Quote from: bitewerksMTB on August 14, 2019, 08:01:36 PM
Just gave "Pulp" a listen & if the Menstrual sample is the sources used (but mixed/edited differently), it's amazing how much Organum added to it.
I don't think this can be overstated. But here let me try: Pulp, the TNB & Organum original, is the single most important piece of audio committed to a recording medium. (How'd I do?) My entry was via Pt. 2, as released on the seminal Ohrenschrauben comp. This comp was a revelation, and not necessarily for offerings like The Poo Poo Song. No, it was all down to the untitled two minutes and forty-one seconds leading off the flip side (only much later revealed to be Pt. 2 of Pulp).
Darkly majestic, industrial strength, noise nightmare, deep cauldrons, of boiling, blood sweat tears, impossibly dense, sultry, so sweetly suggestive of some sickly claustrophobic harsh purity without ever needing to actually be harsh (though if such necessity were manifest, listen no further than Wrack). Just the kind of thing I hoped to hear, but so seldom did, when I would encounter the term "industrial music". This was the shit, the brown barometer against which so much else would be measured, and found lacking.
Compare with Ohrenschrauben opener, My Cock's On Fire. Here you have this long, throbbing piece of...stand-up comedy masquerading as "power electronics". (I picture the good chap, standing in front of the mirror, mic in one hand, the other hand otherwise occupied, red-faced, hollering at the rather sad and uncooperative object of attention as though willing the poor bugger to life...who knew assertiveness training could be this much fun?) Well, there's no comparison.
So yes, amazing how much Organum added (and just as importantly, subtracted). But I hasten to add that the equation likely cuts both ways. Check out the original
Pulp by Organum (according to discogs each of the nine copies distributed is unique) and reflect that the combination of the two, TNB & Organum, supremely exceeds the sum of the parts (on this occasion at least).
Here by the way is
the menstrualrecordings sample of The Pulp Sessions lp. Not I'd expect sufficiently different to warrant acquisition of both (TPS & TPS II). But think of the possibilities. If Organum were to reissue Pulp (or better all nine said versions) we would then have the means to generate infinite iterations of our own private Pulp party. I'd invite y'all if you promised, on principle, to reject it.
