S E X Appeal Sensuality CD - Import

! Totally WEIRD SHIT that sounded like nothing else. This CD is a heavy historical document of NOISE!"- Aaron Dilloway, WOLF EYES Key early records establishing Industrial music as genre: first CABARET VOLTAIRE album (1979); first EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN (1980); and in the US, in 1981-"America's answer to THROBBING GRISTLE comes pulsating and vibrating out of ! where?" (see note #1)Grand Rapids, MI = GRiM Records electro-industrial pioneers ZYKLON. Snap up this 25th anniversary limited edition CD documenting derailed dark synthpop at its outermost limit: The Heartland.

Z y• k l o n(zī ′ klôn)n. 1. A three-man, three-synthesizer "Industrial-Electro" pop group from Grand Rapids, Michigan comprising T. Purdy, B. Younker and S. Zuidema (all 1960- ). Active 1979-1982. Self-produced single "Wir Sind" b/w "Gary, IN" and "Part-Time" (GRiM Records, 1981) distinguishes Zyklon as first US electronica recording artist to champion Industrial noise as music genre. Progenitors of later sub-genre Glitch. [German : Zyklon, cyclone or tornado]COME FROM NOWHERE, STRIKE AT RANDOM"A tornado was what a lot of their music sounded like." This was never more true than on 2-21-81, the day Zyklon first performed live-in a cavernous hall packed with drunken adolescents impatiently awaiting a punk lite cover band. Probably Zyklon would have met with much the same reception in any other American city. Namely, a welcome of the sort Earthlings in 1950s movies accorded unexpected guests from outer space. If Zyklon's public emergence in 1981 coincided with the peak of post-punk creativity, sadly, "New Wave" fans and critics tended to be hostile to any deviation from safety pins and skinny ties. And as if Zyklon's sound wasn't foreign enough, here they were on stage-three guys "playing" three "boxes on slide projector stands," as one witness described it. Twenty five years ago, audiences had no reference point for a live band with no drums, no guitars, not even a recognizable keyboard. They felt exposed to something alien and did not like it. They cheered when someone pulled the plug.