Essential Logic - Music Is a Better Noise

strange bedfellows:

William Bennet of Whitehouse's first band was Essential logic
"Lora Logic (born Susan Whitby c. 1960) is a British saxophonist and singer. She was briefly a member of the band X Ray Spex, although she had been sacked from that group by the time they recorded their first album, which nevertheless used her (uncredited) saxophone arrangements. A year later she formed Essential Logic. This group recorded one self-titled EP, four singles and an album, Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?). Logic was briefly also a member of the Red Krayola, appearing on two singles and the album Kangaroo?. Her saxophone lent a unique quality to the bands she was in.[1] She also played on recordings by The Raincoats, The Stranglers and the Swell Maps and, later, Boy George. During the recording of the second Essential Logic album the group broke up, and she finished the recording as a solo Lora Logic album, Pedigree Charm.
Along with X Ray Spex bandmate Poly Styrene she left the music industry in the 1980s to join the Hare Krishna religion. She spent some time in a mansion donated to the Hare Krishnas by George Harrison. In 1995 she rejoined X Ray Spex when Styrene reformed the group. In 2003, the Kill Rock Stars label reissued most of the early Essential Logic material, alongside new recordings by Logic under the same name as Fanfare in the Garden."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lora_Logic
"Operating under the presumption that form is a patriarchal language, the majority of artists included in WACK! are decidedly anti-formal. An an-aesthetic (a Duchampian term that means “without taste” rather than tasteless) as well as egalitarian selection process allowed for the inclusion of the otherwise disgusting projects of Valerie Solanas, known for her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol, and Cosey Fanni Tutti [of Throbbing Gristle], a British artist and musician who collects, performs and displays hardcore male-oriented pornography to counter “popular portrayals of women’s sexuality in service to men.” In a more evocative and meaningful manner (and for this viewer, more artistic), Rosler’s thirty-one collages of print advertisements in the Body Beautiful series call attention to the media’s commercial appropriation of women’s bodies."
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"TG, the linchpin of the post-punk "industrial" turn, dressed in camouflage gear decorated with an SS-looking lightning bolt patch, and issued songs like "Zyklon B Zombie" and "Salon Kitty" (named after an SS-run brothel in Berlin). The cover for the TG song "Discipline" on Fetish Records showed the group outside the former Nazi Ministry of Propaganda building in Berlin. TG called their Hackney-based recording studio the Death Factory, and its Industrial Records logo was an unidentified picture of Auschwitz. Many punks despised TG as misogynist "death art" fascists. At a 6 July 1978 con-cert at the London Film Co-op (where Boyd Rice also appeared), a fight even broke out between TG and members of the Rock Against Racism-allied bands the Slits and the Raincoats."
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