The Pleasure Elite

The Pleasure Elite's 5th full length CD "Jabber" is a departure from the normal process of making an album.
Jabber is based on 3 of the works of China Mieville (Perdido Street Station, The Scar and The Iron Council). With Jabber The Pleasure Elite will not only be doing an interpretation musically but artistically as well.
Each song will become available as a one of a kind piece of art with the song embedded in the artwork. We will document each song from beginning to end artistically and the purchaser of the piece will be the sole owner of the piece, the song and the full processes that went into making it all come together.
The first piece "Don't Cross The Line" will slowly be unveiled as we progress, starting with sketches and song snippets. As well as the what the song is based on.
In the coming weeks you can track our progress and bid on the first piece through our website.
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The Pleasure Elite bumped and ground their way across the US and Europe for over a decade and except for maybe a need for rain slickers, they really didn't have much in common with any band from Seattle.
TPE employed a ton of influences and stylistic variations from metal, punk, industrial, hip-hop, and country. Before any character with the initials M.M. and long before Limp Bizkit entered the entertainment consciousness, TPE incorporated more than a handful of seedy elements into their industrial-metallized musical base. The Pleasure Elite, a collective of S&M junkies, offered listeners a much more adult version of shock rock.
The band featured an abundance of rhythmic riffing, fairly straightforward song pacing and the slightly disturbed vocals of The Rev V. Blast. The lyrics often took on very twisted subjects (particularly the bouncy, hoppy "Twist on This", which is a little ditty about a social predator freshly released from a mental institution) as well as a touch of a social conscience ("Media Feed, In The Belly"). The band also knew how to place good hooks in the songs to keep them catchy.
TPE released 3 Full length CD's (Bad Juju - 2 versions), Brutal Tutu (Recorded Live at RKCNDY), Hog Tied and an EP (Pacifier). They were on numerous compilations and put out 2 7" singles (Scapegoat b/w All American Kisses and Guilty b/w Blackmeat).



more soon, you fucks