The Box - Muscle Mix


This here is The Box's greatest single recording! It's Richard H. Kirk's insanely dubbed-out mistreatment of  The Box's "Crow Bar" and "Low Commotion" songs from 1984. Required listening for anyone who loves this sort of thing. Fans of early 80s Northern industrial dub punk disco (which should be all of you, frankly) look no further. At the same time that Cabaret Voltaire experienced some mainstream success with the robot-funk albums "The Crackdown" and "Micro-Phonies" albums, Kirk was in top form as a producer for like-minded astronauts like Test Dept, Eric Random, Sedition, Surface Mutants, UV Pop and these guys. He slathered both songs in echo and heaviness and unleashed them as a promo-only 12" on his own Doublevision label. So good. 

The Box - Muscle Mix

1 comments:

Anonymous,  19 August 2021 at 16:25  

Thanks Thanks Thanks. Never heard this before. Love Richard H. Kirk, his Time High Fiction record is incredible. Cabaret Voltaire were experimental pioneers before they got the beat. Do the noise kids recognize? XXOO