Art Metropole

#02247

20 Jazz Funk Greats

Artist

Throbbing Gristle

Format

Audio

Details

Vinyl

Trobbing Gristle includes Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Christopherson. The first real industrial group, the founders of Industrial Records and one of the most important electronic music innovators of all time. Growing out of the extreme performance art group Coum Transmissions, TG redefined music and laid a large part of the groundwork for all electronic music that followed.

From their first performances in 1976 to their last gig in San Francisco in 1981 (recorded and released as “Mission Of Dead Souls”), they challenged and threatend so-called “normal”, society – denounced from the floor of the House of Commons as “Wreckers of Civilisation” as the Coum Transmissions “Prostitution” art show in London’s ICA (at which TG played their third show) came close to causing riots and set the stage for the punk revolution. They split in 1981, with Genesis and Peter forming Psychic TV (and Peter later forming Coil) and Chris and Cosey becoming, well, Chris & Cosey. However, they came back together 23 years later in 2004 to plan an ill-fated weekend festival, which became a one-off recording session in London when the festival fell through, releasing a limited TGNOW album of the recordings.