357:. Other acts included Risqué, who were a French/Welsh electronic group made up of Nathalie and Huw Williams. Their music consisted of robust driving rhythms and ethereal vocals. They record their music in a studio based in Barcelona. Huw Williams is a well established producer working with bands like "Rubikon" and "Rookie". The album
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box for would-be-signings to go through the solemn hand-over of demo tapes. Stevo was also partial to aggressively insulting young record shop employees at this time, should they be unfortunate enough to be working in a shop that sold Coil's recordings (the recordings that they made money from at
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The second word of the name is spelt "Bizzare", not "Bizarre". Pearce said: "I like ambiguities. It's Some
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track "God Shaped Hole", recorded by the newly reformed band. The compilation also saw the inclusion of two tracks recorded by
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460:Pedro INF
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