Huge tip! It was a cold winter's night in late 1978 when Chris Connelly, fourteen years old, lay in bed with his radio and heard Throbbing Gristle's Hamburger Lady for the first time. It changed his life permanently. He had already been making sounds at home on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, building loops and feedback, using shortwave radio in the middle of the night, with no instruments and no desire for any. He had also been obsessively scouring record shops guided by a copy of Zig Zag magazine's special issue on independent labels, which functioned as his bible. Encouraged to push forward by members of Throbbing Gristle themselves (who thought his work was awful but urged him on anyway), he found further direction in Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting (1979) and in the TG live cassette series, which he would buy one or two at a time and wait for the small padded envelope in the post. The Industrial Records newsletter back pages contained a list of names: anyone who had put out a cassette or a record in a Xeroxed sleeve. He wrote to all of them. Hastily scribbled, unsigned notes came back from Whitehouse, whose Total Sex and Erector "terrified and seduced" him. His first cassette, Sawing Off a Lamb's Head, appeared via the fanzine Escape as Jet in 1980. He is not sure he ever saw a copy.

His solo recordings eventually expanded into a group called Rigor Mortis, which became Fini Tribe, which contributed to the landmark compilation You Bet We've Got Something Against You and formed a friendship with David Tibet. Fini Tribe signed to Wax Trax Records as Connelly simultaneously joined Revolting Cocks and then Ministry, leaving Edinburgh for Chicago. These are the recordings made along the way — some almost certainly captured in a damp rehearsal space in Edinburgh, some on a grey council estate in the same city, and some from sessions in Chicago. Not even the precise chronology is known. They were recovered by VOD's Frank Maier from two tapes in his archive, one of which contained a radio broadcast from WZRD College Radio in Chicago dated 1988, establishing the outer limit. This LP (VOD132.13) brings them to vinyl for the first time. VOD compared the music to Sema, Nurse With Wound, and early Current 93. Limited to 200 copies.