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Dissecting Human Life

by Zircon & The Burning Brains

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1.
Plus One (free) 01:25
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2.
Control 02:05
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3.
Bridge 1 01:19
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4.
Impossible To Cure 04:02
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5.
Light Trap 02:34
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Bridge 2 00:25
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Midnight 02:39
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Hiroshima (opening, different mix) 02:39
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Bis (fragment 1, backing track) 00:49
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Hiroshima (fragment, loop tape) 01:13
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Interlude 1 (different mix) 01:53
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Bis (fragment 4, backing track) 04:12
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Bridge 3 00:50
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Possibilities 14:06
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Bridge 4 01:10
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Industry 02:09
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Reality Is 02:09
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Lard Free 00:35
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An Impossibility 01:09
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Toward The Chasms Edge 04:14
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about

A few lost relics from the 1980’s rediscovered! During the days of recording Cortex and Out Of The Ashes we amassed a lot of surplus recordings, much of it inconsequential fiddling around with equipment which was discarded, but all the good bits were recompiled for posterity, and it's from those tapes that I compiled this collection of curios.

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released March 13, 2012

1-7+13: 17-18/10/1984 unreleased Cortex out-takes
8-12: 1986 various Out Of The Ashes fragments
14-20: 1/4/1986 very last 80's session!
Compiled by Alan Freeman (Feb 2012).

Cover design by Alan Freeman
After ideas/concept and some elements by Jim Tetlow.

Steve Freeman: synths, tapes, guitar, voice.
Alan Freeman: computer, tape loops, devices, synths.
Nigel Harris: vocals, tape montage, effects, Casio.
And many other gadgets, toys, etc.

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Zircon & The Burning Brains UK

Early ZBB was purely improvised with microphones scattered around a room, home-made tape loops, hand-wound record players, motors dancing on guitar stings, etc. Electronic based, between industrial and contemporary avant-garde, cultural elements mixed with hints of Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, via Krautrock and Electroacoustic/musique-concrete. The reformation was the same, but new & fresh ... more

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