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Basic Pain Procedure (Deluxe Edition)

by Nitzer Ebb

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Basic pain procedure (1983 - 2018 Remaster)
    Limited Edition Embossed CD containing 8 Bonus tracks from their famous gig Live at CIHE, Chelmsford December 9th 1983.

    Tracklisting:

    1.Faded Smiles
    2.Tradition
    3.The Home
    4.Star
    5.The Passage
    6.The Book
    7.Crane
    8.Trust Ran In Colours
    Live At CIHE, Chelmsford December 9, 1983
    9.Tradition
    10.The Home
    11.Star
    12.The Book
    13.Crane
    14.Violent Playground
    15.A Whiter Shade Of Pale
    16.Smear Body

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  • Nitzer Ebb "Basic pain procedure" (Deluxe Edition LP)
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Faded Smiles 01:29
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Tradition 01:30
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The Home 01:00
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Star 01:00
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The Passage 01:29
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The Book 01:29
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Crane 01:00
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about

⚠️ DIGITAL ALBUM CONTAINS ONLY TRACKS PREVIEWS ⚠️

The first eight songs Harris, McCarthy, and Gooday were brave enough to commit to tape comprised a demo to shop to labels and a product to sell to early fans and concertgoers. Most follow a painfully basic formula: spare drum patterns and loud crash cymbals, repetitive synth stabs from one keyboard with similar notes across multiple songs, and McCarthy delivering not his signature gravelly yell but soulful half-singing in the style of Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy. Wildly different from the Nitzer Ebb we know, on its face it doesn’t seem a particularly strong contemporary of anyone in industrial music’s earliest melodic spaces. Somehow, it still got their foot in the door. Thank goodness.

Nitzer Ebb alone should be responsible for hordes of DAF imitators (at this very early stage themselves included) that continue to lean on the very same DAF pattern to this present day - however, the duo of Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy (at first Dave Gooday was also a member) remain a unique force which, unlike many after them, had the luck to improve DAF's legacy, providing the original with a desired hardcore update.

This very first demo cassette is typically raw and sounds too similar a flat reproduction of DAF's to be distanced from that band alone. However, a positive thing about it is, it continued exactly where DAF of the time left off towards the more disco-familiar territory (with 'First Step To Heaven').

Naive and predictable but already marking bits of sliding away from the Cologne's legendary twosome - McCarthy's vocals is powerful if not childish at times and alone informs the oncoming sound that fans will associate with as Nitzer Ebb's mid-80s finest 'funk aggression' templates ('Murderous', 'Let Your Body Learn' and of course, 'Join in the Chant').

While this tape of Nitzer's is indeed impossible to find or track down anywhere, even through Soulseek or Torrent's wider range of individual MP3 collections, it is worth a listen for the fact it is truly the earliest Nitzer ever got into music. The sound of the tape is satisfactory albeit it betrays a typical demo of the time, the voices, drums, dub effects and synths fight between each other respectively - among the studio tracks taken, one is significant of surviving a transfer onto vinyl ('Crane', in a slightly different version, of course) while among the standout, predominantly DAF-esque tracks, 'The Pass' is a chilling, unique example of what Nitzer Ebb would become in their later days.

credits

released January 1, 2021

Artwork [Tape Archives, Flyers & Photos] – Johan Jacobsson
Design – SCG
Mastered By – Peter Black
Performer – Bon Harris, David Gooday, Douglas J. McCarthy
Producer – Chris Piper, Paul Chousmer
Transferred By [Uncredited, Analog To Digital] – M. Rendell

Release comprises some of their earliest material ever, was a cassette-only release that was primarily a tool to attract attention from record labels but was also available for purchase at the time. It was recorded in the Essex countryside in 1983, a year after the band played their first ever show at the Chelmsford YMCA, and was virtually the extent of their then live set. After this initial recording a slew of new songs were written that eventually went on to form the debut album, That Total Age, and, with the exception of Home which was reworked into KIA for the Belief album, the Basic Pain Procedure tracks were replaced never to be heard again. Recorded August 1983.

In addition on the CD you can get their live performance from 9th Dec. 1983 at CIHE, Chelmsford. Released in a digipak. Time taken from computer.

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