POTTER, COLIN — A skeleton / cupboard situation
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Allerfrüheste Aufnahmen von COLIN POTTER, der v.a. als NURSE WITH WOUND-Produzent bekannt wurde, aber in den letzten Jahren auch vermehrt mit seiner eigenen Musik. Das er bereits seit Ende der 70er musikalisch aktiv war, dürften die wenigsten wissen. Hier sind Aufnahmen versammelt, die von 1979 bis 1983 datieren: New/Cold Wavig-minimalelektronisch mit Gesang, einiges klingt aber auch nach elektronischen TG.....er entschuldigt sich in der liner-notes dafür, jemals gesungen zu habe.. ein Leckerbissen für jeden minimal-electronic Fan !
"When I (Jim) last ran into Colin Potter it was at the Brainwaves Festival in the fall of 2006. Colin drearily apologized that his next album would be a collection of his earliest work released by the German label Vinyl On Demand. While the handful of cassettes I had of his mid-'80s work had been made up mostly of gritty postindustrial ambience and raw experiments with analogue synths, I would have never expected that Colin Potter -- nowadays the engineer extraordinaire for Nurse With Wound and collaborator with the best of British drone artists -- had a new wave bone in his body; but here it is. Not surprisingly for someone as talented as Mr. Potter, he managed to successfully work within the grim and angular synth-based structures that also resonated with Fad Gadget and Normal. A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation has been culled from a bunch of self-released cassettes made at IC Studios (yup, the same masthead he uses today!) that date from 1979 to 1983 and lovingly remastered by the fine people at Vinyl On Demand. Potter's synth-punk ethos centers upon tinny drum machine marches, plenty of grim synth repetitions, and short-fused guitars. While Potter occasionally gets a little spry and cheeky in his exuberance with the possibilities of electricity, the bulk of the album is coldly robotic and surprisingly catchy at times. In the liner notes, Potter again apologizes "unreservedly for 'singing' and promise it will never happen again, unless someone gives me a very good reason and / or a very large sum of money." Well, that's a bit self-deprecating, as his vocal style certainly fits the music with a staccato delivery and emotional detachment to match the cold synthetic tunes. I won't say that I'll be the guy who'll throw down a ton of money to hear Colin Potter sing again, but I sure as hell will be wearing out the grooves on this vinyl." [Aquarius Records]
"When I (Jim) last ran into Colin Potter it was at the Brainwaves Festival in the fall of 2006. Colin drearily apologized that his next album would be a collection of his earliest work released by the German label Vinyl On Demand. While the handful of cassettes I had of his mid-'80s work had been made up mostly of gritty postindustrial ambience and raw experiments with analogue synths, I would have never expected that Colin Potter -- nowadays the engineer extraordinaire for Nurse With Wound and collaborator with the best of British drone artists -- had a new wave bone in his body; but here it is. Not surprisingly for someone as talented as Mr. Potter, he managed to successfully work within the grim and angular synth-based structures that also resonated with Fad Gadget and Normal. A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation has been culled from a bunch of self-released cassettes made at IC Studios (yup, the same masthead he uses today!) that date from 1979 to 1983 and lovingly remastered by the fine people at Vinyl On Demand. Potter's synth-punk ethos centers upon tinny drum machine marches, plenty of grim synth repetitions, and short-fused guitars. While Potter occasionally gets a little spry and cheeky in his exuberance with the possibilities of electricity, the bulk of the album is coldly robotic and surprisingly catchy at times. In the liner notes, Potter again apologizes "unreservedly for 'singing' and promise it will never happen again, unless someone gives me a very good reason and / or a very large sum of money." Well, that's a bit self-deprecating, as his vocal style certainly fits the music with a staccato delivery and emotional detachment to match the cold synthetic tunes. I won't say that I'll be the guy who'll throw down a ton of money to hear Colin Potter sing again, but I sure as hell will be wearing out the grooves on this vinyl." [Aquarius Records]