Splinter Test
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Splinter Test was used as group name for Larry Thrasher
Larry Thrasher
Larry Thrasher is an American experimental musician, remixer, and producer. [] Thrasher was an important member of Psychic TV, Thee Majesty and Splinter Test. In addition, Thrasher is in collaboration with Kim Cascone on the experimental noise project Thessalonians. He is credited under the...

 and Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...

. The name was first used for a box set of reissue of the more experimental material by Psychic TV
Psychic TV
Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...

, and then it was used to issue the spoken words projects of Psychic TV
Psychic TV
Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...

 or their instrumental music, before the foundation of Thee Majesty
Thee Majesty
In 1998, Genesis P-Orridge was ending his association with the name Psychic TV, the band he created after the termination of Throbbing Gristle. At the same time, he began conceptualizing Thee Majesty as a spoken word-based project springing from his Splinter Test project with PTV alumnus Larry...

. The name refers to an essay on sampling as holographic magick by P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...

.

Discography

  • Splinter Test 1 Box Set (1993)
    • Disc A: Elipse Ov Flowers
      Themes 2
      -Reissued CD:PSYCHIC TV THEMES 2: A PRAYER FOR DEREK JARMAN, Cold Spring Records, CSR20CD, 1997#The Loops of Mystical Union#Elipse of Flowers#Mylar Breeze#*Part 1#*Part 2#*Part 3#Prayer for Derek#Rites of Reversal-notes:LP, Temple Records TOPY 004...

    • Disc B: Tarot Ov Abomination
    • Disc C: Stained By Dead Horses
  • Splinter Test 2 Box Set (1993)
    • Disc D: Mouth Ov Thee Knight
      Mouth of the Night
      Mouth Of The Night is a soundtrack album composed, produced and recorded by the band Psychic TV as commissioned by Micha Bergese of MANTIS Dance Group to compliment one of their ballets....

    • Disc E: Sugarmorphoses
      Sugarmorphoses
      Sugarmorphoses is an album credited to "Psychic TV & Genesis P-Orridge", although P-Orridge is the primary member of PTV. The album was released as Disc "E" of the 6 disc "Splinter Test" box set.-Track listing:#"Decoder - Muzak For Frogs" - 3:21...

    • Disc F: Cold Dark Matter
      Cold Dark Matter
      Cold Dark Matter is a remixed, reedited CD version of the Psychic TV album Themes, originally included with WEA/Some Bizzare 12" vinyl release of Force The Hand Of Chance.-Credits:Produced, Composed, Mixed and Edited by Genesis P-Orridge....

  • Thee Fractured Garden (1996)
  • Spatial Memory (1996)
  • Electric Newspaper Issue Four: The Human Voice (1997)
  • Sulphur - Low Seed Replication (1997)
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