2 - Remission (Dec 1984) [LP]

by **Hobb** Mon 12 Dec 2016 - 15:32

CHRONOLOGY

Early 1984 - Based on the Rave-produced 'Smothered Hope' demo Nettwerk fronts SP the money needed to continue recording
July/August 1984 - Remission recorded at Mushroom Studios
December 1984 - Remission 12" EP released as part of Nettwerk's first batch (and in Belgium by Scarface)

2 - Remission (Dec 1984) [LP] RemissionAlbumCover

Cover by Steven Gilmore (Nettwerk's in-house artist)

Original EP release

BACK
"Smothered Hope" 5:14
"Glass Houses" 3:24
"Far Too Frail" 3:41

FORTH
"Solvent" 4:37
"Sleeping Beast" 6:01
"Brap…" 1:12

Total length: 24:09

Cassette/Re-issued LP release

[Bonus tracks recorded in 1985]

"Incision" 4:41
"Film" 2:51
"Manwhole" 1:44
"Ice Breaker" 2:46
"Glass Out" 3:25 [Glass Houses Remix]
Total length: 39:33

by **Hobb** Mon 12 Dec 2016 - 17:21

NO: Nettwerk actually came around the same time we started up. It originally started by Moev member Mark Jowitt and Terry Mcbride who was the former manager of Moev, and at that time we were in the studio recording our 1st e.p. with our own money.

cK: Our first song actually.

NO: Yeah, our first song, and after we finished we took a tape to Terry and played it for him, and he liked it so much he immediately asked to become one of the bands on the label.

cK: So we went ahead and spent the rest of the money. We spent about $600.00 on the 1st e.p. out of our own pocket and finished recording it, and they pressed it and it just carried on from then, it was like opening a bank account.

http://www.litany.net/interviews/pfl85.html

CEVIN KEY:At that point we made a tape [Back & Forth], it was like a 30 minute tape, we must have sold about 50 copies around the city. At the exact same time Nettwerk was starting out of this guys apartment, I knew him from the record store and I gave him a tape. He said that if we were going to be doing any more recording then give me a copy.

[...]

Remission was just the excitement I had about everything and [STEVEN GILMORE] bringing the cover to us and pushing me in that direction and being overall hyped over it. And I called Ogre on the phone and said, "I might be able to figure a way to get us into the studio via Rave" who Ogre didn't know at the time.

So I called up Rave and he was doing things like The Glen and Joe Show (IIV's members Glen Nelson and Joe Vizvary's New Order-style synthpop side-project) in his spare time. So I said, "well, if he's going to do The Glen and Joe Show maybe he'd be interested in doing this." He was and so I called back over and said, "Ogre, we're going into the studio and do one song for free with Rave." So we went in and did Smothered Hope. [...] [Nettwerk] released 3 records at the same time and one of the them was Remission.

www.litany.net/interviews/ipso89.htm

If these interviews are correct than Rave twice helped Skinny Puppy produce singles that spawned the rest of their career, first his work on Sleeping Beast in January and then soon afterwards with Smothered Hope. It is confusing that both Back and Forth (featuring Sleeping Beast) and a Smothered Hope demo where given to Nettwerk.

Nettwerk will be come one of Canada's greatest labels. I'm surprised to see it was started by two musicians from the Coquitlam new-wave band Moev. When Moev's American-based label left them Nettwerk Records was formed to release their album

2 - Remission (Dec 1984) [LP]