Portion Control: A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men with Portraits.
The lasting impact and intensity of groundbreaking UK act Portion Control is discussed on this week’s podcast, with a specific focus on their first and most recent LPs: 1982’s I Staggered Mentally and 2020’s Head Buried. From emerging out of the industrial primordial soup and laying the groundwork for ’80s electro-industrial to maintaining a bitter yet highly developed EBM style into the present day, we have lots to say about one of Our Things most enduring yet still underrated acts. All that plus some hot takes on the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductions of Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode on the latest installment of We Have A Technical. You can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or download directly or stream from Spotify or the widget down below.
An entertaining listen. Looking at compilations which introduced me to Portion Control such as “The Elephant Table Album” and “Rising From The Red Sand”, at that time PC were more closely associated with acts like Bourbonese Qualk, Konstruktivits, Nocturnal Emissions, LPD and Attrition (also Dave Henderson’s ‘Wild Planet’ feature) but found themselves parallel to EBM and spun off in a slightly different direction in terms of genre without really having done that much themselves to cause it (other than influence Cevin Key perhaps…).
There are definitely parallels to Dive in “I Staggered Mentally” but also some similarities to the earliest Die Form works (perhaps the same equipment?)