We were delighted to have Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions join us for a
fascinating discussion. To celebrate the release of the new book
“Electronic Resistance”, Nigel took us back to the early days of
industrial culture through the lens of Nocturnal Emissions. We get into
working with MB and SPK, early mail art contacts, and how NE’s approach
evolved throughout the years. Another mandatory history lesson is now in
session.
Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers (b. 1957, UK)
has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary
underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia
experimentation to form a singular body of work. Co-founder of the
groups The Pump and Nocturnal
Emissions (along with brother Daniel Ayers and
then-partner Caroline K), Ayers has been a contributor to
and proponent of industrial music’s high-water marks, his Sterile
Records imprint disseminating not only NE sides but also defining
work from Lustmord, SPK, Maurizio
Bianchi, and others between 1979 and 1986. In 1987, Ayers
inaugurated the Earthly Delights label with the
now-canonical Caroline K recording Now Wait
For Last Year, and the imprint has since served as Ayers’s
primary outlet for releasing new work, whether as Magnetizdat,
Spanner Thru Ma Beatbox, or Nocturnal Emissions, a going concern to
this day.
ELECTRONIC RESISTANCEis 9.25" x
12.25", 160 pages, full color offset, quarterbound wrap
hardcover. Printed by Edition One (Oakland, CA). Limited edition
of 750 copies.
Signed and
embossed risograph print limited to 250. Limited
print measures 7.5" x 12"
I've just finished making this 1/24 scale model of the legendary Some Kinda Mushroom record shop in Newbold Rd, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, as it looked in the early 1970s.
