OK, so the sound collage and sound poetry threads had me thinking that there should be some discussion about non-music (or mostly non-music) releases related to "industrial culture," but that are not typically considered what one might call spoken-word, poetry, or what have you.
Come Organization "documentary" tapes - The New Order "Bradford Red Light District," "Ripper Tape," Charles Manson "Family Interviews" series, "Necrophilia," "Examples of Cannibalism," "No Apparent Motive," and so on. Tapes seem to mostly be radio or TV programs dubbed to cassette sort of like an audiobook, but stuff such as "Examples of Cannibalism" and the sort of "appropriated" MB releases with added WWII Germany-era samples includes some electronics or music as a backdrop. Someone mentioned that VOD should reissue a set of these, which is likely impossible, but would interest me as much as any Whitehouse reissue.
Broken Flag various tapes and portions - Although many are probably familiar with the "Rockwell" tape of infamous early American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell ranting over Ramleh electronics, there seem to have been at least a handful of obscure non-music tapes from BF: "The Party Day of Power," "Swastika Command," and so on, among politically-related music cassettes much like Come Org's "Marches" series. Interestingly, cassettes like V/A "Morality" include interview/dialogue snippets such as John Duncan's "Prostitution Tapes." Would definitely be interested in checking out similar compilations from recent years that alternate actual music/noise with dialogue, interviews, speech, and what have you.
Gothenburg Blood Cult has some notoriety for reproducing the above-mentioned Come Org "Necrophilia" tape as it's own release. Also included among some of the actual compilation tapes are little samples and interludes as in the BF tapes above, such as V/A - "Fuck Money, Fuck Life" which ends with a strange unknown track titled "I'm Too Sad To Tell You."
Peter Sotos various works (incl. Whitehouse B-side tracks) - Needs no introduction, but nevertheless: lengthy dialogue, interview, and speech samples concerning only the darker, harder side of sexuality and street/family life. Tracks with Whitehouse usually deal with a larger array of subjects and range from 12 to around 20 minutes, while solo efforts are more focused on specific cases/crimes and are often interspersed with readings from his own writing. This almost doesn't classify, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Vitrine referential weirdness - seemingly following the influence of all of the above-mentioned, recent US effort Vitrine has put out some things that'd certainly fit in this category: "Masochism" tape which seems to be a collage of creepy poetry recitation, radio news transmissions, and primitive amp noise. "Dedicated To Dominique Venner" seems like a contemporary take on the Rockwell BF tape; clearly noise/music and obviously by the label's head honcho, but more as a background for the samples of speech and interview. Compilations "Map of the Interior" and "Map of the Perimiter" seem to include some unknown, enigmatic voice/sound clips much like the above "Fuck Money, Fuck Life" amidst the usual array of contributors. I would normally dismiss something so pointedly derivative, like the early Emaciator tapes which were all supposed to look like Broken Flag tapes, but there is a more worthy torch to bear with this kind of strange non-music stuff.
Sonic Sadist "Dog Love" tape sort of counts; relies a bit too much on electronics but contains a sufficient amount of extracts from the infamous loop as well as some interviews with Boreman (or whatever her real last name was) on the subject. Taint before Taint! That said, Taint track from V/A "Pornography Hurts" is entirely samples and definitely qualifies, giving Sotos' collages a run for his money. We all know that Taint made some of the best use of samples ever in stuff like Sex Sick, but the ratio of music-to-samples pretty much excludes it.
Now-defunct Sexkrime Arts label once released a collage tape of interviews ("Sensitivity Training") and YouTube postings concerning emotional vulnerability, sexual dysfunction, and so on; apparently also accompanied by a DVDr version which one had to first buy the tape and then write an essay about in order to obtain. Uh, no, thanks. The tape honestly wasn't that interesting nor moving despite the effort that clearly went into compiling it. Too scattered and unfocused to really be afflicting.
Unholy Passions also at one point released one of the Gillis "Walking Toilet Bowls" series as audio-only on tape.
Tape simply titled "Over" from No Visible Scars is just a testimonial of negative sexual experiences from the person behind the project, accompanied only by a quiet synth drone. I wish there were more releases like that.
Strict's "Kiss" LP features a field recording in a peep show/video booth area. How come more people haven't done this? I would listen to a whole album of those. Still, ratio basically disqualifies it, but worth mentioning in case there are more anonymous public sex act recordings available anywhere else.
So, to those reading, perhaps there's a preexisting thread that could be merged? That which I'm listing here is nearly all I'm aware of, based on what I've heard, heard of, or seen on Discogs. I'm sure there have to be much more examples; I would hope there is similar stuff like this from Open Wound, AWB, Filth & Violence, and so on, but that might just be wishful thinking. Please, contribute! I would really like to see an attempt at list-making sort of like the "Canon of Power Electronics" thread. I am especially interested in more recent stuff that is obscure yet more easily tracked-down.
