Manufacture (band)

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Manufacture was an electronic body music group from Boston, Massachusetts, who released two albums on Nettwerk between 1988 and 1991. [1] They are best known for their 1988 debut single "As the End Draws Near", a collaboration with labelmate Sarah McLachlan. [1]

The band was formed when Brian Bothwell, a video artist and student at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts heard a song by electronic musician Perry Geyer on the radio and contacted Geyer to offer to make a video. [1] They began performing around Boston with a show that consisted of instrumental electronic body music with experimental video projections. [1]

After signing to Nettwerk, they met McLachlan soon after beginning to record their debut album in Vancouver, British Columbia; [1] she was recording her debut album Touch for Nettwerk at the same time. After being invited to contribute vocals to a track they were working on, she returned the next day with the lyrics to "As the End Draws Near". [1] The song was included in its original form on the band's 1988 debut album Terrorvision, and on a 12" single featuring an extended remix which was later included on McLachlan's 1996 compilation album Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff . [2] The band's original proposal for the video would have featured McLachlan portraying the sole survivor of a nuclear apocalypse; however, Nettwerk did not have the budget to fly McLachlan to Boston for filming, and so a different video concept was pursued. [1]

The band released its second album Voice of World Control in 1991, [3] but subsequently broke up. [1]

Bothwell went on to direct music videos for other artists. [1] Geyer became a member of The Sky Dwellers, a trance group which also included Greg Hawkes of The Cars. [4] He bought The Cars' Syncro Sound studios, and continued to operate it as CyberSound Studios. [1]

Discography

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ariana Paoletti, "Manufacture Brought European Industrial EBM to Boston". Noisey , October 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ Peter Howell, "Sarah McLachlan: Rarities, B-Sides And Other Stuff". Toronto Star , June 22, 1996.
  3. ↑ "New Releases: Manufacture, 'Voice of World Control'". The State , April 5, 1991.
  4. ↑ David Wildman, "Cyberculture steers a 6-hour marathon". Boston Globe , November 26, 1995.
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