Mind Crash
A POKE IN THE THIRD EYE WITH A SHARP STICK

"Harry could actually taste the music in his mouth, rolling over his tongue.He swallowed it, gulped it down, and drew it into his lungs - yeah!" - from the book "Mind Crash"

Mike has been producing obscure audio output under various pseudonyms for a number of years including Urban Disturbance, The Armed Love Conspiracy and DarkLight:

Short Cuts

• DarkLight
• Urban Disturbance
• The Armed Love Conspiracy
• My 5-Star Songs
• Music Reviews

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DarkLight
(Genre: Electronic/Dance/House) - 1998 to Present Day...

Urban Disturbance
(Genre: Experimental Punk/Metal/Industrial/Electronic) - 1984 to 1993...

1986 (1984) - "Mysteriously Acquired Polish Army Uniform" - 11 tracks, 45mins:
1. Data Control   2. Security Forces  3. Good Kill Ratio  4. Cut To Funk  5. Untitled   6. Resonate  7. Moorish Gypsy  8. Excessive Force  9. Shadow Of Death  10. Resonate II  11. Resonate III 
This release was an experiment in sound texture, featuring plenty of feedback and spoken word loops. Heavily influenced by The Swans, Psychic TV, The Hafler Trio and Flipper. The title was taken from a picture caption in a music press interview with Throbbing Gristle.

1987 (1985) - "Music is Dead" - 9 tracks, 60mins:
1. The Graceful Fish  2. Crush Green Thoughts  3. The Psychic Generator  4. Music Is Dead  5. The Day My Arm Fell Off  6. The Kennedy Assassination In Feedback  7. Aftermath  8. Repetition  9. Switch Off
"A tape of samples, cut-ups, out-takes, riddims and some distressingly serious attempts at sound sensibility. On this evidence music isn’t dead at all, but merely residing, bored and temporarily, in Basildon, a living death. " - House of Dolls Magazine, 1985

1988 - "Burn Down Fear City" - 10 tracks, 45mins:
1. Fire And Steel  2. Television Is Reality  3. Initiation  4. Loop  5. Shellshock  6. Nothing At All   7. New Flesh  8. Marauding Youth  9. SinDrome  10. Rejoice
In the same vein as the previous two releases, the tracks were more structured in nature. The title was from a cut-up newspaper article regarding the Toxteth riots, sound footage of which was used in "Marauding Youth".

1988 - "Distractions Vol. II" - 7 tracks, 45mins:
1. Down  2. Extracts From The Feedback Opera  3. Love And Terror  4. We Need More Power  5. Summer Of Love  6. Time Moves Sideways  7. Winter of Hate
The first four tracks picked up where the previous albums left off, though this time the fusion of guitars and electronics was more defined. "Love and Terror" betrayed an interest in Thrash Metal (Napalm Death). "We Need More Power" featured an interview with a guy talking about his frightening dabblings with a ouija board during a power outage. "Summer of Love" was a forwards version of "Winter of Hate" (or was it the other way round?) and was a very Husler Du influenced psychedelic punk track.

1989 - "The Dark Mother Filled With Light" - 1 track, 15mins:
Single track extracted from a continuous tape loop of "trance-induction" vocal chants
What can I say, it all got a little bit weird around this point in time!

1989 - "The Sword Is My Shepherd" - 13 tracks, 45mins:
1. Invocation/Chant  2. Live Now, Die Later  3. Mur-Uh  4. JustIce  5. SubMerge  6. Secret  7. Speedway '69  8. H.O.D.  9. Smeared Out  10. Speedway '89  11. The Dodgy Track   12. Fast  13. Scraps
Power electronics, dance beats and distorted guitars continue to merge in new ways, along with soundbites of Native American chants, tribal drumming and Hell's Angels running amok.

1991 - "Destructure: The last foul breath of the ego " - 21 tracks, 60mins:
1. Endless Drive  2. Feel So Good  3. Violent Motorcycle Death  4. Untitled  5. Nothing Two Live Four  6. Slave Acid Bitch  7. DemonKiller  8. I Hate Music  9. Eight Zero Eight  10. Move It  11. Neanderthal Hip Hop  12. The Predator  13. Bassment  14. Just Ice  15. Project Bluebird  16. Untitled  17. Untitled  18. No More Sympathy  19. Untitled  20. New Time Zone  21. Spud
The use of "Untitled" works originated, I believe, with the "Avant Garde" art movement. However, in this case, laziness, not trendiness, resulted in a number of tracks being labelled "Untitled".

1992 - "Is it egotistical to invent clever names for demo tapes?" - 9 tracks, 45mins:
1. 20 Storeys High  2. ImagineNation  3. Love I Feel  4. Will+Imagination=Reality  5. Reactivate  6. Salvation  7. Fire Dance  8. The Centre Of The Sun  9. The End Of Infinity
Full-on house tracks began to appear on this album, along with tales of bad acid trips and Terrence McKenna soundbites. The two final improvised jazz tracks surprised me as much as everyone else.

1993 - "Christmas Cake Circus" - 1 track, 45mins
The final release from Urban Disturbance confirmed that electronics were the way forward, featured a single, seamless electronic track, blending the usual synths, samplers and squelchy Roland thingy's with vocal tape loops.

Urban Disturbance tracks featured on a variety of compilations including:

- Various tracks from "Music Is Dead" on a compilation for Italian fanzine "Yeah"

- "The Graceful Fish" from "Music Is Dead " on a compilation for Scottish Magick publication "Waratah Blossoms"

- "Initiation" from "Burn Down Fear City" on a compilation for Italian fanzine "Dopo"

All the above Urban Disturbance releases, originally available on cassette tape and by mail-order only, have long since been deleted. However, a free Urban Disturbance compilation CD titled "Regression (Session) 8693" can be obtained in exchange for a piece of your own work (music, art, film, book, magazine, etc.). Alternatively, download extractmost of it for free below. This is made available for historical purposes only (i.e. sound quality is not great). For more info contact me via the CONTACT / BLOG link in the left hand navigation pane.

LYRICS

“Live Now, Die Later” From “The Sword Is My Shepherd” (1989) You seem to live your life in self-doubt You’re afraid of yourself Afraid of what you might do You’re afraid of what you might not do   Seize control of your life Do what you’ve always wanted to do What you’ve always dreamed about   Take your desires for reality Because yesterday’s gone, tomorrow don’t exist Live now, die later   "Winter of Hate" From Distractions II (1988) "And the sun shines so hard in the early morn. Radiating heat onto dunes of golden sand.   Fields of corn sway to and fro' in the warm air. The truth becomes as clear as fresh spring water.   The Earth spins in a black corner of the galaxy. And the stars shine brightly through the dark.   Like lasers beamed through rocket fuel. They shine so hard, they shine so hard.   Silk clouds drift across a blue sky. A riot of colour and sound erupts like a thousand volcanoes. Showering molten love across the globe."

“Crush Green Thoughts” From “Music Is Dead” (1985)   All the worlds are not punctual Whirlwind of black satin creamy blue Hell is just over the next fridge You think that’s funny? ha ha ha ha   Twiglight world of effervescent vapours Crush green thoughts Kicking up a fuse box of eggs Papermen climb higher Fields are bigger Over there   Red Saw Drought Frog Wet Rope Song Neck slum dirt seaweed pram Kill tea moths for sale Wax desert of bright orange-sorry Shimmering pools of war tar loop hole Light bulb rain king fever thing Who wired up wrong crash joke 10 scalds leg arm neck toe gas station   Look across the red sky What do you see? Knot Thelema who is buying Tibetan monks   I can see it Pause for laughter Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha   “Down” From Distractions II (1988) "Woke up. Walked down the street. Died"

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The Armed Love Conspiracy
(Genre: Experimental Industrial/Trance) - 1988 to 1989...

1988 - "Hot Sex House Trip" - 3 tracks, 15mins:
1. Acid Machine Animal Poke
Two unapproved Chicago House remix/JAMS-style tracks, plus blatantly ripped-off Washington DC pirate radio output (limited release, then withdrawn for legal reasons).

1989 - "Can You Feel It?" - 5 tracks, 45mins:
1. Trance State U.S.A.   2. Thorazine   3. Bluebird*  4. Can You Feel It?  5. Data Control**
* Also appeared in a remixed format as "No More Sympathy" on "Destructure" by "Urban Disturbance."
** Not the same "Data Control" track by "Urban Disturbance."

Downloads

All downloads are free - click on the song title for .mp3 format - right-mouse click to download to your computer or left-mouse click to play in a web browser or whatever you have configured to play music (these may take a while to download)

DOWNLOADS, DEMOS, EXTRACTS AND SNIPPETS
Urban Disturbance Juggling Chainsaws (Recently discovered demo - extract) Christmas Cake Circus (Extract - original is 45 minutes long) The End Of Infinity Winter of Hate 20 Storeys High Down Love I Feel Neanderthal Hip Hop Nothing 2 Live 4 SubMerge The Dark Mother (Rising) Live Now, Die Later We Need More Power JustIce You Are Feeling So Good