tracks

Part I. Piano And Clarinet
Part II. 23 Tibetan Human Thigh Bones
Part III. Cowbell, Bicycle Wheels And Vibes
Part IV. New Guinea Headhunters Pipe, Large And Small Drum
Part V. Piano And String Machine
Part VI. Recording Made At Jonestown, Guyana At The Time Of The Suicides
Part VII. African Initiation Drum And Animal Tusk Horn
Part VIII. Various Temple Bells, Gongs, Cymbals And Vibes
Themes 2 Part One
Themes 2 Part Two
Themes 2 Part Three
Unclean
Mirrors
Unclean Monks
The Loops Of Mystical Union
Elipse Of Flowers
Mylar Bees (Parts 1 And 2)
Mylar Bees (Part 3)
Prayer For Derek
Rites Of Reversal
Untitled
Untitled
A Previously Unheard Alternate Version Of The Set Of Themes 3
I'm Making A Mirror
I Like My Holidays (A Children's Story)
Gobbledegook
Mother Jack (A Children's Story)
Candy Factory
I Love You, I Know
This Is The Final War
Thee Degenerate
She Touched Me
Unclean
Riot In Thee Eye Ov Sky
Southern Comfort
Roman P.
Retinal
Ov Power
Godstar

notes

Comprises a six CD set of the Themes releases in gatefold slipcases with unseen photographs.
Each CD is housed in a black inner sleeve with a Psychic TV cross spot varnished on both sides.
Also included is a twenty four page booklet with archive photographs and liner notes.

This edition is available only directly from the label on pre-order and includes a bonus CD 'Live In Basildon' recorded in 1986.
The bonus CD is limited to 1,000 copies according to the label owner Justin Mitchell.

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• CD1: Thanks are due to Rod at Fetish Records who made this recording at Jacobs Studios possible. 
Closing message a "Zuccarelli Holophonic" TM Recording with the assistance of Mike King.
• CD2: Recorded at The Building Site in 1984. Cut at Utopia. 
Remastered September 2010 @ Skye Mastering, UK .
Cover photo: the Spirit Dance of the Mescalero Apaches.
• CD3: Remastered at Jhopdi Studios, San Rafael, California in August 1993.
• CD4: Presented by Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (UK & USA) Sunday 22 April 1984 & Monday 23 April 1984 Club 950, Chicago U.S.A. 
Sponsored By Antidote Radio & Frank Rothschild.
While there are actually only two tracks on the CD, the tracklisting is given as follows (track 1 includes 1 to 5, track 2 includes 6 to 11):
1. Culture
2. News
3. Drama
4. Nature
5. Science
6. Implant
7. Analgesia
8. Catalepsy
9. Reverie
10. Placebo
11. Induction
• CD5: Recorded 22nd April 1984 at 'Eventwoks', Boston Massachusetts College of Arts, Massachusetts, USA.
• CD6: Thanks to Todd Crawford for the photograph of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge taken for Swoon Magazine in 2007. Themes 4 is previously unreleased.
• CD7: recorded July 13 1986 - Basildon Peace Festival - Gloucester Park, Basildon UK.

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Cold Spring thanks: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ryan Martin, Steve Pittis, John Gosling, Joanne Maxwell, Abby Helasdottir, Matthew Best, Bryin Dall, Jeff Mortimer, Denis Blackham, Peter Ashworth, Sara Vannacci, Joe Stelpaert.

Manufacturing: steve@enconahead.com.

This box set © Cold Spring 2011. The standart edition set comprises a six CD set of the Themes releases in Gatefold slipcases with unseen photographs.

Each inner sleeve is black with a Psychic TV cross spot varnished on both sides.

Also included is a twenty four page booklet with archive photographs and liner notes.

Themes 4 is previously unreleased.

CD1:
This record, Psychic TV Themes contains recordings made by Initiates of The Temple of Psychick Youth to accompany portions of the First Transmission, another PTV product. Although it is primarily soundtrack music, we have found that even on its own, its effects are considerable. Strange things happen. For that reason, and to demonstrate that our work is not governed by normal stylistic restrictions, it is included in this package. Almost all the instruments used were acoustic but many of them have specifically ritual or Psychic properties and that is why we chose to use them. Certainly the illogical intensity of these recordings far exceeds thos made with conventional acoustic instruments.
The music itself was designed not only as soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Funcional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool.
Thanks are due to Rod at Fetish Records who made this recording at Jacobs Studios possible.
Closing message a "Zuccarelli Holophonic" TM Recording with the assistance of Mike King.

CD2:
Recorded at The Building Site in 1984. Cut at Utopia.
Remastered September 2010 @ Skye Mastering, UK
Cover photo: the Spirit Dance of the Mescalero Apaches.

CD3:
Remastered at Jhopdi Studios, San Rafael, California in August 1993

CD4:
Presented by Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (UK & USA) Sunday 22 April 1984 & Monday 23 April 1984 Club 950, Chicago U.S.A.
Sponsored By Antidote Radio & Frank Rothschild.

CD5:
Recorded 22nd April 1984 at 'Eventwoks', Boston Massachusetts College of Arts, Massachusetts, USA.

On Easter Sunday, 22nd April 1984, Psychic TV, as composed of Genesis P-Orridge and John Gosling, gave a performance at the Longwood Theatre of the Massachusetts College of Art. This Unholy event for the holy weekend entirely consisted of a presentation of pre-recorded audio and video tape, with the exception of a brief selection when Gen plinked a few notes on a piano along with a tape loop of Aleister Crowley chanting to evoke demons. The videos presented including a COUM Transmission performance from '77 with penisses and clitorises pierced, other assorted bondage and discipline films, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Roman Polanski, Brion Gyson's Dreammachine in operation, and the final video was a PTV production, "Terminus" which treats the subject of people who have given up hope. The audio inckudes both finished PTV and Throbbing Gristle pieces plus tapes mixed during the performance. These were primarily tapes of various religious and mystical rituals at their peaks put on loops.
This event also involved another sister event which took place the previous Good Friday in Reykjavik, Iceland. It was hoped that there might be a "Psychick" influence between the two, that remains to be seen.

CD6:
Thanks to Todd Crawford for the photograph of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge taken for Swoon Magazine in 2007.
The standart edition set comprises a six CD set of the Themes releases in Gatefold slipcases with unseen photographs.

Each inner sleeve is black with a Psychic TV cross spot varnished on both sides.

Also included is a twenty four page booklet with archive photographs and liner notes.

Themes 4 is previously unreleased.

CD1:
This record, Psychic TV Themes contains recordings made by Initiates of The Temple of Psychick Youth to accompany portions of the First Transmission, another PTV product. Although it is primarily soundtrack music, we have found that even on its own, its effects are considerable. Strange things happen. For that reason, and to demonstrate that our work is not governed by normal stylistic restrictions, it is included in this package. Almost all the instruments used were acoustic but many of them have specifically ritual or Psychic properties and that is why we chose to use them. Certainly the illogical intensity of these recordings far exceeds thos made with conventional acoustic instruments.
The music itself was designed not only as soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Funcional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool.
Thanks are due to Rod at Fetish Records who made this recording at Jacobs Studios possible.
Closing message a

credits

Engineer – Ken Thomas (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Nains (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Instruments – David Tibet (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Peter Christopherson (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Stan Bingo (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8)
Layout – Abby Helasdottir
Liner Notes – Genesis P-Orridge, Larry Thrasher
Mastered By – Steve Angel (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Mixed By – Ken Thomas (tracks: 2-4 to 2-6)
Performer – Alex Fergusson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 7-1 to 7-9), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 4-1 to 5-1, 7-1 to 7-9), John Gosling (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 4-1 to 5-1), Mark Sanger Man, (tracks: 4-1, 4-2), Matthew Best (tracks: 7-1 to 7-9), Monte Cazazza (tracks: 4-1, 4-2), Mouse (2) (tracks: 7-1 to 7-9), Phillip Erb, (tracks: 7-1 to 7-9)
Photography By [Images On Pages 17 And 18 - Image For Cd5] – Mick Mercer
Photography By [Images On Pages 2 And 23] – Peter Ashworth
Producer – Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4, 3-6), Ken Thomas (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Psychic TV (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8)
Remastered By – Denis Blackham (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 3-1 to 3-6), Larry Thrasher (tracks: 3-1 to 3-6)
Engineer – Ken Thomas (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Nains (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Instruments [Played By] – David Tibet (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Peter Christopherson (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Stan Bingo (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8)
Mastered By – Steve Angel (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Mixed By – Ken Thomas (tracks: 2-4 to 2-6)
Performer [Performed By] – Alex Fergusson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), John Gosling (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Performer [Psychic Tv] – Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 5-1 to 5-9), John Gosling (tracks: 5-1 to 5-9)
Performer [Representing Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (t.o.p.y.u.k.)] – Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 4-1a to 4-2f), John Gosling (tracks: 4-1a to 4-2f)
Performer [Representing Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (t.o.p.y.u.s.)] – Mark Sanger Man, (tracks: 4-1a to 4-2f), Monte Cazazza (tracks: 4-1a to 4-2f)
Photography By [Cover Image] – Mick Mercer (tracks: CD5)
Producer – Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Ken Thomas (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Psychic TV (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8)
Producer [All Music Transmissions] – Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 3-1 to 3-6)
Producer [Co-producer] – Larry Thrasher (tracks: 3-5)
Remastered By – Denis Blackham (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Genesis P-Orridge (tracks: 3-1 to 3-6), Larry Thrasher (tracks: 3-1 to 3-6)

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