SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW

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SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW
General information
Genre (s) Techno
founding 1997
resolution 1997
Last occupation
music
Peter Bellendir
text
T. Schroeder
Vocals (samples)
Andrew Eldritch

SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW (generally abbreviated SSV ) was a band formed by Andrew Eldritch for the purpose of freeing his band The Sisters of Mercy from a recording contract with East West Records , a label of the Warner Music Group .

Eldritch posted on the Sisters of Mercy website that the full name of the band could mean "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much A Band As Another Opportunity To Waste Money On Drugs And Ammunition, Courtesy Of The Idiots At Time Warner" .

background

The trigger for the episode about the band SSV were years of disputes between Andrew Eldritch and his record label East West Records, which resulted in Eldritch not delivering any usable work for the label for over seven years. The label, however, refused to terminate the contract. In 1997, EastWest agreed to accept an album from SSV with vocal contributions from Eldritch in exchange for the contractually agreed two Sisters of Mercy albums.

Eldritch's intention was to hand over a non-marketable product with no stylistic resemblance to The Sisters of Mercy to the record company to be released from the contract. The record company accepted the recordings unheard and canceled the contract with Eldritch.

The only ten- track album Go Figure recorded by SSV was unsurprisingly never released. Nevertheless, bootlegs and downloads of the pieces got into circulation. Eldritch called on fans not to buy the album in the event of a release, but to download it on the Internet, since the poor quality is not worth spending money.

The album was produced by two Hamburg musicians named Peter Bellendir (formerly with Xmal Germany ) and T. Schroeder as a commissioned work. Eldritch himself contributed nothing except for a few voice samples . The musicians added techno music to these samples within a very short time . Go Figure consists of ten songs in total. Shortly before the handover to the record company, the percussion tracks were removed, so that the result was “Techno without beats”.

Discography

  • Go Figure (1997, not officially released)

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Individual evidence

  1. Virgin.net Interview with Andrew Eldritch (1997)
  2. Profile Peter Bellendir at CMS Musikschule Hamburg ( Memento from January 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )