Never Say Whern: Broken Flag (remastered) CD

When it was first released on pioneering industrial/noise imprint Broken Flag in 1987, Never Say When only appeared on vinyl and cassette (the latter with two extra tracks). Now, this cult compilation from label artists and like-minded artists has finally landed on CD - with all ten tracks from the tape version on show. It remains a fine and far-sighted collection, with the assembled artists variously offering up unearthly ambient (Ramleh, Cranioclast, Controlled Breathing), densely layered collage type soundscapes (Uncommunity, Jonathan Briley), unsettling noise experiments (Total, The Grey Wolves), field recordings heavy proto-drone (Andrew Chalk) and sample and speech heavy oddities (Mauro Teho Teardo, whose album-closing track sounds like a weirder Space/Chill Out-era KLF production).