The sixth edition was to feature slightly more accessible artists, many of who have featured on the pages of this blog. Deacon's coup was the exclusive ACR remix and the first outing in public of Adi Newton's post-DVA Anti Group (who also signed to the Sweatbox label). Sheffield standards Chakk, Hula and Workforce contributed high quality industrial funk (with a little help from Hamilton Bohannon) and French obscurity Clair Obscur roped in with an early version of his techno Smurf single. Peel faves Clan Of Xymox lent an unreleased version of a session favourite and a twisted Blurt likely lost more fans than they gained.
Again ripped to a 32bit / 48000hz lossless wav file on a Soundlab Pro GO56C deck through a Creative 24bit USB External soundcard with Cool Edit Pro. Then manually cut up, de-clicked, balanced and normalised in Cool Edit Pro before resampling down to CD friendly 16bit 44100hz audio file and compressed to lossless FLAC (level 8) in Traders Little Helper.
As you can tell, I'm rather chuffed with the quality of this rip, though some rather nasty jumps on the Chakk track may well still be audible.
Abstract 6 : ripped from a 12" vinyl album released on Sweatbox Records (SAM 006) in 1986
A1. Breach Birth (Remix) -
In The Nursery
A2. Skin Scraped Back (Remix) -
Workforce
A3. Moscoviet Musquito (Remix) -
Clan Of Xymox
A4. Gravespit (Live) -
Blurt
A5. Smurf In The Goulag -
Clair Obscur
B1. Sounds Like Something Dirty (Remix) -
A Certain Ratio
B2. Ha (Remix) -
The Anti Group
B3. Theme -
Chakk
B4. Motor City Nightmare -
Hula
B5. They're Biting -
A Primary Industry
Re:Upped
