La Noche del Anhidrido

Remastered reissue from an old tape (1987)
“Summer 1988: I exactly remember the day when I received a parcel from Miguel with the first tape by ‘Funeral Souvenir’. When I played it the first time in my cassette-deck I immediately felt pure euphory, trembling excitement and fascination: the clattering rhythm produced by ZX spectrum computer processed by Ibanez analogue delay, the muddy radio- and TV-voices, sombre ambient loops and uneasy feedbacks…’Funeral Souvenir’ belongs to the most intense and dramatic releases by Miguel A. Ruiz and must be considered as one of the most influencial proto-industrial-releases from Spain. The album is very direct, radical! ‘Schlamm’ and ‘Doppler Maxima’ clearly show the listener where the hunt begins: an apocalyptic information-overdose of radiovoices from reporters and politicians, shredded by machinistic rotations. One of my alltime favourite albums.”