst kinda way. Which was really sweet and nice, actually.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Heard a bit of Shipwreck Radio.

Fuckin' great, and it appears I'm going to buy it.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 30 May 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

so... what happened?

http://www.cyclobe.com/news.php

13th March 2017

CYCLOBE
New album update

Recordings for the next Cyclobe album, the follow up to
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window have now been completed,
with mixing to take place over the coming months in Somerset,
Crowhurst and the south coast of England.
We hope to be able to make these new recordings available towards the end of 2017.
Copper bells to disperse clouds!

― StanM, Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:12 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

Why hello, they made that 2010 set of rarities and things available on Bandcamp.

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased-rarities-out-takes-rehearsals-and-live-82-95

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 July 2022 05:21 (two years ago) link

probably the most beautiful box set I own, it's nice that this digital version includes the bonus 7" (last 3 tracks)

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link

whoa there's this as well:

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-has-his-house-original-master-tape-edition

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:02 (two years ago) link

!!!!

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/horsey-original-master-tape-edition

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:03 (two years ago) link

I hate how Bandcamp does that sometimes. I see the release date, yes, but these two have bern on there for two years now.

https://zeroequalstwo.net/expanded-editions-of-current-93-horsey-and-sleep-has-his-house-on-bandcamp/

― StanM, Thursday, 7 July 2022 11:32 (two years ago) link

That's two different Bandcamp sites though. The new one seems to be Tibet's own Bandcamp while the other one is for the HOM label.

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 7 July 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

I mean... I like the original song with the vatican castrato dude, but do I want to hear 7 CDs?

https://www.discogs.com/release/30802491-Current-93-The-Long-Shadow-Falls

― StanM, Friday, 19 July 2024 16:57 (one month ago) link

ironic considering the OP:

"anyone else noticed that current 93 and nurse with wound don't actually produce much new music anymore: just endless repackagings older albums with new bonus tracks or collections of outtakes and alternate studio versions. annoying.... i guess that have to support themselves.

― equinox, Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:36 AM (nineteen years ago)"

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 17:01 (one month ago) link

haha, touché

― StanM, Friday, 19 July 2024 17:04 (one month ago) link

I'll just not mention these, then, ok?

https://current93hom.bandcamp.com/album/in-menstrual-night-2024-remastered-edition
https://current93hom.bandcamp.com/album/island-2024-remastered-edition

― StanM, Friday, 19 July 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link

awww that Island doesn't have the dorky CD bonus tracks! booo

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link

no "Paperback Honey", no credibility

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link

Are all those three supposedly upcoming albums (Astral Crimes in the Dark House, Damn Imperium, The Astral Crimes of Stephen Hawk) reworked/tapelooped material?

― Siegbran, Friday, 19 July 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link

looks like it, based on a brief search

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link

He was certainly producing enough legitimately new work in the 00s and 10s

― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 21 July 2024 00:02 (one month ago) link

three albums in ten years is productive imo

― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 21 July 2024 00:20 (one month ago) link

in terms of the title of this thread, do not buy the purple vinyl reissue of Thunder Perfect Mind that came out about 7 years ago. unless you want to buy my copy, which I would advise you not to. it sounds like absolute shit

― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 21 July 2024 01:58 (one month ago) link

Feels like the reissues and remixes are a way to fund the proper albums, which do come out fairly regularly

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 21 July 2024 08:24 (one month ago) link

Are all those three supposedly upcoming albums (Astral Crimes in the Dark House, Damn Imperium, The Astral Crimes of Stephen Hawk) reworked/tapelooped material?

The two 'astral crimes' titles are reworkings of Tod Slaughter film titles and he was involved in the reissue box so seems likely.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Sunday, 21 July 2024 09:20 (one month ago) link

They're not upcoming though, are they? They were released a month or two ago to coincide with the Union Chapel and Hastings gigs.

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Sunday, 21 July 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link

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