Author: sub~URBANE
Title: The Mechanical Propaganda Device
Category: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore, Noise
Year: 1997
Notes: Sometime during the mid 90s two brothers made themselves known to the Bloody Fist collective, Samuel and Daniel. Both from a heavy academic background, they started experimenting in their spare time with an old PC running some primitive tracking software. Dan also started practising cuts and became quite adept on the ol' line switch! They were the first Bloody Fist guys to bring two entire old school desktop PCs (with fishbowl monitors) to perform semi-regularly at the infamous Hunter On Hunter gigs in Newcastle (everyone else at the time was using Amigas to perform). A third guy (Andrew Bramble) was enlisted specifically to stand behind the Russell brothers and roll cigarettes during their 'live performances'. Their music wasn't always as 'gritty' as the other BF acts, and their sample sources were not typical of the rest of the roster at the time - instead concentrating on a harsher 'digital' sound. During 1997 a gap came up in the BF catalogue which needed filling quickly. The Russell brothers had come up with enough half-baked ideas between them to scrape up a 12". This was a bit of a risk as it was not like other BF releases before it. This was also the first ever BF 12" to contain no traces of Amiga whatsoever. Upon its 12" release late in 1997, the first pressing of 500 dribbled out and only 100 were repressed soon after. It was never repressed and remains a curiosity in the catalogue, having successfully polarised the BF fans at the time and also the rest of the BF roster. Result! Rating: 4.9
Format: AU MP3 VOC ASF WAV WMA FLAC FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1297 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1471 mb

Tracklist

Discharge	8:03
Mortar Attack	6:05
POLIS	3:58
Piledriver	4:37
Barbara	4:53
Noise	0:53

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
FIST13	sub~URBANE*	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(12")	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	1997
FIST13	Sub-Urbane	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(7xFile, AAC)	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	Unknown
FIST13	Sub-Urbane	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(7xFile, ALAC)	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	Unknown
FIST13	Sub-Urbane	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(7xFile, FLAC)	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	Unknown
FIST13	Sub-Urbane	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(7xFile, MP3)	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	Unknown
FIST13	Sub-Urbane	The Mechanical Propaganda Device ‎(7xFile, ogg)	Bloody Fist Records	FIST13	Australia	Unknown

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