With a pile of scrap metal and a disused railway tunnel nearby, unemployed youths Dave Kirby and Rob Maycock began recording sounds that they’d use as material for their Throbbing Gristle-inspired noise project, Psychopath.
Forty years later, on the eve of his international tour we speak with Dave about his early cassette scene releases and continued artistic evolution in Satori. Touching on his motivations, artistic confidence… and his sample library of road drill sounds. His early meeting with Justin Mitchell of Cold Spring Records led to his music finding a worldwide audience.
Hosted by Martin Franklin & Hudson Graham.
VIDEO
You can find video of some of the fanzines and cassette releases we discuss in this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CassetteCulturePodcast
Music:
“Pressing Down” Satori, The Woods (Cold Spring Records)
‘The Kill”
“Post Mortem”
“Heavy Sadist” Psychopath, The Final Bow
“The Entity” Satori, Kanishibari (Cold Spring Records)
”This Is Concrete” The Happy Citizen
The recording "How things used to be in Margate" at 0:51 used by kind permission of Stuart Fowkes/Cities And Memory. (https://citiesandmemory.com/)
Links
Cold Spring Records
https://coldspring.co.uk/
Satori
https://satori-industrial.bandcamp.com/
Mindscan Tapes
https://www.discogs.com/label/18022-Mindscan-Tapes
"Premonitions: Underground Cassette Network 1989-90" cassette reissue, Infinite Expanse, 2024
https://infiniteexpanse.bandcamp.com
Podcast Produced by Martin Franklin/East Coast Studio (http://eastcoaststudio.com.au)
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