12. CoilScatology
A friend of mine collected all of the Coil records, and gave me a tape of this one. I later on got to buy all of Coil’s CDs.
What Coil did was very important for bands like Nine Inch Nails, or more rock-oriented industrial stuff that became a bit more mainstream, even. I always found Coil fascinating, they always managed to invent something new. I guess this record still sounds very ‘80s, but when you listen to their later recordings, they have a wonderful approach.
I’m a big fan of Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey and so on – I didn’t want to leave out that kind of influence in this selection. We collected a lot of records that are probably unknown today, that aren’t available anymore. That was a really interesting period of time, I think, if you think about musical diversity, in terms of style and approach. If you think of Mute, they had a fantastic catalog of artists, from pop stuff like Depeche to more extreme ends of the musical spectrum.
