This minimal, cold wave thing or what you would call it, rocks even more ever here 30 years after - and let me tell you why; because the minimal aesthetic structures in the music connects with our brain's basic, hardwired way of funtioning. In a certain view aesthetics is nothing than a meta emotion or an emotion used to control an emotion (or feeling) - so music, defined as aesthetics, functions as a control system we can use (implicitly or explicitly) in the control of our emotions, that is, the minimal structures communicate in an evolutionary significant way with basic parts of our emotional brain. This definition also explains why so much music sucks big time and is totally useless - it communicate nothing evolutionary significant to our emotional brain. However, what we witness with this Portion Control song and its minimal, "less is more" synth structure, is what I would call ABSOLUTE BRAIN CONTROL! Fuck me and my brain, this rocks in a very deep and evolutionary significant way (e.g. it gives you energy and makes you happy)
Oldschool EBM is the best EBM!!!
This slaps. Sleazy and impossible to not dance to and loop for as long as possible.
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ruclips.net/video/GjH0t6foKUE/видео.html Very well done!
Raw, in your face this is the shit!
Okay, this sounds a hell of a lot more what I liked about their sound in 1983/4 than the stuff that came after that. This, I can get behind.
Totally agree.
Simply adore this band ❤️❤️❤️❤️
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ruclips.net/video/GjH0t6foKUE/видео.html Very well done!
They supported Depeche Mode (Some Great Reward tour 1984)
Yaaay! More Portion Control please! I had the clear album once upon a time...
Wow ! that's my new favourite sound
wow, their first ep was so good
Bloody great
This minimal, cold wave thing or what you would call it, rocks even more ever here 30 years after - and let me tell you why; because the minimal aesthetic structures in the music connects with our brain's basic, hardwired way of funtioning. In a certain view aesthetics is nothing than a meta emotion or an emotion used to control an emotion (or feeling) - so music, defined as aesthetics, functions as a control system we can use (implicitly or explicitly) in the control of our emotions, that is, the minimal structures communicate in an evolutionary significant way with basic parts of our emotional brain. This definition also explains why so much music sucks big time and is totally useless - it communicate nothing evolutionary significant to our emotional brain. However, what we witness with this Portion Control song and its minimal, "less is more" synth structure, is what I would call ABSOLUTE BRAIN CONTROL! Fuck me and my brain, this rocks in a very deep and evolutionary significant way (e.g. it gives you energy and makes you happy)
I agree with you
Perfect!!
Great track!
The style has resurfaced in RetroWave as "Hellsynth" .. thought we did this already? (Hellektro?)
..... dommage que ce groupe ne tourne pas en France.
sublime*****
This and Numb dirt is my favorite
No Nitzer Ebb if these guys never existed.
No NIN, no Combichrist, no Suicide Commando...
The OGs
Blast!
combi who??
So und nicht anders
Exactly!
Portion Control did music even before Cabaret Voltaire and Skinny Puppy
Nonsense. Cabaret Voltaire first began recording in 1973, and Skinny Puppy began about the same time Portion Control did, not later.
Cabaret Voltaire was making music back in 1974!! They were formed in 73. Skinny puppy maybe.. Only by a few months or a year at most.
Their first record was Simulate Sensual
ibridolibidopeccatorium
I don't wanna Like this because it's at 666 now.
FUCK YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS
welche 9 Arschgeigen finden das schlecht???
_THE VOCALS RUIN IT._
but.. no they dont? :P
Fuck no, this is electropunk at its absolute best