Monte Cazazza

 Lucky restock, VERY LAST COPIES Vinyl-on-Demand presents Monte Cazazza – Recordings 79-91, a comprehensive deluxe box set chronicling the essential works of the American artist who coined the phrase "Industrial Music for Industrial People" and gave the name to Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records. This meticulously curated black box set represents the definitive collection of Monte Cazazza's groundbreaking recordings from 1979 to 1991, capturing the San Francisco-based pioneer during his most prolific period following his seminal mid-1970s work that helped shape the entire industrial music movement.

Monte Cazazza (1949-2023) was the creative force who literally named industrial music, working closely with Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and the Industrial Records collective while building an underground reputation as a volatile performer with a dangerous and antisocial aesthetic. His experimental sound manipulation and noise collages, described by Re/Search Magazine's Industrial Culture Handbook as "insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events," influenced countless artists including Psychic TV and Factrix, with whom he frequently collaborated. During this formative period, Cazazza also recorded soundtracks for Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories while remaining heavily involved in the Mail art movement.

The limited edition box set includes multiple LPs featuring remastered recordings spanning Cazazza's creative evolution from his post-Industrial Records period through 1991, an exclusive grey Monte Cazazza T-shirt, a numbered certificate of authenticity, and the 220-page book Monte Cazazza - I'll be famous when I'm dead, housed in a separate compartment at the bottom of the box. The comprehensive book offers rare insights into the artist's creative process, featuring photographs and writings that document his journey from the shocking performance art pieces that got him expelled from the California College of Arts and Crafts to his later collaborative work with partner Meri St. Mary..