#Martin Atkins

[internetburial]

Rx (Nivek Ogre + Martin Atkins)

[possible-streetwear]

[postpunkindustrial]

Ministry - In case you didn’t feel like showing up (Live) VHS

The record is good and all but the full live video is the best.

Here it is ripped from a laser disc so the quality is as good as you are gonna find anywhere. 

You it from my Google Drive HERE

[ourladyofomega]

📸 source: Industrial, EBM & Noise

[rivitid]

China Dub Soundsystem — Made in China (2007)

Was recently turned on to this album by a thread asking about industrial around the world. It particularly caught my eye because it was produced by Martin Atkins, and so far I've enjoyed pretty much everything of his that I've heard. Also released not long before his version of Snapline — Pornostar (2008).

This knocked my fuckin socks off! It's energetic, refreshingly unique, and just plain FUN! It's essentially a Pigface album with a whole new cast of players from Beijing instead of the American/European industrial artists we already know and love. A basic description of Made in China is that it's a collection of Atkins' collaborations with various artists from the Chinese, more specifically Beijing, underground rock/experimental scene.

"He describes it as a borderless community of like-minded but not similar-sounding musicians, all of them amped about the social and aesthetic power of rock and unhampered by the orthodoxies that keep self-conscious Westerners stuck in their genre pigeonholes."

– CR again

This comment from Atkins stood out to me, because more than anything else this album screams ENTHUSIASM. You can feel the passion of all the collaborators on every song, as well as Atkins' clear admiration of them. He doesn't overshadow them, but seeks to emphasize everyone's styles with his own unmistakable touch. I think this comment from Popmatters, while about just one song on the album, is a fantastic summary of it as a whole:

"In “Mostly Hulusi” they take it in turns: first the Chinese instruments, then a burst of American-sounding drum kit, then back to the Chinese again, then both together, with no sense that the two nationalities are shoving one another around or interrupting when they’re not wanted."

– Popmatters, 2007

If, like me, this album leaves you with a hunger to learn more about China's rock scene, then I've got great news for you! Atkins also released a fantastic compilation album called Look Directly Into The Sun: China Pop 2007. It's a great touchstone for finding and further exploring some very talented artists.

There is one drawback though: both of these albums are exclusively drawing from Beijing's rock scene. China is extremely massive, so I suspect it's probably not accurate to view these as a complete representation of the music from this time.

I still recommend them highly, for both a great time and a jumping off point for learning more about how this slice of China interprets and puts its own twists on the kind of music I adore!

[guerrilla-operator]

PIGFACE

[mrbopst]

PiL USA Tour

Great Gildersleeves, NYC

April 22, 1980

John Lydon

Keith Levene: Guitar

Jah Wobble: Bass

Martin Atkins: Drums

Another Great Gildersleeves club shot with John Lydon kneeling in what would later be an ankle deep barrage of oddities onstage. As promised, the purple fan. And as usual I was crashing the band party onstage, shooting right behind him. No one ever tossed me off which I found odd. Still, I don't remember much other than thinking I had at least 4 good shots to review. Usually 4 good shots out of 2 rolls of 36 is a pretty good night. It had been a long week shooting the Palladium shows and just trying to just keep up with him onstage is a circus act. I never went out after any of the shows. Exhausted. Always went straight to sleep with earplugs thanks to The Ritz parking lot behind my building. 6 hours later at the crack of dawn I'de drop off color film for processing so I could send to the magazines before 3pm. So much for the glamorous life of a 20 year old. But I remember every crack in the sidewalk back then, walking (?) from 12th street to 44th. No idea why I didn't take a bus. I don't miss New York, haven't been back in years, but I would assume the midtown photo district is more or less unchanged. Haggling, buying blocks of film and preparing for the coming week. Crash course. Nothing like it.

Kathleen Hiraga

[flowersofnaivete]

[spilladabalia]

Public Image Ltd - Under The House

[mychameleondays]

Public Image Limited: Live In Tokyo

2 x 12″, 45 rpm

Virgin 302 237-406

Released: September 26, 1983

[possible-streetwear]

[that-butch-archivist]

"Marcia and Sarah"

source: Girls' Night Out, photographed by Chloe Atkins

[ourladyofomega]

Produced and / or recorded by Steve Albini.

[mrbopst]

Keith Levene and Marin Martin Adkins

[xothemedia]

Deliver Us From Eva (2003)