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Monday, March 26, 2007 

Here is the complete [ as far as i know ] discography of all 80's releases by M.B. including compilation apareances, also the list continues (with less detail) to 2003.

 

COUNTRY LEGEND:

US - United States  

UK - United Kingdom

CA - Canada

JP - Japan         

IT - Italy         

BE - Belgium

FR - France        

GE - Germany      

SP - Spain

IC - Iceland

 

SACHER-PELZ - Cainus

tape    Aug/Sept 1979     Marquis Tapes - MART001  IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                          IT

     1: Crime Uberall

         The Skeleton

         Paranoia

     2: Blood and Pleasure

         Cainus

         Black Heat / My Last Day

         Dans L'Obscurite'...

Notes:         Pre-MB work

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SACHER-PELZ - Venus

tape    Oct/Nov 1979      Marquis Tapes - MART002   IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                              IT

     1: La Cartilage Palpitant

         Venus

     2: Chains & Whips

         Numb Creature

         Mutant-sex

         Abortion Size

Notes:         Pre-MB work

  

 

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  SACHER-PELZ - Cease to exist

tape    Marquis Tapes - MART003                      IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                   IT

     1: Helter Skelter

         In Dem Tod-tal

         Massacre on Cielo D.

         Sang Mon Amour

     2: Satan Slaves

         Exterminans

         Cease to Exist

Notes:         Pre-MB work, published on Dec 1979/Jan 1980

  

 

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  SACHER-PELZ – Velours

tape     Marquis Tapes - MART004                 IT

tape    199?              Murder Release               IT

     1: Excitements

     2: Sans Sang

<O:P>

         Sapho Noises

         Orphelin

         Nilehpro

         Damenbinde

         Velours

Notes:         Pre-MB work, published on Feb/Mar 1980

  

 

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  M.B. - Mectpyo / Blut

2xtape 1979       Self-released                       IT

M.B. - Mectpyo

LP   199?              OOOO                                 JP

tape    1981              Eurock                            US

tape    199?             Banned Production          US

tape    199?             Murder Release                IT

     1: Maidanek Bakterium

         Muzique Belzec

     2: Mutant Brain

         Mord Bahnhof

Notes: Can anyone confirm the (non)existence of a UK vinyl release in '79 on Deleted Records?  I suspect an ad for it was published, but the vinyl was never released.

  

 

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  M.B. - Atomique Moerder

LP   199?          Produktion VOL6                          IT

Notes:

This bootleg Italian LP was an edition of 70

Side one is a (retitled, and apparently sped up to fit onto the vinyl) version of side 1 of the Mectpyo tape .  Three of the loops from side two were re-released (with names) on the Bain Total LP "International Compilation 2"

  

 

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  M.B. - Gene-P

tape    1979              Self-released                          IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Nervo/Hydra

tape    1980              Self-released                          IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Dicembre 1980

tape    199?              Murder Release                       IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Industrial tape

tape    1980              Self-released                          IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                       IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Computers S.p.A.

tape    1980              Self-released                       IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                    IT

tape    199?              Banned Production              US

  

 

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  M.B. - Technology

tape    1980              Self-released                          IT

tape    199?              Murder Release                       IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Technology-2

tape    1980              Self-released                          IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Technology 1 & 2

2xtape 199?                Banned Production              US

Notes: the Murder Release cassette was an edition of 30

  

 

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  M.B. - Aktivitat

tape    1981              Self-released                    IT

tape    19??                                                 JP

LP   1992              Zabriskie Point ZP2             US

CD   1993             Tegal / Zabriskie Point         US

CD   1993              Dark Vinyl DVLR2               GE

Notes: the LP was a numbered edition of 500, as was the Tegal CD The Dark Vinyl was a numbered edition of 699

  

 

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  M.B. - Endometrio

tape    1981           Self-released                         IT

LP   1984              Self-released ENDO              IT

A: Endometrio (1980)

B: Endometrio (1981)

Notes: the LP release was paired with "Carcinosi".

  

 

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  M.B. - NH/HN

tape    1981              Grafica Airlines GRA-5            BE

LP   199?                   Produktion VOL3                     IT

notes: the bootleg LP was an edition of 80

  

 

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  M.B. - Cold tape

tape    1981              YHR 005                                UK

tape    199?              Murder Release                      IT

  

 

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  M.B. - Voyeur tape

tape    1981              YHR 006                                UK

tape    199?              Murder Release                      IT

  

 

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  M.B. - I.B.M.

tape    1981              Eurock

tape    199?              Murder Release                   IT

  

 

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  M.B. - SFAG

tape    Nov 31,1981   Self-released                         IT

2xtape 1981              Broken Flag 18A,18B            UK

tape    198?                Flowmotion                             UK     

CD   1993                 Tegal T006                              US

Notes: the self-released cassette was only available via mail contact with Maurizio Bianchi the Broken Flag double cassette had a "Symphony For a Genocide" on tape A, and SFAG on tape B the Tegal CD was an edition of 1000

  

 

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  M.B. - Symphony for a Genocide

LP   1981              Sterile Records SR2                    UK

2xtape 1981          Broken Flag 18A,18B                 UK

CD   1998              EEs'T 2MB002                            IT      

notes: the LP was a numbered edition of 227 - the Broken Flag double cassette had a "Symphony For a Genocide" on tape A, and SFAG on tape B - the EEs'T CD has the three tracks from "International Compilation 2"added on

  

 

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  M.B. - M.U.U.N.H

tape    April 31,1981     Self-released               IT

M.B. - Moerder Unter Uns / Neuro Habitat

LP   1982              Self-released                         IT

CD   1998              EEs'T 4MB004                     IT      

notes: the LP was released in an edition of 300 - the CD release has "Plutoniumetria" from "Fur Ilse Koch" added on

  

 

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  M.B. - Menses

tape    April 31,1981     Self-released                IT

LP   1982              Self-released                          IT

tape    1982           Come Org. wdc883023        UK

CD   1998              EEs'T 3MB003                     IT      

 A: YRA

 B: Scent

 Notes:

The LP was released in an edition of 300, possibly numbered on an insert. Perhaps 50-100 were distributed by the UK Come Organisation with the distribution    number wdc881023 stickered onto them; the CD release has the three tracks from "Fix Planet" and "Nowhere to Play" added on

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Fix Planet

LP   1981              Warning WR-8                         GE

M.B. - Milan Bruits

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Nowhere to Play

LP   1981              Jupiter Larsen                         CA

M.B. - Industrial Murder (extract)

M.B. - Menstrual Bleeding (extract)

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - International Compilation 2

LP   1981              Bain Total SCOPA 10012      FR

Maurizio Bianchi - Accop(6)ehte

Maurizio Bianchi - Sordide Sentimental

Maurizio Bianchi - Anesthesie Totale

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Trax Vietato Ai Minori

tape    1981              Trax 1081                              IT

M.B. / Lieutenant Murnau - It Should Be Used Only Once

tape    1981             Near the Edge / Flowmotion    IT/UK

Notes: Could be a split, could be a collaboration, could be a bootleg.  More information is definitely needed.  Lt. Murnau was a "ghost musical group" that played "invisible music".

  

 

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  M.B. / Lieutenant Murnau - Techno-logy

tape    1982             Near the Edge / Litanic            IT/GE

Notes: Could be a split, could be a collaboration, could be a bootleg.  More information is definitely needed.  Lt. Murnau was a "ghost musical group" that played "invisible music".

  

 

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  M.B. - Examples of Cannibalism

tape    1982              Come Organization wdc883014      UK

CDR  1998                 Releasing Eskimo                            IC

Notes: The cassette sounds like a MB piece, over which William Bennett (Whitehouse) tells a story of a cannibalistic cult in Britain.  The CDR was supposed to come out in an edition of 100 in RE's spoken word series, but Bennett threatened them with legal action if they proceeded. >A few copies were shipped to people who had pre-ordered, though.

  

 

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  Leibstandarte SS MB

LP   1982              Come Organization wdc881015            UK

tape    1982                  Come Organisation wdc883015    UK

A: Triumph of the Will

B: To Birkenau

Notes: The LP was released in an edition of 800

  

 

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  Leibstandarte SS MB 2

LP   1982              Come Organization wdc881018           UK

tape    1982                 Come Organisation wdc883018    UK

A: Weltanschauung

Under The Victory Banner

B: Endoradiation

SS 20 Attack

Notes: The LP was released in an edition of 600.  A Japanese bootleg (#ededition of 100) was released, with a bonus track ("Zyklombie") on side B.

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Fur Ilse Koch

LP   1982              Come Organization wdc881021            UK

tape    1982                 Come Organisation wdc883021     UK

Leibstandarte SS MB – Plutoniumetrio< SPAN>

Notes: This was released in two vinyl colors (black and red)  A blue pressing was mentioned in a Kata, but was never pressed.

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Mail Music

LP   1982              Nicola Frangione                       IT

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Neuengamme

LP   1982              Broken Flag BFV1                       UK

LP   198?              Remote Control Records RCR 2  GE

M.B. - Acido Prussico

Notes: this was released in an edition of 200.  The bootleg on Remote Control Records has a Phallus Dei track added to side one

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - White Power

tape    1982              Iphar 11                               UK

M.B. – Menstruum

  

 

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  M.B. - Das Testament

LP   1983              Self-released SOTESTAMENT    IT

Notes: The LP was released in an edition of 300 Hand made labels for the LP (one side with a circular xerox glued on, the other with a stamped warning to counterfiters)

  

 

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  M.B. - Regel

LP   1983              Self-released SOMB4                    IT

CD   1998              EEs'T 5MB005                              IT      

Notes: The LP was released in an edition of 300 The CD has "Acido Prussio" from "Neuengamme" added on

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - Mectpyo Bakterium

LP   1983              Dys DYS8                               US

CD   1998              EEs'T 6MB006                      IT      

Notes: The LP was released in an edition of 500. The CD has "Placenta" from "40 Days 40 Nights" and "Untitled" from "International Friendship" added on

  

 

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  M.B. - The Plain Truth

LP   1983              Broken Flag  BFV3                  UK

A: The Plain Truth

B: M.B.55

   T.D.56

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - 40 Days 40 Nights

LP   1983              Stratosphere SMC003            JP

M.B. - Placenta

Notes: This was a picture disc

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Standard Response

tape    1983              Sterile SRC1                        UK

M.B. - extract from COM SA

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Sinn & Form

tape    1983              Data 0015                            GE

M.B. - extract from MUUNH

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Area Conditionata 1

tape    1983              Vittore Baroni                         IT

M.B. - extract from Das Testament

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Axis Sally

tape    1983              Broken Flag  BF8                    UK

M.B. - extract from SFAG 1981

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hates Our Belief

2xtape 1983              Aquilifer                             IT

tape    1983              Aquilifer                              IT

M.B. - Giudizio Finale (cassette 1 side A)

M.B. - 1914-1991 (cassette 2 side B)

  

 

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  M.B. - Carcinosi

LP   1984              Self-released SOMB832        IT

C: Carcinosi Oswiecim (1979)

D: Carcinosi Brzezinka (1982)

Notes: the LP release was paired with "Endometrio"

  

 

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  M.B. - Armaghedon

LP   1984              Self-released SOARMAGHEDON    IT

Notes: this LP appears to have been released officially in both colored and b/w covers.

  

 

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  VARIOUS ARTISTS - Necronomicon #1

tape    1984              Necronomicon                               SP

M.B. - Milan Bruits

Notes: Came with booklet (?)

  

 

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  M.B. - Industrial Murder/Menstrual Bleeding (IBM)

LP   1992              Banned Production BP/MB                US

  

 

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  M.B. - Anthology 1981-1984

2xLP 19??              Unofficial release LM306               JP

A: Placenta / Milan Bruits / Sordide Sentimental / Accop(6)ehte /

Humus / Humus Nucleaire / Neuro Habitat

B: Habitat Neuro / Humus Nucleaire / Neuro Habitat

C: Aktivitat-1

   D: Aktivitat-2

Notes: This was released in a numbered edition of 150.  Gatefold, with partial discography, a numbered 10"x8" glossy insert and postcard

  

 

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  M.B. - Lebensraum

tape    199?              Murder Release                         IT

Notes: This is a collection of MB's work for the Come Organisation, starting with his soundtrack pieces for the Come Ultra video series and including an unofficial LSSMB piece.  Probably unauthorized by Come/Susan Lawly.

  

 

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  M.B. - Noise o Rama

tape    199?              Murder Release                         IT

Notes: This is a collection of uneleased MB pieces.  The sourcing is unknown.

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - Colori

CD   1998                 EEs'T                                          IT

" The very first new recording from Maurizio Bianchi (MB) since his decision to quit the arena of sound in 1984. Yes, he's back, the world-wide recognized master of apocalyptic electronics has decided to come back to music, opening up a new phase for his creativity "

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - Archeo MB boxset edition

5xCD 1999            EEs'T                                         IT

1: Symphony for a Genocide (+3)

2: Menses (+3)

3: Neuro Habitat (+1)

4: Regel (+1)

5: Mectpyo Bakterium (+2)

Notes: Also includes reproductions of collages and graphitape , six M.B. essays and interviews (about Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse, Monte Cazazza, Conrad Schnitzler, Metabolists), two important interviews with M.B. from 1982 from Datenverarbeitung and Flowmotion), reviews of records in the box set, concrete poetry, three M.B. playlists, advertisements of the very early tapes, and an original signed artwork. Numbered edition of 500

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - Archeo MB boxset edition 2

5xCD 1999          EES'T                                              IT

1. Das testament

2. Plain Truth

3. Endometrio

4. Carcinosi

5. Armaghedon

Notes: 500 numbered copies that will include MB's previously unpublished essays entitled: 'A.T.E.M.: A Breath of Veiled Drama' (1980), and 'The Dictionary of the Extra-Glaciality: Part 2' (1979). This second essay features short reviews of Alternative TV, Cabaret Voltaire, The Contortions, DNA, The Human League, Thomes Leer, Mars, The Monochrome Set, MX80 Sound, The Normal, The Parasites, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Wire, and XTC. Also included are the 'Fanta-Punk Tale' (1978), a short essay by Vittore Baroni called 'Milano Burns' (1984), and reproductions of original collages and graphics. Plus 4 new artworks and an original signed photo

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - First Day / Last Day

CD   June, 1999        EEs'T                                           IT

Notes:" Conceived in the same direction of the previous CD titled Colori, this new work found its bases in the revaluation of the events the started the Creation, when an intelligent and complex act of sublime love started our physical universe off, transposing them in form of 8 electronic compositions elaborated in a 2 year work. A darker atmosphere marks the background sounds giving to the whole program a more obscure and less 'easy' impression while the more melodic traces fluctuate without direction in an empty space. MB has always worked in a very direct way following his true inspiration; he has devoted his music to the sincere listeners who will now immerse themselves in these sound waves and in the sea of primordial sonorities. The connection to his past recordings is to be found in this attitude and a reference to these feelings was already existing in the early 1980s as reported in some interviews and statements soon to be included in the full documentation of ArcheoMB boxset 2 (not a reference to the specific religious themes but anyway a more general idea of spiritual collapse and chancing). What could be interesting is to notice this continuity and consider the past and present works as a whole. Of course with a huge formal difference in the material sound approach."

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - dates

CD   2001                EEs'T                                          IT

a work focused on Time, or the inevitable. A sound counterpointistic journey beginning with the creation of the first human being, in autumn 4026 B.C.E. and passing through the two big planetary cataclysms. Then the individual experience of MB himself is investigated, a sort of electro-biography. The climax of this work is represented by the dramatic collaps describing the imminent destruction of today's society. MB explains that this is not an utopical perspective but those feelings rise from the 'Revelator' of all the secrets, the One who knows the future in advance and all the connected events. The Creator of the majestic universe and the One to whom all of us will give account when the final war of Har-Maghedon will break up on 60.. A.M. Will there be any survivor then? Hopefully there will be among the listeners of this work who will delight their ears and fill their hearts with the compelling and intense emotional sounds of Date

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - dates

CD   2001                EEs'T                                          IT

a work focused on Time, or the inevitable. A sound counterpointistic journey beginning with the creation of the first human being, in autumn 4026 B.C.E. and passing through the two big planetary cataclysms. Then the individual experience of MB himself is investigated, a sort of electro-biography. The climax of this work is represented by the dramatic collaps describing the imminent destruction of today's society. MB explains that this is not an utopical perspective but those feelings rise from the 'Revelator' of all the secrets, the One who knows the future in advance and all the connected events. The Creator of the majestic universe and the One to whom all of us will give account when the final war of Har-Maghedon will break up on 60.. A.M. Will there be any survivor then? Hopefully there will be among the listeners of this work who will delight their ears and fill their hearts with the compelling and intense emotional sounds of Date

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - Frammenti

CD   2002               EEs'T                                          IT

Notes: edition of 500 copies - Frammenti, i.e. fragments, is the new direction in Maurizio Bianchi's music. An acoustic-bionic composition for electromagnetic waves and cyclic sonorities. Left now are all the indeterminate atmospheres gently fluctuating, in order to reach a more formal and structured work. Still dealing with the fragments of our memories made of joy and tribulations, sensations and awareness, aspirations and disappointments, with the carnal and the spiritual assistance. This new composition, quite as literally as the title suggests, consists of two long sound-collages reminding some of the techniques that MB was using in the late seventies under the name of Sacher-pelz. The music is not that brutal DIY intensity of analogic treatments, but more a digital version of nowadays oscillating clinic sonorities. As the author stated: 'Those who will have the courage to listen to and investigate it, will remain mentally upright when confronted with the opposition of today's music -- which is so mechanical, hybrid, aseptic, narcotic, obsessive -- while in their heart nothing will be left but the principal fragment, which originated the sonorous universe: the sacredness of infinity!'.

  

 

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  Maurizio Bianchi - M.B. Plays Clockwork Orange (LP)

CD   2002                Marquis                                   IT

Notes, edition of 300 copies - 'M.B. plays A Clockwork Orange' was a unique moment in Maurizio Bianchi sonic researches and is made now available for the very first time; the first LP record by M.B. isued in about 20 years!

  

 

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Maurizio Bianchi -Antarctic Mosaic

CD   2003               EEs'T                                          IT

  

 

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 

Since 1980 Maurizio Bianchi started releaseing teapes as M.B. made using electronic equipment to "produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence".

"Mectpyo Blut", Tape, 1980, Mectpyo Sounds

"Com.SA", Tape , 1980, Mectpyo Sounds

"Technology", Tape, 1981, Mectpyo Sounds (also as Doubletape "Technology I + II")

NOTE: other tapes have been re-isued in Banned Productions (GX-Jupiter Larsen), Slaughter Productions (Marco Corbelli) & Murder Release (Moreno Daldosso) but some where oficial some were not so i left in this list the ones that i am shure M.B. himsellf released in the early 80's.

Thursday, January 11, 2007 

Due to a petition coming from Mr. Bianchi himsellf, i have included the 2nd. part of his discography (after the 80's), regards.

Colori (CD) EEs'T Records 1998
First Day Last Day (CD) EEs'T Records 1999
Carcinosi (CD) EEs'T Records 2000
Dates (CD) EEs'T Records 2001
Frammenti (CD) EEs'T Records 2002
Antarctic Mosaic (CD) EEs'T Records 2003
Dead Colours (CDr) Not On Label 2003
Plays The Clockwork Orange (LP) Marquis Records 2003
Chaotische Fraktale (CDr) CPS Private Releases 2004
Cycles (CDr) EEs'T Records 2004
Zehn Tage (Touka) (CD) Afe Records 2004
A.M.B. Iehn Tale (CD) SmallVoices 2005
Dead Colours (CDr) Silentes 2005
Jubal's Experiment (7", Pic) SmallVoices 2005
M.I. Nheem Alysm (CD) Silentes 2005
Mind Us Trial / Ich Naib Oizir Uam (2xCDr) EEs'T Records 2005
Niddah Emmhna (CD) Silentes 2005
Psychoneurose (CD, Album) Manifold Records 2005
603... Annus Mundi (File, MP3) Sine3pm 2006
Carcimetrio (CDr) Simple Logic Records 2006
Endokraniosis (CDr) TIBProd. 2006
Environmental Meditations (CD) Topheth Prophet 2006
Escape To Bela-Zoar (CD, Album) L. White Records 2006
Experiments 79 - 81 (5xLP) Vinyl-on-demand 2006
Genologic Technocide (CD) Spatter, Pagan Moon Org 2006
Mokushi XVI, XVI (File, MP3) Mirakelmusik 2006
Sacher-Pelz (7") Vinyl-on-demand 2006
The Epidemic Symphony No. 9 (CD, Album) Octpia 2006
The House Of Mourning (CD) Radiotarab Records, Cold Current Productions 2006
The Testamentary Corridor (CD) Silentes 2006

Sunday, December 17, 2006 

1. The history of industrial/noise music is rooted in the end of 70s. During this time passed
by, generations were changed, and life was changed too. But there are still many people who are
into noise music very much, and who try to make it on their own. Now, we can't avoid the proper
influence from the outside, because there are so much noise bands around. When you started back
in early 80s, you felt completely different. No cliches, no proved ways, no scene. Can you tell
us about your very first impulses which turned you to this dark musical terrain? Were your first
musical attempts documented?

I came from the Punk experience, it was circa 1976/78 and I was involved in the reaction against an inhuman and conformist society. The same spirit trained my music path, drift towards the disintegration of pre-manufactured sounds and the achievement of my musical independence, far away by mass-media clichè and music businness. My first musical attempts were never being documented, in fact at that time (76/78) I started my first experiments with an acoustic guitar but I never recorded anything, so they are concealed in my archaic memory.

2. Did you communicate with other musicians in those early days? Can you remember other projects
you liked then?

I was in contact with Nigel Ayers from Nocturnal Emission, William Bennett from Come Org., Masami Akita (later Merzbow), Philippe Fichot, Michael Nguyen and few others wich I don't remember now. At the time, I was mainly interested in composing soundtracks (MOERDER UNTER UNS and ARMAGHEDDON) but at the end those plans have vanished into oblivion.

3. Almost all your albums were produced and released on your own. Why? You were not interested
to get in touch with labels or not satisfied with the way the scene worked?

Disco music ruled the world from 1975 through 1982, as well in Italy (along with pop and new wave) therefore the experimentation in music was amorphous and sterile. Record labels used to produce conventional pre-manufactured bands and there was no space for something diverse and truly different. That's why I decided to self-produce my music - it also gave me the opportunity to achieve the best freedom; acting outside from music industry circuits I had chance to create my own music, something I really would like to do without any pressures.


4. How did you managed to spread/distribute your music? In early 90s, many MB albums were
re-released on tapes (by Murder Release and Banned Production labels) and even on vinyl
("Aktivitat" on Zabriskie Point). They seem to be bootlegs or not?

Trough alternative distribution circuits and contacts with other musicias and supporters in the whole world, above all I received a good help by Sterile Records, Aeon Records and Broken Flag Records. Those re-prints are unauthorized bootlegs, so don't buy unauthorized "bootlegs" and discourage others from doing these , unscrupulous business practices

5. Can you speak about technical equipment you used, and more detailed about your methods of
composition?

At the time of Sacher Pelz I just used a turntable and some vinyl LPs to make loops, reverberations, then, using a tape recorder I mixed all with other concrete sounds. As MB I bought a Korg synthesizer and I also found one of these sinthy machines on the second-hand market, those used by Cosmic Couriers (!) thena Roland KS20 rhythm-box, an Echo-box and a two-track tape machine. I have composed my music creating a first track and then overlapping another recorded track thus producing the desidered result.

6. Please tell me something about Sacher Pelz and Nun. Were they your side-projects? If yes,
where was the difference? If not, please explain your relation with them.

I never heard of Nun, so I've no relation with him, while Sacher Pelz represent my first attempts with concrete experimental music, under that name I made four works recently re-issued in a four CD box titled 'mutation for a continuity' on Ees't label

7. Your first works were devoted to the power of industrial technology and its dehumanization of
society. From your current point of view, why this subject, being initially conceived as the
instrument for creation, became the symbol of destruction in those days?

Because men are not able to take the technology under control, so they can't control the developments in the long term. The consequences could turn out catastrophic, as it happened for example with pollution: in the beginning the industrial civilization seemed to offer well-being and happiness to its technological adepts, but to the detriment to the atmosphere. When it has been realized that the industrial civilization requires disrupting the living conditions of the same habitat in which its sons would supposed to live in ideal conditions, it was too late, unfortunately

8. Where is the barrier between the ideology and music? There were (and are) many musicians
which put into their works completely different ideas, when the resulting music can be quite
similar. On the other hand, industrialization can also inspire people in the positive way:
technocracy, total computer control, it brings up the music which calls the people to walk in
line and work like the machine - techno, ebm, various rhythmic styles...

A barrier does not exist, there are just similarities. Nowadays the prevailing ideology is consumism, and the music that springs is music for consumers, it lasts throughout a season and that's all. On the other hand, there is a music wich is the opposite way to consumism, able to survive the time, and even after years it results actual. Why? For the simple reason that the author/manipulator of similar kind of music constantly tends towards a creative act, in his microcosm the artist is able to re-create a music that is out of time, dilated in it to come, untill the future will come; this is why his project resists in the long run.

9. Why did you abandoned your music activity in the mid 80s? Except the religious issues, which
are too personal thing to speak widely about, can you explain your retirement or disappointment,
your feelings and memories in those difficult days?

For the simple reason that, by now I said everything I had to express, and before running the risk to sink in a sterile repetition or in a vain parody of myself, I retired to devote my time and energy to funding research in my inwardness, my feelings, my spirituality; at the time I haven't had found a real aim (and music is just part of it) wich is to consider my spiritual need and try to find my complete equilibrium.

10. For many people, it was really great surprise when you came back to music after 14 years of
enigmatic absence. I know only one album which were released then, "Colori", it musically
describes your path in very contrast way, symbolized by colours. Why was it neccessary for you to
put this conclusion to the audience?

As the liner notes say, after a 14 years of meditative pause, I am back to music now describing my colored sphere in a world sadly painted in black and white. 'Colori' represents my genuine feeling turned to sonorous landscapes, near to be imperceptibles but discreetely real. 'Colori' is the first chapter of the trilogy that includes 'first day/last day' and 'dates', musical water-colours of gloomy dyes that perpetuate my thirst for spirituality (not to be confused with mysticism). With my last works (frammenti' and 'antarctic mosaic', both released by Ee'st) I'm partially back to fragmentary suggestions of my early experiments

11. As the continue of previous question, let me know your attitude with massive re-edition of
your early works, released on CDs by Alga Marghen Records. Was it initiated only the this label?
Why did you supported this idea?

I agreed with the official re-release. Emanuele Carcano (of Alga Marghen) found me after a long troubled search, and pointed me out a return, that's why my early experimental layout was gaining general consents. It gives me new vital energy, and the rest is just recent history...

12. The most "recent" MB album I've heard was "MB plays Clockwork Orange". Until it's one of my favourites films, I am interested to know your meaning about this film and the idea behind the
album.

Emanuele Carcano had this release thanks to mail-artist Vittore Baroni, and when I've been noticed about the re-release I started being very curious to listen to it, as I completely forgot about this old tape realized in 1980. It returns my mind back to the existenzialist background of that movie. Probably, contorting the original soundtrack, I have rejected the ghosts of a technology which tries to inculcate lifestyles, preconceived ideas or useless modules in his interlocutors, so nobody would refuse to conform his existence to preestablished models.

13. Are you interested in making music nowadays? What the leading interests you have now?

Nowadays I'm still involved in composing and decomposing music. I've started a collaboration with the german duo Telepherique for a project focused on uselessness of time's calculation compared to the precision of time itself - 'zehn tage' will be published at the end of th year.

14. Rumours said that you became one of Jehova's Witness. On my very profane level, I just came to the conclusion that the faith is the only thing the single human can own. Besides the faith, we probably have nothing, simply NOTHING. Being grown up in atheistic country which Russia became to be in the communist era, I had nothing to do with religion, and now I am going to revise my system of values. I can't know anything about Jehova's Witness, but I would like to ask you about this movement - maybe nothing personal but the truth which can't be found easily in these days of total confusion.

Bearing in mind that this is not a religious propaganda oriented on a way of sullen proselytism. It is just the pure expression of my hidden, deep inner life. The non-conformism of the Jehovah's Witnesses, or, better, this form of adoration appealed me from the beginning. Considering also that it is based just on God spell, it's devoid of ideologies, philosophies, theologies and the harmful doctrines that almost every religion use to make its disciples swallow. As Christ said (the true leader of the Jehova's movement) in a famouse sentence:< And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free> [John 8.32]. Thanks to the bible, I have refused many false traditions, Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, or any other holidays (save one, the Memorial of Christ's Death during Passover). They believe these celebrations grew out of ancient false religions. I relieved my past blames commited by ignorance, as I did'nt knew the truth, and now I feel like a dove flyng toward the freedom, the real freedom wich is the faculty of exercise my free will.

Sunday, December 17, 2006 

The early tepes are not included in this list.

  • "Symphony For A Genocide", LP, 1981, Sterile
  • "Menses", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "Mörder Unter Uns / Neuro Habitat", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "Regel", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "Mectpyo Bakterium", LP, 1982, DYS
  • "Das Testament", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "The Plain Truth", LP, 1983, Broken Flag
  • "Endometrio", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "Carcinosi", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
  • "Armaghedon", LP, 1984, Mectpyo Sounds
  • Sunday, December 17, 2006 

    As his releases on Come Org have been massively manipulated, Maurizio Bianchi does not count these records as part of his discography.

    Discography:

  • "Triumph Of The Will", LP, 1981, Come Org
  • "Weltanschauung", LP, 1982, Come Org
  • Sunday, December 17, 2006 

    Very few are aware of the beginning of Maurizio Bianchi's adventures? Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project, under the name Sacher-pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment -- the endurance of M.B. had started. During the following few months four C60 magnetic tapes were created 'Cainus' (August/September 1979), 'Venus' (October/November 1979), 'Cease to Exist' (December 1979/January 1980) and 'Velours' (February/March 1980), a couple of copies for friends, never getting an official distribution. Surely a very private moment but still the first and only production at that time in Italy to go beyond the TG movement, the direct reference.

    Discography:

  • "Cainus", Tape C-60, 1979
  • "Venus", Tape C-60, 1979
  • "Cease to Exist", Tape C-60, 1979
  • "Velours", Tape C-60, 1980