4X12

4X12 | ^{The Anti Group}

This TAG / THE ANTI GROUP CD A5 DIGIPACK Album contains two exclusive original unreleased RMXs by Richard H Kirk, which have been produced and developed by Adi Newton in 2019. Remastered by Jacque Beloeil for Anterior Research / Peripheral Minimal Records.

CD also includes a 16-page Facsimile of the original Booklets included with HA / ZULU / ShT. The CD comes in an A5 digipak and is limited to 500 copies.

Adi Newton wrote in 2019: “The 4 x 12 / 45 were conceived to represent, “The Symbolism of The Great Work” (Latin: Magnum opus), which is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher’s stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition, attached to laboratory processes and chemical colour changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as a device in art and literature. The magnum opus has been carried forward in New Age and neo-Hermetic movements which sometimes attached new symbolism and significance to the processes. The Booklet goes further into the Occult and Esoteric ideas that TAG where researching and implementing into these recordings in 1985/86.”

Obsolete Capitalism writes: “An invaluable collection of the dazzling 12″ EPs released in the 80s on Sweatbox Records by THE ANTI GROUP. A furious period, full of post-surrealist manifestos, ÜberDada postures, booklets full of avant-garde provocations and theoretical research from occult sources and marginal knowledge. An early apprenticeship at the court of Cabaret Voltaire, Genesis P-Orridge, William Burroughs and the most radical industrial-funk wave, has led this handful of TAG singles to become cult sound objects and, at the same time, a space-time vessel of an admirable season that can no longer be repeated. Noise, funk, electronics, the first rudiments of horizontal sampledelia mixed with dark tones, jazz existentialism and punk attitude: this is the dangerous mixture of a still relevant part of the music we favour as reactive listening. 4X12 is a mammoth work to be handled with care. It contains 11 tracks with a total duration of 70:07.”