Label: Backstreet Backlash Records – BBR 010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Netherlands Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: New Wave, Industrial, Noise, Experimental
Murky dubbed-out-to-death post-punk / wave oddity coughed up out of the early 80’s Rotterdam gutter.
According to discogs MU stands for either Mentally Unfit or Marijuana Users, both which would be fitting for a one off LP as musky and hash-steeped as this.Most notably, this sole LP from the Dutch short-lived Dutch outfit comes via Peter Graute’s own Backstreet Backlash label, the same home as that truly mind-bending Nyrabakiga LP Cor Corora.MU’s tracks here follow a similar format (Graute also produced Nyrabakiga), hypnotic looping stripped-bare electronic drums, whaling phased guitars, heavy-handed improvisation and liberal FX usage.At times that’s a kinship with a more amateur On-U type sound, or even Naffi Sandwich, but as with the Nyrabakiga LP, MU’s main asset is finding the right groove and letting it ride out.Definitely one of the more interesting and lesser mentioned released sat in that fertile intersection between dub, wave and industrial music.Pretty rare!!(NM/NM) Tracklist A1 Down South 4:10 A2 Some Say 3:08 A3 Honour The Independent 4:06 A4 Time Out 1:58 A5 Metal To Metal 4:44 B1 Roots Of Evil 1:48 B2 Power To The Heartless 6:48 B3 Turn Off Your Radio 4:41 B4 Can't Get Used 5:38
