Portion Control - 1983-86: Hit The Pulse To Purge (Selected)

Portion Control started building electronic dissonance out of South London in 1980, working with cheap sequencers and no interest in melody, and by 1983 they had arrived at something genuinely brutal. They were never a commercial concern, which is part of the point. What they were was a foundational document for UK industrial electronics, and their fingerprints turn up on Skinny Puppy, on Nine Inch Nails, and on most of what came after in the EBM lineage.

This LP pulls ten tracks from their sharpest three-year run. "Chew You To Bits," "Under The Skin" and "Abbo Dabbo" come from the Hit The Pulse era, all clipped rhythm and processed shouting. "The Great Divide" stretches to nearly seven minutes of grinding 12" sequencing, the kind of track that works on a club system precisely because it refuses to give you a chorus. "Havoc Man" and "Raise The Pulse" catch the moment where their minimalism stopped being austere and turned violent. Everything here has been newly remastered, and it makes an audible difference on material that spent decades circulating in rough form.

Artoffact signed the band in late 2025, and this is the first of the reissues. A companion 4CD set gathers the full archive across 74 tracks including the complete albums, singles, B sides, demos and live recordings, but this is the distillation: the ten tracks that make the case fastest.

Limited edition red vinyl with a two-sided 12" inlay, housed in a printed sleeve. Essential for anyone tracing industrial back to where it actually starts.