These recordings were initially titled «The Side Effects of Life», which was a working title for Coil’s legendary album, «Love’s Secret Domain».
The music presented here are demos / mixes of material that was later released as the «Love’s Secret Domain» album and includes part of the ‘Wrong Eye/Scope’ 7″.
The original cassette (only a handful are known to exist) was sent to WaxTrax! records in 1989 ahead of the planned future release of «Love’s Secret Domain» on the label. The track «Love’s Secret Domain» was subsequently released on the Various – ! (Wax Trax! Sampler #2) cassette. The album was finally released by Torso (Europe) and Wax Trax! (USA) in 1991.
These recordings and mixes are incredibly rare, and demonstrate Coil’s working towards the final pieces that would make up «Love’s Secret Domain».
Zos Kia – 23 Label: Infinite Fog Productions – IF-70 Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Limited Edition, Digibook Country:Russia Released: Oct 2017 Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient
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Complete anthology of Zos Kia recordings. The first press released as limited to 800 copies Digibook.
ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling (MEKON), John Balance (COIL) and Min – with guest Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (THROBBING GRISTLE). Their one and only long-play album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette the only edition on the now-defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first released recordings of both COIL and ZOS KIA. It was reissued years later by COIL (Threshold House / Eskaton) in an edited edition. Later, 2017, the entire recordings were reissued on CD/vinyl via COLD SPRING RECORDS. Definitely, “Transparent” one of the most legendary and important industrial releases of all times. But beside of “Transparent”, ZOS KIA released 2 EP vinyl and record several tracks for compilation as well as about an hour of unreleased material which was found in John Gosling archives.
Now the final and complete anthology of ZOS KIA recordings released under title “23” on 2CDs in Luxor Digibook via INFINITE FOG PRODUCTIONS. 23 tracks, more than 2 hours of exciting material in various styles, was сarefully extracted and prepared for publishing by John Gosling himself, and artwork was done by Cold Graves. Well-known track in different forms, unknown, rare and unreleased composition, and many more for the deep diving into the esoteric underground music from 80th.
“23” is the long-awaited release for those who deeply in the old-school industrial music, collectors, rare-searchers and especially great gift for all COIL lovers.
ZOS KIA – “23” will be out in 2 editions:
– DELUXE 2CD Digibook including some pages with information and exclusive archive pictures.
England s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground (Paperback) David Keenan Editorial: Strange Attractor Press, United Kingdom (2015) ISBN 10: 1907222170 ISBN 13: 9781907222177 Language: English.
Based on several years worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands personal archives, this is the first, definitive, biography of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound. Together, the bands represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural and artistic variety. A shadowy scene whose work accents peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they ve forged with earlier generations of outsiders. The three groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy relationship with the mainstream of pop culture.
England s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground (Paperback) David Keenan Editorial: Strange Attractor Press, United Kingdom (2015) ISBN 10: 1907222170 ISBN 13: 9781907222177 Language: English .
Based on several years worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands personal archives, this is the first, definitive, biography of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound. Together, the bands represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural and artistic variety. A shadowy scene whose work accents peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they ve forged with earlier generations of outsiders. The three groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy relationship with the mainstream of pop culture.
Coil / The New Blockaders / Vortex Campaign – The Melancholy Mad Tenant
Label: Infinite Fog Productions – IF-55 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Russia Released: 12 Dec 2015 Style: Industrial, Experimental, Noise
In 1984 VORTEX CAMPAIGN invited COIL and THE NEW BLOCKADERS to collaborate. The result, which was unofficially referred to as Dolbied, was released privately on cassette in an edition of 50. The release has since gone on to become legendary, showcasing two of the most influential groups in the scene at the early stages of their development. The Melancholy Mad Tenant is an authorized release, sanctioned by all three groups. The tracks have been professionally re-mastered and in addition to the COIL/THE NEW BLOCKADERS/VORTEX CAMPAIGN collaboration it also contains the entire VC archive, including two previously unreleased tracks. This wooden box edition hand-numbered and strictly limited to 100 copies only.
Reviews: ‘Historically potent reissue of some early, brutally primitive collaborations. Coil are in their early Zos Kia/Coil crossover mode generating some wild spectral energy via looped vocal trance and spooked, auroral tones while TNB generate huge boulders of cracked fuzz. The Vortex Campaign solo tracks are great examples of Equinox-era Punk-primitive electronic ritual and the whole package makes for a trip back to a wildly accelerated underground activity.’Volcanic Tongue ‘Both Coil and TNB began in the early ’80s and have become major players in their specific musical territories. The two collaborations are familiar terrain for TNB but certainly shine new light on the formative years of Coil, as this is very different to their Scatology LP released the same year. It’s nice to hear them from a different and slightly unexpected perspective.’ Vital
Label: Cold Spring – CSR230CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Country: UK Released: 09 Jan 2017 Style: Industrial, Experimental
ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling (MEKON), John Balance (COIL) and Min – with guest Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (THROBBING GRISTLE). Their one and only album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette only edition on the now defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first released recordings of both COIL and ZOS KIA. It was reissued years later by COIL (Threshold House / Eskaton) in an edited edition. The entire recordings are now released on CD/vinyl for the first time and are completely remastered from the unedited tapes. Includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks by AKE (pre-ZOS KIA).
The music on Transparent is genuinely unsettling and disturbing, with a more primal Industrial feel than the Coil album which followed; ‘Scatology’. An essential insight into the very early work of these extraordinary artists and an undeniable link between Coil and Throbbing Gristle. Double vinyl edition in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with 12″ booklet of unseen images. Ltd 500 white vinyl edition for COLD SPRING mailorder only. Both editions come with download card. CD edition presented in a 6-panel digipak with booklet containing unseen images.
Label: Cold Spring – CSR194DVD Format: DVD, Region 0 Country: UK Released: Jul 2016 Style: Experimental, Interview
The official release of the infamous 1988 film THE SOUND OF PROGRESS. This DVD has been completely remastered / authored from the original master film stock. The documentary shows the mindset of the some of the most original and influential artists of the experimental scene. An unprecedented insight into the workings, the methods and the ideas that made these names legendary. Filmed in Hamburg, Amsterdam and London.
COIL – CURRENT 93 – FOETUS – TEST DEPT.
Interviews – live material – studio work – opinion. DVD case with 6 panel booklet containing liner notes by David Keenan. The DVD also includes a gallery of never before seen pictures of each band. Director: Alexander Oey Producer: Marc Van Der Bijl / Justin Mitchell PAL Region 0 / Region Free.
Current 93 at Neu Konserwatiw, Hamburg, Germany, 16 June, 1985. Foetus at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, 21 July, 1985. Test Dept at A Good Night Out, De Olyphant, Amsterdam, Holland, March 1987. Test Dept. were filmed in a deserted harbour area of Amsterdam where empty buildings were used for concerts and performances. One of the buildings was called De Olyphant, named after the name of the street, Levantkade (now a gentrified neighbourhood). They were interviewed just before the concert in the same place. Coil was filmed (the dinner) at the home of Peter Christopherson and John Balance (Chiswick, London, England) in 1986, and inside Sam Therapy studios during the recording of ‘Horse Rotorvator’. The interview with John Balance and Stephen Thrower was in the courtyard of the studio during a break from recording, 1986. Includes 6-panel folded insert with notes and images.
“The Sound of Progress is vital watch for anyone interested in the esoteric counter-culture. It shows a movement that impacted so many at the time (and continues to do so via the albums that these artists released) and still resonates to this day… A great film and one that is highly recommended.” (Louder Than War)
“It is great to see these angry young men hammering out their statements on what we may now see quite differently. Maybe the world of 1988 wasn’t that bad compared to 2016, with more and more poor people feeling dissatisfied and demanding (and getting!) strong leadership. The cold war ended and is now replaced by just coldness and love (Crass!) seems far away… there is no authority than yourself” (Vital Weekly)
