Straight from Wax Trax!, this award winning documentary traces the timeline from humble beginnings of the Denver record store through the Chicago storefront that became the center of underground electronic music with its label known as Wax Trax! Records.
Full of tape-manipulation, computer noise and feedback, D.O.A. epitomizes Throbbing Gristle's unparalleled anti-music, cementing their status as "wreckers of civilization."
This record compiles for the first time, both periods of Cabaret Voltaire together on one release- all remastered from original files. It contains singles and popular tracks and also includes single mixes not previously available digitally.
Drums like machine hearts in meltdown, guitars spliced and smeared, vocals scattering across voids. There’s no safe landing here; instead, you're pushed into the fissures between riffs, feeling how sound fractures and reforms under pressure.
Perfectly captured and recorded at Priory studios by Greg Chandler and brutally mastered by Patrick Engel, the result is as cruel and mean as never before.