Helping to establish the Midwestern tradition of prolific industrial cross-pollination, Chicago industrial-dance supergroup
Revolting Cocks released their debut
Big Sexy Land appropriately enough on Wax Trax! in 1986. Featuring
Ministry's
Al Jourgensen and
Chris Connelly (Fini Tribe/
KMFDM) among others, the group produced an electronic grind that fans of Wax Trax! artists from this era will find very familiar. Plenty of slap bass and contorted samples abound on highlight cuts like "We Shall Cleanse the World," "No Devotions," and the most house-influenced track, "TV Mind." Fine dance music with plenty of cool synth and sample trickery,
Big Sexy Land is a distinguished debut from a "side project" that occasionally surpasses the day-job work that its members became famous for. ~ Vincent Jeffries