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Nocturnal Emissions

Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. The sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilising video art, film, hypertext and other documents. The project was initiated in London in or around 1980 by Nigel Ayers together with collaborators Daniel Ayers and Caroline K. Numerous other members have come & gone. Now based in Cornwall, on a nodal point on the Mary-Michael Ley, the mission continues in some kind of polytantric union with the multiple personalities of one "solo" member and a cast of thousands.

Review: Nigel Ayers' ever-evolving project Nocturnal Emissions is hard to pin down. His tracks move like a quickly evaporating fluid. Gentle drones and vague instrumentation dissipates before it creates a solid foundation. Beats, or any form of rhythm, enter the music as an out-of-place visitor.

Aliases: The Pump, Unit 07

Members: Nigel Ayers, Daniel Ayers, Caroline Kaye Walters

Nocturnal Emissions Discography

Albums
Fruiting Body (3 Versions) Sterile Records 1981       Track Listing
Tissue Of Lies (9 Versions) Sterile Records 1981       Track Listing
Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss (Anthems Of The Meat Generation) (8 Versions) Touch 1983       Track Listing
Viral Shedding (5 Versions) Dark Vinyl Records 1983       Track Listing
Befehlsnotstand (4 Versions) Dark Vinyl Records 1983       Track Listing
Songs Of Love & Revolution (6 Versions) Dark Vinyl Records 1985       Track Listing
The World Is My Womb (4 Versions) Soleilmoon Recordings 1987       Track Listing
Duty Experiment (1982-1984 Years) (2 Versions) Soleilmoon Recordings 1988       Track Listing
Spiritflesh (4 Versions) Earthly Delights 1988       Track Listing
Invocation Of The Beast Gods (4 Versions) Staaltape 1989       Track Listing
Stoneface (6 Versions) Parade Amoureuse 1989       Track Listing
Mouth Of Babes (5 Versions) Earthly Delights 1990       Track Listing
Cathedral (2 Versions) Musica Maxima Magnetica 1991       Track Listing
Energy Exchange (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 1991       Track Listing
Blasphemous Rumours (2 Versions) Staalplaat 1992       Track Listing
Reliquary (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 1992       Track Listing
Magnetized Light (2 Versions) Musica Maxima Magnetica 1993       Track Listing
Music For Butoh (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 1993       Track Listing
The Quickening (3 Versions) Earthly Delights 1993       Track Listing
Transearth (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 1993       Track Listing
Binary Tribe (CD) Staalplaat 1994       Track Listing
Glossalalia (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 1994       Track Listing
Holy Of Holies (3 Versions) Earthly Delights 1994       Track Listing
Autonomia - The Portland Album (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 1996       Track Listing
Friction And Dirt (CD) Staalplaat 1996       Track Listing
The Beauty Of Pollution (CD) Endorphine Factory 1996       Track Listing
Tharmuncrape An'goo (2 Versions) Soleilmoon Recordings 1997       Track Listing
Sunspot Activity (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 1997       Track Listing
Morocco (CDR) Fiend Recordings 1998       Track Listing
Practical Time Travel (CDR) Earthly Delights 1998       Track Listing
Omphalos! (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 1998       Track Listing
Electropunk Karaoke (CDR) Earthly Delights 2000       Track Listing
Futurist Antiquarianism (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 2000       Track Listing
Collateral Salvage (CD) Soleilmoon Recordings 2003       Track Listing
Live In Vienna (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 2005       Track Listing
Ophiuchus (CDR) Earthly Delights 2006       Track Listing
Timeslip (CDR) Earthly Delights 2006       Track Listing
Extraordinary Rendition (7xFile) Earthly Delights 2010       Track Listing
Symmetrical Ecstasy (CDR) Roil Noise Offensive 2011       Track Listing
Compost (CDR) Attenuation Circuit 2012       Track Listing
Spinal Correction Shred (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 2012       Track Listing
Minimal Works (11 Versions) Not On Label 2020       Track Listing
Brixton Uprising (2 Versions) Sterile Records 2021       Track Listing
Esoteric Sedition (CD) 4iB Records 2021       Track Listing
The Partygate Remix (CDR) Not On Label 2022       Track Listing
Erosion Of The Monolith (2 Versions) Nihilist 2022       Track Listing

Singles & EPs
Deathday (2 Versions) Sterile Records 1981       Track Listing
Whisky 23.5.82 (3 Versions) Sterile Records 1982       Track Listing
No Sacrifice / Uprising (2 Versions) Sterile Records 1984       Track Listing
Da Dum (2 Versions) Parade Amoureuse 1989       Track Listing
Imaginary Time (2 Versions) Soleilmoon Recordings 1994       Track Listing
ABC (Alien Black Cat) / Spanferkel (Vinyl) Musical Tragedies 1998       Track Listing
Rock & Roll (Vinyl) Moloko+ 2000       Track Listing
Zeneca / Monsanto (Vinyl) Syntactic 2000       Track Listing
Accumulator (Vinyl, CDR) We Can Elude Control 2013       Track Listing
Stem Cells (Lathe Cut) Old Europa Cafe 2019       Track Listing
Joint Statement #04 (2xFile) Joint Statement, Noise in Opposition 2019       Track Listing

Compilations
In Transmission (Cassette) Earthly Delights 1987       Track Listing
The Seminal Works (12xCassette, Box Set) Earthly Delights 1992       Track Listing
Lest We Forget - Work In Progress 1979-1988 (3 Versions) Vinyl-on-demand 2008       Track Listing
Nocturnal Emissions (3 Versions) Mannequin 2010       Track Listing
In Dub (Vinyl) Holuzam 2022       Track Listing

Videos
Cunty Juice (VHS) Soleilmoon Recordings 1992       Track Listing
Displacement / The Ljeschie (VHS) Earthly Delights, Endorphine Factory       Track Listing

Miscellaneous
Bleeding Images (VHS) Sterile Records 1982       Track Listing
Live In Rome (Cassette) Flowmotion, Sterile Records 1982       Track Listing
Dyskinesia (3 Versions) Sterile Records 1983       Track Listing
Live At Ritzy Brixton 9 June 1983 (2 Versions) Cause For Concern 1983       Track Listing
Live In Berlin, Loft 5.8.1983 (Cassette) Not On Label 1983       Track Listing
Chaos (Vinyl) Cause For Concern 1984       Track Listing
The Fight Goes On (2 Versions) Staaltape 1984       Track Listing
The Foetal Grave Of Progress (2 Versions) Sterile Records 1984       Track Listing
ICA London 9th August 1985 (Cassette) Sterile Records 1985       Track Listing
Shake Those Chains Rattle Those Cages (Vinyl) Sterile Records 1985       Track Listing
Beyond Logic, Beyond Belief (2 Versions) Earthly Delights 1990       Track Listing
Live At The Albany Art Gallery (Cassette) Earthly Delights 1991       Track Listing
Utrecht 1991 (Cassette) Earthly Delights 1991       Track Listing
World Turning (Cassette) SSS Productions 1991       Track Listing
Gargoyle Mechanique (Cassette) Earthly Delights 1993       Track Listing
Sea Channel: Transmission One (VHS) Soleilmoon Recordings 1993       Track Listing
Magnetizdat 96:1 (3 Versions) Earthly Delights 1996       Track Listing
Revolutionary Industrial Trance (Cassette) Earthly Delights 1998       Track Listing
Kultur-Reflex (CDR) Asekk 1999       Track Listing
Mort Aux Vaches (CD) Mort Aux Vaches 2000       Track Listing
Nightscapes (Vinyl) SmallVoices 2006       Track Listing
Engine Room Glow (CDR) Tosom 2010       Track Listing
4 Way Split Vol. 1 (3 Versions) Brain Ticket Death 2018       Track Listing
First Live Performance (6xFile) Not On Label 2021       Track Listing
Vienna 1991 (Cassette) Earthly Delights       Track Listing
    

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