Portion Control have been making pure electronic dissonance out of South London since 1980 — pioneers of UK industrial electronics, and a direct line to Skinny Puppy, Front 242 and Nine Inch Nails. This 4CD box is the definitive account of their 1983-86 peak.
Disc one covers Hit The Pulse, the Illuminated singles and Step Forward; disc two runs from The Great Divide through Psycho-Bod Saves The World and Purge, plus rebuilds including a Rhys Fulber take on "Refugee"; disc three collects B-sides and demos, including an Arthur Baker demo mix of "Conscience"; disc four is previously unreleased live material from 1984-85.
Ninety-plus tracks, newly remastered. A companion red vinyl LP collects the highlights.
4CD set on Artoffact Records (AOF490CD).
CD1: Hit The Pulse, The Illuminated Singles And Step Forward
1-1 Chew You To Bits (Version)
1-2 Discord
1-3 Crash Weight Gain
1-4 Eat Your Heart
1-5 Thrust Angle
1-6 Death By Venom (Ricochet Mix)
1-7 Abbo Dabbo
1-8 Raise The Pulse (12" Version)
1-9 Rough Justice (12" Version)
1-10 Go-Talk (12" Version)
1-11 Refugee
1-12 Under The Skin
1-13 Mutie
1-14 Tex-Mex
1-15 Tongue Beat
1-16 Micro Box
1-17 Micro Box 2
1-18 Real Estate Cult
1-19 Tin
1-20 Havoc Man
1-21 319
1-22 Scramble
1-23 Son Of Go Talk
CD2: The Great Divide, Psycho-Bod Saves The World, Purge
2-1 The Great Divide ('85 Extended Version)
2-2 Brain Scraper Death Dive
2-3 Siren City
2-4 Breaker Breaker
2-5 Danger Zone
2-6 Screen Of Death
2-7 Coming For You Baby
2-8 Fistful Of Creds
2-9 Trashville Baby
2-10 Cut And Thrust
2-11 H.O.T. Matter
2-12 Soap Distant
2-13 Raise The Pulse (Purge Version)
2-14 Go-Talk (Purge Version)
2-15 The Great Divide (Purge Version)
2-16 Karateka
2-17 Brain Scraper Death Dive (Rebuild)
2-18 Refugee (Rhys Fulber Rebuild)
2-19 Chew You To Bits (Rebuild)
2-20 Chew You To Bits (Instrumental 2.6)
CD3: B-Sides And Demos 1983-86
3-1 Collapse
3-2 Bite My Head
3-3 Justice
3-4 The Man Who Did Backward Somersaults
3-5 Upside Down
3-6 Drag Down
3-7 Divided
3-8 Bolt It Down
3-9 The Great Divide (Instrumental)
3-10 Total Recall
3-11 24
3-12 IDL Dragdown
3-13 Displaced Hybrid Refugee
3-14 Scramble (Instrumental Demo)
3-15 Cut And Thrust (Demo)
3-16 H.O.T. Matter (Demo Version 1)
3-17 H.O.T. Matter (Demo Version 2)
3-18 Taste Of Love (Demo)
3-19 Conscience (Arthur Baker Demo Mix)
CD4: Live 1984-85
4-1 Intro
4-2 Eat Your Heart
4-3 Abbo Dabbo
4-4 Crash Weight Gain
4-5 Betrayal
4-6 Box
4-7 Go-Talk
4-8 Raise The Pulse
4-9 Tex-Mex
4-10 Real Estate Cult
4-11 Drag Down
4-12 Karateka
4-13 Havoc Man
4-14 Bolt It Down
4-15 H.O.T. Matter
