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out now: Cosey Fanni Tutti – 2t2 [Conspiracy International]

Artist:
Cosey Fanni Tutti

Title:
2t2

Label:
Conspiracy International

Cat#:
CTI2T2CD2025 | CTI2T2LP2025 | CTI2T2DD2025

Release Date:
13th June 2025

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist CD / Digital:
01.
Curæ

02.
To Be

03.
Stound

04.
Never The Same

05.
Stolen Time

06.
Respair

07.
Threnody

08.
Sonance

09.
Limbic

Tracklist Vinyl:
A01.
Curæ

A02.
To Be

A03.
Stound

A04.
Never The Same

B01.
Stolen Time

B02.
Respair

B03.
Threnody

B04.
Sonance

Press Info:
Cosey Fanni Tutti has announced details of a new album, 2t2, released on the artist’s own imprint, Conspiracy International, on 13 June 2025 on vinyl, CD, and digitally (including Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio).

Composed, performed and produced by Cosey Fanni Tutti, the 9-track album moves between propulsive beat constructions and expansive electronic explorations, continuing themes from 2019’s acclaimed album TUTTI. It is a personal reflection; a sonic realisation of her life, drawing on her powerful inner resolve and expressing it through music.

The album finds Cosey making sense of some very tough years, dealing with personal bereavements alongside swingeing world events that have impacted us all. Centring on her own strength and self will, the album’s two distinct sides – one rhythmic, one more meditative – are connected by an overwhelmingly positive mood.

She explains, “My overtone chanting on the track ‘Stound’ was part of that, tapping into the inner self, to the core of your being, emotionally, physically, allowing the sounds to permeate and soothe as well as create a sense of power, resistance and resilience to what we face.”

Even in the more melancholic moments, there’s a lightness that she explains is an “acknowledgement that it’s alright to be sad, that’s part of life, but there is so much joy too in our memories of people we lose and in the moments we share with each other. Joy is our resistance.”

There are also threads from her most recent projects running through 2t2. Her latest book RE-SISTERS and the score she wrote for Caroline Catz’s film Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes are acknowledged, most directly on ‘Threnody’ which is dedicated to Delia Derbyshire and Andy Christian, an artist friend of Delia’s. He sent Cosey an abstract drawing of the same name, created one night from an improvised evening where he drew while Derbyshire intoned and sang softly as she looked at the drawings, as if reading a score expressing how they made her feel.

Cosey’s process and the different strands that make up her work form a totality of vision. She goes on to say, “Once you get creating and listening, weaving, collaging sound it’s a wonderfully fulfilling feeling that takes you both out of yourself at the same time as essentially deep within.”

The artwork reflects this idea that the album is a “sound cameo”, reflecting the light within the music, and the buzz of life that exists within all of Cosey’s work.

Musician, artist and author Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions through her work. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease, her work on the margins has reshaped the mainstream.

Her first solo album, Time To Tell (1983) was followed by 2019’s Tutti and 2022’s Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes. Her debut book, the Penderyn Music Book Prize shortlisted Art Sex Music, was published in 2017, followed by RE-SISTERS in 2022 (both Faber), which will soon get a Spanish edition.

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out now: Throbbing Gristle – Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 [Mute]

Artist:
Throbbing Gristle

Title:
Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
LTGCD21 | TGLP21

Release Date:
16th May 2025

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Trumpet Herald
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

02.
Convincing People
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

03.
Splitting Sky
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

04.
Slug Bait
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

05.
Rabbit Snare
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

06.
Almost A Kiss
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

07.
Greasy Poo
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

08.
The Endless Not
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

09.
Vow Of Silence
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

10.
PA Destroyer
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

11.
Hamburger Lady
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

Press Info:
Throbbing Gristle’s Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 has been announced as as a stand-alone vinyl, CD and digital release, due out via Mute on 16 May 2025.

The 11-track live album was originally available on the recent acclaimed box set, TG Berlin, which chronicled unreleased work recorded around a series of live events curated by the band at the Berlin Volksbühne in 2005/2006.

Recorded 20 years ago at the New Year’s Eve show at the Volksbühne, the album previewed five songs from Part Two: The Endless Not, the band’s first album in 27 years, several years before its release. The set – described by Uncut as “magisterial” – also included ‘Convincing People’, ‘Slug Bait’, and ‘Hamburger Lady’ (their first encore in 25/26 years, and what an encore!) – tracks that had lost none of their potency in the intervening years.

The box set – which comprises of 4 CDs, a Blu-ray, a 10” vinyl and a booklet featuring unseen photographs from the time by Paul Heartfield as well as a specially commissioned piece of writing by the award winning Scottish visual artist Lucy McKenzie – includes two full performances from the event, alongside the TG Berlin Studio Session which is comprised of the final Throbbing Gristle single (two unreleased tracks, ‘Scabs & Saws’ and ‘Wotwududo’,) and an unreleased 48-minute piece titled ‘TG Berlin Studio Session 2005 – 2006’, recorded at Planet Roc studios during the time they were in the city. TG Berlin also includes the “rehearsal” for the improvised In The Shadow of the Sun, performance, giving two different perspectives on their soundtrack to Jarman’s work.

In 2004, Throbbing Gristle – Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (1955-2010) – regrouped and the following six years became a period of renewed creativity for the band. Back in the studio after 20 years, they found group intuition when performing was intact, and their ability to break down barriers and forge connections with an audience was more powerful than ever.

TG Berlin and Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 are the latest releases in an ongoing collaboration with Mute, compelling documents of Throbbing Gristle performing and recording as a four-piece with a renewed vigour. From the opening beats and serrated electronics of one of their final tracks recorded together, ‘Scabs & Saws’, it’s clear that TG are not revisiting ground already tread, but bringing two decades of individual experience back into the studio to create a new exploration of sound. The vocals have a different depth, the groove is deeper, and the atmosphere has lost none of its potency.

Throbbing Gristle:
– Chris Carter: Rhythms, Loops, Synth
– Cosey Fanni Tutti: Guitar, Cornet, Melodica, Sampler
– Genesis P-Orridge: Vocals, Violin, Bass
– Peter Christopherson: Sampler, Persephone keyboard

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Chris Carter’s “Mondo Beat” on Mute
Chris Carter’s “Disobedient” on Mute
Chris Carter’s “Archival Recordings 1973-1977” on Mute
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out for a while: Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements (Reissue) [Mute]

Artist:
Throbbing Gristle

Title:
The Third Mind Movements (Reissue)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
TGCD22 | TGLP22

Release Date:
23rd August 2024

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
The Man From Nowhere

02.
PreMatur

03.
Secluded

04.
Perception Is The Only Reality

05.
Not That I Am

06.
The Third Mind: First Movement

07.
The Third Mind: Second Movement

08.
The Third Mind: Third Movement

Press Info:
Throbbing Gristle unveils a brand new reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on CD and vinyl via Mute.

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka Chris Carter, Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (1955-2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture, and the arts has been immeasurable and still felt today.

Having reformed in 2004, Throbbing Gristle’s The Third Mind Movements initially emerged as an exclusive release only available on the band’s last ever American tour in 2009, before they split again in 2010. The tour, which saw them perform in the US for the first time in 28 years, included their first shows in NY and an appearance at Coachella festival. The Third Mind Movements album, recorded during the Desertshore sessions at the ICA, London several years earlier – a series of six live recordings from the ICA attended by an attentive audience – journeys through manipulated, time-stretched and distorted samples, with rhythmical breakbeats and hypnotic oscillations of electronics.

The Third Mind Movements is released alongside TGCD1 – both vital additions for dedicated Throbbing Gristle and industrial music fans.

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“The Third Mind: First Movement”

“Not That I Am”

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out now: Throbbing Gristle – TG Berlin [Mute]

Artist:
Throbbing Gristle

Title:
TG Berlin

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
TGCD21

Release Date:
06th December 2024

Format:
Box Set (4xCD, 10 inch, Bluray, Photo Book)

Tracklist:
CD1-01.
Trumpet Herald
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-02.
Convincing People
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-03.
Splitting Sky
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-04.
Slug Bait
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-05.
Rabbit Snare
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-06.
Almost A Kiss
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-07.
Greasy Poo
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-08.
Endless Not
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-09.
Vow Of Silence
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-10.
Pa Destroyer
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD1-11.
Hamburger Lady
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

CD2-01.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Day, 2006)

CD3-01.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
(Rehearsal At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Day 2006)

CD4-01.
TG Berlin

CD4-01.
Scabs & Saws

CD4-01.
Wotwududo

Vinyl-A.
A Scabs & Saws

Vinyl-B.
Wotwududo

BLUERAY-01.
Trumpet Herald
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Convincing People
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Splitting Sky
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Slug Bait
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Rabbit Snare
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Almost A Kiss
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Greasy Poo
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
The Endless Not
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Vow Of Silence
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
PA Destroyer
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

BLUERAY-01.
Hamburger Lady
(Live At The Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005)

Press Info:
Throbbing Gristle and Mute’s partnership continues with the release of TG BERLIN, a lavish box set chronicling their previously unreleased work in Berlin around a very special series of live events at the Volksbühne in 2005/2006, set for release on 6 December 2024. The event, curated by Throbbing Gristle, saw the band perform a live set on New Year’s Eve and an improvised live soundtrack to a new 16mm print of Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow of the Sun (1981) on New Year’s Day, and, while the band were in Berlin, they recorded two final songs alongside a 48-minute piece of new music.

The box set – which comprises of 4 CDs, a Blu Ray, a 10″ vinyl and a booklet featuring unseen photographs from the time by Paul Heartfield as well as new sleeve notes by the award winning Scottish visual artist Lucy McKenzie – collates both of these performances, alongside the TG Berlin Studio Session, which comprises of the final Throbbing Gristle single (two unreleased tracks, ‘Scabs & Saws’ and ‘Wotwududo’, and an unreleased 48-minute piece titled ‘TG Berlin Studio Session 2005 – 2006′, recorded at Planet Roc studios during the time they were in the city.

TG Berlin will also include the “rehearsal” for In The Shadow of the Sun, recorded on New Year’s Day at the iconic Volksbühne (“people’s theatre”). The performance of In The Shadow of the Sun was improvised, so the two documents offer a different perspective on the soundtrack to Jarman’s work.

The New Year’s Eve show previewed five songs from the band’s first album in 27 years, Part Two: The Endless Not, several years before its release, on a set list that included ‘Convincing People’, ‘Slug Bait’, and ‘Hamburger Lady’ (their first encore in 25/26 years, and what an encore!) – tracks that had lost none of their potency in the intervening years – plus the released track, ‘Splitting Sky’ and more. The performance is also included as a Blu-ray.

This new box set, the latest release in an ongoing collaboration with Mute, is a compelling document of Throbbing Gristle performing and recording as a four-piece with a renewed vigour. From the opening beats and serrated electronics of one of their final tracks recorded together, ‘Scabs and Saws’, it’s clear that TG are not revisiting ground already tread, but bringing two decades of individual experience back into the studio to create a new exploration of sound. The vocals have a different depth, the groove is deeper, and the atmosphere has lost none of its potency.

Throbbing Gristle formed in 1975, and for the next six years they fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. During that time, they released crucial records such as The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1977), D.O.A The Third And Final Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1978), and 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) and were infamously named “wreckers of civilisation” by the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976.

From 2004, they embarked on a series of live performances that included the Coachella and Primavera festivals, Tate Modern, and Heaven, and returned to the studio to produce several albums, including TG Now (2004), and Part Two: The Endless Not (2007), as well as a 3-day “studio installation” at the ICA before disbanding in 2010. Their impact on music, culture and the arts has been immeasurable, and still felt today across music, film, theatre, and fine art.

Snippets:
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“Scabs & Saws”

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out now: Throbbing Gristle – Mutant TG (Re-Issue) [NovaMute]

Artist:
Throbbing Gristle

Title:
Mutant TG (Re-Issue)

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU122

Release Date:
March 2004 (original release date)
08th December 2023 (re-issue)

Format:
CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Persuasion
(Motor Remix)

02.
Hot On The Heels Of Love
(Carl Craig Re-Version)

03.
What A Day
(Hedonastik Remix)

04.
United
(Two Lone Swordsmen Remix – Vocal Version)

05.
Hamburger Lady
(Carter Tutti Remix)

06.
Hot On The Heels Of Love
(Ratcliffe Remix)

07.
Still Walking
(Carl Craig Re-Version)

08.
HotHeelsUnited
(Carter Tutti Remix)

Press Info:
Mutant TG, Throbbing Gristle’s first ever collection of remixes available again on CD via NovaMute/Mute.

In many respects Throbbing Gristle as artists, self-promoters, marketeers, label owners and music makers broke the mould on every level and decentralised the whole music making process into their own hands. It therefore came as no surprise when some of the most notable figures in electronic dance music jumped at the chance to re-work some classic TG catalogue. The record was originally released on Mute’s sub-label NovaMute in 2004, and saw reworks from DJ and producer Carl Craig, electronic duo Two Lone Swordsmen (Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood), Basement Jaxx’s Simon Ratcliffe, electronic post-industrial duo Motor (Mr Nô and Bryan Black), as well as TG’s very own Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Formed in 1975 from the ashes of performance art troupe/media guerrilla cell Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle consisted of Genesis P-Orridge (1950 – 2020), Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Peter Christopherson (1955 – 2010). During their most active period of 1975 – 1981, TG fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control, releasing seminal records such as The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1977), D.O.A The Third And Final Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1978), 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) and more. After years of pursuing different projects, the band reformed in 2004, performing several concerts and releasing projects such as TG Now (2004), Mutant TG and Part Two: The Endless Not (2007) before disbanding for good in 2010.

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