Charge - Charge FLAC download

this vinyl edition was issued in 500 copies mastered direct from the original lp because the band were untraceable, see entry on the band for full info, this reissue lp opens with a short piece of pounding looped music that is not on the original edition, its there for a specific reason though it is undoubtedly a crime against the musicians. heres the explanation- the owner of k.spell, then about 18 or 19, simply taped direct from the original lp onto a 15 ips reel using a revox a77 linked to a battered lenco/leak/stentorian system...whilst doing this he began to experiment with the 2 tracks and played bits of the lp backwards, speeding it up and slowing it using the lenco direct drive speed controls and manually in a proto-scratching excercise (albeit with a unque 7k gbp lp). shortly afterwards came a call from an nme reviewer asking for free samples of the k.spell catalogue. the reviewer was pretty famous but k.spell doubted his understanding of the finer points of prog, a plan evolved, the looped piece of amateur remixing was plastered onto the start of the lp, it was issued, and sent promptly to the nme, arguably britains most respected music paper. lo, the reviewer duly gave charge a glowing write up and raved about it, especially the "astonishing proto metal" opening section, eg the faked amateur nonsense by k.spell! the reviewer called k.spell after the review was printed and the k.spell owner told him directly that he had raved about a piece of music that he himself mixed as a first ever effort in 10 mins on his lenco....and that he didnt know f*ck all about music which was why he was a critic. apparantly dead silence ensued, the phone was put down, and k spell never received another nme review. but the point was proved. this section of music only appeared on the 1st vinyl reissue, at the expense of the bands music, just to prove a point, that critics are fuckwits. hence possibly justified sacrilege.