Death factory

Ok, here's the story . I used to listen to alot of radio in the early 80's. This was mostly of the commercial Rock variety. Well, one summer night in 1984 I was flipping through the stations on my boom box and went all the way to the left of the fm dial . I heard weird cacophony, noise , tribal sounds , Punk Rock, Hardcore , odd Jazz, and all the other types of music and programming you didn't hear anywhere else. ...... I thought "what the hell is going on here", and "these can't be legitimate radio stations"! It had to be a pirate station I thought or whatever, (I was only 13 then). It was college radio- WZRD and WNUR! I could not believe these were real radio stations! But I listened to those type of stations all through out the 80's and occasionally still do. It literally opened a whole other world to me. I discovered alternative news, political views,artists, became more aware of 'real' culture in general( not crass commercialism and not the same old mainstream clap-trap shit) . Anyway, of all the new forms of music I discovered ,experimental music, noise, and the sound collages of the local Chicago group -Burden of Friendship, was the most fascinating thing I had ever heard up to that point. Various members of that band had radio slots on WZRD. Mainly on Saturdays, roughly from about 1pm until late in the evening /early morning they ruled from about '84-'87/'88. On certain days instead of playing their ecclectic style of music(s) They would turn the studio into one giant noise collage freakout. This was the summer of 1988. Well, a few years later he was looking for new artists for one of his compilations (a 2lp set called "What is Truth Vol. 3") . I gave him one of my early tapes and he used part of it on the record, much to my surprise. That gave me the spark to keep recording. That peice was under my own name, but shortly after chose the name Death Factory, from a Throbbing Gristle (bootleg) record called "Live From Death Factory. " ......

Chicago, IL