Murder Inc Reissues and Rarities

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Invisible / Museum Of Post Punk & Industrial Music release

|PACKAGE INCLUDES|

- Deluxe limited edition double vinyl

- Original 1991 back drop insert

- Booklet including never-before-seen art + press

- 8x10 glossy band photo

- Tour pass laminate

(Please Limit 2 Per Order!)

From Martin:

This is significant for so many reasons – this re-mastered double red vinyl re-issue of the 1991 Murder Inc corpuscle ep and 1992’s self-titled album includes all of the Futurist label remixes we commissioned from J. G. Thirlwell, Paul Barker & Critter

It’s really magnificent!

This project was started about 18 months ago - we didn’t know that we would lose two of the significant contributors : Geordie Walker and our engineer Steve Albini who have joined collaborator Paul Raven who passed in 2007.

Included in the deluxe version is a 12” x 12” insert card that contains a piece (approx 5” x 2”) of the original (and only) Murder Inc backdrop that traveled with us to the UK for four shows there including the massive NEC arena opening for Sisters Of Mercy and then back to the US for our only US show (Limelight NYC Tuesday 30th June 1992)

The deluxe version is limited to 250 copies only

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Playback Speed 33RPM

1A SUPERGRASS

2A MURDER INC

3A MANIA

1B HOLE IN THE WALL

2B UNINVITED GUEST

3B GAMBIT

4B MOTION SICKNESS

1C RED BLACK

2C LAST OF THE URGENTS

3C MRS WHISKEY NAME

4C Last of the Biomechanical Urgents

1D MANIA (7" MIX)

2D MOTION SICKNESS (PAUL BARKER MIX)

3D MURDER INC (BUSTED CORPUSCLE MIX)

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Pop and Jazz in Review

BY JON PARELES Published: July 2, 1992

https://web.archive.org/web/20150526052126/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/02/news/pop-and-jazz-in-review-999392.html

Murder Inc. Limelight Manhattan

"What is life without despair?" Chris Connelly sang in the opening song of Murder Inc.'s set on Tuesday night at the Limelight. Despair and apocalypse are mother's milk to the six members of Murder Inc., who have been pounding and growling harsh pronouncements for a decade in various bands, although they have just made their first album, for Invisible Records.

Murder Inc. brings together five members of Killing Joke with Mr. Connelly, who has sung with Ministry, Pigface and other bitter rockers. Murder Inc. works hard not to be generic, occupying a zone somewhere between industrial rock and heavy metal.

Unlike many of the industrial bands who share its message, Murder Inc. is propelled by live musicians. Two drummers, Martin Atkins and Paul Ferguson, sock out midtempo rhythms that can be as stolid as a march or as jolting as a motorcycle ride over potholes, particularly when Paul Raven on bass plays against their beat.

Geordie Walker dispenses harsh, discordant guitar riffs, while John Bechdel, on keyboards, adds sounds that scrape or grind or clank. Although Mr. Connelly's voice sounds hoarse and desperate (as a matter of choice), he can also sustain full-fledged melodies, giving Murder Inc. a glimmer of variety. It's the right voice for songs about the collapse of both public justice and private trust -- "We walked into a trap we built with lies," Mr. Connelly sang in "Mania" -- and, at times, what could be roundabout love songs, like the blues-rock "Supergrass." Most of the time he sang deadpan, his arms folded or at his sides, as if denying any involvement.

Like Killing Joke, Murder Inc. often sounds like a latter-day, more brutal version of the Gang of Four. But more than a decade after the Gang of Four got started, it replaces the Gang's agitprop conundrums with visions of anarchy and random rage, of individualism turned against itself: "Too young to be political, too old to care," Mr. Connelly rapped in a song called "Murder Inc." But the band's touch of melody, and arrangements that make each tune distinct, show that Murder Inc. wants to create memorable songs, not just rants.