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NUMB is the brainchild of Don Gordon after his previous musical adventures in Pin-ups, Images In Vogue (also starring drummer Kevin Crompton a.k.a. Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key) and Proof By Nine.Co-founded with Sean Stubbs and David Hall the band started in 1986 as an art project designed to address issues of social desensitization, releasing their first limited edition cassette Blue Light in 1987.



Their debut selftitled LP came out the same year , a terrifying assortment of emotional assaults: confusion, anger, and alienation taking musical forms and ravaging the senses.

Sean Stubbs/Sean St. Hubb was the first lead vocalist for NUMB, during the 90's he played drums on several subsequent tours in Europe and the U.S.



Christmeister, released in 1989, took a much more aggressive stance than their debut. With their electronic approach being augmented by aggressive guitars and lyrics spewed forth in a torrent of tuneful howls from madman Blair Dobson ripped apart the emotional stability of its listeners.In 1993, NUMB's third CD, Death On The Installment Plan was released upon the unsuspecting public. This album was described as a "high-intensity blast of near madness" with guitars, synthetics and vocals by Conan Hunter working in a near-perfect collusion.

The following year, NUMB's mini-CD Fixate was released, including remixes from Death On The Installment Plan and several live tracks. 1994 also saw the release of Wasted Sky, a post-apocalyptic vision of technology as religion, of truth as virtual reality.

After Wasted Sky, Don Gordon added The Fourth Man David Collings to its ranks, and had the opportunity to hone their skills on the road. Koro is a documentation of the band's live power, recorded in Japan in 1995.

The band released Blood Meridian in late 1997: a collection of primal dance fury, pure electronics sans guitar, electronica with attitude; and followed it up the following year with Language Of Silence, a CD guaranteed to fill dance floors with new and old fans, all the while keeping the mediocrity of mainstream techno at bay with its uncompromising harshness and brilliant arrangements. A mini-CD with 5 remixes of the track Suspended followed.



NUMB has also appeared on several compilations like the Operation Beatbox CD with their cover of Salt 'n Pepa's Push It or on the Electronic Lust V.2 compilation with their rendition of Goblin's Suspiria theme from the Dario Argento movie.

In 1993 the first part of Gregg Araki's stylistic teen-angst triology, Totally F***ed Up was released, the film's soundtrack featured a.o. Coil, Ministry and NUMB with the tracks Headcrash and Shithammer



Don Gordon did some remixes for a.o. Dive, Esplendor Geométrico and The Klinik; took care of the production for some Lung releases (two 7" singles and the cassette/CD release Magnium Opiate) and composed scores for two short films: A Dream Of Naming (a German-Canadian co-production) and Six Hundred Million Breaths (a Canadian independent short). Soundtracks were completed for the play Photographic Memories which premiered at the Vancouver New Play Festival and for the performance piece, Blood Of The Lambs structured loosely upon the traditional requiem which was presented with Madeleine Morris at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.



RELEASES



1987 Blue Light Cassette Burning Records



1987 Numb

LP Edge Records



1987 Numb

LP Lively Art



1989 Christmeister

CD Lively Art



1989 Christmeister

LP Lively Art



1990 Christmeister

CD Oceana Records



1991 Bliss

CD5" Oceana Records



1992 Numb

CD KK Records

1993 Death On The Installment Plan

CD Re-constriction Records



1993 Death On The Installment Plan

CD KK Records



1993 Fixate EP

CD KK Records



1994 Wasted Sky

CD Metropolis



1994 Wasted Sky

CD KK Records



1996 Christmeister / Bliss

CD Metropolis



1996 Christmeister / Bliss

CD KK Records



1996 Koro

CD Gift



1997 Blind

CD5" Metropolis



1997 Blood Meridian

CD Metropolis



1997 Blood Meridian

CD KK Records



1997 Numb

CD Metropolis



1998 Desire / Blind Remixes

CD KK Records



1998 Language Of Silence

CD Metropolis



1998 Language Of Silence

CD Zoth Ommog



1998 Suspended

CD5" Metropolis



REMIXES



1995 Christian Death - Panic In Detroit (Numb Remix) Christian Death - Death In Detroit

CD Cleopatra



1995 Spirit Of The West - Tell Me What I Think (???)

Spirit Of The West - Tell Me What I Think

CDS WEA Records



1996 Deathline International - Open Your Eyes (Numb Remix by Don Gordon)

V.A. - Cop Compilation

CD COP International



1996 Dive - Final Report (Numb Remix)Dive - Reported

12" Ant-Zen

1996 Dive - Final Report (Numb Remix)

Dive - Reported

CD5"" Daft Records



1996 Dive - Final Report (Numb Remix)

Dive - Reported

CD Fifth Column



1996 Deathline International - Open Your Eyes (Numb Remix by Don Gordon)

V.A. - Vertigo Compilation 01/1996

CD Celtic Circle Productions



1997 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker (Carnal Gnarlege Mix)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker

Promo CDS Red Ant Entertainment



1997 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker (Carnal Gnarlege Mix)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sexy Sucker

Promo 12" Red Ant Entertainment



1997 Dive - Final Report (Numb-Remix)

Dive - No Pain No Game / Reported

2xCD Triton



1998 Thinking Man - Screaming Saints (Numb Remix)

V.A. - Electropolis: Volume 1

CD Metropolis



1998 Esplendor Geométrico - América (Numb - Manifest Destiny Mix)

Esplendor Geométrico - En-Co-D-Esplendor

CD Gift



1999 Element 115 - Spaceman (Numb Remix)

V.A. - Attack [Patterns]

CD Apocalypse Magazine



1999 Deathline International - Open Your Eyes (Numb Remix by Don Gordon)

V.A - The Electronic Challenge Vol. 3

CD COP International



2001 Christian Death - Panic In Detroit (Numb Remix)

Christian Death - Death In Detroit

CD Locomotive Music



2001 The Klinik - Ring Of Fire (Remix by Don Gordon of Numb)

The Klinik - End Of The Line

4xCD Dependent Records



2006 Dive vs. Diskonnekted - Frozen (Metamatic Mix)



Dive vs. Diskonnekted - Frozen

CD5" Alfa Matrix



COMPILATIONS



1989 Ruby Tuesday

Out Of Nowhere

7" V.i.S.A./Lively Art



1990 Stiff

13

LP Lively Art

1990 Stiff

13

CD Lively Art

1991 Eugene (Pickaxe Mix)

Funky Alternatives 6

CD Concrete Productions

1991 Cash

Lovely Heart

VHS Lively Art

1992 Curse

Cybernetic Biodread Transmission

CD Simbiose Records

1992 Curse

Cybernetic Biodread Transmission

LP Simbiose Records



1992 Curse

Electro-Genetic

CD KK Records



1993 God Is Dead

KK Electrip Compilation

CD Restless Records



1994 Hole

Art & Dance 5

CD Gothic Arts Records / Lost Paradise



1994 Decay Of The Angel

Body Rapture Vol. 4

CD Zoth Ommog



1994 Blue Light, Black Candle

Celtic Circle Sampler Part Two

2xCD Celtic Circle Productions



1994 Shithammer (Dread And Bled Mix)

Moonraker Vol. I

2xCD Sub Terranean



1994 Ratblast

The Digital Space Between

CD Hard Records



1994 Shithammer

We Came To Dance - Indie Dancefloor Vol. IV

CD Sub Terranean



1995 Fugue

Sheen: KK Records Compilation

2xCD KK Records



1995 Blood

There Is No Time

4xCD Ras Dva Records



1996 Hanging Key

13 Years Of Electronic Lust

CD COP International



1996 Push It

Operation Beatbox

CD Re-constriction Records



1997 Dead Inside

Industrial War: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Industrial Music

CD Shanachie



1997 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

TV Terror: Felching A Dead Horse

2xCD Re-constriction Records



1997 Eugene (Pickaxe Mix)

More exclusive Alternatives

CD Cleopatra



1998 Blind (Hyper-Dilated Mix)

Electronic Lust V.1

2xCD Orkus



1998 Blood (Crash and Burn Edit)

Electropolis: Volume 1

CD Metropolis



1998 Blood

Moonraker Vol. IV

2xCD Sub Terranean



1998 Desire (Protean) / Desire (Prelude & Nocturne) / Blind (Mentallo Mix)

The O-Files Vol. 3

CD Off Beat



1999 Suspiria

Electronic Lust V.2

2xCD Orkus



1999 Driven

Metropolis 1999 CD Metropolis



1999 Shithammer (Dread And Bled Mix)

Euphoria

CD Gresham



1999 Half-Life

Septic

CD Dependent Records



1999 Suspended

The Electronic Challenge Vol. 3

CD COP International



1999 Respect

Electro Club Attack - Shot Two

2xCD XXC



1999 Closer

The Flatline Compilation 2

2xCD Flatline Records



2000 Static

Electropolis: Volume 2

CD Metropolis



2000 Suspended

Music Research / Alternative

Promo CD Zoth Ommog



2001 Lies

EBM Club Classics Vol. 3

2xCD Synthetic Symphony



VIDEO COMPILATIONS



1993 Cash

Shades Of The Goddess

VHS KK Records



19?? Cash

Lovely Heart - A Lively Art Video

VHS Lively Art



NUMB: Cash



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