I posted the Tip Of The Iceberg demo from DEVIATED INSTINCT a few months back, and Slaughter Of Innocents gave us their early 4 track recordings back in December, so here is the 1985 demo that (perhaps) came between those two recordings. Many of the same songs from the more primitive early demo (and several also appear on Tip Of The Iceberg as well), but slightly more polished recordings, though these tracks are still raw as hell and brilliant pissed political UK punk. I love the short blasts of "Eat The Rich" contrasted with vocal only bits like "War" and the longer plodding songs that I almost called proto-crust, but then I stopped myself because that is a ridiculously pretentious descriptor...even though it's pretty appropriate. DEVIATED INSTINCT material has been floating around for ages, from the tape traders in the 80s to the countless uploads in internetland, but I haven't yet come across this recording (I know it's out there...it's all out there) and, more importantly, they were way ahead of their time and the shit just rules. The dudes are still kicking around in DI and other bands, check them out here.
there is about one minute of disconcerting noise at the end of the demo...no clue what it is, but it was on my copy so just in case the band included it on purpose, I included it here...
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Holy mother of fuck!!!!!
I don't even have this. Well I do, but the copy I have on tape sounds like it's about 384372982th generation and is more tape hiss than music. I'm pretty amazed (and happy) at the quality of this.
This wan't an actual demo as such. We used to practice in this place called the community workshop, it was just around the corner from the squat most of us lived in and we'd have to push all our gear there in supermarket shopping carts. Anyway a friend of ours who had some basic audio gear came to practice, miked everything up and just recorded it live through a simple 8 channel mixer (or so I remember) onto casette. We just dubbed it for friends and didn't really make any effort to get it around or anything. We were still very much finding our feet and it certainly has a fun and chaotic feel and I love how we keep going out of time with each other at random moments. Gotta love Trevs utterly eratic drum 'rolls' (or should that be clatters?) as well.
Cheers for posting this it sure brought back a whole heap of good memories.
I can't quite believe this was almost 25 years ago though, that's just stupid ;)
Oh, and just to add. That 'noise' at the end. I've never heard that before. However, Ian, the bassist on this, had an old synthezizer. It appeared on the Tip of The Iceberg demo on his track 'pleasure worth force', we all hated that song and just let him do it to keep the peace cos we'd all done our own separate things on that demo. Anyway he lived with the guy who recorded this so I'm guessing he probably sent out most of the copies and just stuck that annoying noise on the end for no other reason than that is the sort of thing he would do.
Cheers for the background Mid!! and, for what it's worth, i quite like the synth on "Pleasure Worth Force," though it's good to know it was a source of contention. perhaps the noise at the end of the tapes Ian was doling out was his passive way of getting one over on the rest of you...
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