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Peak Hour (album)
''Peak Hour'' is an album by the English band Psychic TV, released in 1993. Critical reception AllMusic wrote: "Electro beats and trippy electronic sounds conspire with weird vocal loops and other effects to make some of the most psychedelic dance music since early Funkadelic." '' Exclaim!'' noted that "the key to Psychic TV is the nuances in the aural distance of the sound field; it (whatever lies deep within there) is what alters your brain chemistry and causes you to relax in the long run." Credits and liner notes *Artwork By over- Plasma Art *Engineer - Dave Cat *Keyboards dditional- Gavin Redman *Mastered By - Keith *Mixed By dditional Producer dditional- Deep Fry, The Greedy Beat Syndicate *Performer - Andy Chatterley, Genesis P-Orridge, Anthony "Hugo" Longden, Matthew Best, Richard Schiessl, Sean Maher *Producer - Richard Schiessl *Written By - Psychic TV *Recorded in London, San Francisco, Nepal between March and June 1993. *Mixed in London and San Francisco July 199 ...
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Industrial Music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes. AllMusic defines industrial music as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music" that was "initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation". The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by members of Throbbing Gristle and Monte Cazazza. While the genre name originated with Throbbing Gristle's emergence in the United Kingdom, artists and labels vital to the genre also emerged in the United States and other countries. The first industrial artists experimented with noise and aesthetically controversial topics, musically and visually, such as fascism, sexual perversion, and the occult. Prominent industrial musicians include Throbbing Gristle, Monte Cazazza, SPK, Boyd Rice, Cabaret Voltaire, and Z'E ...
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Acid House
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago producers DJ Pierre of Phuture and Sleezy D. Acid house soon became popular in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes. By the late 1980s, acid house had moved into the British mainstream, where it had some influence on pop and dance styles. Acid house brought house music to a worldwide audience. The influence of acid house can be heard in later styles of dance music including trance, hardcore, jungle, big beat, techno and trip hop. Characteristics Acid house's minimalist sound combined house music's ubiquitous programmed four-on-the-floor 4/4 beat with the electronic squelch sound produced by the Roland TB-303 ele ...
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Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often characterized by a repetitive four on the floor beat. Artists may use electronic instruments such as drum machines, sequencers, and synthesizers, as well as digital audio workstations. Drum machines from the 1980s such as Roland's TR-808 and TR-909 are highly prized, and software emulations of such retro instruments are popular. Much of the instrumentation in techno emphasizes the role of rhythm over other musical parameters. Techno tracks mainly progress over manipulation of timbral characteristics of synthesizer presets and, unlike forms of EDM that tend to be produced with synthesizer keyboards, techno does not always strictly adhere to the harmonic practice of Western music and such structures are often ignored in favor of timbr ...
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Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at  revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ...
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Cold Dark Matter (Psychic TV Album)
''Force the Hand of Chance'' is the debut studio album by English experimental group Psychic TV, released in 1982 by record label Some Bizzare. The first 5,000 pressings came with a bonus album, ''Themes''. A single, "Just Drifting", was released from the album. Release ''Force the Hand of Chance'' was released in 1982. The initial 5,000 pressings included an additional album, ''Themes'', and a poster. A single, " Just Drifting", was released from the album. The album has a complex reissue history. In 1994, the Tempus Records label issued it on CD. Tempus retitled it ''Force Thee Hands ov Chants'', packaged it with a completely different cover design (P-Orridge's 1980's collage "Twisted"), and credited it to Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV. The Tempus edition includes four bonus tracks and a second CD titled ''Blinded Eye in the Pyramids'' featuring music created by Genesis P-Orridge and Fred Giannelli in 1988. It was again issued on CD by Cleopatra Records in 1995 with a ...
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A Hollow Cost
The discography of the experimental music group Psychic TV consists of over 100 full-length albums, over 15 compilation albums and over 30 singles and EPs. Studio albums *''Force the Hand of Chance'' (LP, cassette) (1982) *'' Themes'' (LP) (1982) *''Dreams Less Sweet'' (LP, cassette) (1983) *''Pagan Day'' (LP, 12" picture disc) (1984) *''Those Who Do Not'' (2x12") (1984) *''Descending'' (1984) *''Mouth of the Night'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1985) *''Themes 2'' (LP) (1985) *''Themes 3'' (LP) (1986) *''The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP'' (1986) *''Allegory and Self'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1988) *'' Jack the Tab – Acid Tablets Volume One'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1988) *'' Tekno Acid Beat'' (CD, LP) (1988) *''Kondole'' (CD) (1989) *''At Stockholm (CD) (1990)'' *'' Jack the Tab/Tekno Acid Beat'' (2xCD, 2X12") (1990) *''Towards Thee Infinite Beat'' (CD, 12", cassette) (1990) *''Beyond Thee Infinite Beat'' (CD, 2x12", cassette) (1990) *''Direction ov Travel'' (CD) (1991) *' ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ...
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Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ...
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Re-Mind
The discography of the experimental music group Psychic TV consists of over 100 full-length albums, over 15 compilation albums and over 30 singles and EPs. Studio albums *''Force the Hand of Chance'' (LP, cassette) (1982) *'' Themes'' (LP) (1982) *''Dreams Less Sweet'' (LP, cassette) (1983) *''Pagan Day'' (LP, 12" picture disc) (1984) *''Those Who Do Not'' (2x12") (1984) *''Descending'' (1984) *''Mouth of the Night'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1985) *''Themes 2'' (LP) (1985) *''Themes 3'' (LP) (1986) *''The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP'' (1986) *''Allegory and Self'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1988) *'' Jack the Tab – Acid Tablets Volume One'' (CD, LP, 12" picture disc) (1988) *''Tekno Acid Beat'' (CD, LP) (1988) *''Kondole'' (CD) (1989) *''At Stockholm (CD) (1990)'' *'' Jack the Tab/Tekno Acid Beat'' (2xCD, 2X12") (1990) *''Towards Thee Infinite Beat'' (CD, 12", cassette) (1990) *''Beyond Thee Infinite Beat'' (CD, 2x12", cassette) (1990) *''Direction ov Travel'' (CD) (1991) *'' ...
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Psychic TV Albums
A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or teleportation. Although many people believe in psychic abilities, the scientific consensus is that there is no proof of the existence of such powers, and describes the practice as pseudoscience. The word "psychic" is also used as an adjective to describe such abilities. Psychics encompass people in a variety of roles. Some are theatrical performers, such as stage magicians, who use various techniques, e.g., prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot reading, to produce the appearance of such abilities for entertainment purposes. A large industry and network exists whereby people advertised as psychics provide advice and counsel to clients. Some famous psychics include Edgar Cayce, Ingo Swann, Peter Hurkos, Janet Le ...
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