Interview by John Doran
Check out the first part of our extensive Chris & Cosey interview here, or click this for an exclusive mix featuring the iconic couple and Factory Floor’s Nik Void.
And now, for the rest of the story, including Chris & Cosey’s thoughts on Throbbing Gristle’s most infamous records and shows, their highly influential material as a duo, and the status of TG’s take on Nico’s Desertshore album…
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Words by John Doran
Chris & Cosey were known as the Peters and Lee of the long overcoat brigade or the Sonny and Cher of the suicide set depending on which British ‘inkie’ you read during the early ’80s. However, these tags tell you more about the tabloid interests of the English music press than they do about one of the most enduring creative partnerships in experimental/electronic music of the last 36 years.
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Since we weren’t satisfied with simply streaming Transverse—a killer one-night-only collaboration between Nik Colk Void (Factory Floor) and the married-with-machines duo Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey, Throbbing Gristle)—self-titled went two steps further. First: we asked one of the Quietus’ co-founders, John Doran, to spend a morning interviewing Carter and Tutti about their entire career. The result is so thorough we decided to split it into two parts, which will run later this week.
But not before we get to another bit of Carter Tutti Void-related press: a free mix of the trio’s favorite tracks, available below alongside a complete track-by-track commentary…
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Due out early next week through Mute, Transverse is the result of a special one-night-only collaboration between Chris & Cosey and Nik Void of Factory Floor. A fluid collection of four trance-inducing live tracks, and one studio recording, it sounds like an increasingly chaotic electrical storm set to a steady motorik beat.
Here’s Transverse in full (Ed. note: The window for our premiere has passed, so we replaced it with a Spotify player), as well as our Factory Floor cover story from late last year…
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Sandwell District, one of our favorite underground techno collectives of the past five years, has decided to stop releasing new records, sharing the following statement on their Tumblr:
Beginning the 31st of December, 2011, regular audio communications from Sandwell District will cease. All vinyl artifacts have been decommissioned. There is a possibility of future, albeit irregular, print communications with audio accompaniment. However, details—and indeed content—is uncertain at this moment in time. The Sandwell experiment will exist through live actions—which will continue to expand into new sonic territory—in addition to audio/print installations as previously witnessed in New York, Los Angeles, Gdansk, Bialystok, Berlin and London.
Stasis is death.
See you on the other side.
Lest anyone think Sandwell District won’t live up to their “stasis is death” promise, one of the group’s members has already posted a killer mix that may or may not hint at their next creative move, including s/t-approved cuts from John Maus, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Aphex Twin and Death In June. Grab it below…
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The Artist/Album: Chris & Cosey, Songs of Love & Lust (Conspiracy International, 2011)
A Short Review: “This is seduction!” wrote one reviewer when this moonlit masterpiece emerged from C & C’s music factory in 1984. That pretty much nails it, especially now that Chris Carter’s personally remastered the record and pressed it to a limited slab of gray vinyl. For some reason, this record makes us want to wear leather pants in the middle of summer, all while declaring, “Synth-pop is dead! Long live synth-pop!” This is a good thing; a very good thing.
While Blondes continue to crank out the final pieces in their duality-driven 12” series, we thought we’d share the Brooklyn duo’s dizzying Vice mix from a couple years back. Featuring everything from a Throbbing Gristle remix to a “Screwed Edit” of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby, it’s as close as you’re gonna get to their rail-jumping creative process outside of actually hearing them DJ, like they will at Brooklyn Bowl this Friday…
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Chris & Cosey‘s recent string of limited vinyl reissues can still be snagged from Experimedia or the duo’s official site. Now if only we could get them to play a gig in New York like this one…
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