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Nocturnal Emissions

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Origin
  
London, England

Associated acts
  
Caroline K, C.C.C.C.

Years active
  
1980–present

Website
  
Earthly Delights

Genres
  
Industrial, Dark ambient, post-industrial, Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Dub

Labels
  
Sterile Records, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Earthly Delights, Klang Galerie, Dark Vinyl, Iluminated Records, Vinyl On Demand

Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. The sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilising video art, film, hypertext and other documents.

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History

The project was initiated in Derbyshire in the late 1970s by Nigel Ayers (b. 1957), a former art student who, in the period, lived in London. Together with collaborators Danny Ayers (b. 1964) and Caroline K (1957–2008).

Since 1984 Nocturnal Emissions has continued mainly as Nigel Ayers' solo project.

Nocturnal Emissions ran their own record label, Sterile Records.

In 1990–92 Nocturnal Emissions collaborated on Butoh dance performances in Europe & the USA, with the Japanese choreographer Poppo Shiraishi. Around this time Nocturnal Emissions' Situationist-influenced practice became increasingly informed by magick, stone circles, techno–shamanism, neo-paganism, animism and Fortean research. There were many collaborations on animated films by Mancunian TV director Charlotte Bill. Bill was never an official member of Nocturnal Emissions, but admits to being one of the legion of members of The Fall (band) .

Nocturnal Emissions were later to be associated with the Kernow section of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts

and to feature in a best-selling story by the novelist Stewart Home.

Partial discography

  • Tissue of Lies LP (Emiss, 1981)
  • Tissue of Lies Revised CD (Dark Vinyl, 1990)
  • Fruiting Body LP(Sterile, 1981)
  • Drowning in a Sea of Bliss LP (Sterile, 1983; cassette reissued by Touch, 1985; CD reissued by Soleilmoon, 1993)
  • Viral Shedding LP (Illuminated, 1983)
  • Befehlsnotstand LP (Sterile, 1983)
  • Chaos (Live at the Ritzy) LP (Cause For Concern, 1983)
  • The Fight Goes On cassette (Staalplaat, 1984)
  • No Sacrifice 12" (Sterile, 1984)
  • Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages LP (Sterile, 1985)
  • Songs of Love and Revolution LP (Sterile, 1985; CD re-issue from Dark Vinyl, 1992)
  • The World is my Womb LP (Earthly Delights, 1987; Soleilmoon cassette, 1989; Soleilmoon CD, 1999)
  • Duty Experiment 1982–1984 LP (Earthly Delights, 1988; CD reissue Soleilmoon, 1995)
  • Spiritflesh LP (Earthly Delights, 1988; Soleilmoon cassette, 1989)
  • Stoneface LP (Parade Amoureuse, 1989; CD reissue from Staalplaat, 1994 with Spiritflesh)
  • Da Dum 7" (Parade Amoureuse, 1989)
  • Invocation of the Beast Gods CD (Staalplaat, 1989)
  • Beyond Logic, Beyond Belief LP (Earthly Delights, 1989)
  • Mouth of Babes LP (Earthly Delights, 1990; CD reissue from Soleilmoon, 1991)
  • Energy Exchange LP (Earthly Delights, 1991)
  • Cathedral CD (Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1991)
  • Blasphemous Rumours CD(Staalplaat, 1992)
  • The Seminal Works –12 tape box set (Earthly Delights, 1992)
  • Magnetized Light CD (Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1993)
  • The Quickening LP (Earthly Delights, 1993)
  • Glossalalia CD (Soleilmoon, 1994)
  • Holy of Holies – 4-hour DAT (Soleilmoon, 1994)
  • Binary Tribe CD (Staalplaat, 1994)
  • Imaginary Time LP(Soleilmoon, 1995)
  • Autonomia CD (Soleilmoon, 1996)
  • Friction And Dirt CD (Staalplaat, 1996)
  • Tharmuncrape An'goo CD (Soleilmoon, 1997)
  • Sunspot Activities CD (Soleilmoon, 1997)
  • Omphalos CD (Soleilmoon, 1998
  • Futurist Antiquarianism CD (Soleilmoon, 2000)
  • Collateral Salvage CD (Soleilmoon, 2003)
  • Nightscapes LP (Small Voices, 2006)

    • Collaborations

    The Beauty of Pollution (with C.C.C.C.) (Endorphine Factory, 1996)

    Side projects

    Oedipus Brain Foil 3xCD (with Randy Greif and Robin Storey) (Soleilmoon, 1998)

    Mesmeric Enabling Device CD (with John S. Everall and Mick Harris) (Soleilmoon, 1999)

    The World Turned Gingham CD (with Robin Story, released under the name Hank & Slim) (Caciocavallo, 2000)

    Transgenic CD (Solo album released under the name Transgenic) (Soleilmoon, 2000)

    Selected Video works

    Bleeding Images (1982)

    The Foetal Grave of Progress (1983)

    Soundtracks

    The Three Trials – Adventures in Psychotica (Randy Greif dir.) www.thethreetrials.com

    References

    Nocturnal Emissions Wikipedia
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