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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle has been one of the pioneer and most important industrial groups in the world.

Throbbing Gristle has it’s origins in 1973 in the COUM Transmissions, a London collective of extreme Performance Art which featured Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti which started doing a serie of performances which included phisical degradation, self-mutilation, and extreme sex. Throbbing Gristle was formed in 1975 by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, and Chris Carter and completed by Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. The band pushed the boundaries with performance art and their appearances, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps, were considered a social provocation that put the band in the spot of the media.

In 1976, Throbbing Gristle released their debut album “Second Annual Report” which is a pioneer work of industrial electronic music and pioneered the use of pre-recorded samples. The album was pressed in a limited release of 786 copies on the band’s Industrial Records label and was later re-released. In 1978 it was followed by the sequel “DOA: The Third and Final Report”, another industrial music classic.

In 1979, the band released “20 Jazz Funk Greats” in an approach to electro pop. Apart from these two studio albums, the band released a large number of live albums which were later compiled in 2004 in the 24 and 10 CD boxsets “TG24″ and “TG+”. Another four albums, “20 Jazz Funk Greats” (1979), “Heathen Earth” (1980), “Journey Through a Body” (1981) and “Mission of Dead Souls” (1982), were released until the band’s split in 1981, when the members started different music projects, all of them of importance in the history of music.

In 1981, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson formed Psychic TV to become of the most extravagant and provocative alternative bands in the electronic scene of all times.

Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter formed the duo Chris and Cosey to produce some of the greatest electronic music of the 80’s and 90’s.

Peter Christopherson formed the band Coil in 1983, which became one of the most significant industrial bands in Europe.

Throbbing Gristle, 2004

After 23 years of inactivity, Throbbing Gristle rejoined in 2004 to play live at London’s festival All Tomorrow’s Parties, celebrated in May 14th, 15th. The same year a remix album “Mutant” was released on Mute Records featuring remixes by Carter Tutti, Carl Craig, Two Lone Swordsmen, Ratcliffe and Motor.