Great minimal synth track by completely unknown band. There is fuck all information about them except that this track appeared on an early 80s compilation called 'The Pulse of New York'. It has since appeared on a Daniele Baldelli mix and there may be some connection with XEX who also appeared on the Pulse compilation.
Either way this is stirring stuff with the lyric riffing on the political and social difficulties of that time in Ulster. This is juxtaposed with proper dirty machine music with a punching metronomic beat that has a real kick.
Ulster Defence - Bronx Irish Catholics by Minimalmanimal
love that comp, up there with No New York for me. the Deekay Jones tune is a massive electro track!!
ReplyDeleteBronx Irish Catholics was, at the time, the solo project of the musician who was known within xex as Jon-Boy Diode. The project had several different incarnations, and recorded an LP, "eponymous," in Austin, TX, in the late 1980s.
ReplyDeletexex recorded an album, "group:xex," before appearing on the compilation. It has been rereleased recently on CD.