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Raw Electronics Without Compromise: Portion Control on 47 Years of Industrial Synthesis
South London Industrial Pioneers Portion Control Break Down Their 77-Track Retrospective Transmission 421: Interview with Portion Control Formed in South London in 1979 amidst the immediate debris of post-punk, Portion Control approached electronic instrumentation not as a proxy for traditional musicianship, but as a direct vector for raw, unvarnished sound manipulation. Operating outside conventional industry structures from their early base in Kennington, the group bypassed formal composition in favour of heavy hardware sequencing, aggressive tonal sculpting, and early sampling via systems like the Greengate DS:3. Their work from this era, driven by the harsh, rhythmic frameworks of the 1982 debut…
