Throbbing Gristle were pioneers of early industrial music, who evolved out of the performance art consortium COUM Transmissions. Comprised of performance artist and ex pornography actress Cosey Fanni Tutti~ vox, guitar, synth, keys, cornet, Counterculture propagator and founder of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge~vox, guitar, synth, bass, clarinet, keys, violin, and "vibes", Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson~ vox, cornet, special effects, tapes (who went on to be part of Psychic TV, Coil), and Chris Carter~ vox, keys, synth, drum and rhythm programming, sequencing. 20 Jazz Funk Greats contains little to no jazz or funk, the cover is a ruse in the style of TISM's Machiavelli and the four seasons the unassuming backdrop is Beachy Head a popular suicide spot. The album has all kinds of flavour, at times swoony (in the breathy Hot on the heels of love), zone-out-dreamy (Exotica, Beachy Head, Tanith), oppressively nightmarish (Six six sixties, What a day), toe tappingly throb-driven (like in Still Walking and the Kraftwork-esque Walkabout) or just all-out creepy (Persuasion).
Convincing People - Throbbing Gristle
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