Decoder (CSR356CD), by Various Artists

Decoder (CSR356CD)

by Various Artists

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Mat Handley / Woodford Halse Great collection, but a little misleading to say that Matt Johnson wrote 3 x Orange Kisses from Kazan for the soundtrack. This track existed long before the film and is from the unreleased album The Pornography of Despair, also appearing on various b sides too.

phem An album full of bangers. Favorite track: Muzak For Frogs.

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CD in matt-laminate digipak with 10-page foldout booklet.

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1.	Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball - Muzak For Frogs 03:23	buy track
2.	The The - Three Orange Kisses From Kazan 04:30	buy track
3.	Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball - Dream 02:30	buy track
4.	Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball - Main Theme (Showdown) 03:04	buy track
5.	Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball - Sex And The Married Frog 03:24	buy track
6.	Soft Cell - Seedy Films 05:05	buy track
7.	FM Einheit - Riots 02:55	buy track
8.	Genesis P-Orridge - Information 00:46	buy track
9.	FM Einheit / John Caffery / Alexander Von Borsig - Muzak Decoding / Dream Machine / Pirates 08:41	buy track
10.	Einstürzende Neubauten - Compressed Metal 02:25	buy track
11.	Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball - Main Theme (Finale) 03:42	buy track

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Released on standalone CD for the first time in 33 years, this now-complete edition of the ground-breaking cult soundtrack is finally here.

A cult classic of sci-fi dystopia, "Decoder" (1984) saw EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's members working alongside GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (THROBBING GRISTLE / PSYCHIC TV) and WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. It's one of the strangest (and most prescient) films of the decade. The film was made in Hamburg and Berlin, and directed by Klaus Maeck 'Muscha' (who directed several punk films).

The lead roles are played by Christiane F and FM Einheit from Neubauten, who also contributed to the film's score. Genesis P-Orridge, the kingpin of the English industrial scene, also appears as a priest of the Black Noise faith. Author William S. Burroughs portrays an insurrectionist salesman of audio equipment (and contributes spoken word to the soundtrack), and American cult actor Bill Rice plays a detective.

SOFT CELL contributed their classic 'Seedy Films', while MATT JOHNSON from THE THE wrote a frenetic, deformed song for the film that is both fantastic and painful to listen to, and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's 'Compressed Metal' is sublime. Dave Ball (SOFT CELL), Jon Caffery and Genesis P-Orridge composed the rest of the soundtrack.

A futuristic film, and a joyous application of William S. Burroughs' "The Electronic Revolution", which proposes a seditious and rather poetic method of subverting the masses and inciting them to rise up against the forces of order.

MUZAK IS MORE THAN MUSIC.

CD in matt-laminate digipak, with 10-page foldout booklet.

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released September 19, 2025

Recorded by Dave Ball and Genesis P-Orridge at Audio International Studios, London 1983.
Recorded by FM Einheit, Jon Caffery and Alexander Von Borsig at Rudas Studios, Dusseldorf, 1983.
Engineered by Adam Moseley, Felix Beyer, Jason Stokes, Matthew Dabell, Stefan Kühne.
Mixed by Jon Caffery.
Produced by Klaus Maeck, Muscha.
Graphic design for Cold Spring by Abby Helasdottir.
Licensed from Interzone Pictures.

Watch the trailer: youtu.be/-Vu2ySzInU8

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We are a UK-based record label / mailorder store / distributor, specialising in all forms of esoteric / industrial music, but particularly: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Black Ambient, Japanese Noise, Neoclassical, Dark Folk, Orchestral, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Doom, Death Industrial, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music. ... more

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