GPC001: A Blast From The Past

January 30, 2008

I was recently browsing through the Discogs database, and stumbled across a submission that brought a smile to my face.

This is an old project of mine from back in 1989. It was a collaboration with a friend of mine, Sandy; some serious old-skool industrial. One side—Sin Drome—was my solo work under the pseudonym of Cliff Tkac, the other side—Factor 42—was his. The whole thing was recorded directly to 2-track at his home studio. The cover art was photocopied onto transparent overlays, scored, and folded to produce multi-layered, composite titlings when the piece was placed inside the cassette shell. Sandy was pretty ingenious when it came to creating artwork and design on a budget. He was a very cool guy; I wonder where he is now.

I wrote an email to the submitter at Discogs, Vor-Teks, inquiring as to how they managed to obtain a copy. I heard back from him the same day. “This is one of the reasons I like Discogs so much!”, he said.

Apparently, he received a copy from Sandy back in the early 90’s. He was the publisher of an Industrial music fanzine out of France back then. He was also kind enough to send me a link to a copy of the album that he had ripped to MP3. My copy of the tape has long since been dead—the cassette just didn’t last long enough for me to rip it myself. Thanks, Vor-Teks. You are too cool for old skool.

It’s awesome how technology enables this sort of thing. It’s hard to believe that an obscure release such as this managed to make it half way around the world, and then back to me, over 15 years later. Crazy…!

If you want a copy, let me know. I’ll send you link to the download. One warning though, this is some really raw work… nothing like the current sound I produce. Its as nasty, hissy, and badly performed as it is fun (in that home-grown sorta way).

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