This is one of those posts that won’t get so many hits but I’m likely to get “I’ve been looking for this for ages” messages which I always enjoy.
As gloomy minimalist synth tunes go these take some beating. I guess if a band calls itself Genocide you shouldn’t expect a barrel of laughs. That’s not to say I don’t like them. Images Of Delusion in particular I find very compelling. These are from a four track EP which is over 18 minutes long. My original intention was to post all four tracks but after ripping side one I couldn’t face the rest. If there’s demand for it maybe I’ll rip side two someday. I would love to give you more info about Genocide but several Google sessions have revealed nothing. All I have is the band line-up as listed on the sleeve:
Greg Jung Synthesizers, Vocals, Treatments
Teoman Irmak Electronic Percussion, Treatments
Mark Schiller Electronic Percussion, Treatments
mp3: Genocide - Images Of Delusion (1979)
mp3: Genocide - Pre Set Future (1979)
As gloomy minimalist synth tunes go these take some beating. I guess if a band calls itself Genocide you shouldn’t expect a barrel of laughs. That’s not to say I don’t like them. Images Of Delusion in particular I find very compelling. These are from a four track EP which is over 18 minutes long. My original intention was to post all four tracks but after ripping side one I couldn’t face the rest. If there’s demand for it maybe I’ll rip side two someday. I would love to give you more info about Genocide but several Google sessions have revealed nothing. All I have is the band line-up as listed on the sleeve:
Greg Jung Synthesizers, Vocals, Treatments
Teoman Irmak Electronic Percussion, Treatments
Mark Schiller Electronic Percussion, Treatments
mp3: Genocide - Images Of Delusion (1979)
mp3: Genocide - Pre Set Future (1979)
There’s no date on the record but according to my increasingly unreliable memory this EP was released in 1979. I can’t help wondering what kind of teenager buys this sort of thing? Whatever you might think I can assure you I was perfectly happy at the time.
13 comments:
Cripes, this lot are scary. Do you think this is the same Teoman Irmak?
It has to be, doesn't it? How many Teoman Irmaks can ther be? And if you read the biography he's a computer geek. I reckon he's the one on the left on the back cover.
I assumed it was a made up name...
Looked like it to me. Tee hee.
It's definitely of it's era, a museum piece even. Davy got it about right with 'scary'. You'll have noticed I've got a soft spot for this stuff...
Please please please do post the other two tracks! Track one is well-known among minimal synth lovers, but not the other three. I am sure you will make many people happy! Especially me : )
I can't resist a request. Expect side 2 (quite) soon.
I second the request for the rest of the tracks. It would be amazing to have them.
thank you!!!
When I saw the cover had to wonder if their name was a deliberate subversion of the name Genesis. And the lettering looked familiar so I did a little research. Compare the lettering of Genocide to the album cover for "And Then There Were Three..." which came out in 1978:
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=431355
Doesn't necessarily mean the name was chosen for that reason, perhaps it was a joke they came up with for the EP sleeve, but it is suggestive.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
It does look too similar to the Genesis logo to be a coincidence, doesn't it.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtD9C7XURQ
I bought this 7" in a plain sleeve in 1991, and it fucking haunted me always
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