condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light general wear)

Edition of 1000 copies.

Sometimes shockingly sexual depictions of erotic and sadomasochistic visions by Deborah Jaffe who is MSR, this album will knock you out of your complacent mindset. Some lyric content suitable for adults only. Crossing industrial music, art, and extreme sex imagery and longings, this album will leave it's mark on you. For fans of Sutcliffe Jugend, Whitehouse and Diamanda Galas.

Master/Slave Relationship (MSR) is the long-running solo project of American artist Debbie Jaffe, founded in autumn 1984 as a one-person industrial-noise-and-photography outlet to explore themes of emotional domination and submission, sex, and fetish. Jaffe is also co-founder of the Eighties mail-order cassette imprint Cause And Effect, one half of the avant-noise duo Viscera (with Hal McGee), and a working photographer, writer, and visual artist.

Across more than twenty years of activity, MSR produced over a dozen cassettes, one vinyl LP, five CDs, and a CD-ROM, all self-produced, none performed live. The project has no intention of ever being performed live: Jaffe conceived MSR as an expressive and exploratory studio practice committed to extreme thought and behaviour, without a concert component. Titles across the catalogue (The Desire To Castrate Father Fanatic, Bed Of Perverse Dreams, Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage, Being Led Around By The Tongue, A New Explanation For Decadence, Semi-Automatic Manstoppers) give a fair sense of the iconographic territory.

Musically, the method draws on processed voice, tape-manipulated source material, and electronic drone, closer in spirit to Lydia Lunch's harsher spoken-word work and to contemporaneous American industrial-cassette culture than to the European death-industrial of the same years. The Viscera / Cause And Effect axis gives MSR a precise situation inside the American Eighties underground. An unusual, rigorous, single-author body of work.