The Culling Has Arrived

 

23 Skidoo - The Culling Is Coming [OPT23 UK 1983 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

Known better for their industrious & tribal post-punk, 23 Skidoo have occasionally released works to challenge the listener. The Culling Is Coming is one.... and very likely the most challenging.

Side one is also known as 'A Summer Rite - 11AM 17.7.82' and features the band onstage at the WOMAD Festival where they were joined by David Tibet for a lengthy session of noise, loops and metal percussion. Side two is named 'A Winter Ritual' is a gamelan-style serious of compostitions recorded at Dartington College Of Music.

This is my rip from an original UK pressing, released on Operation Twilight, a subdivision of Les Disques Du Crépuscule. There have been subsequent reissues of this album on a variety of other labels, most of which appear to having flipped the album running orders.

A1 Banishing

A2 Invocation

A3 Flashing

A4 Stifling

A5 Healing (For The Strong)

B1 G-2 Contemplation

B2 S-Matrix

B3 G-3 Insemination

B4 Shrine

B5 Mahakala