Cable Regime - Assimilate & destroy (1992)

After their first full length album, Life in the house of the enemy, both Cable Regime and Permis De Construire Deutschland were interested in the idea of a remix album.

After recieveing the prepayment from PDCD, Cable Regime once again set foot into Avalanche Studio and began remixing Assimilate & destroy, a track previously featured on their first full length, with Justin Broadrick.

Four different remixes and an untitled medley, comprised of the previous four remixes, placed end-to-end in a single continuous track, found their way onto the EP. With funky remix titles such as "Open sore in the pit of hell mix" and "Stupid vulgar son of a bitch mix" one surely can't go wrong?

As this happens to be the first material by Cable Regime that graced my ears, I'm simply going to answer "Of course not. Psychedelic and drugged out industrial rock remixes can never be wrong". While looping this disc in the background, I recommend digging into "The naked lunch" by Burroughs. A rather confusing, but growing experience.

Hope you enjoy!

"Systematic, systematic world control. Magnetic. Genetic. To match your soul."

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Cable Regime - Life in the house of the enemy (1992)

Welcome back after a short summer break. Everything should be returning back to normal during the next few weeks, and updates should start dropping more frequently.

With the welcome out of the way, there's been a few requests for more Cable Regime waiting in my inbox. As I aim to please, we'll be going through the rest of the Regime discography that I have at hand in irregular intervals. We'll begin the series with the first full length, Life in the house of the enemy.

As the story goes, Permis De Construire Deutschland wanted to release an album by Cable Regime, and after the boys gave their OK, they got and spent most of their prepayment, presumably on something that had nothing to do with the recording process whatsoever, unless we're talking about an inspirational process here, and were left with a few rehearsal tracks and no full length album.

Luckily fellow Birminghamian Justin Broadrick was in possession of an 8-track and soon the Regime was booked in Rich Bitch Studios for a recording session. Steve Hough recalls the album "(...) was recorded pretty much live as I remember, at a rehearsal room using boundary mics". After a final mixing and production job at Broadrick's own Avalanche Studio, the album was ready to be released.

After this rather drawn-out history lesson, I'd better let you dig into the music without any further diversions or lengthy "reviews". Enjoy this fatal concoction of Big Black's drum machine fury combined with the Godfleshesque howling guitar and feedback attacks, this is psychedelic and noisy industrial rock in it's purest form. Highly recommended!

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Cable Regime - Kill lies all (1993)

Cable Regime were a band from the UK. They were active between 1988 and 1997 in the field of noise/industrial rock music. During their existence they released 3 albums, 2 EPs, a 12" single and were featured on various compilations.

The group featured Paul Neville (previously a member of Fall Of Because) on guitar and vocals, Diarmuid Dalton (member of Jesu) on bass and Steve Hough on second guitar (All three were also members of Godflesh at some point in time).

Cable Regime was called a "more melodic Godflesh"; There's a familiar recipe: the distorted and buzzing guitars, the monotonous bass lines and even the mandatory drum machine. During their active years, the group never got the recognition they deserved, and they somewhat unjustly stayed underground. The time has come to fix the injustice, here's five tracks of industrial rock played in a haze of forty something minutes. Hope you enjoy!

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