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Adam Miller: Most people would pick 20 Jazz Funk Greats but ‘Subhuman’ and ‘Adrenaline’ are some of the most important songs to us. Those are so glaringly missing from that album. I came to TG late, I arrived via Psychic TV in around 1994. It got into it through the raves I was going to at the time. I think I even heard Chris & Cosey before TG.
Nicola Kuperus: I came very late.
AM: I had a friend in college that brought home a Psychic TV video that was just a close up of a rectum. It was being poked with a needle and it was one of those things where you’re just like, ‘what in the world am I watching?’ Going back to themes of being alien or transgressive, this was both.
What did TG sound like going backwards when you already had the context of Psychic TV and Chris & Cosey?
AM: Much more transgressive.
NK: I had no idea about them until my early twenties and I met Adam. I never thought that electronic music could be so punk. I was so against electronic music at that point in my life, I pretty much abandoned anything with a synthesiser. But there was this switch happening, where all this music I had loved as a teenager was becoming really popular and jock-oriented. There was a part of me that was searching for something else. When I was introduced to TG it was like, ‘holy fuck, this is beyond anything.’ You can take a song like ‘Adrenaline’ and it’s so electronic but it’s so raw and dark. You have tracks like ‘Hamburger Lady’ and ‘AB/7A’ from the same artist. How is that even possible?
