Cold Spring reissues 1988 tape ‘Shoot And Crucify’ on CD
Cold Spring reissues its 1988 cassette “Shoot And Crucify” as CD on 24 July 2026, compiled by Rob Maycock, remastered by Martin Bowes.
UK label Cold Spring reissues “Shoot And Crucify” on CD on 24 July 2026, some 38 years after the various-artists compilation first appeared as a 50-copy cassette on the label in 1988. The reissue gathers 19 tracks from the industrial, noise and experimental underground of the late 1980s, compiled by Rob Maycock and remastered by Martin Bowes of Attrition at his The Cage studio.
“Shoot And Crucify” was the third tape on the fledgling Cold Spring label, part of the mail-order cassette culture that connected the industrial and noise underground before the internet. “The scene at the time was built on the mail-art network, exchanging ideas, sounds and art around the world via the postal system,” Cold Spring states. Only a handful of the compilation’s 19 tracks have since been reissued; the rest have remained unavailable for nearly 40 years.
Inside Cold Spring’s ‘Shoot And Crucify’
The new edition arrives as a CD in a matt digipak, with artwork by Abby Helasdottir that nods to the original tape’s design, alongside a digital download. Cold Spring prices the CD at £9.49 in advance of the 24 July release (£11.49 after), with the digital album at £7.99.
The 19 tracks document some of the earliest recordings by artists who went on to build long careers in industrial, noise and power electronics. Ethnic Acid is a solo outlet of Anthony Di Franco, who also records as Ramleh and AX. THU20 groups Guido Doesborg, Jac van Bussel, Jos Smolders, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop.
Several of the same players also record as Kapotte Muziek and, with DMDN, as Death Pact. Frans de Waard, who runs the Dutch label Korm Plastics, appears both as Kapotte Muziek and within Death Pact, while DMDN, also a member of THU20, runs the Midas Tapes label. Satori is the duo of Dave Kirby and Rob Maycock, who first recorded together as Psychopath before adopting the Satori name.
Kirby also contributes two solo tracks. Redemption Inc. and Basquadeck Shelf both involve Neil Campbell, later of Astral Social Club, with Basquadeck Shelf adding Mark Turner of ESP Kinetic. L.S.D. is the project of Gianfranco Santoro, who runs the Italian label Final Muzik. Radical Change is Roberto Vicentini.
Well Crucial brings together Matthew Kinnison of Cindytalk, Richard Youngs, Stewart Walden of Smell & Quim, Campbell again, and members of The Strolling Ones. Merzdow Shek is Mario Marzidovsek. Nostalgie Eternelle pairs Dieter Mauson, also known for Occupied Head and D.S.I.P., with Stefan Heinze of Inox Kapell and Ferien Vom Ich. The State is the recording name of Steven Tanza, also of Bourbonese Qualk.
The full tracklist is:
- Ethnic Acid – “Angel Of Death” (5:03)
- THU 20 – “Winterswijle 5” (6:35)
- Death Pact – “V2-II-4-87” (4:54)
- Satori – “Post Frustration” (3:40)
- Redemption Inc. – “Big Money Bad Money” (5:59)
- Basquadeck Shelf – “The Undying Factory” (2:03)
- L.S.D. – “Deserto” (1:28)
- Radical Change – “Vexilla Regis” (2:29)
- Well Crucial – “Kill Your Children” (1:08)
- Ethnic Acid – “Flower” (7:13)
- Dave Kirby – “Trinity” (2:57)
- Kapotte Muziek – “Test Tension” (1:44)
- Psychopath – “Rough Justice” (1:01)
- Psychopath – “The Slab” (1:41)
- Merzdow Shek – “Bavarian Aquarel” (4:12)
- Dave Kirby – “Machinations” (1:26)
- Nostalgie Eternelle – “Something On Your Mind” (4:21)
- Nostalgie Eternelle – “Wipe Out The Past” (3:28)
- The State – “Plight Of The Madmen” (1:10)
About Cold Spring Records
Cold Spring is an independent record label based in Northamptonshire, England, founded and run by Justin Mitchell, who had worked with Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth in the 1980s. The label started in 1988 as a mail-order cassette outlet, issuing early tapes such as a Psychic TV live recording and a split cassette by Angels Ov Light and Thee Angry Love Orchestra ahead of “Shoot And Crucify”.
Cold Spring moved into vinyl in 1990 with the compilation “…And The Wolf Shall Lick The Jewels From Your Belly”, featuring The Grey Wolves, Crash Worship and The Hafler Trio, and issued its first CD, Crash Worship’s “Asesinos”, in 1992. The label’s 1999 release of Genesis P-Orridge and Merzbow‘s “A Perfect Pain” became one of its most requested titles. Cold Spring began selling and distributing its catalog online in 1997 and has since built a roster spanning dark ambient, neo-classical, power electronics, Japanese noise and dark soundtrack material, working with artists including Coil, Laibach, Nine Inch Nails (on the “Recoiled” tribute), Mz.412, Sol Invictus and Prurient.
Recent releases include a boxset of Eduard Artemyev and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov’s scores for Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, “Tarkovsky”. “Shoot And Crucify” returns to that early mail-order period, giving the label’s third-ever cassette its first CD pressing.
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