ATTRITION are pioneers in a darker electronica. Formed in 1980 in Coventry, England, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics, they emerged as part of the early '80's UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Coil, Test Department, Legendary Pink Dots, In The Nursery, Portion Control et al. Founder Martin Bowes has steered the band through a 30 year career, fuelled by a succession of critically acclaimed albums... a selling over 100,000 to date.
The band has regularly toured Europe, North America and South America, Russia and Asia, appeared at major festivals and had their music included on a number of TV and film soundtracks... (recently two of their songs are included on the US cult film "Mint in box" alongside the Pogues...
Through their career Attrition have worked with musicians as diverse as psychedelic veterans The Legendary Pink Dot’s to punk legend TV Smith to Franck Dematteis of the Paris Opera.
Attrition’s music has featured on countless releases - from 1984’s "Bullshit detector 3" on Crass records to the hugely successful "Animal liberation" album alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich etc...
Their song "Acid Tongue" featured on KTEL’s Industrial story CD - a who’s who of industrial music with Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, Neubauten et al...
In Germany Orkus magazine’s Best of the 90’s collection featured their darkwave classic "A girl called harmony"...
Attrition’s work been remixed by underground artists from an eclectic mix of genres including Chris n Cosey, Martin Atkins, Dance or Die and drum n bass act Rascal & Klone.
Martin’s increasing studio production work at his studio, The Cage, has included mixes for The Damage Manual (Martin Atkins, Jah Wobble, Geordie Walker, Chris Connelly et al...), Die Form, In the Nursery, Black tape for a blue girl, Mona Mur/En Esch and mastering for countless bands and labels...
He contributes synths and vocals on a song on the last Pigface album, is recording the narrators voice to a US horror film, "C for Chaos", and has written the score to upcoming horror feature G.H.O.S.T from Mutantville productions...
ATTRITION are currently touring in support of their current album... "the unraveller of angels..."
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