Diabolica (30th Anniversary Edition), by radio massacre international

Diabolica (30th Anniversary Edition)

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Daniel Fishman I really love the tone and atmosphere of these early rmi albums. Diabolica was a real favourite, with some superb sequencing, but my CD-R is long dead, so I'm very happy to hear its 30th anniversary, full-length version! Favorite track: Haze II.

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	1.	Diabolica 41:24
	2.	Blaze Dispersion 26:44
	3.	Upstairs Downstairs 07:03
	4.	Drown (Frozen North CD Edit) 21:42
	5.	Haze II 23:49
	6.	Upstairs Downstairs (Uncut) 17:37
	7.	Drown (uncut) 01:05:53

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Here we present on the 30th anniversary of the session, an expanded version of the `Diabolica' album as originally heard as the second release in our Northern Echo CDR series.

So, the largest room in Duncan's HQ having become vacant due to our friend Jim Love moving on to tour the world with Tricky and settling in Australia through a bizarre set of circumstances, and where he still is 30 years on...we now had the space to record as a trio. A few sessions from October 93 onwards began the whole process of getting together and recording again as a duo, and when we hit Teesside at Xmas and sat round a pub table with Gary again, beer fuelled promises were made to get the trio of old up and working again. It's somewhat impressive in retrospect that plans made over many pints came to fruition as soon as Feb 19th 1994.

Gary travelled down from Manchester to London and we got to work recording the two hours of material you now hear in full. `Drown' is heard as a complete take for the first time. In those days we had too much of an eye on using 20 minutes of this and 25 minutes of that to try and fit CD releases, so a drastically reduced 20 minute edit ended up on our first album `Frozen North'.

Revisiting this 30 years on, it's a delight to hear the music developing in real time on the first piece we recorded `Drown', and how Gary so easily integrates into the set up. Of course he would. We were just waiting for him to take his seat (an old stool reclaimed from the Ship Inn in Marske, our old local)

Thus RMI as we know it was born.

We had a cup of tea, and went for another piece. The `Diabolica' note came up in a conversation about scales between Duncan and Gary (they understand these things) it was the one note in the scale which made it the devil's music in the eyes of Christianity. "We'll have some of that" we thought.

Keen listeners wondering why there is no uncut version of the piece included in this expanded reissue can be reassured that the performance was originally published in its complete form.

`Upstairs Downstairs' was retrospectively titled as a direct reference to carrying the mellotron up and down stairs in the absence of lifts/elevators once we started gigging.

`Blaze Dispersion' coincided with sessions Duncan and Steve were working on at the same time with Steve's old Honey Smugglers band mate and singer Chris Spence. We'd added mellotron and drums to a tune called `Flamethrower', and this was our electronic counterpart. In a parallel universe `Flamethrower was a massive hit, and this was the B-side. A 26 minute B-side. But why not. Mercury Rev were doing that shit by now. Sadly, despite a weekend's overdubbing and mixing at none other than Hans Zimmer's Lillie Yard studio in London, a major record deal could not be found, and it failed to trouble the hit parade.

`Haze II' is a previously unreleased duo piece recorded on a Saturday night before we went out to party in Finsbury Park, and features the immense sequencing power of the Pro-One which is never to be underestimated...

The Uncut versions of `Drown' and `Upstairs Downstairs' are also exclusive to this set.

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released February 19, 2024

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radio massacre international (duncan goddard, steve dinsdale, gary houghton) are one of the UK's leading electronic music groups, known for their prolifery of epic electronic excursions.

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