Decoding the Lie
"information is like a bank
our job is to rob that bank"
—Genesis P-Orridge in Decoder
In 1983, Dave Ball (Soft Cell) & Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV), along with other artists such as FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubaten) and Matt Johnson (The The) provided a soundtrack for a German film, 'Decoder', that starred William Borroughs, Christiane F, and a cameo from Genesis P-Orridge.
film synopsis from Amazon:
A thriller which expands on the phenomenon known as 'Musak' — an artificial product, created by scientists, musicians and marketing experts who construct a particular tonal sequence designed to increase productivity in a factory and enhance wellbeing. This film is a blend of reality and fiction: surreal, metaphorical imagery interwoven with heavy music words and special effects. German soundtrack.
This rip is from the vinyl edition of the soundtrack
note: Some of the tracks on the LP run together:
To maintain continuity I haven’t split these into sepperate files.
posted by benito X at 10:55 PM
7 Comments:
Both of these are interesting, sooo, Thanks for the shares!
Linked you up also ; )
What a find. I'll have to get you linked up to my blog also. Great work!
What they said, and thanks for not splitting linked tracks ;-) Really disrupts things when iTunes 'gulps' in the middle of a segue.
Merci pour cette BO que je ne connaissais pas (malgré que j'aime la musique des 4 artistes cités). ... Reste à trouver ce film maintenant.
hi.
my podcast show wunschmaschinenklang features exclusively very short tracks (59 seconds or less) of rarely heard sonic incidences: qrz039 has some information about the decoder soundtrack and operation mindfuck, of course. you can find genesis p-orridge and more here: http://qrz.podspot.de/post/qrz039-megson-decoder
all the best
ralf
One of my favourite ever films and a great name for your blog..really suits the content. I cannot recommend seeing this film highly enough...to see Genesis P. Orridge, William S Burroughs and Christiane F.(former junkie child prostitute who wrote an amazing autobiography and there is a great film version of said book with Bowie live)in the same space-time is wonderful. An often overlooked film...you can get it by searching for decoder on any torrent site.
Great blog...
Movie on DVD and soundtrack on CD just released on TRANSPARENCY !!!!
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