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01. Nocturnal Emissions - Delgado Monkey Torture
02. Nocturnal Emissions - Too Many Wounded
03. Nocturnal Emissions - Body Count
04. Nocturnal Emissions - Wee Wee Wee
05. Nocturnal Emissions - Suffering Stinks
06. Nocturnal Emissions - No Separation
07. Nocturnal Emissions - No Magic
08. Nocturnal Emissions - Going Under
09. Nocturnal Emissions - Suffering Still Stinks
10. Nocturnal Emissions - Haldol Shuffle
11. Nocturnal Emissions - Theme Music
12. Nocturnal Emissions - Bloodbath
ARTIST
TITLE
Viral Shedding
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MNQ 132LP MNQ 132LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/23/2021

Mannequin Records start a series of re-presses dedicated to the legendary Nocturnal Emissions, one of the best kept secrets of the industrial genre since the 1970s. Led by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K, the band was one of the first to use tape cutting, avant-garde art, and underground video works to create a stage experience that was being cultivated by like-minded artists like Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire. Originally released on Illuminated Records in 1983, Viral Shedding is surely one of the most important references for the industrial/funk dance music. Between pure noise and electronic beats, Viral Shedding is creating a twisted and percussive rhythmic urge, a funky disco sound permeated by digital industrial beats. Nigel Ayers and Caroline K take their inaccessible best and thrown it into the melting pot with a set of pumping rhythms. The result is the frustrated son of mutant disco, swimming in the same waters of Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Hula. As Nigel Ayers recalls, "Popular music picked up on what we were doing 1983-1984, which helps explain why records such as Viral Shedding sound clubbier today than they did at the time, but the technology of music making locked in a seat of aesthetics in those days that shaped pop as a whole more than industrial music itself did. Whether by synthesizer manufacturers' musical design or through engineering limitations, the more automated a band allowed their music to become, the dancer it was likely to be." Features the classics "Suffering Stinks", "Going Under", and "No Separation".