Hyde - immediately felt close to the band, more so than his other clients. Hyde - whose initial appeal, he believes, might have been his surname, as if he was akin to the fictional character Dr. His composure in handling another band that was “speeding off their nuts all night” impressed the manager of London’s Paradise Studios, who recommended him to Coil. Hyde met Coil in 1986 when he was 23 years old, after working with post-punk bands The Chills and Savage Progress. While their industrial contemporaries focused on the militant basslines of electronic body music or heavy metal guitar samples, Coil dove into the rhythms and beats of London’s raucous club scene, and built a sonic richness that most of their peers hadn’t yet dared to explore. The band’s discovery of rave music in the late 1980s shaped their approach to their music moving forward rougher edges were smoothed down, and elements such as house, calypso, and new age were folded in. The confrontational sound lended to their socio-political commentary: a cover of Soft Cell’s ‘Tainted Love’ (and its adjacent video), a b-side to ‘Panic’ from ‘Scatology’, reckoned with the AIDS crisis and the terror felt in the LGBT community. By 1984, Balance and Christopherson had committed to Coil full-time and released their first full-length album, ‘Scatology’, soon after.
Christopherson, who had been in Throbbing Gristle in the 1970s and early ’80s, partnered up with Balance of Psychic TV, who formed Coil in 1982 as a solo project. Within ‘LSD’ there is iridescence and brightness, as the trippy abbreviation suggests, but there are also shadows and darkness a nightmare disguised as a fantasy, a framing which appeals and appalls many to Coil.īefore ‘LSD’, Coil focused on barbarous noise - the thumping of metallics and the whirring of tapes, the bedrock of the industrial genre. Rave elements such as acid basslines and soft kicks are cloaked in welcoming, simplistic loops. Originally released on Wax Trax! Records in 1991, ‘LSD’ is a psychedelic orgy. As a producer and engineer, Hyde worked with the band’s permanent members John Balance (Geff) and Peter Christopherson (Sleazy) throughout the mid-1980s and onwards a key figure in the rotating cast of artists who contributed to Coil’s visionary sound. “I remember thinking, ‘What the fuck have we made?’” Danny Hyde says of Coil’s ‘Love’s Secret Domain’ - known as ‘LSD’ - which turns 30 years old this spring.
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