Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Thursday 11 February 2010

iNDUSTRiE - Captivity

Rooting around in a cupboard tonight for something else, I found another box full of tapes of old demos and rough-cuts from my old band iNDUSTRiE. Reminded me that it's been a long while since I last subjected the modern world to an earful of what we used to blast out at gigs back in the day. I played through a few bits of various tapes and stumbled on this track which evolved from something I knocked up (as you do when you've got several synths, samplers, a sequencer, a drum machine and beer at your disposal). It was entitled Captivity, and this version is from c1992. Definitely a good stomping track in the live sets - probably including this gig ...



We tended to play with the bass track very loud and heavy so that the audience could feel the thump whether they liked it or not ....

4 comments:

Stewart said...

Mark, where's the singing? Our lovebird has gone ballistic at the intro....Its a bit avant garde for me, I'm more of a Blues to Metal type ( philistine :)

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Skev said...

Glad your lovebird liked it ;-)

We started off being a bit more poppy in the mid-80s (with geetar and sax on some tracks) and gradually became a bit more industrial then a bit more techno. Then we finally got fed up with it all and packed up just as technology started to get cheaper and more accessible ....

Most of the earlier stuff had lyrics (like the track 'Essence' on YouTube). Later stuff was either sampled vocals from films or just noise. Don't listen to 'Now It's Dark' on YouTube if you are of a nervous disposition or if you really hated the film Blue Velvet! The opening vocal sample may well give your lovebird a cardiac.

I'll dig out a more listenable track next time.

Blues to metal ..... ?

Mr White said...

Bloody good stuff. I liked it a lot.

Skev said...

Thanks Mr White. Your latest expose about the impending war with Argentina and the expected return to the golden age of rarities had me pissing myself - keep them coming.