26 September 2021
23 SKIDOO / The Culling Is Coming / TWI 123 
23 Skidoo

First released by Les Disques du Crépuscule and Operation Twilight in February 1983, The Culling is Coming flagged two radical new directions for Skidoo following funky indie chart-topper Seven Songs the previous year.

Drawn from two extraordinary live performances, Culling combined a Balinese Gamelan inspired session recorded at Dartington College of Music in October 1982, together with extracts from a more extreme, improvised set at the first WOMAD festival in July 1982, using scrap metal and tape loops. Both sides of the album were exactly 23 minutes long, side one signing off with a stylus-hostile locked groove.

Digitally remastered, The Culling is Coming has been expanded to include a complete (and equally extreme) 26 minute loop performance at Tielt, Belgium, on 8 October 1982. Recorded as part of Crépuscule's short Move Back/Bite Harder tour with Cabaret Voltaire, Tuxedomoon, Antena and The Pale Fountains. The extended set runs for 76 minutes. The CD booklet features the original artwork along with contextual notes by Skidoo's Alex Turnbull.

Available on CD and digital (MP3). The CD replaces BOUCD 6604, which is now out of print.

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