| Product Code: | PROD 1 |
| Artist: | Fetus Productions |
| Origin: | EU |
| Label: | Red Rhino Records (1985) |
| Format: | 12 Inch EP |
| Availability: | Enquire Now |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG
Record: VG+
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| Genre: | Electronic U |
Very nice clean vinyl with a smart cover showing minor shelf wear and small sticker remains.
Formed late in 1980 as a spinoff from the sparking embers of NZ’s definitive art-punk band The Features, Fetus Productions initially comprised Jed Town, with new recruits Sarah "Serum" Fort and Mike Brookfield. The Features' Karel van Bergen and James Pinker would join the band within a few months to record their debut album.
The original concept, as the name implies, included a production of sound and visuals, hence the group’s debut “exhibition” featuring Brookfield’s screen prints of human deformities.
The first show, without van Bergen and Pinker, was at Auckland University's Elam School of Art at the end of 1980.
The group moved to Sydney in 1981, where they recorded and self-released their first album, which sounded like recordings from within a hellish insane asylum. When Pinker and van Bergen moved to Melbourne and then England to work with SPK and Dead Can Dance, Jed Town became the guiding force behind the more song-oriented Fetus Productions on the 1983 12-inch EP Fetalmania and its startling alternative hit ‘What’s Going On’. A further EP, Perfect Product, was to follow, and it contained another classic ‘Flicker’; and finally in 1985, the Luminous Trails album.
