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album : wall of noise

After Métal Urbain split up, and with the departure of their lead singer, Claude Panic, Eric Debris helmed two simultaneous projects. Metal Boys was a legit band, while Doctor Mix and the Remix was basically a solo distortion fest, although the other MA members occasionally climbed aboard. Doctor Mix recorded one full-length, one 12" and a couple of compilation tracks, all of which are featured on this reissue along with live cuts, demos and singles.

The LP, titled Wall of Noise, really celebrates the '60s rock to which all manner of punk and post-everything is so deeply indebted. The homage is a literal one, as more than half of the tracks on this CD are covers: The Trogs, the Kinks, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Roxy Music and David Bowie are all given the "Remix" treatment — not to mention some earlier tunes, like a blistering live version of "Hey Joe."

The Doctor Mix disc brings us back, at least for the Wall of Noise LP, into the grinding industriality of "Panic," which was actually an unreleased Métal Urbain take on the Stooges' "No Fun." We are treated here to three versions of that classic brain-melter, each radically different than the others, and their driving work-out of "Sister Ray" is very faithful (I can't help but smile, hearing Débris's heavily accented "busy suckin on a ding-dong").