During Genesis P-Orridge and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson visits to Burroughs, he would play back his tape recorder experiments featuring his spoken word "cut-ups", collaged field recordings from his travels and his flirtations with EVP recording techniques, pioneered by Latvian intellectual Konstantins Raudive. Over the following year, P-Orridge, Christopherson and Grauerholz spent countless hours compiling various edits, each collection showcasing Burroughs sensitive ear and experimental prowess for audio anomaly within technical limitations. In early 1981, Burroughs had relocated to Lawrence, KS to escape the violence and manias of New York City life. There, P-Orridge and Christopherson put the finishing touches on the record that would be known as Nothing Here Now but the Recordings.
Tracklist:
1 Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard
2 The Saints Go Marching Through All the Popular Tunes
3 Summer Will
4 Outside the Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles
5 The Total Taste Is Here - News Cut-Up
6 Choral Section, Backwards
7 We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People
8 Just Checking Your Summer Recordings
9 Creepy Letter - Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris
10 Inching - Is This Machine Recording?
11 Handkerchief Masks - News Cut-Up
12 Word Falling - Photo Falling
13 Throat Microphone Experiment
14 It's About Time to Identify Oven Area
15 Last Words of Hassan Sabbah
Released in Spring 1981, the album would end up as the final release on Industrial Records, brought about by the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle. It was quietly out of print until 1998, when John Giorno and the Giorno Poetry Systems included the album on a retrospective CD box set, which compiled the majority of Burroughs's seminal recordings.
