Michael Baxter | Psychic TV - Sordide Sentimental Records - 1984 @mickeypenguin | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Psychic TV following Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle unto this most respected record label, Sordide Sentimental. 3003 copies made of this particular release.
A rare release indeed and what do you get for your money?
The best Psychic TV song that they ever created ('The Orchid' from the 'Dreams Less Sweet' album comes close), recorded in a beautiful ‘Velvet Underground’ style, Genesis P-Orridge banging on about Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski. John Goslings free-form plodding bass style is magnificent...
The B-side is a double groove treat (!) Double groove during the mastering and pressing up stage is incredibly expensive. Basically instead of separating tracks like an EP / LP so you have two, or more, separate tracks on one side to choose to play, the technique of double groove is that two tracks run parallel to each other, in other words no gaps for the two separate recordings on the B-side.
Pot luck will get you on one recording in one groove, or the recording on the other groove.
The first B-Side track is Mr Sebastian being the voice of TOPY. Mr Sebastian is no longer with us, but I used to see him a fair amount in his studio up Mount Pleasant near Kings Cross or sometimes in Beck Road. He was the guy that would do the piercing and tattoos for the Psychic Youth. On the first Temple Of Psychic Youth video, which I also have somewhere around, this track is the introduction to it, with Derek Jarman as the face and Mr Sebastian as the words.
The second B-side track is the voice of Charles Manson from one channel and the voice of Jim Jones in the other. Both voices are interesting because Zos Kia ripped off some of these two speeches for the track ‘Be Like Me’ on Temple Records somewhere else on this YT site.
Search for Zos Kia using the search function.
For your money you also get an informative magazine concerning the band in both English and French languages, a flyer, and a poster.
A very nice package all in all.
For this YT post I have scanned for the visuals, the cardboard cover, the record, the flyer, the poster and all the pages of the magazine.
Sordide Sentimental was created in 1978 by Jean-Pierre Turmel and Yves von Bontee, and is an associative micro-record Company whose stated primary purpose is "to promote Experimental music in EVERY FORM".
Each disk-object which is published (usually in a magazine-format, colour booklet), subjectively combines images and texts (of a deliberately speculative nature) with the widest range of music: industrial, rock, new wave, classical surf, post modern, cabaret...
Sordide Sentimental has published recordings by : Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti), Joy Division (Ian Curtis), Billy Synth (& Half Japanese), The Bizarros (Nick Nicholis), Ptose, Durutti Column (Vini Reilly), Tuxedomoon (Steven Brown), Blameless Act, Monte Cazazza, Ludus (Linder), Savage Republic, Psychic TV, Problemist, Digital Sex (Steve Sheehan), Davie Allan & The Arrows, Sin City Disciples, Yan Vagh Weinmann, Martyn Bates (Eyeless In Gaza), UNACD, Private Circus (Scott Macleay), Rosa Crux (Olivier Tarabo), Krackhouse, Circle X, Quattrophage, Steeple Remove, Grrzzz, The Red Krayola (Mayo Thompson), Bruce Licher, Tempsion (Frédéric Temps), Jean-François Jamoul, Thee Majesty (Breyer P-Orridge)... Contributors for the texts and the pictures: Loulou Picasso (Bazooka), Jean-François Jamoul, Yan Farcy, Anton Corbijn, Danny Dupic, Dominique Dudouble, Régine Cirotteau, Philippe Bailly (Ti5), Laurence Dupré, Jean-Luc Marre, Marie-Ange Le Rochais, Vivien Turmel, Thierry Hamel, Paul Demare, Christina Birrer, Pascal Doury, Bruno Richard, Pierre Molinier, Chloe, Mark Breyer, Bruce Witsiepe, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou..
Psychic TV following Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle unto this most respected record label, Sordide Sentimental. 3003 copies made of this particular release.
A rare release indeed and what do you get for your money?
The best Psychic TV song that they ever created ('The Orchid' from the 'Dreams Less Sweet' album comes close), recorded in a beautiful ‘Velvet Underground’ style, Genesis P-Orridge banging on about Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski. John Goslings free-form plodding bass style is magnificent...
The B-side is a double groove treat (!) Double groove during the mastering and pressing up stage is incredibly expensive. Basically instead of separating tracks like an EP / LP so you have two, or more, separate tracks on one side to choose to play, the technique of double groove is that two tracks run parallel to each other, in other words no gaps for the two separate recordings on the B-side.
Pot luck will get you on one recording in one groove, or the recording on the other groove.
The first B-Side track is Mr Sebastian being the voice of TOPY. Mr Sebastian is no longer with us, but I used to see him a fair amount in his studio up Mount Pleasant near Kings Cross or sometimes in Beck Road. He was the guy that would do the piercing and tattoos for the Psychic Youth. On the first Temple Of Psychic Youth video, which I also have somewhere around, this track is the introduction to it, with Derek Jarman as the face and Mr Sebastian as the words.
The second B-side track is the voice of Charles Manson from one channel and the voice of Jim Jones in the other. Both voices are interesting because Zos Kia ripped off some of these two speeches for the track ‘Be Like Me’ on Temple Records somewhere else on this YT site.
Search for Zos Kia using the search function.
For your money you also get an informative magazine concerning the band in both English and French languages, a flyer, and a poster.
A very nice package all in all.
For this YT post I have scanned for the visuals, the cardboard cover, the record, the flyer, the poster and all the pages of the magazine.
Sordide Sentimental was created in 1978 by Jean-Pierre Turmel and Yves von Bontee, and is an associative micro-record Company whose stated primary purpose is "to promote Experimental music in EVERY FORM".
Each disk-object which is published (usually in a magazine-format, colour booklet), subjectively combines images and texts (of a deliberately speculative nature) with the widest range of music: industrial, rock, new wave, classical surf, post modern, cabaret...
Sordide Sentimental has published recordings by : Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti), Joy Division (Ian Curtis), Billy Synth (& Half Japanese), The Bizarros (Nick Nicholis), Ptose, Durutti Column (Vini Reilly), Tuxedomoon (Steven Brown), Blameless Act, Monte Cazazza, Ludus (Linder), Savage Republic, Psychic TV, Problemist, Digital Sex (Steve Sheehan), Davie Allan & The Arrows, Sin City Disciples, Yan Vagh Weinmann, Martyn Bates (Eyeless In Gaza), UNACD, Private Circus (Scott Macleay), Rosa Crux (Olivier Tarabo), Krackhouse, Circle X, Quattrophage, Steeple Remove, Grrzzz, The Red Krayola (Mayo Thompson), Bruce Licher, Tempsion (Frédéric Temps), Jean-François Jamoul, Thee Majesty (Breyer P-Orridge)... Contributors for the texts and the pictures: Loulou Picasso (Bazooka), Jean-François Jamoul, Yan Farcy, Anton Corbijn, Danny Dupic, Dominique Dudouble, Régine Cirotteau, Philippe Bailly (Ti5), Laurence Dupré, Jean-Luc Marre, Marie-Ange Le Rochais, Vivien Turmel, Thierry Hamel, Paul Demare, Christina Birrer, Pascal Doury, Bruno Richard, Pierre Molinier, Chloe, Mark Breyer, Bruce Witsiepe, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou..
