Description
This is the first-ever compilation bringing together Nigel Ayers’ solo work and his long-running project Nocturnal Emissions. Covering recordings from the early 1980s up to 2024, it spans more than four decades of experimental sound.
Nocturnal Emissions is recognized as one of the earliest and most uncompromising industrial/noise groups, standing alongside Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire. Their sound sits at the intersection of raw industrial electronics, noise, and electronic Dada, fusing harsh textures, tape collage, and rhythm in a constantly evolving hybrid form.
The compilation, fully remastered in Tokyo, traces the major phases of Nocturnal Emissions and Nigel Ayers’ work, spanning raw, confrontational noise rooted in the squatting scene and anti-capitalist protest of the early 1980s; the rhythm-driven period that brought dancefloor energy to industrial grit; and Ayers’ later solo “Neotantric” phase of ambient, ritualistic sound exploring magick, ancient beliefs and altered states while carrying forward a spirit of subversion and transcendence that remains entirely intact decades later. Across these eras, the collection captures the full breadth of Ayers’ creative journey and moves between intense, layered noise and quiet, atmospheric soundscapes blending field recordings, spoken word, electronics, and collage.
1. Nigel Ayers / Tangled Clumps 02:13
From Excavations in Substation (2024)
Words and music by Nigel Ayers.
2. Nocturnal Emissions / 04 06:37
From Music for Butoh (1992)
Music made for the performance of Transearth by Poppo and the Go Go Boys.
Recorded live in La MaMa Theater, New York City, USA, October 1992.
Music composed and performed by Nigel Ayers
Originally released in 1993, edited and digitally mastered in June 2005.
3. Nigel Ayers / Nonsite Observatory 05:35
From Painted by Spirits (2019)
Electroacoustic instruments played by Nigel Ayers.
Recorded in Cornwall, October 2019.
4. Nigel Ayers / The Wise Wound 04:13
From Omega Earth Electrode (2019)
Sounds of Cornwall's industrial heritage recorded and processed by Nigel Ayers.
5. Nocturnal Emissions / Vegetation Narration 05:28
From The World is my Womb (1987)
Composed by Caroline K.
Text, narration and instruments played by Nigel Ayers.
6. Nocturnal Emissions / Night Sky 10:25
From Imaginary Time (1994)
Acoustic instruments played by Charlotte Bill.
Disarranged and decomposed by Nigel Ayers.
7. Nocturnal Emissions / Sealing a Phase 04:46
From The World is my Womb (1987)
Composition and instruments played by Caroline K.
Text and narration by Nigel Ayers.
8. Nocturnal Emissions / Rusting Shells 06:04
From Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages (1985)
Recorded in the studios of the Emission Control during November 1984.
Text and Voice by Caroline K. and Nigel Ayers.
9. Nocturnal Emissions / Sperm Count 04:19
From Befehlsnotstand (1983)
Recorded The Emission Control, London, England in 1983 and remixed in 1992.
Composed by Caroline K. and Nigel Ayers.
10. Nocturnal Emissions / When Were You Last in Control of Your Dreams and Aspirations ? 4:12
From Tissue of Lies (1981)
Computer and Synthetizer by Daniel Ayers.
Voice, Bass, Synthesizer and rythm by Caroline K.
Voice, Guitar, Violin and Tape by Nigel Ayers.
Recorded in South London in 1980.
11. Nocturnal Emissions / Never Give Up 4:53
From Songs of Love and Revolution (1985)
Music and voice by Caroline K.
Lyrics and voice by Nigel Ayers
12. Nocturnal Emissions / Golgotha 07:23
From Omphalos! (1998)
Decomposed and disarranged by Nigel Ayers.
13. Nigel Ayers / A Small Rectangle 02:42
From Excavations in Substation (2024)
Words and music by Nigel Ayers
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