Name: Direct Action
Brand: Alternative Tv

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Catalogue number

FDLP146

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-10

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0859772356798

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Black LP

Artist

Alternative Tv

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

Label GB

Fourth Dimension

Fourth Dimension is a music label founded by Gary Levermore of Third Mind Records in 1983. However, it was later taken over by Richard Johnson (aka Richo) from Grim Humour fanzine after the first release. This label is dedicated to showcasing various genres of underground music, ranging from noise-rock and post-punk to Japanese noise, improv, abstract electronics, and so-called 'outsider' music. With its DIY sensibility, Fourth Dimension continues to thrive alongside Richo's other labels - Lumberton Trading Company and Winter Hill Recordings. In addition to his occasional Adverse Effect journal and his groups Splintered and Theme, Fourth Dimension has also ventured into publishing books.

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Since their formation in 1977 Mark Perry’s group Alternative TV have moved far away from their more direct punk rock beginnings into all manner of other areas of music that have sometimes themselves drawn from improvisation, free jazz, industrial and electronic music. On Direct Action, Alternative TV’s first studio album since Opposing Forces in 2015, we are presented with six instrumental tracks which steadily rip apart all expectations as they shed all allusions to rock music in favour of the kinda sonic mutilations that once helped 1979’s classic (and Nurse With Wound list endorsed). Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) stumble into weird and wonderful shapes. Direct Action marries guttural electronics to sounds most artists would consign to the bin and through Perry’s long perfected mastery of pulling together disparate strands to create something entirely alchemical and invigorating delivers a unique stamp to the ATV story. With the help of longtime collaborator Dave Morgan alongside the input of Gareth Matthews, Ruth Tidmarsh and Cos Chapman, abstract patterns of dishevelled sound rub alongside occasional percussion, disembodied plasma guitar strums and even what seems like an oboe groaning in a murky corner. Similar to its distant cousin of Vibing…, everything adds up to a whole that’s demanding yet completely rewarding as every listen prises open the dark scab of contemporary malaise to reveal something fresh. The front cover’s homage to an incredible album by a pioneering electronic group we are not going to name should in itself point to the unpredictable nature of the music here. If you are savvy enough to get that reference, then you’re on the right path to understanding where Direct Action resides. Easy listening this ain’t.

Direct Action

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